Tweet
Many games are a free-for-all. Alliances can be formed or broken and all victory conditions are enabled. But there are some other interesting ways of going about it.
Builder's games. If conquest victory is enabled, it is not permitted anyhow. The 'Bob' style of going about it is a four player game with no cooperative victories allowed. The three other AI factions spice up the game a little.
Team games. Two or three players to a team with no breaking of alliances permitted. Best are games where each side has a good military faction and a good research faction.
Parallel two-player games. Select two relatively balanced factions. In the first game play one faction and in second play the other. Your opponent plays the same two factions, but the opposite one to you. Stick with the same five AI factions. Play both games simultaneously. By both playing a faction and analysing how your opponent plays him allows you to really improve your game with the two factions selected.
Googlie specials. To prevent exploitation of the AI factions, any AI in the game is pumped full of advatages: additional starting tech, cash, units, bases or even SPs. The AI can all be pacted together and can be made to view the humans as atrocity-committers right out of the gate.
Quest games. All the humans in the game are allied and have a common objective, either to win or to capture a particular base from the AI by a pre-set date.
I would be interested in hearing if anyone knows of any other fun way of PBEMing and what ways are most enjoyable.
Builder's games. If conquest victory is enabled, it is not permitted anyhow. The 'Bob' style of going about it is a four player game with no cooperative victories allowed. The three other AI factions spice up the game a little.
Team games. Two or three players to a team with no breaking of alliances permitted. Best are games where each side has a good military faction and a good research faction.
Parallel two-player games. Select two relatively balanced factions. In the first game play one faction and in second play the other. Your opponent plays the same two factions, but the opposite one to you. Stick with the same five AI factions. Play both games simultaneously. By both playing a faction and analysing how your opponent plays him allows you to really improve your game with the two factions selected.
Googlie specials. To prevent exploitation of the AI factions, any AI in the game is pumped full of advatages: additional starting tech, cash, units, bases or even SPs. The AI can all be pacted together and can be made to view the humans as atrocity-committers right out of the gate.
Quest games. All the humans in the game are allied and have a common objective, either to win or to capture a particular base from the AI by a pre-set date.
I would be interested in hearing if anyone knows of any other fun way of PBEMing and what ways are most enjoyable.
If so, may I already claim the title of Commissioner of the Peacekeepers?
Comment