The Creativity of 2 x 2

[Hydey]

I would love to play you but my civ time is very limited by the real world (job, wife ,sport ,kids, etc) so I will stick to playing setting that I enjoy rather than ones that I find boring. This means that I could not afford the time to play your challenge.

[StrategicKingMi]

What the hell is boring about 2 x 2 king. It is fast paced, moves quickly. The board radically changes in limited real time and takes by far less time then 1 x 1 deity. Excuse me if I am missing something.
Typical 1 x 1 deity turn.... Push a few arrow keys then hit enter...Yea...thats what I call exciting!!! Yes!!
Anyone out there?

[Skivrmt]

I agree 1x1 diety is a little boring, maybe not boring, but certainly slow paced. Obviously you like 2x2, but what do you think about games with a happy medium, 2x1, either king or diety? Makes the game move a whole lot faster without creating ridiculus units like super catapults. I have rarely played 1x1 and only once or twice played 2x2, but 2x1 has always seemed the perfect mix between the two.

-Skivrmt

[Hydey]

Originally posted by StrategicKingMi
Excuse me if I am missing something.

your excused for missing many things

I ask that you excuse me for missing something about 2x2x as I find it very boring, fast but boring .

Sorry

[Ming]

Originally posted by StrategicKingMi
Continuelly on this forum, it is my way of play that is called illgitamite and infurior to 1 x 1 deity.

First... our group, which probably represents many of the games being set up here, plays 2x1x deity...
While I know some of our group prefer 1x1x, some of our group can't stand it. I'm one of them

Second... you and eyes are pretty much the only ones that ever say there version is the suprerior and only way to play, and the rest of the settings are for newbies who don't understand the game.

Most of us just preach that it's a matter of preference, and that all settings are different and require different approaches.

In almost every case, the only time anybody gives your settings abuse is usually right after one of yours or eyes tirades how nobody here plays the real way so we must all suck or are newbies

[ColdWizard]

truth be told, i have a slight preference for 2x2x king, no huts for MP.

[Ming]

And that's the point... everybody has their own individual tastes. All the settings are valid, and for somebody to claim superiority for their settings, BASED SOLELY ON THE FACT THEY LIKE THEM, is absurd.

Discussions on strategies for their own settings are great, and provide a lot of insight.

Tirades on how if you don't play my settings, you suck, don't provide crap, and only discourage real discussion.

[jes]

applause to ming

[Ming]

If you look through this thread... It was actually VERY interesting and reasonably civil at first. Ideas and thoughts were being traded. And then...

Along came eyes with this post...

In other words you can't handle the difficulty of defending on 2x2x. City bribing isn't that big a deal if you rookies would learn how to play...

And then it went downhill quick.

People are getting really tired of this crap. And unfortunately, I also rise to the bait and respond in kind.
So I'm to blame as well... I'll have to try harder in the future to not get pissed when I see people insulted for no reason.

It's sad to see a good discussion started by SK end up where it has.

[War4ever]

STRATE, i think playing a multitude of settings is what truly makes a civver great.... one doesn't have to be the best at all settings....

sounds like you have played alot of civ games.....just for the record, so have i.....i have played this video game since its inception....

i hardly call the boardgame (civ as we are talking about it today) civ.

have you played more games than i..perhaps, but i personally have wasted obscene amounts of time on this game....dont' be ignorant and think your the only player out there.

you like x2x2king....fabulous....i like x1x1 diety raging but also enjoy x2x1 diety raging....

i will concede the point about land being unfair...but you have to admit, with all the "cheating" and "issues" gameleage had, and it was ALL x2x2 players, that group got a bad reputation.

so did the zoners....is it all fair, no, of course not, a few legends ruined it for everyone.

NO one here at Apolyton thinks their settings are the best.....we just march to a different drum....

its only when players make rude comments do we line up to defend the game/settings we love.

x2x2 games have evolved into better games now only b/c you went through a period where all the games were horsemen rushes....

obviously someone of your talent grew tired of that kind of game and started to master a differnt type of game.

either way, most players play 1 maybe 2 settings and try to perfect their styles......

if you dont' want to play a setting b/c the game is no fun to you....thats fine....but pls don't tell us their is less/no skill in the settings you don't like.... the game is DIFFERENT on all settings.......and like i said before, a true master learns to play all competantly

remember too, the game has luck elements, and overcoming bad luck/ running with good luck is a part of the game, its the unpredictable, its the part that keeps us going after 5 years of play.....

this is the greatest skill civ has to offer, even if it doens't allow you to win every game

[DrSpike]

@ War.

A very cogent post.

[HappySunShine]

Ruined it for everyone? I hate to break it to you but you're in the minority you ****ing loser. Apolyton is small time compared to the zone and it always will be. Nobody really gives a **** if you feel you are morally superior to zoners because there's like 10 people total on apolyton. Guess that's because your settings are so popular huh?

[Ming]

A classic example of what I was talking about.

Thanks Eyes for being your normal self

So why don't you hang out at the zone instead of here.

[War4ever]

ACTUALLY SEAN, i played back at the zone before it became x2x2king haven.....when the game was out the first 6 months it was not like that....

i remember when the fanfare died off and then the settings/levels changed......

i lucked out and found poly then, and have been able to enjoy the games i get here.

zone never has more than 20 people looking for a game...why do you think other sites have their own "leagues"

your such a clown , do you ever think before you speak, and do you have a vocabulary that doesn't include insults and curse words?

i used to respect you Sean, for your insight in to the game, but now your just a blowhard. If this game means so little to you why do you come around here.

God knows , you have few supporters or fans left

and you talk about how you have matured since your cheating days of 17yrs old, all i see is the same insecure little boy, who hasn't learned anything socially over the last while.

you want to be excused for your past and you claim you don't act/cheat like that anymore, its hard to take you seriously when you still blow up like a volcano every time someone disagrees with you....

food for thought big guy...

i assume your the next coming of macenroe on the courts too

[StrategicKingMi]

I only insult to goat you guys into accepting a game...
(trash talking dont take it seriously, though I think you are wrong setting wise)
(Discourse is humanitys greatest asset-StrategicKing)
(have no idea what that means, but it just entered my mind-feel free to quote me)