OpenRTS new Civilization-like game project

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I don't agree with that. SC: BW (for instance) in MP is one of the deepest and most perfectly crafted games ever, reaching a state of balance no TBS I have ever played has ever come close to, SP or MP.

Broodwars maybe interesting as a multiplayer game, but it still rots in single player.

And balance is too vague a word to use without context. I assume you mean that "any 'race' has an equal chance to win given identical starting conditions." However that is difficult to test, as even the best players have a preferred race that they play better. Also certain starting conditions do favour one race over the others.

Traditional wargames are also finely balanced, but they do it through different victory conditions for different sides.

Originally posted by DrSpike
Granted it's a different depth than you find in good TBS's. It's still depth though, and characterising (even generally) the entire genre as substituting time pressure for depth just isn't right.

Careful, you are generalising from one game, and a single aspect of it, for that matter.

[Straybow]

I really don't want to turn this into a "why RTS genre sucks" threadjack.

I would rather see effort go into making the open source games we already have (eg: FreeCiv, CtP2) even better.

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by Nikolai
He won't find me.

Really? I´m a patient man

[DrSpike]

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Broodwars maybe interesting as a multiplayer game, but it still rots in single player.

People played Broodwars single player

[Skanky Burns]

I did.