May I sugges: 4. Excluding techs. If you choose to research a environmental tech like fast growing wheat (+ food) then you dont get access to the tech scorched earth (remove forest to create normal land Bad examples here, but I hope I get my point across.
@Raistilin -Total Annihilation - BEST RTS EVAH.. [e digicons]k1[/e]
I am trying the free version and its all good except that the fences are not properly resized when I use dockingstation and have two screens.
[quote who="psychoak" reply="76" id="2424976"]The thing I curse the most in Civ4 is that God forsaken worker AI. If you go with workers, I'll curse my existence if I have to manually control them and it's anywhere near the level of Civ4 requirements. If you automate them though, we need control. Things that personally piss me off: fort spam, road spam, and trashing existing improvements when open tiles are still available to turn
I am laidback here and will await initial reviews (that will be very favourable cause this is a high impact game-its all corrupt) and more importantly I will look for player feedback. I have been burned with buying hyped games before.
How about buildings that would enhance the quality of the peasants that you use to make your armies? Build a training ground in a city and all swordsmen built there will have an increase in their initial stats. An archery range and your archers would start out a little better. If there is a cost to these buildings (taking your much needed space and resources) then you would have to consider city specialization.
[quote who="zndkwin" reply="37" id="2423594"]A fairly new game, have you tried Hearts of Iron 3? It's pretty hardcore in the strategy aspect. Not my kind of game actually, but it might interest you.[/quote] I have played HoI II and it didnt really grip me. It was like watching the game play it self in a way... I dont know how to explain it, but I will not get HoI III.
[quote who="inerz" reply="35" id="2423083"]lords of the realm 1&2 were uber games from 1994&96. quite very old, but it had a nice little economy model + military + cool soundtrack.[/quote] I played Lords of the Realm back in the days. Expect that it would be a disappointment to go back to these old games. The memories are fond, but I guess that the games might not have aged that well. This goes with other games from early 90ties as well. Still games like Master of O
To sum up all this before I get banned for spamming: There are plenty of games that I havnt given enough chances! I have just started playing Etherlords II and when that is finished I will come back and use this thread for chosing where to go next. I hope that others have gotten some inspiration from this thread :)
[quote who="Luckmann" reply="19" id="2421584"]Didn't see Fall from Heaven 2. If you haven't tried it. Do so.[/quote] I have played just one game of Fall from Heaven 2. I should give it more chances I know.
[quote who="DraekAlmasy" reply="18" id="2421562"]I third the recommendation for Sword of the Stars. The non-warfare aspects of strategy are fairly dumbed down, and the tactical battles are more of an annoyance than a feature, at least for me (thankfully they can be skipped though), but there's *something* about the game that makes my imagination fly, imagining myself as the supreme commander of humanity leading them in a quest for the stars, rather than simply a guy sitting in front of his co
[quote who="landisaurus" reply="17" id="2421538"]When I think of "PC gems" for some reason my mind jumps to games like Quest for Glory and Scotched earth. Games I played as a kid. As monkey island has already been mentioned, and I'm not sure dungeon keeper is old enough to make the list, nor is Thief: The dark project. I nominate Scorched Earth. Scorched Earth is a shooting game in the most classic sense of "shooting" rig
[quote who="edpfister" reply="15" id="2421240"]Oh, a couple of indie/small developer games I enjoyed also. They are more puzzle games than stategy games which seems to be your favorite so not sure if they will appeal to you though. Defense Grid: The Awakening - a very well done tower defense game Plants vs. Zombie - I guess a tower defense game also but feels quite different than Defense. Has lots of personality and special levels that play differently.
[quote who="TucoBenedicto" reply="14" id="2421182"]Space Rangers 2. Wonderful cocktail of RPG, adventure, RTS and much more. One of the best games in last years. Anyone I pushed to try it still thanking to me after months. Look at the user score. http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/spacerangers2dominators?q=space%20rangers%202 Mount & Blade. Great simulation of a mercenary's life and simply the best game ever done about mounted c
[quote who="edpfister" reply="11" id="2420971"]Some older games you may want to give a shot. Age of Wonders and sequels - most similar to MOM. Good games overall but not as good as MOM. Disciples and sequels - pretty fun game in the vain of Heroes of Might and Magic. Tacticals battles are handled differently in that you only have a few guys that level up instead of armies. Alpha Centauri - made by Sid Mieir I believe or at least some of the same pe
[quote who="SennKS" reply="9" id="2420790"]Have you played Homeworld? If you haven't, you probably should, being as you can get it off amazon.com for cheap and it's one of the greatest PC games ever made (in the opinion of this guy, it's THE best game ever made, but I'm a little biased).[/quote] Tried and didnt get hooked. Not sure if I gave Homeworld and Rise of Nations enough chance.
[quote who="the_hunger" reply="10" id="2420905"]If you like the Age of Empire/Rise of Nations games, you might try Rise of Legends. It's not pathbreaking like RoN, but it is gorgeous, put together well, and cheap.[/quote] Have played Rise of Nations but only for a very little while. Its in my closet somewhere. Didnt get hooked there. Got hooked on Age of Mythology + Titans expansion at the time if I remember correctly. Havnt tired Age of Empire Will check out Rise of Leg
[quote who="astrath" reply="8" id="2420724"]Out of interest did you get the GalCiv 2 expansions? They make it SO much better.[/quote] No - just vanilla. I didnt even consider expansions since I wasnt hooked at all.
Morale is a difficult thing to simulate as it function only to make the strong stronger and the weak weaker.
How about elminitated player is given control over the "barbarian" forces. That is the wild animals and such that roam the country side. The eliminated player can found a city as barbarian and if this city is not destroyed within 20 turns then a new empire starts at this site and the player is back in again. This should be an option at game start cause some people would prefere that dead is dead.
I would like a happiness bonus if people have acces to many kinds of food (fruit, fish, honey++)
[quote who="Raven X" reply="3" id="2420424"] quoting post All 50 or 500 swordsmen are located in the same tile 500 Men should also be able to choose between a few simple formations preferably as well. Like a line or a box or perhaps even a wedge after the tactics are researched.[/quote] How would formations influence battle? Wedge give bonus agains cavalery, but penalty agains swordsmen? This could get into micromanagement pretty fast.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="6" id="2420414"]Do you like X-Com and games like it? Squad based tactical combat on a turn based level? (not a real time shooter though some have the option to do it)[/quote] I somehow missed x-com (had a friend playing it, but I never tried it). I played Laser Squad a lot a looong time ago. If the game was good I would go for such a game. Are there any new ones out? I did try a game that was almost like Laser Squad a few years ago, but dont remember the na
[quote who="CrazyElectron" reply="1" id="2419090"] Of course that whole situation would have never occured with a similtaneous worldwide release which publishers seem so allergic to these days.[/quote] This is a very important point. Its incredibly annoying to live in Norway trying to be legit, but seeing that a lot of what is offered on Gamersgate and Impulse is US (or even UK) only.
[quote who="Tormy-" reply="4" id="2420393"]Dwarf Fortress. Toady One [Tarn Adams] is probably the best coder on this planet. [/quote] Have read about it. Isnt it really HARDCORE? Like I have to spend hours before understanding anything? I have two kids and not as much time as I used to. Could you describe it in a few sentences or is that impossible?