Dreyland
01-29-2003, 01:15
It's a mystery to me. Why would people play anything but? I can understand wanting a larger game, but these 99k games make no sense. At all. As a host I find a ridiculous amount of people asking why I set the florins so low. There's a simple answer to this: Anything over 8k is too much.
Once you max out on units, there's no point in going higher. Oh sorry, you want valor 4 chiv knights? Go play a game without morale. Wars of attrition weren't fun in real-life and they don't magicly become any more fun in this game. The boggling aspect about this is people seem to enjoy it.
Low florin games require more flanking, stratgey and a manipulation of forces. There just isn't the same depth of stratgey. Hell, there's a lot more variety in games. You can try differen things with armies, while larger games beocme a slaughterfest of boredom. Sure we may not win every game, but that's not what it's about. Being able to play a low florin game means you can generally transfer these skills to a high florin game and win just as well.
Yes, it's just my opinion, and I do host games because one Goon can't handle too many units on his current computer. But even if I wanted to host large florin games, I wouldn't want to. Maybe 10k would be acceptable, but I find myself sticking to 3-6k games, with a 1500 thrown in for fun. Anything else just isn't fun. People used to play 5k games all the time when it first came out. What went wrong?
P.S. To those who keep joining my game and realize that, "oh no this isn't a 99k game" don't ask what's with the florins. Read the damn florin count before you join, and don't think I've made a mistake in choosing the florins because it's under 30k. Thank you.
Once you max out on units, there's no point in going higher. Oh sorry, you want valor 4 chiv knights? Go play a game without morale. Wars of attrition weren't fun in real-life and they don't magicly become any more fun in this game. The boggling aspect about this is people seem to enjoy it.
Low florin games require more flanking, stratgey and a manipulation of forces. There just isn't the same depth of stratgey. Hell, there's a lot more variety in games. You can try differen things with armies, while larger games beocme a slaughterfest of boredom. Sure we may not win every game, but that's not what it's about. Being able to play a low florin game means you can generally transfer these skills to a high florin game and win just as well.
Yes, it's just my opinion, and I do host games because one Goon can't handle too many units on his current computer. But even if I wanted to host large florin games, I wouldn't want to. Maybe 10k would be acceptable, but I find myself sticking to 3-6k games, with a 1500 thrown in for fun. Anything else just isn't fun. People used to play 5k games all the time when it first came out. What went wrong?
P.S. To those who keep joining my game and realize that, "oh no this isn't a 99k game" don't ask what's with the florins. Read the damn florin count before you join, and don't think I've made a mistake in choosing the florins because it's under 30k. Thank you.