Is anyone else bored?

**The Wizard** · 10-25-2004, 22:23

Originally Posted by barvaz

On the first week I got RTW I found myself playing from the moment I got home from work till the early hours of morning. When I couldn’t hold on any longer and had to get out of the game for the bathroom or grab something to eat, I’d notice the time (usually around 3-4am) and drag myself to bed, barely getting up to work in the morning, spending all day waiting to get home while planning strategies in my head for the next turns. My wife didn’t manage to speak to me the entire weekend and in the few sentences we did manage to exchange, I complained how the game is not even perfect and about all the things I think they could do better…

Anyway, I knew I’d burn out pretty fast that way and get sick of the game within few weeks so I took a break and haven’t played for over a week. I will start playing again soon but I hope I can manage to take it easy now.

I am a very slow player, I like to take my time and get “into” the game. Each turn takes me long minutes; sometimes I don’t make more than 2-3 turns in an hour, enjoying the atmosphere, roleplaying my generals and empire and taking notes of my progress. I can easily see myself playing this way for months without getting bored, then taking a break and keep coming back for more.

And that is with a game I think that is not as nearly as perfect as it could have been (hopefully but doubtfully will be after a patch and expansion or two).

- barvaz

This is exactly the experience I had with MTW for months on end - it simply did not tire. I hope I'll get a blast from that past soon in my Julii game, since the Gauls recently killed my heir and annihalated a good army somewhere near Narbo Martius. A fluke on my side, but I hope it'll make my game more interesting.

~Wiz

**Claudius the God** · 10-26-2004, 01:24

non-roman factions need glorious achievements, and a score comparison bar graph thing like MTW does, with great buildings built great temples, colusseum, control of trade in this area, controling specific (home and strategic) provinces, controling extra provinces as conquest points, that sort of thing.

**Tophat1812** · 10-26-2004, 04:03

I'm not at all bored......I verymuch like the game.I don't use "bribe" at all....I feel that its an abuse of the AI. Also I don't believe in overloading my forces with cavalry,I try to keep my forces 60% inf,20% missile and 20% cavalry.

My exploration of the Roman factions isn't quite over yet...then on to Carthage or Pontus.

**Red Harvest** · 10-26-2004, 04:34

Originally Posted by Tophat1812

I don't use "bribe" at all....I feel that its an abuse of the AI.

I felt the same way until I played as the Spanish and Numidians on VH/VH. For both, well placed bribes were essential just to survive, because I could not afford an early war as either, and my neighbors were quite aggressive. With other factions I don't bribe.

**Bhruic** · 10-26-2004, 05:13

I bribe just to keep down the number of pointless combats. I mean, how many times can I have my city with 1000+ man armies sieged by 200+ units? It just gets absurd. Big armies I'll fight, but all the little ones running around I just bribe now, so I don't have to waste my time. Plus it cuts down on the number of stars my generals get for those pointless battles.

Bh

**Sin Qua Non** · 10-26-2004, 05:54

Hmm.... my interest is waxing and waning now.... I'm about 60% ready to start a new campaign... it may be time to screw with some files. Some haphazard modding should spice things up!

Nestor II · 10-26-2004, 06:53

Well, I believe I know why I'm not that excited:

I have to help the poor AI stand on its feet, I have to calculate my movements in such a way that I get strong opposition. In fact I feel that I'm playing for both my faction and the AI, at least on the strategy map.

Don't think you can have fun playing for both sides, you can't have surprises this way!

Don't misunderstand me, I think it's a great game but I believe it's targeted on new customers / players and not the old fans of the series.

If only I could teach the AI some things!!!

**Ism8000** · 10-26-2004, 08:43

They should add a place FEATURE WHERE you can design your own throne like in Civ1 or something like that more personal gratification

also they should of made governing citys easier and more Bandit army appear also they should of made the guals and britons un-united there too storng and I whant more realism.

**Didz** · 10-26-2004, 08:55

Must admit the lack of a proper PBEM multiplayer option on TW games is beginning to show now.

These games ought to be the mainstay of a whole new breed of internet wargaming groups but that market is just toally excluded from using TW games because of the lack of a proper MP option.

CA really need to overcome this problem and find some way of allowing multiplayer involvement in the full campaign, even if they have to sacrifice some of the gimmicks to allow it.

**Jango Fett** · 10-26-2004, 18:36

nice to see people in the TW community are also into flight sims such as il2! i actually play this when im bored of rtw

**Sp00n** · 10-27-2004, 12:42

The game is far easier to complete than MTW which is why you get bored faster, its half finished and subsequently has lots of bugs, the standards agency should set up stricture guidelines on games, unfinished and buggy games should not be released and IMO fines should be imposed, it will never happen but how many games do we get that are not totally completed and bug free these days.

You may argue that this will always happen, but thinking back to games of the past they used to be released largly bug free, have developers got lazy or what.

To think we have to wait for the patch and probably even the expansion to play a completed version of Rome is an appaling thought, its like buying a car with half the insides missing.

Bear in mind this is there 3rd attempt and its the worst attempt in terms of bugs and missing features.

The games reviewers should also have a part in thier reviews showing howing complted a game is Id give Rome 75 percent completed on SPand 15 percent on MP.

Sp00n

**Belenus** · 10-26-2004, 07:27

Originally Posted by Bhruic

I bribe just to keep down the number of pointless combats. I mean, how many times can I have my city with 1000+ man armies sieged by 200+ units? It just gets absurd. Big armies I'll fight, but all the little ones running around I just bribe now, so I don't have to waste my time. Plus it cuts down on the number of stars my generals get for those pointless battles.

Bh

Sorry to go a little off topic but I agree. Also, I ALWAYS bribe german spearmen. When I saw them do a 360 turn against my infantry coming from behind almost instantly, I gave up.