I'm sure if cheats aren't in the main game they'll be in mods.
A game that is played competitively a lot despite having asymmetric starting positions is the game 'Binding of Isaac'. Tons and tons of people race...
This is not necessarily true. For example, Age of Empires 2 has randomly generated maps with four different resources that are fair to all players.
Good point - I forgot about that. Doesn't Tetrisphere also use this trick (the map is internally a torus but projected to look spherical to the user)?
FWIW Planetary Annihilation isn't the first RTS with spherical environments (Populus: The Beginning is)
You should be swayed to buy the game or not based on the merits of the game, not the people who happened to post in a thread on a forum. - I would...
Please continue to do the lord's work, Culverin :D The loudest voices must be the most informed and educated to keep discourse healthy.
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