Basic Only Matches are Tons of Fun!

brianpurkiss · April 23, 2014

StormingKiwi said: ↑

brianpurkiss said: ↑

Here's the gameplay video of basic only!

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I actually love brians videos in general. I like how the commentary is, for whatever reason, explaining tons of stuff, and doing it sensibly.

Brian - quick hint -Rebind infinite queue

I also can't believe you hadn't figured out by 7 minutes where his base was. Ah well. At least the penny dropped when you got radar.
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Heh. Yeah. That was embarassing... I talked with Stuart afterwards and both of us used full planet area patrol to scout and neither of us found each other until about then.

Lesson learned. Rely on manual scouting more.

StormingKiwi said: ↑

I think this video makes it abundantly clear that Naval needs to be so much more manoeuvrable.
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Agreed. Naval annoys the hell out of me because the ships can't go anywhere.

REALLY looking forward to sinking wrecks.

StormingKiwi said: ↑

brianpurkiss said: ↑

I think the investment of the game shouldn't be whether you construct Building X. If you successfully build it, you have a huge leg up on your opponent and probably will win. If your opponent destroys it, then you're probably dead.

I want the investment in the game to be how/where/when you use your armies.

The game becomes all about unit movement, not a tech race.
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Yes, and I agree with your idea.

That is exactly what I'm talking about. As a broad generalisation, most strategy games have a balance between "teching", "eco booming", "turtling" and "military".

The current balance heavily favours "teching" and "eco booming". "Military" should be the counter to teching or eco booming. And it isn't, because of how insanely easy it is to turtle (rather than build military in response).

My point is that all four options, teching, eco booming, military and turtling should be equally viable from the beginning.

To put the argument another way

every personality that the "random" AI has should be equally viable. And every personality that the AI has should come from the playstyle of a community member (within reason)
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Yeah. PA is supposed to about how you use your army, not about a tech race.

Basic Only Matches are Tons of Fun!

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