While we'd all love it to be moddable, that request has been made for years with no luck...the number of difficulty levels is also hardcoded....because of that, I'm fighting as hard as I can before the devs nix the difficulty level most optimized for casual SP play...
If a SP player has matured to the point where they can routinely beat hard AIs, then it is only natural the next difficulty they would want to play on is unfair... The problem with unfair is that it radically changes what the player must do in order to win...the resource cheat the AI gets at that level reaches a new threshold where the human player must either be pro (which normally only applies to MP) or must adapt "anti-AI" strategies that would normally fair poorly against a h
[quote who="mikefacciola" reply="15" id="3427553"]Is this a 1v1 rush issue or 7 players against 1 AI, because when I play 2 players vs 6 AIs on unfair or above the AI gives a very good fight. Are they using cheat codes to advance quicker to victory or little itty bitty maps?[/quote] The issue is not that unfair is too difficult...the issue is that for a developing player, the jump between hard and unfair is too large...map size and number of humans vs. AIs is largely irrelevant to thi
That list is old.....many of the people on that list either don't play anymore or smurf....meanwhile, some of the new blood is not on that list...furthermore, many people on that list have changed in performance, so even those who have played by the same name since the beginning would not be accurately represented by that list...
[quote who="Jafo" reply="93" id="3427518"]my wife's IT department couldn't find their bum with both hands[/quote] Lord have mercy...
[quote who="Yarlen" reply="12" id="3427431"]Basically it wasn't normalized before. Now it is. Considering the number of folks who are able to routinely beat the toughest AI in under an hour, it's fine. [/quote] I wasn't aware your mainstream SP audience was routinely winning on vicious -- and with ease, so perhaps my suggestion is a little too narrow and niche... Nevertheless, I'm not concerned with vicious, I'm concerned about the jump between hard and unf
[quote who="harpo99999" reply="84" id="3427391"]seleuceia, without the sd software it would probably be a couple of WEEKS of training sessions for each employee including the managers (and the managers would probably NEED an additional month or two) and several months of heavily (3 to 4 times) increased support desk workload due to the major change of interface. harpo[/quote] I think you are exaggerating... In the workplace, IT is responsible for most of the setup and set
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="81" id="3427367"]They would be far wiser to add Start8 and ModernMix and give a couple of training sessions.[/quote] If they have to give training sessions with SD software, doesn't that defeat the whole point?
I took Yarlen's statement as a description of the current situation...the change log only mentions nerfing hard, not all of the difficulties... If, as you say, all the difficulties are being nerfed then this is probably one of the best changes for SP in recent memory...but I definitely did not get that impression from the change log or Yarlen's statement...hopefully he will clarify...
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Might want to mention specific ways to counter Vasari SB rushing with minelayer, Wail, and Marza's missile barrage...new players tend to struggle with countering those things...
The jump between hard and normal may or may not be too severe (before 1.82), honestly I have no clue... What I do know is that the jump between hard and unfair is really bad, and by nerfing hard, that jump is going to be outrageous...if hard needs to be nerfed then so be it, but then unfair also needs to be nerfed...
[quote who="MottiKhan" reply="68" id="3427187"]My personal opinion is that MS needs to bring the Windows 7 menu back. I seem to be in the majority from everyone I've talked to in person. I haven't found a single person in real life who prefers the W8/8.1 UI. It makes me wonder about those who say they prefer it in forums. Just saying.[/quote] Funny, I haven't talked to a real life person who prefers W7 over W8...no really, I haven't...maybe I should wonder about people
If we are talking about people on the level of the 7 mentioned above, there's only a handful of people to add...ViciousAggressor (unless you want to exclude smurfs), X-wing, and Suzi would be three I can think of immediately.... If you plan on expanding it to the likes of Jbaum, Candido, etc. you are going to have a list probably 2-3 times as long.... If you plan on expanding to include people like Vet and DaKnife, you are going to have a very long list and much more disag
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="55" id="3426961"]For some reason, this really reminds me of the saga of Vista with its SP1 and SP2.[/quote] I've always found the parallels between vista and W8 to be near perfect....both OSes represented important (and necessary) changes, but had serious flaws and needed a clean successor to really give the market what it desired...
Yep, people graduate high school and then you're like "why u no play no more?" Seriously though, while sometimes tedious and even political, I don't mind these lists coming up every so often simply because the player base really does change over time... How big of a list are you looking to have, hummer? There are definitely lots of good players that, while not "great", may still be worth putting on a list, if only to see who is who... Do you want to inclu
Kona logic: No, a Mercedes is not more expensive than a bicycle. Perhaps the person who "bought" the Mercedes actually stole it while the person who bought the bicycle got it plated in pure gold...
[quote who="kona0197" reply="27" id="3426723"]Not true. Not even close. I would say 8 is less secure since most newbies to 8 have no idea how to install a decent AV program. I would say it goes by a case to case basis. Saying what you said is just plain arrogant. [/quote] You argue W8 is less secure based off the fact that most people don't know how to install AV...I find this ironic since W8 is the first OS to come with AV out of the box... Perhaps you meant to imply Wind
You mean to say you can induce seizures at will? THE POWER
[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="1543" id="3426086"]You mean I've been wasting all my time writing down links onto golden tablets[/quote] Nah man, you can still sell the tablets for the gold value....
The duration is shorter than the cooldown, so you probably don't want to autocast the Orky ability...
I had a dream that I was taking this thread seriously and discovered that Geoman is actually a bot with an infinite looping error.... while(peopleResponding) { typeRandomness(seed); hitReply(); }
Little FYI...if you activate any ability that creates a phase node, all that matters is that you give the move order before the ability ends...there might be some exceptions (like a ship being disabled by an ability), but in general once a ship is given a move order it will use the phase node even if the phase node terminates before the ship actually makes the jump...this is provided of course you don't change the move orders of the ship...
[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="11" id="3425346"]I wonder though, cant you change the color of the faction in those games to your fav one? Or you just like to stick with the default ones to keep the immersion?[/quote] In some games you can change the color (GC 2), though in others you would have to mod them...keep in mind that several assets (icons, logos, cities/bases, units, etc.) may work better with the default faction color, so yes the immersion is influenced by the faction color...
[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="13" id="3425084"]I think he meant to convey that they were nerfed to the point that a single tech no longer defines a faction. The way all of those things were, people would rush them at the expense of everything else because they were so game changing.[/quote] That is exactly what I meant...I can always count on Goa to understand me....always..
[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="6" id="3424885"]Though the change might have just discouraged people from playing VR in the first place.[/quote] Because.... [quote who="GoaFan77" reply="6" id="3424885"]If the game goes long enough for Kostura cannons to be used, I don't know why they wouldn't be used. [/quote] VR picks are pretty rare....I think a large part of it has to do with the fact the VR early game is not really different from the VL early game, and VL have