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Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:09:05 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Subject: When I Play Strategy Games... Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:09:04 -0400 Message-ID: <igi9cj5m14ah1vih5rrvmrkpjhkm5laaj3@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 49 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-hsObTJWW7603pZePIEgHVdQNbKxtdWJccXpZbaRwIEsdpKXwPkoIgkwerJEXlA+QrTaS83F6i9VHdkQ!eadNby/UblEkLXDppyore7seHkb+ZRyYCc1wPXCRyr1QYlM2TGg8C7+/k0PrwbqUp6y5ksz4 X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3289 I just can't help it. Almost inevitably, when I play strategy games, I end up using the same tactics. Not every strategy game. It doesn't work so well in classic hex-based wargames, or squad-based tactics. But in real-time games or 4x? It's almost always the same thing. Build up my base, expand my borders, don't let anyone in, then slowly grind down the bad-guys until they've one city or planet or base left. Then I just stop. I surround their redoubt with an undefeatable army, and go off to do my thing. Usually that is building up my own civilization to as close to utopia as I can get it. I get all the upgrades, I turn my cities or bases into works of art. I scrap the army (except for the units warding the enemy base, of course) and focus on peaceful pursuits. A part of me hopes the bad guys will eventually see the error of their ways and. Maybe they'll stop constantly sending the few meager troops their reduced civilization can still produce to inevitable death when they smash into the quarantine zone I've created around them. Maybe they'll instead offer to join my empire instead. It never happens, of course. But I'm hopeful. Eventually, I give up on the game just because I run out of things to do. I COULD win the game quite easily by moving my units into the bad guy's tiny city, but I don't want to win that way. I don't even really want to win any other way, whether through science or diplomacy or whatever. I don't want to destroy or dominate my foes. I just want them to stop being assholes with guns. Maybe I'm Canadian? Anyway, eventually I just turn the game off. Or I'll just start a new campaign, but I know it'll just end the same way: with me ruling the world and the few diehard opponents stuck in tiny isolated communities fruitlessly raging at the status quo. I try playing in different styles; I really do. Sometimes I'm even successful at it. But even at my most aggressive, still my tactics are tainted with the idea that maybe if I just push them back a bit, let them know that it's a bad idea to keep testing my lines, the bad guys will inevitably conclude there is a better alternative than standing in the way of my conquering the world. It'd make for a boring game if they did, though.