Playing By My Self

[cheesepuffly]

This game is getting passed down to kids a lot so you see juvenile activity some. And some people move from 1.2 strats to 1.3 and don't see any strats, so they join an mpi and try to take on their whole base with a start-up ship and get killed and want to leave for a ship and try again. If you want there to be  communication you have to be nice enough for them to want to help, and basicaly teach them. It's freaking hard while doing all the micro-managing a Commander has to do, but hey, it's my favorite game and I try to get everyone up to speed so we can all play. My wife and I play some sort of mpi almost every night. Join us sometime.

You either play with it passworded, locked, in 1.3 G66, or 1.3 TA5.1.

So how are we supposed to play?!

[Zero Angel]

This game is getting passed down to kids a lot so you see juvenile activity some. And some people move from 1.2 strats to 1.3 and don't see any strats, so they join an mpi and try to take on their whole base with a start-up ship and get killed and want to leave for a ship and try again. If you want there to be  communication you have to be nice enough for them to want to help, and basicaly teach them. It's freaking hard while doing all the micro-managing a Commander has to do, but hey, it's my favorite game and I try to get everyone up to speed so we can all play. My wife and I play some sort of mpi almost every night. Join us sometime.

I dont think thats 1.2 players doing that (leave and rejoin for ships), its more of a thing that i've noticed from newbies in general. Theres probably 12 (out of a total of maybe 50) active or semi-active 1.2 vets who play 1.3 occassionally. 1.2 players are pretty sensitive to lag since the netcode in 1.2 was FAR less robust than it is now, and it was easy for a game to permanently become laggy/warpy simply by having mid-game joiners or having someone alt-tab for a long enough period of time.

[cheesepuffly]

True, luckily i know most of those 12. And they do like it, it seems the only reason most people dont make a full switch is because other people wont.

And yeah, i hate when people rejoin for a ship, in MPI maybe, but in strategy no.

This guy named Draco does it alot. Annoys the hell out of me.

[King Gladiator]

well one problem i see is when a commander puts the ai on a hard difficulty and then sets his scrap cheat so high that you cant compete with him. especially on drop zone with only two pools for a long time its pretty difficult to compete when they pump out walkers every seven seconds and on top of that the statues range is so far if you even leave a circle they will shoot ambushers at you even if they are about 600m or something from you. basically, don't put the scrap cheat so high and you can't handle it. it isn't fun when your hammered and you blame your thugs for it when they try to get more pools so you can have a easier time.

[Nielk1]

well one problem i see is when a commander puts the ai on a hard difficulty and then sets his scrap cheat so high that you cant compete with him. especially on drop zone with only two pools for a long time its pretty difficult to compete when they pump out walkers every seven seconds and on top of that the statues range is so far if you even leave a circle they will shoot ambushers at you even if they are about 600m or something from you. basically, don't put the scrap cheat so high and you can't handle it. it isn't fun when your hammered and you blame your thugs for it when they try to get more pools so you can have a easier time.

The commander would be able to handle fine is the damn players would do what they were told. The whole point of a game is to play something you can loose. There is no fun if you know you are going to win.

[King Gladiator]

i know but still ive played on drop zone before where the ai cheat is set to 3 and the commander cant handle it and just gets swarmed by walkers