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[Geek377]

I was playing and 17 minutes in the game, the phone rang. One of my friends wanted to borrow my printer... and I yanked the wrong cord, and my computer died. If only we had auto save
But don't worry, I'll have it up soon.

[Mythos_Ruler]

When we add phases (like "ages" in Age of Empires), this will all change. Can't build a Fortress until you level up to City Phase, for instance.

[Kimball]

God forbid this game be challenging.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Kimball, on 05 January 2012 - 04:33 AM, said:

God forbid this game be challenging.

Well, like I said, this will all change drastically once we have settlement Phases and Technologies.

[dinosoep]

Mythos_Ruler, on 05 January 2012 - 12:01 AM, said:

Best I've done so far is 11:30. :/

EDIT: Oops! I spoke too soon.

holly crap xd
that is REALLY fast
When I post my strategy I really hope you correct it a bit and help me speed it up

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When we add phases (like "ages" in Age of Empires), this will all change.

No it won't. It will delay it but not seriously slow it down. I'm an avid aoe3 (I know...) player and each and every game I rush (attack around 6 minutes). That is pretty fast and I think there will be people able to do the same on 0 ad.

[Mythos_Ruler]

dinosoep, on 05 January 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

No it won't. It will delay it but not seriously slow it down. I'm an avid aoe3 (I know...) player and each and every game I rush (attack around 6 minutes). That is pretty fast and I think there will be people able to do the same on 0 ad.

Take current gameplay, now add phases and technology tree. It will slow it down. Depends on what you mean by "seriously." Right now, the game plays like AOE3 post-Imperial Death Match. Compare AOE3 post-Imperial Death Match to AOE3 Supremacy. That's how the difference will be.

[dinosoep]

Mythos_Ruler, on 05 January 2012 - 06:24 AM, said:

Take current gameplay, now add phases and technology tree. It will slow it down. Depends on what you mean by "seriously." Right now, the game plays like AOE3 post-Imperial Death Match. Compare AOE3 post-Imperial Death Match to AOE3 Supremacy. That's how the difference will be.

hehe I'm very bad at post-imperial death match anyway
The reason I think it won't change that much is because I hope the bot will learn to resign when all his units are killed so you don't even have to train siege weapons.

[Kimball]

Considering that neither barracks, fortresses, nor the ability to build a forward CC are available in the Village phase of gameplay, that alone will slow these times considerably. The victory conditions (and resignation conditions) could be reconsidered to speed up the process of defeating an AI enemy, but defeating an enemy on a large map like Oasis in 8 minutes shouldn't really be possible at all, realistically.

[dinosoep]

Kimball, on 05 January 2012 - 07:33 AM, said:

Considering that neither barracks, fortresses, nor the ability to build a forward CC are available in the Village phase of gameplay, that alone will slow these times considerably. The victory conditions (and resignation conditions) could be reconsidered to speed up the process of defeating an AI enemy, but defeating an enemy on a large map like Oasis in 8 minutes shouldn't really be possible at all, realistically.

Ow, without barracks/fortresses/forward cc it really will be slowed down considerably. I will however try to beat the odds
When will phases be added to the game?

[Kimball]

I'm not the right person to give you an estimate like that. If you're ever curious about what might turn up in the next release, this is a good place to start: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/report/3

[dinosoep]

hehehe

[Mythos_Ruler]

Oh you dirty rat.

[dinosoep]

Mythos_Ruler, on 05 January 2012 - 08:09 AM, said:

Oh you dirty rat.

^^

I really laughed my @#$% of when I saw the time after my game

[bstempi]

Just now beating 20, working on 10.

[Random_Freak]

Got it in seven minutes 4 seconds.

Edited by Random_Freak, 06 January 2012 - 02:59 AM.

[Mythos_Ruler]

I think it would be good if the Summary screen showed a few more things:

AI name (qBot, et al.)
Date and Time
Map name

[Kimball]

Lion.Kanzen, on 06 January 2012 - 04:07 AM, said:

When are avaible the Tech System? in Alpha phase or beta.

We want to have some implementation of all features by the time Beta rolls around. It probably won't happen in Alpha 9, but it will be in an Alpha release.

[ribez]

Mythos_Ruler, on 06 January 2012 - 03:23 AM, said:

I think it would be good if the Summary screen showed a few more things:

AI name (qBot, et al.)
Date and Time
Map name

and maybe game version?

[feneur]

Lion.Kanzen, on 06 January 2012 - 07:32 AM, said:

yes i guess, its too hard for Programmers do it in time for Alpha 9 Especially if Romans come in these release.

Romans are added by the Art people, so having a new civ doesn't mean that the programmers will have less time. There are other things which most likely will mean that technologies (phases are basically technologies from a development point of view) won't come in Alpha 9 though, especially since there is a person who's supposedly working on implementing them (but he doesn't post too much on the forums/Trac, so it's hard to know if he's still working on it/what's the status).

[Kazu Kun]

So which is the screenshot button? cause i hit f2, went there and theres no screenshot folder :X

-Edit
yeah, f2 says something at the top, but when i go to that directory, the screenshot folder doesn't exist..

Regardless, i got printscreen to work, so MEH~ [Picture here]

Spoiler

Almost to the top

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New Record

Spoiler

Edited by Kazu Kun, 15 February 2012 - 05:28 PM.