Re: Storm of the Eye

From: "Gavin Kinsey" <ghworg@kinsey.u-net.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

I got a message from the man-thing JonMMorris,
> Gavin wrote:
> >No automation and uncontrolled expansion, basically there were not
> enough active players for the size of the map.  Add to that the fact
> that everything had to be done by hand, although the frontend was
> improving somewhat in allowing one order to apply to many units.
> There was just too much housekeeping needed in order to keep going.
>
> I must have missed something - their website gives the impression
> that they have a powerful java-based GUI front-end - was it just
> flash and not functional?

Mostly just flash yes, it was great at presenting an overall impression
of your position, and it was better than typing orders yourself.
Having said that, the game was far bigger and more complex than the
frontend could handle.

> >I ended up with well over a hundred towns, I had to keep destroying
> units to prevent from crossing the 10000 limit.  It was just too
> unweildy in the end, although it was a really good game.
>
> Couldn't the moderators incentivize players to stop building
> thousands of piddly units?

I suppose they could have, but the situation was never envisaged when
the game was designed.  I think that they expected competition and
conflict between players to limit resources so that by the time anyone
had enough to build loads of units it would be better to build the more
powerful units that are available later on than thousands of Pikemen.

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References

Re: Storm of the Eye
"Gavin Kinsey" <ghworg@kinsey.u-net.com>
Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Storm of the Eye
jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)
Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000