Sunday, December 21, 2003
Just checked the Civ III Website, and I'm positive Lawrence is playing the Babylonians. The Babylonians are a scientific/religious civilization, so I can expect Lawrence to put forth his best effort through temples in cities and heavy emphasis on building up through the technology tree. Of course, I know he's a better player than I am, so my only chance is to push my military technology and might so far that I can pound down the walls of his cities and crush him like the bug he is. ... Pshaw! Like that's going to happen. Lawrence plays Civ III a lot more than I do.
As for Rob, he's playing the Germans, which is a scientific/militaristic civilization. He's proven the militaristic aspect already. He informed us a turn or two ago that he had attacked the Japanese. The crazy fool! Or maybe not. If he's already strong enough to go to war, then I can only hope he's far away from me. I couldn't make war with a butterfly right now. Unfortunately, Rob also plays the game a lot more than I do, but I do believe he plays it even more than Lawrence. That could mean that he will win the game. At the moment, if I were to place bets, I'd say...Rob. Yes, Rob is going to win. ;)
In terms of strategy games, one game I really do miss playing a lot on the computer is VGA Planets. I first played the game (Version 3, that is) years ago when I was still in high school. A bunch of us used to play it. For a long time (and maybe still), it was the most popular game played via email and bulletin board systems. I used to run games way back when, but I haven't played it in three or four years now. I should still have my floppy disks with my registered copy of VGA Planets 3 around the house somewhere. I'll have to dig them out and install the game. I could really go for some space exploration, colonization and conquest.
I've also been waiting for several years for Tim Wisseman, the creator of VGA Planets, to finish Version 4 of the game. I just checked the Website, and Tim's still in open beta of VGAP 4. I can't really blame the guy, though. He does this as a hobby and side business. He has a full-time job (as what, I do not know). Also, everything I've read about VGAP 4 says it's far too complicated for me. Tim once admitted on his Website that he was really into micro-management and that VGAP 4 would reflect that. I'm more into top-level strategy and tactics than managing the minute details of a vast empire. It just takes too damn bloody long. I mean, even Civ III is far too detailed for me at times (again, probably why I always lose).
As for Rob, he's playing the Germans, which is a scientific/militaristic civilization. He's proven the militaristic aspect already. He informed us a turn or two ago that he had attacked the Japanese. The crazy fool! Or maybe not. If he's already strong enough to go to war, then I can only hope he's far away from me. I couldn't make war with a butterfly right now. Unfortunately, Rob also plays the game a lot more than I do, but I do believe he plays it even more than Lawrence. That could mean that he will win the game. At the moment, if I were to place bets, I'd say...Rob. Yes, Rob is going to win. ;)
In terms of strategy games, one game I really do miss playing a lot on the computer is VGA Planets. I first played the game (Version 3, that is) years ago when I was still in high school. A bunch of us used to play it. For a long time (and maybe still), it was the most popular game played via email and bulletin board systems. I used to run games way back when, but I haven't played it in three or four years now. I should still have my floppy disks with my registered copy of VGA Planets 3 around the house somewhere. I'll have to dig them out and install the game. I could really go for some space exploration, colonization and conquest.
I've also been waiting for several years for Tim Wisseman, the creator of VGA Planets, to finish Version 4 of the game. I just checked the Website, and Tim's still in open beta of VGAP 4. I can't really blame the guy, though. He does this as a hobby and side business. He has a full-time job (as what, I do not know). Also, everything I've read about VGAP 4 says it's far too complicated for me. Tim once admitted on his Website that he was really into micro-management and that VGAP 4 would reflect that. I'm more into top-level strategy and tactics than managing the minute details of a vast empire. It just takes too damn bloody long. I mean, even Civ III is far too detailed for me at times (again, probably why I always lose).
// posted by Chris @ 8:22 PM 
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