| Re: RWIAB: Game Review (long) |
Sun, 24 August 2003 07:57   |
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 mazda |
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Messages: 655
Registered: April 2003
Location: Reading, UK | |
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Mote's eye view
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This was also my first multi-player attempt at Stars!
I may get some stick for this but my goals at the start were :-
i) to survive
ii) to have fun
iii) to win
Initially I was 9th of 9, with no tech (IS), and thought I might struggle, but, after making agreements with my neighbours on my right and left, my pop grew quickly and I rapidly moved up to 3rd.
I suppose I get the main blame for letting the AR live, but because we had complementary hab it was simply a mater of asking each other for planets and I did get some early tech which I was desperate for.
I had poor scouting and this lead to my first mistake.
In the 40's I had reached roughly what I thought was my share of the universe, and had incorrectly "guessed" how much room there still was above me.
So I simply didn't bother heading up towards the observer HW. 
After that I suppose I made a lot of beginner mistakes.
I still pumped all my resources into tech and let other players get too close.
As discussed with other people, I built the wrong ships and nowhere near enough of them early enough (although for a while I did hope that the WM Higards might be strong enough to defend me, whilst I build them freighters and minelayers, but that never got going).
I guess I still hadn't been able to adjust my strategy to the lines of what did I need to do to win.
Looking at my race design.
I definitely missed out on not taking RS, and taking NAS disadvantaged me, despite having TD's for the last third of the game.
My other choices I could live with.
4 cheap techs, no IFE and NRSE (so very limited engines).
As a whole, I would have been happy with 4th before the game began, but on reflection I know I should have done better.
M
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