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Article #581237Re: Imperialism II - Still holds up
From: mar... Martin Leslie Leuschen
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:47
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:47
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Ben Polk (ben...@ix.netcom.com) wrote: Nice to see you around, Mr. Polk. : To be fair, the complaints were about the way armies could teleport : across giant oceans even when you had sunk all of their ships. I : actually agree that it would have been better if you could restrict an : army's mobility across water by using your navy. IIRC, you had that restriction in IMP I. : It would not have been hard to modify the rules to do this, but : unfortunately it would have been very hard to make the computer : players deal with this well. We made the decision to not tweak the : game in ways that would greatly hurt the ability of the computer : players to compete, and this one on example of the tradeoff. I agree with the decision you made. IMP II is one of the few strat games I never dialed the diff to the max, but still like to play the AI. It can present a serious challenge *without* needing outrageous, disgusting, in your face advanages [1] that ruin WSOD. Regards, martinl [1] OK, with only a few of those. ;)
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