Economy

[The Witch King of Angmar]

Originally Posted by Gallivan

Another resource-sided question. What will the unit max limit be? 200? 400?

And will different units add differently to that maximum? For example, a large orc taking 8 points but a small only taking 1.

They said before I think that thousands of units could be on a screen.

[Darvin]

It's probably too early to say exact numbers; those could always change. I think the qualitative examples given by Reverie are a decent representation of what to expect. As for variable unit population cost, I'm pretty confident that will be the case.

[Puppeteer]

Unfortunatly, in those games you would lose most of the time.

Someone has to win

I like the idea of having the traditional resources, because cnc3 has only 1 (well, 1 +1/2) which is realy strange making metal buildings out of tiberium. In stronghold 2 they have:
Gold, Wood, Meat, Bread, Wheat, Flour, Apples, Cheese, Stone, Iron, Hops, Beer, Geese, Eels, Pig, Grapes, Wine, Candles, Bee's Wax, Pitch, Wool, Cloth and Vegetables. As you can see, it was a tad excessive, including making the weapons as well.

[iceblast]

but why would i lose? im a uber pwner in bfme2

[Darvin]

Unless you're playing a FFA, there is a winner for every loser. While it's true that some people intentionally play against worse opponents to artificially inflate their win %, you shouldn't let it bother you.

[The Witch King of Angmar]

Originally Posted by Puppeteer

Someone has to win

I like the idea of having the traditional resources, because cnc3 has only 1 (well, 1 +1/2) which is realy strange making metal buildings out of tiberium. In stronghold 2 they have:
Gold, Wood, Meat, Bread, Wheat, Flour, Apples, Cheese, Stone, Iron, Hops, Beer, Geese, Eels, Pig, Grapes, Wine, Candles, Bee's Wax, Pitch, Wool, Cloth and Vegetables. As you can see, it was a tad excessive, including making the weapons as well.

I like the style DoF put in because it adds new options to the gameplay and, at the same time, isn't overly complicated.

[Puppeteer]

I was annoyed that in Age of Mythology and Age of Empires 3 (not as much the latter) that microsoft omitted stone.

[jap88]

I kind of liked the excessive resources that you needed in stronghold 2

[Puppeteer]

It was fun but all the rats and gong and crime was excessive

[jap88]

I can agree with those 3, yes. I didn't mind the resources but when it came to my buildings constantly shutting down because someone was stealing something every 5 seconds that just became too much.