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PaperclipPerfector  4d ago (text post)   1926 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 11, 2025

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Usually leave the genre and try turn based strategy, or grand strategy.

I think you'll probably still generally enjoy Dune Spice Wars. I run the game at double speed and then just constantly pause and unpause it. Some micro is necessary at the early parts of the game. Like when you want to save one of your 5 soldier units, and you have just that unit do a tactical retreat while everyone else stays. By the end of the game its more of the reverse where I'll might leave one guy behind to die while everyone else retreats, or more commonly everyone retreats at the same time if the combat doesn't look like it will go in my favor.

There is a bit of tactics changes for small units. They have an "armory" that provides different unit bonuses, or sometimes tradeoffs. The tactics and tradeoffs are pretty limited though.

Most important skill is planning out your territory expansion, and adapting those plans as needed when temporary status effects come into play.

Honestly, doesn't programming unit tactics sound appealing?

Grand strategy is very meh in my opinion. EU4 or HOI boil down to stacking predictable multipliers.

That's incredibly lame.

In the abstract, sort of.

But in practice I've seen what those games look like, and no it was not fun.

I think pillars of eternity had a super in depth programming system, just about any input could be a trigger for just about any action.

The reward for all your hard work is that you get to not play the game. or if you are like me and don't enjoy that combat part you can much more easily just turn down the difficulty.

The reward for all your hard work is that you get to not play the game. or if you are like me and don't enjoy that combat part you can much more easily just turn down the difficulty.

What id you simply couldn't and had to use them?

There are programming RTSes out there. I found them unfun. Probably because I've been programming for a living for a long time, so it doesn't feel like a game, it feels like work to me. Your mileage may vary, thats just like my opinion man.

I mean this would be functional programming or some sort of combination of priorities etc.. not typical pin-headed BS you deal with normally..

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