No, I will take a (long) break from the forum after this game. I doubt an "Always Peace" game will solve any of my issues I have with the current meta. I will return to my happy days playing single player. The main issues I see with MP and the meta are:
1. It takes way too long to finish a game (this could never be solved)
2. The meta tends towards hyper-warmongering (heavy whipping, no war weariness, keep strong 2-mover units e.g. everything that makes it easier to conquer somebody)
3. Diplomacy scares most players, when it actually is the one thing in which MP is superior to single player
4. Players prefer balanced maps, which don't tend towards interesting diplo games. Maps like from the random games together with diplomacy would be great, but I doubt that will ever happen as rare as both these game types are.
5. No barbarians, which just boosts the REXing in the beginning changing the whole dynamic in the beginning of the game.
Yes an Always Peace game addresses some of my issues, but in the end I would only play a singleplayer game that stretches over months. Now I don't mean to say that this is all wrong. If you want to play like that, do that. In the end I am the wrong player for this kind of play.
1. It takes way too long to finish a game (this could never be solved)
2. The meta tends towards hyper-warmongering (heavy whipping, no war weariness, keep strong 2-mover units e.g. everything that makes it easier to conquer somebody)
3. Diplomacy scares most players, when it actually is the one thing in which MP is superior to single player
4. Players prefer balanced maps, which don't tend towards interesting diplo games. Maps like from the random games together with diplomacy would be great, but I doubt that will ever happen as rare as both these game types are.
5. No barbarians, which just boosts the REXing in the beginning changing the whole dynamic in the beginning of the game.
Yes an Always Peace game addresses some of my issues, but in the end I would only play a singleplayer game that stretches over months. Now I don't mean to say that this is all wrong. If you want to play like that, do that. In the end I am the wrong player for this kind of play.
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Superdeath and Scooter signed peace with Mjmd. Scooter declared war on me and by now captured TobyFox and got Kirkhope in a peace deal. I think that more or less marks the end of this game as Mjmd will roll over me. I also expect Superdeath to show up any minute to have some fun in my lands, because why not. Everybody gets to take revenge on somebody it seems in these last turns and why should I sit this out. That's why I'm sending an army up north to raze some Bing cities, just for fun.
