March 24, 2003, 14:32
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Does Sim Farm count as empire buildning? 
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March 24, 2003, 15:48
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Sim games have their own genre, boredom building. Your boredom builds up for 2 hours, then you win.
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March 24, 2003, 16:17
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Does Sim Farm count as empire buildning?
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Hey... that was a great game, too bad I didn't have a PC back then... only played it at my friends...  
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March 24, 2003, 16:18
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Destiny. Urgh.
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March 24, 2003, 16:23
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Re: the WORST Empire building game youve ever played(Turn based or RTS)
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Originally posted by Drakenred
for me, its a tos-up
Acendancy,
Spaceward ho!(atualy this could ALMOST be a pole question)
folowed by Pax emperia,
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I don't understand the Ascendancy thing. Yes, the AI was crap, but everything else about the game was rather elegant and beautifully done. The AI patch made the game a reasonably enjoyable experience, IMO.
As for SW Rebellion...if you download RebEd, which allows you to edit all the buildings, units, etc. in the game, and shorten the production times and increase the speeds of all the ships, it becomes a much more playable game. The AI will put up a really challenging fight against you, at least on the highest level of difficulty.
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March 24, 2003, 16:49
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I didn't like 1603AD (or was it 1602?) at all. The graphics were good, but the game itself was tedious.
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March 24, 2003, 20:04
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Where can I download RebEd from?
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March 24, 2003, 20:32
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Originally posted by The Rusty Gamer
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http://www.swrebellion.com/modules.p...download&cid=1
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March 24, 2003, 21:32
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Originally posted by ADG
Hey... that was a great game, too bad I didn't have a PC back then... only played it at my friends...
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If you have a PC now............ Contact me.
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March 25, 2003, 08:26
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I actually have it, but because I didn't play it that much back then, it's diffecult to start playing an old classic...
That's the reason why I don't like Transport Tycoon... as I finally got the game, the graphics was outdated... and when the graphics is outdated, I have a hard time getting into the game...
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March 25, 2003, 08:28
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Originally posted by MBD
I didn't like 1603AD (or was it 1602?) at all. The graphics were good, but the game itself was tedious.
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Wasn't it 1604? Well, anyway... I didn't like that game either... there just wasn't enough gameplay, to keep me going
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March 25, 2003, 10:41
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It was 1602. The prequel, 1503, is just coming out. It has better graphics if nothing else. The demo is available somewhere.
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March 25, 2003, 10:55
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ok... I had hoped for a better gameplay instead, but since I haven't heard any mentions about that, I assume the gameplay is the same, so I didn't bother downloading the demo...
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March 25, 2003, 14:53
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I got the 1503 demo. I may be mistaken but as far as I could tell the tutorial script was IDENTICAL to that of 1602. After seeing that I will have a hard time believing there are any significant differences in gameplay.
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March 25, 2003, 15:23
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Originally posted by The Rusty Gamer
It was 1602. The prequel, 1503, is just coming out. It has better graphics if nothing else. The demo is available somewhere.
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Here it is:
http://www.ea.com/eagames/main/pccd/1503ad/home.jsp
160+ MB.
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March 25, 2003, 17:31
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1602. I have it right here. Make me an offer and it can be yours.
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March 25, 2003, 17:37
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I'll give you a big smile.
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March 25, 2003, 17:38
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Used to be Star Wars Rebellion, but Moo3 recently took this honoured position.
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March 26, 2003, 12:51
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That bad, eh? It's worse than I expected, then.
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March 26, 2003, 15:33
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These are the two with the fewest games played, which is one way that I will rank games.
Conquest of a new world.
Maybe it's because I got it from the cheap bin where it didn't come with a manual, and so didn't know how to play, but I never finished a game.
Moo3, not horrible in concept, it's just SO not fun, that I have no desire to play any more. Only finished one game.
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March 26, 2003, 15:51
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I've only played this game in SP, but it was fun... I have tried to install it again, but I can't get it working right, since it requires the CD to be in my cd-burner, and my cd-burner is quite noisy, so it's impossible not to get insane after 2 minutes of play time
Couldn't they just make a sequel... I'd love to have a sequel to that game
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March 27, 2003, 03:40
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Try the deluxe version of "Conquest of the New World". The reviewers didn;'t go for it 100% but I like it alot.
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March 27, 2003, 05:44
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It's not possible to buy it anywhere (offline), so I can't get it... I have downloaded it, but that one requires the CD also (can't play with just the normal CoNW cd)
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March 30, 2003, 00:42
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Originally posted by MarkG
I gave the Settlers 3 demo a try today... It was uninstalled after 5 minutes...
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Right it's awful what they did to this nice little game. Settler 1 and 2 had the flair and the atmosphere of this funny chaps running around, building and so on, it was entertaining to watch them but the 3.part ahh horrible. All of the good concepts where thrown away everything we knew and love where gone. This wasn't the game I once enjoyed so much therefore I marched back to the first two parts.
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March 30, 2003, 02:10
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nobody's mentioned this one:
Rise and Rule of Ancient Empires
First, it was so buggy, I had to save every few minutes to keep playing.
It had a number of decent concepts about it, such as the spread of technology from your capitol was a slow thing (the outlying colonies didn't have such good tech), which you could speed up with trade caravans, and roads and such. Cities had a slider to allocate between production and science, and producing a few things at once was possible. Building armies took some population, building settlers took a lot, and you could manage your pop growth and city defense together.
But good hell down under! the Microscopic management. I got deluged with messages all over the place with things that needed my attention. I was buried in details. it had a thing where you could turn your empire over to the AI and watch if you wanted, so I tried that, and after a hundred turns or so, I realized I didn't even care. Never went back.
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March 30, 2003, 15:23
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I remember that game. It oculd have been a great civ-clone... but It crashed every turn
I uninstalled it after 1 hour
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March 31, 2003, 08:31
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It's not a bug, it's a feature  See it this way:
So you can make a break and every turn to drink coffee or do something else. This was implemented so you won't get this "only one more turn syndrome". This game is good for your health
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March 31, 2003, 21:44
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As I recall, a patch came out to fix that crash bug but I could be wrong...
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March 31, 2003, 21:51
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War Games, however, had the absolute worst demo... and if you remember the movie- then you would know taht the crash bug was absolutely appropriate
The demo crashed... and your screen dissolved into shaking wavy lines that stayed until you rebooted the system twice and unistalled the game in safemode
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March 31, 2003, 21:59
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Originally posted by ADG
I've only played this game in SP, but it was fun... I have tried to install it again, but I can't get it working right, since it requires the CD to be in my cd-burner, and my cd-burner is quite noisy, so it's impossible not to get insane after 2 minutes of play time
Couldn't they just make a sequel... I'd love to have a sequel to that game
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I might be creating this out of my imagination, but I seem to recall hearing of a sequel to it not long ago. I agree with you though, nice game. 
Best thing about it was hot seat, me and my friend spent alot of time playing that game together.
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