I'm playing this populace throwback right now- pretty addictive, simple yet not so bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-PIgPGR_k

or the cap was too high for me to have reached on my system back in the day

but i had 1000s of units

oh no death star

haha the trailer leaves me with one crucial question: how does that work in gameplay

games with death stars

i member empire earth blew me away when i first saw the trailers 😛

but then it was more age of empires lol

@Mentrex I love how you can see him trying not to laugh

and emperor battle for dune looked amazing throughout but was simplified to the level of -no detail-

😛

@JackH670 i know right lol

That game was fantastic

then they made the abortion that was 3

Spent a summer playing it, not very well

oh that looks aight red

That Citizen Kabuto game- anyone play that?

@svarozhyc Oh it all works. And yes, you can strap giant rocket engines to smaller moons and essentialy turn the moon into a giant projictile, flinging it straight into an enemy held planet to destroy it.

It's also possible to build death star lasers to annihilate planets with. 🤣

i loved the idea of populus but when i played it, it was a bit too dunno linear

it's always happened with the molyneux tard

@svarozhyc oh yeah, populace is a fairly dumb game, if you can call it a game even

requires about as much thought as solitaire

which is fine

yeah, just a chill thing

been looking for a game actually imma obtain this one

@svarozhyc The game works essentially as most isometric RTS games.

You use the scroll wheel of your mouse to zoom in and out, and a separare button to cycle between planetary bodies. Zooming out far enough from the planet surface will make your units appear as icons since they're too small to be visible that far out.

This also let you see the "orbital" layer where you build units and structures in orbit.

ah i see that's pretty cool

@Mentrex how tf did they get away with the Japanese faction as well, the game was just so funny

i'll have a look at it too.

yeah i donno

i notice the trend is to combine grand with ground strategy

some one made a choice and it was a bad one

i dislike it 😛 although i realise it was always the holy grail lol

@svarozhyc Make sure the Titans expansion is with it. Because it fixes a lot of issues with the vanilla, and also adds a lot of units (like the Titans... Duh)

Nah I liked the japan faction

Also enjoyed the fact that each faction had some unnaturally hot woman in the army for some reason

RA 3 was on my disk for 15 mins and i had to tear the hdd down to atoms after witnessing the game

In my view, RTS is rarely strategic at all. Most of it takes place in the tactical levels of battle.

The Total War series would be an example of an actual STRATEGY game, whereas Starcraft is a completely Tactical game.

sounds about right yes

We all know you have time to do your hair in a battlefield

do you really care?