Guest JockeySnogger Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 I'm sure this is something that everyone notices as being quite a bleak time ahead. Oil is running out along with all the other narutal and unrepleneshable natural resources but this only hit me as being such the terrifying predicamnt it truly is, last night.....playing Age of Empires.I am the underdog fighting against 3 castles, eachone meaner than the last but its nothing to worry about - I have plenty of resources....well at least I mean my food and wood is high. You see these resources were sufficient to begin with since my primitive age I was living in only really relied on wood and food so things were alright. My boats were fending off intruders and the castle walls, although made of stone, used little resources and what I didn't have I made up for by trade through the market. My first to third assault on the easiest of the castles left my sources fairly unscathed and by regularly replenishing my farm land I was able to keep a bit of momentum up with stocks so when my army inevitably died the first few times from the overpowering opposition, I could nip back and make more units. On the third attempts I'd realised that the only way to defeat the enemy of the north was through little in the way of tactics but rely instead heavily on Knights. But the knights were expensive. My gold trade through wood and food increased substantially leaving the gold exchange rate significantly lower than my first dealings. I was now giving a 100 sticks for a 14 gold return and likewise for the wood but still not big deal as the forests are wide and prosperous in my region so I pull loads of gold from the market for a small return in gold but enough, I feel, to make good a raid on the backs of Battering Rams and Knights. The mission goes realy well but I notice after being away from base for a while that all my farms have exhasted and the wood chopping gang have been killed by a boat the enemy uses that fires arrows its own length. Still no big deal because people in this game, and indeed life itself, are disposable so I send another ship of workers over to the island where woodcutting is its only benefit.Meantime I am sent an order that I will be getting vengeance for destroying on of the British castles, to which I realise I need to be protective of my base. In the anticipation of an all out war I over react by creating more units than necessary. When the attack coems, it comes in a form I didn't expect. Virtually nothing. I have fire ships, guard towers, demolition boats, large arrow shooter boats, not to mention the land untils and subsequently I have depleated my resources by half. Now down to just above a 5 figure sum. It takes me several moments to realise, after the units are built and the farms resown, that the wood cutters sent to cut down wood from the first forest are now idle and its then that I realise my wood isn't going to last forever.Naturally I look into future surplus in the bigger and, my totally reliant only alternate wood sources to see that its almost depleated. I'd used 7/8's of that forest too and, with two more attachs still to come, with no additional stock left in the way of gold and stone I begin to worry a little so (unlike real life) I save the game and begin to make preparations to harvest overseas even though I know this will indeed be a temporary source also. My main gola here is to get this crop of gold in the north west of the game but as I send 5 workers to the spot, they meet thier demise very suddenly with an ambush of trebuchets, knights and basically everyone with weapons more basic than a fishing net.My plans here were stumped. It seems I didnt look into the future and instead put all my eggs in one faltering basket.I put it to the people that hold positions of power in the strongest parts of the world to play this game. To live the devastation and mindless killing that I succumbered to and then reflect on your positions on the world. Maybe then you will see that its not worth it. That peace,sharing and No Ties Aid are some of the best ways forward. You need more than your mortal corpse to defend you.Although in the game I won with flying colours and used little of my indisposable resources by entering a cheat that enabled me to use Audi TT sports cars with rocket launchers attached but the point I made remains valid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SensesWorkingOverTime Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 hahahahahahafecking inspiring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicoAUBL Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 totallywe were playing multiplayer Age of Empires the other dayand i got my ass kicked as usualso i know exactly what you mean!same goes for most games like that (C&C, Total Annihilation, Warcraft) but age of empires more so because.. it's like... real.. and stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_beastly_one Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 totallywe were playing multiplayer Age of Empires the other dayand i got my ass kicked as usualso i know exactly what you mean!same goes for most games like that (C&C' date=' Total Annihilation, Warcraft) but age of empires more so because.. it's like... real.. and stuff...[/quote']You may be slightly missing the point......? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HARRY Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 same goes for most games like that (C&C' date=' Total Annihilation, Warcraft) but age of empires more so because.. [b']it's like... real.. and stuff..By any chance, are you an XBox gamer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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