Kevan
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Joined: 9/22/2004 From: Brandon, MB, Canada Status: offline
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It's unfortunate that you've had this latest problem with downloading the patch. My experience has been that the guys at Matrix are pretty good about fixing problems like these, though sometimes it will take a few days. I have to agree with Sarge, though, that there's little point in constantly hammering at the complexity issue. The economy's a bit tricky, yes, and there are some glitches that won't be fixed until version 1.2. The guys at Matrix have been pretty good at identifying these glitches and I'm looking forward to the patch, but we have to realize these things don't happen overnight. All that aside, though, I've been playing wargames of various sorts for about 20 years, and I wouldn't consider this to be a complex game. I would consider it complex if it was a board game and we had to do all the calculations and keep track of all the rules ourselves (Empires in Arms is a good example of this), but in CoG we have the computer to do this for us. Like most good games, I had to play a couple of scenarios before I understood how things worked. There were some things that I didn't really pick up on until my 5th or 6th time through, but these were minor things that didn't affect the overall gameplay. I urge you to give it a couple of runs through, with different nations, to get a feel for things. I found that Turkey, Sweden, and Austria were the easiest nations to learn with.
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