LoBaron
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Joined: 1/26/2003 From: Vienna, Austria Status: offline
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shartlep, this is nothing to feel bad about. I am playing a single PBEM, with a pace of about a turn every 2 days average, sometimes more sometimes less. Its all I will ever be able to handle, and I still sometimes got the feeling of being overwhelmed by all those little icons on a huge map. One thing you can try to do different compared to most other games is: detach youreself from time, or better, from progress/time. If you view the game from a progress/time perspective, you will always remain with the nagging feeling that you do want to hit the turn button, but are not sure if you left something out, feel a bit overwhelmed by what else is left to do, or missed some precious bit of information. If you can bring yourself to just enjoy the ride, spend as much time with a single turn as you like (even if it means to save and reload the next day), ignore just about everything on another day, and simply do not care anymore if your game takes 1 or 5 years until its done, then youre fine. I think there are a few people out there who are resilient enough to enjoy the ride on their own against the AI for a very long time. If you plan to do that, ask PaxMondo, Bullwinkle or Sardaukar how they do it. They are awesome and probably know the game much better than 90% of the slowly progressing PBEM players. Personally the game addiction is at its best in PBEM. Because the motivation is not only the game, but the humans behind the game. My PBEM is a 2 vs. 1, and both other players have become good friends very quickly. I enjoy playing with and against them, they respect the reduced pace of turns if one of us got important other things to do or simply needs a short brake, they are highly skilled and dangerous, they love to talk about the game and other things, and each of us has his own character and distinct style of play. This is, IMHO, the best way to enjoy WitP AE. That said, I love playing the newest version of HOI III (really great game), I play Distant Worlds (also by matrix games, one of the best after WitP AE I think), I love to kill other players on World of Tanks, and some time when I go the time for it, I will progress further into the dephts of Skyrim with my lonesome ranger, LoBaron the Ugly.
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