Learning curve...
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 11:04 pm
Hello Everyone,
This is my first post on here, been playing for a few months now, and browsing the forum every so often.
Anyway, I just wanted to talk about some of the points that were raised in a game I played today; diplo game, with a mix of beginners, very experienced players, and myself, which I consider to be somewhere around intermediate. When you see a player spreading silos all over the place, sending out fleets on random aggressive missions, and openly discussing their tactics, you know you're dealing with a beginner. It's good to know that in time they will learn how to get better at the game and you can see how you have grown yourself from playing the game using tactics(?) like this, to making less suicidal moves.
Thing is, although the transition from Beginner to Intermediate is fairly quick as matter of necessity in order to start winning, the jump from Intermediate to Advanced is something that I'm really struggling with. Going back to the game, playing as SA, I had a newbie as US and Sobi as Afr, who I have played before and never really come close to beating. It was good to see the contrast between the styles of play, because while the rest of the world was busy blowing itself up, I had the new player making occasional aggressive naval moves, launching single nukes and the like, while Afr just sat and waited. While the US was easy enough to deal with, I had most of my naval defenses off the east coast of SA, which were destroyed with an unexpected, coordinated nuke strike from Africa, leaving me completely open. Needless to say, immediate death followed. My subs surfaced at random points just out of radar range from Africa, and were taken out before they could even launch.
The point I'm trying to make is am I missing something, or is the learning curve just something that comes with experience? It's one thing to be able to learn how to lay out your silos and how to recognise where an attack is going to come from etc., but when I see some of the ultra coordinated attacks from the really good players that just leave you defenseless, it just make me appreciate how in depth the strategy in this game really gets.
CB
This is my first post on here, been playing for a few months now, and browsing the forum every so often.
Anyway, I just wanted to talk about some of the points that were raised in a game I played today; diplo game, with a mix of beginners, very experienced players, and myself, which I consider to be somewhere around intermediate. When you see a player spreading silos all over the place, sending out fleets on random aggressive missions, and openly discussing their tactics, you know you're dealing with a beginner. It's good to know that in time they will learn how to get better at the game and you can see how you have grown yourself from playing the game using tactics(?) like this, to making less suicidal moves.
Thing is, although the transition from Beginner to Intermediate is fairly quick as matter of necessity in order to start winning, the jump from Intermediate to Advanced is something that I'm really struggling with. Going back to the game, playing as SA, I had a newbie as US and Sobi as Afr, who I have played before and never really come close to beating. It was good to see the contrast between the styles of play, because while the rest of the world was busy blowing itself up, I had the new player making occasional aggressive naval moves, launching single nukes and the like, while Afr just sat and waited. While the US was easy enough to deal with, I had most of my naval defenses off the east coast of SA, which were destroyed with an unexpected, coordinated nuke strike from Africa, leaving me completely open. Needless to say, immediate death followed. My subs surfaced at random points just out of radar range from Africa, and were taken out before they could even launch.
The point I'm trying to make is am I missing something, or is the learning curve just something that comes with experience? It's one thing to be able to learn how to lay out your silos and how to recognise where an attack is going to come from etc., but when I see some of the ultra coordinated attacks from the really good players that just leave you defenseless, it just make me appreciate how in depth the strategy in this game really gets.
CB
