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    Quote Originally Posted by Angus_Thermopyle View Post
    That's all cool if I have some sort of recourse when I start on a downslide - I don't mind losing, but I don't want to waste time being cannon fodder either.

    I'm fully prepared to give Evony a go, I am going through the noob tutorials and so on - I've just been made a bit wary by lots of folks building massive armies that then starve to death, and the like.

    When you say 'transport out', does that mean relocate to another area but with your technology/ army/ resources intact? I like the sound of that!

    You can teleport to another state or area within the state....

    With no coins it took me a week to get 3 towns ...and 4th is not far as well ..just a few more medals

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angus_Thermopyle View Post
    And there you have it. Most ads for games like this give the impression that you can take or leave the game, and play at your own speed...

    I played travian for months, with no fighting, and then suddenly got slaughtered fifteen times a day, with no recourse but to start again or give up. I'm not going to risk doing the same with this game - you may have done well so far, but you don't have to go to deeply into these boards to find a lot of people that have ended up with a similar experience to the one I had playing travain.
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    Look at it this way, if games like this are made to allow gankers and griefers then there might be more room in other types of games where it's not a free-for-all.

    Don't know what to tell you about where to look, but how to look is more important.

    If it's browser-based you're after then Google browser based (insert type) game and - read the forums before getting involved. Find out the mindset of the other players and base your decision on whether you want to play with and like them, or not.

    As you said, you don't get very deep in these forums before you find people giving up, etc.

    I've played and beta'ed a fair amount of MMORPGs, this one I've played casually as I suspected some of the idiocy of the population and realized early that the game plot would NOT be followed, instead the players farm other players and think it's some sort of feather in their cap.

    So play for free and don't care about it. Play as long as it interests you then desert it - it's okay to do so.

    Don't care about the opinions here either - even mine, you KNOW what they say about those, don't you? <evil grin>

    I hope you can find entertainment that suits you - good luck!

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    Moving to General Discussion, because the Help & Questions forum isn't really the most appropriate location for a discussion on the number of similiar games there are in existence on the internet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angus_Thermopyle View Post
    So I guess my question is - and please don't flame - is there a populous-type game online that *doesn't* involve mass-war efforts? (Because that's the game that I'll actually pay money to play).
    The Sims.

    Now please go away <---- Needed to fill in minimum length

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvNoob View Post
    The Sims.

    Now please go away <---- Needed to fill in minimum length
    You mean Activisions' Little Computer People on the C64? Yes I played it way back then and yes, it was just as pointless then too. Almost as pointless as clique-y players who apparently only go on forums to diss noobs and pretend that they are somehow blessed, and the rest of us are just idiots (they are indeed blessed, just not in the way they think they are!). Their age, funnily enough, is usually around 15 - either physically or mentally (or both).

    But back to the grown-ups' discussion - as far as fighting is concerned, the Facebook flash games have a measure of this sort of thing - Mobwars and the like offer one-on-one fighting without having to get deep into tactical meetings, although they also allow for that sort of thing as well without your having to always go down that road. I just find it odd that in the browser-based arena, it seems to be all-or-nothing, mass-wargames or solo...but for now, thanks Versaille and Shoko, you've both been v. helpful - I'll see how I get on!

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    Dwarf Fortress is heaven, its a lovely mix of Populous and Dungeon Keeper, with the complexity of Spore and Fable if only these two would have lived up to their promises.

    Free too, but single player.

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    How would a non violent version of an MMo go exactly ?

    1. Build cottage. Tell all other online players you've built a cottage.
    2. Build farm.
    3. Pat self on back for being so uber as to own both a farm AND a cottage.
    4. Build sawmill - browse stats to see who else has a cottage AND a farm AND a sawmill.... OMG, thousands of them. Spend cash to get insta-farms and sawmills...
    5. Build iron mine, quarry and another farm. use speed ups.
    6. Build another cottage. Speed it up. Check stats. Damn, still ranked number 6 million and 1. Buy more speed ups. Build farms, quarries, iron mines, town halls, brothels, stables, barracks, no cancel barracks - no fighting, um .. another cottage perhaps ..

    *3 months later*

    Check rankings, build yet another freaking cottage. Shoot self in head.

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    Age of Empires used to be a cool "faster" game. Not mass multiplayer, but you could get a handful of people on a board. But i am not sure if there are any free ones. I love this game, but i totally understand what he is saying. You have to dedicate yourself to this game or you go nowhere! It's true

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angus_Thermopyle View Post
    Hi All,

    After playing this game for 30 minutes, and browsing around here, it's become clear to me that, just like Travian, etc. this is another populous game that goes to great lengths not to mention the term 'war game' in any banner adverts or the like.

    The reason for this is obvious - you can pull people in thinking they can play a mini-populous game with a bit of fighting, but if you tell the truth and let them know that the game is, at the end of the day, another mass-war-game which will exclude family, girlfriends and the like, then they generally won't be interested (this isn't a dig at mass-war gamers - it's just not my bag).

    So I guess my question is - and please don't flame - is there a populous-type game online that *doesn't* involve mass-war efforts? (Because that's the game that I'll actually pay money to play).
    Honestly I will can PM you a possible one. It has pvp but its a much slower paced game and it doesn't look so dog-eat-dog like this one. Not allowed to talk about other games like Evony on the forums.

    This game is a wargame. To me it markets itself as an MMO, but I think its an online wargame above that. There are two many things put in place to just support the army and that's it. You take away the war aspect of this game and it becomes very thin.

    So I can understand how it'd be not your cup of tea. Especially if you have a child that wants to play as well, its not like you'd want to see him plundered multiple times.

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