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Re: ^ needless to say, not me. by FABIO 05/15/2005, 5:38pm PDT
laudablepuss wrote:


No, it was MM and FABs that seemed to dislike it. But RPS is fundamentally pretty close to how things really work, I think. Of course it's an oversimplification.


To the point where it's not really true.

RPS is the lazy way out for unit balance, or at least the heavy handed AoE method is. Games like starcraft and generals go far beyond it and provide a multitude of units, situations, and tactics. Games with rigid RPS systems offer almost zero flexibility. Enemy cavalry? You HAVE to build pikemen. Archers? You HAVE to build cavalry. In starcraft, if someone jumps me with battlecruisers I can try using goliaths, catching him with cloaked wraits, using ghosts to lock them down, have a defiler cast plague on them, have ground units hide under a dark swarm, have an arbiter cast stasis on them to divide and conquer, have a templar cast psi storm, have a dark archon cast feedback or mind control, use mutalisks & devourers, use scouts or corsairs, use dragoons, use scourages, or use a couple other available tactics that I'm probably forgetting. The AoE makers would probably force me to use the ONE anti-battlecruiser unit, only they'd call it the Light AstroAngessonator just to make sure it's 100% unintuitive.

According to SB's crazy desperate defense of his l337 skillz though, that WAS starcraft.
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                            ^ needless to say, not me. by laudablepuss 05/15/2005, 1:50am PDT NEW
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                                        Re: ^ needless to say, not me. by FABIO 05/15/2005, 5:38pm PDT NEW
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