v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I remember seeing a friend of mine play Supreme Commander back in the day and it looked fun but hella complicated. I remember there being some green-coded race that had some sort of princess as a leader? They have a spaceship that looks like a donut
The Aeon are the ones you mean. The “donut” is their experimental spaceship with a laser attack like Independence Day.
And it takes a bit getting used to the difference in economy to other strategy games, but I wouldn’t say it’s hella complicated. If you want to play at a casual level, you can do that against an easier AI. That’s how I play it and it’s still fun! =D
I’m pretty bad at RTS because I get overwhelmed by the amount of options you have at any given moment. Star Craft, Warcraft, Age of Empires - doesn’t matter. :D
I think I also remember building times for units to be super long. Do I remember correctly?
You can change the game speed of SC and/or simply pause in single player and give orders without worrying about reaction time. But I totally understand that it’s not for everybody!
Building times are long, yes. But in this game, more than in any other, it is important to support construction with additional workers. Everything that produces something, be it workers building something or a factory producing a unit or a missile silo creating a rocket can be supported by construction units. So while an experimental unit can have something like 120 minutes as building time, that is for one single unit. So you built that with 30 workers and then it’s only 4 minutes. Provided your economy can sustain the needed resources. But that is what the late game is about: building a strong enough economy so that you can output silly amounts of the big units.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 1 day ago
That would be the Aeon.