Spring RTS Engine

Forboding Angel wrote:Wow, are you trying to get flamed?

TA is TACTICS based.

EE is STRATEGY based.


Don't even bother to mention Gundam. Ungh, There is definately madness in your sparta.

Way to be an ahole.

Lock this thread, Burn it, and kick the OP in the manboobs.

I've rather found that all the mods require slightly different methods of play, hence why I excel at none of them as I play all of them. I'll just point out a few front-runners here...

E&E: Micromanagement, with the exception of the Flamer units, is unnecessary. You manage groups, and overhead strategy does take precedence. The economy is expansion based, and individual units are generally insignificant. Strategic, Expansionist.

Gundam: Gundam mixes extremely powerful yet vulnerable individual units which require micromanagement with specialized groups that require tactical use. Success is decided by the efficent use of both elements together, requiring a dual mentality of play. The economy is simplified and not expansion based, mainly to encourage logical bases which remain vulnerable despite any attempt to porc due to the unit balancing. Tactical (Micromanagement), Reserved.

SWS: Star Wars is fairly tactical and wave-based. You have a wide selection of individually insignificant units, but mixed groups are superior. The economy is generalized, allowing for expansion and the construction of defended bases in equal parts. Tactical, Mixed.

BA: Balanced Annihilation is a group intensive mod which does not favour mixed groups very much. Think about it... Flash spam, Insitigator spam, Skimmer spam, Hawk spam, Brawler spam... you can often win through concentration of investment. The economy is generalized, allowing for the construction of defended bases and expansion on the other hand, however, the power and prevalence of defensive structures makes a defensive game with some groups of units to support quite simple. Limited Tactical, Mixed Favouring Reserved.

XTA: This mod has many of the same failings of Balanced Annihilation, but the players are more pretenious about it. See Macintosh vs. Dell laptop fires. Play is slower, which encourages some additional micromanagement as you sometimes only have one unit to manage. The economy is generalized, allowing for the construction of defended bases and expansion on the other hand, however, the power and prevalence of defensive structures makes a defensive game with some groups of units to support quite simple. Limited Tactical, Mixed Favouring Reserved.

FF: Final Frontier is a testament to looking at economic issues the wrong way. You need an immense economy to support any level of unit production, and many units are irrelevant to play among players who do metagame calculations and break down the efficency. Rock/Paper/Scissors balance coupled with economic inconsistency encourages careful use of rather small and expensive groups. The economy encourages porcing on one hand, but the speed of play would be far too slow for even the most hardcore to tolerate in such a case. Limited Tactical, Reserved.

1944: A budding mod, this is one of my favourites. It requires tactical management of groups in the greater scheme, coupled with an expansion economy and the feeling of universal vulnerability. Individual units are specialized, but you need to keep your mind focused on the greater campaign. Strategic, Expansionist.

Just to give you some background, most of my play experience is concentrated in Balanced Annihilation. Gundam and Expand & Exterminate come next in the hierarchy, followed by XTA, Final Frontier, 1944 and Star Wars in that order. Virtually all other mods come after in terms of play frequency.

Nixa wrote:wow, some people really have no time on there hands

btw, i know its not fair on u modders but the spring community isnt big enuff for more than one or two mods even tho most of them are really good. Its the same with any modded game, theres the majority that plays one mod, and then the small minority that play the remaining mods.

... and this will never change :\