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Offline Yitzi

Re: pandora update
« Reply #45 on: January 22, 2014, 06:10:46 pm »
For me, probably librarian, though I have been slowly moving my way up.  At the moment, though, I'm more interested in making ways to make each difficulty harder by tweaking the mechanics to remove (or at least add a substantial cost to) the tricks that people often use to handle high difficulties, and then maybe Transcend will be a difficulty level that only the best players can win reliably on.

Offline Geo

Re: pandora update
« Reply #46 on: January 22, 2014, 06:24:58 pm »

4. librarian
5. thinker

A bit of switching between those two. I remember winning games on Thinker.
But its been a long time since I finished a game. :-[

Offline Mart

Re: pandora update
« Reply #47 on: January 31, 2014, 11:22:58 pm »
In this thread there is transcend scenario, for Faction Ranking.
I haven't completed it yet, but I believe, it is possible to win it with basic skills.

Offline gwillybj

Re: pandora update
« Reply #48 on: February 01, 2014, 04:34:42 pm »
I played Citizen, Specialist, and Talent once each, then went to Librarian for a long time during which I tried Thinker a few times, Transcend once. I've deicided I'll always be a Librarian. That's okay; I'm always playing new factions or maps or some rules adjustment somewhere.
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Offline Yitzi

Re: pandora update
« Reply #49 on: February 01, 2014, 11:58:03 pm »
I played Citizen, Specialist, and Talent once each, then went to Librarian for a long time during which I tried Thinker a few times, Transcend once. I've deicided I'll always be a Librarian. That's okay; I'm always playing new factions or maps or some rules adjustment somewhere.

Librarian really is "standard" difficulty; the only reason people tend to play on Transcend is because people have found exploits (not in the "abusable bug" sense but just as rules that allow strategies to be far more powerful than is balanced) that the AI doesn't know how to use, so playing on the hardest difficulty is the only way to rebalance it.  So with good rules adjustments, Librarian could probably actually be reasonably difficult.

 

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