Sean O'Connor's Games

I take it you never played CoreWars or RobotWars. Lots of geeks got a kick out of writing code for those games...

Ah, he starved to death two turns later...

Had him bottled up there by one of my knights for the whole game while I finished off the rest of the map. Then I went in and took one hex at a time, letting him spend all his savings.

what, that never happens......

I used to play that all the time. I tried to define the units in Xconq, but defining the parameters for an Ogre was too big a job.

I just had a devil of a time playing #3358 as player 6. Took me 4-5 times at least. Players 1, 3, and 4 seem to have huge advantages...

Sounds like it would make a pretty fun game. I let the demo run for over 500 turns, it definitely wasn't going to end on its own...

I started a demo and watched it run, got world 2515. There's a donut-shaped island here with a city on the inner coast. One of the players built up a sizable fleet in there - 2 battleships, a destroyer, a sub, a couple transports, but they had nowhere to go. The game is still running with another pl...

Same suggestion as for Slay - when any player gets some percent more powerful than any other players, have the rest of the AIs gang up on the largest player...

Sadly I've been too busy with work lately to join the Sunday games. And when I'm sitting waiting for a test to finish, I play solo but for the most part that's too easy now. I play a board till I own 55% or so and then just set up knights guarding my borders and watch the bots beat themselves up. Th...

In multiplayer games, there needs to be an idle timeout that falls back to auto-play if a player spaces out and walks away from their game. Or, the server operator should have the ability to remove players from the game without interfering with the rest of play. It's really frustrating to get into a...

Along the lines of limiting the arms race - right now every piece in the game is balanced, except for Barons. Two choices here - allow upgrading castles to Knight strength, or eliminate barons. That is, there's an even progression of units and terrain, except for barons: peasant > empty land spearma...

It would certainly change the style of play. Right now if I see I can split a region without taking the capital, I will. But if there's money to be gained from getting the capital, vs completely eliminating an enemy region, I may let the enemy regions live a bit longer. And if the money stays in pla...

I have it in 27 days right now, haven't gone back to it in a while. Don't even remember it, really.

Heh heh... Well, I don't have first-hand experience with babies...