Holy-War

Well, you have a great .sig, which is a good start.

What world do you play Artemis23?

The Tagoria forums died a few weeks into the game. I'm not sure why, but I think part of it was that most of the initial posts were people trying to jump-start things artificially by importing things from HW, and really, who wants to play the same silly forum game with half the same people in two different forums?

But I agree with Mulvers that it's a slightly better game. It has a few problems HW doesn't, but it's solved most of the problems HW has.

Maybe their third game will be even better.

Quoted from "falcotron"

Maybe their third game will be even better.

Could be wrong, but it appears the new game won't be text-based; perhaps it will be more akin to WoWc or Perfect World, where players negotiate in a life-like environment, fighting NPCs and sometimes doing PvP. If GaS ever decideds to adapt Holy War to such a medium, I'm all in. Nothing more exciting than doing order battles in real time against real opponents, where skill, not algarythms (or shear luck), dictate victory and defeat.

isnt Ai- wars the newest but its German only at the minute?
but while i was trying to convert German it just seemed like tag really

Quoted from "Janet H."

Could be wrong, but it appears the new game won't be text-based; perhaps it will be more akin to WoWc or Perfect World, where players negotiate in a life-like environment, fighting NPCs and sometimes doing PvP. If GaS ever decideds to adapt Holy War to such a medium, I'm all in. Nothing more exciting than doing order battles in real time against real opponents, where skill, not algarythms (or shear luck), dictate victory and defeat.

Nope, it's text-based. There's more strategy and complexity leading up to the end, but when the camps finally close, the battle algorithm is basically the same as in HW and TG.

Quoted from "-B-P-"

isnt Ai- wars the newest but its German only at the minute?
but while i was trying to convert German it just seemed like tag really

It's not only German-only, but still in beta. (Also, they changed the name from AI Wars to AI War at some point.)

It's just like Tagoria in the same way Tagoria is just like Holy-War. At first glance it doesn't seem much different, but when you actually start playing it's really not the same game.

Of course just being more complex doesn't necessarily mean it'll be better; it means the devs had more things to balance and more possibilities to screw up.

Also, TBK raised the point that the more complex the game is, the more it takes away from the "casual background game" thing that HW has going for it, and there could be a deep valley where it actually gets less enjoyable instead of more as you add complexity, because you're tearing down the "casual background" thing faster than you're building up the "deep strategy" thing.

But I think it's worth giving it a try, and I think it will turn out to be a better game than Tagoria and HW.

I think it's also worth applying to [UGLY] when you get to the beta, where other English-speaking players can help you learn the game.