On 19 May 2002 at 9:00, Jim Sharkey wrote: > > Andrew Crystall wrote: > > On 18 May 2002 at 9:19, Jim Sharkey wrote: > >>I wouldn't want to play RTS or TBS games without a mouse. i can't > >>imagine playing StarCraft without the mouse, even with the use of > >>keyboard hotkeys. > > > >I can't imagine playing StarCrap period, but that's just me :P > > See, that's funny, since I found TA to be about as engaging as > watching senior citizens play shuffleboard, so I guess that makes us > even. :)
At a guess, you maybe played TA before the 3.1c patch and definately in singple player or scirmish mode? Multiplayer TA is far faster and more taxing than playing with any AI, although there are some seriously improved AI's (Counterstrike, Mostly Harmless, Queller, Bloothirsty AI to name a few) out there. And the TA mod community is alive and well. I'm current participaing in the O3/TADS Space Total Conversion, some quality Races are nearing completion... TA's strengths are modability, natural balance, unlimited resource model and large scale (on many maps). It doesn't really play that well single player without a deacent AI, it has no story and some maps are poor. Andy Dawn Falcon
