Admittedly, there is a philosophical point to whether you would engage in such monumental clashes just to see how it all shakes out, or accept the reality that those types of conflicts would almost never happen in a purely Multiplayer contest. Primarily because no successful scenarios exist where non-aggression by opponents, allowing the build up massive armada type fleets, leads to anything but 4 hour type games.
I disagree. There are just different type of players out there.
Pure single player
LAN players
ICQ private games... which is nothing more than LAN via internet
ICQ casual players
ICQ competive players
What cool guys! Playing against the AI instead of against real people, not three guys against 1 AI or 2, but, count 'em, three AIs!
Only the last group is what Dirty is speaking about. BTW... let me get this staight. Your method of "inviting" people does not work. Quite the opposite probably. So just be silent about this topic in the future. Thank you.
This is not the desire of Multiplayer since the entire premise of having human opponents is to pit your skill against theirs, and to hopefully get in as many games as possible in what is already a time consuming endeavor.
Correction. It is not your desire in multiplayer.
Most people play a game for fun. And nothing else. A human opponent tends to more fun far various reason including being more intelligent and having somebody who you can actually annoy by razing his planets.
Some people like to have 4 games an hour.... and that quite fine for me.
But there are also people who would like to move beyond tech level 1 someday, before the game is over.
And then there are people who actually enjoy huge fleets dishing it out. They enjoy and play the game for this moments.
Many "Pros" however have only the desire to play 20 games an hour and to win those 20 games.
This is the thing I just dont understand about the "Pros". They dont seem to play the game for fun. Victory is everything, the cost irrelevant. Most people abusing bugs are a member of this faction.
Now, dont get me wrong... I also prefer to win.... naturally. But in the first place I want to have epic spacebattles between multiple players.
For some people, I sometimes think they could remove all graphics..... just symbols for all ships, planets... ect. Because the "Pros" dont seem to care at all about the game itself. They seem to only care about their wins. I think you could replace all ships with sail ships and space with water and all weapons back to the stone age.... and they probably wouldnt even notice, let alone care.
As I have said before.... everyone should play the way he likes and if you like 20 minutes 50000 clicks games.... enjoy them.
But dont speak badly about the people that play the game for fun.
Besides.... long games offer an entirely new point of view on the game. Far more than in short games you have to consider the longterm effect of any decision.
To the topic of E-Sports:
How many people do you see outside of the house who do sport? Quite a lot probably, depending on conditions and time of year of course.
How many of those people do you think will participate at Olympia? How many of them actually want to participate at Olympia? Not very much probably.
Even under the best of circumstances I do not think that there more than 1 or maybe 2 out of 10000 players of any game that are interested in E-Sports.
Anyway.... enough of that. Back to the main topic:
If you have a high level Eradica, you have to hit it with everything you have. If your Titan died earlier.... a retreat is in order.
The - awesome - fix to Unyielding Will make the Eradica a murderous weapon in any war of attrition. Because the harder you hit it, the more it dishes it out. So unless you have enough firepower to really kill it within a reasonable ammount of time, you better avoid it. This is more or less true for most titans, the Eradica is just the most noted one.
Contrary to popular belief the Eradica isnt that good when it comes to dealing with fortified systems. A Coronata will do a lot better under such circumstances. So retreat and wait for your Titan rebuild.