Conquer Club

Im joined five weeks now and I'm already seriously sick of classic. We have 50 great maps here and more on the way but everyone wants to play classic I realise this is the closest to the board game but .... As far as possible I'm going to stay away from it for a while but I'm wondering am I alone in suffering from classic burnout or is this a common ocurance on here ?

Snap, I also can get very very tired of classic.

If i were only playing a few games, id play more exotic ones...but having a good amount of classic, which I can play instinctively in a second, is much easier with many games on deck. however, if the other maps werent around...I doubt many of us would be either

rebelman wrote:Im joined five weeks now and I'm already seriously sick of classic. We have 50 great maps here and more on the way but everyone wants to play classic. I realise this is the closest to the board game but .... As far as possible I'm going to stay away from it for a while but I'm wondering am I alone in suffering from classic burnout or is this a common ocurance on here ?

LOL. I concur. I've played 1600+ games but has little love for the classic map. Only playes it when people force me...

Classic is where it's at, man...

6 player, escalating, sequential, adjacent on the classic map... closest thing to the original board game there is...

But hey, if you don't like it (or can't win them) then play whatever...

But this makes me curious... have you found the "classic" chessboard needs spicing up too... maybe make it 10x10 squares, or change the rules some other way... oh wait... we could just play checkers

Robinette wrote:Classic is where it's at, man...

6 player, escalating, sequential, adjacent on the classic map... closest thing to the original board game there is...

But hey, if you don't like it (or can't win them) then play whatever...

But this makes me curious... have you found the "classic" chessboard needs spicing up too... maybe make it 10x10 squares, or change the rules some other way... oh wait... we could just play checkers

I actually have played chess on several types of board following broadly the same rules although I would say speed chess is a stand alone game in its own right and i have played as well as the traditional risk board game i have also played the clone wars edition and one of the Lord of the rings ones.

I never said I don't like it or I can't win on it but I do believe variety is the spice of life.

i like doodle earth the best

short and simple

Rocketry

Classic is OK but you can have too much of a good thing. Alex's Empire, Siege!, Doodle Earth, Space, Middle Earth and various others are others I also like to play fairly often.

Classic is too linear. My favorite map is 2.1 by a HUGE margin simply because the possiblities of gameplay are far larger than anything classic provides. Another reason why I like AoM so much: your options to build strength are much more varied than anything classic provides.

And then there are maps on the opposite end of the spectrum: take Doodle Earth for example. That map is SO restrictive that it adds an element of fun to the game, unlike classic which just plain-old-boring restrictive.

I still play it form time to time, although I try to avoid games with more than four people as a general rule.

And, for the record, a 6p singles seq. esc. game on classic is closest to the board game, but if I wanted that I'll go play the board game. The site provides options (better options) so why should I limit myself because classic came first?

insomniacdude wrote:Classic is too linear. My favorite map is 2.1 by a HUGE margin simply because the possiblities of gameplay are far larger than anything classic provides. Another reason why I like AoM so much: your options to build strength are much more varied than anything classic provides.

And then there are maps on the opposite end of the spectrum: take Doodle Earth for example. That map is SO restrictive that it adds an element of fun to the game, unlike classic which just plain-old-boring restrictive.

I still play it form time to time, although I try to avoid games with more than four people as a general rule.

And, for the record, a 6p singles seq. esc. game on classic is closest to the board game, but if I wanted that I'll go play the board game. The site provides options (better options) so why should I limit myself because classic came first?

very true everything you said and especially the bolded part. a game on classic is nothing compared to a game played with a few friends around the kitchen talble on a cold winter night with cups of hot chocolate for everyone.

...i like the large earth map, europe map, germany map, alex empire map, and England map the best....

Robinette wrote:
But this makes me curious... have you found the "classic" chessboard needs spicing up too... maybe make it 10x10 squares, or change the rules some other way... oh wait... we could just play checkers

I love star trek chess played on 3 levels can attack up or down pieces move the same

and yet I play 85 % classic risk with a few others tossed in

i too am sick of classic, i only play it to brush up on my ability at it if i know im gonna play it with friends later

thats the beuty of the map foundry! it pumps out maps made for the players BY the players. most of the stuff that is made is honest because i doubt that the map makers would make a map they themselves wouldnt play

Rocketry wrote:i like doodle earth the best

short and simple

Rocketry

Yeah, I'm going to try and talk my favorite teammates into playing on that one for a triples match. It should be fun since there's only a couple of spots.