Reach 'n Settlers

I downloaded The Settlers HD for my phone a couple of months ago, and after having won one match of Monopoly, also downloaded, I turned my attention to The Settlers, a "cute" RTS with a very complicated resource system, the most interesting part of the game.

To build buildings you need wood and stone, easy. To make tools so that you can harvest wood and stone you need iron. To get iron you need a smelter, iron ore and coal. Then a toolsmith to make the tools, or weaponsmith if you're going for weapons. To mine for iron, coal and gold, and the occasional sulfuer and stone, the miners need food in form of bread, meat and fish. So you need to make a grain farm to get wheat, a mill to make flour, a waterworker to get water and a bakery to make the bread. Then a hunter for meat, oooor, a grain farm for what, a water worker to get water, an animal farm to raise animals and a butcher to get meat. Fish is easy, you only need a fisheman.

It's a very complicated economy system, but it's fun. Then you need territory, you can't just build anywhere. So to get territory you need either a tower with atleast one soldier in it or pioneers that slooooowly expand your territory.

I've also played a little on the computer, but the AI is kind of stupid and won't advance any further after their initial attack, which is kind of boooorrriiingg.

Reach? Had a couple of veeerryy laggy games, to the point where I was in the black screen longer than the actual game, and at one point it even restarted the game. Also ran into a group of glitchers. Invasion Slayer on Powerhouse, now, the game was even, we had the lead, then them, and we again. Then at some point when they had the lead they disappeared, in under the map with the help of a glitch in the buddy spawn system. Why bother? I don't see a point in it. You're not going to improve your skills. Why? If you're worse than your opponents then you won't get a chance to win from the start. If you're better than your opponents then there's no reason to go hide in the first place, because you're going to win. It's only a big waste of time for both parties. If it's even, then how are you going to improve? The only thing that may have lead to the lead would be luck.

In this particular match, it became worse as well, as one of them proceeded to kill us through the floor, sure we went there to throw nades and stuff but they had the lead and all of them were under the floor so there was nothing we could do.

Abusing glitches is a bannable offence, the banhammer won't take kindly to it.