Supreme Commander

sorta

I haven't personally experienced anything like demigod's community/the game's current state.  Thanks for the history lesson on GC2.  Interesting stuff. 

same here.

"The new game Massive Entertainment did "World in Conflict" is state of the Art in terms of Multiplayer features, performance and long time support and development....shame i dont like the silly rushes there..."

Silly Rushes What?

I never played GC/2 but I know a few Vet players from it who Ive seen argue on which is the better game, I remember one key troll on the wic forums who'd troll every single thread about how GC2 was better, many facepalms were thrown,

Too bad wic has declined but im not suprised with the poor advertisement they used on release, if ubisoft were in charge from the begining it would of taken off so much more better. From what ive read of your post wic made significant steps forward from GC2, better leaderboards, perfect interface, excellent cw support (excellent support all round).  Wic blended skill and teamwork so perfectly.

Smurfing aswell kept the game alive until they implemented the smurf ban, some of us managed to get a couple of extra accounts but that was a real nail in the coffin. :/

*Heres hoping the rumours of the next massive game turns out to be Wic2"

The Demigod community does remind me of wic, CW crowd vs Public crowd,  Premade crowd vs Puggers. Shrinking and shrinking with individuals holding onto the bitter end.

 

Man now you made me want to play wic,

WiC rocks, still does.  One of the best games I have played and really damn stable right out of the box.  The debate there between CW and Public crowd is nothing like the debate here.  In WiC, the debate was really about smurfs.  Publics had their own servers and you can hop around all you like.  What ruined WiC's premade community were the smurfs that liked to stomp new clans, which resulted in those clans leaving the competitive scene.  In the end, all you had were the smurfs left.

I'm sure most people will disagree, but I thought Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars was a great game. It was ruined for me by issues almost identical to DG. Everyone played the only one map (the one which resourcse were nigh infinite and rushing was easiest, of course), the ladder system was based almost completely on custom games, and there were major connectivity issues.

 

Melric your name sounds familiar, and wic does still rock , I really dont think smurfs had that much of an impact but the fact of the matter was that there was no auto matching system in place to prevent dodging, alot of teams needed to play and pratice for some of the major cash tournies, CPL for example.

Some people need to grow thicker skins when dealing with a horrific loss, I took my beatings, I learned from my mistakes and I got better due to them. The same with most of the players I know.

There were a few boon bashing squads and they were frowned upon (cough Face cough), but in the end you could choose your opponents, I always though it was obvious who were the smurfs . Smurfing didn't kill wic.

Command and Conquer 3 makes me cry.

Why isnt there an option to zoom in and out like SupCom or Demigod? Why???

Oh and I know what level your talking about. It really is awful with all that tiberium

spamzone noobrage!

lol its a fun map but it should not have been ranked !

i havent played WIC or C&C3. but i had played a little of Ground Control 2 and i left as soon as the cheaters started ruining my games.

Very interesting and sad at the same time how this game died but stayed alive until the very end.

Thank you for sharing Microstar

I have... The Game was Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest, an expansion for the game Empire Earth, the expansion was released in: 17 September 2002. 

The Empire Earth community was absolutely amazing, there was a lot of competition and people were generally pretty good to each other. The games consisted of Death Matches (10,000 of each resource) Standard High (~500 of each resource) and what were called "City Builders" (CBs) The first 2 are kinda self explanatory but the City Builders allowed players to play a game, where you built large cities, handled diplomacy with each other, and had massive scale wars. Basically, what you would see in a city builder is a massive build-up of resources, then an all out war between two nations...

 CBs were my favorite type of game to play because it took skill to amass the resources required to fight other nations, because you couldn't just throw away your resources. Everyone was looking to expand their territory, so you HAD to have a reserve army, as well as enough resources to replace your army... This created the perfect balance, massive fights, massive armies, resource management as well as the intelligence to balance them all! 

But perhaps the greatest thing about this game... Was the massive customization... You could choose what units you wanted to specialize in... Infantry, tanks, aircraft, swordsmen, spearmen, religion, battleships, frigates, transports... Anything! And not only that, but there were sub divisions such as Infantry - Sword, Infantry - Ranged, Infantry - Spear... Say you wanted a force of elite Marines... You should put your "Civ Points" into "Infantry - Ranged" With upgrades such as "+10% Range" "+15% Hit points" "+30% speed" and this allowed you to customize your army! You could have fast moving marines, long range marines, or juggernaut marines... Whatever suited your play style... And this customization was applicable for -every- unit in the game... It's just that sort of customization you don't see anymore

Alas, the community slowly started to die off as people didn't want to take the time to learn the game mechanics and fight other people... And although it was still ~150 people strong (The number of people on at any given time was around 150) Sierra shut down their last server (After being bought out by Activision)  

Yeah, at that point I hadn't played a game with that feature so it didn't bother me. I absolutely cannot play LoL/HoN now, DG ruined them for me and I wonder if it'll even bug me on starcraft 2.

Oh please lord let them have a zoom function. Ive never played Starcraft but I was going to give the second a shot

That said does Dawn of War have a zoom function like DG and SupCom?

Negative. I love the DoW games but it does take some getting used to when I go back to them after a round of SupCom.

DoW I doesn't, but you can zoom out a little bit. You can't see even a quarter of the map though, at the furthest range (well. Not even a tenth of hte map. DoW'smaps are much larger than Demigod's).