Nerdfish said: Is it possible to include resource depletion as a game option ?

A major problem in any strategy game is snowballing where the winning side keeps winning more. Once one side gets the upper hand it can simply steamroll everyone else with its economy.

Could we get a option in advanced game rules where a sector produces less minerals over time ? This way even powerful empires will have to worry about conserving units, repeatably throwing armies in futile attacks will deplete the most wealthy empires if there is a finite amount of resource on the planet. Defensive victories will matter again.

And it makes sense from a realism standpoint too, what kind of valuable minerals comes in unlimited supply ? Click to expand...

What I personally do not like about this is that it is extra punishing for those (like myself) who prefer a turtling strategy. In AOW you're already at a big disadvantage when you turtle: in multi-player you're pretty much guaranteed to lose if you like to take things even moderately slow.I would like to phrase this common problem with strategy games that you mention a bit differently and a bit broader: end game tends to become a boring chore without any real challenge in strategy games that have some sort of global map that needs to be conquered. How could endgame in those kind of games be made more interesting? I thought AOW3's seal victory was a nice answer to this problem, even though it once again disfavoured the turtlers among us (youto be ready to rush for those seals sooner rather than later).I do think the answer to the "boring endgame" problem should be sought in victory conditions rather than changes to the game's economy. Or maybe I should say that experimenting with victory conditions is a lotthan messing around with the economy...Btw, I've pretty much accepted by now that the AOW games do not favour slow peeps like me. It makes MP games especially unattractive for me, but turtling can still be fun against the AI, and can even make campaign levels extra challenging in a good way