Longest Single Game?

j0e · November 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">back and forth ...</div> last night i had a game go almost 6 hours. we got the aliens down to 1 hive but the marines were a bit lost on the map and disorganized, and the aliens came back to grab the other hives. fortunately we retook the 3rd hive quickly and fortified in there. but in the brief time they had 3 hives, they made three onos. they used those onos to do hit and run attacks to gradually wear us down and take out our resources. we went from 1400 resources to 100. then suddenly there were 3 onos and 3 fades at the fortified hive, and they took it out because we were broke. then it went rapidly downhill. the aliens went from loss to win to loss to win.

someone on IRC said they had a 12 hours game!!

this begs the question of whether there will be any tweaks to the game in the future to make it so games end within a few hours? for example after an hour, all structures could start taking slow gradual damage so you have to rebuild or repair a lot to maintain your status quo, or damage could slowly scale up?

how long was your longest game? do you think game length should be addressed?

Spydey · November 2002

My longest game was 4 and a half hours, and the longer the better IMO. Its such a huge rush to win after devoting your efforts like that.

TenSix · November 2002

Games are very very very long. I played TFC just for a change and it seemed like the maps changed every 10min compared to NS <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

I think if they put in a variable map timer it would help. Whoever had the most resource nodes wins at the end of 2 hours if nothing else.

I would love to see them speed up resource gathering time though, or else it feels <i>too</i> much like a RTS <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'>

Anarchy · November 2002

4 and some hours. Longer is better, because like spydey said, it makes you just feel good to win after that long of a game!

Bobpoblo · November 2002

Ya, winning after a long game is a really good feeling and completes my day. Getup again and start it all over <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

RotA_Plague · November 2002

Well I did play in a 24 hour long game... I didn't sit there the entire time, I went in and out when I felt like getting sleep or food. Was pretty neat but the longer the game = the more turret spamming from marines, because aliens have a limit while marines are limitless.

Xanieth · November 2002

My longest game was about 4 hours, start to finish. I was the commander. Heh, think of how exhausted I was.. It was on ns_bast and we were being beat back. We had just lost Atmospheric Processing and just gained Main Aft Junction. Most of my men were obedient and realized that not getting weapons was ok. 1 or 2 screamed for weapons constantly and I just gave them shotguns. The rest whined and you can see where it went.

Dukat · November 2002

I like longer games, although my longest yet has only been a couple hours. So much happens, and you come out with many stories from those longer games. Often times my friends and I gather in one dorm room sharing stories for hours on end, that's the great thing about NS. All the stories you come away from a game with, I'd like to see CS say that.

sokz · November 2002

like 2-3 hours m ax.. Fun stuff. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'>

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