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posted by
JJ23:
while these players have all had impressive results, im not sure how many of them are great.. very good yes, great.. no.
my definition of great is a player who can win with multiple different strategies. take a look at bakku. very impressive results, definitely not taking anything away from his finishes, but all his good finishes were CI. i would love to see him win with a farmer, techer, or casher.
since indy, farmer, techer, and casher are the 4 viable strategies in this game.. i use viable because yes you could play a combo, or you can do oiler or MBR, but neither of these are full reset strategies. (until someone wins with an oiler from turn 1 and proves me wrong)
furthermore, with the 4 basic strategies, with an exception of indy, theres at least 2 differnt governments that you can use for each strategy, thats at least 7 winning combos...
id say a great player is someone that las at least won with 3 out of the 4 strategies, and maybe at least 2 different govt types on a couple of them.
http://alliance.www.earthempires.com/serverprofile?id=5152
fwiw, i'm comfortable playing any strat but i'm lazy and CI is the easiest strat to play and it has the highest potential in all of the solo servers anyway