Comments on: Epochal: Achron, Meta-Time Strategy

By: Limeparadox

Limeparadox — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:58:52 +0000

You’ve created a lime paradox! Mmm delicious lime!

By: Serondal

Serondal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:40:59 +0000

@watchmaker – You have a gravatar silly billy ;P They follow you around to any website that uses them. Don’t listen to QVN’s insane time traveling talk (zaps QVN with a stun llama from the future and hides him in 40,000 BC)

By: QVN

QVN — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:36:57 +0000

To all of you who have said that you had an idea like this before, and that the Achron got to it first: this could be your idea, only implemented by your later selves and/or your descendants who were told about your idea. They finished the whole game, & are now sending bits & pieces of it at a time to our present to simulate what we are used to with game alphas, betas, etc. to prevent themselves from being caught as “time travelers.”

@Watchmaker
Your future self found a cool avatar, set it up, & sent it back to you when you posted. Give yourself a pat on the back (eventually).

Hillary Clinton for president 2012! OH CRAP.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:40:37 +0000

Douglas Adams nailed it when he said if time travel is ever invented all the mucking around thats going to be done has been done and there’s nothing we can do about so don’t worry. Or don’t panic, I guess XD

By: Watchmaker

Watchmaker — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:34:45 +0000

A conclusion I came to when reading:

This game will not devolve into a battle of trying to strike as early as possible, simply because traveling so far back to have any real effect will be massively expensive in the time resource and leaves present time open, making it possible for the Terminators to lose in the present because all their troops are in a time wave that has yet to propagate.

I think.

I’m assuming the goal is to be victorious in the present only.

Of course, the potential for chrono-ambushes is interesting. Say you send your army ahead in time by a minute. Your opponent attacks, but your army comes out of time warp right then to smash it.

EDIT: I’ve never been here. Why do I have an avatar?

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:06:51 +0000

To put it simply, this is all rubbish
it’s like a big ball of stuff where one change changes it all instantly

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:12:45 +0000

Hamster doom: TMC alread-

oh wait.

By: hamster doom

hamster doom — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:39:56 +0000

All right, first comment. :)

By: Syal

Syal — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:49:11 +0000

@CrystalShadow

They could avoid the whole concept by disabling friendly fire

By: Erlam

Erlam — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:54:33 +0000

My brain!

Seriously:
‘I’m now altering the past, but in the present, this hasn’t happened yet. Returning to the present from the past I’m moving slowly, so I speed time to return to the present faster, allowing..’ and then thought exploded.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:49:58 +0000

This has Spore’s pre-release potential to either be a phenomenal, watershed gaming experience or a staggering failure.

I’m watching.

By: mr_ewe

mr_ewe — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:40:56 +0000

so… build 1 unit, send it back in time to when it was quied for building, wait for unit to build, send back 2 units to when unit 1 was quied for building… repeat with 3, then 4 then 5 then 6 etc etc.
the question is, will the previously time traveled units duplicate? making this an exponential growth of units rather than linear.