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[quote]Imagine the thrill when you prey your raven kills the enemy radar station as you watch the enemy army advance towards your base. Or the shock to see your entire army disabled as the enemy eliminates your subcommand unit. [/quote]
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[quote]Imagine the thrill when you prey your raven kills the enemy radar station as you watch the enemy army advance towards your base. Or the shock to see your entire army disabled as the enemy eliminates your subcommand unit. [/quote]
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Except you don't see your raven kill their radar, because the raven is too far in the fog of war and consequently you will only receive information on whether it succeeded once its signals have reached you back. Everything you see on the map is now not how things are, but how you predict the things should be based on latest inaccurate, sporadic, delayed, and sometimes contradicting data.
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Except you don't see your raven kill their radar, because the raven is too far in the fog of war and consequently you will only receive information on whether it succeeded once its signals have reached you back. Everything you see on the map is now not how things are, but how you predict the things should be based on latest inaccurate, sporadic, delayed, and sometimes contradicting data.
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That
huge
army
you
sent
to
invade
the
enemy
base?
You
still
see
it
as
marching
onwards
and
probably
encountering
the
enemy
defenses,
but
in
fact
it
got
blown
up
by
a
bomb,
because
they
all
died
without
being
able
to
send
any
signals
back.
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That
huge
army
you
sent
to
invade
the
enemy
base?
You
still
see
it
as
marching
onwards
and
probably
encountering
the
enemy
defenses,
but
in
fact
it
got
blown
up
by
a
bomb
without
having
chance
to
send
a
message
about
it.
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5 |
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Eventually you will notice the lack of communication - how fast depends on how large the lag was to begin with - but you won't even know what did it.
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Eventually you will notice the lack of communication - how fast depends on how large the lag was to begin with - but you won't even know what did it.
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So now you are playing a game where you don't know what consequences your actions will have and you don't feel in control except sporadically. This is not fun for [i]most[/i] people.
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So now you are playing a game where you don't know what consequences your actions will have and you don't feel in control except sporadically. This is not fun for [i]most[/i] people.
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Communications in relation to command and control