Hello !
My name is maxim and I'm 27 years old.
it's my first week with Zatikon and I've ordered and preordered the expansions in the 2nd-3rd day of playing.
This game is very good but there are some issues that need to be fixed :
1. My OS is GNU/Linux - Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit , and for some reason the game runs slowly on my system and consumes a lot of CPU (although I have strong hardware, quad core, 4GB RAM etc...).
I hear the game runs fine on Windows and MacOS, so this issue needs to be fixed - I hope it's not a Java issue but something that the developers can fix (and flash isn't the "best" option under Linux, if you want to create a flash version).
2. While I like the 3 boxes/windows, the main game box/window is a little bit small and there is no way to maximize it or making it bigger (stretching) - I don't think this should be a big issue to implant, but it will help greatly the older people who could hardly see the units on their 24Inch wide screen monitors
3. The game "levels"/difficulty makes little sense :
The first 10 "levels" were much harder then the next 10 "levels", and in the 30's it's 50/50 - sometimes the AI plays well and sometimes it suck, there is no linearity here.
4. A newbie like me find it hard to know/learn which unit do what - there is the description but I didn't know for instance how strong are the skeletons and zombies that the necromancer summons before I bought him.
And I didn't quite understand many other skills of many units and how they work.
5. There are only 1000 points.
A "good" unit can cost 350 points, this can leave you with about 3-4 units making "barracks" a must as the AI can deploy units all the time without restrictions and your 3-4 units won't cut it without the ability to create more units.
You are very limited in the amount of units you can have, and some units are almost mandatory.
I suggest making an option for 2000 games.
P.S
I suspect (didn't count) that if you play random against other player you both get more points as there are a lot more units then in a regular game.
6. There is no way (that I know of) to pause the game, even on single player mode - if I have some urgent matter that I need to attend to - I might lose my turn.
Off course those are issues to be fixed and improved - but overall the game is great (you don't see me complaining about the simple graphics ) and I still got a lot to learn.
My name is maxim and I'm 27 years old.
it's my first week with Zatikon and I've ordered and preordered the expansions in the 2nd-3rd day of playing.
This game is very good but there are some issues that need to be fixed :
1. My OS is GNU/Linux - Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit , and for some reason the game runs slowly on my system and consumes a lot of CPU (although I have strong hardware, quad core, 4GB RAM etc...).
I hear the game runs fine on Windows and MacOS, so this issue needs to be fixed - I hope it's not a Java issue but something that the developers can fix (and flash isn't the "best" option under Linux, if you want to create a flash version).
2. While I like the 3 boxes/windows, the main game box/window is a little bit small and there is no way to maximize it or making it bigger (stretching) - I don't think this should be a big issue to implant, but it will help greatly the older people who could hardly see the units on their 24Inch wide screen monitors
3. The game "levels"/difficulty makes little sense :
The first 10 "levels" were much harder then the next 10 "levels", and in the 30's it's 50/50 - sometimes the AI plays well and sometimes it suck, there is no linearity here.
4. A newbie like me find it hard to know/learn which unit do what - there is the description but I didn't know for instance how strong are the skeletons and zombies that the necromancer summons before I bought him.
And I didn't quite understand many other skills of many units and how they work.
5. There are only 1000 points.
A "good" unit can cost 350 points, this can leave you with about 3-4 units making "barracks" a must as the AI can deploy units all the time without restrictions and your 3-4 units won't cut it without the ability to create more units.
You are very limited in the amount of units you can have, and some units are almost mandatory.
I suggest making an option for 2000 games.
P.S
I suspect (didn't count) that if you play random against other player you both get more points as there are a lot more units then in a regular game.
6. There is no way (that I know of) to pause the game, even on single player mode - if I have some urgent matter that I need to attend to - I might lose my turn.
Off course those are issues to be fixed and improved - but overall the game is great (you don't see me complaining about the simple graphics ) and I still got a lot to learn.