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Re: The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity
Posted By: J23 <jacob_jz@hotmail.com>	Date: 8/27/09 11:12 p.m.
In Response To: Re: The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity (scarab) If you don't mind, I'd like to add some of my opinions, though I haven't gotten around to playing Halo Wars yet.. : In RTS terms maybe the Covenant spent their resources on research and not on : unit production. Maybe their ships take a long time to build. Most of their ships are scavanged or at least inspired by Forerunner tech, so perhaps creating a ship requires unique and very rare Forerunner technology or equipment to construct? : The Brutes who dragged the, soon to be, Arbiter past the Jackal cells : complained about being hungry. Was this just bad dialogue or was the : Covenant economy really stretched by the war? The galaxy is pretty big and : we weren't making things easy for them. They would need a lot of ships to : search the galaxy. That's an interesting idea, and it might explain some of the idealism behind the Heresy and the Schism of the Covenant, the idea that no "Great Journey" could explain away the hellish conditions Covenant citizens had to go through to keep the war effort going day to day..though perhaps the Brute was well..acting Brutish. : Me too, I hope ODST is Flood free. And Reach too! We can only hope, but Reach is questionable. Won't MS have a larger part in Halo: Reach this time around? Their may just be Flood for "That Halo feel" like Halo Wars seems to have done. : The Halo story is becoming more and more of a joke as it repeats the same : story over and over again. : Almost every Forerunner installation has Flood. The Flood always escapes. The : Covenant knows about the Flood but they always release it. And until the : events in the first game, the Flood never seems to have been a threat even : though its rampant on almost every Forerunner planet. The Flood have never been a large threat until the first Halo because like you said earlier, space is immense, and without any decent ship to take control of, Graveminds and Flood couldn't travel from planet to planet. Though that doesn't explain why the Covenant didn't run into them earlier researching about the Forerunner on their worlds.. : I would have prefered if Halo Wars had taken place over decades. We could : have fought through important episodes in the conflict. We could have : followed Keyes' career or Johnson's campaigns. This would have given some : plausibility to the idea of researching technologies. : Maybe Ensemble was told hands off the Bungie characters. I agree with what you say here. But the "researching tech in the middle of a battle" problem is one that is almost universal in RTS, and few deal with it even partially. However, Age of Empires, intrestingly enough also by Ensemble, goes with your idea in that most games take place over centuries of in-game time, going through Ages and researching various technologies along the way. : If you want to apologise for taking Halo too seriously then you have come to : the wrong place. :-) Haha, too true. :D

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The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity!?	RyanTheHeretic	8/27/09 4:49 p.m.
Re: The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity	Ragashingo	8/27/09 5:25 p.m.
Re: The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity	RyanTheHeretic	8/27/09 6:06 p.m.
Re: The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity	Ragashingo	8/27/09 6:30 p.m.
Re: The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity	scarab	8/27/09 6:46 p.m.
Re: The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity	J23	8/27/09 11:12 p.m.
Re: The Covenant need more ships to fight humanity	Bry	8/28/09 12:43 a.m.
Damn sneaky Prophets..	J23	8/28/09 2:34 p.m.