To me, a real-time strategy game must have, at minimum, the following compontents. What sets an RTS apart, and makes it what it is? Real Time (duh!) So, it’s hard to talk about the benefits of real-time strategy games without first discussing what, specifically, we mean by “real-time strategy.” Technically, most games that aren’t turn based could be described as a game where the player is executing a ‘strategy’ in real time, from shooters to 2D or 3D puzzlers, to sports games. Next week, we’ll look at why I play them, and think you should, as well. I’ve ended up writing over 1000 words just defining what a real-time strategy game is, so I’ll have to split this concept into two or more articles. Among other things, playing RTS can strengthen skills like self-analysis, critical thinking, planning and decision making, and reinforce a proactive, positive approach to life and adversity. RTS, to me at least, are more than idle ways to pass the time, ways to blow off steam, or a means of escapism they’re playgrounds for exercising the mind, and they do so in ways that I contest few other genres can. To me, this is more than frustrating, it’s incredibly disappointing.
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Fairly few RTS are being made any more (for a variety of reasons, but that is a topic for another article perhaps) and they tend not to sell particularly well, nor do most of them hold on to viable communities for considerable periods of time though there are of course some stand-out exceptions like StarCraft2, Company of Heroes 2, the Wargame series and of course the revived Age of Empires 2. No two strategies are the same, and no two games will follow the same path to the same outcome.Currently, real-time strategy games are looking like the proverbial red-headed step child of gaming. No "I Win" Resources Or Units - With thirteen different critical resources and a massive, player driven marketplace, no one resource or strategy is the "key" to domination of Mars.
Multiple Business Models - Choose from one of four different business models - from a StartUp Corporation to a Penal Outpost - and use their distinct advantages and quirks to your best advantage. Make money so you can make more money so you can eventually save mankind and make even more money! In Offworld Trading Company, mental acumen wins the day, not the fastest clicks. No Military - In Offworld Trading Company, the real time market is your battleground, the materials and money you have available your weapons. In Offworld trading Company, it's all about the bottom line. and who makes the most money supplying the new colonies being built on Mars. This marketplace is the primary battleground of Offworld Trading Company, and the player with the best business strategy, management of supply and demand, and marketing tactics will generally be the one who wins the day.
Players in Offworld Trading Company stake their claim to various sorts of resources, and then set to work extracting, transporting, and refining them into materials that are used for advanced buildings and upgrades - and which are bought and sold via a real-time, player-driven marketplace. Offworld Trading Company is a real time strategy game where money is the player's weapon, not brute military force.