{"id":8687,"date":"2011-09-02T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2011-09-02T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:16:13","slug":"game-breaking-macro-events-or-why-there-should-be-more-fungus-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/09\/02\/game-breaking-macro-events-or-why-there-should-be-more-fungus-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Game breaking macro events, or &#8220;why there should be more fungus among us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"8687\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/SMAC_fungus.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8688\" title=\"SMAC_fungus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/SMAC_fungus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the latest Of Phalanxes and Hydralisks*, my strategy gaming column on Gamespy, let&#8217;s look at how the best games break.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The earliest example I can recall is Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares.  You&#8217;re trucking along, playing a great 4X space opera, when annoying ships start to gradually trickle out onto the map, messing up stuff and then leaving. These are the Antarans, a malicious extra-dimensional race of jerks with ships way more powerful than yours. And they don&#8217;t stop coming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the column <a href=\"http:\/\/pc.gamespy.com\/articles\/119\/1192079p1.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">* Are you accustomed to that title yet?  Does it no longer sound tortured and awkward to you?  Me either.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Game breaking macro events, or &quot;why there should be more fungus among us&quot; - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/09\/02\/game-breaking-macro-events-or-why-there-should-be-more-fungus-among-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game breaking macro events, or &quot;why there should be more fungus among us&quot; - 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