I gotta get back to RTS playing again; though unfortunately, my skills are better suited for Age of Emipres 2.
^ Get Star wars: Galactic Battlegrounds 
It's AOE2 meets Star Wars (Literally. Uses the exact same engine)
Just tried it out. Went through the tutorial campaign. Albeit with a few crashes here and there (especially after a good 30 mins. of non-stop development
).
I realized that the game has a couple of the same game breakers AOE2 had. For starters, the AI sees villagers and equivalent as non-threatening. So I used the fishing ships to lay tons of outpost buoys all over the rivers, and a few sentry towers deep within (as long as it's away from aggressive units and towers). I can see everything they're doing at little expense, and have a long-shot heads-up of what their forces are going to look like hitting me with an effective 30 seconds lead time to prepare my forces. I do like the new style of play in some areas (air units add a whole new dimension to classic AOE2 style gameplay), not to mention trade carts can go over water now, which really makes them more broken as well (50+ bucks per cart x 8 carts minimum x constant import/export (clean path or distracted AI) = $$$). Screw Jedi Temples. Heck, even the animal pens are really abusive. Max out the upgrades, and have one fully-stocked with nerfs or banthas, and farming can be put on the backburner from there on out. Of course, this is against the AI. Against human players, I can easily see these as top-priority targets.
Before a few crashes, I noticed quite a bit of rust on my RTS skills, so that'll need some time to develop. Maybe a few random maps against the computer ought to apply some WD-40 to it.
In other news, I might be continuing Ace Combat 2 tonight at 9PM. Hopefully this time there shouldn't be any problems. Just in case, I'll just upload the next video after I'm done playing.
EDIT:
Did a series of tests, and it's still crapping out on me. no longer than a minute into my broadcast, and the internet cuts out on me, or a memory leak occurs. Aside from nerfing my graphics to absolutely horrific, are there any methods of optimizing CPU and upload rates? It has also informed me to avoid shared connections (which there are some people that use the network in the household), and that my internet is too slow for uploading (It's plenty quick, outside my USB wireless adapter; which I have been meaning to upgrade whenever I could afford to). I personally still think Procaster is not too well made for optimizing it's performance (CPU-wise), even at low settings. Too many memory leaks occur too frequently.
EDIT EDIT:
Sorry, but no livestream tonight. Alternatively, I can maybe still record and upload that and comment later at a set time to simulate a live experience. But meh. Won't feel the same.
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