Playing it to a competitive level takes experience.
It can be very easy to be caught up in momentary events and forget to keep up with the rest of the game.īut all in all, the strategy and the gameplay is extremely straightforward and simple. Instead, the challenge is keeping up with all the decisions that you have to make at every point. There's not nearly as much micromanaging as in AOE2 or SC2, and the game was specifically designed this way. It can be a very difficult game to master though because you need to focus on expanding your economy, defending your economic units, raiding your opponents' economic units, attacking their cities, defending your cities, and keeping up with technological advance. In RON the name of the game is optimal decision making - in every moment, given the information you have about you and your opponent, what's the best strategy to take? It's not as fast-speed high-risk as SC2. In those games the strategy is much more open to your imagination. It's not as free-form or open-ended as AOE2 or SC2. If something happens or things turn out a certain way, you know why. And therefore, the strategy that happens in this game is very straight-forward. It's a very systematic game where every single unit/building/upgrade in the game serves a very specific purpose.
What makes RON easy is that it's more conceptual than the other 2 games.
