RB Pitboss #1 [SPOILERS] - Louis XIV of Byzantium

[mostly_harmless]

Oh, yes, we had bad luck with ending up next to Aggressive Rome.
The forming of the NUTA helped us out there. However, Ruff tried to play a double game I think and still geared up to attack us or at least made moves that left us feeling very uneasy. Naturally we assumed the role of the top researcher on our team.
In hindsight we should have demanded more troops/protection from Ruff & Imhotep and even Krill after his peace deal with the Lins.

I think there are a lot of lessons learnt and applied to the 2nd Pitboss game (No tech trading for a start). That's why I would have preferred this game to end when people began to drop out and long pauses occurred.

However, in the end, I think CIV needs a kind of ingame ruleset similar to EUIII that deals out heavy punishments for backstabbing, breaking peace deal and so on. It's still possible to do it, but it must come with horrendous disadvantages (the better your relationship was) to not make it the only feasible way to win.

For me personally, I think MP is not the right thing at the moment. It's totally different to my SP game style and not CIV anymore, in my eyes. And I don't like how the ever so important diplomacy affects my view of people (this goes both ways of course).

mh

[LiPing]

Re: Negotiation.

I share your viewpoint.

[Swiss Pauli]

Hi Guys....Any chance of a (brief) update, and maybe a screenshot or two?

[Kodii]

Sorry for the lack of update. Since mh retired, this game has lost a lot of interest to me, so I decided to ditch all the microanalyzing and just have fun.

Munro declared war on me following the switching of alliances. I'm trying to do as much damage as possible before my NAP with Broker ends. I also think it is possible that Exploit (Krill) could be sending troops through Rome to me, but since regoarrarr is tying him up on the other side, I should be safe in my campaign against Munro.

[MWIN]

any more cities Razed/captured?

[Kodii]

Munro captured my city of Kobeniku

I razed his city of Within Reason

I hope to raze another city this turn and a couple more over the next few turns.

[Sullla]

I don't suppose we could get a screenshot of these places? The names alone don't tell us a whole lot...

[Kodii]

The Byzantine-Rome Theatre:



Munro captured my city of Kobeniku in the top right corner.

I razed two cities at the bottom of the screenshot. I have since founded a city in the bottom left and have my SoD next to Killing Time.

[Cyneheard]

So what do you think of Broker/Munro's offer?