(November 29th, 2013, 03:05)YossarianLives Wrote: Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but I feel like this game has been unpopular on RB and I've been thinking about why that might be.
First, Krill is a genius but smugly criticizing the players in this game as "sub-optimal" without any specific points, when he himself doesn't even play diplo games or even BtS games, is pretty beyond the pale. But there is a general perception here that Civ ought to be more like chess and a puzzle game, where the best optimizer should win, than a game of grand strategy and mind games among humans with Civ as the battleground for it.
Also, nobody is really reporting this game from the point of view of trying to entertain or educate lurkers. Most posts are diplo-dumps which are both hard for a lurker to follow and also very boring in a vacuum. For the gold standard, contrast with Sullla's reporting for PB2. If someone were pultting in that kind of effort, people would be flocking in.