(December 20th, 2013, 10:43)Ceiliazul Wrote: Stay prepared and focused, there are still big opportunities out there.
Are there? Will there be?
That's a good question.. Actually this is exactly the question that causes me to lose my sleep.. 
Should we go all in now, in 15 turns, in 30 turns or beeline rifles or what. Our current opportunities do not seem promising at all, but still I am wondering if it is now as good as it gets.. And if it is now or never that we should be trying something crazy.. Currently we can still compare ourselves with everyone in the game, but mackoti's land lead is already starting to show and it's only a matter of few turns when scoopinhelium will also have crazy good demos. No matter how awesome domestic plans to we could manage to create, there is no way that it could compensate for the land difference even if mack and pindicooter would play with their left hand. In 50 turns it can well be that we are an era behind the leaders if we just stay put and work our land and that's not a nice vision..We have such a difficult neighbor portfolio with suttree, ichabod, mackoti, dtay (and TBS) (and plako) that even if one of our neighbors would give us an opening, going for it will still be a huge gamble, because it would be an invitation to the other pals.. And yeah, none of our neighbors will be so asleep as m_h was and they surely have better ethics than Nakor. (Btw, what Nakor is doing is just unforgivable and I'm still totally pissed off despite the fact that it's all happening far away and we have enough to rant about in our own continent. I just could not imagine that something so pathetic could happen here in this crowd)
But yeah, there are some "wishful thinking" scenarios that could improve our chances. E.g. if one of our neighbors starts a war with someone else, fails miserably and we manage to organize a surprise attack. Or if mackoti pulls the trigger at suttree first, suttree cats mackoti's army to death (or at least causes big losses) and we take easy cities from one of them... And then dtay attacks TBSJ and we pile on TBS and take his island or backstab dtay.. Sounds realistic?
Did not think so.. 
In any case our clock is ticking..So yeah, that all said, I'm happy to leave these big decisions to Old Harry as I leave for my travel
Let's see if Harry wants to whip our cities down, produces 50 knights and then flips a coin and chooses the target.. or if he wants to wait and hope for a better chance.. 
Oh boy, what if there is a wireless internet everywhere in Indonesia..