(September 21st, 2014, 20:13)Zed-F Wrote: I don't think I misread, it's only that the tone came across as less hopeful/wishful and more complaining that said hopes don't appear to be coming to fruition as quickly as might be desired. Neither Krill nor Novice have a history of giving in easily. If you assume they are as competent as their reputation suggests, it follows that their plans will reflect their capabilities as they perceive the situation. Hoping they are in a position to be willing and able to wage a land war against a competent neighbour is one thing... complaining if they don't would be something else.
Yeah, you made your interpretation pretty clear.
(September 21st, 2014, 15:19)Zed-F Wrote: Why would Krovice kingmake at the cost of their own game?
Because this came across as "Stop whining, idiot. You don't understand a single thing about the situation or civ 4 metagame."
(September 21st, 2014, 14:07)Fintourist Wrote: 8. Dtay is creating an enormous and pretty much indefensible border. Are Krill+Novice just going to sit there and watch dtay grow to 40 cities? Dtay is commiting a lot of troops for CH war very far away from his core so it's (or it would have been) definitely possible to at least force him to slow down his attack, cause some economic damage through threatening some border cities or even better, take couple of cities. Hmm.. I hope they are not checked out and actually have a plan to do at least something at some point.
If this is already too much complaining and annoying for you, then we are all lucky that OH is the one doing reporting here and my thoughts usually go into our gchat. I've typically seen our thread as the place where I'm allowed to post subjectively my thoughts and feelings about the game.
when something good happens, and 
when things don't go the way I hope. The above post was not meant as a
though, I was mostly just thinking about the situation loud. However, I could very well about dtay getting lots of high quality land so easily. At least from here it looks like he is being pretty lucky over there. Of course, the thing is that we are being similarly lucky here with Azza+Mardoc, which reduces the need to be frustrated. I would imagine that there are at least couple of players out there, who have played their hands really well, but simply haven't had similar openings (at least so far) as we and dtay, and thus keeping up with us will be practically impossible, if everything keeps going well here. 
Sure, I believe that we and dtay have played our starts pretty well, but gaining so much land for so limited losses is hardly possible without help from some external factors.