(August 11th, 2015, 03:17)Qgqqqqq Wrote: (Also, take into account what was paid for the artist by TBS, and his posts on the subject. You'd know more about that than me, but he seems to think the gold would have allowed him to comfortably win regardless.)
Yeah, and we would have been one turn faster if BGN had not sabotaged our factory, or if X, Y or Z would have happened. In 270 turns you have opportunities for an endless amount of speculation reg what would have happened if things would have turned out differently. We will never find that out, but I still hope that this game would be played until the end according to rules. It's an epic game that deserves a real ending. I much rather lose by one turn in a straight race than play more than one year and then have a lame ending where GJ gifts a win after an illegal trade offer.
Reg Aluminum, the original plan for us was to finish techs eot262 and complete the spaceship eot263. Thanks to Aluminium we were able to afford more wealth builds and in the end we were able to squeeze the last tech already eot261, but that did not affect the build time and so our ending date was still eot263. However, BGN sabotaged the factory in Zucchini on a crucial moment and that pushed our completion date to eot264. Aluminium sale/gift was a gentleman move from BGN that saved us maybe half a turn in tech, but did not affect our victory date. No aluminium + no sabotage would have been a better deal for us.
Thanks for the positive comments here so far.
This really has been a great game and I'm looking forward to discussing its epicness, after this farce has been solved.