[Spoilers] Boldly Going...on a Bender and Pissing Off Xenu

[spacetyrantxenu]

Wanted: quick BW so you can settle for copper. All three of us are builder type players. We're going to have to fight the urge to farm it up. I want to see some early axes in the field. Quechas are nice but axes showing up out of the fog before you have your copper connected makes people piss their pants. Do you want pissy pants? Hell no, you don't! So build axes early, and help another player soil himself.

One caveat, if we meet Commodore first think carefully about it. I don't want to tangle with him too soon unless we can cripple him. He's tenacious and stubborn and just won't die. And holds a grudge forever (yeah I know, it takes one to know one). So if possible I'd prefer to gimp someone else and absorb them, like you were unable to do to me, Boldly (twin joke, too far inside? Oooh a pun!).

So recap...I don't care about the microplans, maybe I'll help to napkin plan a wonder or something but you guys can handle the details. I see my role being more to make biting remarks about the shoddy work we're doing and to snipe at the lurkers, if I don't drive them away completely. And to remind us to build moar military. And maybe to throw together a mission or two...

What's the soonest we could get a 2 move quecha into play? Anyone want to try grabbing a worker or two?

[Merovech]

For what it's worth, I don't think quechas are a completely null UU; the free C1 could come in handy after upgrading, and they can actually break skirmisher chokes with enough numbers.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Here is my initial sandbox. I was working on this while the save initially was being sent around. I'll fix it up tomorrow to reflect our area's proper orientation, but it will suffice for initial planning up until we discover BW. Xenu/Catwalk, take it for a spin and see what you can come up with, and compare to my quick sim from this afternoon.

[spacetyrantxenu]

I have a naming scheme in mind. I've been sitting on this one in case I ever got around to playing another game but this may be as close as I get for a little while. How about naming your cities for bad guys? I'm talking all-time ne'er do gooders. In no particular order, meet the contestants:

Iago


Voldemort


Hannibal Lecter


Morgoth (but a switch for Sauron could be tolerated I guess)


or



Cthulhu


Bonus Cthulhu live action!

Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan Noonien Singh


HAL 9000


Swiper - This one may need an introduction for those of you without kids. Swiper is the bad guy from Dora the Explorer and is the only reason I can tolerate watching the show with my kid. I keep hoping one day he'll keep whatever he steals instead of giving it back to Dora.


Darth Vader (As a badass, not as that brat Annie)


Hans Gruber


Maximilien Robespierre - I didn't want to go too heavy on real people, but when you're known for running The Terror, you're a bad guy.


Vlad the Impaler - All time great name, all time bad guy


Ivan the Terrible - OK, enough real people


The Borg - Boldly assimilated!


Dr. Doom


Cobra Commander


Mr. Burns


Megatron


The Flood - All time bad guys? Probably not. But they must die!


Bill Lumbergh


Dean Wormer


Kefka - One of my personal favorites


Mr. Blonde - Trivia note: I watched Reservoir Dogs on one of the first dates with my wife. Keeper!

I vote for naming the capital Swiper myself, as it is subtle but sinister. Feel free to post your own favorite bad guys, there are a lot more to choose from out there.

[scooter]

Oh, and @ Scooter...I understood the SUCK IT BRICK city name when you did that, but where does your hostility toward a friendly, petty tyrant come from? I've never been anything but nice to everyone on this forum and don't deserve this!*

It was a reference to this from Boldly:

http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showpost....stcount=10

He made me laugh with that, so it was for him.

[spacetyrantxenu]

What can I say, but

[scooter]

You win. I'll name a unit after you in PB5 in honor of that.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Excellent. So after the warrior named for me in the CFC game gets hacked up by a barb axe I'll still have a unit to command. You're going to let me command it, right? (I sooooo promise not to use it to declare war on everyone you're not already fighting!*)

[SIZE="1"]*Like many of my previous statements the veracity of this claim can not be confirmed.[/SIZE]

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

What can I say, but

This is the level of support I can expect from my ded-lurker? I noticed you had time to post a picture for every villain ever created, but not to take a poke into the sandbox. Also, you do realize that I won't be able to use half of those city names?

I do enjoy a good thread spam, but how about some input, Xenu? Otherwise, you force me to keep doing stuff like this:

--With Love,
Boldly

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Keep on wandering for a minute, boys.



Moving on flat terrain is ok for now, no barbs for a hot minute. I'll be very mindful of this in the future, however. And, in the North, SILVER!!!! To the south, some tundra and a desert hill. Hmm.



X = 22
Y = 22

What map script do we think this is? I don't have a clue where to find a list for that, I looked yesterday. Would be nice to know. Does this even matter for accurate sandboxing as far as tech costs? I assume that it would. I'm not looking for laser precision on everything in this game, but I would like to learn the processes so that I can become a better player.