RBPB4 Lurker Thread

[scooter]

Well if anyone wants the full deal, head over to our PBEM17 or PBEM13 thread - we answer all questions and disclose all plans.

Oh I do too - I've even had other players ask me to not post something in my thread and I go "yeah sure" and then post it anyways . But from having played enough - I would never fault someone for wanting to keep something under wraps just a bit longer just in case.

[Man Behind the Mask]

He's played a great game and clearly invested a HUGE amount of time into the game. Once you start doing that, the thought of it being ruined is hard to take.

I think it's also worth noting that LP is new to the forums and therefore hasn't built up this trust yet. After finishing the games and reading over threads, he'll likely realise he was worrying over nothing and become more trusting.

Don't want to derail the thread too much, but there are lots of personal opinions about to be expressed.

I hope that I've always made sure to include a deserved compliment on LP's good play whenever I've made a comment about him. I also should always caveat that it's my own impression of his posts, which may not represent his actual feelings or personality.

I still feel new to RB, as scooter rightly observes. However, I'm delighted with how sensible, grown up, and friendly virtually everybody seems to be. The only thing that bugs me is that some people seem to take playing a game a little too seriously for my tastes.

So now there's two people that hate me?

Well that would depend on which of my two characterisations you more closely resemble (joking!)

I don't mean this as a slight or knock against you - but I generally find that the people who complain when players do this are people who haven't actually played in one of these games. It's much easier to understand LP on something like that when you've actually invested the kind of time he has into the game.

No offence taken, and I completely appreciate that point of view, but this links back to my feelings expressed above. Only one team in ten was ever going to win this game, so my approach would always be to have as much fun as possible while finding out who the winner will be. If you’re intending to enjoy CIV by playing a multiplayer game on a forum, then in my mind a big part of that fun must surely be interacting with the other players and keeping up an informative or interesting thread. Maybe I’m a little too idealistic, or not competitive enough?

On this specific example, it was again the way Lord Parkin said it: “Oh, I’ve got screenshots, but I’m not going to share them :neenernee”. It just could have been expressed in a better way.

Enough about my psychology... back to the game! Can Locke get back to competing with LP if he gets all Adlain's land in working order?

[darrelljs]

Can Locke get back to competing with LP if he gets all Adlain's land in working order?

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Darrell

[Kuro]

I think this image demonstrates well why LP is safe.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

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Darrell

Last I checked Adlain's lands looked undeveloped as hell. Weird, I thought he would be better developed than that. Of course, if that was the case, Locke and SM may have never had a case for eating Adlain.

[Ellimist]

I think this image demonstrates well why LP is safe.

He isn't safe. He has units in one city plako knows about. He may or may bot have enough units at the locations the Violators end up hitting.

16. The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.

17. For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

18. Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us.

19. Knowing the place and the time of the coming battle, we may concentrate from the greatest distances in order to fight.

[Kuro]

I can't imagine why he wouldn't have that protection in EVERY city(Except in-land cities that can't possibly be hit). He knows they're gifting naval units, so I don't see why he wouldn't expect an assault from the sea. And he's drafting 5 units a turn: roughly half of the stack I pointed out.

So my point is that Plako and co are going to face that in EVERY city, probably upgraded to Infantry. How are they going to deal?

(I enjoy the Art of War quotes, though! I actually got that for my birthday this year. I've been reading it a good deal.)

[Nicolae Carpathia]

You know, going back to the misclick thing, I think it would have been granted if say LP had done something like liberated the city of Leo to Gaspar. At least I think you can disable those by disabling the advisor, as it doesn't bring up an icon on the top left.

I think LP should be fine, nothing's getting through those machine guns, I wouldn't even trust amphibious CRII rifles.

[Gold Ergo Sum]

I think LP should be fine, nothing's getting through those machine guns, I wouldn't even trust amphibious CRII rifles.

CKNs do collateral to machine guns from boats, but I suspect not nearly enough.

[NobleHelium]

Well, they'll probably be slightly better than cats. And we've seen cats vs machine guns before, heh. [strike]Of course I don't think plako is going to have ~120 CKNs...[/strike] Hmm, apparently rego only had 45 cats on the mainland.