Sareln Wrote:Ellimist v. Mist
Chatted with Mist some today, he stated (and Ellimist just confirmed in his thread) that Ellimist has been trying to keep his score below the x1.5 mark. I suppose my question for that is, if Ellimist has so many promoted and available units, why not declare on the barbs, seize Orthus' axe, and otherwise start training units on everything? Keeping your score artificially low is just keeping Mist in the game IMO.
I didn't really have that many available units and most of them weren't promoted. Only a few units(Lucian, Jackman, wolfpack) had any exp at all.
Part of my problem, since T15 or so, was unit upkeep costs. I decided early on that disbanding any troops was silly if I wanted to win an early conquest victory, but I never had an army that I would have considered excessive(except maybe workers.)
At the same time, it seemed silly to focus my military against the barbarians when I could attack Mist instead. Combine that with Mist being (literally) on the other side of the world from me, and the last thing I wanted to do was fight my way across the map to reach him.
About the score thing, I saw that as something that cut both directions because Mist was also keeping his score lower than it could have been. (That was one reason I mentioned it in chat.) He wasn't founding any more cities or growing his cities bigger than he needed them. I saw this trade off to be favorable to me. Mist and I were both "budgetting" to limit our score increases. Mist was mostly "spending" his score increases on techs, while I was spending mine on population and land(expansion). However, for every score point Mist gained, I could gain 1.5.
This seemed favorable to me in the long run, even if I needed to catch up with tech later. After all, my commerce wasn't vanishing or anything, it was being saved. I had the flexibility of how to spend it, and an expanding empire to leverage in whatever way seemed best.
