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Pitboss 7 Planning Thread
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I think i will rescind my interest. My main interest in pitboss 6 was to beat Speaker after their sour grapes in the last game. I do likely have time for one more game, but i think i'll stick with Fall from Heaven.
I can be a half-assed ded lurker for someone if they really want. Kyan Wrote:I think i will rescind my interest. My main interest in pitboss 6 was to beat Speaker after their sour grapes in the last game. I do likely have time for one more game, but i think i'll stick with Fall from Heaven.http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showpost....tcount=137 That is my only post in the whole Pitboss 4 Postgame thread. I did not make any other posts in any of the team threads, including our own. Those are some serious sour grapes. "There is no wealth like knowledge. No poverty like ignorance." Speaker Wrote:http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showpost....tcount=137 Fair enough. I apologise. I thought the long 'Parkin only beat us because he was lucky' post was by you. Turns out it was by Sullla. sunrise089 Wrote:I'm not even in the game, so I can't object. The issue with random players is that just disappearing is more likely than with regulars. That said, players like Elkad, Yaz, etc have been really reliable players initially recruited as subs, so it can go either way.Yaz actually did abandon his first game, PB2 :P Kyan Wrote:Fair enough. I apologise. I thought the long 'Parkin only beat us because he was lucky' post was by you. Turns out it was by Sullla.In fairness, Sullla did use "we" in many of his "not impressed/got lucky" statements. That suggests Speaker held similar sentiments, so perhaps it's not unreasonable that you got that impression.  Anyway, I guess I'll have a look and see who else I can interest/recruit. 
RBPB7 bumpity?
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Hmm.
I've never been one for micro, but I could stand to learn a few heuristics. Recently I've been tooling around on CFC XOTM and HoF, also experimenting with test saves so one of my historically worst spots has noticeably improved lately. I can join/help a team, though I have reservations about a 6v6. With trip islands like that if one side cripples the other on a continent it can be curtains very early. This is different from standard games where diplo matters and people are positioning for a strategic advantage through negotiation. There is no pretense, no negotiation...just a raw straight-up war. I can envision this kind of game ending very quickly if a team is able to set up a choke on the other side. Although LP suggests in OP that this won't have a big impact with a weak player dying, it definitely will. If a pairing dies and another pairing on their side doesn't take the other team out on their continent to make up for it, the side with 4 players and 2 cripples is toast, game over. No competent team is going to lose to a team teching at ~66% of their rate. The end result of this is that it's a 6v6 but one side can easily lose to decisions made by teammate pairings outside of their sphere of influence! I'm not sure I like that kind of setup. Edit: I'm a relative rookie here, but I know a thing or two about this game. I've also studied previous pitboss games and have some idea of how you guys operate here .
Just an update - I haven't forgotten about this game, but I've come to realise I need to be more realistic about my time schedule. Pitboss 4 drained a huge amount of my time while it was going on, and right now to be honest I'm a bit busy for that kind of commitment. I'd still be interested in getting this Pitboss going sometime (or another more "normal" one, which some people currently seem to be leaning towards preferring)... but not just yet.
For now I'll just lurk around making the occasional comment, and perhaps playing the odd quick-fire game. I'll come back to Pitboss a bit later once I have some more time. If anyone wants to pick up this idea (or some version of it) and run with it without me though, by all means feel free to go ahead.
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