[spoiler!] Ruffing Bull of Spain

[Krill]

You been on any benders during the past week?

[Ruff_Hi]

I didn't get 500AD either.

Has someone played a round all by themselves?

yes I think so.

Play order is Isk --> you --> Cear --> me --> Isk

So if you didn't see 500AD and I send 500AD forward, then that would imply that Isk played a full round using the admin password.

Hmmmmmmm

Hmm, I seemed to miss out on 500AD as well.

Has someone else played 500AD instead of us?

[Ruff_Hi]

Did anything unusual happen to your empire? Have you opened the 520AD save?

I didn't notice anything unusual for my 520AD turn, but then I'm not at war with him...

I was running a unit decoy and my units were moved 1 tile further into Isk land )500) and then slaughtered during 520. I am guessing that Isk was seeing if he had enough units on hand to kill them all and then forwarded the wrong save.

I was also left 9 beakers short of a 2800 or so beaker tech ... something that I never ever do. I always micro-manager to finish techs like that.

Hmmm. That's surely a kickable offence.

I only got involved in this game after deztro dropped out. Maybe we should just wrap it up?

Calanthian is the offending player then? I'll notify any other admins of games he is in...

please wait until we see what he says. I am still considering my response.

I was really looking forward to winning this game ... and I could play on even if I knew he was looking over my shoulder.

[novice]

Wow...

[SevenSpirits]

I know forming a colony can screw up the turn order in bizarre ways in sequential games; could it have been something like that? Vassal states are on right?

If your units actually got moved though that does seem to indicate cheating instead. But what the hell?

[Krill]

There are no islands. Maybe France vassalized?

[SevenSpirits]

Vassalizing shouldn't be a problem, it's creating a new player that screws things up (IIRC by making it immediately be the new player's turn or something absurd like that).

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Well that's a way to ragequit.

[Ruff_Hi]

I just happen to have a save from the very end of my prior turn ... very useful to go back and look at things ... here is how I left it:



Note the units circled in red ... they are the ... keeping him honest units. The Conq in the South are designed to kill 'Fortress'. If I have to lose one, so be it. The rifles there are to show strength.

pushing units at Isk (Fortress) and that coastal city (Horca Somthing). He has given Fortress up (1 x Pike, 1 x Scout) but he is much more determined re Horca (5 x Rifles plus about 6 or 7 others).

I would like to kill it but I am mainly aiming to keeping him honest on that front.

Here is how I got the turn back ...



The big thing that jumped out at me is that the tech is 9 (out of 2800) beakers short of finishing. I never, ever do that. Note also that the person playing my set pulled 1 rifle and 4xCats from that coastal city and sent them into Isk land (they are just fodder with that move) but they do weaken the coastal city and leave it open to a boat attack. Even having Cats in there means the boat attack has to have 4 more units.

Results from skipped turn ...

[Ruff_Hi]

I'm going to quit this game if there are any shenanigans going on.