RBP6 Lurker Thread

[AutomatedTeller]

I think they shut down tech completely.

[dazedroyalty]

I think they shut down tech completely.

That is my understanding but if they can get there in a couple of turns, it'd might be worth the delay.

[Injera]

That is my understanding but if they can get there in a couple of turns, it'd might be worth the delay.

Right now they're on pace to get cui's a couple of turns before they'd win. They could probably get them in time to be relevant if they delayed their win by a couple of turns. Rifles are totally out of reach.

[regoarrarr]

My money is on Team 1 realizing their error before the game ends, but it may be too late to do anything about it when they figure it out. The "oh shit" feeling is going to be pretty bad when they retest the team CV mechanic and discover their previous test and resultant assumptions were incorrect.

What would be worse, figuring it out say a few turns before Team 2 wins and knowing you can't do anything to stop it in time, or never figuring it out, Team 2 wins, and then Team 1 logs in to play their turn and are greeted with

Team 2 has won a cultural victory!!!

?

(I guess they'd never log in to see it, I'm sure the post game thread would be up in the forum before that happened, not just a "retrospectives" thread).

I gotta figure that would be a solid 1.0 regoarrarrs

[kalin]

Hi,

I haven't checked this game in a long time, never really appealed to me... But the perspective of team 2 getting a culture win over team 1 is probably going to be simply epic... What are the chances of that happening atm?

Kalin

[Injera]

Hi,

I haven't checked this game in a long time, never really appealed to me... But the perspective of team 2 getting a culture win over team 1 is probably going to be simply epic... What are the chances of that happening atm?

Kalin

There's a slim but real chance. Both T1 and T3 have stated they plan on invading Lewwyn's civ in T2 in the near future. T1 is just after land, not to stop the CV. T3 intends to invade and take Milkshake (the biggest cultural city), and they're on track to do that a turn or two ahead of the win assuming they don't get slowed down. They've discussed speeding up the pace, though. I think Milkshake will likely fall.

Even if that happens T2 will still have assets to continue the CV attempt. They'll have ~11 artists (more than enough to bomb a third to epic status) and two other decent cultural cities. So they can still win if they're left alone. One possibility is that, in the fight over Lewwyn's lands, T1 pins or kills T3's army, preventing them from stopping the CV.

[Cyneheard]

I gotta figure that would be a solid 10 regoarrarrs

FTFY.

[regoarrarr]

FTFY.

Sorry. The scale only goes to 1.0

[Krill]

Yeah, but 3 (or possibly 6) people feel that disappointment.

[Commodore]

More than that, 90% of the global lurkers hoping for an upset, too. Poor team 3, I don't want to dislike 'em but they're helping Team 1 win, which is depressing.