[SPOILERS] Fake News and Civ Blues. How BGN Lost and Claimed Victory

[Coeurva]

Hi, here's your MapCad-generated sandbox to help you plan your opening. You'll need to have RtR 2.0.8.4 installed. If something doesn't work as it should, let me know.

I fucked up and had actually posted this in your "shitposting" thread for two minutes, mistaking it for your spoiler thread. Nobody had downloaded it and Dark Savant instantly alerted me to it so that I could delete it, but still, I'm sorry about that.

[BRickAstley]

That was good, but it's been 5 days and no more have followed. More, more, more!

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

First, many thanks Coeurva. I've been out of town and haven't been able to do anything with civ but the sandbox is much appreciated. I'll download and put it to use when I'm off work today. And honestly if it ended up in the shitposting thread that's probably how it ought to be anyway. It's what I get for starting that thread.

Second, BRick, thanks. I've got another one just about put together. In the meantime, since I promised Reel Big Fish, here you go:



It isn't Sell Out but it seems more in line with opposition analysis.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Mackoti - (Taylor Swift - End Game ft. Ed Sheeran, Future) ft. Suleiman (Imp/Phi) of France



Mack is much better at civ than this song is at being a good song but this is much more fun (to me) than doing a Macklemore riff, or some comparison to another classic artist that is universally recognized as being the best of a genre. Who cares about all that? Mackoti = Taylor Swift. That's my hot take. You don't have to like it but at the end of the day, the music civ business is all about results and guess who sells gold records? Yeah. Mack puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like you, but when he does he wins civ. Now scurry along, ye mere Civ mortals.

"Big reputation"  The first string. The A Team. "I wanna be  your end game" The master civ strategist. There is nothing more to say. Mack knows the endgame as soon as the board is set. Only entropy and gravity stand between Mack and a foreordained endgame. And you can be certain that the outcome will be as he intends. You will probably not be part of that endgame. Your game will end in the mid game ("midgame").

Taylor Swift is alternately admired and reviled, though for precisely what few can say. Is it because her music is too omnipresent? Too bland? Too mainstream? Taylor doesn't care, because she's winning. And if you were playing in this game and spared any attention at any point for pre-game opposition analysis you can be sure that you are losing. Because Mackoti is winning. The only game he plays is the end game, and if you are among the lucky, chosen few to reach the endgame you're already at an information disadvantge. Because Mackoti's already played it out. In this game, you're Ed Sheeran, a guppy pretending to be hard. Mackoti is T-Swizzle, the shark. Your days are numbered, your ending ordered.

Apologies to Future (whoever that is) in this analysis. In civ, when you're playing against Mack you just don't have one.

Civ/Leader

France is strong. I would have loved aggressive Musketeers and I'm sure I would have preferred to have Agriculture as a starting tech. C'est la vie. I do not envy whoever gets to deal with these annoying knight knig stack protectors.

Civ:   (blue, good)
Leader:  (build queues, bulbariffic)
Player:  (if not the very best you aren't good enough to tell the difference, will pummel you)
Chance of winning:
Top 10 finish: Automatic unless the server dies before T25.
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You:   (knigs: If you need the warning this is the wrong game for you)

Conclusion: Quarternary Consumer (The Biggest Whale, The Sharkest Shark)

Up next: Someone else who will beat me.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

T0

I have to admit to being a bit disappointed by what I found when logging in to claim my civ.

   

A settler?

I guess my "interesting assumption" was good enough, Mardoc.

I decided not to make good on my threat. I settled in place like a lemming.

Winning after the first turn. I'll get to claim victory from T0.

[RefSteel]

I have to admit to being a bit disappointed by what I found when logging in to claim my civ.

Argh, I knew we forgot something! If only Mardoc had been around to comment on the final version of the map!

Actually, when the game was delayed another couple of days after the map was finalized, I was tempted to make a few more changes while we waited, such as this:

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

A real gunship would have been fun but wouldn't do much more than harass the wolves and bears. I'd still be dead by T5(or sooner? I don't remember if you die immediately if you don't have a settler) even if I did manage to find a neighbor.

Next Tear List entry: The Black Sword

[scooter]

What I really want is a lurker thread tier list. As in, ranking lurkers in their ability to post either insightful or inflammatory comments in the lurker thread.

[darrelljs]

What I really want is a lurker thread tier list. As in, ranking lurkers in their ability to post either insightful or inflammatory comments in the lurker thread.

I'd rather rank lurkers on their ability to post unrelated, off topic content of limited value .

Darrell

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

I'll come up with something. This should be fun. "Insightful lurker" is a contradiction in terms so this will require some creativity.

Darrell, I believe you are permanently Lead Boots tier, right? In any case, inane and off-topic are perfectly at home here. Welcome!