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While normally I don't do tier lists I do think all the players should do one before the groups get decided to help out the lurkers.
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So ya we are splitting continents by skill so lets do this.
All my opponents please don't take anything in the below negatively.
Higher skill continent:
1) TBS - easy pick
Edit: Hitru if he signs up - not sure how to rank TBS and him, but he said he wouldn't have tons of time, so putting below TBS.
I debated bout doing seperate spoiler tags and letting you scroll down a bunch in the first one and making eveyrone else in a seperate tag, but would just annoy people.
2) ME??? - Am I really 2nd here? MAYBE? I mainly place myself here because I see myself as more consistent than
3) Nauf - he is a much better SD. Sure he can just veer off and self destruct like SD, but he plays a better early game than SD, has long term plans, and can build a good economy.
The uncertain 4 through 6 - this is where lurkers are going to have difficulty as I am. I am NOT confident of these rankings. If Gav had joined things would be much clearer although MUCH scarier. Edit: if Hitru joins just do 4-5 and put everyone below here in the other continent.
4) SD - OH BOY would he be pissed if he is on the higher skill contienent. While his warfare skills aren't always great, sometimes they are (specifically against me grumble grumble). His early game is ok, but not up to any of the above and his late game economy is almost never a thing, but he will be a threat in the knight era (and before) and he almost always does well enough to be relevant in that time frame (although sometimes self destructs earlier).
5) Xist - I wasn't that impressed in PB72 with his expansion although he put up a descent defense, he was super agressive in PB74 and moved his capital, but he seems to be doing better in the PB79 greens game, but it is a greens game and obviously I'm not fully aware of how he has played that. I know he has a whole host of recent games over at the German forum, so may need some input from people who read over there how good he actually is and maybe that input puts him in 4th.
6) I think some people will have Dreylin higher than this, but a lof of his games were before I started lurking so I don't have a good sense. I won't judge him too much for PB74 as he was rushed. However, his performance in PB75 to me was a bit underwhelming. Now I don't know the whole of this game yet either and from what I can see he put up a reasonable defense, but still that is all I have to rate him on. Again, with his earlier experience and people with more insight to his PB75 performance maybe he makes it to the 4th slot?
Lower skill continent:
7) Greenline - he has gotten loads better and his expansion skills seem up with the above three at least. Its very possible he should be with the above, but he hasn't had a break out game where he has done well yet other than PB72 greens game.
8) Gira - I like this game concept specifically as a way to get greener players to sign up for non green games. Gira seems to be doing better than his past games in PB79 as far as I can tell, but again greens game and ongoing so hard for me to say. Speaking of, if anyone is feeling kind, please go ded lurk him here. I think he is probably the player who needs it most.
). Then I realized that it might be more of a detriment than normal to start with myst because wheel is going to be such a big deal for early expansion and getting food techs, bw, and wheel on an accelerated timeframe starting with myst is going to be near impossible.