title says it all

probably not - some very strong players in here, and 10 others to boot - but the first step is to believe!

have zero plan as usual, want to try picking combos that are at least a little unorthodox though, whatever that might entail

July update:
sticking password here for easy access

Welcome to the untamed wilds of Norrath

Currently starting locations range from amazing riverland with mythril. Another time you spawn in the middle of useless tundra. It would be nice if similar to recent civilization games CoM tried to generate roughly equal starting locations.

Hi,

I would like to express my opinion that the probability of heroes offer to join you and artifacts offered to be sold to you should be 150%-200% higher across the board for everyone. there were games where I waited a number of years after July 1502 to get a hero offer to join me. and the chance of an artifact offered to be sold to you in the first 10 years of the games even though you have enough money is about once every 2-3 games and most of the times it's a crappy one.
even when I got the charismatic trait and high fame there still wasn't hardly any artifact offered to be sold to me.
I also saw posts of people who picked the charismatic trait from the start of the game and complained that hardly any hero offered to join them although they had enough funds.

on another note, I had the chance to play many games of Caster of Magic in the last months. and I think there should be tougher nodes guardians with better rewards.
better rewards means:

1. Always grant 1 good artifact instead of 2 or 3 crappy ones that would be probably immediately thrown away. 
2. reduce probability of mana/gold reward from nodes and it should be twice or 150% the current amount, that is equal to node budget and not half of it.
3. increase the chance of books/retorts.

I am aware of the "treasure impact" feature, but what I am talking about is an opposite feature to "easy lairs" something like "hard lairs" = 150% to 200% difficulty of lairs with about the same impact on rewards.

Thanks!

P1: "Fortune favors the bold."
P2: "Fortune" and "Lady Luck" are different names for the same thing.
P3: "They say Lady Luck has gone blind."
P4: Blind people can easily be tricked.
P5: It is possible to trick people into believing you are bold.

C: Therefore, it is possible to easily trick Fortune/Lady Luck into favoring you despite not being bold by presenting an unconvincing facade of boldness. True boldness is so inconvenient and dangerous, you know!


BEHOLD MY BOLDNESS BELOW:
Here, in the very first post of my spoiler thread, a place that could easily be seen by any careless player who places a single click wrong, I present to you the deepest secret of the Glorious [TBD]ian State! I will even go so far as to refrain from concealing it within a spoiler, such is my BOLDNESS.

BOLDNESS BELOW:
The secret is:
No More Colons After This I Promise:
I Lied:
The National Anthem of the Glorious [TBD]ian State is:

I Will Derive!


"At first I was afraid, what could the answer be?
It said given this position find velocity.
So I tried to work it out, but I knew that I was wrong.
I struggled; I cried, 'A problem shouldn't take this long!'
I tried to think..."


If you listen to this song and sing and dance along every day before eating breakfast, then you will be guaranteed success in calculus and in Civilization IV. True fact. So now you see why it is so bold to reveal the fact that it is my national anthem in such an unsecure location.

Anyway, I will accept Fortune's favor in the form of having metal resources miraculously pop into existence on every mine I work. Also it would be pretty cool if my starting scout lived past Turn 50.

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I promise that posts of serious substance will follow this one before long. HERE WE GO!

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EDIT: The secret password that grants absolute power over my empire to anyone who uses it is:
homeo4001

Consider this thread a place to vent your spleen about awful stuff that's happened while playing.

My latest: dwarves, 6 Life, warlord. Nice start, started to spread out, setup some lovely cities on juicy minerals on 2 good size islands (oh yes fair size 3 opponents). Raking in the dough (4000 and yet to even meet anyone). Hired Serena/Reywind and heroismed them. Building steam cannons (3) and decided to attack a "few" cockatrice node. Well they were backed up by sprites and one cannon died instantly. I fled and lost Serena and another cannon.

I should have known the nice start was "turning" when earlier I tried to take on a werewolf tower with Serena and a Halberdier. Yes 8 zombies backing it up. Did kill the wolf and fled w/o loss but I should have known it was a cursed game. (also a dozen hell hounds from Lopan had invaded my second island from the other plane...)

This is why I play 8 games concurrently. After I cycle through the other 7 I'll probably have calmed down about this one and might be able to continue it. : )

Just wanted to create to get moved to Important Threads.

Hello Lurkers

I hope you can enjoy my posts, ill try to win the post count, as always, making reports for every single turn. I hope this months without games have rest my mind and hopefully i wont rant as much.

Also feel free to ask or comment/ suggest anything to improve my posts, ill try my best to make it happen.

Keep tunned in!

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Looks like we’re going to have some pretty stiff competition this game. I’m curious what torusland script spits out, so I’m going to go roll a few and see.