Spronz Wrote:The only thing team Spulla could have done to prevent this happening would have been to slow their growth and better hide their strengths. In a no tech trading game there's no coming back if you fall behind so you can be damn sure that if somebody is pulling ahead so far not only in cities but in GNP as well then it's in everybody else's best interest to take them out sooner rather than later.I (to some extent) agree with this. They played a very good game early with the optimal play, but getting that early Academy and then advertising it by running binary science was meta-game stupid. If it was me, I would have been running my tech slider at a positive cash flow (that would help to hide their situation until currency).
On the diplo front ... they just couldn't settle on a friend and build on that ... seems they were always trying to leverage any arrangement to maximize its value to India.
I think that there are some lessons in PBEM1 that are very useful here (IMHO

I have finally decided to put down some cash and register a website. It is www.ruffhi.com. Now I remain free to move the hosting options without having to change the name of the site.
(October 22nd, 2014, 10:52)Caledorn Wrote: And ruff is officially banned from playing in my games as a reward for ruining my big surprise by posting silly and correct theories in the PB18 tech thread.