wow just read Sullla's rant. Quite frankly if I was on another team and read that I'd be pissed as there's really no excuse. It's been Sullla and Speaker themselves poking fun at mistake of other teams and just how far out ahead they've been the whole time in this game and that nobody else was really a threat. It was them laughing and insulting at 2vs1 and even 3vs1 in how they'd take em out but now that it looks like people were smart enough to put together something to get the job done it's "fucking bullshit"?
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RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!
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The reason why we love Sullla is because he likes his plans and makes crazy awesome plans and then executes them perfectly. I think the fact that he's playing in a competant MP environment and all his SP experience just went out the window is a little jarring for him. Oh well, he'll be back later.
Compared to Speaker who is all smiles anyways... I just hope that for his students' sake he isn't grading something important while in this mood. :-p antisocialmunky Wrote:I just hope that for his students' sake he isn't grading something important while in this mood. :-p QFT  A scary thought! The HA + GG Axe attack was rather neat. Wonder if they can clean up the rest of that stack...
Just so long as someones head doesn't explode.
And please don't piss them off! It might be best to be very measured in their thread and not post anything except basic questions.
I think Sullla will surmise whosit's involvement before the praets show up. Now that they know it's a 4v1, and they know that whosit has a huge army of praets which he is evidently not using to attack anyone else, his involvement seems a foregone conclusion if somebody even bothers to consider it? Especially given whosit's past attitude in diplomacy towards India?
Yeah, people need to stop dragging the lurker thread into other people's threads. Its getting rather out of hand...
Krill Wrote:Just so long as someones head doesn't explode. Sullla might just have to find a sub so he can take a few days off after he spots those 4 galleys. Can't be good for his health. That or he'll just pretty stare blankly at the screen and start laughing at this. I think he said Cats will be on the way soon. Its going to start getting bloody if cats start rolling out. 
For the record, I am rooting for Sullla for the same reason darrell and sunrise are. They were the only civ that was nice to us and they are against the 2 civs that conspired to eliminate us.
But I think it's interesting to compare the 2 sides of being a rockstar. Sullla is a  , so he gets dogpiled But Sullla is a , so he gets the most lurker attention / "help" / spoiler leakage.2 sides of the same coin IMO haphazard1 Wrote:Is there really any effective way to hide or mask a civ pulling away from the pack? And if you artificially hold back, and do less well than you could...well, that isn't going to win the game either. What course should you take when you have the chance at a significant lead?I've said it before and I will say it again ... Spullla should not have been running binary science and they should have been sandbagging their GNP (running at a positive cash flow). The first wouldn't have drawn so much attention to the tech rate when they were at 100% and the second would have hidden some of their strength until currency. After currency, they cannot hide it, but they will have tons of cash that they could burn through at 100% tech ... heading to Guilds.
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. Quote:Even worse, the teams are making no effort to win the game just for the sake of trying to take us down. I don't fault teams for doing what's in their best interests to win, and Dantski and Jowy have legit reasons for teaming up against us. But Nakor?!? Kathlete?!?! They're not making any effort to build up their own civs, just gangbanging the "rockstar" team for fun. Wow, there are a lot of problems here. 1. An effort to win the game _mandates_ attention to the skill levels and reputations of the players. 2. Nobody is more guilty of this than Sullla anyway. Look at the way he viewed Byzantium earlier on, and the effort to try and get them supplied with a metal resource. Do you think he would have behaved as such if it were an unknown player being attacked for an overly zealous early settlement? 3. Kathlete and Nakor are #2 and #3 in score!! Knocking down the #1 is not in their best interests to win the game? This is the sort of blindness to others' thinking that got India in so much trouble in the first place! 4. If an unknown player were approaching double the GNP of any other team in a no-tech-trading game, would Sullla not be willing to gang up against them because it was not in his interest in winning the game? I'm sure winning free-for-all games is an art that requires a very different skill-set than that to win single player Civ IV. I wonder even if, for a team like India, if maybe even strongly considering a protective leader would be worth it, to dis-incentivize the attack. (If they never have to use a protected unit, it worked perfectly!) |
