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Quote:Unless it causes Slaze to quit and the game grinds to a halt.
in a game like this, more likely he'd just gift all his cities to plako 
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m4gill4 Wrote:in a game like this, more likely he'd just gift all his cities to plako
That would be insane. I can't work out whether Plako in charge of a suddenly massive and underdeveloped empire would be awesome or terrible. It would certainly make a new super power to rival Spulla if they could manage to hold on to a good portion of it.
Does whip anger transfer over with a change of owner? Either way they could probably have a higher happy cap and go to town whipping, knowing that their island empire could cover the expenses for a while. They could also whip up knights and macemen, which would at least be better than Slaze's current unit profile.
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Hi,
darrelljs Wrote:There seem to be a lot of things tolerated in RB MP that are anathema in the Epics/Adventures. [...] A lot of second generation RBers seem to feel the same way, but most of the old timers don't seem to have a problem with it. Just for the record, I do have a problem with it - but I already had my say earlier, and will now just watch with interest how all the MP games change the character of RB Civ. Change can be good or bad, we'll see. 
-Kylearan
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
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Kylearan Wrote:Hi,
Just for the record, I do have a problem with it - but I already had my say earlier, and will now just watch with interest how all the MP games change the character of RB Civ. Change can be good or bad, we'll see.
-Kylearan
QFE although I have my doubts about the changes being good
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Cyneheard Wrote:I think this is the worst backstab in any of the games to date.
I've been thinking this exactly - this is awfully low. Pretty much a total cheap shot.
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Well, my reading of the chat excerpt athlete posted is "indefinite NAP with 2-turn cooldown". There's some wiggle room, but I don't think it was completely unreasonable of him to believe that was the deal. It can be argued either way.
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Basically that is what I have waited for. I wrote some days ago about (from my pov) all the backstabs in this game and though I probably know a little bit more as lurker then the players I was wondering why some players still trusted the other. Especially slaze should have known better as he also betrayed his allies when he suddenly got peace with Athlete.
Sure this is unfortunate for slaze but even if he would have got 2 turns notice (as Beamup stated) he would have had to whip an army again I guess. And even if he had 10 turns and could defend his cities, he would be crippled afterwards anyway. Gifting away his army and hope that Athlete will use it against India was the wrong move. Funny that again the ones who try to hurt India hurt themselves instead.
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From civstats it seems slaze is indeed quitting the game  . Still a lot of time left but he's missed his typical window.
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timmy827 Wrote:Anyone else find this odd? I always thought corporations got better as the empire gets bigger, your costs go up linearly (and they are significant) but your benefits go up quadratically (more cities with the corp, plus controlling more resources so more benefit per city).
Corp costs actually go up quartically. Cities à resources à size of each city à inflation. The constant factor on the last two is very small so it approaches quadratic. But the benefits are always better than the net costs (the 4x3 gold from the HQ is very important) so more corp power is always to the good (up to like size 40 cities and +150% inflation.) Really the question is whether the corp can make up for its initial costs (GP, executives, spread cash) in a reasonable timeframe; you typically need ~10 resources to make a particular corp viable from that, and also need a positive expectancy vs State Property.
Quote:Also, imagining that humans will trade them extra corp resources sounds rather fanciful.
Sullla's not, he's actually arguing against a corp path, in part because of that.
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