[PB64] Amicalola Gets To Heaven with Tarkeel and Ljubljana

[Magic Science]

Hey Amicalola. .

You just elegantly put into words something I have struggled with in these games as well, so thanks for that. "Fun distraction --> chore", sounds about right.
My experience is that I feel bad about the game whenever I feel like I have not been giving it my best effort for whatever reason, usually busyness with other things. Then I think less about the thing that feels bad, and my efforts become even worse, and my PYFT rating suffers, and it viciously spirals from there. Does this sound at all familiar? Maybe it's different for others?
In any case, you have proven beyond all doubt that you are a player who is resilient enough to be perfectly content while sitting in the ruins of your hopes and knitting your broken civilization back together. Therefore, I bet that you will cheer up about Civ IV again once the hope-ruining war cools down, no matter what ruinous state your civilization is in when that time come. .

I still have no idea how SD plays as much civ as he does.

Yeah, superdeath is not a man; he is a machine that plays Civ IV. Or maybe superdeath actually died from Civ-related causes IRL in October 2017, and now his vengeful ghost haunts these forums forevermore. .
Seriously, he is impressive.

[Charriu]

I have to keep that description of SD in mind for the next player analysis :D

[Amicalola]

Hey Amicalola. .

You just elegantly put into words something I have struggled with in these games as well, so thanks for that. "Fun distraction --> chore", sounds about right.
My experience is that I feel bad about the game whenever I feel like I have not been giving it my best effort for whatever reason, usually busyness with other things. Then I think less about the thing that feels bad, and my efforts become even worse, and my PYFT rating suffers, and it viciously spirals from there. Does this sound at all familiar? Maybe it's different for others?

I think that's a really good way of describing the vicious cycle, at least in this case. I think you're totally right that it starts with busyness from other things (in this case, I had a placement fortnight and then a pretty rough week personally), which causes some bad plays (in this case, I underbuilt units and now have defended quite poorly against Nauf's attack). But then now that the game is in a bad situation because of that, my PYFT rating and my quality of play declines further, because it feels bad to think about. Really, you have identified me to a tee. Maybe the only thing I'd add is that more than an hour a day of civ is fun sometimes, but also just kind of gets old, especially when you can't opt out. Nice to know I'm not alone!

[Zed-F]

Game -> chore when you want to be spending time on other things is pretty universal IMX.

[Mjmd]

Heh at least its not an hour doing daily quests in a MMO. Whoever thought that was a great idea as content filler...........

[yuris125]

As someone who logs in to FF14 to do stuff pretty much every day, both can be enjoyable. Just a matter of personal preference what's more attractive - and it can change with time

Anyway, that's a bit of a tangent - back to lurking

[Amicalola]

T186
I wanted to post about how this was the only combat last turn (never change, PB64, never change  ).


Then I felt bad that I wasn't reporting for real. 

Ok, so the short version is that I'm worried that Naufragar is just winning the game, or at least making a win possible, for Ginger. Who is researching Steel this turn.  I, for my part, have mostly stopped whipping. Naufragar is going for Astronomy, and I need to get that at least vaguely soon afterwards because the Naufragar Kamikaze doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon (to be fair, I might have made similar conclusions. Still, it's the worst  ). I am definitely making more mistakes than usual, but such is life when you're too busy for two games. Oop.

Naufragar has, for now, retreated from our territory. It's impossible to know where he'll go next. He's taken all of the periphery cities by using Cistercia's culture very well, but any further advance is a lot more difficult. We'll see. 


I would remind the reader that although I still have the 'most' cities by 1, three of those have no food resource, so probably Nauf's territory/cities are stronger than mine at this point, once he regrows. I can only say it so many times, but he's done a great job using his knights while he could. Our food stat remains high, but I think that has more to do with the farm spam than with any genuine strength. I think we can probably still win from here if certain things go right, but we're definitely not the favourite anymore.

[Amicalola]

Hi. This turn I settled Fever Dreams. Then I realised Naufragar has a settler with his stack, so probably wanted the same spot. I think it's fine that I settled it, since I was first in the turn order during our lengthy war and Naufragar double-moved me last turn with the peace to get his settler here in the first place. To me it is very reasonable that I double move back. But I suppose I should check this with the lurkers. This is fine, right?


(if his settler is here for another purpose, that's fine too. But I thought I should check)

Edit: Actually, the more I think about it, the more obviously fine this is. I probably shouldn't have checked in the first place. Sorry for holding the game up, other players.

[Miguelito]

Yep, no issue, play on.

[Charriu]

Agree