[SPOILERS] naufragar, Charriu, and Zalson's Threepenny Opera

[darrelljs]

Commodore wants to concede to Rusten and has requested we ask the other player to see if they want to continue or also concede. Thoughts?

Darrell

[naufragar]

Commodore wants to concede to Rusten and has requested we ask the other player to see if they want to continue or also concede.  Thoughts?

Darrell

I want to concede.

Charriu, Zalson, please don't think less of me, but I am wrung out, and, would you believe it, my four knights and one catapult weren't able to burn Rusten's Moai city.  

Edit: Oh, and very good game, Rusten and Hitru. (I'm embarrassed I never thought of Rustru.) You guys were exploding from start to finish.

[Zalson]

Don't think less of you at all! GG

[Charriu]

Trust me I know how that feels. It was a great ride and after all we survived with our empire mostly intact.

[darrelljs]

Ok need all teams to confirm and then I'll post in the IT thread.

Darrell

[darrelljs]

One or more players has not conceded, so the game will continue.

Darrell

[naufragar]

One or more players has not conceded, so the game will continue.

Darrell

So it shall.  

[Charriu]

One or more players has not conceded, so the game will continue.

Darrell

I bet it was Rusten.

[naufragar]

Still going through threads, but felt like writing a short post mortem.

There's been enough hand wringing over the pick phase. Was Exp/Cre the right choice? Who knows. I did the math forever ago and do think Babylon was better than the expected final draw. (Basically I wanted to avoid Mysticism and Fishing.)

After that, the game was a comedy of micro errors, some happening while I had already written my plan down! We had some fun moments, like locking horns with BGN over an island, but somewhere down the line I made the game defining blunder of not settling my entire continent. I didn't realize until turn 150 or whatever that RedDot was actually closer to Rusten's cap than mine. Had I known... I don't want to chalk this up to general passivity. After all, I was stretching for island cities and cities on Commodicator's continent. I think I saw the desert tiles between Cathedral and RedDot's location and just balked. Lesson learned for next time. Once RedDot was settled, things were bad. Without it, maybe I could've had sufficient garrisons to ward off forking galleons from Rusten in the East and Comm in the West. Who knows.

After that abortive war with Rusten, I felt I had to devote so many hammers (and remember, we had by far the worst MfG) into military. The economy was doomed, and that was game. I love Civ, so it was never actively painful to play, but I do confess to a feeling of apathy once I knew all I had left was keeping the shuffling corpse of the empire upright as long as possible.  

Thanks, Charriu and Zalson, for ded lurking; wish it could've been a better show. You guys were super helpful with micro at the beginning and I turned around and fumbled, either chopping wrong forests or forgetting revolts or whatever.    I'm very grateful for your help. Charriu, you got us the Music artist, which kept us looking better than we had any right to be. Charriu's Point, despite it all, stands.  

Lastly, because I've seen it said this game by Rusten, Mackoti, and Commodore: Guys, I promise I'm not a martyr. I've fought the game-leader twice in two games because that player has been next to me and, in my honest, true, genuine opinion, a danger at the time I declared war. I probably do subconsciously roleplay. (There's a reason this game appeals to me more than chess or something abstract.) But I promise when I make decisions I'm trying to do the best for my civ, not the worst for some other.  

Oh, P.S. I would like to play another. (Didn't sign up for 43 because I can only manage one at a time.) but I do have to figure out my setup. After the server move, it took forever and two log in attempts to get to the game every single turn.

Edit: P.P.S. I haven't read Cairo's thread, but I'm super interested. Had no idea what he was doing, never had graphs, but he sure did seem technologically advanced. But, Mr. Cairo, for my sanity, thank you for letting the game end.

[Commodore]

Wait, did I call you a martyr? We were uniformly pro-Naufragar this game.