Nothing like the Prodigal Sons: The Odd Couple actually play as themselves.

[Gaspar]

t8 - We interrupt this debate with a turn report

Much less interesting than Lewwyn losing his marbles or plako's humility is our current turn. We moved the scout as expected:



Clearly Serdoa meant to put Seven at our start location, with the no food on the backlines as an added challenge. [2]

The scout will continue NE next turn before looping back E towards the forested grass hill north of the floodplains, where we'd love to put a city if there's any food. OF COURSE THERE WON'T BE ANY FOOD BECAUSE SERDOA IS GETTING BACK AT US FOR HAVING TO DEAL WITH NOBLE IN PB12. [3]

Agriculture will come in on the turn roll, to be followed by Hunting.

No score increases or anything interesting otherwise in the demos I'm not really parsing because I'm a lazy T4 player.

[Serdoa]

You have a city that can use fish, clam, corn and deer and you whine at the map?

[spacetyrantxenu]

Hey Galium NoGas, your caps lock key for stuck for a minute there, not sure your editor caught that.

[Mardoc]

Mardoc's PBEM 52 thread should be up there with Spulla's/PB's threads as well I think.

Really? I explain my thought processes, but you can't argue that it's actually correct information most of the time. Well, except when various vets are popping in to tell me what I got wrong this time

And you missed Mardoc's FFH XXVIII thread. It's a highly entertaining read in spite of his idiot ded lurker.

Um. I hope you mean XVI, seeing as *I'm* the idiot dedlurker in XXVIII.

Still...I try, but there's no way I'm up that far in the good threads dept. Maybe explainable by the evaluation coming on Friday night?

Pretty certain I don't belong at t1 for FFH.

Though I'll take the T4 ranking for BTS and the observation that I suck when I'm not focused.

Well, you're certainly favored to win any FFH game you play, except maybe when you play against plako. T2, then?

[Thoth]

Um. I hope you mean XVI, seeing as *I'm* the idiot dedlurker in XXVIII.

Still...I try, but there's no way I'm up that far in the good threads dept. Maybe explainable by the evaluation coming on Friday night?

One too many "X's" I actually meant XVIII...the no settlers game.

[Gaspar]

You have a city that can use fish, clam, corn and deer and you whine at the map?

Did you miss the thread title?

Hey Galium NoGas, your caps lock key for stuck for a minute there, not sure your editor caught that.

I was yelling. Like I am at you, for calling us NoGas.

[suttree]

Gasp and Nubby: kinky midgets
Noble kills the beast: sucks to your Gaspar
The Gas kNobs: the burner's on high bitches
No means Noble's gonna tear you a new Gaspar
The Sparbles: gonna win all the marbles
Hel's Bells and buckets of .... Gaspar

[spacetyrantxenu]

Hey Galium NoGas, your caps lock key for stuck for a minute there, not sure your editor caught that.

I was yelling. Like I am at you, for calling us NoGas.

[Gaspar]

Gasp and Nubby: kinky midgets
Noble kills the beast: sucks to your Gaspar
The Gas kNobs: the burner's on high bitches
No means Noble's gonna tear you a new Gaspar
The Sparbles: gonna win all the marbles
Hel's Bells and buckets of .... Gaspar

t9 - a²+b²=c²

Rather than post much, I'll leave this chat here, mostly because I'm short of time to be eloquent. This isn't especially funny, but it covers our current thoughts on the map.

<snipped some conversation from last night, where Noble posited the center was 4 peaks)
NobleHelium: that's what it looks like
Gaspar: its possible
intended to allow pre-astro passage but not be settleable
NobleHelium: could be
Gaspar: anyway
my guess is there's a player slightly west of the peak and another player on the other side of the jungle
in addition to gavagai above us
NobleHelium: your guesses are awesome
I GUESS WE HAVE NEIGHBORS IN MOST DIRECTIONS
Gaspar: WELL, WE DONT HAVE A SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR GENIUS
NobleHelium: kuro is going to show up with a submarine there
Gaspar: lol
hunting next, correct?
NobleHelium: yes but i'll double check
Gaspar: i should really play through the start again sometime soon
since its been so long
NobleHelium: yeah
Gaspar: report posted
NobleHelium: that => than
what's up with the footnote numbers without actual footnotes
Gaspar: WAY TO NOT READ
I said I was going to count all the instances in which I complained about the map
NobleHelium: oh
dude come on i couldn't even remember where our scout was after all that spam
Gaspar: lol
<today>
Gaspar: yo
NobleHelium: lol i saw the first goal at the end there after the game ended
Gaspar: yeah, im looking forward to someone youtubing it set to yakety sax
Gaspar: nothing exciting
agri in, retep grew to size 2
pop worth 2 points, as you suspected
gavagai also researched a tech
going NE w/the scout
another river
NobleHelium: let's see
NobleHelium: well
looks like we can go NE again and still take two moves east next turn
Gaspar: yeah
NobleHelium: let's do that then
Gaspar: refresh the link
NobleHelium: E-NE next maybe
Gaspar: yeah, had the same thought
NobleHelium: ok that body of water
is a perfect diamond
the fish is rotated 90 degrees from the other one too
Gaspar: so maybe there's 4 of us here
NobleHelium: bet there's a clam 4N of the
Gaspar: and we're all in a corner
NobleHelium: okay yes
existing clam
Gaspar: so the key might actually be
to claim as much of the middle as possible
NobleHelium: clearly we should just boat everyone and take over the sea
Gaspar: prioritizing W-NW rather than purely north
NobleHelium: np
Gaspar:
NobleHelium: ok
so if we take our capital's distance
from the center of that peak formation
the other starts may be mirrored from that
Gaspar: ~9tiles
NobleHelium: gavagai start 10N of our capital?
well 11N
Gaspar: yeah
TRIGONOMETRY FTW
NobleHelium: can you zoom out for a flat shot and then draw a box around where he is
Gaspar: I feel like we'll need to settle a little less organically than we normally do
seems important to both carve out a larger wedge and also block off gavagai and our western neighbor from getting behind our lines
though i guess it doesn't matter if we can't sustain it
NobleHelium: well we'll see
Gaspar: anything else before i end this?
NobleHelium: nah
how many turns on the worker again?
Gaspar: 4
Gaspar: lol
Krill is pestering me to post the tier list publicly
NobleHelium: yeah i knew it once i saw thh's post lol
Gaspar: meh
NobleHelium: tell him he can defect if he wants to see the list

[Gaspar]

Re: the Tier list

This was just something first Lewwyn & I and then Noble & I did for a bit of fun. Krill suggested to me that a good list like it would be useful to stop "gate-crashing" in games, which is sort of what we and then Seven did here. Which makes me think Seven joined so this wouldn't be a curb-stomp for us, which is fine. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. What is here or there is I'm not going to post it anywhere, it was merely done for fun and to generate traffic to thread (thanks, guys!) If someone else wants to take our list, tweak it/edit it/modify it/destroy it and post it in a more public forum (Off topic would be the appropriate place) I'm not going to stop them. I do think however that it would cause more trouble than it would solve.

That said, posts #301-349 in here, excepting the 2metra PYFT comment have absolutely nothing to do with this game and therefore if any of the other players in this game is curious about what we did/why we had an insane number of posts in here during the scouting phase, I'm perfectly fine with you directing them to that section of the thread, or copying/paraphrasing whatever. I really don't think it is *that* interesting but if someone else does, more power to them.