[Spoilers] Is thirtythreesome safe?

[plako]

Playing like the combination of scared granny, speedy gonzales and old faithful. I'm hoping for an opportunity to drop from heaven, but not gonna waste my time trying to force things.

A bit less poetic answer would be that I'll take my turns with minimum risk approach and hope that something good would happen in my neighborhood. I'm even delivering silk for free to Krovice just to keep them happy so that I can keep playing less stressful game.

I had a dream of building up an early Knight/Musketeer army, but there really aren't good targets so I'll focus a bit more to economy. Nevertheless I'll tech guilds and build/keep a decently sized Knight army just in case opportunity comes. dtay has had guilds for ages. It will take some 10 turns from me to get there since I'll take e.g. Civil Service before it.

I'll launch Golden age next turn and adopt Vassalage+Caste. I've some military in the queue to finish since I hoped for some military action so better finish those with extra promos. At the end of GA I'll take Bureacracy and start slow building Knights.

[Rowain]

At what rank do you see your empire currently? Do you see a "will most likely win"-player?

[plako]

I haven't really followed situation globally i.e. not doing any deeper data analysis. I look event log, graphs, victory screen and occasionally tracker page. I've been in top 10, but I think I'll be gradually dropping lower when the nations with more land get their nation up and running. In my neighborhood dtay is doing extremely well. All meaningful categories looking strong. Krovice is also doing decently, having lots of land. Their GNP is weakish though. xenu+BaII seem to be pretty close to my position. BGN has to be doing very well with #1 score. He has also weakish land neighbors. I don't hve his graphs though.

[Ceiliazul]

have you won yet?

[plako]

have you won yet?

It has never been closer than this. I only need to conquer Xenu and BaII while not being invaded by dtay, Krovice or TBS.

[NobleHelium]

Sounds like a plan!

[Commodore]

I think this means the answer to the thread title is "no".

[Ozzee]

Hi plako, I'd appreciate an update on the general state of affairs and medium term plans for your empire.

[plako]

Hi plako, I'd appreciate an update on the general state of affairs and medium term plans for your empire.

This has been massively boring game for me. No chance to win or do anything significant in this game starting from T0. This map should have been lakes one. 33 players and I've just 1 land neighbor! I've just been building military for ages hoping something to use it against would emerge. Last turn finally something happened and Cheater heater declared war against Xenu so I collected my troops together and maybe next turn I'll enter Xenu's land. It will not improve my chances to win, but it will either make me a bit more significant or kill me totally, if someone comes knocking through sea.

[NobleHelium]

How's it goin'?