[SPOILERS] SevenSpirits trashes three estates and a copper

[SevenSpirits]

I'm going with neither jerk nor dick - he's trying to press everyone to end the game sooner so they don't waste time on a game that's been over since well... before it started. So think of him more as a philanthropist.

Actually I changed my philosophy on calling games early sometime during PB7. I learned it's very easy to have fun even while knowing you won't win. I mean if no one's enjoying it anymore, sure, call it. But having a clear leader is no longer a reason for me on its own.

(P.S. I don't think it's that decided yet anyway. And I certainly don't think it was before the game started. The basic fact that it's a free-for-all prevents that!)

[NobleHelium]

[Gaspar]

Turns out it's more like:

Actually I changed my philosophy on calling games early sometime during PB7. I learned it's very easy to have fun even while knowing you won't win. I mean if no one's enjoying it anymore, sure, call it. But having a clear leader is no longer a reason for me on its own.

(P.S. I don't think it's that decided yet anyway. And I certainly don't think it was before the game started. The basic fact that it's a free-for-all prevents that!)

I think a lot depends on how close the game is. If its something like the roflstomp Krill put on in PBEM4 or such, I can't imagine having too much fun with it though Cyne and Kylearan did a pretty decent job. If there are external game factors like 26 that's also a good reason to end it. A game like say 29 there was probably enough in it for everyone to keep going even though the outcome was fairly well decided, but I think we were all just burnt out on playing against each other. PB7 is a special case for a variety of reasons, I think.

[mackoti]

hey Seven you alive?

[SevenSpirits]

Not an inspiring amount of guesswork. For that you earned no pictures, but the knowledge that I advanced against Scooter, revolted to HR/Slavery/Theo, teched HBR on the way to Cuirassiers, visibly declined to attack Pindicator (by unloading the chariot onto a different tile) (a large part of the reason for attacking there was the XP towards the general to enable the Heroic Epic, but with Dazed's invasion that's not a concern anymore), and am obviously building a bunch of units (mostly praets) to defend against Dazed. I plan to demonstrate why I picked Rome.

Turn after, I traded a few boats with scooter to get a great general and moved him towards the Dazed front.

[Krill]

Slaving in a golden age?

[SevenSpirits]

Slaving in a golden age?

Hardly any. I did immediately slave out a longbow in Coppersmith and thus got a unit every turn there for a few turns. More importantly though it allows me to lighten garrisons in cities near other players to funnel more units towards the Dazed incursion.

It's true that in my previous state (able to revolt on almost any turn) I get the same safety net. However, it was clearly expedient to have 2xp everywhere for a couple reasons (secondary one being it gives me an advantage in the great trireme scuffle with scooter) as well as very productive to get an extra 2 units out of Coppersmith immediately. Plus, the following turn was going to be no-revolt due to the golden age lapse, so it was a bit dangerous to delay the revolt given my unit repositioning.

The loss was caste system, which as I mentioned was being used to hire 3-4 extra scientists in my national epic city. So it's annoying, but not devastating, to have to give that up.

[Krill]

have you used more than three cats defending against dazed?

[SevenSpirits]

have you used more than three cats defending against dazed?

I don't have construction, so no.

[Krill]

That's probably the best indication of the power of preats...