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[SPOILERS] scooter, pindicator, and Huayna Capac try some fast Zulu cuisine

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June 4th, 2013, 08:14
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(June 4th, 2013, 00:49)pindicator Wrote:
(June 4th, 2013, 00:31)Ceiliazul Wrote: 3) (It's not Nobs)
3) ???

I think Nobs = NobleHelium?
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June 4th, 2013, 08:42
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It's Nobes.
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June 4th, 2013, 08:47
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Also chiming in to say glad you emailed him about it. Believe it or not, sometimes people are nice to other people on the internet.

(June 4th, 2013, 00:31)Ceiliazul Wrote: 2)Commodore is on of the best 5 reporters at RB, no matter how you feel about his gameplay. (Another one is on this team.)
3) (It's not Nobs)

I know it's pindicator who cracks the top 5 from our team, but I'm curious who the other 3 are. You can't just hint at the existence of a "Top ____ at RB" list and then not give it to us. lol
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June 4th, 2013, 09:07
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Oledavy is definitely one of them, after that maybe pocketbeetle and Sullla?
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June 4th, 2013, 09:27 (This post was last modified: July 8th, 2020, 22:28 by pindicator.)
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So that city I marked as being whipped last turn. I had a feeling that would be a privateer because that's all he's whipped out of it so far. And if that privateer were to go even 1 tile north it would spot our stack. So this turn, turns out that's exactly what happened.

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Can we have one of our plans go right this game? Just once?

Okay, maybe this can still work. His galleons are north of ours, so we can reverse direction and head south next turn? At least the privateer was injured bad enough that we'll be able to finish it off with a galleon of our own. We'll end on the coast so we have better odds surviving against the galleons.

But here's the depressing part. He didn't whip any cities. You know what that means, right? He feels he's got this under control.
Also, why show us those 7 or 8 galleons up north? He didn't have to. Dammit, he's got a bigger fleet just south in the fog, doesn't he?
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June 4th, 2013, 09:32 (This post was last modified: June 4th, 2013, 09:43 by pindicator.)
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(June 4th, 2013, 05:46)Commodore Wrote: Ah! Yeah, game crashed, and I couldn't immediately reconnect. I'm going to definitely need a reload. The AI moved my units in all kinds of insane directions too. rolleye


YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME
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June 4th, 2013, 09:44
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(June 4th, 2013, 09:27)pindicator Wrote: But here's the depressing part. He didn't whip any cities. You know what that means, right? He feels he's got this under control.
Also, why show us those 7 or 8 galleons up north? He didn't have to. Dammit, he's got a bigger fleet just south in the fog, doesn't he?

He has to. He believes he can sink that fleet next turn when peace expires, which means more privateers and/or Frigates. Let's hold off on playing and chat through this turn tonight, I want to take a look inside and think it through.


Also, are you thinking the AI control is what moved that Privateer and gave him visibility or what?
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June 4th, 2013, 09:47
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(June 4th, 2013, 09:44)scooter Wrote: Also, are you thinking the AI control is what moved that Privateer and gave him visibility or what?

Just asking because if this is what happened, absolutely we cannot reload. If he consciously chose to randomly scout towards us, then the reload would be okay. But moving the Privateer that way is definitely what the AI would do in that case so I'm not too happy about this either.
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June 4th, 2013, 09:50
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I want to hear Commodore say that the privateer was the AI and not him first
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June 4th, 2013, 11:21
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(June 4th, 2013, 09:07)Oxyphenbutazone Wrote: Oledavy is definitely one of them, after that maybe pocketbeetle and Sullla?

Are we including FFH? Anyway, one has to include Krill and Sullla, IMO
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