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

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Arby's?

I thought you might go for something known for skyline chili.

[regoarrarr]

Arby's?

I thought you might go for something known for skyline chili.

Yeah I thought about Skyline, but I don't like Cincinnati-style chili (couldn't find the barf smiley)

[Krill]

I think while the no diplo/AI diplo is helpful for the purposes of keeping the game from being a dragging diplo trust-fest, it does have this problem where people want to be able to at least chat about the game, but it's strictly not allowed, which creates a struggle to hold to the letter and not mention anything of it to other players, or to chta a bit but only on 'unspoilery' info, by the players discretion.

Well I always say to play with teammates if you want to chat about the game.

I was going to raise this point. I agree with Noble, and would also add that this is why spoiler threads exist: chat to people in those.

[pindicator]

Arby's?

You don't sound very convinced
City gets settled next turn, so you probably have a week to think it over

Yeah, I do agree with Krill and Brick. I think it stems from the fact that some people want to joke or needle each other about the game. It's not done with malicious intent, but that doesn't make it right. When I get people who have chatted with me about game events I don't want to make them feel bad about it, I just try not to say anything back and roll with it.

Turn played, and it looks like Xenu lost a city already



Also notice that plako got a GG but isn't at war with anybody. A quick check of F4 shows that Bigger doesn't have Chemistry. Hmmmm... (We need a beard-stroking smiley!)

Rego, your future named city will be here:



It's gonna steal the pig from Starbucks. And we need to get some workers to finally plantation that banana. I think. Maybe I won't do that yet -- Starbucks still gets +7fpt if I fire the engineer and put the workshop tiles on coast.

Did a lot more whipping this turn than I thought I would. Only 1-pop whips now, though -- I want castles up ASAP, so eitiher I'm whipping walls to completion in cities that can't build them fast on their own, or I'm getting cities to 33/100 so I can whip castles to completion. We should have castles everywhere in the next 5 turns. Right in time to turn on the slider and steal Nationalism!

Then we will revolt to Nationalism & Organized Religion and figure out who to steal from.

[Gaspar]

Agree with Krill and Noble and its the #1 reason I prefer to play on a team (as a leader of course, if I'm not the decision maker I lose interest.) But I must say I've had at least one unsanctioned chat about the game with an opponent in every single game I ever played here. Generally do your best to keep them appropriate, but it happens. I'm not sure how to stop it with humans playing the game. We are social animals.

[pindicator]

Yeah, that's true Gaspar. Which is why the only time it's really bugged me was when Commodore told us if we would propose peace then he would accept it. But then he proposed peace before I could log in, so no harm

[pindicator]

This game. This F-ing game.

[pindicator]

Rego, I almost named Arby's as "Dead Fish". But you won that contest fair and square and that may be considered diplo

Some fun chatting going on now:

pindicator
lol
pb8
is just ridiculsou
rediculous

Noble Helium
what happened now
lol

pindicator
xenu stabbed us

Noble Helium
hahaha

pindicator
razed 2 cities
captured a 3rd

Noble Helium
oh fuck
t.t

pindicator
I'm gonna take him out

Noble Helium
i was actually considering saying we should just attack him
but it made the most sense to bleed off some whip unhappy before doing anything else
what cities?

pindicator
Dairy Queen
Boston Market
those were razed

Noble Helium
aren't those east coast middling cities?
how did he hit those?

pindicator
yeah
caravels

Noble Helium
oh

pindicator
we had barely anything defending

Noble Helium
bah
what did he capture?

pindicator
the silk island

Noble Helium
okay
well

pindicator
revenge

Noble Helium
that's not too terrible i guess all things considered

pindicator
nah, we'll get em back
and replant in the south

Noble Helium
those cities didn't have any critical buildings and we lose the whip unhappy LOL

pindicator
we lost a lot of whip unhappy! ha
need some galleons though...
lol
it's pretty telling that i'm laughing over this more than i am upset

Noble Helium
heh well we shouldn't have lost those cities given what you saw with the carracks unloading knights and us having a bunch of leftover land units\
but whatever hah
oh you know dude

pindicator
xenu cared more about sticking it to us than defending - i would never have guessed that

Noble Helium
carracks are massive backstabbing units
since caravels don't get booted out of borders when you declare war

pindicator
yeah
we're gonna burn them all
and take his stuff
it'll be back to the old zulu way

Noble Helium
well i want qdoba back


pindicator
i want his capital

BrickAstley
i dont think there's even words for PB8 anymore

pindicator
i was laughing more than i was upset
it's just reached absurdity by now

BrickAstley
yeah

pindicator
farce

BrickAstley
i saw him reporting it
and i was like
*facepalm*
but *lol*

pindicator
i'm gonna raze help serdoa kill him off now
i was thinking of help HIM defend serdoa last turn too

BrickAstley
yeah
you know
in retribution
you should
retake old BRicklandia from Serdoa
only logical response

pindicator
LOL
of course

[pindicator]

So I can't tell if I want to end this game by doing something toxic or if I want to play this out. Mostly because I'm enjoying playing the turns still, especially due to the farcical nature of the game. But Commodore told me he deleted his army and navy this turn, so really... what are we doing? Who is making us play these turns if we don't want to? Why are we even logging in if that's how we feel about it?

Is this why Xenu attacked?

I'm hoping the fact that the game will be on pause for ONE WEEK will cause sanity to sink in and we can just call it. Otherwise I may just start posting in Bigger's thread

[Krill]

Look, if you really think you want to end the game by not playing, just say it. No one can force you to play the game, and I for one will not blame you: the main reason IMO to not give up on games is that it will make other community members not want to play with you if you abandon a game, but this is one of the instances where most people would probably agree with you ending a game so that isn't a problem.