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Gaspar, Lewwyn, et al go full Sartre
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I posted in Thoth's thread saying that multiple players were tired of his apparent peace time split. Hopefully it'll stop.
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I'm not sure there is a peacetime split. He sucks at playing turns though. Maybe he wants to maintain a split with Commodore which I'm actually fine with, just don't suck at playing turns.
Civilization IV: 21 (Bismarck of Mali), 29 (Mao Zedong of Babylon), 38 (Isabella of China), 45 (Victoria of Sumeria), PB12 (Darius of Sumeria), 56 (Hammurabi of Sumeria), PB16 (Bismarck of Mali), 78 (Augustus of Byzantium), PB56 (Willem of China)
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I mean I'd prefer if everyone would stop playing clock games, but to me the issue is more that its pretty apparent neither Oxy nor Thoth can commit to a turn every 24 hours. I suggest they solicit some teammates to help out or we just stop wasting everyone's time and give the game to TBS.
Don't get me wrong, I'm having fun when I actually get a turn but I have zero interest in playing a 6 player game with a turn every other day and zero communication from the players who are holding thing up.
I've got some dirt on my shoulder, can you brush it off for me?
t155 - All we are saying is give peace a chance
So we offered Oxy this peace deal, he declined, played his turn and then reoffered.  We graciously accepted. The sanctimonious douchebags among you will be pleased to note he did spite 3-pop whip both cities on his turn. Not only does it accomplish the primary war aims but it equally importantly does so without sacrificing the lion's share of the army. It doesn't leave a ton of the army left after garrisoning the new cities + distributing units to other border cities but it does mean 1. That TBS doesn't know where all of our power is and 2. The cities can shift focus from offense to defense. We whipped a settler this turn to go ahead and fill in the culture gap and that will probably be the border with Oxy for a while. Its worth noting that Middlemarch nee Slicks came with a Granary, Courthouse and Lighthouse and Hogsmeade nee Paddy Simcox looks like this:  Oxy, bro, you're Creative. Would it have killed you to build some effing Libraries? That Hogsmeade has a totally-unnecessary-in-a-properly-garrisoned-border-city Ball Court but no Forge or Library... man. I think its worth recapping the two wars we've fought recently. Lost: 5 Knights a Horse Archer and a Maceman (570 hammers) Gained: 6 cities, 3 with full buildings intact and no turns of revolt, plus burned one other city. That feels almost mackoti-esque.  Anyway, here's a look at the new western border of the Ottoman empire:  Beyond that, just preparing as best we can to deal with the seemingly inevitable coming storm back east and still defend against a potential Oxy counter-attack. I think we're done with significant offensive operations for this era - if we attack anyone else, it will be with units that go boom. Here's the situation on the TBS border:  The arrows point to concerning worker actions. Both roads north of the city are new and while Noble thinks the worker on the mine is windmilling, it seems more likely that he's roading. There are 6 knights and 4 Keshiks that just disappeared but the bigger concern is that he's 2 turns to Military Tradition and already has Rifling. We've got Knights headed to that front though with three invasion points to worry about (not shown above - Axis Mundi) I forsee some pain in the near future. I still think he's smarter to attack Thoth or Oxy but there's no question he's had better relations with both of those two this game than us. Meh, fuck John Wayne. We did birth a Great Artist last turn as stated, so we can fire the 2-man GA whenever. Obviously it would be moronic to do so before Mount Olympus and Baltia come out of revolt, so that will wait at least 6 turns. More likely we'll wait until after Steel is in (~12t) and then use the GA to clean up Banking and PP en route to Rifling and eventually Assembly Line. If we live that long, TBS will probably be building Apollo, but the game is more fun if I don't worry about that sort of thing. That said, my interest in staying positive has meant I haven't discussed the state of other players in a bit so here's some graphs (Thoth recently banged some EP on us and we lost his graphs but Thoth is virtually irrelevant to us) and the tech screen:  Vs. Commodore: Up - Alphabet, Chemistry. Down - Drama, Theology, Banking. Vs. Thoth: Up - Alphabeet, Engineering, Gunpowder, Literature, Chemistry. Down - Banking. Vs. Oxy: Up - Polytheism, Monotheism, Aesthetics, Literature, Philosophy, Archery, Horseback Riding, Guilds, Chemistry. Down - Paper, Education. Vs. dtay - who cares Vs. TBS: Up: Engineering, Chemistry. Down - Music, Nationalism, Paper, Education, Liberalism, Banking, Economics, Replaceable Parts, Printing Press, Rifling. So yeah, its basically between Turkey and Rome for 2nd place.       Demos:  Any questions?
I've got some dirt on my shoulder, can you brush it off for me?
He's totally windmilling man. TBS read my primer on windmills and why they rock with Replaceable Parts.
The strip of culture north of Middlemarch will disappear, it's bugged. So we'll get an even border there at the edge of the water.
Civilization IV: 21 (Bismarck of Mali), 29 (Mao Zedong of Babylon), 38 (Isabella of China), 45 (Victoria of Sumeria), PB12 (Darius of Sumeria), 56 (Hammurabi of Sumeria), PB16 (Bismarck of Mali), 78 (Augustus of Byzantium), PB56 (Willem of China)
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I had basically the same chat with Lewwyn and Noble over the space of 4 days, so it seems appropriate if I just post it here as a "how did we get here" post rather than doing a long essay. So here you go (its relatively short for those who usually skip chatlogs)
The most important part - if you read nothing else - is my long bit at the end.
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August 27th, 2014, 08:27
(This post was last modified: August 27th, 2014, 08:29 by pindicator.)
I wonder if TBS made out better than Thoth when I got rushed.
Edit: /Reads chat. /Realizes how many brilliant insights he's giving to the conversation.
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Hey. Popping in to say I discovered this thread a couple days ago, and it's been a great read.
(August 27th, 2014, 01:06)Gaspar Wrote: I think its worth recapping the two wars we've fought recently. Very impressive, that.  I'm rooting for you!(August 27th, 2014, 01:06)Gaspar Wrote: So yeah, its basically between Turkey and Rome for 2nd place. ...for second place, apparently. (August 20th, 2014, 22:43)Gaspar Wrote: BTW, after this, I'm going to branch out to just generally any fictional cities so if anyone has anything they like, feel free to suggest. The naming scheme feels a little Commodorian honestly, with the sheer volume of obscure references so I almost decided to change it entirely but instead I'll just open this up a little bit to be less random. Now, as to this, your naming scheme reminded me of the Paradise faction from the bundled-with-BtS Final Frontier mod, so I checked out their city list. Apart from the generic 'Paradise,' there are 7 names you don't already have: Xanadu Nirvana Kurnugia Duat Empyrean Tian Kobol None of them are all that special. Xanadu is a real city (Shangdu) romanticized in poetry; Nirvana is less a place than a state of being, which is fine for a Hindu-Taoist empire, I guess. Kurnugia/Duat = Tartarus. Empyrean/Tian = Elysian Fields. Kobol is a Battlestar Galactica reference, I think? Anyway, you can pick and choose what you like. Maybe save Duat for a city you take off Ramses? (Come to think of it, hell is an apt descriptor for that barbarian iceball, too.) |
