[NO PLAYERS] PB25 Lurker Thread - Then Happy I, That Lurk and am Belurked

[Krill]

You're the only guy with no responsibilities, it's supposed to be you doing the recruiting.

[Molach]

Also my name is now 'Magical School Girl Sailor Moon'

(But that could easily change to 'magical school girl nunako')

This was the first sign...I see that now.

[Bobchillingworth]

[spacetyrantxenu]

And here you see Comm is now building Pikes, along with other stuff. Obviously for defense against my Cuirs.

That's funny. I wouldn't say that Pikes are better than protective muskets on the defense. A little better at attacking into a stack of Cuirassiers or Knights I suppose.

What I think they're both missing:

[Molach]

All these coded diplo messages from HAK/Mindy is making my head swim.

Why not play WITH diplo instead of this faux-message system? For someone intelligent enough to not have their head swim, it seems pretty effective replacement.

Ban 'binding' NAPs if that is the problem. ('Ban' as in they can still 'make' one, but every player and lurker would be fully aware that they might be broken as and when called for)

[spacetyrantxenu]

Someone should accept one of those many city swap offers when it's particularly lopsided, like the one where retep offers one of his cities against three of HAK's....

[Zed-F]

Retep might if he gets annoyed enough with Mindy's spam.

[GermanJoey]

All these coded diplo messages from HAK/Mindy is making my head swim.

Why not play WITH diplo instead of this faux-message system? For someone intelligent enough to not have their head swim, it seems pretty effective replacement.

Ban 'binding' NAPs if that is the problem. ('Ban' as in they can still 'make' one, but every player and lurker would be fully aware that they might be broken as and when called for)

I mentioned this before, but what's really absurd is that HAK/Mindy don't ever seem to understand when very simple AI-diplo messages are sent to them, but have no compunction at all about sending complex mixed messages to others!

[The Black Sword]

With our city count advantage we've never really exceeded MC in any way. And we're about to lose our city count advantage from the looks of it. If we can't generate any easy Gav opportunites by the end of the golden age, we'll probably have to think about conceding.

City Count = Long term potential. It doesn't help with current output and wouldn't help you 'exceed' Commodore. You guys are much too close to be conceding, put that energy into improving your civ instead!

[Zed-F]

They are barely equalling Comm's demos when they are in a GA and teching, and he not and is saving gold. They are 25k beakers behind and the gap is growing, not shrinking. They have no answer to Comm's soon-to-be rifles+cannons combo, and are not close to steel for their own cannons, nor can they grow power faster than Comm can. Comm has one, maybe two easy GAs to come, they are probably on their last since Comm will get all the first-tos from here on out.

I'd say a certain amount of realism is in order. If they can't make a big move now, they never will. As soon as Retep is dispensed with, Comm's WW problem goes away, his borders get simpler to defend since nobody else but HAK can challenge cannons, and HAK's days are numbered.