[SPOILERS] swance bitten, twice shy

[ljubljana]

there is a chance, just the smallest chance, that given sufficient encouragement i MIGHT be willing to return to and finish off this

before you get started, i highly advise you to not google any of the names below, as this will produce immediate, narrative-ruining spoilers

banzuke:
HAKUHO - The White Peng
TERUNOFUJI - The Black Swan
ASANOYAMA - The Exiled Prince
SHODAI - The Enigma

self-cursing though any invocation of PBEM22 might be. i was a little over halfway through the main narrative and it's kind of a shame to leave it hanging like this (but my motivation during attempt 1 of course crashed and burned for obvious reasons ). but a) i'm kinda dreading it ngl, b) we've been there before and it will have nothing to do with our civ/leader, and c) my #1 resource for match videos was taken down due to copyright strikes from the NHK a few months ago, so a large number of the video links are broken now, ughhh

edit: "tbh non sumo" should read "tbd non sumo" lmao. if this wins i'll likely wait for picks and seek inspiration from those

edit: Important Links
tarkeel on trade routes
demos explained
refsteel on granaries
williams on medic units

[williams482]

So I would definitely like to read more of your Sumo content, but do you think you can handle being the daily turnplayer for a game you aren't super familiar with *and* write enormous essays on Sumo without burning out? Substitute Sumo for something I actually know things about and the answer for me personally would be a firm "no."

[ljubljana]

So I would definitely like to read more of your Sumo content, but do you think you can handle being the daily turnplayer for a game you aren't super familiar with *and* write enormous essays on Sumo without burning out? Substitute Sumo for something I actually know things about and the answer for me personally would be a firm "no."

uhhhhh well

for the first 50 or so turns, which i gather consist of even more "end turn"-ing than in civ6 due to the mandatory first worker build, maybe? which is roughly as long as i'd need to wrap things up. but after that, no idea.

tbd, i reserve the right to ignore the poll results if i do decide it would burn me out too much  the answer is very likely actually dependent on real life developments which have yet to manifest themselves, so i'll let you know

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

I really like reading your reports, so just avoid burnout!

That said as a dedlurker I'll be totally useless, as I mentioned in aetryn's lurker thread in the IV game that just ended. But I will at least be reading with enthusiasm! And try to talk you off the ledge whenever you inevitably talk yourself onto it.

[ljubljana]

--------SPOILERS BELOW THIS POST--------

--------other players, please stop reading <3--------

[ljubljana]

haha, well, i have my own record of being a "useless" dedlurker in the past, and would be the last to object to any lurkers, no matter how disengaged. plus i find that no one is ever really as useless as they claim - your read of my psychology and how it would impact my play in PBEM22 was so dead-on it was kinda shocking to read your report after the fact, and my #1 goal in this game as of now is to (over)correct for that. so i'm very glad to have you aboard, and our hiring committee considers you an ideal fit for the position of morale officer

edit: i've semi-arbitrarily decided to mark this post as the spoilers line so our opposition doesn't immediately go read that PBEM22 thread.... one hopes that the civ4 crowd has at least a marginally less fully-formed psychological profile of me than yall have

[ljubljana]

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Stack of Doom

This will age beautifully if I in fact manage to stop worrying

I'd love to have you aboard as the third mouseketeer, even if it's just for the intimidation factor. Even if you never post, the others will have to assume that at any point you might post, and will hopefully tie themselves into knots at critical junctures worrying that I might have some uncharacteristic and devastating insight unveiled to me in a dream by the ghost of the Grand Admiral...

I'm told that even in SOD-land these "promotion" and "actually functional road" thingies leave quite a few opportunities for that

[xist10]

There is a reason most stacks (later) contains ~ 2 workers.
If you have time, take a look at the PB66 - and the german thread of Plemo/Picca

[williams482]

If we went with Thrawn's first thread title suggestion, Star Trek ship names/ship classes/planets would be an obvious naming theme. Although ideally we come up with something relevant to our civ and/or leader pick.

[ljubljana]

Love all the naming themes - please keep them coming (to possibly enable my secret, actual plan :shh: )

Maybe if we're lucky we'll roll a civ and leader who fought one another in a historically significant naval battle...

IV seems to be a lot more about understanding and playing the players and not so much micro and tactics.

I haven't read too many threads in detail, but that's pretty much my understanding too... Certainly I haven't heard of any "won on the game setup screen with optimal play" situations like we arguably used to have in VI, and it seems like "early leader syndrome" is serious enough that early leaders actually don't win most of the time (again unlike 6 ).

Then again, if this game's about playing the players, I suuuure don't know anything about any of these other players

My impressions of the others as of now are pretty much on the level of

Dreylin - scary vet
naufragar - scary vet
Ginger - relative noob who is somehow even scarier than the vets??
Mjmd - scary vet who shares my sea shanty affinity and does not share my phobia of the american politics thread
superdeath - "seems to have developed a reputation for aggression" according to their own signature, who as with Amicalola i secretly and likely-me-underminingly have been rooting for in most of these games
greenline - maybe if we go to war we can house-rule a reimplementation of 1UPT