vonKreedon wrote

I believe I was in the game that Micha just referred to. This was a "There can be only one" style of game. The behavior of other players in that game really screwed with my game play. Micha's race clearly started to pull away from all the rest of us, but if the right four or five of us had turned our combined focus on defeating Micha I believe we could have done so. I tried and I tried to convince the one race that we needed that his only hope of winning was to turn his focus, but for reasons that continue to escape me he refused to alter his focus from an irrelevant war to fighting Micha. It was very frusterating for me because I had worked myself into a situation in which I had a good chance of winning if everyone else also did their best to win, but since one or two races did not do their best to win I lost and Micha won. So, if the game says that only one can win, do your best to win. Try to stick to the letter of your agreements, but don't let that stop you from trying to win.

Real Life is an important factor.
Reasons were Real Life related like mentioned in my post. The game going on at a turn every 24h was a real pain, this is also an important factor in wanting to win or not. If you can't afford the time to win you look for something else in the game to have fun with. Like fighting out your own small vendettas and leaving the big guys alone.
I guess that the player that you needed to join your alliance didn't have enough time to coordinate attacks, not enough time to send mails back and forward ...
So maybe if the vote for 48h would have been yes than the game would have lasted longer ...

For who was in the game:

I started fighting the Archons because they were #1, and left the Culture and Lakinakem to fight their own war (no coordinated attacks between me and the Laks because of not enough time as mentioned above), they both seemed to like fighting eachother. And I needed the Lakinakem because I had expensive weapons. Of course once I had my AMP nubs in the air I didn't need him anymore for that but I was too busy fighting the Archons. And the Emerald Order was just too small to bother with. Then the Laks lost their main battle fleet against the Culture, as I understood again because of the time pressure. He completely lost interest to continue, and especially all interest in fighting me ... And since I just became a father I was not looking for another fight with the limited 24h, again RL restrictions. My empire was coming close over 1/3 of the universe and still growing very rapidly: and . Still I'm surprised that you think you had a chance to win . I had +300 nubs in the air. All beamer nubs because of the size of my empire I needed gate-able ships. I only just started to build arma nubs because I had just so much iron laying around doing nothing. They were ready to be send to your planets the moment you showed signs that you were about to attack me and/or when our NAP would end. And my planets were as ready as possible to withstand PP attacks. If the whole universe would have turned against me than the Nibelungen would have been my first target. I suspect you were #2? Maybe #3 ... And I guess you had plenty of minerals, a thing I was starting to lack, reason why you would be targetted first. Also nobody else had nubs in 2497 while I had the tech in 2480. You might have had nub tech but you still needed to start building them while I had plenty of nubs to take out your worlds in a few years, especially in combination with my Hush-a-Booms, they allowed me to rip through Archon space without any delay. (Wonderfull toy!!) Fotunate for me his habs were similar to mine and with my TT30 all his worlds were 100% in 1-2 years, they were all turned into breeders instantly and still I had trouble sending enough pop to operate all the factories and mines left intact He did evacuate most of his minerals, seemed like he was donating them to the Culture, that was the reason I just started to attack the Culture to claim what was mine.

Experimenting is an impor

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Hiya Micha - Yeah, Real Life is more important that Stars! life.

Regarding my position in WKF, I was second and I had a lot of minerals and I had full intel on your Nub designs and so had counter designed and begun to queue stash my designs so that you did not see me building up my forces. I had a firing plan to fire packets deep into your territory and then at the near planets. But, to quote Zeta-Jones in Chicago, I just couldn't do it alone. My diplomatic hope was that, since the Lak did not have any formal agreement with you they would start attacking you in conjuction with the Culture prior to the expiration of our NAP. Then I could packet you, and release my ships from my queues while you were occupied. My hopes were pretty much dashed at the point that the Lak lost their fleet to the Culture as there was no longer enough countervailing force in the galaxy.

Mind you, it is still unlikely that I would have won; all of my plans would have had to fall into place, but it was worth a shot and I was disappointed not the be able to take it. To give Micha due credit, I was stunned at his ability to push population out in both the numbers and over the distances that he did in that game.

Regarding experimenting; always, this was only the second time I had played PP, and the first time that it wasn't a gimmick. The first time was a small packed with five year gens in which the host failed to outlaw PP, people tended to disappear during the five year gens

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vonKreedon wrote on Wed, 09 April 2003 00:45

Hiya Micha - Yeah, Real Life is more important that Stars! life. Regarding my position in WKF, I was second and I had a lot of minerals and I had full intel on your Nub designs and so had counter designed and begun to queue stash my designs so that you did not see me building up my forces.

You sneaky devil!

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I had a firing plan to fire packets deep into your territory and then at the near planets.

That's what I expected you to do and the minerals would have been welcome.
But I doubt if they would have been very effective against planets with full defenses and massdrivers ...

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But, to quote Zeta-Jones in Chicago, I just couldn't do it alone. My diplomatic hope was that, since the Lak did not have any formal agreement with you they would start attacking you in conjuction with the Culture prior to the expiration of our NAP. Then I could packet you, and release my ships from my queues while you were occupied. My hopes were pretty much dashed at the point that the Lak lost their fleet to the Culture as there was no longer enough countervailing force in the galaxy. Mind you, it is still unlikely that I would have won; all of my plans would have had to fall into place, but it was worth a shot and I was disappointed not the be able to take it.

And to really kill me and to let another race come forward to claim victory the game would have lasted VERY long.
Remember I picked SD for the specific reason to inflict pain to anyone that would attack me. The way things went now I actually didn't play like an SD at all didn't have to open my box of tricks.

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To give Micha due credit, I was stunned at his ability to push population out in both the numbers and over the distances that he did in that game.

Thank you. It was indeed a huge move of pop from the East side all across the galaxy to the West. But with my TT30 (and rad immune) all worlds there became instant 100% breeders like mentioned before, very easy with factories intact.

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Regarding experimenting; always, this was only the second time I had played PP, and the first time that it wasn't a gimmick. The first time was a small packed with five year gens in which the host failed to outlaw PP, people tended to disappear during the five year gens

Well, too bad we saw no real PP action, reading your post I think the game would have become even more interesting than I thought should we have continued.

regards,
mch

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