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The game plays very differently with so much money/resources. Ordinary units become much more important but you reach end game so much earlier.

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Congrats on your win Folket, you definitely earned it. We never really managed to deal with your Nature's Bounty, and paid the price in facing an unending stream of monkey warriors and mages. GG.

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Let me know when I should shut down the game.

Any interest in a similar setup, perhaps in a different age?

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I'm surprised R'lyeh and it's limitless hordes of Starspawn didn't do better in these settings. But I can see how Nature's Bounty could be truly brutal with 300% gold (in high dominion, you'd be pushing close to 600%?). Might want to think about modding out NB for Fastblitz 3 ;) If I had more time, I'd be inclined to participate.

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Yeah, Ryleh and I never banded together to take it down. I always kept thinking Ryleh would, what with being the astral king, but no. :) I believe Nature's Bounty gives a max of 3x income, so yes, they were pulling down a total of 9x normal income. I'm not sure I would mod it out though; we could have taken it down if we had cooperated more, and I don't know that it is any worse than any of the other big end game globals. In the other high resource game I am playing I'm waiting to see who casts Nature's Bounty first, and exactly how much stompage they receive.

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I had a stable income of 20-25k so I think gift of natures bounty helped quite a lot.

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Has anyone heard anything from the Vanishag? I would like to have his input before we write off this game.

Is it possible to extract his email from the llamaserver?

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He has staled for like 5 of the last 6 turns, so I think he is probably ok with it. :)

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Yeah, sorry about that. I've been busy preparing to move and to start a new job.

I think I could have done more w/ R'lyeh, but this was my 1st late-game experience and I think I misplayed a lot of things. This was a valuable learning experience for me, and I apologize for my recent flakiness.

Well played, everyone, and especial congratulations to Folket for the win.