Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

Well, I'd personally rather people wait until they're down to their last fort is sieged to go AI, but don't want to be heavy handed about that if you have limited rl time.

In Fomorias (and Hinnom's) case I could understand an argument that there would be little to no difference to the turns whether done by an AI or a human at this point.

Whether you stick it out a little longer or go AI it was great having King Balor in the game and I was impressed with your use of Fomoria's ingredients to cook up some painful surprises. I hope you'll be part of my next RP game.

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

I agree, I'd rather wait until I was down to last fort as well. But it looks like that still might be a few more turns which = about a week. I'm looking at a pretty crazy week and given what I'm doing I probably wont have access to a computer most of the time.

But as it stands, there's absolutely no reason to hold up the game on my account.

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

In that case, another option is I could force host if Fomoria is the last to send their turn in and it remained that way for at least an hour.

I don't think you've held up any turns recently.

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

That works for me. Thanks.

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

NP.

Hinnom on the other hand should probably go AI at this point since, to the best of my knowledge, they have no provinces left or military to speak of.

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

OK, totally pissed off at myself. I just lost the game by sending in an army without my Oracle scripted to divine bless it. Total waste of an entire army, gems and equipment.

Was running out of time and sent in my turn when overtired.....big mistake.

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

we've all done that... now you get to go post in the 'doh moments'...


i summoned a big bad creature that cost me over 30 gems to summon, kitted it with 3 artifacts and other stuff, sent it against a ton of giant PD and had it zapped by the 50 turn timer after it beserked (wielding the heat from hell sword- forget its name)- even after the enemy had routed- there goes about 100 gems. i thought that cost me any chance at the game too...


also- i lost a poison golem with about 60 gem worth of materials (mostly death and water- i won't say what specifically) to acro's giant spiders earlier.



Yeah... bad stuff happens. you get to complain about it- but trust me- you aren't the only one who is making mistakes. (Not that mictlan is though- from what i can tell they don't make mistakes) dojango you are a way scarier mictlan than you are a patala.

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

Mictlan is way scarier than Patala. Also, not getting triple teamed by Atlantis, Marignon, and Tien Chi helps. As for mistakes, I make big ones all the time. In dreadful fates, I lost battles due to giving Ivan the gems and Igor the orders to cast the army-wide buffs. damn Russian names all sounding alike.

As far as "losing the war", the important thing is not necessarily how big the standing army is, but how quickly it can be replaced. Ultimately everything is disposable. With the resources of four nations at your command, you will be able to recover fairly quickly.

e: oh yeah, I saw that battle. Monolith armor, unquenchable sword and something else? Guy had a limp and couldn't make it off the field in the 25 turn grace period between auto-rout and auto-death.

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

no- i think he just popped cause he was beserking... he didn't rout.

How dare you question our honor!

Re: Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (noob EA game: Running))
 

I think everyone routs at 50 turns and dies at 75. this is to keep two teleporting sphinxes from staring at each other for eternity or something.