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We are getting some good early wars in!

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Well, I don't know about "wars" but you seem to be doing quite well on the "opportunistic land-grab" front yourself... And I certainly wouldn't describe Shinuyama's attack on me as a "good" war since I'm pretty certain that all he's managed to do is kill us both, even if he's outlives me by a bit.

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Hehe, I was mostly talking about Pangea. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

I wasn't bragging about myself, it's been mostly opportunistic land grab as you say.

But to me, good = lots of death. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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I wish I took Ulm for this game!! We will be patching next turn, if that is okay with everyone.

Also, I will be away from town sunday through wednesday. Since I am the host, I think the game will be paused for those days. I'll take my turn before I leave, and leave the server up so people can take one more turn without me. Sorry for the delay.

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Turn 19 up.

Please upgrade to the new patch now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I am leaving town today, so I have taken off the timer. But, I'll take one more turn, so you guys can get in two more.

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Uh oh. I can't access the server. And CUnknown is away. I sure hope there's a mundane reason for this, and not a repeat of what happened last time...

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Same here.

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Yep, no repeat of what happened last time, thank god. My computer just froze. Server back up, sorry for the delay!

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Turn 21 is up, I re-set the timer to 24 hour quickhost. If anyone would like a 48-h timer, just let me know.

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Turn 23 up.

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new turn

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Turn 26 is up.

I switched the hosting schedule to 48-h. Of course we can still take turns quickly if we want (quickhost is still on). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Stupid helmet bug...

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Turn 31 is up already, wow. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Someone come kill Shin for me so I can fulfill my goal of outlasting them...they've got 2 capitals at the moment, and a pretty beat up national army. Free Caps, come and get em!

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Haha.. Micah... lol... it's funny 'cause its true. There are basically 2 free capitals there.

I loved your prince of darkness: Seige one capital. Wait until 1-strat move enemy army plods its way near. Fly to other capital. Continue seige until enemy army plods its way back. Repeat.

Remind me never to attack you, you don't give up man! Props on not going AI. Give 'em hell.

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Yeah, my Pretender finally died at least partly due to the helmet bug (he lost an arm and it caused his helmet to pop off). I knew it was a risk to attack into the army at Shin's cap, but I figured he'd retreat at worst, especially after being buffed from my old cap-dominion...not so when he's taking 32 point hits in his unarmored head =(

And the amount of trouble I make for someone when I go down is pretty proportional to how annoyed with them I am...in this case Shin refused any efforts at diplomacy even when it was clear that we were in a situation of mutually-assured destruction if we kept attacking each other, so I made sure to uphold my end of the destruction agreement. I've still got 100-odd gems that I can send off to someone I like though, slated for release upon the demise of Shinuyama. Just mentioning it for anyone that might be looking for a bounty.

I actually gave all my gems to Calmon in one game when he killed me, because I was the one that started the war, so I didn't have much of a problem with him crushing me, and I figured the rest of the world deserved him as an overlord after they failed to help me out (He was clearly very much dominating the game at that point). They got mad at me for that stunt, but I quite enjoyed it.

That being said, you're all free to not attack me as much as you'd like in the future. (And note the gem givaway was due to a war I started, so just bide your time and wait for me to attack you...) ;-)

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64 more Shinuyaman units have been fed to my surviving slave lizards this month, all of them Dai and O-Bakemono...Truly Shinuyama's capitals are a prize easily worth the trouble of taking.

Our last province shall not fall easily, as most of the population of our capital has volunteered to serve in the local militia, as Shinuyama has found, much to their detriment.

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That again. Nobody managed to help you because you were on an island, killed off all the other inhabitants before calmon got there, and his Marignon was the only one being able to sail across the waters, as you might recall. Plus, the other nations were getting their asses handed to them by LA Ermor all the while. calmon might have won eventually because he had a very good start and seized that island, but for all the others, having invested weeks and months into a game and then experiencing that the game ends prematurely because somebody is acting out of spite wasn't fun at all. I think that big gem movements like those should be forbidden, even if it's among friends. They're very unbalancing and just hurt the game. Some negligible faction that didn't expand past turn 12 gets finished off a couple dozen turns later, and suddenly there are hundreds of gems going around.

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I see what you are saying, lch. I'm not sure how I feel about this, though. Anyway, I think it would have to be declared beforehand as a house rule if we wanted to prevent it.

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Turn 34 is up.

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Dammit! I thought I still had some time! Now I've staled out. : /

Bah. Very bah.

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May I suggest an addition to the victory conditions?

"At least 81 out of 120 provinces held for three consecutive turns."

Heck, it's possible--if highly unlikely--that I could win the game next turn under the current conditions! *Teleports mind-blasting illithid to every single PD-only province on the map...* ; )

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Heh, fine, sounds like a good call.

Edit: wait... no, we can't actually do that. The game will end once someone reaches the province limit.

(goes to invest in PD)

I probably should have make it 90 or so provinces to win. IndyPendant - I didn't realize how many provinces you had until I just counted them up! You've got 40+ provinces. Nice.

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I have to leave today, I'm going out of town. I'll be back on tuesday night. I hope to be able to take my turn before I leave (the game hasn't hosted yet). If not, I will have to raise the hosting time a bit. Sorry if this delays the game..

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Turn 38 up.

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C'tis is in the market for some items, please contact us if you're willing to do a bit of forging. Thanks

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cant connect

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I'm back!

There must have been a power surge or something. The server was down.

It's back up now.

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I turned off the timer for now. (quickhost is still on)

I don't want to let you stale again, IndyPendant, esp. since you said you were busy with work. But, if it will take longer than a day, perhaps you could get a sub? Anyway, work is more important than this game, so don't worry about this game if you have actual real-life stuff to do. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I'm (Pan) going out of town for 10 days on Wed morning. I'll play my turns until then.

I'm just hanging around (only have 2 provinces), having some fun, but I'll go AI if you guys don't want to wait 10 days. I don't mind.

So, just let me know http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Hmm, did I forget to ask for an extension in this thread? Looks like I did, sorry guys. Thanks CUnknown for helping me out. I will probably need a 72-hour schedule for the next two turns, and then things will settle down for me again when I return home.

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72-h schedule is fine with me, for the next two turns.

Jeffr, if we switch to 72-h hosting time, it won't be too many turns in 10 days, but still, I don't think I'd like to pause for 10 days. I mean.. I suppose we could.. IndyPendant needs some time as well. But 10 days seems like a lot.

Could you find a sub? Is that just silly? But, at the same time, it wouldn't take much time to sub for.

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R'lyeh would like to publicly apologize to Pythium for that fool of a Barbarian Chief who decided he would single-handedly conquer one of Pythium's territories. We do regret that he was killed in the resulting battle however; the ritual execution for his stupidity--a punishment consisting of slowly devouring his brains bit by bit while he is paralyzed and aware--would have been a far, far worse death. You may desecrate his corpse as you see fit.

(The wierd thing is I am certain I have accounted for all the barbarians I had in that area--there weren't many--and that guy wasn't one of them. Odd. --I have downloaded and reviewed the turn, but I won't have it done for at least two days, maybe the full three, sorry. After this current turn though I will be back from my trip, and we can go back to a 48-hour schedule. Don't know what to do about thejeff...)

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No point in the sub. I'll just go AI. Good game, guys http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Except I can't connect now! Can you set me to AI? If I can't connect tonight, I won't be able to set it myself.