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Monkeys can fly, of course! If you didn't know that, we'll show you. Well, someday..... when we figure out where you are..... and forge some winged boots. >.>

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We will take you on your word, thank you.

Let us know when you invent scuba monkeys.

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We have a mole, shut down the Project. Repeat: we have a mole, terminate all test subjects in Project Piranha, we have been compromised.

:doh:

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We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled.
But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any
particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in
a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events
of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose
meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
^
^ -- Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
^ Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
^ TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED

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I don't suppose we could get another extension for Ermor?

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Oh, and if anyone could sell me a ring of water breathing, a death booster, or some more water boosters, it would be very helpful in the war against Ashdod.

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Now hear this: R'lyeh has joined the Axis of Ashdod.

In a cleaver effort to disguise their allegiance, R'lyeh cleaverly had a starspawn Lost in Time-and-Space with secret orders to cleaverly emerge for a strike at the Machakan heartland during the desperate hours of the Vanheim crusade.

So Machaka declares war on R'lyeh.

We ask all nations to stand with us against the Ashdod-Vanheim-R'lyeh trinity, whose power will shortly become unstoppable otherwise.

Or at least to tell us where they are.

And any ideas on how to adapt a monkey scuba suit onto a giant spider would be greatly appreciated.

:D

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Have no fear, spider-lovers, for Lord Bymak, Defender of Atlantis, shall soon lead our armies to battle against the squidheads of R'lyeh, in the southern ocean!

Lord Bymak is staggered to hear of such cowardice from his sworn enemy, and extends to Machaka the tentacle of peace. After all, spiders and octopi both have eight limbs; this must be a sign!

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So, what's the situation with Ermor? Lockean, do you need an extension? That would be fine with me, if it brings back one of the founding members of the Anti-Ashdod Alliance. Or, if you want a sub instead, I'd be happy to do some recruiting.

Ashdod must be destroyed.

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Lokean has gone AWOL in another game (Faltering Steps) as well. It's worse there, because he's the admin.

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Man has joined the Ant-Ashod alliance..Of course we are getting our butt's handed to us by like 3 of his giants against most of my armed force, but <shrug> at least we took a stand. :)

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Caelum is looking for cauldrons of broth, or even wine bags. Have nature/air gems to trade.

Would also like to pickup death, nature, water, astral, and earth boosters. Willing to pay gems.

Jazzepi

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According to graphs, I am THE bane of this world. I hope your passivity will not destroy this game :)

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Arco's research lead is quite daunting... :)

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Heh...that is just theory. What is daunting though is Shinuyama's lead in provinces and most importantly, gems - the fuel of all that is good and powerful. :)

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Well, that would be Ermor's 5th stale. Juffos, could you please set them to AI?

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Done.

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Thanks!

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Please let me know if you notice someone staling, because I often forget to regularly check the staling data from llamaserver.

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I am not going to be able to continue the game. Sorry, but RL troubles have scfrewed me

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Caelum is going to need two banners of the northern star. Message me on the forums to talk prices.

Jazzepi

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It is with the utmost sorrow that we learn that Lord Bymak, Defender of Atlantis, perished today protecting our soldiers as they bravely ran away from cowardly R'lyeh.

While Bymak's death may not be definite, it has been decided that is position shall be passed on to Lord Batux, Defender of Atlantis in waiting. Lord Bymak shall from now on be known as Defender of Atlantis,Emeritus.

In more cheerful news, Th'yogh, prophet of R'lyeh, took part in that battle.

Now he ded from shark.:D

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:D

In other news, Vanheim has taught Machaka a valuable lesson about spacing combat mages. Coincidentally, Machaka has taught Vanheim a valuable lesson about worshiping human pretenders. :)

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Lessons... lessons.... we're not in school, but in the sensation hungry public - we want pictures, names, or at least a few limbs or what else is left of the victims...!!

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mortimer, high accountant of r'lyeh, has decided that shark futures are on the rise; new investments shall accomodate this expected change in value.
mortimer would also like to express his enjoyment of this turn's battle, and looks forward to more battles in the futures market.
As to our 3rd prophet, mortimer has no doubt that a suitable victim, err candidate, will be found at an appropriate time.

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As for Agartha, we are feasting on leg of Centaur.

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Does centaur taste like monkey?

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The dark meat tastes like horse, the light meat tastes like people. :shock:

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I hear people kind of tastes like pork.

...No, I do not know this from experience.

...or do I? :eek:

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You know what they say about Chlorolera...

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With the annihilation of Ashdod's armies, the triumph of Shinuyama seems inevitable. Now they have easy access to the capitals of T'ien C'hi (which they have already captured), ours, Mictlan, Ermor and Man, whom both I have weakened critically with raiding. Six capitals, exactly the amount required for ascencion.

You showed excellent ability to coordinate your attacks upon one target, whom you succesfully eliminated. You have made me proud of you. But another threat lingers ahead, will you be able to withstand it too? The graphs...

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Now don't count Man, or any of the others of us out. You still have those damn Leaders floating around in my area, and even though I destroyed 19 of those giant things, at the loss of over 100 of my infantry, I still have a stronghold with a second army.

And I am still worried about your strength.

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I'm confused, we actually started a game this huge, with victory condition of 6 VPs?

Sort of makes me not want to bother making up a turn at this point, as there is realistically no time to stop Shinuyama's momentum, unless everyone were to attack him right now together.

Raise your hands if you have a formal NAP with Shinuyama. :up:

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:rock:

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Is there any way we can scale back the # VP win conditions? It's far too low.

Jazzepi

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That sounds like a lovely idea. But it is set in-game, so when you find a way to hack the fthrlnd file to raise the bar, let us know. <3

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Can we add a few hours to the deadline tonight? This game is suffering quickhost drift makes it hard for a west coaster that works late. Thanks!

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I am in the same boat, west coaster working later means I have problems since I have to jump on the game the moment I get home and then have a very little window of opportunity before it hosts.

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I'd be fine with this. Will the game let you continue playing even after you've hit 6 VPs? That might be the easiest option.

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Shinuyama was expecting a bit more gratitude after spending so much blood and treasure to help stop the Ashdod threat. If we hadn't grown and taken provinces, the giants would be stomping over us like they have been doing to Mictlan, Tien Chi, Ermor and Man. Still, in order to avoid any sort of unpleasantness with our neighbors, we are willing stop our growth. We will try to take Ashdod's capital and its surrounding provinces in order cut off the flow of giant SCs, but other than that we will not expand further.

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Well it's sort of a moot point, and in general terms, it was a great thing that someone was able to step up to Ashdod, and lay down some smack.

But in the specific scenario of the game, really there are only 2 outcomes, you could fall asleep and not notice someone else hit the painfully small VP limit, or you could play the sleeping dragon and let people fart around for a couple of years while you develop your impressive lead into an unstoppable force, and then win anyways. Personally, I'd rather just have it over, and be able to start a similar scenario on the same map perhaps. ;)

And no, the game won't let us continue, a True God will ascend at 6 VPs, and we will receive a final turn, our pretenders and empires obliterated for all of time and history.

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I put the low vp requirement for victory in order to activate players. In some games I have been, player passivity has been extremely frustrating, and I decided to try to find out whether players will be more active on the diplomatic front if letting some player gather an insurmountable lead would result in quick defeat. You can think it as some kind of a social experiment.

Also, the hosting interval is now 48 hours. This ought to help our North American players.

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Well, an interesting experiment, though Shinuyama started in a -corner- with vast stretches of unclaimed land nearby. I think this concept would work better with at least preset starting locations, so some people don't get all crammed together (myself, Arco, Jotun, Abysia, Ulm, Marignon are all clustered tightly, for example), while others can travel 8 provinces in one direction before meeting a neighbor. It creates an environment where the tightly packed people are at eachothers' throats already, giving time for the others to expand rapidly through indies. And then we're on what, turn 27? And the game is all but won by Shinuyama, whose amazing recruit-anywhere mages, and monstrous economy can crush 6 capitals in no time, since he is safe on 2 sides, so can never be properly gangbanged.

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Yeah, I am done playing non-wrap around maps after this one. I am surprised though that Shin has been so unstoppable. Admittedly, Arcos signed a NAP with them a while ago so we haven't done our part, but we never thought their province count would just keep running up like it has.

Not sure that the game is "all but won" by Shin but we have no intel up north so just have to take people's word for it.

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Well, do you have anything that can stand up to his sheer numbers?

What about after the losses you might expect to take against Bandar Log?

What about when the war with Bandar is over, and Shinu has had all that time to build and train, and prepare for the war that you and Jotun will bring to him once you are done with me (according to "the plan")? ;)

Zhao is going to win. If he claims the rest of what Ashdod has, he'll be at 4 capitals already, with income+gems far beyond anyone else, and with research that is even rivaling yours now. If he were a less experienced player (like me, or even less so!), then I'd agree it's still a bit up in the air, but as it sits I'm having a hard time imagining the game making it to year 5 before a Shinuyama victory occurs.

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The sage of Bandar Log speaks the truth. The only reasonable course of action at this point is to fall into apathy and despair. Please do not spend more than 5 minutes on your turns as that would just be a waste of time.

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It's actually quite frustrating to have such a low VP count for winning. Generally I dislike VP victory conditions anyways, as they tend towards the "artifical grab capitals" approach which has nothing to do with really dominating the game.

I'm over on the west, and have had no involvement with what's going on in the east, but the game might just end before I've even had a chance. What a waste of time =\ I really wouldn't have joined if I had noticed the VPs were so low.

Jazzepi

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Magic! And uh, how many nations are still left?

What losses? :)

Games not over til the fat lady sings.

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That's no lady, that's my wife!

:happy:

And you're right, with 5 more turns of NAP, the Bandar will either be completely hip-deep in giants, or wiped out anyway, and you will get to attack undefended territories, as our reward for sparing your miserable Arcoscephalian lives. ;)

Interesting to note how often I have been stabbed in the kidneys after showing mercy in MP games (here and other games entirely), I suppose it's a response that I must condition myself against.

I think a lot of us have wasted our time here, Jazz. I feel ya. <3

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Heh I wasn't sure on the protocol since I had no contact with Bandar. Is it generally considered good form to declare you will be at war the floowoing turn. So that you have a single turn in which to make some adjustments (the turn you get the message) I.E get a message the same turn in which I set my troops to attack you?



I also had little notion that the vp conditions were so low.