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Bit short notice, but can I please request a 4 hour delay? Turn will likely be a huge rush job otherwise (PM-ed/emailed you about it as well QM)

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someone please declare war on me and come kill me so that man doesn't get my capital.


that is all.

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That's a nice sporting gesture I must say.

I battle back over many turns from the brink of defeat against a far superior enemy, that started the war in the first place, and now that same enemy is trying to deny me a profit from any victory I may achieve.

Man has more or less been Caelum's only opponent all game, so I'd be pretty pissed if someone came along and stole the prize at the last minute without doing anything to earn it. Especially if Caelum helped them to do it by 'gifting' them their capital. Asia Twist anyone?

There is such a thing as saying 'Well Done' to your opponent, and accepting a defeat with pride and dignity if you have lost a fair fight. Offering your only asset to a random neighbour who has had absolutely nothing to do with the relevant fight all game is certainly not very sporting in my books.

But then I learnt ages ago in life that not everyone accepts defeat graciously.

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I haven't had any reason to play in ~40turns and I haven't asked for a delay or staled or even failed to give someone orders... but I'm not sure I can continue to play after having been insulted by the only player I'm playing with. I've been wasting my time almost exclusively for the benefit of you enjoying a game..


*insults removed*

either way I would like someone to either kill me

P.S. I wouldn't even mind if you (man) killed me... I've been waiting dozens of turns for you to attack me and you never did so I just started mounting a nearly suicidal offensive in the hopes of pointing out to you that you could've defeated me dozens of turns ago (the first two or three times I did many many many turns ago I of course thought I had a shot)... but I long since gave up on that plan and I've just reinstituted it to demonstrate to you that I have nothing else and in several dozen turns have made no progress (in like 20turns I've recruited like 3units and had like 80desert)

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I obviously had no idea you have had no reason to play for ~40 turns, as you say, as there is no way I could know such a thing. And this actually comes as a shock to me given how enthusiastic I felt you were about this game. This latter remark I judge from the incredible frequency with which you sent me PM's in the early part of this game, mostly during the turns we were allies and not enemies. Although you still sent many PM's when we were enemies. So for you to now suddenly claim you have had no reason to play, basically from more-or-less the start of the game, is very surprising to hear indeed.

Although to say you have been wasting your time almost exclusively for the benefit of me enjoying a game is a very bizarre statement that I don't understand at all I'm afraid.

And I apologise if what I said insulted you, but I found your original comment very insulting. As from my point of view, that comment came across as saying "I'm about to lose to you, but you're not getting the prize you've been fighting for, as I'm going to give it away to the first random person who comes along. So Na-Na-Na-Na-Na".


You have edited your message, but I saw the original, so I will reply.


Yes I convinced Machaka to break their NAP with you and attack you. NAP's mean little in this game, so I didn't consider this to be a terrible incident. You gave me full notice of cancelling our NAP, which you honoured, and which is a credit to you. But the circumstances were vastly different I feel. You decided to attack me, your ally against Bandar, as I was by far the easiest target for you at the time. And like you said yourself, attacking in a different direction would run the risk of you encountering Pan. Which you didn't want to do at all.

As a result of your attack, and given you were over twice the size of my nation at the time, and the big advantage of flying mobility in a small area, I felt my only chance of survival was to turn to diplomacy, and find help against you asap. Frozen Lama / Machaka answered that call, for which he has my thanks. But the only losers in that very brief affair were actually Machaka themselves, who fell to a mirrored stabbing fate against Marignon. I guess there's a good lesson in there regarding 'Do unto others', as the saying goes :)


You say you have been waiting dozens of turns for me to kill you. Again, how the hell I'm supposed to know such things is beyond me. Or even why anyone would think that way / take that approach, during in a game. I admit some of your play has surprised me at times, but I have never played in a game with you before, and everyone has different ways of playing the game. Plus I have played in less than a dozen MP games to date, so I have far from a full book of example play-styles to judge players upon. So surprising play to me may be normal play to others.


I apologise in advance if I have said anything to again offend you. But many of you comments and remarks here make no sense to me at all, and indeed contradict almost all of your other actions. This makes it difficult to predict or judge any result that may occur from my own comments on this matter.

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this war was fun but you won it 20-40turns ago :)

obviously you can't see my .trn files so you can't tell how badly I am doing.... but... I figured after a few dozen turns of doing awful you'd eventually figure it out... now the problem is i can't make you kill me...

because if i gode you too much and then somehow you get unlucky and lose too many troops or commanders... then i seem like i lied and tricked you... but see... if someone else attacked me... well..

they might have had positive income at some point during the game and they might have a force 100times as powerful as mine instead of only 10times as powerful

I mean... not only have I not won any battles at all during this war, I haven't even managed to inflict 10% as much loses as I've sustained and not only that but there have been like 8battles in 45turns maybe less than 8? you have to admit this has been the most boring war ever, eh?


It's hard to fight a war with -200income (I took turmoil1luck3 because if I did very well and had many territories and a chance to win the added income over turmoil3 I felt would've been worth it... and if I wasn't going to win I wasn't going to win) every turn and no non-national gems and no trading while yes there were strategies I could have come up with that would've worked to defeat you they would've required the war to be twice as long as it has been and I'd probably have gone AI after 80turns of this :) so I tried making some giant random foolish attacks in the hopes of catching you off guard and obliterating you via some happenstance... (if you were able to predict all my good plays and prepare for them I figured bad play might work better than good play... and even if bad play didn't work well it would at least end the war faster even if it only gave me a like 10% chance to win.... now in hindsight bad play was somehow even easier for you to predict than good play but I couldn't've known that at the time)


while I was typing this long post I lost like 80% of my national resources :) technically I could've done a lot better if I was on defense every single battle but like I said I didn't have the patience to stall you for another 20turns now that I've taken such heavy loses no matter how hard I try to stay alive I wouldn't be able to last more than 10turns, problem solved!

I can't be sure but judging by how shortly before the hosting I posted I have a feeling abysia planned that attack before I called for it... which is quite an odd coincidence if true!

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And now R'lyeh too attacked fair Pangaea. Keep 'em coming! Pangaea against four nations, and the situation *still* looks good! Let the killing commence, the armies of Pangaea are now in position for the counterattack :)

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You should start worrying when Oceania joins R'lyeh. They are allied, and looking at the score graphs and Oceania pretender, I think Oceania will be a clam-powerhouse and strong magic power pretty soon. I suppose Atlantis will fall to Oceania this turn, considering what little I have left to defend my fort.

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Clams are unique items for this game.

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He probably has it, then. Still, best researcher and very strong pretender. I guess I'm not going to be the only one to bite the dust because of him.