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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where on the web? A search in Google turned up nada.

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Elowin,
Google search, "Tactics of Mistake"
The quotes are important. links to Amazon and others.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It also helps to spell the author's name right. It's Gordon R. Dickson.

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Mea Culpa

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I play SE4 for fun, of course. But at least in my case, always have more fun if I'm the winner... then, always play for win.
But who want to be the winner of anything, without some kind of challenge? Then, a good SE4 game MUST be challenging, if not never will be interesting to me.

Playing against the AI:
1) I have no mercy.
2) Only sign a treaty, if I'm in a bad situation.
3) Never trade tech with the AI.
4) Never use Warp Openers/Closers.

Playing against humans:
1) Try to keep my word.
2) Most the time, exchange Population and Colonization early.

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It's taken me awhile to think about how to describe my play philosophy.

For me, the journey is more important than the destination. I try to play my best, but I can't afford to put too much value on winning, because I've never managed it against a human opponent in SE IV, and can't even guarantee it against the AI. The people who play on PBW because they don't find the AI challenging enough are simply out of my league.

Part of why I've never won a PBW game is that I tend to set up my empire to fit my roleplaying concept of the race more than to gain practical game advantages.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hear, hear! EXACTLY my stance and position, sir!

Hmm.

Well, I don't have Gold yet, probably can order it in a week-ish ... but regardless, we should try and gt together for a game sometime, preferably with another half-dozen players of compatible style and intent. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Think that will depend of the game. Playing as "me", no.
I have played the Ferengi's role in a cool game, and as the Ferengi did things that never did before playing against humans (for example, try to create a war between 2 of my allies using the Comm Mimic, to get some profit taking a side later...).

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, and the Romulans suffered from that attack. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif
But, it was an RP game, so I wouldn't expect you to do it again, unless you were RPing Ferengi again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ August 31, 2002, 00:44: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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You are in a game against humans. You see a chance in the Forums to post “Miss Informaiton” of any type be it “I don’t glass planets” or “I don’t use mines”.

1) You Post away hoping your opponent reads and belives

2) You look at the chance and make a mental note for “maybe later”

3) Sigh and pass up the chance because you feel, hmm what do you feel?

4) You don’t answer questions like this