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I agree this game is painfully slow and feels dead but despite that everyone usually gets their turns in. I am enjoying it and think it could end in a relatively short time assuming 4 VP is the victory condition (Omni left it at 5 in his original post but we discussed setting it at 4 in the thread). But if people are burnt out or we lose Calahan who provided a lot of the fun in the game, I don't mind calling it.

Re: Andean Zorro - MA/diff_research/VPs - game started
 

AZ players -

Shall we vote:

1. Call the game now
2. Look for a sub for Pan now
3. Put game on hold for a week to see if Pan shows up - then decide
4. Turn Pan AI and play on


Let me know - thanks. As for how long the game could go on, let me say that Pyth just forged the Gate Stone and is close to having 3 VPs (Ermor, Eriu and Pythium). Normally I wouldn't disclose such affairs of state but do so now in case anyone is worrying that this game will not end in their lifetime...

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3 - If my vote counts.

I believe the decision mostly depends on Abysia, since without Pan he will be the only major power which is capable of stopping Pythium.

Re: Andean Zorro - MA/diff_research/VPs - game started
 

1. Mostly because I'm heading away for a month in a few weeks, which will be long before anything significant happens.

Re: Andean Zorro - MA/diff_research/VPs - game started
 

Ok, if Dragar wants to call it, and it doesn't look like Marignon is going to vote, I will vote in favor of calling it to. How shall we decide on a winner? I don't mind posting my last turn file and looking at anyone else who thinks they had a chance.

Re: Andean Zorro - MA/diff_research/VPs - game started
 

You're ahead, happy to call it yours

Re: Andean Zorro - MA/diff_research/VPs - game started
 

Ok, I'll wait a bit to see if Calahan or Janim would like to vote or opine. But barring any changes, we'll declare this one officially over in 24 hours.

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Good. I've been a non factor for quite a while now, but Pangaea just never tried to finish me off. I haven't really had much fun in this game, I've just been playing because it sucks when someone goes AI. I'll be happy for this to be over.

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Ok, game is over. Pythium wins, probably more a function of the map than anything else. Thanks for not going AI BDA - I think we had a good group of players but the hard research and sprawling map dragged this one out way too long. I have attached Pythium's last turn file in case anyone is curious.

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what? we're ending the game? Guess i should have checked the forum more often..

Re: Andean Zorro - MA/diff_research/VPs - game started
 

Janim, I forgot i could send emails through llamaserver but assumed everyone was reading the forums and gave it a few days to make sure. Sent Calahan a PM too. But with Calahan vanished, BDA playing just to be a good guy, and Dragar ready to call it, didn't seem to be enough momentum to keep going. Just when I got my elemental royalty, well of misery and gate stone too. Damn. Anyway, good game everyone and see you around.

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I've resurrected this old thread since I want to say sorry to everyone in this game for suddenly disappearing and dropping out of it like I did. Wish it was an exciting tale to tell you all, but sadly it's not, although it is as good as reasons get. I've re-told this so many times in recent weeks that I'll keep it short and stick to the highlights, or in this case, lowlights.

I got sent to Greece due to my job last October, where I promptly got hit by a truck. Literally! Said I'd keep it short :smirk: Luckily I was in a car when I got hit (it didn't feel lucky at the time though!) although I still ended up spending the best part of a month walled up in a Greek hospital as a result :hurt: On top of that I had to spend an extra two months in Greece looking out for a close relative who was also in the car during the accident. When it rains it pours as they say. Every one and thing is ok now, although it's no surprise at all how disruptive such an event can be. It's taken me the whole of 2009 so far to get things even remotely back to some sort of normality.

But enough of my adventures. It's a shame to see that this game got called without a winner not long after my disappearance. Although maybe that was always going to be the end result since the wars I was involved in were taking ages to see any progress made (although that could chiefly have been due to either my lack of ability, and/or my opponents stern defence :-)) and it's more than likely the game would still have been going on now (although that doesn't mean it wouldn't have been fun to play :)). I enjoyed this game a lot though, and can't believe just how much I learned from a single game. I'd happily play MA Pangaea again, despite the micro-management of all those Maenad hordes being the mother of all time consumers. Although next time I wouldn't make such a mess of my Pretender design.

Finally I'd also like to say a big thanks to everyone who played in this game and helped make it what it was. Be thy friend or foe :-) More than happy to play in future games with any of you. I'd also like to add an extra +1 thanks to Ossa for arranging the game. This was the first MP game I'd ever played in and I'm so annoyed with myself that it took me so long to take the plunge into playing MP games (had Dominions 3 for over a year before deciding to join the MP party :doh:).

I'm sure I'll catch you all again soon now that I'm back. And it certainly feels good to be back :D

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Calahan, good to hear you are alright - what a story! I have to say I wondered if something might have happened to you since I recall you were going on a trip right before you vanished and you certainly didn't seem like the type to just bail, not to mention you made some great contributions to the community like the Merc index that I still use. Glad to hear you've recovered!

The game actually got called with Pyth as a winner but it wasn't with a ton of joy - my last turn file is up there somewhere.

Welcome back!

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Hi Don

Thanks for the welcome back message. Currently enjoying myself immensely by picking through some of the main forum threads. Man I've missed loads, but it's great to see that everyone who makes this place so great is still around :)

Congrats on winning this game as well. I'm sure it's not how you would have wanted to win, but it doesn't seem you had any choice after I disappeared and with 'Drager' having to go as well. Looks like my central position and 'competitive spirit' (read aggressive warmongering) held a key part to keeping this game interesting. Think the difficult research actually helped make the game different as well. I haven't got much MP experience yet, but it seems that a lot of players get into a comfort zone of having certain spells researched by a certain time, and go into semi-autopilot. But difficult research makes you think just that little bit more about what you are doing (not that I didn't completely mess my research goals up in this game :))

Now that I'm back I'm also looking to add some more stuff to the community when I get chance. And finish off the things I started too!

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Glad you're ok calahan, look forward to playing with you soon