Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [20/24 players left]
 

Oh yes, it's hella lame. I was mostly amused how nobody got it at first and was irritated by what they thought was the guy's bad English.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [20/24 players left]
 

Huh? I fail to see anything beyond that.
English is not my first language but still, please enlighten me

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [20/24 players left]
 

There's nothing beyond that. Its bad english, which is only supposed to be funny because people re-use it everywhere with the subject changed. It was probably written by someone whose first language *is* english as a parody of bad english speaking/typing.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [20/24 players left]
 

It is supposed to be funny because of bad English and the stupidity of the comment. I believe it started by a bad English speaker and was parodied afterwards. The thing is that someone used the meme repeatedly in the other forum and nobody got the joke, but instead started bi*ching about the guy's bad English.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [20/24 players left]
 

Somebody died, I think. Lanka maybe. Hard to tell. The game is so slow, I can only focus maybe a third of my brain cells on it.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [20/24 players left]
 

It was Lanka that was defeated this turn, but they were already AI, so there is no new player identity to reveal.

(Lanka was played by 'yandav'. This saves Wraithlord the time seaching the thread for his name and turning AI post when it comes to updating the OP)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [20/24 players left]
 

WL thanks thy generous help *bow*

Lingchih, I hope it's not the brainstem that's running helm ;)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

Will somebody put Lingchic out of his misery, so he can stop bi*ching about hosting times.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

Ling has a point. I got the last turn at 7pm local time Wednesday. Its not going to host until 7pm local time Sunday. Its only turn 46, and there haven't been any extensions. 4 days base time is totally ridiculous. We should be on 48h barring extensions, not 96.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

Here we go again...

Host schedule was made clear from the get go. There's no right or wrong here, each has different preferences but this is what everyone signed for. If you don't like slow paced games then don't join them. If you join then don't b*itch all the time, or b*itch all you want if it makes you feel good but the host policy will stay the same.

BTW, this b*itching sounds much like going to a meat only restaurant and complaining about the salads or lack of ;)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

eh, its not the hosting time that's necessarily the problem, its that someone is always waiting till the last minute. Hosting time is supposed to be maximum time between turns, not minimum.

I thought no diplo was supposed to remove this problem...

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

Yes. Good point. But what can be done about it?- Some ppl just make it a habit to wait until the last min.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

Thanks for all the support.

Actually, I just post those little time rants as a "bump", whenever this thread seems to be about to fall off the first page of posts. It's more interesting than just posting "bump", and it gets people all mad and stuff for a little while.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

Hmm. OK. For the sake of being PC, Bump.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

Well Vanheim has been crushed, our army is in tatters and the enemy sieges our cap.

I've set to AI.

Cheers for the game, was slow but enjoyable. : )

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [19/24 players left]
 

Thank you for the game GameExtremist. I'm glad you found it enjoyable.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [18/24 players left]
 

Caelum is dead, who was he?

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [18/24 players left]
 

Lingchih probably. Good job holding out for so long Caelum.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [18/24 players left]
 

Yep, Lingchih was Caelum.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [18/24 players left]
 

I suspected with near certainty that it was Lingchih playing Caelum.

He did very well, given that Baalz guidelines don't work well for the game settings.
GG Lingchih, thanks for playing!

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [18/24 players left]
 

Good game Lingchih. And many thanks for sticking it out until the end, even though the schedule was far from your favourite.

Hope you can be enticed back at some point in the future for another Dominions game :) and that this game wasn't part of your farewell package of games :(

*When* ;) you do come back though Lingchih, think you need to start relying a bit less on those Baalz guides. As IIRC Dawn Rand was another Baalz guide you followed that didn't go too well :hurt: Sometimes it can be just the way the cards fall, but other times the stuff in the tin just doesn't do what it says on the label.

I've corrected your post for you Wraithlord :D

That guide has zero for four utter failures now from the games I've been in and seen it tried. Maybe Baalz can pull it off, but it seems that for every other player, the strategy has some seriously fatal shortcomings.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Wow the strategy he used was in Baalz guide? I thought it was an original design of Caelum's player and watched his scoregraphs very closely from the very beginning of the game to see how it would pull off. I just love original strategies.:)
Anyway thanks for the game you did a really good job holding up for so long. (As well as the other couple of players still in the game, hats off to all of you.)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [18/24 players left]
 

I stand corrected :lol

Yes. it doesn't seem to work. I've seen MP evidence as well. I am tempted, yet don't want, to go into possible reasons until the game ends - one of the reasons being not wanting to derail the game thread OT.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

A notice: A player has received gems from a defeated opponent who set themself AI. You really shouldn't do that in this game, it is no diplo and that's a tacitly diplo move. The player who received the gems has said that he'll be returning the gems to the AI, so let's have a hand for his good spirit of conduct.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Lingchih
Please don't forget to send your last turn, game still needs it.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

I at least got the satisfaction of watching Abysia and Arco annihilate each other trying to take my cap.

And yeah, Baalz guide was a waste with the game settings. I had a good early game, but was severely hampered later on.

Have fun guys.

And, to Calahan. This was not one of my "last three" games. I am still doing well in those. I had written this one off a long time ago.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Short After action report. Used Baalz' guide to build up Eagle Kings. They quite effectively raided and took indies early. Arco took offense to me taking a prov that was rightfully mine. He attacked me. I responded by raiding the bejesus out of him. Was going effectively well, until Aby decided that he wanted a piece of me.
With two enemies, I pulled back and held in my cap. And, I held a long time, for those of you who set AI so quickly. Last 15 turns were just hold and preach.

Oh, and for those of you trying to make sense of my defense, I had several luck events that boosted dom in my cap. I would probably have died turns earlier without them.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Baalz Caelum guide worked fine for me in a game, admittedly it was a n00b game and one of the first ones I joined. But that shouldn't effect expansion performance against indies. Now, once its time to go to war against other players, you might want to switch things up. Not only does EK thuggery not fare especially well against some nations (without some gear upgrades at least), but if you ran Baalz's opening than everyone knows what you're doing. At which point they know how to counter you.

Really, that's the major flaw of the Baalz guide - the opening is so distinctive that you simply can't stick with the guide or people will be able to counter you from battle 1 of the war.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

It was really the research setting that did me in, with using Baalz strat. It took too long to get the eagle kings going, by which time my nieghbors were building up strong forces.

Dumb strat to use on difficult research. Oh well, had some fun anyways.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Can we force host when we end up waiting only on Ermor. He's going to stale anyway

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Ermor IS being subbed right now, and I'm pretty sure that was just a minor hiccup.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

OK then, I wasn't aware of that. He staled last turn and it looked like he was going to stale another one, so I thought I should nag some more about him.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

I understand, the previous ermor player used up quite a lot of goodwill with all those stales. But the current sub is playing as a favor to me, so let's try to remember he's new and give him the benefit of a doubt :)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

so you can tell us who the previous player was now can't you?

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

For some well-deserved public bashing? ;)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Sorry, you'll have to wait until ermor is eliminated!

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

In Yarg1, when Ossa was subbed out of the game, you revealed his name, since the sub was unknown. thus i think you ought to tell us ermor since the precedent was set already

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Well, alright, I guess since it's unlikely the original player is going to come back now, that was Alpine Joe. As if you all didn't know that already :P

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

For me, at least, that's a surprise. I was in another game with him - a fast paced one, which had about 12 hour turnaround time while he was still alive. He didn't stale there and he actually actively played the game, rather than sitting on starting 8 provs for 50 turns.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Alpine Joe has this tendency to mysteriously disappear and stale in all his games for a number of turns. Although usually he comes back if he hasn't been subbed out.

While he's active, he plays all his turns. But its the disappearing without a word and staling for turns on end that makes playing with him kind of annoying.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Yeah... alpine joe stales a lot, and is kind of notorious for it.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Guys - I'm going to be unavailable from september 21st until october 19th or so. So if you'll need any extensions or subs around this time, see if you can't get to me about this beforehand so I can take care of them before I'm gone.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Or just don't ask for an extension between those dates. Because its not going to happen. =)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

I can sub the admin position temporary as I'm out of the game already.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Thanks Dimaz. I will give you the password when the date nears.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Hinnom were turned AI last turn (turn 54). And Hinnom was played by...........?

(rdonj enters from left of stage)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

And so it has come to pass that the descendants of the vile fallen angels, who rose so quickly to dominance and threatened to subjugate all, have withered away. Soon, the Nephilim would be no more than a vague memory of a half forgotten nightmare.

GG Hinom player whomever you may be. Thanks for playing!

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [17/24 players left]
 

Hinnom was played by Danbo.

And I've already received a message from staling abysia to assure me that was a fluke.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [16/24 players left]
 

OP updated. We've hit the 2/3 mark. soon the semi-finals :)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [16/24 players left]
 

Having just lost anything possibly relevant, I'll be setting AI this turn. Thank god, took you fricking long enough to kill me.

I was Agartha. I should have been dead more than 30 turns ago (seriously, Agartha lasting to turn 55 in a RAND game, much less outlasting Niefl, Lanka, and Hinnom? Crazy). More snarking will have to wait until the guilty can be publicly chastised.