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/me lights a cigar.
/me starts coughing violently.
/me drops the cigar.
/me lights the thread on fire.
/me sprays fire-retardent everywhere.

"Oops."

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Well, Khyron, looks like you and me. Any suggestions for settings? I'm always up for a fuul-tech start.. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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DeKaye/Fuzzie:

It looks like we're about to engage in battle. I'd like to do a game with 0 racial points, no intel. Feel free to post any stipulations you have...

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Well I won the game vs Phoenix-D in round 153. This game was very hard. Around round 100 he dominated the galaxy and I lost many planets (~ 30-40) and had around 30 planets rioting. But then his fleets ran out of supply and I could rebuild http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. While he killed one planet I rebuild 3. In round 130 my fleets killed his worlds, his fleets killed my worlds. We both run out of supply again, but I managed to kill his tankers with a modified strategy (no weapons ship only), while my ships had solar panels. He had very strong mining and construction settings, but Organic tech is so amazing, just build, build, build... Loose one sucking ship, rebuild 2 of them...This and phased poloron ships vs regular shield ships + resource converter (some rounds after round 100) saved my day. And now I had so funny organic baseships building ~ 20, but he resigned http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif. Very interesting game at all and I have had so much luck and fun. BTW, phoenix-d my race password was "beast", so you can take a look on my empire.
Koth is going on NNEEEXXXTTT please http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Wow, Dex, sounds like one heck of a game! 130 turns on a standard KotH map... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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153 turns. Turn 130 was the point we were running around blowing each other up. I figured that I couldn't stop his fleets if I waited for them, and couldn't take them on the offensive (too many) so I bypassed them and went for his core worlds.

Except for that sneakyness involving taking out my suply ships, it would have worked too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Anyone ever read the Bolo short story involving Project Raganok? It went something like that.

Part of the reason for the length was the "underpowered" weapons platforms. There was a decent chunk of turns where we just sat there watching each other, every attack we tried getting blasted out of space by the WPs.

EDIT: 'twas a blast by the way Dex, well played.

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I’ve found Fuzzie to be a good opponent and I expect Fuzzie will be the first Queen of the hill!

She’s just protecting all us guys’ fragile egos by not stomping us yet.

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Go back to slaying Asmala, you slacker! Note that I could easily make her Queen, Empress, or some such... all it takes is a wayward lil script, and voilà! I am so prone to making mistakes that nobody would complain.

Oh, KOTH has been updated, by the way (now that my ISP has allowed me to connect to the relevant FTP server).

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I'm trying to slay the king, but he not so easy to kill.

Currently Asmala has slipped into first place score wise. We've marked our territory with mines, but we still haven’t meet on the far side of the map yet. Asmala did manage to slip a ship in to poison a prime colony world on my side of the border with mines. Unfortunately, he mined the warppoint on my side too.

The game is still way to early to call.

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Hehe, he's tricksy, he is (in my best Gollum voice).

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Thanks Glyn for your support lol. Shhhh, you gave away my underhanded plan of KOTH hill domination.

All Hail Queen Fuzzie!

*Uhummm, did I say that out loud.....?

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The game, in its infinite wisdom about spacing empires equally, started us side by side and I'm in Khryon's home system at the completion of the 2nd turn.

Given the possibility Khryon might not like the difficulty of playing such a game, AND the willingness of some help from the French in re-gening a game, I'll offer him a restart.

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Like the French would help anyone. They do like to ask for help, though, and so shall I. Renegade has departed the fled, hunted by the wrath of his unhappy settlers (our fleets ensured the peaceful demonstration against Renegade). Shame, the tickling was about to fall on their homeworlds.

So, I gather you have decided to go along with your game, and I would need someone to create Dex Solo vs Alneyan.

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I haven't played a game where I have started this close to another player, much less in a one-on-one. It is quite educational, for instance I'll have to remember to negotiate the removal of mines. The indignity of having my side of my home system's WP mined with no sweepers.

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Starting beside each other is a tough game. One problem is there is, in my opinion, a chance for some sort of "rock, scissors, paper" thing where guessing wrong by one person loses the game. In a evenly-spaced game, that is less likely to occur.

I looked at the map and decided mines were an immediate necessity because the map was much smaller than usual. At most, having seen all the map but one system, you could have been no further than the 5th hop from me. Assuming we headed toward each other, we would have met in the 3rd hop. That mandates mines!

The game looks better now, for me, than the start. It was touch and go there for a while but I feel safer. In addition to the (somewhat) unlucky start for me--you have MUCH better planets in your home system than I did--I lost my only colony to your daring attack early on and had to deal with warships in my home system. Luckily, I had mined the hole the turn you attacked and that gave me time. To make matters worse, I sent a colony ship off to the north and had the bad luck of finding a single-fac planet as the only available one to start a secondary buiid-up since my home system was under attack. So, I went on to the next system...settled the planet and WHOA! I forgot to put pop on the darn thing and it couldn't build. So, I had to build a ship to run up there with pop... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif.

Anyway, to comment on your embarrassment of being mined, having the opponent move all the way around the map to block you in to two systems ranks right up there... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif I was really surprised to see you hadn't expanded around except for one system. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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Ah, I apologize Alneyan, I should have mentioned earlier that I wish to be removed from the hill for a while. Thanks! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I play much better in larger games, where I have time to get some sort of economy going. I have been forcing myself to play smaller games to break myself of some habits that are detrimental in faster paced games.

I had forgotten about the ship you are blocking my other system with, though it is heavily damaged if I remember correctly. After the buildup to boot you off the warp point in my home system, then the buildup after that to prevent you (hopefully) from coming back I still haven't fully developed my home system (mainly the planet you colonized and I had to sterilize to remove you).

We shall see how it goes, if nothing else this will be a learning experience for me. Now I just have to stay alive long enough to learn some more.

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Well, Khyron, it has made the whole game exciting instead of the boring buildup that goes on for 20 turns in other games.

Yeah, that ship is damaged down there but more are on the way and you don't have anything moving south, so she'll be OK. She's still capable of moving...I'm just trying to watch a bit.

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Off to Mexico for a month+! See you folks in a while!

Rathar

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Bye for now!

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im curious how many people are on the hill

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Actually, you shouldn't apologise: it makes my life easier if you drop off from the Hill. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

KOTH has been updated; it was a pretty boring update, bereft of any exciting stuff. I have removed myself from the Hill as well, so my request for a game with Dex Solo should be discarded.

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The game between Khyron and myself has been completed. Scary at certain points in the game, I have managed a win. Starting side-by-side is a tough game to play. I should like a manual placement, time permitting, in the next game as it's the one that decides who plays against the King.

Cheers!

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Please give Rand a win in the game vs. Thermodyne. And remove me from the hill for the time being.

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Updated!

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K.O.T.H. Landorl vs Phoenix-D: Landorl surrenders, turn 101.

Another brutal game, which I won only thanks to my minefields; they held Landorl at bay long enough for me to get first missile-armed LCs, then later PPB armed, Talisman equipped ships out.

The talisman plus PDCs is kind of ridiclous. Before I was losing fleets to his fighters; after a single BC gutted about 60 of them without them even firing a shot in return.

One thing I don't get, Landrol- you had an unexplored warp point right beneath your home system. Why didn't you check it out? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Probably was scouted but the surrender didn't give you charts of it.

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Captain Kwok's Juprups defeated Fuzzie's Dragons on turn 74. I was fortunate enough to grab most of the prime real estate early on. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Alneyan, Please can you place me on hold till next month? I have a 5 day conference at the end of this month, so I think I better not start any games till after the conference. Thanks.

Fuzzie

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Dex Solo -vs- Slynky has ended with me the victor.

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Greetings!

After 5201.8 miles or approx 8k kilometers of traveling the breadth and width of Mexico I have returned home and am simply dying to play some more koth! Please to give to me an opponent!

Rathar

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Dex Solo -vs- Slynky - this was Meganoob vs Perfect Veteran. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I had no chance, nice work Slynky. Letz go on I need a new opponent too.

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You're too kind with the praise, Dex. Truth is, you had a tough game to play successfuly. And a small map! At least you had only one "empty" system...LOL...I had SEVEN on my half.

Good luck in your next game!

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KOTH has been updated yesterday, but it took a while for the Sub-Neutrino-Pulsing-Multiphased Antimatter-Quantic-Selenocommunication system to get back online (actually, just my ISP acting up).

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Nudge..! I have returned from a mighty journey and desire koth action!

Rathar

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K.O.T.H. Asmala vs Glyn, Turn 2410.6

I surrendered. Congratulations Glyn, you played a very good game. Even though my ships had a bit more advanced technology, your numbers overwhelmed me due to my poor resource income.

Had I started to research stellar manipulation earlier perhaps I would have get my warp point closer ship operational before your attack. Instead I researched other colonization techs before stellar manipulation and that was a mistake since I didn't had time to exploit enough the new planets.

Alneyan, please remove me from the Hill. I just don't have enough time to give decent turn times in summer.

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Asmala, It was a very good game. You did lead in technology for the whole game.

There were several points through out the game which I though you would win for sure. Like at the start, luckily we both had poor starting positions. The one system that had more planets and facility slots than probably the rest of my empire was on our border so I couldn’t develop it and you eventually took it away from me. You even captured one of my planets with population.

A few events that I recall is the first missile ship battle where we both forgot to set max range strategy. The time you captured a few of my ships including a cruiser that I’m sure you didn’t have the tech for yet, which I was able to sneak two ships in to destroy before you could get it back to a shipyard. There was also the time that I took the chance on attacking your fleet staging area hoping to kill a bunch of untrained half finished ships, unfortunately that was not the case your fleet wiped out mine without breaking a sweat.

It was a good game. Thanks!


Now for some gratuitous celebration.
::Doing the happy dance while singing “I’m the king, I’m the king!:: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Congrats to Glyn! Looong game. I might add in here a pitch for one of Geo's Balanced Mods http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif.

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The Balance mod takes away an aspect of the game that I find very challenging. Namely exploring and exploiting the unknown terrain.

The fact that there were so few habitable planets in most of the system on my side of the border worked out well when Asmala did invade with a fleet he traveled through two system before looping back into his space probably for fuel and more upgrades. The only thing he got was one medium dome world and two moons.

On the far side of the map there was a sequence of four systems, first one had only one planet colonizable by Asmala, Then next had no planets colonizable by him, Then next was a nebula, and the forth was an asteroid field. Asmala had managed to beat me to the first system (having passed through the other three) and colonize that one world, stopping my expansions into the first two systems for probably 30 turns. Once I did break through, I had to build tankers to supply my ships and build a colony past the dead space to keep my ships supplied. If Asmala had placed a ship with the proper sensor in the orange nebula in the third system, he could have killed my re-supply ships.

You just don’t get those type of challenges with the Balance mod.

Granted, you may get the occasional game were you have a lot to overcome and your opponent is sitting pretty.

In all I think it’s a case for not playing the balance mod.

PS. If someone really feels that they got a bad start, I am open to a restart within the first ten turns. The game is suppose to be a fun challenge for all the players.

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The previous game was long 107 turns. Mostly only on week days and then we only on line once at the same time. So, we averaged about 10 turns a week.

I think Parabolize is listed as the next challenger to the K.O.T.H.

To get the ball rolling what settings would you like Parabolize?

My preference would be:
No Intel
Three Good starting planets
Start with 100k resources.

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Well, as long as you are willing to trade the "excitement of exploring" for the possibility of having "lady luck" poop on your parade and find yourself losing to someone of inferior ability because of a lopsided start, have at it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

It's supposed to be a measure of skill, not a measure of who got screwed in positioning. In my latest game (I believe), by the time the lines had been drawn, I had 7 worthless systems on my half. At the end of the game, I saw that he had only 2 worthless systems. If that had been Asmala, I would have had NO chance of a win.

:shrug:

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My latest game should be..interesting. Intel is off, and I accidentally boosted intel to 125%. Instead of dropping intel to 50% like I planned, I dropped RESEARCH to 50%.

That and the right-side flank is completely open. Four useless systems in a row- nebula, all ice/gas, nebula, nebula. We're both rock.

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Phoenix,
Research 50%? Now that hurts! I bet it making you be inventive in how you play?

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Works for me.

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Would you belive I didn't even notice til last turn? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

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KOTH has been updated. People cheer for Glyn, but nobody has a friendly thought for the friendless KOTH admin. *Huddles in a corner and cries*

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Who needs a kind thought for the admin when the admin gets....wait for it.... a FREE bottle of the finest vodka produced anywhere in the world! And it can be yours today, for the low low price of $20.98 shipping and handling...



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Here, have some *cheese.

* Virtual

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Annd that little oopsie was non-survivable. Rand vs Phoenix-D ends on turn 40, I surrendered.

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KOTH has been updated. This update marks the beginning of the Era of Laziness.

As far as gifts go, just send me some calissons from Aix-en-Provence or something along these lines. Calissons *are* something the French do well; somehow, the place is better known for dull cheese and plain wine, though (I'm not overly fond of either). *Shrugs*