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Khyron said:
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...
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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...
I was really surprised to see you hadn't expanded around except for one system.
