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Originally Posted by Foodstamp
I offered you to PM me if you had any questions about diplomacy or what I was planning. I felt like I left you with one of the more powerful nations in the game at the time I handed it off. I apologize if you feel slighted or if you feel like I played the position badly and then gave it to you, making it difficult for you to turn things around and salvage it.
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Well, what I think was that you had a strategy and build that weren't really conducive to any form of turtling. Then I think that after the early game, you started to get distracted and started to lose interest in the game, and spent too long not expanding. So when I took over, there was a ton of interesting stuff all strewn around - and since I didn't expect you to walk me through why each particular province had the mages/thugs that were in it, I just had to sort of start figuring it out myself. It's just the size of the empire, the stage of the game, and the fact that you hadn't been giving it as much time as it needed (was it 3-4 stales before I took over?). So it was sort of a big undertaking to start arranging things in a way that made good sense to me.
Believe me, I am not sugar coating anything when I say this is by far not the worst sub position I stepped into, unless I weight it very heavily for timing, because honestly it really started sucking when the nation with far and away the strongest SCs in the game, decided to bring one of the best raiding nations along with him to trounce me - AND no one nearby wanted to join in and keep Zeldor from winning. < shrug >
I will agree on one thing Zeldor, you are indeed a shrewd diplomat, and I didn't put nearly the time into relations with my new neighbors that I should have.