[Jazzepi]

No, let me repeat again, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

I hung around for several turns waiting for anyone to respond and offer some help agaisnt Pythium in Beyond which I posted in the thread. Nobody sent me a single message. I had /hundreds/ of gems to offer in payment or support, and I tried to defend myself agaisnt Pythium, but I had no SCs after a protracted war with Neiflhem, and I had nothing to throw agaisnt armies sporting fog warriors, lots of artifacts (including medusa shield on his uber-buff pretender and sword of alguemereter) and tons of troops. I also had very low research.

Frankly, if people are completely unwilling to offer *any* support when Pythium is devouring one of the largest nations in the game, and I'm /telling them/ that they're going to lose if they don't rally right away, then they don't deserve to win, and I don't feel bad about setting myself to AI. I'm not going to hold out agaisnt an impossible enemy for other people who simply don't care about their long term stakes.

The crux of what you're saying is that I leave when I'm losing, but you're biased because I went AI in two /recent/ games. What you haven't done is actually looked at the large sample of other games where I've played to the bitter end. I got dogpiled by four different nations in the first epic game, and I fought to the very, very bitter end. But you could find this information out yourself if you did a little digging. I don't need to prove it to you, it's all there in the threads.

You're biased by recent events because that's how people work. Try asking someone if there are more Rs at the beginning of English words or at the third position. They'll say the first because it's easier to recall words that begin with R regardless of the actual distribution. Airplane travel gets an unsafe rep for the same reason. People remember the disastrous failures, not the many repeated successes.

Lastly, I was /never/ allies with any of the other nations attacking you besides the fact that it was convenient. I never traded with them, I only signed an NAP with the giants, and we never communicated about attacks or offense. It was largely a free form deal.

So, get your facts straight before you libel someone, I've been here for a very, very long time, and I don't need you trying to give me a bad rep for bogus reasons that you haven't investigated.

Jazzepi