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Originally Posted by Lingchih
I think everyone underestimated the size of this map, and how long this game would take. I mean, it's at least a year long game, maybe more. That's probably the reason for a lot of the dropouts.
And Chris, you originally came in to set Sauro to AI, right? And then decided to play?
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Er, sorta?
The game was advertised as seriously needing a sub due to problems with people dropping. The position was advertised as having prospects. So I wanted to help out.
It takes some time to really understand a position. In this particular case, UnOptimized had lots of very cool toys. Good research.
On the downside - he was overrun with more than 15 SC's. And had researched essentially no SC spells. So I immediately set about cleaning up the SCs, and the SC research. Learning the geography. Figuring out next research targets etc.
It took a turn or two for the realization to sort of sink in:
There are three problems: Just like zeldor (and other mid sized people are sorta saying) if you are midsized in this game - you have essentially no prospects. TC is *three* times my size.
Even that didn'tseem so bad except until you learn.. omg. The leader has achieved 20% of the victory conditions...in 55 turns we're talking about 275 turns here. Sure that can be widely off.. say its only 150 turns.
And lastly, this game is already at late dominions stage. My turns - which are taking call it 8 hours.... what happens if I get to 50 territories. Or 75. I'm still nowhere near *winning*... I've just dug myself.. further into hell....
So its definitely my fault for not getting the *size* of this undertaking.
Theres another problem: what are the chances of getting a free spawn, # of units, or other game ending bug? The odds are this game will finish because of real world effects: people dropping out of the game, or the game bombing.
I don't want to leave another nation open and AI (besides which I'm a nation next to TC, and that would just add fuel to the fire..... And I think I've made the position better. but damn.
So the short answer (lol) is I walked in expecting to evaluate the position and play it if it was tenable. What I didn't get was just how big this game was, and how much of a lead the three leaders have.