The win conditions were in the Original Post* under "Victory Conditions", since always find it's better to have a goal in a game rather than leave it to concession (as that could result in games going on forever). But maybe there was a bit too much info in the OP for the win conditions to be seen clearly. Although it was near the top so.......?!?
This was the first game I arranged as well, so got plenty of thoughts on how to lay things out better during sign ups for future ones.
This was also my first full game with graphs off, and must say it plays very differently to games with graphs on. Which probably explains why the end feels so sudden to the rest of you. Can't say the win feels sudden to me, as I'd only been one capital away from winning for about 15-20 turns, so knew the end was close unless everyone jumped me.
Although if the graphs had been on and capital VP's active, it would have been obvious to all how close I was to the win. So think I definitely benefited from them being off this time around. I had hardly any scouts all game though, so while I'd happily play graphs off games again, I'm not sure I'd go for it in an EA game.
* My thanks to Archaeolept for using this term today on the IRC. I'd previously used 'first post' and 'game status' page to describe the first post of a game thread, but didn't really like either. But like the term 'Original Post'
