[Gozra]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:

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Originally posted by Slynky:

But, it sucks when expansion is the name of the game and you only have one road out of your home system. Not to mention Goz must have started in the middle somewhere, making it somewhat easy to block you in (not saying it didn't require skill, just that position helped out).

No, I'm sure he either started in the far north-western corner or south-western corner. This was one of Tesco's maps with the starting positions in it. So as far as that goes it was probably even, he just might have had more good planets on his way to the middle then I did. Possibly a faster trip to the middle of the map as well.

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After looking at the map that Rags put up we were both 4 jump points away from where we met. I will tell you that after being in the SEIV school of rapid expansion there are some technques that enhance ones ablity to expand. However when you do them you are taking chances. I think I lucked out in this game. If you look at my record I am at 2 and 5 in the Koth standings. So I think luck definitly plays a role in the starting position in these games. Several times my opponet told me I had a bad start position. In One of my wins I was the next system over from the other player but it was his gateway to the rest of the map. We were playing Default.