Viscious Circle 3 - Page 32

GrudgeBringer · #**311** May 2nd, 2010, 01:22 PM

Dang..I would like to continue (of course it takes me about 30 min to do my turn as I am so little,

But I wanted to do some things with my 3500 S gems,

Lets see I have 3 wish casters so I could cast 3 Armageddon's every turn for around the next Month (until you find and kill me). Or perhaps alchemize and cast Burden of time and Utterdark, and THEN the occasional Armageddon.

Seriously, it is hard to see this game end on an exhaustion note.

I started this game...geeez, 6 or 7 months ago maybe? And learned a LOT watching you guys, It is like putting your dog to sleep or something.

Well, We have heard from 3 of the big dogs (lol, no pun intended

)....let's figure it out as there is no use prolonging the inevitable.

aaminoff · #**312** May 2nd, 2010, 11:05 PM

Sigh. So after promising that I would get my turn in, I staled. Missed the deadline by 8 minutes. What I get for failing to send in my turn yesterday when it was 99% finished. Bah.

The sad thing is, the strategic impact of staling is nearly nil as far as battles & territory lost. I just dread having to re-enter all of those orders again.

Lets see what Hinnom has to say.

- Alex

Kietsensei · #**313** May 3rd, 2010, 02:27 AM

Heh welcome to Dominion Endgame

I hope in a patch or dom4 that they add more ways to automatise your orders...
I am having a lot of fun at the moment even with the impressive micromanagement, and thus wouldn't mind continuing for a while.

However I am aware that it won't be possible to finish this game before another 50 or 60 turns. This is why I prefer to stop here before everyone start looking for a sub or staling.

By the way, gems factory add too much to micromanagement and it is better to not use them on the next game. At turn 80 I have so many earth and astreal gems income that I cast a wizard tower each turn and wish for powers on my main scs.

GrudgeBringer · #**314** May 3rd, 2010, 06:03 AM

This is what I mean about learing...

1. What extra benifites do you get from Wizards Tower?

2. What extra powers can you wish for on a SC.

Since we won't finish anyway don't worry about 'Trade secrets

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Squirrelloid · #**315** May 3rd, 2010, 01:33 PM

The wiki has a good description of Wish, see: http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Wish

Wizard's Tower is just 'fast', because you spend gems instead of time and cash. Ie, you get the tower immediately in the magic phase.

Kietsensei · #**316** May 4th, 2010, 08:56 AM

Squirelloid is right about Wizard tower. This is especially useful for Hinnom when all their city take 6 turn and a huge amount of cash to build.
It is most of the time considered as a waste of gem to cast wish to improve your scs as sooner or later they will die to a well designed counter
But in the case of Hinnom, they got unique unwishable scs... So I was taking the bet that even if they are killed I just have to summon them again and they retain their ability. I wanted to check if my theory was correct but unfortunately didn't have the opportunity to do it.

GrudgeBringer · #**317** May 4th, 2010, 02:11 PM

Well, it looks like we have lost Trumanator also. He has only 8 provinces and I am not sure if he just quit Dom or what the situation is (Squirrelloid, can you help me on this please as FL and Truman are in every game I am in).

Helheim, I honestly believe is worn out in this game, Hinnom has seconded the honorable death of the game.

I 'think' ( he will speak for himself) Squirrel is ok either way.

I am just going along for the ride and learning exp, so what ever we do I can live with.

In fact I am in 3 games all in the 70's to 90's in turns and this one is the only one that I would consider I am here 'By your leave'.

It seems Frozen lama is a big part in 1 game (squirrel and I are both in) and he has 'retired' and I guess after trying to keep up with these longer and longer turns and the fiasco of the NVsV game, Ball season is here and my traveling every other weekend...

I am ready for a break from the game also...

So, if everyone agrees, I am ready to allow you guys to either declare a winner (me, me, me,

)or we say job well done and let it die an honorable death.

Please voice some kind of a opinion asap.

I just wanted to thank everyone for allowing me to stick around and watch!!

Squirrelloid · #**318** May 4th, 2010, 02:28 PM

Frozenlame and Trumanator are both banned from the forums, but they're still playing their games. If you want to PM them or chat with them you'll have to head to IRC or the New more-Sombre Forums. Not that Trumanator has much left to do in this game except be a prick and make it hard to invade Pan.

Lihaässä · #**319** May 5th, 2010, 11:46 AM

I would declare Helheim as the winner of this game on base what I've seen so far, including:
1. Battles
2. Graphs
3. Diplomacy

GrudgeBringer · #**320** May 5th, 2010, 01:06 PM

Helheim IS the biggest in most scores and has played an excellent game.

However, We are in the throes of a Late mid game/Early endgame and I would suppose Caelem would have something to say about the winner, as might Hinnom...especially if they allied.

Of course there is always the dark horse in the race (me me me)that could swing victory one way or the other with my massive forces.

You guys figure it out, I am just along for the ride, But I want either a victor or an agreement to let it die an honorable death as I don't think at this time I could condone a split decision as there are too many excellent players left.