PBW "newbie game"

Dragonlord · #1 July 13th, 2001, 05:59 PM

I just love these struggles between humans, Baal is deploying tricks an AI would never do !
My primary fleet finally wrested control of the contested system, and has moved past the wormhole in the direction of Baal's systems.
What we found was an empty system (just asteroids) with two wormholes leading into unexplored space. One wormhole had a single ship (from Baal) sitting on it, so I figured aha ! that way must lie his empire. I proceed to spend two turns moving towards, then killing that ship and warping through.
All I find in the next system is again...asteroids. So now I'm thinking that I should have gone through the other wormhole, and his ship was just a sacrificial decoy to lure me in the wrong direction to buy him time to build better defenses.

Baal, am I right?

Oh well, at least something came of it, buy moving into the wrong (?) system I finally made first contact with the fourth and Last human player in this game, Phoenix.
Phoenix is ranked 3rd or 4th, while Baal is 1st and I am 2nd. It will be interesting to see if Phoenix will choose a side in the war I'm in...or stays noncomittal in the hope we weaken ourselves enough for him to step in.

Ya gotta love this game in multiplayer.

Dragonlord · #2 July 13th, 2001, 06:40 PM

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Originally posted by capt_spoogy:
Players of Newbie game - It's my first anniversary this weekend, so I might be a little limited in getting lots of turns in. I'll try my best to sneak in as many as I can...

That's actually good news for me, I have friends staying over on friday and saturday, maybe even sunday, and will have almost no time to play in any of my PBW games. Will do anything I can to avoid having the AI play my turns, may even request a turn-upload extension from the host, but I hope it won't be necessary.

Happy anniversary !

Ouch that reminds me, our 3-year anniversary is next week and I really should start preparing some activities/gifts for that.

Baal · #3 July 13th, 2001, 06:57 PM

I have to ask, what tactics am I using that the AI doesn't use?

EDIT: Good for you Spoogy, I think we should all take the day off then. Leave you to your life for a little while.

[This message has been edited by Baal (edited 13 July 2001).]

Dragonlord · #4 July 15th, 2001, 06:33 AM

Baal:
Well for one thing you are trading with the neutral AI in the frontier system so that you always have an observer ship there.
And you lay mines where the AI wouldn't.

I also noticed that you just built a big fleet, you must have thought "hey if my weapons are inferior I can beat him through numbers". Will be an interesting fight.
You produced em fast though, did you put your entire empire on emergency build or something?

Phoenix-D · #5 July 15th, 2001, 07:27 AM

heh, Newbie 2 is starting to turn into an Intel Version of M.A.D...since no one can stop intel attacks because of the bug, we just sling attacks back and forth.

Phoenix-D

BeeDee10 · #6 July 15th, 2001, 08:53 AM

Kind of a pity, I'd been hoping to avoid that due to the way the CI bug has totally whacked the balance between offence and defence. Won't be as much of a _strategy_ game if it all comes down to abstract intel point generation and the luck of hitting valuable ships/planets with intel ops rather than valueless ones.

Ah well, at least this way I'll get to see how bad the CI bug will impact the game under field conditions...

Dragonlord · #7 July 15th, 2001, 09:13 PM

Well you got me at a disadvantage in Newbie II because I still don't fully understand the CI bug. usually my attacks go through, but it also happened that three small ones were stopped at the same time.

I also wonder if the xenophobic roleplaying that Phoenix is doing in Newbie II will carry over into Newbie I. If it does, I'm in trouble in newbie I with Baal's hugely armored fleet at my border...