Highlander - LA limited diplomacy (started)

Sawyer · #1 January 21st, 2008, 03:59 AM

Geeze, it's beginning to dawn on me how inconvenient strength 9 indies are for a blood nation...

Also, Me'eKe'e refuses to discuss the number of names he has eaten and locked himself in the library when I asked. I think he's stopped crying by now...

Baalz · #2 January 21st, 2008, 10:36 AM

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Sawyer said:
Geeze, it's beginning to dawn on me how inconvenient strength 9 indies are for a blood nation...

How so? Seems like its equally inconvenient for all strategies which require blood, gold, or gems...

I've found that in multiplayer games of all sorts players are generally predisposed to not like things which make their progress slower - not because its harder to play but because they're moving slower than they're used to and feel like they're less competitive despite the fact everybody is in the same boat. This is compounded in this case by score graphs being off so you're not having any feedback on how everybody else is doing. Scouting is going to be tripply important in this game...

Sawyer · #3 January 21st, 2008, 03:19 PM

Well... I need blood slaves to spread my dominion.
But if I've only got a couple provinces, unrest gets too high and then my income is shot.
But I need my income to build troops to conquer other provinces to get blood slaves... to spread my dominion.
At least nations with self-perpetuating dominions aren't under threat of
a) Early-game Dom-kill or
b) Going bankrupt due to unrest.

ano · #4 January 21st, 2008, 03:51 PM

Why does your unrest "get too high"??
Actually, Baalz is right. Indy setting affects everyone but races without heavy sacreds or heavy pretender the most. Mictlan does have one of the best sacreds in the game and also a steady income of slaves to sacrifice.

Sawyer · #5 January 21st, 2008, 06:38 PM

Egh, it's probably just me overreacting.

In SP my unrest rarely got above 40, and I saw a red candle in a nearby province and wigged a bit and did some bloodhunting.
I think things are okay now...

Revolution · #6 January 21st, 2008, 08:34 PM

Ug...nothing like being in the middle of a mountain range...I feel like a single mother trying to feed a large family as I carefully dole out my 290g/turn. Thank god for alchemy. Could be worse...I feel bad for Patala, losing a pretender off the bat is rough; especially when your using monkeys to expand.

ano · #7 January 24th, 2008, 10:46 AM

Just an offer.
I'd like to trade death gems for astral ones 1 to 1. I need a total of 10 death gems, so if anyone is interested, please notify me