Marmoset - MA game with mod nations - full

llamabeast · #1 January 25th, 2008, 04:15 AM

Hmm, one of those suggestions is easier to implement than the other...

I actually had an audition tonight for an improvised comedy group I really wanted to get into. I think I psyched myself up for it a bit too much, I've been getting increasingly tense all week. Anyway, I didn't get in (which is okay, good for my PhD since it would be time consuming, and to be fair there were other people there who were better), but it seems like all the adrenaline or something has left me a little confused. I don't normally get very stressy, nor have problems sleeping. I think there's something peculiarly psychologically unpleasant about auditions. Very judgmental things.

Glass of wine though - good idea. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. Though now I think I may as well just stay up and go into the office. I'm teaching maths in a few hours - I'm not sure that's going to go very well!

Sombre · #2 January 25th, 2008, 04:59 AM

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llamabeast said:
Hmm, one of those suggestions is easier to implement than the other...

Yeah, where's the poor guy going to find wine in the middle of the night?

llamabeast · #3 January 25th, 2008, 05:02 AM

Digress · #4 January 25th, 2008, 07:15 AM

I always found teaching undergraduates in the morning was eased by a large serving of alcohol some hours beforehand. Seminars at 8 am on a Friday were always particularly improved by a staying up late enough so that the hangover didn't really kick in until lunch time (after giving a tutorial and taking a lab class). It really prepares you for getting some research work done in the afternoon

.... before heading to the pub at six

Alneyan · #5 January 25th, 2008, 08:48 PM

Okay, thanks for delaying the hosting last time. I did my turn well ahead of schedule for once (that must be why I forgot to take my turn in another game at the same time), but I forgot my SMTP was still down. didn't bother to check for my mail, and then dropped off the Internet for a few days, and wiggled in to get my turn by the deadline.

I've ditched my SMTP now and decided to spend a bit of time to get something up and running. Of course, as it turned out, that only took a couple minutes (testing included), and a much simpler setup based on a simple SSH tunnel (I was using a full-blown SMTP server to relay my mails to another relay... bleh).

Anyway. Man is currently trying to dig in and wait for Ulm to start suffering. My armies don't stand a chance in a fair fight, my attempt at building a thug was ludicrous and I'm not willing to send in my one SC Ulm knows of into battle, and my battle magic is untried yet. We'll see how it turns out soon enough, I guess... I've got a credible threat sitting next to my capital at the moment.

I'd like some Death gems if possible to keep casting Leprosy on those Ulmish armies. If you spot big, fat armies just begging to be diseased, let me know. I've got some gems I can't really use, so please tell me if you could use some (I'm not disclosing the contents of my gem stockpile, as Ulm doesn't have that particular information... they'll figure it out soon enough, anyway).

I shudder to think that as bad as my military looks now, it's never been in a better shape. Ah, if only I had an extra 500 turns for my Growth scale to blossom, and Ulm's Death to kill them all... Let's hope I can be a nuisance anyhow.

llamabeast · #6 January 26th, 2008, 09:55 PM

Hmm, an interesting turn this last one. A number of minor defeats - Bandar ingeniously killed my Golem SC with a magic duel, and T'ien Ch'i managed to annihilate one of my large armies that was about to march into his land. It may have been a Pyrrhic victory though, since most of his army was killed too. The one really frustrating thing about that battle: I forgot to script Divine Bless! All those sacreds, all those H3 casters, and no blessing - aaaagh! Also my air queen managed to kill a Bandar army, but came terrifyingly close to being killed herself - I was really scared for a while.

Still no major conflicts with Man - I expect them to come this turn. Man - prepare for your soldiers to wither under a hail of banefire crossbow bolts.

Meanwhile my income is gradually collapsing under the weight of endless spies. However, the SC factory is getting up to speed. Can the free nations cause enough chaos to bring me down before they are crushed under the weight of elemental royalty?

Incidentally, someone _really_ should dispel my Forge. Do you know how powerful it is? Insanely powerful. Banefire crossbows are only 1 gem!

llamabeast · #7 January 27th, 2008, 02:22 PM

Aieee! I lost my Air Queen to an Enslave Mind by Bandar! And on the same turn I lost a Fire King to some stupid indies! I guess I misjudged my scripting - despite having prot 24, having reached 50 fatigue through spellcasting he seemed to die super-easily to lances, no fewer than 4 times in quick succession (due to Phoenix Pyre)! I have to say I'm still quite taken aback by that.

Man is somehow holding my vast army outside his capital, despite me Crumbling his walls. I guess he must have an insanely large army on the inside. In the meantime my army are rapidly dying of disease...