Figment - Early Game (Started)

[Corwin]

vfb said:
This month was most joyous for Oceania!

We thought we might succumb to tedium, tearing down the walls of the last Fortress of Atlantis.

And when our commanders in the Magical Satellite Control Room first viewed their overview of the world, it appeared that the large Rlyeh army on our border had perhaps made landfall, and would not be playing with us. So we were sad at first.

But it turns out Rlyeh loves frolicking just as much as Oceania. Their army had not gone ashore, it had just decided to play with us, oh joy oh joy!

They even managed to send one Knight to The Great Playground Beyond The Barrier. We eagerly anticipate much more frolicking and playing with the funny Rlyeh fish.

Plankton

Nice AARs vfb.

Out of character: For some reason reading Vtb's AARs reminds me of some wierd but very interesting alien races from "Star Control 2". Does anybody else remember "happy campers" from that game?

[AdmiralZhao]

Were they the Phunk? Or maybe the Orz?

[Corwin]

AdmiralZhao said:
Were they the Phunk? Or maybe the Orz?

Orz I think. Good memory AdmiralZhao.

"Happy campers" who sometimes "dance" with "silly cows" from the "heavy space", et cetera. They made my ship's computer translators crash and burn.

It took me a while to realize that by "dance" these cute little alliens meant "annihilate your sorry ***". Man, SC2 was such a great game...

[Xavier]

I'm gonna ask about this well in advance:

Next Saturday morning (the 12th) I leave town for 8 days (returning the Sunday of the following week). I'll have internet access, but won't have total control over my schedule. I'm asking if we can switch to a 36 hour host schedule during that time. I should be able to play once per day, but I may only have one chance each day. I'm just worried that if I try to play one morning but the turn hasn't hosted, if it hosts shortly after I checked I may not have a chance to play again until the following evening, in which case I may stale a turn. A 36 hour hosting schedule will prevent that.

As much as possible I'll try to play often enough that the game will still host every 24 hours, but I may not be able to do it a few times and I'd really hate to stale at this point.

[Foodstamp]

I think we are probably getting to the point where just moving to a 36 or 48 hour schedule would probably be best.

[Corwin]

Foodstamp said:
I think we are probably getting to the point where just moving to a 36 or 48 hour schedule would probably be best.

I think so far nobody has expressed his wish to permamently switch to a longer host. I would say let's keep it on 24h host for as long as it is fine with players. This game has been moving at a good speed despite having many players, and everybody seems to be making their turns just fine so far. We can always switch to longer host once things will get more complicated later in the game.

That being said personally I have no problem with switching to 36h host for a week to accomodate Xavier when he will be out of time next week.

[Lingchih]

I think we should move to 1 hour host... since I am dead. Damn you Sauromatia!

[Baalz]

Marverni is in need of earth gems. We can trade anything save astral pearls for them, and remember our friends.

[Psycho]

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[Foodstamp]

I don't appreciate your accusations. I found a scout in the province the same turn from another nation, so if you want to push the accusation, I can get the other player to verify that you are wrong.

If I could set my 100+ archers to that, the battle would have greatly been lopsided in my favor considering that your commanders were near immobile monkeys.

What really happened is I set my archers to fire at large monsters and thunderstrike caused your cheeseball blessed yavanas to hang out near your commanders causing them to take archer fire as well.

It was a good fight and I would expected more class out of another player, but considering your PMs since your pretender died, I would expect no less than accusations from you.