Please verify suspicion.

[Puke]

Will said:
Something sort of like this happened in CB#2.

Hey, howd that turn out? I'm pretty sure SJ's defenses couldnt be cracked by the heap, alone. But I had two more empires ready to jump in at the first sign of hostilities, to make a nice little multi-front war.

There was also a third one in the wings that might have been willing to turn on one of the other two, if everything played out right.

Too bad I couldnt keep that game up. How about some after action reports?

[AMF]

Randall,

This is a verified bug, at least as far as I recall from the NGC#4 game. The exact same thing happened, we re-ran the turn to ensure that the message was recieved, and then all was fixed.

I suggest re-run the turn and make sure that the dip messages are sent by the other empire at the end of their orders, and it should go differently.

Alarik

[Suicide Junkie]

Puke said:
Hey, howd that turn out? I'm pretty sure SJ's defenses couldnt be cracked by the heap, alone. But I had two more empires ready to jump in at the first sign of hostilities, to make a nice little multi-front war.

There was also a third one in the wings that might have been willing to turn on one of the other two, if everything played out right.

Too bad I couldnt keep that game up. How about some after action reports?

My outer defenses are actually holding up quite well.
However, the heap is gutting my empire from the inside quite effectively without any help.

Those ships of yours are making heavy use of a major balance flaw in the torpedoes.
Note: said flaw has been corrected in the other PBW games now.

Your solid shield warships are quite annoying. My hastily assembled defense lines haven't been able to scratch them significantly.
Intel bombs are slowly whittling down the fleet, but they damage is already extensive.
A wave of carriers and my new "Gravol" ships will be making a final stand in the next few turns.

I suspect the other races are not helping, since they know the Heap will be unstoppable if they win this.

[Atrocities]

This reads like a good naval novel.

[Puke]

bah. bloody hell. all that work subjugating a race so that I would have a puppet empire to fire the first shot at you. I'm guessing it didnt work out that way.

you should have seen it, the glory of the master plan. the other major power was the guy in the south-east, and his only hope was if he carved out a chunk of your empire for himself. that, or if he went to war with Mac.

man, you should have seen the look that would have been on your face, if a fleet of Heap warships (belonging to another empire) attacked you while we still had a treaty. It would have been beauty-licious.

[Suicide Junkie]

I'm surprised. Even with me believing you were an honorable ally, the other players are much softer targets, and with more territory the Heap would become unstoppable.

[Puke]

yeah, i planned on being an honerable ally, until you started running intel projects against me. then i started worrying about who the biggest threat was.

I'm insecure, so I try to never break trusts or betray allies. But I'm also overly suspicious, and always imagine people plotting against me. Its easy enough in CBM to run un-traceable intel attacks. I had a few that I knew came from you, and alot that I couldnt identify. It sure looked to me like you were planning on stabbubg your honerable ally in the back.

I had actually originally planned on using my "forign fleet" to aid you against the guys in the south-east, but then you blew up my ship and the hostile projects started coming in...

wither or not it was all justified, or if it was all just a big misunderstanding, i still think it makes for a rather epic tale. keep me posted on how the war is going!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Atrocities said:
This reads like a good naval novel.

Seconded.

What is the Heap? A powerful race or something? Space Monsters?

[Puke]

what, never been in a PBW game with me? The Nausea Heap has been my trademark empire for the last five years!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

I've never signed up for PBW in the first place.

I prefer to just mod the game, rather than play it Anyways I suck at the game (result of lack of play) and as such am often faced with un-overcome-able opponents relying on stock (or basic mod) AI.