What do you like to do when you're not dead yet? - Page 4

Gandalf Parker · #1 January 8th, 2009, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by vfb

There's the excellent Sheap's rules post, but it never got stickied:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=32050

Added to the MP server sticky altho eventually a merger of both sets might be best.

lch · #2 January 9th, 2009, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vfb

There's the excellent Sheap's rules post, but it never got stickied:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=32050

It always was in the Strategy Index sticky, though.

Grottnikk · #3 January 8th, 2009, 01:32 PM

You remember in Scooby Doo when at the end of every episode the bad guy says, "And I'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you pesky kids!". I like to be those pesky kids.

I often play nations with sneaky troops, so I like to be the thorn in the side of whoever has gotten too big for their britches. Even when it looks like the end is nigh, I just might have a few hundred troops sitting 10 provinces away from your conquering army. Kinda like a LOLcat, "I'm behind ur linez! Infiltratin' yer provincez!"

But yes, I would definitely screw with whoever was killing me as much as possible before they finished me off.

Sombre · #4 January 8th, 2009, 01:42 PM

A few hundred troops = a light snack to a teleporting SC.

thejeff · #5 January 8th, 2009, 01:46 PM

But a few hundred stealth troops are hard to hit, even with a teleporter.

Illuminated One · #6 January 8th, 2009, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by WingedDog

never threat a war to player in another game for some actions he made in current game; never give gold, gems or items to another player in one game in order to receive gold, gems or items from him in another game

Lol!
I'd never have thought of that.
Ok, I wouldn't do it but it's a very funny idea.

thejeff · #7 January 8th, 2009, 02:22 PM

Gandalf, are you actually saying you've been reduced to no provinces and kept playing?

I rarely keep playing that long, but I know one of the messages you get when an AI loses is something about not ruling any provinces. I'll grant that the AI is unlikely to have stealth preachers hidden away, but I assumed the message was specific about the cause.

Should be near impossible to actually destroy Vanheim then. Uber stealth preachers hidden throughout the world and just watch the rest of the game.
Lack of income will eventually remove any troops, but shouldn't effect commanders.

Micah · #8 January 8th, 2009, 02:27 PM

Always to the last man, but the degree of spite that goes with it depends on the situation...I've done the whole spectrum from pillaging my own provinces on the way out after being backstabbed to donating gems to my conqueror when I lost the war I started with him. A more or less fair and justified war will generally get a donation to the enemy of my enemy but relatively pristine provinces.

DonCorazon · #9 January 8th, 2009, 06:25 PM

I have become a convert to the last man philosophy. I will never go AI. Also, degree of aggression on my part depends on the circumstances. If the aggresor is someone I was trying to make peace with then but they attacked anyway, then I will do all I can to harm them and help their foes.

If it was a war that I instigated (something I do on ocassion

)that went sour - god forbid, I might even give my enemy my gems to help keep them in the race, since it always bothers me how turtlers or dogpilers have an edge over those who fight a fair one on one war (rare as those may be).

I think people underestimate how hard it can be to take a capital, so even when you have been knocked out of a game, you can still make it pretty tough for your enemy to capture the jewel of your nation - the capital - if you just stick it out. Too many people just go AI after losing a few provinces.

It can be fun just to see how long you can stay alive. And turns certainly are easy when you are down to one province.

Gandalf Parker · #10 January 8th, 2009, 06:40 PM

I think Id generally prefer that people play it out.

Do not go quietly into the night
rage rage rage against the dying of the light - Dylan Thomas
What does that mean? It means dont be a putz and quit the
multiplayer game before all of your candles are snuffed!

On the other hand, if people would go AI when they quit a server game then all of the dominions servers would be much easier to "clean up" and keep only currently played games going on.