MP Game - New Mosehansen Game - hard_slog

[archaeolept]

well, you've only had two stales, as opposed to one for me, and the first of them I avoided trying to wipe out your army.

the second time however I wasn't so sympathetic...

still an entertaining and difficult war all around, no doubt.

you could start a thread looking for a temporary sub, or ask around in #dominions on irc.gamesurge.net.

[Ozymandias]

Well it's my first real war in mp (belle_air has been surprisingly peaceful) and I'm still quite enjoying it.

[archaeolept]

there's some entertaining wars going on, no doubt. I think Boron should be difficult to stop though, as he has been unmolested the whole game, and likely has blood going strong, as well as his crazy castling.

However, the reason for this post is that Tauren still hasn't set Mictlan to AI, even though I was quite explicit in the PM's when he took over T'ien Chi a few turns ago. I know he probably feels mictlan is too minor for it to be a problem, but it really is illegitimate. I'm glad he's running t'ien chi, since t'ien still has a significant position in the game, but I'm going to have to have someone set Mictlan to AI for him.

sorry Tauren, but you can't reasonably play two nations in the same game. Now, luckily, the AI will probably continue doing exactly what you have been doing - building a small raiding force, and proceding to cause grief to the vans

[Aku]

Well Tien Chi is getting rampaged by myself(marignon) and pythium. I bet Tien Chi would die faster than mictlan lol. Just let him keep Mictlan, its not like he is staling his turns. It wouldn't be right to turn someone AI because they want to fight to the bitter end.

Tauren is never the Last person to do his turn so he isn't holding up the game at all so I don't see what the problem is. Yeah the AI can do the same thing and defend but if he is having fun doing what he is doing then let him play because either scenerio is the same for you arch.

[archaeolept]

well, its just generally not right to have someone control two nations. I wasn't aware that tien chi was being steamrollered though. i'm open to following the general will on this; its not like I would expect Mictlan to be able to do much differently as either played or AI.

[Aku]

yeah tien chi before tauren subbed went aggressive on pythium bec pythium and i our armies accidently collied and pythium took heavy losses

tien chi invaded pythium and i gave pythium aid by invading tien chi

tien chi has like no hope to winning, pythium and i both border tien chi's capital also now lol

tien chi = 0% chance survival

[Truper]

To me there are two priciples involved. The 1st is that one player doesn't play two nations in the same game. The advantages over other players are obvious. The 2nd is that if a player agrees to set a nation to AI as condition for taking over another nation in the same game, then that player ought to be true to their word.

As far as I know, the player involved hasn't responded at all to our host's attempts to get him to set Mictlan to AI as he agreed to do, and this is also objectionable.

I agree that the relative feebleness of both nations is a mitigating factor, but on balance, I think its beside the point. I wouldn't mind seeing both nations set to AI using the master password.