The Worst Things That Can Happen

douglas · #1 March 30th, 2005, 10:20 PM

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Renegade 13 said:

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douglas said:
17. A player you've been ignoring for a long time simultaneously sends a star destroyer to every system in your empire with no warning, and you've neglected to build system gravitational shield facilities.
18. He does it to your partner at the same time. Your partner has also neglected system gravitational shield facilities. The fact that your greatest enemy is yet another victim is only minor consolation.

40. You are the player that numbers 17 and 18 happened to

Hehe that still stings!

Look on the bright side: you learned a very important lesson in a way you're not likely to forget. Will you ever neglect to build system gravitational shield facilities again?

Atrocities · #2 March 31st, 2005, 01:59 AM

49. You amase an impressive empire and are heavily addicted to the game only to hit the 100 turn limit on the demo and suffor the pains of withdrawal as you wait for your out of print copy of SE IV to snail mail its way to you.
50. Your playing along and all of a sudden you hear a loud popping sound followed by a dry screech croming from your CDRom drive. You pop it own to see that your copy of SE IV has been ground into reflective dust. (Then you go to order a new copy and find out that there are no more copies available the game, after nearly a five year run, is now out of print and sold out.)

Strategia_In_Ultima · #3 April 12th, 2005, 05:27 AM

'Scuse me, but I don't really get that.....

Renegade 13 · #4 March 31st, 2005, 02:41 AM

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douglas said:
Look on the bright side: you learned a very important lesson in a way you're not likely to forget. Will you ever neglect to build system gravitational shield facilities again?

Indeed

Atrocities · #5 March 31st, 2005, 03:10 AM

I once bluffed the second leading player into surrending his empire by placing cloaked ships on all of his stars and then telling him to surrender or watch his empire die. He withdrew from the game and messaged me telling me that I was a no-good cheating bastard...... I messaged him back telling informing him no, I was a damn good poker player.

I tried this again and a player called my bluff. I had only one star killer and I used it as an example. In response the player, and notice I am not mentioning names here, abandoned most of his smaller worlds and scapped about 80% of his fleet. He then surrendered to my enemy.

I no longer bluff. I give then one chance, if they do not comply, I end their civilization on the next turn.