No Diplo EA Game - No Wankers Allowed - Game Over, Baalz/Abysia Wins

[GrudgeBringer]

I'm good with it..

[Aethyr]

A good plan--thanks Calahan.

[zultor]

works for me, thanks

[Calahan]

Ok everyone, I've changed the hosting schedule to 240hours until the New Year to accommodate all the various delays/schedule requests I've had. The current deadline is now 11:25 GMT Sunday 2nd January, but the turns will continue to host if everyone gets their turns in.

Hope you all enjoy the holidays and New Year.

[Calahan]

@ All (Happy New Year)

Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays but now that they are over, it's time to get this game running on a normal schedule again.

I have now switched the timer back to 48 hours, although this won't take effect until the next turn, as the llamaserver doesn't reduce the hosting deadline unless you specifically tell it to . And I won't reduce the deadline since I don't believe a deadline should ever be reduced, as it causes too many potential problems. But I will chase-up and get annoyed with anyone who I suspect is "having a laugh" with submitting their turn, as I want the current turn to host well before the 12th Jan deadline. So can I please ask you all not to get silly with turn submissions just because you have a generous deadline.

(As a note, I was going to switch the schedule back to 48 hours at some point while it was on 240 hours. But was afraid of doing it too early in case the game hosted while I was away (since I knew I was going to be away at various points during the holidays). I did intend to switch it back yesterday, but got back from my New Year's trip a day later than I expected, and missed the chance as a result. Hence the stupid deadline this turn. So apologies for that. Anyway....)


The New Year also brings with it the game's first casualty in the shape of Arco, which was played by Herode. Thank you for playing Herode, hope you enjoyed the game

The first player out also prompts me to remind you all that if/when you are eliminated, please do not post anything in the thread that might affect the game for others. ie. Do not post which nation killed you, or any such similar information or game intel that other players should not know about.

(the first casualty also reminds me that I need to sort out the OP, as it has shamefully been on my to-do list for too long now, so I'll try and get on that today if I can.)

[Herode]

Hi there, ladies & gentlemen, I wish you a happy new year

I did enjoy the game, thanks to Calahan for admining and congrats to my opponent for having given me an interesting (to say the least ) challenge !

Have fun and be wild !

H. from Arcoscephale

[Baalz]

Thanks for the bang up job admining Calahan. Your efforts are making sure that a great game is had by all and its much appreciated!

[Calahan]

My spies inform me that the game is heating up, as the second nation was eliminated this turn. With Mictlan's demise coming hot on the tail of Arco's. So I can now reveal that Mictlan was played by your game organiser Executor.

(I will be sorting out the OP straight after I finish this post, so expect to see an update shortly)

Originally Posted by Baalz

Thanks for the bang up job admining Calahan. Your efforts are making sure that a great game is had by all and its much appreciated!

Thanks Baalz. I just hope my efforts as admin are having some positive effects on how enjoyable everyone is finding the game. I am very happy though that the game is this far in without any sort of problems having occurred, plus the all important zero showing by the dreaded AI

So while I have the chance, I'd like to thank everyone if I can for so-far sticking to the extensive set of player rules I sent out. I only ask that you all please keep it up, as it makes my job as admin a lot easier, and hopefully, the game more enjoyable for everyone. With the latter being the most important aspect of course

[Executor]

Well that was interesting.
I hope I managed to stir up some trouble at least before I went down.
Apologies to nations X, Y and Z for possibly depriving them of some provinces or getting them into war with my conquerors I hope?
To nation X, seeing my scout (quite regular) capture a province with 30 troops in it, given half set to retreat, but still, was the funniest and weirdest battle I have ever seen in Dominions.
I watched it over and over again, it was ridiculous. Now the reason I did that is because that was originally my province before the barbarians took over and I was forced to abandon it due to, well war. So don't hold a grudge.

To my main enemy, it is my firm belief that had you attack just two turns later you would have lost. Indeed I planned to attack you 2-3 turns after you started your attack on me, but by the time I managed to pull my forces together one fort had already fallen and I lost my archer backup and one part of my army sadly.
Perhaps I should have anticipated that with a large army on my border for several turns but it was only turn 12 or so.

Second, I curse the bastard who stole my merc army just before the main clash with my invader, they were a very important part of the army! BTW, you must have had crazy money to overbid on them.

Third, regarding that big battle, it worked out much better with my missing part of the army and my mages casting harm on someone that could actually be affected. (I won it in my test battles, go figure)
I'll just add that to luck, well misfortune rather.
And I was torn on whether I should have confronted you on a winner takes all in my lands, or make a move toward your cap while you chase me back. Wrong decision I guess with my army being weakened and getting attacked by another nation.

All in all, even with luck 3 I have never had such bad luck in a game, with 3 indie attacks, famines, migrations in my cap, constant unrest events and gold losing event and all other crap by turn 20.
The only positive thing I got out of luck 3 were gems, which proved to be unusable in the end due to lack of research, and mages...sigh
Heh, and it's quite funny when you pull all your remaining cash into PD, well rather alchemize ALL gems since you can't use them, to about 60-70 PD if I remember and than "the people suddenly revolt" and you lose that province. That, heh, that was nice...

Well good luck to the rest of you.

Also, Calahan is still the main admin and his word is the word of God for this game, however should he become unreachable for some reason I'm still here to sort out trouble, grant delays, look for subs, etc...

Cheers all.

BTW, OP updated.

[Baalz]

Originally Posted by Executor

All in all, even with luck 3 I have never had such bad luck in a game, with 3 indie attacks, famines, migrations in my cap, constant unrest events and gold losing event and all other crap by turn 20.
The only positive thing I got out of luck 3 were gems, which proved to be unusable in the end due to lack of research, and mages...sigh
Heh, and it's quite funny when you pull all your remaining cash into PD, well rather alchemize ALL gems since you can't use them, to about 60-70 PD if I remember and than "the people suddenly revolt" and you lose that province. That, heh, that was nice...

Yeah, I've had this same experience, and recently I've come to think it's tied to the conventional (and I think wrong) idea that it's a good idea to take luck-3 scales with awful other scales. The reason this ends up being a bad idea is because the best/worst events are tied to scales. If you have 4 good events they may be unrest is reduced, or your dominion expanded then you get 1 bad event that barbarians attacked or half your population died. You're getting many more good events but the impact of the fewer bad ones is much more significant. With crappy other scales I think you'll generally come up well head to go with neutral order/luck rather than turmoil-3/luck-3...