family vs family, the rematch

[The Panther]

When I get some free time tomorrow, I will try out some other R'lyeh pretenders and see if I can get one without the scale bug. If not, then I will probably change nations.

[Zooko]

In my test universes R'lyeh often climbs in the "provinces" charts even without hiring mercenaries. It seems to capture its first province by attacking on turn 2 or turn 3 sometimes! So I think there must be some combination of R'lyeh national troops that is effective.

Regards,

Bwon the Goddess of Balance and Perfection

[Zooko]

P.S. I know that the scale bug is a mostly separate issue from the Triton-bait issue. Just chatting.

--Bwon

[Zooko]

Oh, I know! Redesign your nation and take all bad scales, spending the points on other things. Then if you hit the bug which turns off your scales you'll be happy about it!

--B

[The Panther]

Yeah, except the bad scales always seem to work. It is the good ones that are lost.

Anyway, I redesigned my pretender and checked it out. It seemed to be working fine. Alneyan cheched it also and did not see the bug on his computer. It therefore appears to be a bugged Pretender. So - don't use the Void Lurker!

The game has begun once again.

[Zooko]

ARGH. "Stale turn. Your 2h file was from another saved game. You have not given any new orders this turn.".

Can we please restart one last time?

[Alneyan]

Odd. Very odd. Truly odd. Not sure why Dominions didn't use your file. No need to restart though, I will just try to see what went wrong, and/or you will submit another turn file for turn 1.

[The Panther]

ARRGH!!! The new turn 2 is bugged also!!!

I have never seen a game so hard to get going.

[Zooko]

In the beginning, there was chaos.

[Zooko]

So, in the newnewnewnewnewnewnew game that Alneyan sent, it appeared to me that we were using a different map. A wrap-around map with almost no water provinces.

Is it just me?