MP ANDalusian Sun: Lolomo wins after more than 2 years of gruelling competition! - Page 25

Dimaz · #1 August 30th, 2011, 01:52 PM

Maerlande asked me to post a message here that he subs one of the nations in the game so you shouldn't talk to him about game situations in IRC or other forum. Thanks Maerlande for following the anonymity rule.

Dimaz · #2 September 5th, 2011, 01:19 AM

Mictlan player asked me to find a temp sub until 12th, however looking at the score graphs I don't think it's a good idea to sub at this stage of a game for such short period. He said he'll be able to do the turns anyway (probably he just needs more time to do better ones), so I think we should extend hosting intervals until 12th (or remove the timer at all) so he can do proper turns. Mictlan, please PM me if you agree. If anyone has objections, please post here.

Dimaz · #3 September 16th, 2011, 01:13 AM

Hosting postponed for ANDalusian_Sun by 24 hours. The game will now host at 12:25 GMT on Saturday September 17th.

Amhazair · #4 September 26th, 2011, 02:50 PM

Turn 68 sees the demise of Jomon, Broken swords, which was played by your gracious game-organiser. (With a cameo from Executor during my holliday in august, which was just after I lost the battle for my capital.) I'll post a short-and-little-detailed account of my demise later. In the meantime: good luck for the remaining contenders, looks like it could be an exiting endgame for y'all. (Well, maybe not so much so for Utgard, buy you catch my drift.)

Dimaz · #5 September 27th, 2011, 02:03 PM

Hosting postponed for ANDalusian_Sun by 24 hours. The game will now host at 04:20 GMT on Friday September 30th.

WraithLord · #6 October 4th, 2011, 05:58 AM

Who was Utgard?

don_Pablo · #7 October 4th, 2011, 10:35 AM

Me.

That was my second attempt to try SoAP-based strategy (Strands of Arcane Power).
Now I see that there's no future if your nation hasn't blood-sac.
I supposed that minimum requirements are:
- mages who could use good spells from Evo6-7
- infantry, able to expand early and without support
- income of astral gems

OK.
That was an interesting game.
GL all!

WraithLord · #8 October 4th, 2011, 10:43 AM

I'm taking care not to breach anonymity but isn't early SoAP coupled with strong dominion bound to anger your neighbors?

Anyway kudos for the courage to try something new

Amhazair · #9 October 4th, 2011, 02:06 PM

Yeah, was intresting to see it play out, and looking in from the outside it seemed to work at first, (with a quick increase in gem income after casting it, and your mages netherbolting Patala to death) before flatlining, I assume from not being able to expend your dominion into new territory. Heavy dominion is very expensive with regular rainbows too, so I assume you're right about the blood-sac being mandotory. (Never having thought about an early SoAP ploy before seeing you try it.)

Edit: In response to WL: Wouldn't playing a blood-saccing nation allow you to more or less control where you push your dominion and where not, thus keeping your dominion mostly confined to your own borders if you wanted to? (Particularly with middling base dominion.)

Edited again: Has Don_Pablo been completely elliminated, or just gone AI with his last remnants? (For accurate OP bookkeeping.)

Dimaz · #10 October 5th, 2011, 01:13 AM

One of the players has important RL duties during the next 2 weeks

so he asked me to remove the timer for this period. Unfortunately I don't know how to do it or if it's possible at all, so I just changed the hosting interval to 120h:
The hosting interval for ANDalusian_Sun has now been changed to 120 hours, and the deadline for the next hosting has been automatically postponed by 48 hours.
I'll change it back to 72h after 18th if there are no objections.