New Dawn - EA Dawn of Dominions

[lch]

Resetting the server, one last time...

[Mind Elemental]

Many apologies; I could have sworn I'd uploaded my turn last weekend. I know I played and saved it, at any rate, so there was a 2H to upload...

As for my response, well, it's a pretty nasty situation, isn't it? I'm sticking on more out of sheer doggedness (I've come THIS far, and I don't want to go AI and really skew the game) than because I hope to go on a rampage, at this stage.

[vfb]

Oceania is defeated, and in defeat, our Pretender has truly gone insane.

I, Uz, Prophet of the Insane Watcher, cannot bear to see our nation's decline, and will take my own life in a month's time. The last year I have spent constructing an aquatic automaton. Its artificial mind of gears and hydraulics will provide the remnants of our army with their marching orders, so that they may have a quick death rather than suffer further pain and humiliation.

But my horrible curiosity forces me to watch at least once the Kraken of Doom fly through the skies, with poison in its wake, the moon its madness, and the karabos curse already feasting on his brain.

So have I spoken, Uz of Oceania, and you will not hear my voice again.

[lch]

Mmhm. Basically Mind Elemental is saying that he's only continuing to play because he feels indebted to do it, vfb is going AI which isn't coming as a surprise considering his last turns screamed "attack me, naow!", and while Kailasa has just started taking their bog beast army for a walk through my provinces and Agartha is sending a number of Umbrals to knock at the doors of Arcoscephale again, I am not overwhelmed by a concerted attack of all the other nations like I was expecting and prepared to fight.

I do admit that turns have become a chore now (the astral corruption isn't helping). I know that I have most of the interesting unique artifacts in my possession, my god just completed to forge the Gate Stone this turn (and evaded two horrors after that), I wished the Chalice away from Kailasa which provided me with a number of affliction-free Tartarians and a dozen of them who are still waiting to get GoR'ed, I have the Medusa Shield, almost all the unique boosters like Forbidden Light except most of the tomes, all the elemental royalty that I cared about except one of the earth kings, all the Caelian Spentas, a dozen Abominations and the means to get more, and so on, but since I know that that this game is still a lot of turns away from being won. Should we save ourselves a lot of time and just call the game quits, maybe after one more hosting in case anybody wants to try something they've been holding back (like me giving Master Enslave a shot)?

With Oceania going AI I don't see like there's going to happen much interesting anymore. Vanheim is almost gone and AI, too, Kailasa hasn't moved much and doesn't seem to be inclined to change that, Agartha is bigger than I imagined, judging from my recent scouting reports, but still seems to be lacking the end-game firepower, Arco has lost much of its former power. I'd be able to sit out most sieges behind the castle walls and I can probably take new provinces faster than I am losing them... (when I'm not staling )

So, what do you others think? Take the timer off and host once more?

[Mind Elemental]

Well, it's up to Kailasa and Agartha. I think Kailasa, at least, wants to fight on. I have a couple of last "blaze of glory" things that I was saving, and never got a suitable opportunity to use. If I pulled them out now, the results would probably be less than spectacular, mind you...

[vfb]

I've got a blaze of glory to kick off too, I'd really like to see my squid get turned into sushi. So just one more turn for me please. And then I'll go AI.

[Randvek]

I could go either way. I think I've got a pretty good defense right now, but I really lack any sort of ability to lash out meaningfully. Caelum can more or less ignore me as I retake old Arco real estate, then finish me off when no one else is left.

I think my current position just screams "second place, and not much you can do about it."

[lch]

Alright, let's continue the game then. That's fine by me. I'll just reset the timer now because I didn't find any time to play lately.

[lch]

Very strange - the server segfaults. But I don't really see a reason for that. I'll investigate this later. Sleep first.

[lch]

I fixed the problems with the server. Won't play my turn before tomorrow, though, I am currently setting up new games.