Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by Asmala:
The reason is simple: my ships were more advanced and more experienced. For example PBB 5 vs DUC 5, ECM 2 vs ECM 1, Combat Sensors 2 vs none. And I had trained my ships.

Advanced... yes. But that fleet was trained to 20% and each ship was also 20%. I still should have lost, however.

You have had your fair share of luck. I can't figure out how your ships slip past mine throughout this game when we start out adjacently, and I am player #1???

I am completely astounded at how you have so much tech, and so quickly. And I have played many, many games. I just hope you are doing it fairly. If so, my compliments.

[Asmala]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:
I am completely astounded at how you have so much tech, and so quickly. And I have played many, many games. I just hope you are doing it fairly. If so, my compliments.

I have much tech because I have much research points. I don't know how much research points you produce but I guess it's much less than my 83k. And I have research centers under construction at six planets so my research output increase 3k per turn.

When I entered Zanthris system I was amazed: there was three empty large planets! I really wondered why you haven't colonized them. If you have more empty planets in your inner systems that'll be one of the most important reasons why my ships are more advanced.

One important reason is the oxygen breathing population that I captured from you. It brought to me over 100 new facility slots.

Finally I'd like to say that I never cheat. If you want to see it I can send all the save game files (I have all of them stored in my Outlook Express' deleted folder) and my password to you after the game.

[primitive]

Hello everybody - this is your friendly sportscaster again.

We are comming to you live from the "Sky high arena" located at the very top of the hill, to follow the ongoing Kingship match. The stakes are high - For the winner: a chanche to keep the crown nice and shiny until Primitive comes and takes it away. For the looser: A long tumble down to the gutter, where he will have to face the scum of the earth for a chance to ascend the hill again.

The contestants:
In the red corner; raigning King and keeper of the crown, the bad Elvis impersonator: Stone Mill
In the blue corner; the young contender, the laughing Hyena: Asmala

Before we join the match in progress, here is a recap;
The initial rounds showed the contestants to have great respect for each other - very polite posting - the usual boring stuff.

By round 4 the match has heated up considerally, the arena is buzzing when post like:
- Well, if you can get away with them... and
- Of course I can. How do you think you can prevent me?

This is truly a machup of gigantic proportions and the spectators follows every move with bated breath.

We goes to the live action:
Ouch, The laughing Hyena goes on the attack with a badly phrased post (which could be seen as) containg gloating, a weapon outlawed by the arrangers as a WMD. This really hurt the King, who responds with another badly phrased post (which could be seen as) containg accusations of cheating.

Hey guys, its just a game.

[Asmala]

2404.2
Technology Minister: We have achieved Tech Level 2 in Ship Construction, sire.

This was a milestone at the history of Black Hole Riders empire

And Primitive, did it truly heard that I was so serious about that game?

[primitive]

Of course not.
It was just a comment about the choice of words.

Your post about the great battle was a little gloating, and I'm pretty sure Stone Mill didn't mean to accuse You of cheating. That's all.

[Stone Mill]

You mean I will have to hang out with the scum again? Ack!

It certainly may look that way...

Well the good news is that it looks like if (when?) Asmala finishes me off... your new King well be even cockier than the former. Ouch, you are putting the boots to a guy who is down...

But not completely without hope. If lady luck swings my way.

Asmala, you played this one out really really well. You used a strat I wasn't ready for, and by the time I compensated, you had the left hand ready. I'm impressed. And you were so bloody lucky (sweeping minefields with barely enough sweepers... one more turn and they'd be dead). And out-guessing me on a few moves.

Not that that means much from a bad Elvis impersonator. The King, battered and wounded (ego, worst of all) pulls himself up to continue the fight. However, he sends several servants to have his bags ready, just in case.

[Slynky]

Originally posted by primitive:
Ouch, The laughing Hyena goes on the attack with a badly phrased post (which could be seen as) containg gloating, a weapon outlawed by the arrangers as a WMD.

Hey guys, its just a game.

I'm afraid I may have to take some of the blame for that. I think I have have been interested in how Asmala was doing to the point of requesting some Posts here. I may have built him up some and he may have wanted to live up to it.

In a world where 17-year-olds play PS II and the assorted skateboard games intermingled with 1st-person shooter games, it's a breath of fresh air to see one undertake a strategy game (dominated by much older peeps) and do darn well at it.

He's has beaten me twice (once I may have been able to win against him but I withdrew to regroup after I had, I think, the upper-hand and he took advantage of it).

Whenever he did some tricky stuff, I asked him how he did it and he always sent long Messages explaining. I sent him the game between you and me for comments...and he typed nearly a whole screen of advice. Tips and such.

So, I like the guy from Finland. He learns fast and plays in about 5 games at any given time, goes to school in the week, works on the weekends and STILL manages to be much better at getting turns in than some of the people I am "plagued" with in my current games.

So, if his message came across as bragging a bit, I can't say I blame him much. He should feel proud of his ability and I asked for updates.

(steps off soapbox)

[BBegemott]

I resigned my KOTH 1.49 game. Congratulations, Yurloy.

Back to the bottom I go. Oh, I see Pablo is awaiting for rematch and here we go again.

[geoschmo]

Slynky, you can't forfeit a win in the first 5 turns. Well, you can withdraw but Drieko won't get a win for it.

Let me try to get a hold of him and find out what's going on.

Geoschmo

[Slynky]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Slynky, you can't forfeit a win in the first 5 turns. Well, you can withdraw but Drieko won't get a win for it.

Let me try to get a hold of him and find out what's going on.

Geoschmo

Well, I suppose you can try. But I sent him an email and have no reply. That was about 5 or 6 days ago. If a person wants to play, they will find time. If a person can't find time, there's just not much that can be done, is there?

I'm not saying it needs to go as fast as the game bewteen Primitive and me (61 turns in 4 days) but I would think a person could expect 2 turns a day. Barring that, I would expect a person to say, "I have a business trip next week...I'll be back at the end of the week." I would also expect that to be somewhat infrequent. (I say that now, but I know I have to start traveling to install computers in 3 or 4 states next month )