Ruff02 - Concurrent Succession Game

ruff_hi · Jun 15, 2006

I will be playing and posting tonight.

Mutineer · Jun 15, 2006

Sorry folk, I useally do on weekend, but save was not avalible, so I can not this week.

ruff_hi · Jun 16, 2006

I didn't get to this game last night. Guess I vote for Knupp's save. Please post and I absolutely promise to play it this week end. I might even play it twice to catch up.

knupp715 · Jun 16, 2006

I win the competition for this week. :lol:

Here is the save.

Mutineer · Jun 16, 2006

Turn report.

Spoiler :

pholkhero · Jun 19, 2006

I just got back from a small holiday this weekend, so i'll can play tonight, but really, with this being the only save so far, why don't you just end the game Mutineer, or post the save and one of us will end it ~ this has been a long crazy trip :crazyeye:

so let's end it ~

ruff_hi · Jun 20, 2006

Here is my turn set ...

Spoiler hidden write up hee hee :

bobrath · Jun 20, 2006

Here's my go at it

Spoiler :

I spent these turns trying to set us up for a domination win. With these islands, that means lots of settlers and a police state with boku culture. So that's what I went and did. Minimal military builds.

I did complete Pentagon (everyone will do this), Statue of Liberty, and Broadway (National Epic on our food crazy island Calcutta and Hermitage in Karachi). Eiffel Tower should complete in the coming turns along with Rock N Roll and The Kremlin.

I did revolt to and from and back to emancipation (slavery in between) - trying to use our spiritual trait to the best. We popped two Great Prophets and one Great Scientist which means we went through a Golden Age and have a GP waiting around.

Oh downside... there still a barb city up there. Didn't bring enough units to finish it off against ugly RNG results (lost two 80%+ combats). So next player can take over that jewel at their leisure.

Research completed on Physics, Electricity, Refrigeration, Radio, Communism, Combusion, and working on Industrialism. So yes, we're in the Modern Era. I was also informed that we're the most advanced...HC, then Peter, then Bismark in order behind us. We're running +200 at 70% research.

Switching to Police State made a huge difference in our GNP, but you can also see in the in game graph that it helped the AIs that we switched out of mercantillism. We're nearly up to GA levels on our GNP tho, so I suspect its worth it.

Founded 4 more cities on or neat the poles. Taking advantage of food resources to make sure they'll grow. Couple workboats and galleons with Missionaries on gotos to help them out.

No real need for a world map cause... it just didn't change all that much. Here's the victory conditions:

I suspect that to win by domination we'll have to remove at Peter and one of the others... at that point, it might be more fun to just go conquest. We can backdoor domination if someone wants to build the UN.

Spoiler :

chriseay · Jun 21, 2006

I'm back, and I guess I can play this set if that's the plan. Otherwise, just slot me in whereever Ruff.

bobrath · Jun 21, 2006

Anyone can pick up and play chriseay. Just get it in asap.

ruff_hi · Jun 23, 2006

Voting Time.

Candidates
Mutineer
Ruff (1)
Bobrath

I vote for myself because, from my save, the game will be finished in 2 turns.

pholkhero · Jun 23, 2006

Seconded ~ I realized after i read Mutineer's, i shouldn't have

but with the game so close to the end . . .

Candidates
Mutineer
Ruff (2)
Bobrath

bobrath · Jun 24, 2006

yah... ruffs ftw

Mutineer · Jun 24, 2006

Go Ruff, finish game! I hope.

ruff_hi · Jun 24, 2006

Here is the save. Only two turns to go for the result.

Mutineer · Jun 24, 2006

Spoiler :

ruff_hi · Jun 24, 2006

YAY! Time for a game wrap up. Well played all!

I felt that I learnt alot though this game - whip, draft, etc. Different outcomes over just 20 turns. Some were really different (me whiping out Khan, others losing cities to him) while some were very similar.

I felt that the interest did drop off at the end.

Anyone got any other comments?

pholkhero · Jun 24, 2006

looking back on the game, we really did come a long way ~ remember when we first discovered Kahn about 20 tiles away :eek:

it was really good to compare and contrast everything, esp where we DID diverge quite a bit.

the concurrent format, i think, needs work, but since this was teh first one i'd ever seen on the board, it could be considered teh 'alpha' phase ~ to hold interest longer, there needs to be a quicker game turn-around, i think...something like, 2 days to decide and the normal 24/48 turn-around rule may help.

knupp715 · Jun 24, 2006

Nicely played. This game was really interesting. It's great how we all came up with such different saves each week. I like this format, but I do agree a lot of interest was lost at the end. I'd like to see more people play the concurrent format.

bobrath · Jun 25, 2006

Early on it was indeed fun - but the concept of switching out teams every two turns... made it hard to remember when was my turn. That being said, the end where everyone got a chance to play if they could seemed more natural. You'd just want to do it with a slightly smaller group of folks.

Combine an "everyone that wants to plays" and a shorter time frame (say 2-3 days to play and post) and you might have a more succesful outcome.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their insights and play styles.

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