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Happy Birthday Tachy!! Mine was only few days ago... Haaaaappy Birthday tooooo yoooouu!!!

Thanks! Sorry, I've just been busy with RL, have a university interview to prepare for which is on Tuesday!

I would have explained why the Oracle is better, but I got into the arguing mood with Ben J attacking me instantly. You don't like to argue?!@ Something is wrong with you, besides the only people I can learn anything about the game from are you, the 2 main members of PD, and Sun Tzu, and the other HoFers who are on another level. So basically S&T equals no new knowledge for me, and is a place to troll.

Been to Chinese restaurant 3 times in my life and never got a fortune cookie.

Do you need to order it?
Funny, I got Chinese sticks for memory every time.

This level of wisdom comes with birth, awkward teenage almost emo phase, and parenting.

Well, your team members usually don't speak outside of SGOTM.
Notice also how you can't get duly respect if you joined past 2009.
People have formed their opinions and everything now is matter of tradition not accomplishments.
When you humble yourself, like you do, others humble you too, although you have so much more proofs behind you.

BiC's intentions are always friendly.

Are you serious or just trolling.
Or trying to keep drama queen level now My is on vacation?

I really don't have any intention to undermine your efforts. I just think I can't compete with your game.
Also, I am considering learning choke strategies. That is waaay past my comfort zone.

Why so serious?

Lol. Worry not.
Only friendly feelings toward you.

Not sure if I follow. What I meant it's easier to give advices to noobs rather then to advanced players.

Now, what are you trying to say?

It's just Ben J he just argues to argue. I think he just follows what some players who know how to really leverage long term gains. But I still don't think leveraging long term gains for a boost will ever beat leveraging the snowball correctly.

Didn't get it

I am simply frustrated. No way to compete with that start. Your game is too beautiful. Beautiful to corruption. Moscow is such a great site and earlier you get it the greater the impact. Especially if you are in expansion phase. And, now, Oracle and GLH are still available. Simply, too much.

Why do people not understand a large benefit now will always provide a larger gain than a bigger benefit over time.

I not planning to target him again. At least not the way I did last time. I've got some reverse-psychology coming for the anti-Inca camp. I can't let them play a couple easy Emp/Imm Inca games say "See. the Inca are too powerful and need to banned from everything." If they want to make that claim, they're going to have to work for it.

I assume you are referring to the Immortal space game? I will check it out.

P.S. I used Tachy inspired aggressive worker stealing to post a very good BOTM game, but the slavery greed was the death of me in the recent GOTM!

But now I have all this wonderful new code to merge in (fortunately C2C and K-Mod release their code publically at the moment, heh), and I still LOVE having the best SDK available.

I'm not overly fond of writing AI code b/c it's annoying and difficult and there have usually been other people around working on it too, but if it doesn't take too long I'd be thrilled to fix that issue for you.

Anyway, please check out 4.1 when it's done; I'm really REALLY excited about it.

Well, I'm ALWAYS looking for ways to make my mod better - and by extension, better than the other mods out there, lol.

I kind of fell into a rut the last few years with respect to this sort of thing though. Once JDog stopped maintaining his Better BTS AI project, I had no centralized source of AI fixes to look to for constant updates, and was less inspired to work on the AI code myself as a result, since I liked contributing to BBAI.

I have ALSO been completely swamped with making non-AI-related improvements to my mod since then. Version 4.0 was my biggest single update EVER, and my current, almost-finished 4.1 update has steadily grown into now being my second biggest update ever, basically the missing "second half" of 4.0.

I should probably call it version 4.5, but then the next release would have to be 4.6, and that just sounds wrong.

Not by me directly, no. It's possible that BetterAI, or even just the Warlords and BTS codebases, updated it at some point, since that link is very old (mid-2006), but it's ALSO possible the problem remains in full effect, hehe.

Thanks for the link! I'll take a look after I've finished merging all this new AI code, since they might also address it...

Backstabber? And I'm reminding you of the human wall excoit? Did I have to? No. ZPV is one of the best code divers around, don't forget. Why would I be asking you questions if I wanted to keep our strategy secret?

Think. Think. Think.

Ever reaad the Sexus, Plexus, Nexus trilogy? Not like I'm making this stuff up. I'm just having fun with language. Hope you don't go freaking out on me again, instead of just having fun.

Tachy, first you complain cuz people aren't visiting your thread. Then I give you some love, bumping it, and you find that strange. Dr. Strangelove.

Of course, TSR is studying worker stealing. D'oh! By the way, you want to study worker stealing par excellence? Check out gosha's BOTM games. No one could compete with him while he was playing and his forte was massive worker stealing (plus Monarchy sometimes for massive early population growth). I think he had somethign like 17 workers in one game by about 500BC.

Exploitus schexcoitus. The way some of these people exploit that word, making an SoD is an exploit. An exploit is not when someone disagrees with the code (like galleon chaining, which the developers programmed in and even later added pop-up screens to make it easier). An exploit is when the programmers tried to program it out but funked it up and you can then take the Ai to the cleaners.