Igor1, The Dawn of the Idiots

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Idiotic civ prefs are:
-Mongols (in french, the 'common speech' expression for talking about trisomic people and such deficiencies is a 'mongole'),
-Iroquois (the natives in French Canada are just plain dumb, really) and
-Germans (let's not forget the hundreds and hundreds of tribal barbaric years, shall we?).

Edit: I'd put an order on it if I didn't just play 3 Iroquois solo games, because on the (un-)bright side for them, our natives are absolutely terrible.

Idiot ninja skills ... right? Must have something to do with the 3 inches bump in the back of my head.

 

[Whomp]

When my IQ reaches 50, I should sell....
It seems that the variant doesn't make for good scientifics. Can I change to 1. English 2. Byzy 3. French? Or I can just shut up too.

 

[SesnOfWthr]

I might think that the provisions against self research would make the free tech more valuable, potentially. Unless the free tech counts as self research? I wouldn't think so, since we would never invest a single beaker....

I think the new vote totals go something like this:

France - 6
England, Mongols - 4
Celts, Carthage, Aztecs - 2
Iroquois, Germany, Ottomans, Byzantines, Zulu, America, Persia - 1

Looks like 10 people have voted, so that only leaves 2. One more vote for France pretty much ties it up. I would think.

 

[madviking]

France
Ottomans
Sumeria
in that order.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

I think we should re-arrange the votes by team (and update the roster with the trade done):

MMSFM

Mad Viking
Bede, Sesn, Whomp, Viper, Tomoyo:

Votes:
4: England
3: France, Vikings
2: Mongols
1: Celts Sumeria Korea
Sesn not voting, Viking voted Vikings 3 times.

Team Idiot Academy Awardees

Daghda
Plarq, AK, B, SW, m60:

Votes:
2: Mongol French Aztec Carthage
1: American Iroquois Germany Persia Celts Zulu Ottoman
Plarq pending - you better set it straight because the idiots in this team will prefer to just

Btw, all odds are that I miscounted, so you might want to double-check.

 

[madviking]

Viking voted Vikings 3 times.

take out Sumeria

My order:
Vikings
Ottomans
French

 

[viper275]

Btw, all odds are that I miscounted, so you might want to double-check.

I got

MMSFM
France- 5
England- 4
Mongols- 2
Celts- 1
Byzantines- 1
Vikings- 1
Ottomans- 1

Anime idiots

Mongols- 2
Aztecs- 2
Americans- 1
Iroquois- 1
Germans- 1
French- 1
Zulu- 1
Carthage- 1
Persia- 1
Celts- 1

Which would mean

France- 6
England- 4
Mongols- 4
Celts- 2
Aztecs- 2
Byzantines- 1
Vikings- 1
Ottomans- 1
Americans- 1
Iroquois- 1
Germans- 1
Zulu- 1
Carthage- 1
Persia- 1

Perhaps I messed up Carthage there, though (that's different from Sesn's).

I noticed something interesting here: it seems like there are two different paths that people want to take. Some want to choose nations like England or France and become economically powerful, buying or stealing techs when needed. Others choose militarily strong nations like the Mongols and Aztecs to conquer everyone and win that way. It would be especially interesting if the two teams ended up choosing different routes.

 

[Bede]

@mv, I hope you appreciate what you have on your hands. What a crew to sail with!!



@Dag, not to worry about Capn'ing. With that bunch a captain is supernumerary.

 

[madviking]

Bede: now were talking!

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

The hell with it. executive decision time again. Igor1A (led by MV) will run with Joan in the chain mail bikini. Igor1B (led by Dag -don't worry you won't have to do much leading, idiots are by nature independent) will go with the Ugly man and his horses (Mongols)

@ whomp - I request starts with both teams in the same location with the same 12 AI opponents. is this too much? If you DL the starts, I'll put up the pix.

@ all - as an administrative matter, team 1A should split off into a new thread after the starts are up to simplify the post tracking and save posting. There's no prohibition on viewing the other thread as long as you're not peaking for intelligence purposes. Remember, idiots aren't smart enough to be devious. I'll repost the rules before we start.

@ beorn - congrats. Igor finally opened the envelope and you had the qualifications (we found the $5), so you're now a cadet at the academy.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

@ MV - you forgot tomoyo, although you'd have to change it every few days as his avatar mutates...

 

[madviking]

aye aye
thread started

 

[Tomoyo]

Every few days? I would never stay with one avatar for that long!

 

[madviking]

umm... that why i didn't put Tomoyo on. Tomoyo's never going to have a avatar that lasts more than a week.

 

[Tomoyo]

Use this one, then:

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Considering the ratio of people-to-idiots in our side of the roster, I strongly believe that, rather than having a mix of avatars, the following flag would be appropriate:

About the civ choice: I believe our side is aligned to be the "pure idiot" and yours to be the "mercantile idiot". I'm guessing it will stay that way with Plarq's vote, and that is all the better.

 

[Daghdha]

@m60
Still no rating?

With Tomo out we just can't go under the Anime banner anymore. Must be Idiot Academy Awardees .

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

AK: best news of my life, for today's worth at least. I happened to go celebrate with some noodles, and bited more than I could swallow, and am just back from spending 10 minutes

Spoiler :

puking over the bowl trying to clear my oesophagus from the darn noodles.

Daghda, m60 is a 15-16 rater or so.

Edit: So now, shouldn't this thread be re-named Igor1 - team B or something like that?

Idiot Academy Awardees cadet reporting

 

[M60A3TTS]

I'm probably about a 6-7. Of course on the idiot-meter I'm up there. Here's a hint: Currently playing solo game- America on Deity with nothing more than a single iron source on my private little island. The good news is I reached the industrial age all in one piece. So I rate myself as quasi-capable...

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

And how does that make you 6-7 ?! Deity ability is 8+ ...