KK-06 -- The Special One

[pat4]

I think this is a loss and I think most people have lost interest.

 

[Meatbuster]

Well, let's declare it a loss, but not a total loss. Since this is a learning game after all, let's see what went wrong.

My thoughts:
1. (and you can totally blame me for this) Optics beeline sucks if behind against a neighbor. It may have been better to just head for military superiority (Construction) and/or economic stability (Currency, CoL, Civil Service) before meeting new civs to trade with.
2. We expanded quite fast. While that is not a bad thing, we did not try to recover the economy with tech.
3. We may have needed to war even earlier, before Roosevelt could build up his culture and walls.
4. It's really a tough map. We got shafted by the RNG and got stranded in a continent with one opponent. IMO that is worse than having the continent all to ourselves (in which we can just ignore military and focus on economic stability and the Optics beeline).

@Sealot:
Well, map is tough.
I'm not surprised you had a tough time as we did.
I wonder if some expert can achieve a better result...

@Kikinit:
Well interest may be dying... but that's probably because we're not winning.
Wanna go at this again? This time, let's specialize better.
(also pray for a better map)

 

[glenmetz]

I'd be in for a Redux

 

[pat4]

I'd be up for another round.

 

[Meatbuster]

Good let's just wait for Mr. Kikinit.

*crosses fingers for better random map, better leader*

 

[Kikinit]

Let's play again. Shall we just continue in this thread? We've got Robo Kai, pat4, glenmetz and myself. If we get one of the others along we may as well just re-roll in here and keep on going.

btw, I'm off to London this weekend and am not sure if i'll be able to roll a start. I'll take my disks and hopefully my pal down there will let me install it on his shiny new PC.

 

[Sealot]

Ye well I haven't lost my interest in trying this out yet. So if you want a bigger roster, I'll join in. Looks like I can handle the difficulty level too, atleast somehow

 

[Kikinit]

Sealot, I'd be happy to have you along. I'm pretty sure we'll get omglazers and Xyqtt along too. We can just play with an expanded roster if they both want to join in.

 

[Meatbuster]

I think we could let the player who's next roll the start with another random leader... or do we wanna pick our leader?

 

[pat4]

Put me a bit down the roster please, I don't feel comftable doing the start on Monarch.

 

[Meatbuster]

I'll roll the start if it's OK, I think I can squeeze it in, but also put me down the roster because of busy-ness.

 

[Kikinit]

Robo Kai, roll away. I'll keep the roster like before with Sealot added.

Roster:
- Kikinit -- Just Played
- Robo Kai -- On-Deck
- glenmetz -- Up
- pat4
- Sealot

Waiting to see if they want to join.
- Xyqtt
- omglazers

 

[glenmetz]

I would like to move down as well, I'm not the best person to handle the start.

 

[Sealot]

How about we just lower the difficulty level by one? That wouldn't really stop us from specializing cities.

 

[Meatbuster]

Looks like Sealot has a difficulty change proposal. I'll wait 8 hours for input on this one. I vote against it though, since I think Monarch is doable, we just got shafted with a bad start.

I'll start a new thread KK06b later with the start if you don't mind.

We can decide on who's playing first later, since after the start we will still need to decide on capital placement and stuff. Also do you wanna pick a leader or randomize it again.

 

[pat4]

I'd be better abled to handle a lower difficulty but I think we should still stick with Monarch.

 

[Kikinit]

Let's close this thread. Everyone can head over to the new one started by Robo Kai and continue discussions. KK-06b.