Multi-session G&K game (GMT+12 @ 8PM)

[Onan]

okay guys, arwe we up for night aftwer tomorrow, Satursday again?

What arwe we playing? thwe gamwe with tommy? thwe OXCXC? somwething nwew ansd biggwer?

apologiews for my fuxckwesd up kweyboarsd!

 

[Foffaren]

Saturday is fine with me. Sunday should be ok aswell. I'll log on in case you decide to play a game where I'm still alive.

 

[Islandia]

I am up for tomorrow night and will do either of the existing ones or start a new one.

 

[JakeAlmighty]

If you start a new one just throw me a message on steam and I'll play.

Also your keyboard is hilarious. What exactly is wrong with it???

 

[EEE_BOY]

If you start a new one just throw me a message on steam and I'll play.

Also your keyboard is hilarious. What exactly is wrong with it???

Where there is a char 'e' 'd' or 'c', his keyboard adds a 'w' 's' or 'x'

I can play on Saturday and Sunday. Naval if tommy is around. New game if you guys vote me a win on the OCC (Mostly likely Islandia will disagree, but his tech lead is only temporary because the tech branch starting from sailing is neglected for Egypt so far. there is no way he can maintain that given Egypt's huge fpt to buy GS)

 

[Islandia]

Where there is a char 'e' 'd' or 'c', his keyboard adds a 'w' 's' or 'x'

I can play on Saturday and Sunday. Naval if tommy is around. New game if you guys vote me a win on the OCC (Mostly likely Islandia will disagree, but his tech lead is only temporary because the tech branch starting from sailing is neglected for Egypt so far. there is no way he can maintain that given Egypt's huge fpt to buy GS)

If you believe that a land locked nation like Ethiopia has the sailing branch researched, we'd like some of the incense Egypt is smoking.

 

[Foffaren]

New game if you guys vote me a win on the OCC (Mostly likely Islandia will disagree, but his tech lead is only temporary because the tech branch starting from sailing is neglected for Egypt so far. there is no way he can maintain that given Egypt's huge fpt to buy GS)

If you believe that a land locked nation like Ethiopia has the sailing branch researched, we'd like some of the incense Egypt is smoking.

That sounds like a "no".

 

[Onan]

Thankfully I can post intelligibly from my iPad still, as much as I ever could....

It would be nice to hear from tommy. I don't like leaving games unfinished, it doesn't go with the reputation or the confidence I try to build into my games. If he doesn't post though, and doesn't show up, we'll be forced to abandon that game. In my book that's a reason to no longer include a player.

Just sayin. Little nudge there.

 

[EEE_BOY]

That sounds like a "no".

Sorry guys, then Egypt has to destroy the nations on the way to Ethiopia. Starting with the ones have research agreement with Ethiopia.

 

[Islandia]

Sorry guys, then Egypt has to destroy the nations on the way to Ethiopia. Starting with the ones have research agreement with Ethiopia.

So in other words you are declaring war on everyone?

 

[Foffaren]

Haha! Come at me bro!

 

[EEE_BOY]

So in other words you are declaring war on everyone?

Quicker than space race, right?

 

[Onan]

Word from Zoeff is that 'he may be asleep then'.

That would kill that game too.

Needless to say if that is what occurs, I won't be inviting him to play with us again. He was a little more reliable in the past.

So, if this is the sad state of affairs, shall we go with something completely new? I think the chances of us still having six reliable players is fairly good.

 

[Islandia]

Word from Zoeff is that 'he may be asleep then'.

That would kill that game too.

Needless to say if that is what occurs, I won't be inviting him to play with us again. He was a little more reliable in the past.

So, if this is the sad state of affairs, shall we go with something completely new? I think the chances of us still having six reliable players is fairly good.

Fine with me but let's do a standard game that will finish otherwise my only fix is the speed game approaching turn 100.

 

[Onan]

By standard, do you mean not OCC? Agreed. Asking because we also used to play these on standard speed, I believe?

We could consider a later start, to speed things along. Although with G&K ancient still has some freshness to it.

Chuck out ideas if you have for settings.

 

[Islandia]

By standard, do you mean not OCC? Agreed. Asking because we also used to play these on standard speed, I believe?

We could consider a later start, to speed things along. Although with G&K ancient still has some freshness to it.

Chuck out ideas if you have for settings.

Quick speed is fine - I'm actually so used to it now that playing standard speed games seems to make warmongering so much worse - I can't imagine what marathon is like - just continuous world wars or something.

I just meant not occ, not a weird naval map, not some random late era start, no overpowered DLC civs etc...

 

[Onan]

Cool.

Hmn, worse warmongering on slower speeds...is that due to techs changing less quickly? Later era balance seems better in G&K, in terms of whole eras not going past so fast...

 

[Islandia]

Cool.

Hmn, worse warmongering on slower speeds...is that due to techs changing less quickly? Later era balance seems better in G&K, in terms of whole eras not going past so fast...

Yes on marathon you get to move 4.5 times for every move that you get on quick. That shrinks the size of the map in terms of waging wars and makes it much more likely that if one civ builds up a large army, the civ being attacked can not react quickly enough since builds also take 4.5 times as long. This tends to lend itself to much more war.

At any rate I have found that the game becomes far easier as the pace gets slower at least against the AI.

 

[Onan]

Quick it is then! Our games are warlike enough!

 

[EEE_BOY]

Shall we try any Cutrual and Diplomacy victory condition? I have never won these two inG&K even vs. AI. We can use standard size map to have enough space for peaceful expansion.