Ruff09: Which Improvement?

[ruff_hi]

• Ruff - on deck
• CHEESE!
• Liquidated
• regoarrarr - time off to wash the car?
• Diamondeye - up

regoarrarr - thx for helping out getting us started. Did you try dialing down the graphics or had you already done that?

 

[Diamondeye]

Arh... Up already? That's a tad bit fast. I am busy the next couple of days, can someone slot in before me, then I can get it friday?

 

[ruff_hi]

ok - I have it.

 

[CHEESE!]

After Ruff I will only be able to get it on Friday. That was fast playing guys.

 

[ruff_hi]

I know this is bad form - but I am going to need a skip on this - sorry.

 

[CHEESE!]

Got it- will play later today.

 

[CHEESE!]

Okay. I apologize all. But a huge amount to do this weekend ended in me only posting now, and that I need a skip for this round. I apologize hugely to all those I kept waiting.

 

[ruff_hi]

• Ruff
• CHEESE!
• Liquidated
• regoarrarr
• Diamondeye
• anyone!

Ok, anyone that can get to this game - please grab it and play a set - that includes lurkers too. Just post a got it, play 30 to 50 turns and report.

 

[Diamondeye]

Unless someone picks this up within the next 24 hrs, I intend to play some time tomorrow, probably in the afternoon (CEST).

 

[ruff_hi]

thx DE. Seems we are losing steam on this game. Why is that? Is Marathon the problem? Boring map, boring rule set, poor captaincy, slack reports, other?

 

[Diamondeye]

Generally, huge Marathon is quite a killer, both for enthusiasm and the performance of some machines. I like the captaincy and the crew aswell, but I would be convincable that limiting the game in the way we have done here might have a detrimental effect on interest - it closes out a vast part of the game (cottages, mines, other civics than slavery/nationhood, etc). The reports are fine aswell, imo. If everyone used pics and (personal preferance) wrote in perfect english, that might give it an extra notch (here I am only nitpicking; I am the sort of person who twitches when people I msn with dod not capitalize properly).

 

[Diamondeye]

I'm sorry, I'll have to push this until tomorrow. Like 18 hrs or so.

 

[Diamondeye]

Okay, Starting out a bit confused here, we're at war with a couple of people, and we have a Settler in the north, some minor skirmishes going on with barbs and Justinian...

I decide to take the barb's moneys first:

And then settle the Silk town for an extra

We finish Paper and I get right on Edu. I suspect we might want to build UoS?

... Our buddy Zara comes to us with this deal which I accept:

It's cheaper than 1:1 if you count beakers and gold to have equal value, and it helps us on our way to Liberalism!

I considered Pacifism, but that'll need a team decision.

I beg off our friends, sell some rice and so on, and make peace with Shaka. And To finish where we started:

The barbarians are getting a good beating.

 

[ruff_hi]

• Ruff
• CHEESE!
• Liquidated
• regoarrarr
• Diamondeye
• anyone!

anyone can grab the game ... except for diamondeye

 

[Liquidated]

Liq has been rather unwell the past month btw, so sorry about the lack of input on this game.

Think the issue here is the combination of noble difficulty on a huge map of jungle combined with marathon speed. I normally log every turn in sg reports but the absolute lack of anything going on every 5 turns due to marathon makes that sort of report sub par.

Thinking marathon is a killer for sg's and standard speed is a bit too fast (unless the team is really on the ball). As goldiliq would say, "Epic is just right"

Cheers!
-Liq'd

 

[mystyfly]

Have you guys given up on this game or what?

 

[CHEESE!]

I assume this game is dead. Huge marathon < death.