Your post in the maintenance thread about the deadline and this post (
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=11235295&postcount=476) did not seem to be friendly to me.
In my post in the maintenance thread, I was calling out kossin, mostly, precisely for the reasons you say he was <i>just voting</i> as I said in the post. You guys are extremely good, fast players. Everyone knows that. In the past, when I have been on the team that was obviously winning the game, my heart was open to all players and teams to take as much time as they wanted. The last thing I wanted to do was pressure them to put forward less than their best effort. You can call my post unfriendly to kossin. So be it. I respect kossin, but my heart goes out to all of us who have slower computers and slower abilities, myself included, than the best.
As for the other post you linked, it was not unfriendly in the least (annd for that matter not public to you guys at that moment). I was just explaining to Neil my frustration because he asked. Do you not agree that researcing Agri->Poly or Agri>Medit would give any top team a huge advantage, <i>other things being held equal</i>? That I referred to your team is no more than a sign of respect, no?
About SGOTM11, I'd be very interested in seeing anyone replay it to beat our date 20t, no matter how he already knew the map as long as he don't rush Zara since that's not a natural play. In my estimation, 5~10t is maximum. I believe our SGOTM11 result was close to optimal in the 1st try.
I don't think that way. I think the Klarius Way and if you study our SG11 thread you'll note that I gently pushed for us to DoW Zara, just as I gently pushed for Argi first in SG15.
Behind my push to DOW Zara, though, was a careful study of the mechanics of war declarations (thanks to DanF
) and it was clear that we would be able to get Hatty (was it Hatty or Izzy to the east?) to DoW us, and then get others to DoW us as well. So I was fairly certain that we could afford to expend one of our two DoWs and still survive and sure enough, the game played out exactly so.
Once again, it just boils down to game mechanics, understanding them, and knowing how to manipulate them. The SG11 game rule was we can only DoW twice, not we can only engage in two wars.
Well, I have never seen any member of Kaku post such an opinion, I don't know how could you represent Kaku for such a statement.
That's just my English again. You just don't seem to understand what I mean when I say I'm speaking hypothetically, despite your English reading comprehension being better than most AMericans (which wouldn't surprise me in the least...
). I'm not saying Kaku expressed that sentiment. Judging from recent sentiments, Kakus now think they could have won by T130... I'm saying that their choice to build a Hindu AP is a game decision that works better if the Buddhist AP is built far away.
Look at it this way: Suppose Toku built the Buddhist AP in Kyoto right before someone captures it on T100. That team just saved all those beakers (or GProph) and hammers on the AP. Game over, n'est-ce pas? That's all I'm saying.
Conversely, for
you guys any team planning to capture the Buddhist AP, the
Kakus' Hindu APers' worst nightmare would be an AI that is unreachable until paratroopers, or whatever.
If you posted the above in your 1st post, then I would not say too much as that's simply a disagreement of game result. Still, there's no "our T100 save PLUS YOUR STRATEGY" as your T100 save focused on military and ours focus on economy and long term advantage, those 2 things just can't coexist.
Not true, imo. You could have slingshot Construction and still accumulated the necessary EPPs. You keep saying your economy was ahead of ours, but it wasn't. Not at T100, not at T127. I compared. We saved a ton of beakers not researching Alpha+Constr. (Granted, researching Medit waas a mistake, but that only reinforces my argument, because if we had researched Poly instead, we'd have finished LIterature even sooner and our economy would be even better.) Plus we had WarCapture GOld from three ciites long before you. With all those savings and with Kyoto and Osaka already in our pocket, which you didn't have yet, we could have devoted our energy to EPPs for several turns if we had wanted.
At last, let's put this to an end. I do and always respect OSS as a competitive team. I would not have interest in SGOTMs for so long time without you guys.
Fine by me. Just conversation for me. You have your opinions, I have mine. I learn from you adn our discussion. That's what's important to me.
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, something I would normally never play. It felt like the only time we went on the offensive was sneaking past Shaka's SoD to steal a city and backdooring Hatty after baiting her with a bait city. So, this game was truly Beyond the Sword in my opinion. It went so far beyond the sword that the teleporting mass barbarian invasion was just a footnote of the legendary Gawa rage. (Yes, I felt Hyunagawa did that barb thing on purpose)
, but we pulled out all the stops going to the mat for a perfect game. Just goes to show how tough the competition is 
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