Egh.
Come on people!
Its not that hard to see that !+! does not equal 2 in this case.
*sigh* Oh well.
I'll use this time to announce a haitus. I'll be traveling to Flordia to meet my gf's parents for the next three or four days. Afterwards I'll be taking another five or six days to rest and recover from my five month NEWSing frenzy (I have, pretty much, joined nearly everone thats come along. Time for that to change.) So I'll be back in around 9-10 days. Good luck til then.
Also, I'll use this time for another sad news. I'm starting to cut back on NESing, which means the NESes that I'm in will have to drop. I've already cut off one for now. Basically I'm just going to stick with the ones I like the best.
So I'm also limiting myself to four total.
I'm staying LINES (the second one I joined), I'm keeping DNES (My favorite at the moment), Jalnes will stay (simply too much work to just give up and throw it away now), and finally I'll keep with Thlayli's nes (I have some mighty big plans for that. Only question is if they'll work.)
I apologize to everyone else who I have to quit on: Eq, Erik, Sheep and Farow. I simply don't have the time any more to do all of these properly and I hate myself when I do anything less than proper. I wish you guys the best of luck and I hope others will join to take my spot. Best wishes.
I guess that while I'm explaining everything here, I might as well finish everything. In NES iv (whatever das's last one was), I know I raised alot of heads with my whole "I'm doing what I have to do" rhetoric. I guess its time for to explain what I had concuted up.
When I took Segu, I realized two things right off the bat: that I was much more technologically lagging, and that I was surronded by two european powers- which, at the time, I thought we key allies. I knew that there was very little chance of me catching up in the tech race, and that if there was, I would need a drastically improved economy. And to get a better economy- and test the waters I was about to step into- I attempted to buy a itny parcel of land form Panda. His reply assured my course.
I knew from the moment Panda refused the tiny sale that I would have to do somehting drastic in order to bring Segu to the next age. So I plotted the whole time to pull off such a thing and in the end, I managed it. For you see, I never really did expect to come even close to pulling off a victory. I was quite shocked that Panda even spoke to me about concluding a peace treaty.
From the sale onwards I made my moves. I organized a franctio-lived Africa alliance ( me{Segu}, Ken{Sulia}, and Luckymoose {Egypt}) in the shape or a loose defensive alliance. That came back to bite me as the first thing LM did was run to Panda. Nevertheless, I struck a diffrent angle and cancel aall alliances and went as far as to try and get Panda to invade me. My whole point with that would have been a whole "the french can't be trusted, overlords should be killed" widespread rebellion organized within French Africia. That failed.
So I did the next thing on my list of things to do to ruin your chances of victory: I waited for the NAP to expire and then I struck quietly. Only Luckymoose knew of this, and I gave him extremely vague and quite inaccuate details. I wouldn't have him betraying me again.
So the war was on and I managed a few successes while Panda was distracted ((, for one, attriube my entire early victories to Russia, England, and Byzantum distracting him). I still hold my biggest mistake at being invading Scandinavian Africa. So I fought until the end (I quit last), and Segu dissappeared with the rets of Africa.
I explaine dmy version of events- now for the why. I was acting the whole time under the thought that there would have been a third IT. So by bring Segu under french rule- and removing all barriers for tech flow, I could easily have them ready for rebllion by the next IT.
Now, I didn't lie completly. I wasn't planning a rebellion for myself. Rather I would have just set it up so that someone could come along and act it out. I was planning to either rebel in America against Dis or in Asia against Symph
And btw, I'll have that list Alex when I get (officialy) back.
Adios.