Tales from the Front - Page 4

finbar · July 22, 2003, 07:15

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Originally posted by Carolus Rex

I see. So deity played as the English and finbar as the Aboriginees.

Carolus

No, Deity played as as he always plays, as George W. Bush - invade and invent the reasons later.

DrSpike · July 22, 2003, 07:27

Wow Carolus I see you've mastered the +3, popularised by War and Hydey, and now also practiced by Finbar.

rah · July 22, 2003, 08:29

It's a frickin epidemic.

Alexander's Horse · July 22, 2003, 08:29

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Originally posted by Hydey

I was in this game and somehow the way you describe it does not ring a bell at all.

That would be because you never know what's going on in any of our games.

-Jrabbit · July 22, 2003, 09:13

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Overall, the MP forum seems to have turned into an "Aussie + Moderators and friends" - spam fest.

Uh-oh, we've been caught!

(signed)
Friend of Mod+1

Alexander's Horse · July 22, 2003, 09:22

I like to think of it as "off topic lite".

DrSpike · July 22, 2003, 09:25

Are you on a diet?

Makeo · July 22, 2003, 09:42

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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I like to think of it as "off topic lite".

exactly because it has even less substance and worth than the ot. sometimes people in the ot actually have a reason to post, whereas here that is not so.

Alexander's Horse · July 22, 2003, 09:50

what I find interesting is some people spam away here happily but never offer a post on the OT.

finbar and war4ever spring to mind.

Makeo · July 22, 2003, 09:59

whatever could be the reason i wonder.

finbar · July 22, 2003, 10:24

Simple, really. 99.5% of the posters in the OT Forum are moronic pre-pubescents. Here, the figure's closer to - well, I'll get back to you on that one.

Alexander's Horse · July 22, 2003, 10:30

Personally I enjoy .............

DrSpike · July 22, 2003, 11:12

......moronic pre-pubescents?

finbar · July 22, 2003, 19:55

M-hm. Hang on while I crank up the percentage figure here.

Alexander's Horse · July 22, 2003, 21:32

I like to stir the gene pool, that's all.

deity · July 22, 2003, 22:00

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Originally posted by atawa
Thought deity had a spotless reputation

Absolutely. In the Onion game Makeo set absurd sea restrictions and threatened to attack any boats below a certain latitude. I did attack him pre-emptively and for the first time ever. He always attacked me first in all previous games. We all know what a war-monger he really is.

Generally, I only attack civs run by players who've attacked me before. finbar was an accident....
Because he was Makeo's ally in the Onion game I pre-emptively attacked him too

My rep did not slip from spotless BTW. It is true that finbar had never attacked me in any previous games but he paid the price for allying with Makeo and supporting the absurd sea restrictions...

deity · July 22, 2003, 22:03

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Originally posted by -Jrabbit
I've seen tables tipped over, items broken, and people thrown out of the house over a game.

But not over a woman...

Sounds like it's time for another civ dinner at finbar's... LOL

deity · July 22, 2003, 22:08

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Originally posted by finbar

You've got a future as a CNN anchor, Makeo.

At least even finbar acknowledged Makeo's dissertation as lies

deity · July 22, 2003, 22:15

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Originally posted by Hydey
I was in this game and somehow the way you describe it does not ring a bell at all.

LOL!

Exactly

This is the game where Horse had promised to attack finbar for millenia... trouble is he still only had horses and couldn't work out where to put his invasion city

Also he did some crazy tech trade deals. Like trading to give Makeo Steam when Makeo didn't have several of the pre-requisites!

In fact the more I think about the Onion Island game the more I realise that many of the secrets have not been revealed... particularly with regard to Horse's secret alliance with me and Hydey

It's true!

deity · July 22, 2003, 22:20

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Originally posted by Carolus Rex
I see. So deity played as the English and finbar as the Aboriginees.

Carolus

Any more lurkers out there?? Please post!

Shares in the Horse/deity "Oz+1" corporation are being floated next week...

finbar · July 22, 2003, 22:51

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Originally posted by deity

At least even finbar acknowledged Makeo's dissertation as lies

Your cynicism knows no bounds.

Sparrowhawk · July 23, 2003, 00:00

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Originally posted by deity
Generally, I only attack civs run by players who've attacked me before.

[/LURKER]
You mean you take a persons previous actions into account when playing them in future games

? I would think the idea of civ is that each game is a new game, do all of you take past actions into account in each game

? Wouldn't that make the game more like playing the AI?

I would think that the main advantage of MP over SP is that human players, unlike AI are unpredictable

. If you take past actions into account, it seems to indicate that humans are also predictable which in my opinion is a bad thing

. Admittedly, I haven't played as many MP games as I would have liked, but what you allude to is the primary thing I like about Civ MP, that each time you play the game is different, even though the "humans" may be the same, they are leading a new civ, and the slate is wiped clean so to speak.

What think you all on this?

[LURKER]

deity · July 23, 2003, 00:58

Welcome the Sparrow!

Basically I agree with you.

Humans are entirely unpredictable regardless

deity · July 23, 2003, 00:59

The point is you must take into account the spotlesness of civ rulers....

deity · July 23, 2003, 02:49

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Originally posted by finbar

You've got a future as a CNN anchor, Makeo.

I'd say he has better credentials for FoxNews actually...

Carolus Rex · July 23, 2003, 05:24

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Originally posted by finbar

Overall, it's the Moderators + friends who do the spamming while we Australians have to do the moderating.

Yeah, no wonder I thought things had improved in here! [cough]

Carolus

Carolus Rex · July 23, 2003, 05:28

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Originally posted by DrSpike
Wow Carolus I see you've mastered the +3, popularised by War and Hydey, and now also practiced by Finbar.

Heh, heh! I guess spamming is like Civ MP, you've gotta learn from the best...

Carolus

Carolus Rex · July 23, 2003, 05:32

Not that the two disciplines' gurus need to be the same though...

Carolus

DrSpike · July 23, 2003, 05:57

Now I am in awe of Deity's invention of the +5. Even War4ever and Hydey would not stoop that low.

Carolus Rex · July 23, 2003, 06:09

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Originally posted by finbar

Overall, it's the Moderators + friends who do the spamming while we Australians have to do the moderating.

Hm, since I belong to neither group my effort to add to the, er, discussion might be in danger.

So either I start kissing up to the moderators or I emigrate and start living in Australia. For those who do both, which is worse?

Carolus