You guys can't get rid of me that easy. What Muley said is kind of what I was trying to tell them before I was kicked, I am newish and had never seen that situation and wanted to play it out to see if it works. I am sure that situation will either never happen to me again or in the least very very rarely happen. I am still testing stuff out and wanted to see if that is a winning strategy. To be honest I would still try it again to some degree. I do see now that I probably could have sold to them at a crazy price and used to my advantage the next round but I still feel like I had a shot with the method I was using. I looked at the game log or whatever and I think I was starting make a comeback. None of them would have had more than 3 mules out the whole game. I would have had all my plots producing and I had high tite spots. I may have still lost but it was up to me to choose my strategy and tinker with my game to see what happens just for the knowledge. One thing I never pointed out though: the three people in the room kept saying they didn't want to waste another 45 minutes to not do anything in the game but (and not saying this to sound like a jerk) they werent getting any time to place mules so all of the rounds would have been greatly shortened and I figure they would have had to sit through about 10 to 15 minutes to finish from the point I was kicked due to that. It also bothered me a bit that he kept stating that I got the win like that had an effect on the justification of his decision to kick me. To me the win is besides the point and has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

All in all there are no hard feelings for anyone involved. I was kind of shocked because I have never experienced anything like that playing an online game but it what it is and this is still just a video game. In all honesty Nanner seem like he is probably a nice dude. I think he got swept up in the other two players asking him to kick me on top of his own frustration with my game choices. They were asking him to for a few rounds and he was bucking the idea at first but finally gave in. If anyone asks me, the one that was the most effected, they should still play with all three of the other players involved. I say let them chalk it up to lesson learned. When I say that I am not talking about game tactics, I am talking about accepting a bad unlucky situation and dealing with the outcome of that situation.

I have played around 30 games and am still not all that good at this game. I still make a lot of bad choices and I still cant see all the possible outcomes of situations. I openly admit that I don't quite have the game down just yet. What I don't understand is getting called names like moron,idiot, douchebag etc... when I make a bad move. If I make a bad choice due in inexperience and it gives one of our fellow opponents an advantage, to me, that is just part of the game and no reason to start name calling. I know its the internet and that is what people do on the internet, risk free faceless name calling without the danger of repercussions, but the majority of the people playing on here are adults. We should be mature enough to not resort to boring insults. If people want to point out an error that is fine but you don't have to take it to a classless place. I don't mean to sound like my feelings get hurt as this is just a game and these are people I don't really know but I just look at stuff like that and feel like I am almost justified in my disgust at a good portion of the human race. What is ironic is that the one person I have talked to on here that is for sure 15 years old is well spoken, respectful and polite. I am all for a little ribbing for comedic purposes but can't we act like adults while we play a retro video game?

You are right about Ryu. Then who was the character that could win with constant sweeps?

In my head I have been comparing it to games of Street Fighter 2 we played as a kid where your friend would beat you 17 times a row by picking Ryu and doing nothing but sweeps so you get mad and shut the Super Nintendo off.

Does it count as an abandon when you get kicked out of a game?

I have been playing this for about a week and I am addicted. There are a lot of really cool and helpful people playing this and I appreciate any tips any of you experienced players have offered.

I missed that part. Maybe I will have to try out Avast.

For what it is worth I have had good luck with malwarebytes. It is free and they updated it frequently.

I would rather lose playing out my game the way I wanted to play it than win by someone putting my choice in the bots hands.

I wasn't going to post but I finally decided to. First of all I just started playing this game last week and have been learning as I go. I lost 20 games up to this point and lost them all with a smile. I can admit it was a jerk move to not sell the food but I was way behind. I had a meteor spot linked to two medium crystites and a low. My plan was to produce on those and make an ore spot to feed the bank to leave the ore prices low. maybe start buying it out later. I think it was possible one of you would have gotten a package with food and energy and then I would have been screwed, and rightfully so. I am new and it was probably a bad strategy. I openly told them that I was not going to sell them food, I wasn't trying to be a jerk but I was trying to be honest. After 20 losses and no wins I was willing to try to exploit their weakness. I told them I was sorry if I was being a jerk. I tried to convey that I wasn't doing it to ruin their good time but it is a competition and that I was going to try it in hopes it pays off with my first win. I would have taken name calling or anything like that cause I admittedly deserved it. I think kicking me from the game was excessive and poor sportsmanship by established players. I would bet money that is a higher ranking player did the same thing I did no one would have booted him, not to say they would use such a cheap tactic as I. I don't get being philosophical about a commodity trading game. If you one of you were starving in real life and I had extra I would not hesitate to give you food I had. This is a game though, a competition. I don't lose sleep over game avatars not having a full belly as I am not emotionally invested in their well being in the least bit. I could see if you guys played it out and were mad at me and made the choice to never play with me again but you should have toughed through your bad luck/strategies and let me play my game as I chose to. If you really want to get philosophical about the situation I think this would compare more with the majority misusing their power on a minority. I am honestly a really nice dude and don't believe in being unnecessarily rude, mean, or spiteful to anyone. I was just trying to play the game. If I caused some kind of stir or ill feeling I apologize but I think you should at least be a big enough human being to meet me halfway in a mutual apology.