You need 4 players to start a Tournament game.
Only 2 computer players are allowed.
Gershom visits
Gershom joined the game in slot 1
Polyrythmmm joined the game in slot 2
elchadillac visits
elchadillac joined the game in slot 3
elchadillac: please don't crash
elchadillac: :-)
Polyrythmmm: Pretty Please.. It's almost worth a 6 month game but that ruins the dynamic
Gershom: every time I log on I've got a different win percentage, last time was 38% this time 0
Polyrythmmm: Yeah well maybe you're not winning too many?
Gershom: what
Polyrythmmm: They count the disconnects as losses
Gershom: well I've won a few
Gershom: more than 0
arghman visits
arghman joined the game in slot 4
Round 1 of 12
arghman: stupid pirates
elchadillac: hooray!
arghman: that happened twice in a training game
Round 2 of 12
arghman: ?
arghman: desert doesn't farm
Polyrythmmm: at all?
arghman: well i guess economy of scale kicks in
arghman: but no, if you farm on plains it's 2x
Polyrythmmm: I just don't need the energy right now I figured I'd change it later
arghman: lucky!
Polyrythmmm: Every game he get one he's using hacker codes
arghman: hahaha
arghman: :p
Round 3 of 12
arghman: wtf?
arghman: nice
arghman: stupid pirates
arghman: nice sale
arghman: 1@#!@#@!#@!#@!
arghman: darnit
arghman: there should be collusion
Round 4 of 12
Polyrythmmm: Collision?
arghman: poly: collusion
arghman: in the orig game you could bypass the bid system
Polyrythmmm: I know I was being obtuse it's late here I'm delirious
arghman: gershom: somehow
arghman: sorry, he blocked you again
Round 5 of 12
Polyrythmmm: On the down side I have no money :)
arghman: poly: you're preventing our food farmer from producing food!!!!!!
Polyrythmmm: Lots of time lots of time
Polyrythmmm: That wumpus how does he make his money?
arghman: same as the govt
arghman: just borrows/prints it
arghman: f'ing auction system
Round 6 of 12
Round 7 of 12
elchadillac: do you know the chrystite pattern?
arghman: y
arghman: or do you mean gershom?
elchadillac: not sure gershom does
Polyrythmmm: What's the Pattern?
elchadillac: anything orthogonal to a high crystite is menium
elchadillac: everything diagonal is low
elchadillac: so, if you see a high
elchadillac: no need to assay around it
Polyrythmmm: Oh yeah I know that.. I thought you had a system for price prediction.. :)
elchadillac: i wish
arghman: something's just wrong w/ smithore pricing
elchadillac: why do you say that?
arghman: cause you can artificially inflate it
Polyrythmmm: That's right
arghman: but do it forever?
elchadillac: you can do that with any commodity
Polyrythmmm: because it doesn't spoil
elchadillac: right. but eventually, you have to sell it to make mules
elchadillac: so, you cna't iflte it forever
elchadillac: can't inflate
Round 8 of 12
Polyrythmmm: Blast :)
arghman: ouch
arghman: might as well drill for smithore
arghman: it'll be pricey
arghman: heh love that sound effect
elchadillac: hta's for taking the last mule
elchadillac: thats
elchadillac: :-)
arghman: kaching
arghman: ?
elchadillac: good to buy at that price
arghman: poly you are evil
Polyrythmmm: Actually it's a bit late for this to wirk
Polyrythmmm: energy maybe
arghman: i needed that + should have been able to buy cause i'm in last place
Polyrythmmm: I beat you there by a huge amount
arghman: ?
arghman: must be the network lag
Round 9 of 12
Polyrythmmm: nah trigger finger
arghman: no from my screen i was there first
arghman: it's either left/right of my 1x crystite
arghman: 0x
Polyrythmmm: Nuts
arghman: as god is my witness i'll never be hungry AGAIN
arghman: ???
Polyrythmmm: 92 good price to sell
elchadillac: why does that bother you?
arghman: 100 is a good price to sell
elchadillac: nah
arghman: not 92
elchadillac: 92 is a good price to buy
arghman: it averages 100
elchadillac: indeed it does
elchadillac: so buy under 100, sell over
arghman: it's just that it doesn't average 100 when i want to sell
Polyrythmmm: Does that include risk assessment
arghman: no, there's pirates, and the time value of $$$$
arghman: so maybe it's 96 or 92
elchadillac: 2 pirates max
elchadillac: and we've had 2
Round 10 of 12
elchadillac: time value of moeny doesn't apply in round 10 or 12....
elchadillac: 10 of 12, that is
arghman: hmm, that's true
arghman: forgot you don't earn interest in this game :-)
arghman: dammit
Polyrythmmm: Drat
Polyrythmmm: oi where's my .5 production
elchadillac: so
arghman: finally my ship has come in
elchadillac: tell me why i shouldn't buy at 92 again?
arghman: ok, crystite fluctuates randomly
Polyrythmmm: yup It's too close to call
arghman: averages at 100
arghman: varies from about 52 - 148
elchadillac: :-)
arghman: THAT's why it pays to be host!
Polyrythmmm: It's not lag
arghman: 'cause you get the network lag advantage
Polyrythmmm: you didn't hold up from the get go
Round 11 of 12
arghman: bull! I got there the same time
Polyrythmmm: Did you
Polyrythmmm: ?
arghman: had my "up" button pressed the whole time
Polyrythmmm: Ok I believe
arghman: the network lag makes each of our screens look slightly different on auction
elchadillac: me too
elchadillac: i think that was pretty bogus. we were placed later tha you
elchadillac: but whatchagonnado?
arghman: that's gonna be their biggest software challenge in tweaking this game
Polyrythmmm: I saw me get to the line first by a long sea mile but I guess that's me hosting then?
elchadillac: prolly something like that
arghman: yup
arghman: i have some ideads to reduce the advantage
elchadillac: which i why i'm not whining too loudly about it
elchadillac: :-)
arghman: don't think you can eliminate it w/o making the game slow
arghman: f!
elchadillac: dn;t sekk
elchadillac: sell
elchadillac: sry
elchadillac: ?
Round 12 of 12
arghman: i can deal w/ being -2 energy
arghman: but -3 SUCKS
arghman: -2 you can deal with if you convert 1 nonenergy mule to energy
arghman: ***yees***
arghman: they should just skip the last auction round
elchadillac: y
Polyrythmmm: Damn Chrystite ends high that might push you guys forward
arghman: :p
arghman: it was $52 the prev turn
Polyrythmmm: I knew it.. you have a prediction system
arghman: woohoo! energy at $163
Gershom: gg
Polyrythmmm: Thanks :)
arghman: yah this was interesting
Game Over. Your progress has been saved.
Polyrythmmm: What!
Polyrythmmm: \Hahaha nuts
arghman: woohoo! a come-frombehind win
arghman: crystite RULES
Polyrythmmm: Bloody Chrystite
Gershom: gg
arghman: that's what i learned in the $80s
Gershom left the game
arghman: '80s
Gershom was disconnected
elchadillac: nice tottal
elchadillac: total
arghman: yeah, go colony!
elchadillac left the game
Polyrythmmm: Considering how much we tried to screw eachother
elchadillac was disconnected