You need 4 players to start a Tournament game.
Only 2 computer players are allowed.
Joe Cool joined the game in slot 1
Oboenick23 visits
Oboenick23 joined the game in slot 2
Joe Cool: welcome
Joe Cool: waiting for two more.. ok?
Oboenick23: Sure.
santye visits
bigheadzach visits
bigheadzach joined the game in slot 3
Joe Cool: Santye join in and off we go
bigheadzach: More leggites!
Joe Cool: I am a leggite.. although not sure if it does anything in this game
bigheadzach: Not yet. Right now it's just cosmetic
Oboenick23: Come on in, sant. The water's fine.
Joe Cool: Sant.. press J or watch someone else take your slot...
Joe Cool: bighead.. ah.. ok.. in the old C64 it had certain preferences
bigheadzach: Yeah, it was cosmetic then too, except for Human and Flapper
bigheadzach: I think they were planning on doing special abilities per race but ran out of time
santye left the game
Joe Cool: I see.. I like special abilities and being able to change the players to even the playing field a bit
Joe Cool: let's give it another 5 minutes.. rather have real players then bots
bigheadzach: Truth
Jaromir75 visits
Jaromir75 joined the game in slot 4
Oboenick23: Sweet!
Joe Cool: OK.. let's rock
SuperJoker visits
bigheadzach: Oh, is spectating working now?
SuperJoker: yep
Round 1 of 12
SuperJoker: probably cause the game was Open still
SuperJoker: times a wastin
bigheadzach: Need some help, Jaromir?
Joe Cool: Jaromir needs to hit space
Jaromir75: i play first time in PC
Round 2 of 12
Joe Cool: space and cursors
SuperJoker: spacebar and arrow keys
Jaromir75 is not responding to continue
Users who are not responding must be kicked to continue the game
bigheadzach: A freeze?
Jaromir75 was disconnected
Computer takes over Jaromir75
bigheadzach: Guess he got confused and quit
Oboenick23: Must be.
bigheadzach: Sometimes it pays to actually read the rules before you play, like most do
SuperJoker: AI, ah crap, Oh well
Oboenick23: Yeah...why would you bother to download a 36-meg game if you didn't know how to play?
bigheadzach: Good thing that happened early
SuperJoker: Good question.
Round 3 of 12
bigheadzach: Ok, the land grant priority needs fixing.
SuperJoker: game needs map, timer and player expansion too, But they'll get to that sometime when their ready.
bigheadzach: I'm talking about a fix, not an enhancement
SuperJoker: Thats what I meant, fixes 1st, improvements later.
bigheadzach: Fixing land grant priority and the 50unit cap on ore and crystite
SuperJoker: the fact that MULE runs here is an amazing thing in and of itself.
bigheadzach: True. I'm grateful for that
SuperJoker: not to mention online, the old Atari/C64 wouldn't/couldn't do that at all.
Round 4 of 12
SuperJoker: And the price is hard to beat too, It's FREE...
SuperJoker: wumpus let top
SuperJoker: oops
bigheadzach: Nope. ;)
Oboenick23: lol
SuperJoker: down with the AI ;)
Round 5 of 12
bigheadzach: wow
SuperJoker: ouch
SuperJoker: lrl make up its mind
SuperJoker: close one Joe
bigheadzach: trying something here
Joe Cool: nice move bighead
Joe Cool: will work.. and you will win
bigheadzach: esell or spoil
Round 6 of 12
Oboenick23: Geez
SuperJoker: power shortage and planet quake.
bigheadzach: Ok, I had 7 units I shouldn't, noting that
Joe Cool: payday for bighead
SuperJoker: going up
SuperJoker: top floor
Round 7 of 12
SuperJoker: tough luck bh
bigheadzach: If this worked correctly, I'd lose 19 units
Round 8 of 12
SuperJoker: Ah yes My fire worked purrfectly. ;)
bigheadzach: Time to switch to full Crystite mode.
SuperJoker: Me I wouldn't, But It's Your decision bhz
bigheadzach: Think I could flip it one more time?
SuperJoker: no
SuperJoker: You'[d be lucky to do 3
Oboenick23: stupid bot
SuperJoker: add crystite, but don't lose smithore
Round 9 of 12
bigheadzach: naughty, sir
Oboenick23: Like I'm gonna catch you anyway. :-P
SuperJoker: yeah, short of a big loss He's a head
SuperJoker: must be that long neck
SuperJoker: ah yes the food magnate
bigheadzach: That's #2...no more pirates
SuperJoker: I don't get robbed
bigheadzach: One more time for the sweet souvenir!
bigheadzach: This time I won't take advantage of the lack of a 50 cap
Oboenick23: The pirates should take smithore sometimes.
SuperJoker: spme have done worse
bigheadzach: That *does* need to be fixed now that I see how brutal that is
SuperJoker: some have bought mule and made It a food mule then released It
bigheadzach: Releasing mules is a legit strategy though, and was in the original
SuperJoker: I had only the 400 to play against back then.
Round 10 of 12
SuperJoker: I kicked AI butt all over the place then.
bigheadzach: Hmmm. I think I mightve miscalculated. I'll just dump my ore this time and call it a day.
SuperJoker: whamoo
bigheadzach: dump. MULE demands in the toilet
Oboenick23: $48?!
Oboenick23: That's the cheapest crystite I've ever seen,
bigheadzach: That's the very lowest it can go.
Round 11 of 12
bigheadzach: Doesn't appear on owned plots, in this version
Oboenick23: I wasn't looking for the wampus. I was just contemplating for a sec.
bigheadzach: AI is sitting on a 3-crystite spot and isn't converting *scratches head*
Oboenick23: Seeing if there was anything else I could turn into crystite.
Oboenick23: Well, it wouldn't want to starve itself. :-P
SuperJoker: ah yes, player turned into crystite, Eek! ;)
Oboenick23: Still not a great price.
SuperJoker: yeah, but higher than $48
Round 12 of 12
SuperJoker: AI isn't too bright
bigheadzach: Ok, we know that the AI is dumber than the original, now :)
SuperJoker: Actually I beat the pants off the original AI back in the mid 80's routinely, So this one is smarter.
bigheadzach: It's not doing re-evaluation of plots well
bigheadzach: btw, no need to sell here
SuperJoker: no ones perfected a great AI yet
Oboenick23: It's funny. I learned more about this game playing in a week than I knew back when I used to play this on the C64
Oboenick23: Didn't play much against humans back then. :-P
bigheadzach: Kroah's doc is a good resource for learning how the game handles price changes
SuperJoker: 400 only here
Joe Cool: same here oboe
Joe Cool: I learned the smithore speculation here..
Joe Cool: where do you find Kroah s doc
SuperJoker: Most people I knew weren't into computers
Game Over. Your progress has been saved.
bigheadzach: I've posted bits and pieces on the technical forum
bigheadzach: Nooo! $900 short of the next ending
Joe Cool: ok.. well.. I had some major snafus.. but it was fun
SuperJoker: bye
Oboenick23: Well, good game, all.
bigheadzach: gg. Thanks all
Joe Cool: bye guys