You need 4 players to start a Tournament game.

Only 2 computer players are allowed.

gtp_tj joined the game in slot 1

zposse visits

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Oboenick23 visits

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Oboenick23: Hey, all!

zposse: hi

gtp_tj: howdy

zim108 visits

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zim108: what do i press to be ready?

gtp_tj: space

zposse: have you played this before?

zim108: no

Round 1 of 12

zposse: ask questions if you want

zim108: how come we only bought the gear thing. no wheat or whatever that was

zposse: there are different strategies

zposse: food = time, energy = needed for production, smithore = creates mules in store, crystite = variable

gtp_tj: gonna be a hungry colony!

zposse: crystite is useless i mean, but it's tradeable

Round 2 of 12

zim108: hmm...

zposse: you might want to play some local games to get the hang of it

zim108: k... whats local compared to this? like what is this?

zposse: when you start the program, you can play multiplayer or a local game against the computer

zim108 left the game

Computer takes over zim108

zposse: two straight fires, never saw that before

Oboenick23: Who's the pyromaniac?

zposse: zim was playing with matches?

Oboenick23: lol

zposse: dammit i don't want to be first

zposse: i'll lose a plot

Round 3 of 12

Round 4 of 12

Oboenick23: Smithore is gonna be through the roof.

Round 5 of 12

Round 6 of 12

Round 7 of 12

Round 8 of 12

zposse: the colony score will be ridiculous

Round 9 of 12

Oboenick23: Damn.

Round 10 of 12

zposse: i thikn all the high crystite plots are under our smithore

Oboenick23: I feel like smithore is the only way anyone can win in this game.

zposse: yeah they need to fix it

zposse: i used to never do a smithore strat when i played on the c64

Oboenick23: I've tried to figure out a way to circumvent it but I don't think it's possible.

zposse: i think the other 3 playres need to collude and get smithore into the store

zposse: to prevent the lead player from buying it all

zposse: or find out who the smithore hoarders are and don't sell them food or energy

zposse: over 150000 already

Oboenick23: Yeah...if there's an AI, that strategy gets screwed up.

Round 11 of 12

Oboenick23: The AI is much to merciful.

zposse: there is usually more than one person hoarding smithore too

zposse: sometimes all 4 players

zposse: maybe they should make it so you can join a game in progress and take over the ai

zposse: it would save waiting for games to open if you can't host

Oboenick23: Yeah...that might be a fun challenge, too.

zposse: the ai will usually be in last place anyway

Oboenick23: Especially if the AI is in a hole.

zposse: yeah

zposse: i wonder if we can break 200000

Round 12 of 12

Oboenick23: Crap...sorry, guys

zposse: /

zposse: /

zposse: ?

Oboenick23: I could have went down to buy and saved a little time.

zposse: just a few seconds is not a big deal

Game Over. Your progress has been saved.

zposse: gg all

gtp_tj: congrats zposse!

zposse: thanks!

zposse: look at that colony score too, over 200,000

Oboenick23: The funny thing is that's the highes score I've ever had.

gtp_tj: wooohoo

zposse: me too by far :)

zposse: 3 players over 45000 is crazy

gtp_tj: I think mine too.

zposse: a lot of times you don't even see one

zposse: i don't think i ever cracked 40000 either

zposse: the first 2 fires in store really pushed smithore up

Oboenick23: No kidding.

gtp_tj: looks like that puts this game #4 on the high game score list

zposse: wow

Oboenick23: Nice.

zposse: out of the thousands of games played

Oboenick23: Glad to be a part of it. :-)

gtp_tj: 226059 is the high score right now

zposse: i don't know what else we could have done to get that

zposse: maybe if there was a 4th player who was trying to push the score up as well

zposse: insted of the ai

Oboenick23: That probably would have done it.

zposse: like if the 4th player invested in crystite

zposse: well gg all, until next time

zposse left the game