BIG MAN visits

BIG MAN joined the game in slot 1

PleasingFungus joined the game in slot 2

plonkgnard visits

plonkgnard left the game

plonkgnard visits

Medi visits

plonkgnard joined the game in slot 3

Medi joined the game in slot 4

PleasingFungus: Hurrah!

BIG MAN: hurray

PleasingFungus: (the button is space)

Round 1 of 6

PleasingFungus: welcome to

PleasingFungus: BIG MULES

PleasingFungus: where all the mules are BIG

PleasingFungus: (it's running really slowly right now, odd)

Medi: I may or may not have pressed the button by accident

BIG MAN: wait

PleasingFungus: still a good choice

BIG MAN: is it

BIG MAN: wasd?

PleasingFungus: play

BIG MAN: yes

PleasingFungus: (I am helping)

Medi: I have no idea what to build :D

PleasingFungus: smithore

PleasingFungus: buy smithore

PleasingFungus: (the $75 one)

BIG MAN: smithore is funtimes!

BIG MAN: for mountains

PleasingFungus: 1) get mule

PleasingFungus: 2) get smithore

PleasingFungus: this will - what

PleasingFungus: what

PleasingFungus: okay mule #2

PleasingFungus: wait hm

PleasingFungus: my advice was poor

PleasingFungus: I regret it

PleasingFungus: just as well

BIG MAN: what are you babbling about

Medi: I will follow it anyway?

PleasingFungus: (still not sure why your mule ran off)

PleasingFungus: wait I am so confused

BIG MAN: whose mule ran off?

PleasingFungus: I see.

PleasingFungus: Okay.

BIG MAN: no one's mule ran off!

plonkgnard: unlucky i guess

PleasingFungus: Mr. Rebert's did.

BIG MAN: move precisely

BIG MAN: in a surgical fashion

plonkgnard: do something!

BIG MAN: also swiftly

PleasingFungus: Mr. Rebert

PleasingFungus: you are not actually helping

BIG MAN: it did?

BIG MAN: press space!

BIG MAN: there you go

PleasingFungus: Win!

BIG MAN: now you are funtimes

Medi: I tried to use joy 2 key

Medi: it went poorly

PleasingFungus: Wait - joystick?

Medi: so I had to control using the f buttons

PleasingFungus: You have a joystick?

PleasingFungus: MAXIMUM POWER

PleasingFungus: auctions are weird

PleasingFungus: watch and learn

BIG MAN: noooooooooo

PleasingFungus: ha ha

PleasingFungus: we are so hungry

plonkgnard: how does energy spoil?

PleasingFungus: hax

Round 2 of 6

PleasingFungus: oh god

PleasingFungus: I am concerned

BIG MAN: argh trapped in the chat window

plonkgnard: press escape

BIG MAN: i did

BIG MAN: eventually

BIG MAN: Also, this lag is pretty spectacular.

PleasingFungus: DRIVE UP THE PRICE

PleasingFungus: (no why)

PleasingFungus: (why are you griefing)

PleasingFungus: mannn

PleasingFungus: It's griefing.

PleasingFungus: It's making things harder for EVERYONE with no benefit for you.

PleasingFungus: Screwing the colony.

PleasingFungus: Griefing.

PleasingFungus: Partially.

PleasingFungus: But the entire colony is rated as a whole.

PleasingFungus: If you win but you're living in a tent, what sort of victory is that?

PleasingFungus: (hint: underwhelming)

Medi: the kind where you win?

PleasingFungus: heh

PleasingFungus: I am outvoted

Medi: honestly I have no idea what's going on, so anything I do must be taken with a grain of salt :p

PleasingFungus: 'k

PleasingFungus: you seem to be doing all right

PleasingFungus: I think

BIG MAN: MUUUUUUULE

PleasingFungus: MUUUUUUUUULE

PleasingFungus: wait what

PleasingFungus: you can only place one mule in each tile

PleasingFungus: sell it sell it

BIG MAN: Yes that.

PleasingFungus: heh

BIG MAN: Your mules keep running off.

plonkgnard: fsck

PleasingFungus: They hate you!

PleasingFungus: NOT AGAIN

PleasingFungus: whyyyyy

BIG MAN: what

PleasingFungus: whyyyyy

BIG MAN: confusion reigns

PleasingFungus: sell some to the store

PleasingFungus: so we'll have some mules to buy later

PleasingFungus: that'll do

Medi: is anything else done with smithore, anyway?

PleasingFungus: Nope!

PleasingFungus: It's just for sale.

PleasingFungus: Like Crystite!

plonkgnard: i really should reade the guice

Medi: so why would anyone buy it?

PleasingFungus: Speculation!

PleasingFungus: (Esp. for Crystite)

PleasingFungus: wow, food prices

PleasingFungus: The stock burned, so there's none to be had from the store - hm

PleasingFungus: interesting choice

BIG MAN: Money!

PleasingFungus: I guess!

Round 3 of 6

PleasingFungus: Heh.

BIG MAN: oh, you crystite-man

PleasingFungus: It was a mispress, actually.

PleasingFungus: But whatever works.

PleasingFungus: (Buying that plot was a mispress.)

plonkgnard: come on, run away you mules!

PleasingFungus: Heh.

PleasingFungus: I think it's you, man.

PleasingFungus: They just don't like you

BIG MAN: what

Medi: you seem hungry

BIG MAN: what

PleasingFungus: heh

BIG MAN: i am starving

plonkgnard: ?

BIG MAN: help

PleasingFungus: Do you remember when you sold all your food?

PleasingFungus: Down to -3?

PleasingFungus: For money?

BIG MAN: but -- oh, that

BIG MAN: i thought i would get more first

BIG MAN: i guess not

PleasingFungus: nope

PleasingFungus: !

Medi: :(

BIG MAN: what noooooo :(

BIG MAN: it rounded down :(

PleasingFungus: our colony sucks

BIG MAN: true fact

PleasingFungus: it is filled with sadness

plonkgnard: money money money

PleasingFungus: heh

BIG MAN: so

BIG MAN: what is "usage"?

PleasingFungus: so hungry

PleasingFungus: we eat 4 per turn

BIG MAN: oh

PleasingFungus: here

PleasingFungus: sell me some food

BIG MAN: okay

plonkgnard: the invisible hand of the market at work

PleasingFungus: possibly

plonkgnard: hm. economics fail.

PleasingFungus: that would be if we built more farms, I think.

PleasingFungus: As it is... not so much.

BIG MAN: what no

PleasingFungus: ha ha

BIG MAN: okay, how did _that_ happen?

BIG MAN: what makes us use energy?

PleasingFungus: production.

PleasingFungus: 1 per factory.

BIG MAN: nono

BIG MAN: there is usage

BIG MAN: and then there is the red line

PleasingFungus: Yeah, that's projected usage.

BIG MAN: ...deep confusion

PleasingFungus: For food and for energy.

Round 4 of 6

PleasingFungus: It's how much the game thinks you'll use next turn.

PleasingFungus: Please do not grief.

BIG MAN: you know what

BIG MAN: it is not griefing

PleasingFungus: it is abuse of a broken game mechanic

BIG MAN: and you should stop complaining about it

BIG MAN: no

BIG MAN: it's not

BIG MAN: ...what

PleasingFungus: shaaame

Medi: sucks to be you

PleasingFungus: shaaaaame

BIG MAN: goddamnit, space gypsies

Medi: nice inlaws

PleasingFungus: happens all the time

Medi: also how is that a broken game mechanic

plonkgnard: you got gyped. literally

PleasingFungus: One guy can keep everyone else from buying a plot without committing any resources himself?

plonkgnard: why are the mules more expensive/

BIG MAN: well

BIG MAN: you could still buy it

PleasingFungus: Supply and demand!

BIG MAN: with...a ton of money

PleasingFungus: ...

BIG MAN: just saying

PleasingFungus: Not really a response.

BIG MAN: what?

BIG MAN: you don't have an argument

BIG MAN: you're just complaining

BIG MAN: i have no need to respond to anything in that sense

PleasingFungus: The normal two-way auctions work because when someone pushes up, they'll either end up buying from the floor, or they'll buy from whoever's selling.

PleasingFungus: But the plot-auctions fail because when you push up, it spikes the price for the others - even after you come back down!

BIG MAN: i don't see how that means they "fail"

BIG MAN: or how that is an indication of griefing

BIG MAN: heck, i don't think you even _can_ grief if you're not on a team with someone

Medi: oh hey, do economies of scale work with two people who are not the same?

BIG MAN: WHAT

BIG MAN: WHY

BIG MAN: I AM GOING TO CRY

PleasingFungus: Don't think there are economies of scale in general.

plonkgnard: radiation

BIG MAN: There are.

PleasingFungus: SPACE RADIATION

PleasingFungus: Really?

BIG MAN: It's a special mechanic.

PleasingFungus: Multiple mules of a type?

BIG MAN: Two factories next to each other of the same type = +1 production to each.

PleasingFungus: Oh!

PleasingFungus: I remember reading that, then immediately forgetting.

PleasingFungus: Oops!

BIG MAN: Also, god_damnit_ special events.

PleasingFungus: medi

PleasingFungus: stop fidgeting

PleasingFungus: Mr. Rebert can't even buy

PleasingFungus: he's too poor

plonkgnard: :-(

PleasingFungus: :-D

plonkgnard: >:-|

PleasingFungus: O~_~O

BIG MAN: maaan

PleasingFungus: this is kinda terrible

BIG MAN: if only my MULE HADN'T RUN OFF

BIG MAN: goddamn mules

PleasingFungus: our colony is also kinda terrible

PleasingFungus: just saying

plonkgnard: sell 2 the store

PleasingFungus: heh

BIG MAN: For $10?

PleasingFungus: also

Medi: no way

PleasingFungus: Mr. Rebert

PleasingFungus: the word "to" is two letters long

Round 5 of 6

Medi: bitch, however, has five!

PleasingFungus: ...true.

BIG MAN: ...is that relevant?

Medi: :p

PleasingFungus: Unlikely.

PleasingFungus: we are all so hungry

BIG MAN: again

BIG MAN: my mule

BIG MAN: is a jerk

plonkgnard: wish i had a whip for my mules

BIG MAN: i agree wholeheartedly

PleasingFungus: ha ha

BIG MAN: also, medi is a WEALTHY LAND-OWNER

PleasingFungus: he is

plonkgnard was disconnected

Computer takes over plonkgnard

BIG MAN: wait what

PleasingFungus: ...wait, what

BIG MAN: this is your fault

PleasingFungus: probably not

BIG MAN: yuo should speak with him

PleasingFungus: am

BIG MAN: you, too

PleasingFungus: SPACE

PleasingFungus: okay

PleasingFungus: (space is the final frontier)

Medi: this is a pretty awesome game

PleasingFungus: so hungry

BIG MAN: it's a pretty _jerk_ game

PleasingFungus: (It is!)

BIG MAN: it hates my mules

BIG MAN: that computer

BIG MAN: is active

BIG MAN: and aggresive

PleasingFungus: wait wait

Medi is not responding to continue

Users who are not responding must be kicked to continue the game

PleasingFungus: did it - no

PleasingFungus: no

PleasingFungus: whyyyyy

BIG MAN: as an addendum

BIG MAN: i _told_ you it would crash

PleasingFungus: it did not do this for the first two games

PleasingFungus: I think it is because we are actually playing on the internet

Medi: this was an awesome game

PleasingFungus: as opposed to on a LAN

Medi: <_<

PleasingFungus: and the people who made it did not know how to write network code

PleasingFungus: ah well

Medi: I notice that the first time a computer was involved, it crashed

PleasingFungus: No, it was before that.

BIG MAN: well, a crash was necessary to introduce the computer

Medi: ?

PleasingFungus: Mr. Rebert's being disconnected was a bug, too.

PleasingFungus: Yeah.

Medi: oh

BIG MAN: i like how there's an fps-counter in the bottom left

Medi: does it crash all the time?

Medi: or just most of the time?

BIG MAN: like this game would ever manage to cause slowdown

BIG MAN: i think all

PleasingFungus: The first two games with the new version didn't crash!

PleasingFungus: Seriously!

BIG MAN: i've never played a game that it didn't

PleasingFungus: You weren't with us then.

PleasingFungus: ...maybe it's you?

PleasingFungus: I think every game I've played that crashed was with you.

BIG MAN: likely

PleasingFungus: hmmm

PleasingFungus: Anyway, thanks for playing with us, Mr. Medi.

PleasingFungus: Perhaps another time.

BIG MAN: msr. medicus

Medi: np