You need 4 players to start a Tournament game.

Only 2 computer players are allowed.

dkovar joined the game in slot 1

NicApicella visits

NicApicella joined the game in slot 2

GarySeven visits

GarySeven joined the game in slot 3

GarySeven: 12 round game?

NicApicella: hey everybody!

NicApicella: yes, tournament always is 12 round

dkovar: Hey. Yep, 12 rounds.

GarySeven: add an AI?

dingen visits

NicApicella: no need. :-)

dingen: hello

NicApicella: hey

dingen joined the game in slot 4

Keie visits

GarySeven: din, press space to start

dkovar: Dingen, da button ... ?

GarySeven: <<space>>

dingen: ah

dingen: sorry

dingen: It's my first time

NicApicella: so now we have to kick keie…

NicApicella: :-(

Keie was kicked

GarySeven: im green. remind me occasionally. I forget sometimes.

Round 1 of 12

NicApicella: will do. :-p

dingen: You're green

dkovar: I'll forget, too.

dingen: yay

GarySeven: things seem slow. odd options?

NicApicella: yeh, seems slow.

dingen: maybe a slow connection?

dkovar: Slow connection ....

NicApicella: I have a bad ping: 1052ms. you guys to? let me check…

GarySeven: is someone on dialup?

dingen: ping is 750

dkovar: It's my connection, I think.

GarySeven: goddamn.

GarySeven: green

dingen: haha

dkovar: Bad DSL.

dingen: straight into the pub

NicApicella: sorry GarySeven…

GarySeven: i may quit early. I hate peeps who do it, but is no chance with 11 rounds in a 12 round game.

dkovar: Understood.

NicApicella: come on man, don't leave us hanging!

GarySeven: youll be happier with AI running my account ne way.

NicApicella: think of your "abandoned" stat! ;-)

GarySeven: im thinking.

GarySeven: mostly thinking I dont care tho

GarySeven: yay last place

Round 2 of 12

NicApicella: at least play it so bad thath the AI will loose! ;-)

GarySeven: ai never win if u try

dingen: I played this game three times and the AI won it all ;(

NicApicella: heh

NicApicella: I lost to the AI last time as well

GarySeven: this will be interesting

NicApicella: yeah…especially becaus I have no food at all! :-(

dingen: I'll sell you some

dkovar: Ouch.

NicApicella: yeah

NicApicella: exactly

Round 3 of 12

GarySeven: nic

NicApicella: yeah, yeah…need food!

NicApicella: :-)

dingen: lol

NicApicella: great.

NicApicella: :-)

NicApicella: nice

dkovar: Ouch....

NicApicella: electricity still scarce

dingen: Hmmm

dingen: I should have watched my money a bit better <_<

Round 4 of 12

GarySeven: sell land?

GarySeven: or not

dingen: Nah

dingen: I'll be okay

dingen: I hope :P

NicApicella: ouch

dingen: It's only my 3rd game ever... I'm still trying out different things to see what works and what doesn't

dingen: So some failure is expected :+

NicApicella: lesson for dingen: no money doesn't work! :-p

dingen: I still don't really get the 'objective' of the game

GarySeven: win

dkovar: It is a market based game.

dingen: I don't understand what to collect to win

NicApicella: MONEY!

dingen: Money? Stuff? And if stuff, which stuff?

GarySeven: all

dkovar: It depends on what is in demand.

NicApicella: the stuff that's most expensive.

NicApicella: right now, electricity and food would be a good deal

dingen: It's hard that you have to watch so many things instead of just doing your own thing... but I guess that's also the appeal of the game

NicApicella: it is. :-)

GarySeven: we supposed to cooperate to build colony. and compete to make best of.

dkovar: What happened to my food?

GarySeven: no energy til now

NicApicella: what?! I'm in the lead?!?

Round 5 of 12

NicApicella: wouldn't have thought

dingen: Damnit

dingen: I didn't want that land

NicApicella: WHAT?!

NicApicella: HOW?!?!

NicApicella: wasn't i in the lead?

dkovar: Nope. Gary was.

dingen: No

dingen: It's the lag

NicApicella: damn lag

NicApicella: GCOME ONNNNN!!!!

NicApicella: I WAS IN THE LEAD ADGAIN!!!!

dkovar: Oooh, insult to injury.

NicApicella: COME ONNNNNNNNN

NicApicella: wow. I lost THREE plots in one round…

NicApicella: i'll have to work even harder now

NicApicella: I swear to you guys, in both auctions my avatar was above all the others.

dkovar: The game does not handle lag well.

NicApicella: so now basically I'm sitting on a pile of money

GarySeven: press space

dingen: Well

NicApicella: and my production sites suck

dingen: That's kind of the point of the game, right? :P

dkovar: And no food....

NicApicella: wow. and again.

GarySeven: nic, it hates u. u must be winning

NicApicella: I make 3 food and get an infestation…

NicApicella: damn. :-)

GarySeven: maybe we sell 2 u. maybe.

NicApicella: :-P

dkovar: 189 for food? Wow.

GarySeven: come on

NicApicella: maybe if i start loosing the game will be nicer

Round 6 of 12

NicApicella: what?!

NicApicella: argh

dingen: What happened?

NicApicella: i wanted to bid

dkovar: No one bought it.

dkovar: Let Nic have it...

NicApicella: but i wanted to! ;-)

NicApicella: it didn't let me move at all

NicApicella: luckily i have the cash

GarySeven: were barely gonna make 60k

dingen: Yeah, that's another thing I don't understand

dingen: You have to compete, but in the end all scores are added together... what's that about?

GarySeven: to succeed, the COLONY must succeed.

NicApicella: not like i had any other choice

GarySeven: din, button

dingen: But what does it matter what the combined score is in the end? Does this affect your personal score as well?

dkovar: Oh, thank you ....

NicApicella: why do i produce only 2 food??

GarySeven: dumb luck

NicApicella: great. infestations, dumb luck, plot gone…

NicApicella: love this game. :-)

dingen: wow

dingen: I'm suddenly winning :P

GarySeven: but colony is losing

dkovar: Yea, stop complaining! *grin*

dkovar: We're all under performing.

NicApicella: din click!

GarySeven: button

dingen: I'm not :+

Round 7 of 12

NicApicella: so my beinng an ass is bad for the colony, isn't it?

NicApicella: sorry…

GarySeven: exactly

GarySeven: thats why AIs can beat you.

dkovar: Nice direct route there....

NicApicella: button

NicApicella: the lag's killing me

dkovar: Nice food market....

GarySeven: lag kills all

Round 8 of 12

NicApicella: have to make split-second decisions 2 seconds ahead

dkovar: I just hammer the space bar and pray.

NicApicella: :-D nice technique. dosen't work at auctions though…

NicApicella: what? I just noticed that I didn't get ANY land plot?!?

NicApicella: damn

dkovar: That's why I was hammering the spacebar....

dkovar: Oooops.

NicApicella: great. didn't know that rule.

dingen: lol

dkovar: Now we all do. THank you for the education.

NicApicella: wow. the game truly loves me

dkovar: Hey, Gary, thank you for sticking around .....

NicApicella: yeah, second that!

dkovar: Slides in.... SAFE!

GarySeven: np. wanted to play

dkovar: Greeaaaat.

dingen: Hehe

dingen: "planetquake"

GarySeven: why not irata quake?

NicApicella: well it ain't gonna be worth much after this round…

NicApicella: you're pushing the price? why?

GarySeven: sell ahead of u

dingen: Yeah, it's only a few tenners of a difference, so I rather make the sale at all