Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds
Need 4 players to start. Max 2 computer players allowed.
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DMXRoid visits
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maskdbandt: hey DMX
DMXRoid: hi
maskdbandt: ok if we wait a few for others ?
DMXRoid: yeah, of course
maskdbandt: what happened to other game going on? everyone ditch it?
maskdbandt: less people in lobby now
DMXRoid: dunno, looks like it
maskdbandt: where are you located btw?
DMXRoid: either that, or just a slow status update in the lobby
DMXRoid: austin
maskdbandt: this is a bad time to be playing this i guess heh
maskdbandt: i'm in dc
DMXRoid: heh, i lived there for a minute
maskdbandt: and then wised up? :)
DMXRoid: and then ran out of money
DMXRoid: i was there in summer '03
DMXRoid: didn't really have a marketable skillset at the time
maskdbandt: i've been here about 9 years now... traffic is what kills me...other than that i like it... but yeah, expensive too
maskdbandt: ah, i haven't ever been to austin before but i hear it has a lot of character
DMXRoid: it's a badass city
DMXRoid: i love it
DMXRoid: i've lived in almost 20 different cities, and this is by far the best
maskdbandt: wow, a lot
maskdbandt: i grew up in missouri ... i am not a huge fan of it
DMXRoid: but there's so much local culture!
maskdbandt: heh... true i guess
DMXRoid: oh, that was sarcasm
DMXRoid: missouri is a shithole, i have relatives there
maskdbandt: i think everyone from china and japan gave up on trying to play mule around this time
maskdbandt: i would tend to agree more with that statement
maskdbandt: i still have to go back to visit family... i wish they'd move
DMXRoid: this time around? as opposed to the c64 days?
maskdbandt: yeah
maskdbandt: i noticed at this time of day, seems to have some from asia because of the time there
saltmule visits
maskdbandt: another visitor... stay awhile
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DMXRoid: w00t
maskdbandt: what're the odds someone else will come around
DMXRoid: non-zero
maskdbandt: hey salt... you ok with waiting a bit for a 4th?
saltmule: not sure
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maskdbandt: time crunch?
saltmule: negative
saltmule: I get bored unpredictably however
DMXRoid: hah
maskdbandt: heh ok... i have to admit i've played this a lot so it does get boring at times
maskdbandt: but overall, i enjoy it still
DMXRoid: moo is free now
DMXRoid: i guess his all AI game got boring :)
saltmule: I've never seen the server so empty
saltmule: what happened?
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maskdbandt: i think there is sort of lack of interest
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maskdbandt: or lessened interest
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saltmule: I like the new unjoin feature
maskdbandt: especially if people overdo it and play multiple times a day
maskdbandt: yeah me too
maskdbandt: i think you should be able ot pick color though
maskdbandt: without switching with someone else ... first come, first served
saltmule: I think they should focus all efforts on allowing people to reconnect
saltmule: or replace AI
DMXRoid: i'll switch with you if you want mask
DMXRoid: <3 orange
maskdbandt: yeah that'd be nice too
maskdbandt: ok sure
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maskdbandt: that's fine with me
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saltmule: want to be green?
maskdbandt: i played with blue last game so it's easier for me to remember who i am :)
maskdbandt: if you want to be blue, i'll be green, salt
maskdbandt: it really doesn't matter to me
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maskdbandt: we have a newb in there now too
maskdbandt: i don't get the point of training... seems boring if you play by yourself.. i would prob play on my c64 if i wanted to play solo
maskdbandt: how about AI in 3 minutes if no one comes?
DMXRoid: ok
saltmule: some people like 6 rounds
maskdbandt: true, i guess if you don't have enough time
saltmule: and training isn't always solo, and it does record scores
maskdbandt: or in the case of test, 1 :)
Polyrythmmm visits
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Polyrythmmm: Hi guy
DMXRoid: fo shizzle
maskdbandt: awesome
Polyrythmmm: ss
maskdbandt: good timing
maskdbandt: we were about to give up
DMXRoid: man, my sound doesn't work in the new version
DMXRoid: makes me sad
maskdbandt: why not? that's strange
DMXRoid: dunno
DMXRoid: prolly something specific to the linux client
Round 1 of 12
maskdbandt: sure they didn't get shut off?
DMXRoid: yeah
DMXRoid: they work in lobby
saltmule: are there any other games like this you know of?
maskdbandt: are you kidding me?
maskdbandt: 2 highs... i shouldn't have assayed
maskdbandt: games like this? not sure what you mean? like mule or multiplayer econ/auction type games?
saltmule: latter
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Computer takes over saltmule
DMXRoid: goddammit
maskdbandt: oh come on
Polyrythmmm: why do you need a different one
maskdbandt: i guess he wasn't lying that he gets bored
DMXRoid: apparently not
maskdbandt: he's now on my blacklist
maskdbandt: do people do that just to f*ck with the rest of us?
DMXRoid: possibly
maskdbandt: let's hope for no land auction
maskdbandt: :)
DMXRoid: come on land auction
Round 2 of 12
maskdbandt: wow, how'd you get that over me, DMX?
DMXRoid: b/c that piece of code is fucked up
Polyrythmmm: Quick draw technique
maskdbandt: heh :) but i clicked on it the second the other square's selection stops
DMXRoid: so did i
maskdbandt: hmm
DMXRoid: as soon as the other square went grey
Polyrythmmm: that code it only in event of timing tie
maskdbandt: i guess you may have beat me
DMXRoid: i hit the button
maskdbandt: impressive
maskdbandt: it seems pretty hard to beat the host
DMXRoid: i think the code accounts for that
DMXRoid: and measures it by time from event
DMXRoid: not absolute time
maskdbandt: i'd like to see this code... just seems funny :) but then again not sure how you account for lag unless you store all the clicks and award then
DMXRoid: each client records the timestamp of when it receives the "land available" trigger event
DMXRoid: and then it stores the timestamp for the button press
DMXRoid: and sends the diff to the host
DMXRoid: if these guys aren't idiots
Round 3 of 12
Polyrythmmm: hmmm..
maskdbandt: you might've gotten a high though
maskdbandt: 50% chance
Polyrythmmm: I know
Polyrythmmm: but i want ore
maskdbandt: i noticed, i would've preferred you save that one for me next round :)
maskdbandt: nice
DMXRoid: let the child die!
DMXRoid: that would presumably lower your food costs
maskdbandt: i completely forgot about how i have no food
Polyrythmmm: but you cant get the child to mine for you either
maskdbandt: that's living on the edge
maskdbandt: why can't AI produce food instead of energy??!
maskdbandt: stock fire will screw me
DMXRoid: oh, lame
DMXRoid: oh, suck a fat bag of dicks
maskdbandt: nice time for half with your prod, DMX
DMXRoid: what a fucking waste of mules
maskdbandt: you have a high and med crystite adjacent though
DMXRoid: yeah, i know
DMXRoid: i was gonna try to get a quick ore boost and grab some cash
DMXRoid: obviously, failure
maskdbandt: so you can slingshot past us in a later round
maskdbandt: poly, playing cuttthroat i see
Polyrythmmm: required
Polyrythmmm: Oh booo
maskdbandt: thanks DMX
maskdbandt: i owe you 1
DMXRoid: np
maskdbandt: poly, i would've done same thing in your shoes :)
Polyrythmmm: but would you have sold you food?
Round 4 of 12
DMXRoid: no land auction!
maskdbandt: i had to give up the med crystite :(
maskdbandt: ther eit is
maskdbandt: the land purchase should hopefully give away the lead again
maskdbandt: wow, twice in a row
DMXRoid: *sigh*
DMXRoid: fuck the AI
maskdbandt: ah, come on
maskdbandt: :)
maskdbandt: that's what i get for being greedy heh
maskdbandt: mo money
maskdbandt: 250
Round 5 of 12
DMXRoid: goddammit
maskdbandt: nice price :)
maskdbandt: not cheap at least
DMXRoid: right in my area
maskdbandt: yeah, that sucks ... tends to happen next to someone's...i hate being short just a few bucks
Polyrythmmm: ooops
maskdbandt: heh with no energy :)
Polyrythmmm: should have converted
Polyrythmmm: yeah
maskdbandt: i always forget to do that
maskdbandt: crap
maskdbandt: now i'm hosed too
DMXRoid: christ
maskdbandt: i'll pay 500 for food
maskdbandt: poly should be sitting well with this round's happenings
Polyrythmmm: hosed! are you a Canadian?
maskdbandt: heh... no, do they say that a lot? i never knew it as a Canadian term
Polyrythmmm: tis to my knowledge hosed hoser
maskdbandt: why couldn't salt wait til 500? :)
Polyrythmmm: salt and me are of the same mind
maskdbandt: might as well sell if salt is
Polyrythmmm: Salt of the earth
maskdbandt: yeah whoever is in 3rd has salt on their side :)
Round 6 of 12
DMXRoid: you're paying for it
maskdbandt: i have no food :)
maskdbandt: heh
maskdbandt: or i would but it
maskdbandt: buy
DMXRoid: nice!
maskdbandt: woohoo nice
maskdbandt: wow, he picked ore
maskdbandt: instead of food and energy... i wonder if they improved AI
DMXRoid: we'll know that if he starts burning mules
DMXRoid: FUCK YOU PIRATES
maskdbandt: there something to help me now
Polyrythmmm: Oh NO all my hopes
Polyrythmmm: looks like Im screwed
DMXRoid: man
maskdbandt: nice purchase dmx
DMXRoid: you ever notice how pirates never come when the price is 56?
maskdbandt: lol yeah
maskdbandt: sell poly
maskdbandt: to me :)
maskdbandt: thx
DMXRoid: come on store fire
maskdbandt: no
DMXRoid: yes
DMXRoid: store fire
DMXRoid: burn it all!
Round 7 of 12
maskdbandt: why soooooooooo slow
Polyrythmmm: my ping just rose to 1802
Polyrythmmm: Masked are you running a download program?
maskdbandt: nope
maskdbandt: unless one of you is trying to attack my computer :)
maskdbandt: but yeah i don't have anything else besides mule running
DMXRoid: mine is 110
Polyrythmmm: Nope I's dropped to 1572
Polyrythmmm: still brutal!
maskdbandt: wow, i've never seen it that high
maskdbandt: i hope we don't lose you!
Polyrythmmm: It could happen but I'm not quitting!
maskdbandt: this is a good game
maskdbandt: no lack of energy anymore for 3rd place
maskdbandt: i guess you might let loose some mules eh, dmx?
maskdbandt: no
DMXRoid: next turn
maskdbandt: crap energy prod
Polyrythmmm: bugged
Polyrythmmm: ?
DMXRoid: lame
maskdbandt: wth?
maskdbandt: your ping i bet, poly
Polyrythmmm: yeah probs
DMXRoid: close your porns
maskdbandt: i don't even hear stuff running here :)
Polyrythmmm: I have nothing open
Polyrythmmm: except mule
maskdbandt: i was hoping dmx would take some of the hit :)
maskdbandt: me too
Polyrythmmm: this is Brutal!
DMXRoid: didn't need to :-P
maskdbandt: wow, this is what you call playing mule in slo mo
Polyrythmmm: hmmm...
DMXRoid: still at 1000+ poly?
Polyrythmmm: I dont like it
Polyrythmmm: yes
maskdbandt: funny how the timer goes normal speed though
Polyrythmmm: where are you?
maskdbandt: washington dc
DMXRoid: austin tx
Polyrythmmm: england
maskdbandt: maybe someone cut a line just now
Polyrythmmm: of coke?
DMXRoid: the french
Polyrythmmm: ah the French...
maskdbandt: poly, be nice
DMXRoid: wtf
DMXRoid: i was totally there first on my screen
maskdbandt: because of the 4th place
DMXRoid: and you're a cunt, poly
Polyrythmmm: Ouch!
maskdbandt: doesn't matter ...there is a delay before starting normally
DMXRoid: just fyi
maskdbandt: so even if you go faster, doesn't matter
DMXRoid: ahh
Round 8 of 12
DMXRoid: not the plot i clicked on at all
maskdbandt: doesn't happen with plot selection though i guess :-/
maskdbandt: sorry, dude... the lag factor now
maskdbandt: sorry poly, a little revenge for the energy buying :)
maskdbandt: although dmx may be nice to you and let you have a mule
DMXRoid: nope
maskdbandt: no one is nice to anyone in this game i guess heh :)
DMXRoid: just FYI poly, i'll suck cocks in hell before I buy energy from you
Polyrythmmm: haha
maskdbandt: DMX you are cracking me up
maskdbandt: i'm going to run an errand while selling the ore :)
Polyrythmmm: that's then exactly what I feel I've made you do by not buyying my energy
maskdbandt: like fly to england and back
DMXRoid: fly to england and fix the fucking underwater bandwidth pipe
Polyrythmmm: hmmm I've never had a ping like that in all my games... sorry fellas honestly
maskdbandt: poly, what was your ping when we started out of curiosity?
maskdbandt: it's strange how it changed so drastically
Polyrythmmm: 120
maskdbandt: not your fault :) it happens
maskdbandt: i'm going to have to add england to people i won't play with like china... the conx to there is pretty bad
maskdbandt: alde kept joining my game and then it'd be so slow and they'd lose their conx
DMXRoid: i'm surprised the chinese are alloewd to play at all
maskdbandt: heh good point dmx
DMXRoid: you'd think the censors would be on top of that
DMXRoid: teaching people how to be capitalist and all
Polyrythmmm: As I say this is the first time in all my games but do what you gotta do
maskdbandt: no, i was just joking poly
maskdbandt: it's still on a person by person basis
maskdbandt: saltmule, megabyte, etc
maskdbandt: people i won't play with because they ditch on purpose
maskdbandt: when they're losing
DMXRoid: ragequits are bitch
maskdbandt: so dmx will buy your food but notyour energy i guess
Polyrythmmm: can buy anyones energy
Polyrythmmm: at 79
Polyrythmmm: oooops!
DMXRoid: sell to me fucking computer
DMXRoid: i hate you AI
DMXRoid: that's a bug too
maskdbandt: you left the line, it will award you to buy from me or poly heh
Polyrythmmm: will it after the person changes
maskdbandt: yeah you're right
Polyrythmmm: ?
maskdbandt: i think in th eorig it would re-award
Polyrythmmm: yeah it would have
DMXRoid: i'll buy the rest of your stock at 80 mask
DMXRoid: make your megabytes go faster!
maskdbandt: wow that was hilarious
DMXRoid: and painful
Polyrythmmm: yes High-larious
Round 9 of 12
Polyrythmmm: I wouldnt blame you if you kicked me
DMXRoid: COME ON
DMXRoid: fuck you AI
Polyrythmmm: this is effin terrible
maskdbandt: i don't kick people
maskdbandt: but yes this is ridiculous
DMXRoid: fucking prick computer
DMXRoid: i hope it gets aids
DMXRoid: fucking prick ass computer has been fucking with the location of my plots all day
DMXRoid: write a virus for that shit
Polyrythmmm: Don't you mean THE aids
DMXRoid: upload it with my mac
maskdbandt: just not to my computer! :)
DMXRoid: no, i want it to have anonymous, B-Rate AIDS
maskdbandt: i'm glad i'm not at work today... unidentified trash email just came in
DMXRoid: the kind that nobody pays attention to
maskdbandt: this just doesn't make sense why the ping would skyrocket like that and not disconnect you
maskdbandt: or go back down
Polyrythmmm: I've never seen the like
maskdbandt: maybe why so empty in here!
maskdbandt: our 3rd quake of the game
DMXRoid: 3 times
Polyrythmmm: but the client has always been wigged out
maskdbandt: it is free
maskdbandt: so i guess we can't expect much
Polyrythmmm: you get what you pay for
maskdbandt: poly, i wanted to buy from AI, not you :)
Polyrythmmm: hmmm
maskdbandt: that'd make this game interestin if you could pick who you wanted to buy and sell from
Polyrythmmm: Am I not responsive?
maskdbandt: naw, it's just you are real and AI is not
maskdbandt: i know AI has 0 chance of winning
maskdbandt: but you and DMX do
Polyrythmmm: no I mean I'm getting messages now that say you guys are not responding
maskdbandt: interesting... nope, no messages here
Polyrythmmm: it sometimes used to finish the auction phase then kick me
maskdbandt: poly, if the situation was reversed, would you kick us out?
DMXRoid: don't boot him
DMXRoid: 2 AI will fuck things up
maskdbandt: i won't
Polyrythmmm: No but I'd hope you'd leave :)
maskdbandt: i just want to see if poly agrees
maskdbandt: heh ok :)
Round 10 of 12
maskdbandt: thanks for the honesty :)
Polyrythmmm: well it allowed the grant so maybe I'm still in
maskdbandt: i would have to agree with you
DMXRoid: no auction?
DMXRoid: wierd
maskdbandt: poly, i think we're stuck with you heh
maskdbandt: yeah, no auction so salt and poly will prob win it next round unless you can somehow get it
maskdbandt: it is quicker to go around store than thru it?
DMXRoid: nice catch
DMXRoid: christ
DMXRoid: i'm doomed
maskdbandt: no food you mean? :)
DMXRoid: no, the high and 2 med you hit
DMXRoid: poly, they changed the smithore rules
maskdbandt: you must've not paid attention to my assays... i knew at the time
DMXRoid: price is affected by available squares
DMXRoid: oh, no
DMXRoid: i didn't
DMXRoid: you were assaying when I figured I still had a chance of putting together a solid block in the north east
maskdbandt: so i appreciate neither of you taking my land over there :)
Polyrythmmm: yeah I read that ...
maskdbandt: yeah that's true
DMXRoid: and then fucking poly and cocksucker AI fucked it all up
maskdbandt: it was funny in the orig with no spoilage on ore... it was same thing and just luck to see who could buy and sell
maskdbandt: thank goodness just 2 more auction rounds after this
maskdbandt: and last 1 will be quick with no buying / selling
Round 11 of 12
DMXRoid: horseshit on a fucking stick
Polyrythmmm: hmmm
Polyrythmmm: I had button down all along
DMXRoid: yeah, i was slamming it too
DMXRoid: B====D
DMXRoid: see that?
DMXRoid: bite it
Polyrythmmm: so I should have one
maskdbandt: yep you should've gotten it
maskdbandt: but i had to try just in case you didn't and DMX would get it
maskdbandt: i think DMX is right there is a huge bug on who gets awarded plots
Polyrythmmm: bugged crap really
maskdbandt: like 2nd round when i should've gotten it and dmx got it instead
maskdbandt: DMX if you want to play again, you can host instead
DMXRoid: naw, i gotta do some work after this
maskdbandt: i'd be up for another
maskdbandt: oh ok
DMXRoid: customers are starting to wake up
maskdbandt: i have a slow day :)
DMXRoid: what do you do?
maskdbandt: computer programmer
maskdbandt: but telecommute 3 days a week and go in twice
DMXRoid: hey, me too
DMXRoid: self-employed
maskdbandt: ah, nice
Polyrythmmm: I'm a roadie
DMXRoid: telecommute ain't so bad
maskdbandt: the big bucks... always thought about doing that but didn't have the guts
DMXRoid: poly: for anyone we've heard of?
maskdbandt: yeah, it
maskdbandt: s awesome
Polyrythmmm: The Specials?
DMXRoid: never heard of em
maskdbandt: hmm don't know if i know them or not
maskdbandt: local ?
DMXRoid: but I'm about as in touch with music as I am with teen fashio
DMXRoid: fashion
Polyrythmmm: you do
maskdbandt: lol
Polyrythmmm: they had lots of hits in 79/80
maskdbandt: oh so we would recognize the songs but just not by name
DMXRoid: before I was born
maskdbandt: i was really really young then
Polyrythmmm: Ghost town.. Too much too young... old ska act
Polyrythmmm: WHAT
Polyrythmmm: your guy pushes me up
Polyrythmmm: that was messed up
maskdbandt: that happened to me by you, poly, on an early auction round... it was weeeeeeeird!
Polyrythmmm: Bugged
maskdbandt: i think it's an out of synch issue
maskdbandt: because of the ping
maskdbandt: so dmx, you do web things for people? or what?
Polyrythmmm: still why would that chnge that you control where I sit on the line
DMXRoid: yeah, web development, hosting, server administration, etc...
maskdbandt: poly, if i wrote this, i wouldnt have crap like that :)
DMXRoid: poly: it didn't
maskdbandt: but as much asi like this game, i wouldn't write this for free
DMXRoid: he was actually at a hire price before your client registered it
DMXRoid: higher
DMXRoid: christ, i can spell
Polyrythmmm: would you please write it with the old graphics so packer doesnt look so mean
DMXRoid: so once your client got the notification, your local icon was already below that price
maskdbandt: i think it'd be fun to write something like this though... i'm just too lazy
Polyrythmmm: I guess that makes sense
DMXRoid: i am not gonna fucking get beat by an AI
maskdbandt: you ever write a game, dmx?
Round 12 of 12
DMXRoid: mask: a battleship game that I used to learn the ncurses library
DMXRoid: and a couple of bullshit web games
DMXRoid: mostly I do e-commerce shit
maskdbandt: i do boring stuff... mainframe development
DMXRoid: see, i think that's the cool shit
DMXRoid: AIX?
maskdbandt: but it's really easy ... i think i gotta swap it up and do some web or java stuff.. it gets old... and lately just been a lot of documents because i'm waiting on people forever to get things approved
DMXRoid: hah
DMXRoid: corporate culture ftmfw
maskdbandt: it's Assembly in TPF environment :)
DMXRoid: oh chirst
maskdbandt: heh
DMXRoid: i couldn't do that
maskdbandt: i never thought i could do that
maskdbandt: and in college i said it's the last thing i'll do but then somehow i ended up doing it
DMXRoid: hah
DMXRoid: that's what you get for going to college :-P
DMXRoid: 76?
DMXRoid: fuck you computer
DMXRoid: you doomed me from the start
DMXRoid: our colony is going to suck
maskdbandt: gg guys... sorry for the ping issues... i still don't understand the skyrocketing of it... my computer doesn't do anything but mule when i play
DMXRoid: yah, gg
DMXRoid: fun if slow
Polyrythmmm: ping is back to 220
maskdbandt: but yes our colony will not be so great
DMXRoid: still, at 1:30
DMXRoid: not actually that long
maskdbandt: yeah helps to have 3 to make it go quicker
DMXRoid: i better beat the fucking computer
maskdbandt: heh
Game Over
Saving score, please wait...
Score saved
DMXRoid: goddamn right
maskdbandt: congrats, you did
Polyrythmmm: hmmm
DMXRoid: heh
maskdbandt: barely
DMXRoid: fuck,t hat was close
DMXRoid: how did he make all that money?
maskdbandt: not bad 100k colony
Polyrythmmm: and elegant estates
Polyrythmmm: yeah
maskdbandt: energy i think early on
maskdbandt: and food
DMXRoid: ahh
maskdbandt: i was a buyer a lot
DMXRoid: that prick
maskdbandt: cheers all! :)
maskdbandt: was fun
Polyrythmmm: coool man sorry Im a cunt you fuckin dick bye
DMXRoid: alright, catch y'all later
maskdbandt: wtf?
maskdbandt: wow
DMXRoid left the game
Polyrythmmm: it was building inside
DMXRoid was disconnected
maskdbandt: i thought it was just in fun
Polyrythmmm: hmm
maskdbandt: sorry if he offended you
maskdbandt: i'm sure it wasn't intentional :(
Polyrythmmm: my fault
Polyrythmmm: :) see ya
maskdbandt: but that was first game i'mve played with them
maskdbandt: later
Polyrythmmm left the game