Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start. Max 2 computer players allowed.

Mega Byte joined the game in slot 1

Duke visits

TyGar visits

TyGar joined the game in slot 2

abscure visits

Duke joined the game in slot 3

Duke left the game

abscure: cool. someone to play with besides bots

Mega Byte: G'day

Mega Byte: haha

Mega Byte: Jump in.

Mega Byte: We're ready to go.

Mega Byte: abscure, you joining???

abscure joined the game in slot 3

Mega Byte: Wait for 1 more, or start now?

abscure: lets go

Added computer player <A.L.A.N.>

Round 1 of 12

Mega Byte: Good first round.

Round 2 of 12

Mega Byte: Oh bugger.

Mega Byte: I forgot to turn that into crystite MULE

Mega Byte: DOH!

abscure: serves you right :)

Mega Byte: Hmmm

Mega Byte: That makes me feel better. ;)

TyGar: i wonderd why u just changed that smithore

abscure: i bet

Mega Byte: hehe

Mega Byte: Yeah, forgot what I was doing.

Mega Byte: Something else on my mind at the moment...

Mega Byte: Working on getting my Visa renewed.

Mega Byte: (I live in Tokyo)

Mega Byte: And have to go to immigration tomorrow. :)

Mega Byte: So sort of "lost the plot" as we say in Australia.

Mega Byte: hehe

abscure: where are you from?

TyGar: i'm from austria !

Mega Byte: Well, g'day

abscure: i saw that just when i wrote

Round 3 of 12

abscure: i think there's a delay on my end. second time you got that

TyGar: what was that ?

Mega Byte: The way to increase the price of ore.

abscure: land i was hitting for

Mega Byte: But I pay for it...

Mega Byte: Yeah, I had same problem sometimes

Mega Byte: Land thing

Mega Byte: Now, if you don't seel, it will be 230 next turn

Mega Byte: Nice.

Mega Byte: Buy TG

Mega Byte: Wow... still in last place... :(

Round 4 of 12

TyGar: what means tg ?

Mega Byte: TyGar

Mega Byte: Was faster to type TG

Mega Byte: Run him up\

TyGar: nerd ;P

Mega Byte: Don't let him buy so cheap.

Mega Byte: Reall

Mega Byte: Push him up to at least 300

Mega Byte: LOL

Mega Byte: That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

TyGar: my girlfriend was screaming at me

Mega Byte: hehe

Mega Byte: Wish I could have bought the plot.

TyGar: waht should i do ??

Mega Byte: Catch the wampus

Mega Byte: Go to pub

Mega Byte: Or that.

Mega Byte: :)

Mega Byte: See... 230

Mega Byte: :)

Mega Byte: Hou don't have to keep pushing down to sell

Mega Byte: It goes faster if you don't

Mega Byte: WHy you keep that 1

Mega Byte: ?

Mega Byte: Price never goes higher than 230

TyGar: i thought it will go higher ...

Mega Byte: Nope

Mega Byte: Not for ore

Mega Byte: Never higher than 230

TyGar: and what should i do with that crystite?

Mega Byte: Well, it's early.

Mega Byte: You can play a bit of a risk game for now.

Mega Byte: You don't have much stock.

Mega Byte: Pirates have come once, and can still come 1 more time in the game.

Mega Byte: In general, if the price is 96 or higher, you sell.

Mega Byte: Crystite is not market driven.

TyGar: kk

Mega Byte: ANd has a max of 144

Mega Byte: Ouch

Mega Byte: That's bad

Mega Byte: Now he will screw us on price sinc ethe store has none. :)

Round 5 of 12

Mega Byte: Wow, 5 rounds and only 2 plots auctioned so far.

Mega Byte: That's nuts.

Mega Byte: Ouch

TyGar: dont sell all the mule s!!!

Mega Byte: I love to catch the bugs.

Mega Byte: :)(

Mega Byte: :)

Mega Byte: Oh, don't worry.

Mega Byte: I let them go at $90 last time, and used all my money.

Mega Byte: They are $460 this time!

Mega Byte: No chance I'm throwing away that much cash. :)

Mega Byte: Nice round

Mega Byte: Plus, we used all the Mules and the Bot doesn't get one. ;)

TyGar: thx

Mega Byte: Though it would have been cool if the Bot had built another energy plot. hehe

Mega Byte: NO NO NO

Mega Byte: I hate quakes.

Mega Byte: That screwed me

Mega Byte: Too many in the store now

Mega Byte: Price will just go down

TyGar: sell ?

Mega Byte: Your call

TyGar: i have to go

Mega Byte: Bugger

TyGar: whats that ?^^

TyGar: bye, i'll be back °!

Mega Byte: ???

TyGar left the game

Computer takes over TyGar

Mega Byte: You can't come back after you leave...

Mega Byte: But oh well...

Mega Byte: That's it for him...

Mega Byte: Bloody bot took it all

Round 6 of 12

Mega Byte: Wow

Mega Byte: That wasn't what I wanted.

Mega Byte: Wow

Mega Byte: That was a massive go...

Mega Byte: Oh bugger

Mega Byte: I should have made that food plot an energy plot

Mega Byte: I will have 1 shortage now...

Mega Byte: And you are a land plot ahead of me...

Mega Byte: Not happy about that either.

Mega Byte: :)

Mega Byte: Burning through MULES though

Mega Byte: If you press space bar, it skips animation now.

Mega Byte: Goes a LOT faster this way. :)

Mega Byte: Jezzz...

Mega Byte: That helped

Mega Byte: SWEET

Round 7 of 12

Mega Byte: Plots aint going cheap...

Mega Byte: I was just thinking...

Mega Byte: There hasn't been a store burn...

Mega Byte: OUCH

Mega Byte: You got on top of that one.

abscure: a little redemption

Mega Byte: Indeed. :)

Mega Byte: Well diserved.

Mega Byte: I just got lucky on this price.

Mega Byte: Store burn has 0 to do with crystite price.

Mega Byte: I was just about to say, "There hasn't been a store burn this game"

Mega Byte: When Whoosh!

Mega Byte: hehe

Mega Byte: I fear the Glack Elf

Mega Byte: :)

abscure: boo yah

Mega Byte: hehe

Mega Byte: Nice work.

Round 8 of 12

Mega Byte: Just the one I wanted.

Mega Byte: Epic fail

Mega Byte: :D

Mega Byte: I have no idea if there is any crystite over there...

Mega Byte: LOL

Mega Byte: At least I can tell yours has 1

Mega Byte: haha

Mega Byte: 2 for you

Mega Byte: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo

abscure: good bye

Mega Byte: Crap

Mega Byte: I'm screwed now.

Mega Byte: Watch the price be 144 too

Mega Byte: Close enough... :(

Mega Byte: I'm screwed.

abscure: fudge

Mega Byte: Sorry

Mega Byte: I was trying to back off

Mega Byte: But he only had the 1

abscure: sure :)

Mega Byte: You still have 4/5\

Mega Byte: So enough time for couple plots.

Mega Byte: I like to buy a lot of energy when it is only $10 a pop

Mega Byte: :)

Mega Byte: Hmmm

Mega Byte: Not as bad as it might seem...

Mega Byte: Only about 1800 behind you.

Round 9 of 12

Mega Byte: Oh yeah

Mega Byte: That'll make up for what I lost to the pirates

abscure: yes good go at that

Mega Byte: Ta

Mega Byte: See, I'm not here to screw you over...

Mega Byte: I don't like that kind of game.

Mega Byte: Plus we get a better colony score that way.

Mega Byte: I think the store is good now...

Mega Byte: :)

Round 10 of 12

Mega Byte: Bugger

Mega Byte: You need to convert your ore plots

Mega Byte: Or I will make a very wide gap in the score.

Mega Byte: Make them crystite.

Mega Byte: Ore is dead now, and won't go above 52 or so.

Mega Byte: Crystite should always be at least around 60, if not higher.

abscure: i see

abscure: i haven't played this since i was 13

Mega Byte: Well, its a bit different than what you remember too.

Mega Byte: They are tweaking it still.

Mega Byte: It's not true to the orgiinal.

Mega Byte: Space will skip this...

Mega Byte: :)

Mega Byte: It's nearly 2am for me, and I have to work tomorrow. :)

abscure: we're almost htere

Mega Byte: Yeah

Mega Byte: Just wanting to move through the production animation.

Mega Byte: Wow

Mega Byte: 132 3 turns in a row...

Mega Byte: Never seen that.

abscure: its random price?

Mega Byte: Yes/No

Mega Byte: It is "random" but there is an algorythim behind it somewhere.

Mega Byte: HOLY!

abscure: yeah

Mega Byte: Back in version 1.1 there was a big hole in smithore

Mega Byte: And we were running scores up over 200k

abscure: wish there was a consensual skip on some of these other screens

Mega Byte: Yeah

abscure: and it moved faster past null auctions

Round 11 of 12

Mega Byte: We're working on that.

abscure: so you're a developer on it?

Mega Byte: hehe

Mega Byte: I'm one of the input team for the overall functionality.

Mega Byte: Not developer, more design and design idea.

abscure: if you just press space

abscure: ...

abscure: :)

abscure: crap

Mega Byte: hehe

abscure: well it hurts you more than me :)

Mega Byte: Yeah, quakes are BAD

Mega Byte: Not really...

Mega Byte: :)

Mega Byte: 108 is still a good number.

Mega Byte: Wow 29 even with a quake.

Mega Byte: 'course I produced 73 on the turn before.

Mega Byte: I had one turn last week that I created 115 crystite in one production.

Mega Byte: I don't give a rats about food..

Mega Byte: I shouldn't have bought it last time.

Mega Byte: My plots are already set.

Mega Byte: Energy I care about.

Mega Byte: ANd getting it at $10 a pop is a lot better than creating it myself...

Mega Byte: So I converted my energy plots back in turn 9

Round 12 of 12

abscure: yeah it could all go a bit faster

abscure: i don't remember it this slow

Mega Byte: Yeah, it was...

abscure: but then computers were so much slower then

Mega Byte: There's never been such a thing as a "quick game of MULE"

Mega Byte: :)

abscure: hence the name i suppose

Mega Byte: Ore is better than food or energy now though.

Mega Byte: But still, a losing commodity after about round 9 without a store burn.

abscure: and is there any point in auction 12?

Mega Byte: And then usually too late to do much about it.

Mega Byte: Yeah.

Mega Byte: This should be skipped too.

Mega Byte: Show the productions, and move on.

Mega Byte: Wow...

Mega Byte: I only produced 55.

Mega Byte: Hmmm

Mega Byte: Not very good for 12 plots.

Mega Byte: An average of 4.5ish per plot.

abscure: alan hasn't caught on about that energy surplus has he?

Game Over

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Score saved

Mega Byte: LOL

Mega Byte: Um, no.

Mega Byte: Nice game.

Mega Byte: Thanks for playing.

abscure: thanks

abscure: get some rest

Mega Byte: Any time.

Mega Byte: LOL

abscure: good luck on your visa

Mega Byte: Thanks, will do.

Mega Byte: Oh, it's no problem.

abscure: ciao!

Mega Byte: Just a process I have to go through.

Mega Byte: CU