Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

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

hightekvagabond visits

hightekvagabond joined the game in slot 1

guitarmama80: hi there hightek

guitarmama80 joined the game in slot 2

hightekvagabond: how goes?

jaytee00 visits

guitarmama80: good and you?

guitarmama80: hi jaytee

jaytee00: hi

jaytee00 joined the game in slot 3

guitarmama80: first game?

jaytee00: first game against humans

jaytee00: yeah

guitarmama80: welcome!

jaytee00: cheers :)

guitarmama80: one more

hightekvagabond: mine too ;)

jaytee00: hmm yes

hightekvagabond: heh

jaytee00: whats the community like round here?

hightekvagabond: well, maybe, not quite my first game, but close enough ;)

guitarmama80: pretty friendly

hightekvagabond: Most of the community is good, general geek based community, a hand full of snobs, a hand full of dweebs, but most of them are just basic laid back every day geeks

jaytee00: good stuff

guitarmama80: lobby is slow tonight!

hightekvagabond: well, we've lost 20% of the userbase to the weird mac bug

Jammy visits

Jammy joined the game in slot 4

guitarmama80: hi jammy

Jammy: not pink!

guitarmama80: good luck all

guitarmama80: welcome newbies!

jaytee00: :)

Round 1 of 12

guitarmama80: what weird mac bug?

hightekvagabond: a lot of mac people can't get on since 1.2.2

guitarmama80: wow, i didn't realize that

hightekvagabond: I'm on a mac though, so it is not everyone

Round 2 of 12

hightekvagabond: go pirates!

Jammy: its annoying when that happens early

hightekvagabond: its great when it happens early! :P

Jammy: why

hightekvagabond: gets them out of the way

hightekvagabond: pirates only happen twice per game max

jaytee00: damn lag

hightekvagabond: early on noone has any crystite to steal

hightekvagabond: well, except guitarmama and well...

Round 3 of 12

Jammy: so they steal it from you, not the store?

guitarmama80: there is none in the store, it is sold offworld

hightekvagabond: they steal all the crystite from all the players, the store never has a stock of crystite

Jammy: got it

Jammy: does more time = more money in the pub?

guitarmama80: yep, generally

Jammy: it seems like its random to me

hightekvagabond: it is two ends of a coin, lots of time gives you a better chance at good money, and almost no time gives you a better chance

Jammy: what's a good smithore price?

hightekvagabond: well crap

hightekvagabond: I ment to sell some, we will have no mules next round

guitarmama80: lol

hightekvagabond: my roommate was talking to me

hightekvagabond: I missed it

hightekvagabond: more more more

guitarmama80: this is not good

Round 4 of 12

Jammy: wtf!

hightekvagabond: what are you wtfing?

hightekvagabond: I told you, no mules

jaytee00: the bots never let you run out of stuff

guitarmama80: its different game with all humans!

jaytee00: yeah i thought it would be :D

Jammy: i swear i bid more for the plot

jaytee00: could be a lag issue

guitarmama80: what is your ping

Jammy: i've got a squeaky boot

Jammy: what do you think about that

Jammy: 266ms

hightekvagabond: the problem with the bidding on the plot was that they don't sync the auctions well and sometimes you think you win and you dont

guitarmama80: that's too bad

hightekvagabond: you need to win it by a signifigant enough number that you can't miss

jaytee00: do you always get 2 pirates?

jaytee00: is it just the most

guitarmama80: no, up to 2

Jammy: pirates?

jaytee00: cristite pirates

hightekvagabond: bad stuff is random, but 2 is max on pirates

hightekvagabond: you guys can afford more then that

Jammy: you're a dick

Jammy: lol

hightekvagabond: I could of let you starve :P

guitarmama80: some people never sell~

hightekvagabond: I was nice enough to come down for you since you are the newbie and losing

Jammy: lol

hightekvagabond: perfect

hightekvagabond: thank you jay

hightekvagabond: gave me exactly how much I wanted

jaytee00: yeah, i keep forgetting that you can go higher

Round 5 of 12

Jammy: wtf

Jammy: is low really that worth it

guitarmama80: drag

jaytee00: not sure

Jammy: i guess it is

Jammy: is there ever a case for buying other people's ore / cry

jaytee00: cry yeah, if they are willing to sell it cheap but no ever would

Jammy: so no then really

hightekvagabond: one more

jaytee00: can you sell nonsurplus?

Round 6 of 12

Jammy: yeah

Jammy: i think

hightekvagabond: yes

Jammy: but why!

hightekvagabond: why can you sell non surplus?

Jammy: why would you want to

Jammy: i mean

hightekvagabond: if food was selling for $300/unit and your mules are all placed so you don't need it?

Jammy: does it ever really sell for that much?

hightekvagabond: only if a player is willing to pay it, like I was for energy not so long ago

Jammy: okay

hightekvagabond: and, like with energy, when it says how much you need it counts one more then the number of mules you have out to power right now, so if your next mule is going to be energy you only need 1 less then whatt it says

Round 7 of 12

guitarmama80: ooh, i hate that event

Jammy: that's some clever shit right there

jaytee00: yeah

Jammy: *refering to previous vagabound post*

jaytee00: woo!

Jammy: that's the best reward i think

Jammy: damn

Jammy: you can do better than $100

Jammy: no?

jaytee00: i thought so

hightekvagabond: yes

Jammy: waste of money

hightekvagabond: you can do better then $100, but you can lose it all to pirates too

Jammy: very interesting

hightekvagabond: Crystite ranges from 84 to 148

Jammy: this game is a mindfuck

Round 8 of 12

jaytee00: im suprised

jaytee00: do you know something about that plot we dont ?

guitarmama80: lol

Jammy: just raising the price

Jammy: douche

hightekvagabond: yeah, I know I don't want it :P

hightekvagabond: thats not a nice thing to say :P

Jammy: clever boy, you understand words! *pats head*

jaytee00: didn't need to buy that energy at all :\

Jammy: stupid mule

Jammy: ?

jaytee00: he reckons it'll go up i guess

Jammy: don't think so

jaytee00: don't get ore prices myself

Jammy: don't sell

jaytee00: i migfht

hightekvagabond: it didn't matter, the store had units

Jammy: up to you

Jammy: oh yeah

Jammy: this is kind of a weird economy

Jammy: where you have to buy from others and then the store if they don;t want to sell

Round 9 of 12

jaytee00: once you start raising the floor there should be some kind of commitment i think

hightekvagabond: yeah, you aren't the only one who thinks that, but the original game didn't work that way

jaytee00: im not much of a stickler for authenticity

Jammy: definately jay!

hightekvagabond: the people who made this game are :(

Jammy: are what

Jammy: sad

Jammy: ?

jaytee00: sticklers for authenticity

hightekvagabond: are sticklers for authenticity

Jammy: obviously not

Jammy: though

Jammy: it isn't like the real world is it?

Jammy: i don't think i gonna keep my lead

jaytee00: they dont want to deviate from the c64 game or whatever apparently

jaytee00: seems silly to me

Jammy: someone said the original was different

Jammy: thats what vaga said

jaytee00: made a profit i notice hightek

Jammy: shows me

hightekvagabond: just a little bit :)

hightekvagabond: not enough to catch up though

Jammy: is that an effective tactic

hightekvagabond: I've lost the game

hightekvagabond: is what an effective tactic?

hightekvagabond: buy low - sell high? yeah

Jammy: buying resources from the shop to sell back later

Jammy: i only really sell

hightekvagabond: if you can see the supply and demand changing far enough in advance it's good

Jammy: i never really now how i've won / lost

Round 10 of 12

Jammy: bullshit

jaytee00: go batlizard goooo

Jammy: i got distracted lol

Jammy: 1st to lat

jaytee00: only hit one decent patch of crys

Jammy: i've hit none

hightekvagabond: your play style looking for cryst tells me you don't understand cryst patterns jay

jaytee00: true

jaytee00: i thought they were totally random?

hightekvagabond: there are 4 total "high cryst" plots in the game, then patches radiate out from them, medium will be ajacent, then low next to that

jaytee00: okay that changes things

hightekvagabond: sometimes, like in this game a high cryst is a patch that can't be mined, like in the river bed that is just below the city

hightekvagabond: it's like playing minesweeper

hightekvagabond: I'm not sure why you did that jammy

guitarmama80: cool, i didn't really understant the cryst patterns either

hightekvagabond: I'm a geek, I spent a bunch of time reading up in the forums

Jammy: i'll do what i want

jaytee00: oh yeah the store

Round 11 of 12

guitarmama80: damn

hightekvagabond: that sucked

Jammy: thank god

Jammy: thnx

Round 12 of 12

jaytee00: gotta get really lucky with my mining rolls to win this

Jammy: i had no luck at all with the crystals

hightekvagabond: gg guys

hightekvagabond: guitar got us all

Jammy: cheers

guitarmama80: gg all

jaytee00: gg :)

hightekvagabond: oh, crappy price on crystite

guitarmama80: ouch

jaytee00: its enough for guitarmama to win though

hightekvagabond: she already had the lead

Jammy: does a crystal factory on a no crystal plot do anything?

hightekvagabond: it didn't matter when we produced the same amount of crystite

jaytee00: thought i was ahead slightly

jaytee00: yeah, she might have been beeing you :)

hightekvagabond: her crystite will beat you

jaytee00: thats what i meant

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jaytee00: if they'd only been paying 1 for it i might have been okay....

Score saved

guitarmama80: lucky

jaytee00: gg :)

guitarmama80: thanks all, have a good night

jaytee00: night

hightekvagabond: gg

Jammy: gg