Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

Sgt York joined the game in slot 1

Ricey visits

Ricey joined the game in slot 2

Ricey: hey

Sgt York: hi

trst visits

trst joined the game in slot 3

Sgt York: hi trst

trst: hello sarge

trst: hello ricey

piete visits

piete: h

Sgt York: hi piete

piete: hi

piete: :)

Sgt York: you going to show us noobs how it's done?

trst: hello piete

piete: sorry to be intrusive but ricey do you know the game well?

Sgt York: ricey??

Ricey: oh sorry

Ricey: well i beat the ai twice

Rhodan visits

Adzinger visits

Sgt York: well, we have one opening.. whomever wants in

Rhodan left the game

piete: what about the original c64/atari?

Adzinger left the game

trst: my ping is 47

Sgt York: what diff does that make piete?

Adzinger visits

Adzinger joined the game in slot 4

Sgt York: i don't even hardly remember the original.. that was like 25 years ago

piete: sorry my pickiness but i can play max 1 game per night

Frausty visits

Frausty left the game

piete: anyway, you got the game so ill watch now

Sgt York: np.. we're probably not strong enuf for you then piete

trst: i hope it's a good one

trst: good luck

Sgt York: adzinger... do u know the game??

Adzinger unjoined the game

Adzinger left the game

Sgt York: i'd rather he leave now

Sgt York: if he's that impatient and rude

Adzinger visits

Adzinger joined the game in slot 4

piete: :)

Sgt York: adzinger.. do you know how to play the game?

Adzinger left the game

piete: quiet guy...

Sgt York: if he's going to leave that easily - probably leave in the middle of the game anyways

Frausty visits

Sgt York: hi frausty.. feel free to jump in.. piete's just watching

Frausty: ok

Frausty joined the game in slot 4

Sgt York: i think he was scaring everyone off - lol

piete: yeah, that's my fear with zero-stats, nothing personal ricey

Sgt York: good game all

trst: gl

piete: too many bad experiences

Sgt York: just here tow aste time and have fun - don't care about ranking at all

Ricey: its understandable

Round 1 of 12

piete: but on the other hand some people avoid me due my high abandon count

Sgt York: why do u abandon so much?

trst: is that from glitches or do you jet on games?

piete: i have not a single unjustified abandons

trst: there ought to be a name for when everyone claims riverbed first round

Frausty: "the successful colony"

trst: ha

piete: in the beginning there were many bugs that crashed the game

Sgt York: i think this is the first game, i've ever seen that happen - everyone gets riverbed

piete: lately i abandon the game if somebody leaves in the first 2 rounds, but after a mutual understanding of course

Ricey: gonna mine the river?

Frausty: usually i have something to do and forget how long a game typically is...

Frausty: when i abandon...heheh

Sgt York: sometimes the x3 is in the river... and it tells you about the plots along the sides of it

piete: because investing 1h30 to a game with ais is time half-wasted

piete: cant mine in river

piete: could in version 1.0

Frausty: haha

Frausty: how long have you played MULE, piete?

Sgt York: sounds like he never stopped.. from the mid 80's

piete: since 1986 or so

piete: i never stopped

piete: :)

Sgt York: that's a serious obsession

Round 2 of 12

piete: true

Frausty: awesome!

piete: you have to have some addiction, i quit alcohol and sugar

Frausty: you've been playing longer than i've been alive...haha

piete: :)

Frausty: i've been playing since i was about 7..i'm 20 now

piete: trst, youre 1st, cant have good luck

piete: as 1st i wouldnt buy

trst: at land auctions you mean?

trst: i don't think it was a good choice in retrospect

Sgt York: i'm not even in 1st and it attacked

Frausty: shoot. i'm going to have a connection problem in a sec..

Frausty: i.e., my power is going to go out

Frausty: gah

Frausty: can piete jump in my place?

Frausty left the game

Computer takes over Frausty

Sgt York: doesn't work that way

trst: booooooooo

Ricey: so what happens now

trst: he turned into a bot

Sgt York: ai plays it

Round 3 of 12

trst: i wonder how he knew his power was going out

Sgt York: bill not paid and knock at the door??

trst: maybe he's on a laptop

Ricey is not responding to continue

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

trst: oh no

Sgt York: some tyep of lag.. i've seen it recover, if u wait a moment

Ricey was disconnected

Computer takes over Ricey

trst: piete is happy he's not playing this one

Sgt York: yea - lol

Sgt York: the problem with played with unranked

Sgt York: mules are going to get expensive - u need some capitol trst

Round 4 of 12

trst: not gonna happen

Sgt York: what isn't going to happen?

trst: i won't be able to buy a mule

Sgt York: u coulda sold ur food and excess snergy

Sgt York: plus wampus

Sgt York: 2 x3's and i get 1 productio unit - LOL

trst: NOOOOOO

trst: too eager

Round 5 of 12

Sgt York: i don't get what u get out of watching ppl piete? Isnt that time wasted??

piete: sorry, was afk

piete: but true, im happy i didnt play this one ;)

Round 6 of 12

piete: this way i dont have to be at the computer all time

piete: so no time wasted, and i can give besserwisser comments ;)

Sgt York: besserwisser?

trst: when you watch do you need to keep spacing at rounds?

piete: no

piete: only players

trst: that makes watching sound better

Sgt York: i'm in freak'n LAST PLACE and still getting hammered

Sgt York: had 2 x3's earlier and only got 1 production

Sgt York: smithore was stolen - when i was the only one who had some

Sgt York: and now production halved when i tried to go all out for ome cash

trst: this game has been rough

Sgt York: but i'm getting hammered in LAST place...

trst: never got anything the rounds i was in 4th

trst: still, at least there's no lag

Sgt York: now i don't have enuf to buy a mule when in need multiple ones

Sgt York: i'm really getting hammered

Round 7 of 12

trst: you've got a bit of land

Sgt York: but can't afford to develope them

Sgt York: and everytime i try to get cash... 3x in 6 rounds.. i'm getting held back

piete: wampus can be only on one mountain, go there first

Sgt York: already done that 2x

Sgt York: had nothing else i could do

Sgt York: i tried to sacrifice energy for a x3 bonus - for crist - then it halved roduction

piete: id still go for smithore

trst: you'll get your crystite this auction

piete: change crystite to smithore, youll gain 25 for each switch

trst: you were scaring the wampus

Sgt York: was going to.. but not worth losing the x3 bonus at this point

Sgt York: i have to ride it out

Sgt York: lmao - now my production i sHALF what it was

Sgt York: AND the store burn rewards ore

Sgt York: i would swear i'm in 1st place

Sgt York: all the things going on are hurting last.. and rewarding the ai in first

Round 8 of 12

Sgt York: close - nice try

trst: i just had a spasm

trst: cursing the gods

Sgt York: there again -- ihad 0 need at energy - and it hit my x3.. saved my x1

Sgt York: last place KEEPS getting hit

trst: and we don't get good events

Sgt York: oi think piete is cursing us

Sgt York: i have NEVER seen last get hit this way before

trst: we're not making the team

piete: ok, ill leave

Sgt York: look at this

trst: nooooooooooo

Sgt York: 2 food.. and side/side bonus

Sgt York: and i only produce 5??

Sgt York: piete.. i had 0 need at energy - why did 1 of my plots lose power??

trst: you added more mules than 1

Round 9 of 12

Sgt York: yes i added 1 enrgy and 1 food and 1 crist

piete: yeah, dont look at the surplus/shortage but the number of energy units

piete: it assumes you develops only 1 plot

Sgt York: ic.. so i dev 1 cris and 1 food so i needed 1 extra

Sgt York: still..last place.. u would think it takes the x1 instead of the x3 plot away

piete: it chooses the non-producing plot randomly

piete: at least now you had very decent crystite production

piete: of course the price didnt correspond...how many pirate visits?

Sgt York: 1

Sgt York: nope price didn't helpt at all

piete: so next round again? ;)

Sgt York: and 37..with 7 plots.. that include ALL with side/side bonuses AND 2 x3; 4 x2; 1x1.. seems low

Round 10 of 12

piete: i just reported this "money back" feature as a bug since original doesnt work that way...

trst: money back?

piete: good thing watching is that this way i remember to report the bugs

piete: you change crystite mule into energy and you get $50 back

trst: oh

trst: i like that

piete: me too, but it cant stay in the "original" version

trst: is the goal to totally replicate the original?

Sgt York: the ai are producing too much to get the ore to jump again

piete: gameplay-wise yes

Sgt York: jezus.. crist won't go up

piete: its purely luck, so maybe im cursing you ;)

Sgt York: i have to leave in 2mins also - grrr

piete: and youre the host! :@

Sgt York: son will be late to wrestling practice

trst: say what?

Sgt York: i know - trying to hurry

Sgt York: wish there wasn an "auto" feature

Sgt York: for ai to take over for host

Sgt York: ai kick'n our butt trst, this is embarassing

trst: next round is our big crystite cash in

Sgt York: 1x all game is BS

Round 11 of 12

trst: i think we can come back

Sgt York: i screwed up there at the start.. lost 2-3 seconds

Sgt York: cost me the ability to get that last plot converstion in and another x3 bonus

Sgt York: wow

Sgt York: this is total bs

trst: sell down to 50

Sgt York: all the side/side bonuse and x3 and x2 that i have.. and you still outproduced me by 10???

piete: just sell to 50 and hope for best

trst: next round it'll go up

piete: or not

trst: i have faith

Sgt York: doesn't matter

Sgt York: there is no way you should have out produced me with all the bonuses that i have

trst: i have a fair amount of crystite bonus

Sgt York: i have 2 of the x3; 5 of the x2's and all are side/side... you have less of every bonus

piete: ok, ill have a look next round...

Round 12 of 12

trst: moving up and we are in reach

piete: 9 plots vs 8

piete: that gives already 9 units

Sgt York: beofre you get into the x1, x2 and x2 bonuses

Sgt York: x3 rather

piete: and trst has practically equal base points

Sgt York: iti's like they are meaningless

piete: in this scale they mean less

trst: gg

piete: with 9 plots each plots base value is already 3 units plus 1 for adjacency, 4 units

trst: thanks for hosting and sticking it out

piete: +3 or +2 doesn't make much difference

Sgt York: i don't have a single one that is not side/side

piete: but 9 plots vs 8 is more important

piete: and like i said to you before, maybe youre cursed and should just make a new account ;)

trst: 52!!!!!!!!!

trst: hahahahhahahaa

piete: sorry for guessing this

Sgt York: still out produced me???

trst: by 13

trst: i was all out

Sgt York: u had one down by side w/o side by side

Sgt York: i was all out also

trst: you made ore

Sgt York: ???

Sgt York: i had 0 ore

trst: you made two ore

trst: you still have it

Sgt York: i didn't make a single ore all game

Sgt York: strange

Sgt York: no i boght that

piete: maybe its the hospitality luck

trst: maybe you got it as a goodie

trst: 2 ore and 3 food

Sgt York: maybe but i am all out on crist

Game Over

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Score saved

Sgt York: and my plots and side/side bonuses were all better

trst: at least we beat one AI

trst: but we were doomed from the start

piete: if trst had 12 plots producing crystite, he got 12 bonus points more than you sgt

Sgt York: 18 vs 16 in bonuses...

Sgt York: and i produced less

Sgt York: including more side/sides

piete: 4 base points for each plot

trst: i had one more corporation

piete: against your 3

Sgt York: yes

Sgt York: that 1 plot overpowered all other bonuses

piete: so his medium equalled your high