Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

Chuckie Chuck joined the game in slot 1

Cyclone visits

Cyclone joined the game in slot 2

Chuckie Chuck: hey cyclone

Cyclone: hi

Cyclone: why does this game lag so badly

Chuckie Chuck: Why'd ya quit?

Cyclone: i sold my mule on accident because of lag

Cyclone: i tapped down and it went all the way back to the mule dealer

Chuckie Chuck: it doesn't usually, what kinda connection you got?

Cyclone: 22 megabytes a second

Chuckie Chuck: DSL?

Cyclone: ya

Chuckie Chuck: downloading anything?

Cyclone: no

Chuckie Chuck: I hosted once and forgot I was running Utorrent, everyone was pinging at 2000ms

Chuckie Chuck: it was terrible

Cyclone: :D

Cyclone: i dont torrent anymore im tired of viruses

Chuckie Chuck: average is 100 it seems, 150 is annoying, but acceptable, over 200 gets bad

Cyclone: ya last game was hiking over 300

Chuckie Chuck: I was just in there watching and was seeing 200

Cyclone: idk just bad programming probably

Cyclone: it shouldnt lag the person whose turn it is

Chuckie Chuck: it's based on host connection (which in this case was ratata) and william was on the same lan

Cyclone: i get less lag playing rise of nations and that has hundreds of units on the screen lol :D

Chuckie Chuck: host gets about a 15ms ping (that is what you will get if you play local without even using the internet)

Cyclone: i dont know why this game was programmed in java

Cyclone: thats like ancient egyptian in the programming world

Cyclone: my game lags a little even playing with computers

Cyclone: i see the FPS go down to like 15-20

Chuckie Chuck: it's quick and easier to do minor updates I guess and maintaine multiple platforms, but yeah, they could have done better.

Cyclone: o that makes sense cause of linux and mac os

Cyclone: i hate mac os lol

Chuckie Chuck: they did a good job on staying true to classic mule and making it look good though

Cyclone: ya i like the graphic design

Cyclone: if you pay close attention on the results screen each letter is different

Cyclone: i love that a lot of people just use some random typeface and you see the same squiggly letters repeated

Chuckie Chuck: well it'd be nice not to have AI's, but think I'll have to give in

Cyclone: lol

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Round 1 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: woohoo, first round, silly pirates

Cyclone: in my practice match it was like 3 times in a row some modified to take away crystite

Cyclone: modifier*

Chuckie Chuck: I had that even on the c64 back in the day a time or two

Cyclone: cheap bastard :P

Chuckie Chuck: odds are supposed to be about the same

Chuckie Chuck: they have access to orignal code

Round 2 of 12

Cyclone: is there any advatange / disadvantage to each race

Chuckie Chuck: not yet, they haven't done that

Chuckie Chuck: c64 did have that feature, it's the only one at this point that they haven't caught up on I think

Cyclone: damn elves lol

Cyclone: i got lucky

Cyclone: does it make sense ever to grow food not in the valley

Chuckie Chuck: yeah, if you need food and didn't get a river plot, grow on the planes

Round 3 of 12

Cyclone: rofl

Cyclone: why not in mountain

Chuckie Chuck: wanted crystite, didn't have enough money

Cyclone: do you know how the sector map works

Cyclone: every game is represented?

Chuckie Chuck: not exactly

Cyclone: why were you waiting on me to selll :P

Chuckie Chuck: for fun

Cyclone: oh lol

Cyclone: does energy stack?

Cyclone: between roudns

Chuckie Chuck: stack?

Cyclone: carry over

Chuckie Chuck: 75% of it does

Cyclone: wow i actually won a round :P

Cyclone: by 14 LOL

Round 4 of 12

Cyclone: this game is as cooperative as competitive right we all lose if we dont do good?

Chuckie Chuck: to an extent

Chuckie Chuck: the better you work together the better chance of a high overall score

Cyclone: ok

Chuckie Chuck: when there are no AIs the best way to work it to get everyone to cooperatively control smithore to be worth 230 a unit, high scores easily break 120000 on those games.

Cyclone: andd if pirates come take away crystite is it all our stockpiles or just production day

Chuckie Chuck: whole stock pile

Cyclone: lame

Chuckie Chuck: just like original mule

Cyclone: i never played the original

Chuckie Chuck: oh, well then, 17 years later

Cyclone: lol

Round 5 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: price manipulation, make a profit next round

Cyclone: ?

Chuckie Chuck: smith goes up a lot when the store runs out of mules

Cyclone: hunger and starvation in irata lol

Round 6 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: no more wampus

Cyclone: because we took mountains?

Chuckie Chuck: yup

Chuckie Chuck: smithore

Chuckie Chuck: it's gonna go big this round

Cyclone: ya

Cyclone: even bigger later in the game tho

Cyclone: why you dont assay?

Cyclone: is there some mindsweeper forumula you know? LOL

Cyclone: minesweeper*

Chuckie Chuck: cause by last round I make all my stuff crystite anyways, even if assay says none, it will produce when groups together

Cyclone: o

Chuckie Chuck: and there is a formla too

Chuckie Chuck: highs have mediums next to them, lows next to the meddiums

Chuckie Chuck: sell it all

Chuckie Chuck: won't go any higher

Chuckie Chuck: 230 is peak for smith

Cyclone: ya i just remembred last minute

Chuckie Chuck: 148 is peak for crystite, rare to see

Cyclone: crap

Cyclone: i hit down too early

Chuckie Chuck: hate it when I do that

Chuckie Chuck: some rounds it's key to hit early, sometimes I hit to early

Cyclone: o well its a good learning experience

Cyclone: this will be my first full multiplayer game

Cyclone: wtf lol

Chuckie Chuck: I hoarde energy so I can do more money making mining

Round 7 of 12

Cyclone: more resources of the same type connected together = more?

Chuckie Chuck: yup

Chuckie Chuck: gotta be careful of depending on others for energy and food (but when you have AIs it usually isn't a problem)

Chuckie Chuck: why grow what the computer will sale for 10

Cyclone: ya

Chuckie Chuck: with four real players though, you better be self sufficient

Cyclone: so crucial for a valley spot?

Chuckie Chuck: pretty much, they have just four on the map, that allows for each player to have one, and ideally, that covers enough food needs to get by

Chuckie Chuck: most the time it doesn't even matter if I'm one short

Cyclone: i did it again LOL

Chuckie Chuck: ouch

Cyclone: 50 is max right :L

Chuckie Chuck: no, 50 is what the store will sale for when there isn't a shortage overall

Chuckie Chuck: but it can go up

Cyclone: i thoguht you can carry only 50 smithores and crystal

Chuckie Chuck: oh yeah, 50 is max for mining materials you can store

Chuckie Chuck: you can produce more, but can't keep more

Cyclone: kk

Chuckie Chuck: food spoils at a rate of 50%, energy at a rate of 25%

Round 8 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: oops, itchy trigger fingre

Cyclone: bastard green took my last connective spot

Chuckie Chuck: AI always focuses on the last product to run short

Chuckie Chuck: if you can create a different shortage he'll stop doing smith

Cyclone: i hate my life

Chuckie Chuck: ouch

Cyclone: lol

Cyclone: abusing the ai totally :P

Chuckie Chuck: now just need the store to burn

Cyclone: im watching you LOL

Round 9 of 12

Cyclone: howd you buy it i bidded more

Cyclone: :L

Cyclone: on my screen anyway

Chuckie Chuck: lag

Chuckie Chuck: you get this one

Cyclone: thx :D

Chuckie Chuck: woohoo

Cyclone: wtf rofl

Cyclone: how do you produced 2.5x more than me D:

Chuckie Chuck: it's all I produce

Chuckie Chuck: one food plot, one smith, 10 crystite, no energy

Round 10 of 12

Cyclone: lol

Chuckie Chuck: 96, it's toss

Chuckie Chuck: next round might be better, might be worse

Cyclone: i cant believe its been over an hour already

Round 11 of 12

Cyclone: flooded the market :D

Chuckie Chuck: awesome

Cyclone: last round!

Cyclone: oh forgot about energy

Round 12 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: gg, you had a chance until the pirates came

Cyclone: ya lol gg

Cyclone: now will this game go on the sector map thing?

Game Over

Saving score, please wait...

Score saved

Chuckie Chuck: Should go on the score list on the website

Chuckie Chuck: not sure if it will update ratings

Cyclone: oh i see

Cyclone: you log into the website

Chuckie Chuck: yup, ratings went up

Cyclone: and you click "my colonies" on sector map

Chuckie Chuck: you are now, 936th place

Chuckie Chuck: and I'm 95th

Cyclone: lol but i lost

Chuckie Chuck: yup, but you completed the game

Cyclone: weird

Chuckie Chuck: your previous rating was based on one abandoned game

Cyclone: o

Chuckie Chuck: not bad for a game with ai in it

Chuckie Chuck: almost made 100k

Chuckie Chuck: would have if you had sold your crystite too

Chuckie Chuck: lol

Cyclone: yeah D:

Chuckie Chuck: cya

Cyclone: bye