Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

Irascor joined the game in slot 1

kipley visits

kipley joined the game in slot 2

Variance visits

Paladinian visits

Variance joined the game in slot 3

Paladinian joined the game in slot 4

kipley: Howdy, everyone

Variance: Hey

Paladinian: Good morning all!

Irascor: Hi

kipley: Need to press space to start, y'all

Paladinian: Good luck everyone!

Variance: You too

Round 1 of 12

Variance: People are slow to start on farms today

Paladinian: I find one can generally leave that off for round 2 or 3 even

kipley: I'm gonna monopolize the entire river! ;-)

Variance: Yeah

Variance: Go ahead

Variance: We'll take cash crops

Variance: i never get the wampus

Round 2 of 12

Variance: sneaky

Paladinian: Who?

Variance: kipley took my mountains

Variance: i prospected

kipley: "Your" mountains?! ;-o

Variance: i know, i know

Variance: have fun with them.... *sniff*

kipley: I'll take good care of them

Variance: that's so nice of you

Paladinian: Kipley is renowned as a fine custodian. ;)

Variance: true

Paladinian: Fortunate auction!

Variance: wink wink

kipley: Indeed

Variance: cha-ching

Paladinian: Energy baron kipley. :)

Variance: that sucked big time

Round 3 of 12

Paladinian: Can't mine on river, by the way

Variance: really

Variance: i guess i never tried before

Variance: i just got this game today, so there are all kinds of things i miss

Round 4 of 12

Paladinian: But I don't want to be first. :(

Variance: it is your duty

Paladinian: Auction sure favouring that location. :)

Variance: yeah

Paladinian: Land-baron Variance. :)

Variance: it pays

Variance: but crystite is gonna be sky-high this round

kipley: Crystite price is completely random, FYI

Variance: okay

Variance: that doesn't make sense, but if that's how they programmed it...

Variance: you would think crystite price=mule supply

Paladinian: At least I didn't lose a plot.

kipley: That's smithore you're thinking of

Variance: smithore makes sense then

kipley: Smithore price IS influenced by Mule supply

Variance: crystite is just a cash crop then?

kipley: Yes

Variance: huh

Paladinian: Here we go. :)

Variance: paladintime

Paladinian: And kipley. :)

Variance: wow

Paladinian: This is a good price

kipley: crystite averages about 100... sell

Paladinian: Sell Variance

Variance: 140

Variance: 140 140

kipley: Crystite's highest price is 148

Irascor: 150

Variance: i love how auctions are a game of chicken

Round 5 of 12

Variance: wow, $460 mules?

Paladinian: Twice the price of smithore

Variance: ouch

Paladinian: Hit space over the wampus location

Variance: yeah, i do that, but i cant get it

Variance: does it need to be when the wampus is shown?

Paladinian: No, but after it pops up twice it moves to another mountain

kipley: No... but sometimes you can be a pixel off in location and miss it

Variance: i might just be having bad luck then

Paladinian: Lucky. :)

Variance: crystite 140 140

Variance: does the meteor enrich to high crystite?

Paladinian: Yup

Variance: perfect

kipley: lol

Variance: wheeeee

kipley: Makes you not selling at 130 look pretty smart, now!

Variance: it was probably dumb, but whatever

Paladinian: I was frankly expecting pirates. :)

kipley: It was risky because of pirates

Variance: i had up to 100 crystite saved without pirates once

Variance: what is the crystite minimum?

kipley: 48

Paladinian: Though in this game it'll spoil at 50

Variance: it was a test

Round 6 of 12

Variance: on a range of 100 the probability of it going above 140 is pretty good over 12 samplings

Variance: though the investment capital of selling at 130 is good on its own

Paladinian: On the plus side, that expensive land propbably ensures I won't be first next round. :)

Variance: auuggh

Variance: wow, it's over high crystite

Paladinian: *nom nom nom*

Variance: serves you right for your gluttony

Paladinian: Next turn will be quite nice for kipley. :)

kipley: Buying crystite above $100 is usually a risky idea

Paladinian: Wanted to do that myself, but judged land the higher importance. We shall see if that was wise or unwise.

Variance: im a risky person

kipley: High Variance, eh?

kipley: Wow

Variance: race to the bottom

kipley: That was a great opportunity to starve the leader of energy, gang!

Round 7 of 12

Variance: whoa

Variance: expensive

Variance: not gonna make it

Paladinian: No starving the leader unless its kipley! :)

kipley: That DOES seem to be the rule my opponents all live by...

Paladinian: *chuckle* :)

Variance: survival of the fittest

Variance: paladin's gonna make the big bucks on smithore again

kipley: He would have made less if he was short 3 energy! ;-)

Paladinian: kipley will make out like a bandit as well. Not just me! Go after him! :p

Variance: if paladin is up kipley is down

Variance: nice solar round

Variance: holy connoli paladin

Paladinian: I was not disatisfied there. :)

Variance: indeed

Variance: ahahaha

Variance: irascor

Variance: let us starve the leaders from now on

Round 8 of 12

Variance: what's with all the crystite speculation?

kipley: Generally, smithore is worth the most from about turns 4-8

kipley: After that, generally crystite becomes worth more, as the store has plenty of mules and the demand for mules drops

Variance: crap

Paladinian: Very nice cryst plots there, kipley. :(

Variance: wow

Paladinian: Crap. Mountains moved.

kipley: It'll help my chances

Paladinian: Lost two mules.

kipley: Yep. Mountains always move on the leader's plots

Paladinian: Really? I though that was random.

kipley: In all my observations, about 8 times or so, it's been on the leader's

Variance: let us bask in our petty revenge

kipley: (shrug) Only short one food, not a big deal. Slightly less time to develope, but not much

Round 9 of 12

Variance: fight fight fight

Paladinian: Darned elves.

Variance: starve starve starve

Variance: irascro, you know our duty

Variance: we must not relinquish food

kipley: It's a good thought, but when it's this late in the game, we often don't have much left to develop. So being short on food isn't too important, in the late stages.

Paladinian: That darned earthquake has made kipley's already likely victory certain, I believe

kipley: It has helped my chances a lot, I will agree

Variance: good game either way

Paladinian: The elves certainly didn't help with my efforts to recover from it. :(

kipley: First place curse strikes yet again

Variance: maybe crystite will go to 145 and i'll beat paladin

kipley: Pirates could come

kipley: and change it all again

Variance: hahaha

kipley: There you go

Paladinian: Ouch

Variance: 300

kipley: Well done

Variance: too late like you said though

Paladinian: Highway robbery, but I can't trust pirates to come *every* round.

kipley: Not necessarily... because the earthquake ruined his plots, he needs to develope

Variance: jinx

Round 10 of 12

Variance: food= 350 per

Paladinian: Geeze, my niece is over early. Poor timing.

Paladinian: I'll leave my space bar hit so that I don't stop the game. Sorry folks. :(

Variance: bye

Variance: irascor, you broke the embargo

kipley: Bummer when the leader has to leave

kipley: Neither of us bought any food, so you didn't aid us

Variance: that's true

Variance: hard to see some times

kipley: crap, lost out on buying cheap energy because I was chatting! lol

Variance: wink wink

Round 11 of 12

Variance: paladin's space didn't work

Variance: oh there

kipley: Wampus doesn't come when all the mountain plots are claimed, FYI

Variance: good to know

Variance: too late for it to have an effect anyway

Variance: what happens if i disconnect during the game?

Variance: is all my land auctioned?

kipley: You get an "abandon"... and the computer takes over for you

Variance: oh, AI

kipley: Yep

kipley: That's what'll happen if we wind up having to kick Paladinian, too (because he's not around to press space when needed)

Variance: too bad

kipley: yes, unfortunate

Irascor: We'll see

Variance: he couldn't be here

kipley: He was playing such a good game, hate to see him lose by default

Variance: yeah

kipley: Need the time for some last-minute plot updatings....

Variance: poor paladin

kipley: May have to boot Paladinian if he's not around to press space

Irascor: All in. No waiting?

Variance: im in

kipley: He's probably gone, as he said he would be. I'd say boot

Irascor: Alrighty then.

Variance: yeah

Computer takes over Paladinian

Paladinian was kicked

Round 12 of 12

Irascor: unfortunate.

Variance: wow, i might not overtake paladin now

Variance: he was playing a very good game

Variance: woo

kipley: Good game, everyone. It was fun

Variance: good game

Variance: you win fair and square

Irascor: Successful colony

Variance: damn right

kipley: I think I likely would have overtaken Paladinian even if he was able to stay around... had a better crystite arrangement for the end-game

kipley: Selling in the final turn doesn't affect your final rankings any, FYI

kipley: It's worth the same as assets as it is in cash

Variance: good point

Game Over

Saving score, please wait...

Score saved

kipley: Catch y'all around next time. Adios, amigos.

kipley left the game

Variance: good game

kipley was disconnected

Variance left the game

Variance was disconnected