Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

Mitch-A-Palooza visits

Mitch-A-Palooza joined the game in slot 1

kipley joined the game in slot 2

Variance visits

Variance joined the game in slot 3

Variance: It's Kipley again

kipley: Hi, Variance... (get it... high-variance?)

Variance: ?

Variance: Oh, lol

kipley: Yeah, it was kind of lame

Variance: That's okay, still funny

Variance: How long have you been waiting?

kipley: Only about a minute or two

Variance: Not bad, it's been slow all day

kipley: I can't figure out the folks who sit in the waiting pool and don't even come to look at a new game.

charly visits

charly joined the game in slot 4

Variance: Is this charly herself or her dad?

charly: both

Variance: You have merged into one entity?

Round 1 of 12

kipley: heh

charly: im watching olympics skiing

kipley: Hope the skiiers don't run into the mountain wampus

Variance: That would suck

Variance: Considering how fast they go in the olympics

kipley: but they'd get $200 for their hospital bills

Variance: Lol, just like a random event

Variance: (In MULE)

charly: haha so funny

charly: are you all boys

Variance: Probably

kipley: Speaking just for myself, yes

Variance: om nom nom ore

Variance: charly

kipley: You there, charly? Press space if so

Round 2 of 12

charly left the game

Computer takes over charly

kipley: Or, do that

Mitch-A-Palooza: crap

kipley: :-)

Mitch-A-Palooza: trade ya

kipley: heh, no thanks

Variance: damn

Variance: The AI will be stupid enough to sell me power though

Variance: at a low price

Variance: stupid AI will mess with the ore price too

Round 3 of 12

kipley: Ouch

Variance: ...

kipley: Major ouch

Variance: yeah

Mitch-A-Palooza: that's the worst

Mitch-A-Palooza: so unfair to lose a plot

kipley: especially this early

Variance: yeah

Variance: short on cash though, so it's not as bad as it could be

Variance: I might go down hard this game, though, because the AI won't let me make a good profit on ore

Variance: it'll sell before the ore gets to a good price

Variance: wow, good price

kipley: yep, glad to get it at least once before teh pirates come

Round 4 of 12

Variance: I need to be taking tighter grouops of plots as well

Variance: Kipley hasa nice cluster

kipley: That doesn't matter so much... as long as each of your plots has a neighbor, it's all good

Variance: yeah

Variance: wow, starving AI

Variance: stupid AI

Round 5 of 12

kipley: urgh... shouldn't have broken contact.

kipley: stupid me

Variance: the rules for that are weird

Variance: wow, crystite prices

kipley: yeah, but I knew them, and know better

Variance: you're getting lucky on the crystite here

kipley: I concur

Variance: name price

kipley: probably much higher than you'll go

Variance: 300

kipley: I'm more interested in selling to the computer AI, then the guy with all the smithore!

Variance: heh

Variance: mitch will overtake me soon

Round 6 of 12

Variance: oi....

Mitch-A-Palooza: good grief

kipley: cool, round 6 asteroid

kipley: Pirates are bound to come... but I just can't do it at 61

Variance: you might get lucky

kipley: I've been pretty lucky so far

Variance: I've had luck to manage to take fourth place against AIs so far

Round 7 of 12

Variance: I have to work on my play style

Variance: NO

Variance: AI TOOK MY SPOT

Mitch-A-Palooza: shoulda taken that mule var

Variance: i know

Variance: I was distracted by losing my corner to charly

kipley: Glad you left it

kipley: Thanks

kipley: ;-)

Variance: heh, purely benevolent

kipley: Of course! And why wouldn't you be! You're a nice guy, I'M a nice guy....!

Variance: until we play MULE

kipley: The sky is falling

Mitch-A-Palooza: there we go

Variance: how did i produce nothing

Variance: oh, nvm

kipley: urgh... pirates are SO due...

Variance: arrrr

Variance: heh

Round 8 of 12

Variance: DAMN AI

Variance: STOP TAKING MY SPOTS

Variance: pirates

Variance: wow, food AI

Variance: this is miserable

Round 9 of 12

kipley: now that was unexpected

Variance: yay

kipley: can't believe the pirates never came

Variance: 91....

Mitch-A-Palooza: we have a new leader

kipley: They can come now, I don't even care... just glad I unloaded this stash

kipley: Got very lucky with the pirates and prices

Variance: just a bit

kipley: Though I think if I had been in the lead, the pirates would have been more likely to come (since i had the most crystite to lose)

Variance: still in last

Round 10 of 12

kipley: not after this smithore bump

Variance: Hopefully. It's just annoying that the AI gets whatever spot it wants. That'st what killed me.

kipley: yeah. Ideally, it's nice to have a backup plot to grab. But not always possible

Variance: Especially when I'm trying to get one big cluster like you

kipley: Would have changed a plot to smithore... But I own NO mountains! lol

Variance: you apparently don't need to

kipley: I trade in smithore futures on the open market

Variance: lol

kipley: actually producing it is a job for mere peons! ;-)

Variance: This is what I call winning move

Variance: Or bet of death, whatever you want

kipley: Hey, if the price goes up, you're a genius

Variance: Chances are it will, by the smallest of percentage points

kipley: I still wouldn't recommend buying more than 50... any smithore or crystite you have over 50 "spoils" the next turn...

Variance: Literally I think it's a 1.003:1 chance here

Variance: I just wanted to defraud you though

Round 11 of 12

Variance: 140+ baby come on

kipley: I'm down with that!

Variance: Yeah, you'll have 40 this production cycle alone at this rate

kipley: More than that

kipley: 60 at least

Variance: damn girl, what you doin with all that junk in yo trunk

kipley: ok, maybe less than 60. But more than 40.

Mitch-A-Palooza: wow no pirates

kipley: Yep... pirate-less game

kipley: Again, I bet the reason they didn't come is because Variance had 50 crystite from last turn... and the system doesn't want to hurt the guy who's not winning

Variance: wheeeeeeeeeee

kipley: Oooh, Variance... now you're just being suicidal

Variance: It's hard not to be nihilistic

kipley: As long as you're having fun

kipley: > 60! ;-)

Variance: Very true

Variance: lol

kipley: More food than I need, really

kipley: Just have to change one plot

Mitch-A-Palooza: dang u var

Variance: lol

Mitch-A-Palooza: why

kipley: Yeah, that was kind of poor sportsmanship, vaiance

Variance: Oh, sorry

kipley: It's one thing to dump yourself

kipley: But it's another to affect the race between the leaders

Round 12 of 12

Variance: I actualyl wasn't paying strict attention to what was going on

Variance: You might have noticed at this point that I;m not really paying attention to what I'm doing, so sorry I I fudged around a bit there

Variance: sorry if* I

kipley: Mitch was trying to buy out the energy from the computer and the store, so that I wouldn't have enough energy to power all my plots. You thwarted him.

kipley: It helped me, so I'm not too upset, but Mitch probably is.

Variance: Oh, well, sorry mitch

kipley: It's no problem, live and learn. I forgive you! ;-)

Variance: Lol, thanks

kipley: If it's any consolation, it looks like I would have won regardless of the energy thing

Mitch-A-Palooza: gg kip

Variance: Yeh

Variance: good game

kipley: Thanks. It was a fun game, everyone.

Variance: Good learning game

kipley: Yep.

kipley: It's helping cement my theory that pirates coming is dependent on whether it'll screw the leader the most, or not.

Variance: There must be an in-depth thing on the source code somewhere

Variance: or something like that

Game Over

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Score saved

kipley: Good game... see yas next time

Variance: Oi...god game

Variance: good*

Mitch-A-Palooza left the game

Variance left the game

Mitch-A-Palooza was disconnected

kipley: Good score, with no pirates!

Variance was disconnected