Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

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Aaron Banks visits

Paladinian: Salutations!

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Meserek visits

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C.H.A.S. visits

hightekvagabond visits

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Paladinian: Hiya. :)

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Paladinian: Game just let out I presume? :)

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C.H.A.S.: add AI n go?

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Paladinian: That's quite the abandon ratio, CHAS

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Paladinian: And why is everyone fleeing?

C.H.A.S.: i have shitty internet at work

Meserek visits

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Paladinian: Waiting for someone Meserek?

Paladinian: And what's with the in and out and in and out here? Do I smell? :)

hightekvagabond visits

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Paladinian: Hello again hightek. :)

hightekvagabond: I've already played with C.H.A.S. once today, didn't need to deal with his mouth again

hightekvagabond: but now that he is gone, I'm so in

Paladinian: Thought something like that. Either that, or I smell or something, judging from the in and out from the players. :)

Paladinian: CHAS was rather juvenile, I take it?

hightekvagabond: he plays from work so he lags on spaces, and then calls people names when they won't sell their food and energy to him because he refuses to plant either

Paladinian: *guffaw* Yeah, that'll be successful. :)

hightekvagabond: you gonna join mes?

douchebag visits

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douchebag was kicked

Paladinian: Not going there.

hightekvagabond: douchebag is CHAS

hightekvagabond: thats what he was calling us for not selling him our food and energy, and when none of us would play with him he obviously went and made another account

Paladinian: Some people really need to get a handle on their anger issues.

hightekvagabond: I think it's more power issues, I find that most people who get like that feel they lack control in other aspects of their lives

Paladinian: Makes sense. A sign of maturity is sucking it up in silence, though.

ltbeeb visits

Paladinian: Hiya itbeeb. :)

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douchebag visits

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hightekvagabond: Meserek, you gonna join man?

Paladinian: Possibly not. :)

hightekvagabond: Meserek was in my game kevlar was hosting a bit a go before he crashed

Meserek joined the game in slot 3

Paladinian: How far into the game? And was kevlar losing at the time? ;p

Paladinian: Welcome to the land of the living, Meserek. :)

Meserek: sorry

hightekvagabond: about half way and no, he was in second place and about to overtake me

hightekvagabond: I had that thought too ;)

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Paladinian: That's gotta suck. :(

Meserek: sorry i must go

Meserek: My child crying

hightekvagabond: catch you later mes

Meserek: fuck

Meserek: sorry

Paladinian: Priorities. :)

hightekvagabond: I understand, I have a kid too

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hightekvagabond: now I'm torn, I have a meeting in an hour and a half, did all my prep for it last night, but I hate to wait so long that I have to ditch out on the game at the last minute

Paladinian: I hear that. :(

Paladinian: You at work as well, then? :)

hightekvagabond: I own a consulting firm

Paladinian: (Me, I'm enjoying long weekend)

hightekvagabond: I mostly took today off because my daughter has no school, but I still have to meet with a client this afternoon for a little bit

LesserGood visits

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hightekvagabond: and I never make my employee's work on days that the school system says are vacation days, so I'd of been in an empty office anyways

Paladinian: Hiya LesserGood. :)

LesserGood: Howdy.

hightekvagabond: hi LesserGood

LesserGood: I see we all like Bonzoids, here.

Paladinian: Gotta live the tri-limbed cyclopses. :)

Paladinian: (love)

hightekvagabond: in the original game there were hints that they did better in the mountains and were better miners, so I went with them based on old habbits, but here there are no racial advantages

Paladinian: At least yet. People still keep trying to get that put in.

Paladinian: I'd rather that stuff be left out myself.

hightekvagabond: I'd rather see the auction thing fixed first myself

LesserGood: Yeah, my friend was telling me how Flappers had more money than humans starting out.

Paladinian: Indeed. The un-resetable lower limit issue is killer.

Rhodan visits

hightekvagabond: yep, each race had different advantages

Paladinian: Hiya Rhodan!

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Rhodan: hi

hightekvagabond: 17th? oh we got a pro here

Round 1 of 12

LesserGood: I seem to be part of a minority of M.U.L.E. players who never played the original, but my god, this game is exciting.

LesserGood: Last night was the first time ever I played this.

Paladinian: I played a bit on a BBS port, but only ever against the computer. It is great fun. :)

hightekvagabond: to be honest, it was more then 25 years between when I used to play and my entry into planet mule, I barely remember the game, I had to go read the boards here to catch up

LesserGood: That tutorial doesn't even mention a Wampas.

LesserGood: So close!

Paladinian: Well, there's one out of the way.

hightekvagabond: we now know that Rhodan ranks so well because he doesn't talk ;)

Rhodan: to busy thinking my game plan out'

Paladinian: Enigma wrapped in a mystery. :0

Paladinian: :)

Paladinian: *Pokes Rhodan*

Round 2 of 12

LesserGood: Damn Kazingas.

hightekvagabond: good buy paladin, I just wasn't willing to run down my cash

Paladinian: Well, we shall see. Pirates are still possible. I'm just banking on them not showing up immediately again.

Round 3 of 12

Paladinian: I dislike being first early on. :(

hightekvagabond: yeah, I had that one pegged to Rhodan

Paladinian: Rhodan has effectively managed his aggro, to use a MMO term. :)

LesserGood: I'm not down. What does that mean?

Paladinian: Basically, early on you want to be 3rd or 4th: No bad events can happen to you

Paladinian: If you are first, only bad events can happen

Rhodan: pal, did you play evercrack?

Paladinian: So you "manage" the aggression the random number generator shows you. :)

hightekvagabond: <<<<successfuly avoided evercrack and stayed with text based muds

Paladinian: No, but I played a bit of Guild Wars and WoW back in the day. Gave them up. Took up too much time for too little pay-off. :)

LesserGood: I only played GW: Factions...and like a month of Flyff.

LesserGood: Got bored.

Paladinian: I enjoyed GW. Artistically it was quite fetching. The campaign petered off midway through, though, and became repetitive.

Rhodan: everquest and guild wars for a short time

Round 4 of 12

hightekvagabond: :P

hightekvagabond: you didn't want it, you were just trying to make it expensive for me because you know some how that I'm a land whore

Paladinian: No, I wanted it. Just not 1500 worth.

hightekvagabond: does anyone know which is faster? crossing the river or crossing town?

LesserGood: Woo~!

Paladinian: Depends. If you need something in town, no, if you are just crossing the map, river is a touch faster I think

Paladinian: Should probably have bought Rhodan's ore. Silly me.

Round 5 of 12

Paladinian: Lucky.

LesserGood: I'll say.

hightekvagabond: see? even the computer knows I'm a landwhore

Paladinian: Well at least there was no mountain destruction.

LesserGood: Okay, let me sell my ONE share.

hightekvagabond: crap

hightekvagabond: I'd of held on to my ore if I'd of know crack was going to be worth that much

Paladinian: You coulda held out for more, Lesser. :)

LesserGood: Yeah, I'm new to this whole "economics is fun" thing.

hightekvagabond: yeah, makes it hard for the rest of us to dicker when you wont :P

Round 6 of 12

Paladinian: Well, I'm outta this one. :)

Rhodan: you are in it

Paladinian: No, I meant that land auction. :)

hightekvagabond: I seriously considered it.... but I want to buy some mules

hightekvagabond: it may not matter though if he buys them all

LesserGood: No no, there's one left.

LesserGood: ;)

Paladinian: None for me. :)

hightekvagabond: brb

LesserGood: Hah!

Paladinian: Good ore turn for Rhodan.

LesserGood: And you.

Rhodan: i will be hurting next turn

Paladinian: LEsser!

hightekvagabond: wow

Paladinian: You could have fleeced him. :)

hightekvagabond: really?

hightekvagabond: dude

LesserGood: Yeah, check my record and see how many games I've played. You think I know what I'm doing?

Paladinian: *chuckle*

hightekvagabond: heh

Round 7 of 12

Paladinian: At least I haven't lost a plot yet.

hightekvagabond: It is basic supply and demand, if you have the supply and there is lots of demand, then you should demand more money

LesserGood: Yeah, I'm too much of a nice guy for this game.

hightekvagabond: I got spanked too many times for being a nice guy, I stopped being one after a while

Paladinian: Cry havoc and let loose the hounds of commerce, Lesser. :)

hightekvagabond: I'm a nice guy in that when someone is doing something that really is something they should know better I tell them so they get better at the game but thats about as far as I go

hightekvagabond: p p p p p p p pirates

hightekvagabond: wth? how come you didn't lose a mule?

Paladinian: Damnit. :(

Paladinian: Curse being first. :(

hightekvagabond: yeah, I'm saying damnit too.... because I was typing and missed flipping down for that spec

hightekvagabond: btw: EVERY time i am first and there is a quake a mountain moves and costs me a mule, you lucked out paladin

Paladinian: I know, I've been fortunate in that regard

Paladinian: This game shall be close. Rhodan will earn a ton of cash next round on the smith, but food will be hard to come by.

hightekvagabond: yeah

Round 8 of 12

Paladinian: The whole left side of the map is just bare for cryst.

Paladinian: Never seen it so sparse.

hightekvagabond: yeah, I know, but I had time so I figured I'd double check

hightekvagabond: I can account for 3 of the high plots right now, I'm not sure where the 4th is at

Paladinian: I would recommend people *not* sell food to Rhodan. But that's just me. :)

hightekvagabond: oh, that just hurts to watch

Rhodan: come on i need food

Rhodan: will pay good for it too

hightekvagabond: I will sell you food, $1500 per unit

LesserGood: Hah, nice.

hightekvagabond: gonna be a short round

Round 9 of 12

LesserGood: Not even gonna bother.

hightekvagabond: wow

Paladinian: I know.

LesserGood: haha, yeah.

Paladinian: But I couldn't let him keep it.

Paladinian: Plus, nice cryst there.

LesserGood: On principal.

hightekvagabond: medium cryst

hightekvagabond: crack prices have been crap the last couple rounds :(

hightekvagabond: don't give in too easy lesser

hightekvagabond: $500 a unit

Paladinian: 750

Paladinian: :)

hightekvagabond: nice

LesserGood: Better.

LesserGood: Honestly, I didn't know you how the auctioningn worked.

Rhodan: 500?

Round 10 of 12

LesserGood: Like I didn't know they could still march up and raise the bid.

Paladinian: An important aspect. :)

hightekvagabond: it is always a good game when you learn something new about it :)

Paladinian: I dislike being established on the right side... mule conversion take so much longer.

hightekvagabond: Children pick the most inconvienant times to try to get out of doing chores

Paladinian: They are renowned for such. :)

hightekvagabond: I was runnign around the board and still trying to tell my daughter she has to clean her room

LesserGood: That what's going on?

hightekvagabond: I need to leave in 10 minutes, game or no

Paladinian: Unless pirates attack next round, hightek may well have it, me thinks.

Paladinian: We'll try and be quick.

LesserGood: Yeah.

Round 11 of 12

Paladinian: Mercy, a lot depends on pirates this round...

hightekvagabond: yeah

hightekvagabond: playing the odds

LesserGood: They ain't comin'. Last night, pirates attacked teh beginning of the game. Isn't it only once?

LesserGood: *the

Paladinian: Nice

hightekvagabond: twice

Paladinian: Can be twice

LesserGood: Oh...huh.

hightekvagabond: it's a random with a max of two occurances

LesserGood: Oh boy. Get ready...

hightekvagabond: not only does a lot depend on pirates, but also on crack prices

hightekvagabond: woo hoo!

Paladinian: Advance congrats, hightek. :)

Paladinian: Jeebus.

hightekvagabond: *does the happy dance*

LesserGood: Welp, gg.

Paladinian: Rhodan would have dominated, but the food drought was murder.

Rhodan: aye

hightekvagabond: well, Rhodan's jump forward on smith ore because he was behind you in rank only happened because I was busy chatting and missed flipping to buyer, because I had the money and the will to buy it up same as him

Rhodan: remember it spoils

Round 12 of 12

hightekvagabond: And Rhodan has been sitting on two high crystite plots all game and hasn't flipped them to crystite, I don't understand that

Rhodan: no food

hightekvagabond: yeah, I suppose

Paladinian: Suppose? There's no if and nor buts about it. It was a food issue. :)

Rhodan: players dont realize that not selling food can hurt them more then me

hightekvagabond: yeah, I'm convinced now that the only way to play this game is to play it safe at the start

Rhodan: they loose mopney my money

hightekvagabond: I always do better in games where I build infrastructure first

hightekvagabond: THEN go after mining

Rhodan: i should of hold back one ore plot and made food early on

Paladinian: I generally smith-food-power, myself.

Rhodan: down

hightekvagabond: I find that food-power-smith keeps me from taking the lead too early

hightekvagabond: but gives me the base to not have issues later

Rhodan: lead hurt me too

Paladinian: Radiation mule didn't help.

Rhodan: nope but energy helps

Paladinian: The events hurt me when I was in the lead, but none were game-changing.

Rhodan: nbot enought though

Game Over

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Paladinian: Congrats hightek

hightekvagabond: gg guys

Paladinian: gg folks

hightekvagabond: off to my meeting

LesserGood: Good job.

Rhodan: good game

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