Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

zerbalatarbu_fim joined the game in slot 1

tartarus.guard visits

zerbalatarbu_fim: hi

tartarus.guard: hello. I'm going to heat up some leftovers. If you haven't filled up before I'm ready to go i'll join in.

zerbalatarbu_fim: k

AJ visits

AJ joined the game in slot 2

AJ: join tar

AJ: press j

zerbalatarbu_fim: he's microwaving stuff. said he'd join when he's finished, if game's not full by then

AJ left the game

tartarus.guard: modern technology has finished compensating for my laziness

tartarus.guard joined the game in slot 2

napier visits

napier joined the game in slot 3

tartarus.guard: 1 more for a full roster, hooray

napier: hey zerb

zerbalatarbu_fim: hiya

napier: hi tartarus

tartarus.guard: hello

berb dreyfuss visits

tartarus.guard: and that makes 4, hooray

berb dreyfuss joined the game in slot 4

zerbalatarbu_fim: woop

napier: game on!

Round 1 of 12

tartarus.guard: bah, i hate it when you loose a plot grab and get the next in line

tartarus.guard: oh well, solar it is

berb dreyfuss: yes, that's right

Round 2 of 12

tartarus.guard: 200.

Round 3 of 12

Round 4 of 12

tartarus.guard: i wasn't in the lead? huh.

tartarus.guard: maybe in a run on the bell it favores rank

zerbalatarbu_fim: I don't think it's just rank. I have the lowest rank and I lost

tartarus.guard: did you? i thought you won

zerbalatarbu_fim: oh. which contest are we talking about?

tartarus.guard: the last land auction

zerbalatarbu_fim: I thought you meant the land auction for the crater

tartarus.guard: nah, not the land grab but the plot sale

zerbalatarbu_fim: o

zerbalatarbu_fim: in the auctions, it favors rank if two people have the same bid

zerbalatarbu_fim: lowest rank = best

tartarus.guard: yeah, i knew it did if you were sitting on the same bid but i though i was running ahead of you. probably just tied and i need my eyes checked :)

zerbalatarbu_fim: there's a different "bug" with the auctions-- sometimes it shows the wrong winner on a local client

Round 5 of 12

zerbalatarbu_fim: the actual winner is whoever submitted the highest bid to the server before the end-of-auction

zerbalatarbu_fim: but your client shows your latest bid--- even if it happened slightly after the server's end of auction

tartarus.guard: that make sense.j

Round 6 of 12

Round 7 of 12

napier: land auctions are silly

berb dreyfuss: yep

tartarus.guard: well, it shouldn't enforce a floor on the bid. they would be better if you could come back from a high bid

zerbalatarbu_fim: yeah, it feels like that's a limitation of the original game that they shouldn't have brought to this new version

tartarus.guard: agreed. though i think there are a few things they keep to be somewhat faithful to the original. i have my hopes high for the next game :)

zerbalatarbu_fim: yeah. the land grant stage doesn't work very well over the internet either... there are some good suggestions on the forum about how to improve it

napier: nice zerb

berb dreyfuss: yes

tartarus.guard: come on home world package

Round 8 of 12

tartarus.guard: lag has screwed me :)

berb dreyfuss: oh man, this ore trading is new to me, but it's good :)

tartarus.guard: more ore left in the store than i would like, have to cross my fingers that i didn't mess up :)

Round 9 of 12

tartarus.guard: i'll skip the pirate/market gamble on this one

Round 10 of 12

tartarus.guard: well, this should be a good colony score

napier: that's a good smithore score!

Round 11 of 12

tartarus.guard: i hate you planet!

Round 12 of 12

zerbalatarbu_fim: wow, I lost two mules in that earthquake

berb dreyfuss: nice game, learned a lot

napier: yeah, good one.

zerbalatarbu_fim: good game all

tartarus.guard: good game, great colony

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napier: good game

zerbalatarbu_fim: gg