Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

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zerbalatarbu_fim: hi

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charly visits

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zerbalatarbu_fim: spyguy! space bar or disconnect

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Round 1 of 12

Scubamanspiff: hello all

Round 2 of 12

charly: hi guys

Scubamanspiff: how are you doing?

charly: good

zerbalatarbu_fim: aight

charly: my sun corey is typing

Scubamanspiff: not enough

Round 3 of 12

zerbalatarbu_fim: ...

Scubamanspiff: uh, you realize you can't buy that

Scubamanspiff: your sun corey?

Scubamanspiff: you mean your son?

charly: yes

charly: your mosters are cool

Scubamanspiff: that's sweet, I definitely try to get my cousins into strategy games

charly: keep my son busy typing

Scubamanspiff: how old is he?

charly: 8

charly: but i like the wapus

Scubamanspiff: Shoot that scared me

Round 4 of 12

Scubamanspiff: what? I thought it went to the person with the lower score?

zerbalatarbu_fim: land grant goes to fastest afaik

zerbalatarbu_fim: auctions go to lowest rank

Scubamanspiff: yea, but in case of ties I thought it went to lower score

zerbalatarbu_fim: dunno

zerbalatarbu_fim: I don't know what it considers a tie. I'm hosting, so that gives me some advantage if it's fastest

zerbalatarbu_fim: but even when I'm hosting I lose plenty of land grants, so I'm not sure

Scubamanspiff: oh, that makes sense

Scubamanspiff: I was jumping on that and was afraid I had hit the button early

Scubamanspiff: hit it as soon as the square before turned grey

Round 5 of 12

charly: where are from

zerbalatarbu_fim: upstate NY, originally Seattle

Round 6 of 12

Scubamanspiff: hm.... that was weird, i had tried to actually select the plot of land to the left of that one

zerbalatarbu_fim: what

zerbalatarbu_fim: what's your ping?

Scubamanspiff: ?

Scubamanspiff: says 165 ms

Scubamanspiff: my connection isn't the best, most flash games drop me about every 5 minutes

Scubamanspiff: don't know why

zerbalatarbu_fim: 165ms is pretty high

Scubamanspiff: well, now I know not to try to go for the last 2 or 3 spots on any map

Round 7 of 12

charly: yo joe

charly: are you there peoples

charly: Seattle is a great city. Lousy football but great city

zerbalatarbu_fim: it's true

Scubamanspiff: whoops, not the best time for the restroom

Round 8 of 12

Scubamanspiff: so when two people go to buy, what determines who actually buys something

zerbalatarbu_fim: if they have the same price, then the lowest rank wins

Scubamanspiff: are the crystals always worth so little in comparison?

zerbalatarbu_fim: crystals are always between 60-148

zerbalatarbu_fim: it's random

Scubamanspiff: so crystals suck

zerbalatarbu_fim: whereas ore price is determine by supply/demand and number of mules

zerbalatarbu_fim: crystals are good

Scubamanspiff: why, if they are worth only half as much

zerbalatarbu_fim: ore gets up to 230, but not every turn

Scubamanspiff: but you can hold on

Scubamanspiff: and your stocks never deplete

zerbalatarbu_fim: stock depletes if you have over 50

Scubamanspiff: ah

zerbalatarbu_fim: same with crystals

Round 9 of 12

zerbalatarbu_fim: people who win the game almost always win by getting lots of crystals near the end

Scubamanspiff: but if they are worth only half as much, seems like that can't really be a gamebreaker

zerbalatarbu_fim: it is, because it's possible to get production up to 50+ per turn

charly: I blew it. Watching olympics

zerbalatarbu_fim: so with ore you'd have to sell before it gets to 230, but with crystal you can sell every turn for an average of ~100

zerbalatarbu_fim: you'll lose money doing that

zerbalatarbu_fim: unless you can buy out the whole store

zerbalatarbu_fim: bold move

Scubamanspiff: the way I see it, I'm not playing to win just feel out the game

zerbalatarbu_fim: ah, an experiment.

Scubamanspiff: I'm not going to win anyways

zerbalatarbu_fim: not necessarily. stranger things have happened

Scubamanspiff: and I seem to be lagging by up to 3 seconds at times

zerbalatarbu_fim: that's a problem. are you on dial-up?

Scubamanspiff: on DSL, but through a very very old homeportal router, and shared with a lot of people

Round 10 of 12

Scubamanspiff: HA

zerbalatarbu_fim: ahh. If somebody's doing filesharing that will totally kill your connection

Scubamanspiff: I tried to grab the first one

Scubamanspiff is not responding to continue

Users who are not responding must be kicked to continue the game

zerbalatarbu_fim: hello?

chezy1: ????

zerbalatarbu_fim: we'll wait a few more seconds

Computer takes over Scubamanspiff

Scubamanspiff was kicked

zerbalatarbu_fim: :(

chezy1: FFFF

zerbalatarbu_fim: chez the mule goes where your player is standing, not where the mule is standing

chezy1: LOL

Round 11 of 12

zerbalatarbu_fim: lol. no food two turns in a row

zerbalatarbu_fim: Ouch.

chezy1: ffff

Round 12 of 12

zerbalatarbu_fim: gg

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