Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

Chuckie Chuck joined the game in slot 1

Kaisha visits

Kaisha joined the game in slot 2

Kaisha: hi

Chuckie Chuck: hello

Kaisha: 1st time playing online, I imagine its pretty much the same as the training mode?

Chuckie Chuck: game play is the same, but strategy with four players is very different from playing against the computer

Chuckie Chuck: I've played against the computer since 1986, but playing with four live people is completely different

Kaisha: Never played the original, just heard of this on TigSource and thought I'd give it a try

Kaisha: does it usually take a while to find ppl?

Chuckie Chuck: depends on who really wants to play

Chuckie Chuck: evidently a lot of people just idling right now

Chuckie Chuck: but give it two or three minutes, it should fill up

Kaisha: ok

Chuckie Chuck: Wow, must be like no one at the keyboard, bunch of the regulars aren't responding

ka visits

ka joined the game in slot 3

Chuckie Chuck: Hey ka

ka: hello

Chuckie Chuck: Want a four player or should we go?

Kaisha: I dunno.. it just said press button

ka: prefer 4, how long have you been waiting?

Chuckie Chuck: been waiting for almost 5 minutes to get three

ka: is is apparently lot of people in the lobby right now

Chuckie Chuck: strange for how many people are in the lobby

Chuckie Chuck: lots of regulars too

Dwiglet visits

Chuckie Chuck: yea, 4

ka: Hello Dwiglet!

Chuckie Chuck: join dw

Chuckie Chuck: press j

Dwiglet joined the game in slot 4

Chuckie Chuck: Two newbies

Round 1 of 12

Kaisha: I'll try not to be too nubish

Dwiglet: tagal

Chuckie Chuck: hmm, someone is laggy

Dwiglet: game

Chuckie Chuck: space DW

Round 2 of 12

Dwiglet: hahaha

ka: that was cheap!

Dwiglet: hahaha

Dwiglet: can anyone speak tagalog??

Chuckie Chuck: he keeps movin

ka: obviously over long distances

Chuckie Chuck: nope

ka: from one corner to the other...

Chuckie Chuck: not bad kaisha

Kaisha: ; )

Dwiglet: dont get it

Chuckie Chuck: DW is in for a rough game

Chuckie Chuck: you're out of money, out of food

Dwiglet: awww

Chuckie Chuck: now also out of energy

Dwiglet: tnx

Round 3 of 12

Dwiglet: gtg

Dwiglet left the game

Computer takes over Dwiglet

Chuckie Chuck: think he needs to spend some time trainin

Kaisha: ya

Round 4 of 12

Kaisha: I think I'm lagging a bit ; (

Chuckie Chuck: DW was lagging most

Chuckie Chuck: a lot better since he left

Chuckie Chuck: I'm guessing your ping is around 150 to 200

Kaisha: 150

Chuckie Chuck: DW was lagging about 400 it felt like

Chuckie Chuck: very acceptable ping time at 150

Chuckie Chuck: best is about 70

Round 5 of 12

Round 6 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: AI is hopeless

Kaisha: ya

Chuckie Chuck: best way to get it on it's feet is don't sell to it until it's collected enough money to get a mule

Chuckie Chuck: then sale it just two units of food, then it will get self proficient enough to have some momentum

Kaisha: ok

Chuckie Chuck: important for overall colony health

Chuckie Chuck: that means drain the store dry too, so he can't buy from the store

Round 7 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: rate we're going, we'll get imprisoned at the end of the game, lol

Chuckie Chuck: O get why KA is 300th

Kaisha: ?

Chuckie Chuck: seems to play for sabatour

ka: been lucky here :)

Kaisha: sabatour?

Chuckie Chuck: the object of the game is to play cooperate while also competively

ka: kind of, got lots of lands but little ore, so I make it cheap

Chuckie Chuck: the better the overall colony score is the happier everyone is

Kaisha: why do u hold on to all ur ore?

Chuckie Chuck: My personal goal is to break 100k overall colony, if I'm in 1st at the end great, if not who cares

Chuckie Chuck: because I want to sale at a high price, that's the magic of cooperative if ka would stop saling it

Chuckie Chuck: he's purposefully holding down the price

Kaisha: by selling?

Chuckie Chuck: yup

ka: you have all the mountains...

Chuckie Chuck: my best game to date almost made 150000

Kaisha: chuck, u gonna hit space?

Chuckie Chuck: everyone just made sure smithore stayed high

Round 8 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: either way, you can't beat me ka, so why work against me?

Chuckie Chuck: just lower overall colony score is all you do

ka: ?

Chuckie Chuck: Round 8, we're only at 35G, should be at 80G or better

ka: I will not play against you

Round 9 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: first game I ever felt like abandoning as host, seriously guys, I hate the AI, but messing it over screws us worse

Chuckie Chuck: stop selling to it

Round 10 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: don't sell to the store either, let your stuff spoil

Kaisha: that doesn't make any sense...

Chuckie Chuck: computer isn't smart enough to save it's money and resources until it can actually do something productive

Chuckie Chuck: if it's short for a round it will feel the need to make a food plot

Chuckie Chuck: it will also have money the following round to purchase the food mule

Chuckie Chuck: we keep it stocked, it doesn't fix it's own problem

ka: it is no way to fix it now I think, it is too much goods in the store... if a fire hit...

Chuckie Chuck: in the end it cost more than it helps for all of us.

Kaisha: when its selling its energy u could always sell to it

Chuckie Chuck: it doesn't need energy

Chuckie Chuck: it always buys food

Kaisha: when it was selling it

Chuckie Chuck: if you don't sell it food it will decide to grow it's own food

Kaisha: it had 3 to sell, and at 50$ a pop it was enough to get it a mule + somethign next rounf

ka: hope for fire

Chuckie Chuck: it bought energy instead of food cause it had enough food

Chuckie Chuck: cause someone sold it food

Chuckie Chuck: computer buys mule based on shortage

Chuckie Chuck: it will always buy energy til it's short on something else

Chuckie Chuck: don't sale any food

Chuckie Chuck: stay on buy side

ka: did not know that

Chuckie Chuck: got one round left to show you how this works

Chuckie Chuck: don't sale food next round

ka: ok

Round 11 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: no food in the store, suddenly, he makes food

Chuckie Chuck: can control the AI via shortage

Chuckie Chuck: just like you can control price

Chuckie Chuck: if the store has no smithore and we run short on mules, can sale smithore for $230

Chuckie Chuck: sure mules cost 460 next round, but in the long haul, it pays off

ka: ok!

ka: pricw did not go up

Chuckie Chuck: only goes up in a genuine shortage

Chuckie Chuck: currently, the shortage is artificial

Chuckie Chuck: and almost last round

ka: it is the last round

Chuckie Chuck: nope, 12 is last round

Round 12 of 12

Chuckie Chuck: once all plots are developed there is no more controlling smithore, impossible to create a shortage when there is no demand for mules

ka: I see

ka: so the price cannot get up in the end?

Chuckie Chuck: not in smithore

Chuckie Chuck: maybe could have this game cause AI still has undeveloped plots, but traditionally, smithore is done by round 9

Chuckie Chuck: store has 128 units of smith no chance of shortage unless there is a fire this game

ka: exactly

ka: I noticed it was too late to buy it out

Kaisha: well thx for hosting the game, tbh this game seems kinda dumb

Chuckie Chuck: I bought the store out of food intentionally to make the computer buy food

ka: I guess I need to learn a bit more of the game with human players

Game Over

Saving score, please wait...

Score saved

Chuckie Chuck: I kept tryin to stop you from selling to the store, but I didn't have enough money to buy you out

Chuckie Chuck: one more round without selling would have done it

Kaisha: is that it?

Chuckie Chuck: Normally, I won't sale smith for less than $190

Chuckie Chuck: try not to sale it that cheap

ka: I will

Chuckie Chuck: I'm not even the best, but I'm improving, I can almost compete with 20th place players

Kaisha left the game

Kaisha was disconnected

Chuckie Chuck: cya

ka: ok cya

ka: and thanks

ka: for advice and the game

Chuckie Chuck: L)

Chuckie Chuck: :)

ka left the game