Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

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Elvie: Are you orange or what FOJ?

Pescado: Elvie can be orange.

Pescado: Join in

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Pescado: Ambular can in now.

Pescado: Then Aggie.

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Pescado: Okay, rules are simple.

Pescado: My lands are in then northwest...

Pescado: Elvie is Southwest because Elvies are food...

Pescado: And which one of you two wants to do Energy?

Aggie: She can.

Ambular: I guess I will

Pescado: Ambular: Okay, so your job is simple: Claim flat pieces of adjacent ground...

Aggie: Meaning I do...ore?

Pescado: Which setor do you want? SE or NE?

Elvie: YEs, Aggie

Aggie: NE

Pescado: Ambular is southeast, then.

Pescado: Claim flat pieces of ground neighboring existing similar ground.

Aggie: That's to me?

Ambular: Check

Pescado: Each plot produces an extra unit when it has a "buddy".

Pescado: Both of you.

Pescado: This applies to everyone.

Aggie: Okay.

Pescado: Plots work on the buddy system.

Pescado: And stay in your sector.

Pescado: Hit space.

Pescado: Ambular.

Round 1 of 12

Pescado: Ambular MISSES.

Pescado: Oh, well.

Ambular: I clicked while it was in the SE, but it didn;t take til it had moved on. :/

Pescado: Elvie, just switch sides with Ambular, then.

Ambular: I guess next time I'll have tot ry to anticipate a bit

Pescado: Plant a LIGHTNING BOLT on your LAND.

Elvie: ok, we're switched

Pescado: Ambular.

Ambular: ok

Pescado: The first round usually has a food shortage.

Pescado: Start walking.

Elvie: sweet

Pescado: Hit space.

Pescado: Always hit space when it says production #.

Pescado: Sweet.

Pescado: Round 1 crystite raid. AWESOME!

Ambular: Space pirates, ohnoes

Elvie: yes

Pescado: No, that's awesome.

Pescado: We don't have jack.

Pescado: No

Pescado: Go back up

Pescado: NO

Pescado: STay up.

Elvie: Ghetto rat pirates - not stealing from RICH PEOPLE.

Pescado: There are a max of 2 pirates in the game.

Pescado: Second one is much less likely.

Pescado: So if one has already come...

Pescado: Move up and buy two foods.

Pescado: TOO MANY, stupid Elvies.

Elvie: I tried to stop her...

Pescado: Don't sell ALL of it, now you can't produce any at all because you have no time.

Pescado: Ambular is stupid, PULL UP YOURSELF.

Pescado: Down, Ambular.

Pescado: Aggie, don't move unless you are told to.

Aggie: kay

Pescado: You're supposed to be used to managing this by now, Elvie.

Round 2 of 12

Elvie: :P

Pescado: Let's hope you get the aid package.

Pescado: Mine.

Aggie: Do nothing, Amber.

Ambular: k

Elvie: well, look at that

Pescado: Aggie should plant an emergency food to make up for Elvie's fail.

Pescado: Or, not.

Aggie: Too late.

Pescado: WOO, AID PACKAGE

Pescado: We might not all die this time!

Ambular: LOL

Pescado: And Elvie, BE REACTIVE.

Pescado: Don't let tards greed.

Elvie: I will get my mean on.

Aggie: Should I pant food next round?

Pescado: Ambular, YOU have to be standing in the square.

Pescado: NOT the horsey.

Pescado: Go get a new horsey.

Pescado: And be FAST

Pescado: Time is running out.

Elvie: lulz

Pescado: Woo, you made it.

Pescado: Only YOU need to be standing in the square.

Pescado: The horsey doesn't matter.

Ambular: Well, now I know that. :p

Pescado: WOO

Aggie: LOL

Pescado: TWO space pirates!

Elvie: wtf

Pescado: I NA ROW!

Pescado: Now we are TOTALLY SAFE.

Aggie: Sell or horde?

Pescado: That's hoard.

Pescado: You sell when I sell.

Pescado: Crystite is now totally safe, though.

Elvie: NO HOGGING OR YOU Die in YOUR SLEEP

Pescado: We have enough for everyone.

Elvie: GRR

Pescado: Elvie: Don't go back down after that.

Pescado: And people: Don't go up until it's your turn.

Pescado: ONE AT A TIME.

Aggie: Okay.

Pescado: Aggie up

Ambular: Turns go from left to right?

Pescado: No, they go when I say YOU UP.

Pescado: Or YOU DOWN

Ambular: k

Pescado: And if I tell you WHERE to go up or down, you go the number indicated.

Pescado: Otherwise you go down until you meet the line of teh other person I told.

Pescado: Or my line.

Round 3 of 12

Ambular: How do you move the square around?

Pescado: You don't.

Pescado: It moves on its own.

Aggie: The game does.

Pescado: Try to claim lands NEXT to each other, Ambular.

Aggie: You just tell it when to stop.

Pescado: Property of Elvie.

Aggie: Elvie's.

Ambular: I am trying, it seems to lag

Aggie: Maybe try to anticipate the stoppage?

Pescado: Elvie: You can only afford to plant one non-energy.

Aggie: I thought everyone only utilized ONE resource,

Pescado: We do.

Pescado: But I am an expert: I know what I am doing.

Elvie: WELL, I made it.

Pescado: Also, FYI: Mining MOUNTAINS makes a bit more sense.

Aggie: YOU told me to take PLAINS.

Aggie: THAT is why I've been doing that. Stupid Pescado.

Pescado: I told AMBULAR.

Pescado: But now you know.

Aggie: ARGH! Stupid Pescados!

Elvie: Yeah, he was talking to Amber

Pescado: What you do is less important, so I tend to leave you to work it out.

Aggie: /me bitchslaps Pescado

Elvie: Well, you have them lined up, so it's not as bad

Pescado: More important to make sure staples gets done right.

Pescado: Yes, they're lined up, so you're still mining okay.

Aggie: 'Kay, sell or hoard?

Pescado: Hoard.

Aggie: Amber first?

Pescado: I go first.

Pescado: Down

Pescado: Ambular, up.

Pescado: Bah.

Pescado: You see how the food thingf works now?

Aggie: Tell us what order to go in BEFORE it starts.

Ambular: It isn't responding to me keystrokes :/

Pescado: Anyone, anytime.

Pescado: Ambular, down.

Pescado: No

Pescado: Ambular, up

Pescado: Don't sell to the store.

Aggie: Amber, when you go too low, you sell to the store.

Ambular: Well thent ell me HOW FAR to go up or down.

Pescado: Energy/food should never be sold to the store.

Aggie: Never go all the way down.

Pescado: Until you hit someone's line, then you stop.

Round 4 of 12

Pescado: When I order you to go "down", you go down until you hit a line.

Pescado: Then you stop there until given a new order.

Aggie: Nice grab, Amber.

Ambular: Dammit all.

Aggie: *hugs*

Ambular: Catching the exact square I want is a bitch.

Ambular: *Hugs Aggie*

Pescado: Plant an energy there temporarily anyway for the buddy bonus.

Pescado: Or not.

Pescado: Why are yous itting there?

Elvie: awwwwww

Pescado: Either DO it, or don't!

Ambular: Stupid game.

Pescado: Once you start a mulification process, you either COMPLETE It, or you don't do it at all.

Elvie: GO AGGIE

Pescado: No

Pescado: leave it.

Elvie: We need more food???

Pescado: OW

Aggie: !

Pescado: Ambular's Splanch.

Ambular: :(

Pescado: No, but I had to get a mule for something.

Ambular: Is that plot dead now?

Pescado: I didn't have enough to fit it for anything else.

Pescado: And mules are going to go up this turn.

Pescado: Aggie, you stay there.

Aggie: Sell? Hoard?

Aggie: Ok

Elvie: Not dead. Plant Crystite there.

Pescado: Now if you wer eall more skilled, this would be a time for a massive sudden strategy shift.

Aggie: Well, we're not.

Pescado: Unfortunately, you are not skilled, so we will not be able to effectively adjust our plan to capitalize.

Aggie: Who first?

Pescado: Anyone.

Pescado: There's no shortage.

Pescado: As long as the positive exceeds the negative by a fair margin, there's no need to worry.

Aggie: Nearly broke here, Pescado.

Pescado: It's only when they are close that we need to ration.

Pescado: Yes.

Pescado: Next turn you will sell big.

Pescado: Ambular sold to the store.

Pescado: So you can drain the store.

Pescado: But in the future, don't sell to the store, because the store is a bitch.

Pescado: And steals your money.

Aggie: So what can I do next turn?

Pescado: Go gamble in the pub?

Ambular: I need somebody to explain in detail how to read these meters, because I don't get it.

Aggie: 'kay

Pescado: The meters are easy:

Aggie: Amber: the auction meters?

Round 5 of 12

Pescado: People need food , and energy, every turn.

Pescado: Each non-energy mule takes an energy to run.

Pescado: Aggie's land.

Aggie: Goodie.

Pescado: Too bad Aggie is broke.

Aggie: Then don't buy it.

Pescado: I'm buying it for you, if you can use it later.

Pescado: PLANT ENERGY.

Aggie: Me?

Pescado: Ambular.

Aggie: Oh never mind.

Pescado: When I shout, I shout at the person whose turn it is.

Aggie: Should I sell all of my ore next turn?

Pescado: You can plant MOAR than just one mule.

Pescado: Probably.

Pescado: We will see the price.

Ambular: I get that, I just don't see how to figure out the whole buying/selling graph thingy.

Pescado: When a seller walks down, he lowers his price.

Pescado: When a buyer walks up, he raises his buy price.

Aggie: Listening to Pescado has gotten me broke. :P

Pescado: When they meet, trade occurs.

Pescado: You will be very rich next turn.

Ambular: Right, but how do I know *how much* I am trading, and how much do I want to end up with?

Pescado: Units are traded one at a time.

Pescado: When you pull away, trading stops.

Pescado: You WANT to end up with at LEAST 0.

Pescado: For food/energy.

Pescado: For minerals, what you do depends on what the prices are.

Pescado: Like right NOW, Smithore is $230 a unit.

Pescado: So we SELL EVERYTHING.

Pescado: And get disgustingly rich.

Pescado: Now that WE are disgustingly rich...

Pescado: It means you can begin gouging for energy.

Aggie: Can I buy my property from you?

Pescado: Yes.

Pescado: once I mark it for sale.

Pescado: Although you may not need it yet.

Aggie: That was the property I wanted.

Pescado: Ambular should move down to 50.

Pescado: Move up, Aggie.

Aggie: Quit hogging the energy.

Pescado: No, I'm doing it on purpose.

Aggie: I know.

Pescado: Draining the store, so Ambular can charge more without the store interfering.

Aggie: Oh.

Round 6 of 12

Aggie: How do I get my plot of land back from you?

Aggie: Ahh.

Pescado: Suck

Aggie: *flips the bird*

Pescado: Gamble.

Aggie: Want my land back from you now more than ever.

Pescado: It will be on sale at the next turn and you can take it then.

Aggie: :)

Pescado: PLANT BOLTS

Pescado: Note: random events are very biased. Like a random toading.

Pescado: Only good things happen to players in 3rd and 4th place.

Pescado: Only bad things happen to the first guy.

Aggie: >=(

Pescado: If you are second, it could be either good or bad.

Aggie: Sell?

Pescado: Yeah, unless you wanna hold 'em.

Pescado: Up to you.

Pescado: The price trend is downwards for now.

Pescado: But we will be doing some MARKET MANIPULATION in the next turn.

Aggie: No one expects the Market Manipulation.

Pescado: Ambular eats discount cheese first.

Pescado: Then the rest of us buy high.

Pescado: Energy at 100.

Pescado: Down Ambular.

Pescado: Dwn again, Ambular.

Round 7 of 12

Aggie: When do I get my plot?

Pescado: Now.

Aggie: Oooh

Aggie: Thanks

Aggie: Heh

Pescado: And you get another one.

Aggie: Good

Aggie: It already cost me one.

Pescado: Seee, there's that bad things happening to #1 again.

Ambular: Damn those kazingas.

Aggie: The two-legged ones, even.

Pescado: WOH-pah!

Pescado: And Aggie is toaded as wel.

Aggie: :p

Pescado: If you hate having bad stuff happen to you, be third or fourth.

Pescado: Like nothing bad will ever happen to Ambular.

Pescado: Even getting her splanch destroyed is technically a good thing.

Ambular: Howso?

Aggie: It contains Crystite.

Pescado: Or would, if Ambular were in a position to use crystite.

Ambular: Should I not plant Crystite there then?

Pescado: Not in this particular game, no.

Aggie: Congrats to Amber on the Eel fest?

Pescado: You are Energy.

Pescado: No, you had time to go plant a SECOND energy.

Pescado: Try to make use of that!

Aggie: Yay for Ambers!

Ambular: Crap, keep forgetting I can do that where the mountain is

Pescado: Yes, hit space.

Aggie: Sell? Hoard?

Pescado: Now it's time for SMITHORE BUYBACK.

Pescado: Everyone RUN UP and BUY SMITHORE>

Pescado: DPWM

Pescado: Aggie, you were supposed to be on the down side, you know.

Pescado: GO BACK UP

Pescado: And our smithore buyback collapses.

Pescado: Because Aggie didn't go DOWN like ordered.

Pescado: PROTIP: If you are not going to sell, declare as a buyer. Always.

Pescado: ELvie needs energy first.

Aggie: 'kay

Pescado: But ELvie is poor, so that energy has to be cheap.

Aggie: How cheap?

Pescado: Very.

Pescado: Ambular, go down to Elvie.

Pescado: When Elvie is done, then move back up.

Pescado: UP

Round 8 of 12

Aggie: So Amber has no more land to obtain?

Pescado: Right.

Aggie: :(

Elvie: time to move everything to crystite?

Pescado: That, and buy back Smithore.

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Aggie: I am lagging.

Aggie: Even me?

Ambular: So only buy crystite now?

Pescado: No, you just go plant your lightning bolts like a good Ambular.

Pescado: No more, Aggie.

Ambular: All right

Pescado: Plant crystal instead.

Aggie: Shit.

Pescado: To change a mule, simply pick it up, take it back to the store and refit it, and put it back.

Aggie: Will do next time. You said change to crystal?

Pescado: Yes.

Aggie: Okay.

Elvie: gah, I suck

Pescado: We're going to have problems now because you didn't declare BUYer.

Pescado: RULE: IF YOU ARE NOT SELLING, YOU ARE BUYING.

Aggie: Then tell me in time next time.

Pescado: Even if the agme puts you automatically in seller becaueas you have units...

Pescado: IF YOU ARE NOT SELLING, YOU ARE BUYING. Period.

Pescado: Now hit space.

Aggie: :(

Pescado: Well, at least no one got run over by that mountain.

Aggie: So am I buying?

Pescado: We need to eat 22 units of smithore.

Pescado: So, yes, you are buying. Especially Ambular.

Pescado: GRR

Pescado: Empty the store.

Pescado: EMPTY THE STORE.

Pescado: You too, Elvie.

Ambular: Dammit

Pescado: AMBULAR:

Pescado: You were SUPPOSED to be a BUYER.

Pescado: REMEMBER THE RULE?

Aggie: We'll get the hang of it eventually, Amber.

Pescado: YOU were supposed to be able to EMPTY THE STORE without creating a surplus.

Pescado: That way we can then SELL IT BACK TO THE STORE after we fakecat the price.

Pescado: Units over 50 spoil, which is BAD.

Pescado: This is why everyone must participate in BUYBACK./

Ambular: Of everything ore only ore?

Pescado: Store has 0 units, price goes back up through the roof, we sell it and get rich.

Pescado: BUY MOAR.

Pescado: Aggie.

Pescado: ELvie, go back down.

Pescado: NOt at that price for you.

Aggie: *fills Amber's coffers*

Pescado: You guys are not cut out to be Enron execs.

Elvie: I'm not used to being so poor.

Round 9 of 12

Ambular: You say that as if it's a bad thing, pes.

Aggie: Didn't Enron found Scientology? :p

Pescado: It is in this game!

Aggie: Or was he in LotR?

Elvie: HOw did I end up so frakking destitute?

Pescado: And more bad things happen.

Ambular: Better keep a closer eye on the larvae, Pes

Aggie: lol

Elvie: Aggie's spacedude is fun to watch.

Aggie: :)

Pescado: Aggie wasn't ninja-agile.

Aggie: Everyone loves Amber.

Pescado: Being last place is handy like that.

Pescado: No, not that.

Pescado: Other thing.

Pescado: Ah, forget it.

Pescado: Just let it run away.

Elvie: welfare!

Pescado: Try to plant a bunch, and let the last one run away. :P

Ambular: Bah, is it any good at all planting lightning where the rock landed?

Aggie: Cheers for Elvie!

Pescado: Yes

Pescado: It works as a norml plains.

Ambular: Oh, okay

Pescado: But you can also plant crystal.

Pescado: Since you already have 7 lightnings.

Pescado: Smackcraters are best for crystal.

Aggie: lol

Pescado: Aww, man.

Pescado: A mountain ran over my thingy.

Ambular: :(

Pescado: Ambular, buy Aggie and Elvie's surplus.

Pescado: Ambular, DOWN.

Pescado: NO

Pescado: Forget it.

Pescado: UP

Pescado: NO

Ambular: Make up your mind!

Pescado: You were supposed to follow plan A!

Aggie: We needed to be buyers, not sellers.

Pescado: Since you FAILED, plan B was "Fuck it".

Pescado: The crystal auction is basically "do your own thing".

Pescado: Since crystal is not affected by what you do.

Elvie: 144 is good price

Aggie: Amber takes 2nd place in cash. :p

Elvie: thanks, aggie

Aggie: :)

Pescado: No energy for Aggie?

Aggie: Had to pee.

Round 10 of 12

Pescado: What are you, a Brynne?

Aggie: lol

Aggie: No, I left hte room to use a toilet.

Pescado: You can't afford to develop anyway.

Aggie: Hey!

Pescado: You can't afford development.

Pescado: No energy.

Pescado: Or time, for that matter.

Aggie: *shrugs*

Pescado: If you can't afford development, let someone else do it so the colony can profit.

Aggie: That's communism, you know.

Aggie: :p

Pescado: Yes, Mule is very interesting like that.

Pescado: There's a Cutthroat Capitalizm playmode...

Elvie: will Pescado be selling my land back to me?

Pescado: But you wil lsee that it really hurts the colonial score.

Ambular: Communism is a perfectly sensible system as long as the group does not exceed about 30 individuals.

Pescado: There are 4 of us.

Pescado: And aggie's gonna let it run away.

Aggie: Fuck's sake.

Pescado: Why are you refitting a crystal mule, anyway?

Pescado: It was already crystal.

Aggie: Wasn't paying attention.

Pescado: Also, the wife mocks your weak, peeing ways.

Aggie: No doubt.

Elvie: MAH LAND

Ambular: Huh, I did not realize there was a finite mule supply.

Pescado: The finite mule supply is something we caused.

Pescado: We caused this shortage on purpose.

Elvie: it'll work out, you'll see

Ambular: D:

Pescado: SELL EVERYTHING NOW!

Aggie: The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.

Pescado: Notice how Smithore is $230 a piece.

Pescado: Notice how conveniently we happen to be holding a metric fuckton of it.

Pescado: Think that was an accident?

Aggie: The fire was arson>?

Aggie: I approve.

Pescado: no, the fire was just random.

Pescado: I WISH we had arson.

Pescado: There wasn't anything in the store anyway.

Pescado: Intentional arson would be awesome.

Pescado: Because then the store would burn every turn.

Elvie: no, aggie, we bought up the smithore cheap to sell it high

Aggie: Ahhhh.

Pescado: How it works:

Pescado: Store has lots of Smithore. Smithore and Mules are cheap.

Pescado: We buy all the smithore.

Pescado: Store now has no smithore. Smithore goes up. We sell the smithore.

Aggie: Like in Dragon Age.

Aggie: The merchant from Lothering.

Aggie: I bitch slapped the Cnahtry lady.

Aggie: Chantry

Pescado: Heh.

Pescado: Capitalizm, don't you love it?

Aggie: Yes!

Aggie: :)

Pescado: The thing is, there are two ways to play this game:

Pescado: Either you can be Capitalizt, every man for himself...

Pescado: Or you can be a cartel against the Store.

Pescado: If you REALLY want to manipulate the system...

Elvie: woot

Pescado: It's possible to make food/energy CRAZY GO NUTS.

Pescado: But you people are too simpleminded for this.

Aggie: Someone will eventually want Elvie's wares and I've got it all. Bwah ha ha!

Elvie: excess food spoils

Elvie: you're just giving me whalefare

Pescado: UP

Aggie: Oh well, don't spoil the moment. :p

Round 11 of 12

Pescado: If you want to go for crazy colonial score, there's an even stronger strategy to do it.

Pescado: But it stops becoming a "fair" strategy.

Ambular: Should I do anything this round or just stay where I am?

Pescado: Pretty much just go to the pub, yeah.

Ambular: Okay

Pescado: space

Elvie: bye mule

Pescado: PROTIP: No food/energy sales on the last round.

Pescado: Never sell any food or energy on round 12.

Elvie: I remember, yes

Aggie: Oops

Pescado: Selling minerals is masturbatory.

Pescado: It's not round 12.

Pescado: This is round 11.

Aggie: Double oops./

Elvie: wheeeeeeeee

Aggie: The gals are at the top.

Aggie: *parties*

Ambular: Pes is weighted down with all his gold

Pescado: Really clever thign to do in round 11...

Aggie: Sarcasm?

Pescado: Is to let someone walk against the top line until time is nearly out.

Pescado: Then sell at that.

Pescado: This will "set" the going rate so energy is valued more highly in the next round.

Round 12 of 12

Pescado: And generally inflates everyone's networth.

Aggie: Should I just pub next turn?

Elvie: how does that inflate EVERYONE?

Pescado: Everyone has energy.

Pescado: Well, you could refit the last remiaining smithore mines, I guess.

Aggie: *hoots and hollers at Elvie's Mule*

Pescado: Since Smithore has fallen and can't get up.

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Ambular: LOL

Aggie: I...don't know whether to congratulate you or feel sorry for oyu.

Ambular: Congratulate me, feel sorry for the Universe

Pescado: Congratulations to Draklixa.

Elvie: Aggie is getting faster.

Ambular: They're baaaaaack.

Elvie: awww man

Pescado: Boosaucery.

Ambular: ?

Aggie: I thought you said no selling round 12?

Pescado: Food/energy hurts.

Pescado: Minerals doesn't.

Elvie: that's just food and energy

Pescado: But it's also pointless.

Pescado: But we like seeing the numbers go up, so...

Elvie: boing boing boing

Pescado: Declare as buyer and this ends instantly.

Elvie: yes!

Elvie: same this time

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Elvie: luxury?

Pescado: Woo, luxury end.

Elvie: YEAH!

Pescado: Best end is 120K or better.

Ambular: :D

Pescado: Anything below 60K is a failsauce.

Aggie: Congrats!

Pescado: If the colony isn't worth at least 60K by the end of the game ,everyone loses.