Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

Ambular visits

Pescado joined the game in slot 1

Ambular joined the game in slot 2

Pescado unjoined the game

Elvie visits

Elvie joined the game in slot 1

Pescado joined the game in slot 3

Pescado unjoined the game

Aggie visits

Aggie joined the game in slot 3

Elvie: woot

Aggie: Sorry. :(

Pescado joined the game in slot 4

Round 1 of 12

Ambular: What's that thing?

Pescado: What, assaybot?

Ambular: Yes, floaty bot thingy

Pescado: That is assaybot.

Pescado: It tells me stuff that is not interesting to you.

Elvie: He's checking for crystite

Pescado: Now hit space.

Pescado: Ooh, store fire early.

Elvie: burn!

Pescado: One fud for everyone.

Pescado: GO DOWN, AMbular.

Pescado: GO AWAY.

Pescado: DOWN

Round 2 of 12

Aggie: Amber, when there's not enough food for everyone, just buy one unit.

Aggie: I wasn't trying to starve you, I swear!

Ambular: kk

Aggie: Forgot where I had my lot. :(

Aggie: Also, you can see how much is available to be sold by looking at the person's area when it cmes time to sell.

Pescado: SPACE

Pescado: ALWAYS SPACE

Aggie: See, you can see I'll have

Aggie: 11

Ambular: yup

Aggie: Fuck.

Pescado: Aggie, WTF?

Elvie: wut

Aggie: I went down too early. Sorry.

Pescado: IT IS NOT A RACE.

Pescado: You do not need to try to push down FIRST.

Aggie: Now you'll all starve.

Elvie: I did that once.

Aggie: I will not do it again.

Pescado: Aggie, up.

Pescado: UP

Pescado: You cannot run out of energy or the food gets worse.

Aggie: Sorry.

Round 3 of 12

Aggie: Amber is better at plot placement.

Pescado: No time.

Pescado: Just go to the pub.

Pescado: Or sit there with a dumb look on your face.

Aggie: ?

Pescado: Up to you.

Ambular: Dammit

Elvie: boo

Pescado: Sell 4.

Elvie: or 5

Pescado: Do you not know how to count, Elvie?

Pescado: Ambular.

Pescado: Why are you buying smithore? :P

Elvie: wtf

Elvie: selling a small # of stuff can be tricky

Pescado: No it isn't.

Ambular: nm, it seemed ligical at the time

Elvie: I need moar agile fingers

Round 4 of 12

Aggie: Yay Amber!

Ambular: Whoo! Wrong quadrant though.

Pescado: Only take one mule.

Pescado: Otherwise will have a shortage.

Ambular: Pes was hospitable?

Aggie: I know!

Aggie: 0_0

Ambular: Guy must have thrown them at his head during his escape attempt.

Aggie: lol

Pescado: I think that's a typo. It means "hostility".

Aggie: Poor Elvie.

Pescado: That's why it's dangerous to be in first.

Pescado: Everything that happens will be bad.

Pescado: Like a random toading.

Pescado: OW, your splanch!

Ambular: D:

Elvie: o ffs

Aggie: Again with the Amber?

Pescado: SPACE

Pescado: ALWAYS SPACE

Ambular: u_u

Pescado: Time to CASH OUT.

Pescado: Don't sell to the store, Aggie.

Aggie: 'kay. I was afraid I'd spoil more./

Round 5 of 12

Aggie: Keep buying food plots?

Pescado: No.

Aggie: What next then?

Pescado: What you should probably do is sell the surplus land to me.

Pescado: Since you will run out of landgrant soon.

Aggie: DO I need another food mule next turn or no?

Pescado: No

Ambular: How many should I get?

Pescado: Get what?

Pescado: Energies?

Ambular: Mules

Pescado: Many as you want, there's no shortage.

Pescado: Wrong one..

Pescado: Tag some more.

Aggie: Will do the third next time/.

Elvie: Why are you selling your land, Aggie?

Aggie: Pescado says I don't need anymore food mules.

Aggie: So I should sell the land to him. Is that how I do it>

Elvie: You could plant other stuff.

Aggie: Oh, then.

Pescado: Elvie: That's an advanced lesson to be covered later, though.

Aggie: I'll keeo the third.

Pescado: No, you should sell that one as well for adjacency.

Pescado: And focus on your food.

Pescado: You can then jack up food prices more because everyone else can afford it.

Pescado: It will hurt your brane less.

Pescado: Sell, Elvie.

Elvie: I didn't think we sold at such a low price...

Pescado: We do. Next round is buyback.

Elvie: ah

Aggie: Everyone buys next round?

Pescado: We need to drain the store food.

Pescado: Yes

Pescado: Up

Pescado: Ambular, go down first and sell to Aggie, then go back up to the top and stay there until I push the line to about 200.

Pescado: Up

Pescado: No down.

Pescado: DOWN

Pescado: ELVIE UP

Pescado: See what we did there?

Elvie: I shure do

Round 6 of 12

Pescado: Wow, lots of sales today.

Ambular: We have a housing bubble! D:

Elvie: oh fuck

Pescado: And Elvie is mauled by first place curse again.

Pescado: Next round, anyone who has < 50 smithore is a BUYER.

Pescado: And will try to BUY OUT THE STORE.

Aggie: Antique = 2 weeks old.

Ambular: That's probably more than it was worth XD

Pescado: Best move for Aggie is just to hand over the empty plot touching teh stray purple...

Pescado: And stick to food gougery.

Aggie: Yes

Ambular: Whew

Pescado: This means you effectively continue to collect "rent" on the land...

Pescado: Because we pay you in food kickbacks instead.

Elvie: That was slick, Amber

Pescado: While thel and gains my production bonus.

Ambular: Argh

Pescado: It missed.

Aggie: Space, Amber. :p

Pescado: BUY BACKIES!

Pescado: Leave 8 units in the store.

Pescado: AMbular, stop now.

Aggie: Amber, make sure you keep an eye on your cash.

Pescado: See what we did there?

Elvie: They will.

Aggie: I will sell to Amber cheap.

Pescado: Don't worry about Ambular.

Pescado: Ambular doesn't really need the food for anything at the moment.

Aggie: I will sell to Amber cheap because of her cash shortage. YOU assholes can WAIT and buy high. :P

Pescado: Ambular doesn't really have a cash shortage.

Pescado: She's just heavily committed to assets.

Aggie: Actually, never mind. You are a rich bastard now too, Amber. :P

Ambular: XD

Round 7 of 12

Aggie: Should I sell my other two empty plots next turn, Pescado?

Pescado: Sure.

Pescado: You can even unload theplains food.

Pescado: the plains food actually hurts the shenanigans.

Aggie: Okay, next time.

Pescado: It causes the store to see more food i nthe market than we really want.

Pescado: And the store will call your shenanigans as a result.

Pescado: It's best to turn the far plots.

Pescado: Too slow, Elvie.

Elvie: aw poop

Ambular: Argh

Pescado: Don't worry about it.

Pescado: You have lots of overstock.

Aggie: Sell?

Pescado: ANd now you see what we did there.

Ambular: Do we sell?

Pescado: SELLATHON!

Pescado: In the next two turns, the price will go plop again.

Pescado: Then we do it again.

Pescado: Ambular: Don't sell to the store.

Ambular: Sorry

Pescado: Selling to the store harms your energy market, remember?

Round 8 of 12

Ambular: Crap

Pescado: No, that's good.

Pescado: There's no more land.

Pescado: So just sell it to Elvies.

Pescado: BetWhen you're claimed out, it's better to use your grant than lose it.

Pescado: That way the colony still gains a land.

Pescado: It are a cunning strategery.

Pescado: At this point, Smithore is on the way out, so it's best to convert everything.

Pescado: If you want to be useful, you can tag it AND plant crystal on it.

Elvie: meh

Ambular: Dang, well I'll know next time

Pescado: Probably should have converted last Smithore to Crystal as well, Aggie.

Aggie: Oh well, next time.

Pescado: Next round is BUYBACK.

Ambular: What do I have to do to make sure the land gets sold?

Aggie: Nothing.

Aggie: Pescado (or Elvie) will buy it.

Pescado: once tagged, it will be sold.

Pescado: Sell, Aggie.

Pescado: 144 is highcrystite.

Pescado: And we have not had any pirates, so they are overdue.

Pescado: Aggie needs to hike food now.

Pescado: Otherwise she will not have enough for buyback.

Pescado: Go for about 300.

Round 9 of 12

Pescado: This colony score is looking very nice.

Pescado: And that's the last of the land.

Aggie: I like toying with Elvie. :p

Elvie: :P x infinity

Ambular: Hey, Elivie got something good! :D

Aggie: Wow!

Pescado: Next round: Smithore BUYBACK and FREE THE MULES.

Ambular: Free the mules?

Aggie: Free the mules?

Pescado: Buy a mule, equip it for food, let it free immediately outside the store.

Pescado: This is done to intentionally destroy mules, creating a shortage.

Pescado: End your turn holding an unfitted mule to free that one, too.

Pescado: See how freeing a mule works?

Aggie: I see.

Pescado: We want the store next round to have no mules.

Pescado: And no smithore.

Aggie: BRB

Pescado: NO PEEING

Pescado: It's BUYOUT time.

Aggie: Kauy

Pescado: You can stop now, Ambular.

Aggie: lol

Ambular: Hey, you say buy, I buy. :p

Aggie: *hearts Amber*

Pescado: And we have emptied the store.

Elvie: woot

Pescado: In two turns after this, smithore will jump back up to 200+

Aggie: *sneakily sells more to Elvie*

Elvie: :P

Pescado: In round 11, after need buys are over...

Pescado: Run up the price of food/energy to ridiculous values, then have someone buy one unit.

Round 10 of 12

Pescado: Aggie: Tag all your crystite plots and sell them to me for optimal results.

Pescado: that way they get my +production bonus.

Elvie: aren't we freeing only 1 mule each?

Pescado: Okay, enouNo, this is fine.

Aggie: I think you're right.

Pescado: We need 2 mules for this turn.

Pescado: Refit all smiths, install crystites, free the rest.

Aggie: All of my non-food plots are crystal.

Aggie: Only one produces anything.

Pescado: MULE EMANCIPATION!

Aggie: Bastard.

Pescado: Gonan take another turn to peak.

Pescado: No

Pescado: Stay there.

Pescado: Iz plan.

Pescado: There are no crystal rules, so your willingness to hold it is purely based on your fear of pirates and the present price.

Round 11 of 12

Pescado: Refit the far flat for crystite, move the smith to the 3-peak.

Pescado: Then free the last mule.

Elvie: tooooo slow

Aggie: Sell or no?

Pescado: I say hold it.

Pescado: Nah, sell.

Pescado: It's not moving.

Pescado: woot

Elvie: yeah!

Elvie: bing bing in my wallet

Aggie: Is that your wallet or are you happy to see me?

Elvie: ...

Aggie: :p

Aggie: I will chase you down and sell to you, damn it.

Round 12 of 12

Aggie: Remember, Amber: No selling anything this round.

Elvie: someone should teach aggie how to mine

Aggie: Yes, someone should.

Pescado: Mining is pretty simple, although this way is going to give us a better colony score.

Pescado: Because a larger stripmine is more productive than two small single mines.

Pescado: Aggie does better just taking her cut in food kickback instead.

Pescado: Each 3 mines I own increases all my mines by +1

Pescado: Notice how Aggie's score is much larger than previous games despite giving up all land as well...

Pescado: And despite the numerous bungles early on which really hurt...

Pescado: Our colony score is looking very nice.

Elvie: Yes, I noticed!

Pescado: NOW HIT SPACE.

Elvie: *tapes down Amber's space bar*

Pescado: And final Crystite is looking VERY nice.

Elvie: aw yeah

Ambular: No selling anything?

Pescado: Right.

Pescado: Selling any food/energy to the store in final round = bad for your score.

Elvie: just food/energy Amber

Aggie: Apparently that means no selling food or energy.

Pescado: Selling minerals is masturbatorium, but funny.

Pescado: Plus, I dunno if spoil will affect final round score.

Elvie: ding ding ding

Pescado: But selling food/energy to the store will hurt.

Ambular: What about players, do we need to buy?

Pescado: DOWN

Pescado: Bah.

Pescado: Now we have to sit through this.

Pescado: ALL DOWN next time.

Pescado: Bah, stupid store still had some.

Elvie: AGGIE

Aggie: What?

Game Over

Saving score, please wait...

Score saved

Elvie: :P

Pescado: 163K!

Pescado: BEST COLONY EVAR!

Aggie: Yay!

Elvie: sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Ambular: :D

Aggie: *high fives everyone*

Ambular: I wonder what the highest possible score would be.

Aggie: Infinity million +1.

Pescado: Ambular: People have gotten into the 250K range.

Pescado: But this requires that everyone be far more SMRT.

Ambular: So, not too bad then.

Pescado: To achieve that involves tight energy controls and severely imbalanced land allocation.

Aggie: My alien looks like a hillbilly redneck.

Pescado: Yes.

Pescado: And a round, smackable, thing.

Elvie: Among other things.

Pescado: And we're frontier space colonists.

Pescado: We're ALL hillbilly rednecks.

Aggie: What else does he look like, Elvie?

Pescado: I'm not even sure it's a he.

Elvie: Oh, you know.

Aggie: It's a Shale~!

Pescado: I mean, the human looks rather like a he...

Pescado: But everyone else? Who knows.

Aggie: Elvie looks like a pumpkin.

Pescado: You're a round thing. We're not even sure they HAVE males.

Pescado: Maybe they reproduce by podlings.

Pescado: The original 8bit version of Elvie's dude was cuter.

Pescado: It was a smiley face with feet.

Aggie: Awww.

Elvie: My dude isn't smiling, for sure.

Pescado: But i think the angry bird-looking thing is cooler-looking.

Pescado: It is now more FROWNY.

Pescado: Which I approve of.