Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds

Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed

Rhodan joined the game in slot 1

domseb visits

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dggrj visits

dggrj: wow, you just keep moving up

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turssi visits

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turssi: lets see if the mac version runs better than the linux one

dggrj: hrm, certainly an interesting comparison

turssi: the linux version sucks

lyth visits

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turssi: or the linux on my laptop sucks...

turssi: rhodan gogogo

Giftzwerg visits

dggrj: maybe one of us should host

dggrj: and have giftzerg join

turssi: someone have good hosting?

dggrj: done it before

dggrj: i'm us west coast based

turssi: host a game then

dggrj: how far away are y'all?

turssi: brazil

dggrj: alright i'll host

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Tiercel visits

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Paladinian visits

Paladinian: Need a fourth, Rhodan? :)

Govt Mule visits

Rhodan: been afk

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Govt Mule: am I jumping ahead of you Paladinian?

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Tilli visits

Rhodan: looking for players with a few more games under their belt

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Govt Mule: do I have enough? ;)

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Rhodan: aye you have enough govt

lozzle visits

worldtraveler visits

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worldtraveler: hey govt

Govt Mule: hey wt

michaelhband visits

Govt Mule: visitors please press space

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Tiercel was kicked

Round 1 of 12

Round 2 of 12

Rhodan: hmm

Rhodan: guess i didnt get that plot because i was 1st

worldtraveler: which one did u try for

Rhodan: second one i went above his bid then came down and must of been at same price as till but lost due to 1st place

worldtraveler: i tried to get the one u got -lag

Tilli: i dont try to understand this game

Rhodan: talking land aic

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Rhodan: i guess hosting gave me t he jump over you on land select

worldtraveler: maybe-good piece of land

Rhodan: i have notice hosting has advantage even when in 1st [lace

Govt Mule: sometimes

Round 3 of 12

Rhodan: every other land auc games sells 20 plots

Round 4 of 12

Rhodan: i hate 1st place

Round 5 of 12

Round 6 of 12

Rhodan: isnt greed a lovely thing?

Tilli: hahha

Round 7 of 12

Round 8 of 12

Round 9 of 12

Round 10 of 12

Round 11 of 12

Tilli: you penis

Rhodan: crackore

Tilli: you dont deserve to win

Tilli: you suck

Round 12 of 12

Tilli left the game

Computer takes over Tilli

Rhodan: kids

Rhodan: he shouldnt of been so greedy with his food, hahaha

Rhodan: might do it with enough crystite production

Govt Mule: lol wtf, who leaves a game in rnd 12

Rhodan: he is mad because i used his greed to make his food spoil

Govt Mule: did he think he was winning up to that point?

Govt Mule: gg

worldtraveler: nice playin with ya gg

Rhodan: i was lucky

Rhodan: dangerous playing no food game

worldtraveler: thought we could snuff u out earlier

worldtraveler: good comeback

Game Over

Saving score, please wait...

Score saved

Rhodan: store fire gave me the chance

Govt Mule: yup, and you were in the right position at the right time

worldtraveler: see you guys later

Rhodan: the key to mule!!

Govt Mule: if I had been 2nd place at that time....

Rhodan: thats why i hope they dont change land auc to much

Rhodan: just get rid of selling more when first doesnt sell

Govt Mule: I think that's a b.s. move

Govt Mule: it's cheap and weak in my opinion

Rhodan: its the only tool 1st place has to remove oneself from 1st

Govt Mule: to prevent a land auction?

Rhodan: no driving price up

Govt Mule: right, I'm talking about ppl who drive it waaay up, and then not buy

Govt Mule: so nobody buys

Rhodan: preventing buy by driving price up is a strategy no one likes

Govt Mule: I don't see it as a strategy

Rhodan: including me

Rhodan: it is

Govt Mule: you can't do it in the original mule

Rhodan: nope u cant

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Rhodan: needs to be changed

worldtraveler was disconnected

Rhodan: long with fixing food and energy pricing

Govt Mule: you mean the last round?

Govt Mule: I think food is fine, it's energy that rises in rnd 12

Rhodan: for energy and food doesnt go up properly when there is a shortage

Govt Mule: really? I thought there needed to be a sale for it to rise first

Rhodan: the old game would tell u with a message when there was a shortage of energy and food and price would go up regardless of round

Govt Mule: nobody sold any food after round 4

Rhodan: in this version food falls in last roiund even if shortage

Govt Mule: there's no demand in last round so that seems fitting

Govt Mule: there can't be a shortage

Rhodan: then why have ore go up?

Govt Mule: because we're talking about food

Rhodan: the colony goes on we just dont play after 12th

Rhodan: should apply to both

Rhodan: if demand for ore drives it up should be same for food was in old game

Govt Mule: right, no demand for more mules either

Rhodan: the programmers need to break out an emulator play the old one some

Rhodan: but they still have done a graet job with this one

Govt Mule: exactly

Govt Mule: sometimes I get the feeling they haven't

Govt Mule: which seems odd to me

Rhodan: from reading the forum i dont think they have

Govt Mule: were they hired to make planet mule?

Govt Mule: whose idea was it?

Rhodan: not sure, they do have the backing of the buntens

Rhodan: who made the original

Govt Mule: right, melanie seems to be the only active one on the forums

Rhodan: i think they are using this to spring board the new version

Govt Mule: I wonder who decided to make this if nobody from turborilla has ever played the original

Rhodan: would be a good question to ask them

Govt Mule: have you seen the motocross game?

Rhodan: no, made by these guys

Rhodan: ?

Govt Mule: ya

Govt Mule: there's a link from the PM home page

Rhodan: is that the link on the home page?

Govt Mule: lower right corner

Govt Mule: yup

Govt Mule: so you've played the RTS beta for mule?

Rhodan: i will look at it. might be good for my kids

Rhodan: briefly it didnt work well

Govt Mule: heh, they finally made a linux version available so I started it up

Rhodan: then i had to go so didnt get a chance to see if it worked at all

Govt Mule: nobody onine of course

Govt Mule: I played a short game against bots

Govt Mule: they never moved

Govt Mule: I wonder if I would have had a chance if I hadn't bought that last plot

Govt Mule: probably not

Rhodan: i couldnt even tell how they implemented rts

Govt Mule: I'm wondering why they need platform dependant clients

Govt Mule: it's java!

Rhodan: producing ore is about the only way to stop the ore gambit

Govt Mule: right, I tried to keep you from running it early

Govt Mule: it worked for a short time

Rhodan: see how i controlled price early on, but then i let myself get into food shortages. i was lucky to pull it off

Govt Mule: that actually may have helped you

Govt Mule: since you couldn't spend your money on mules

Govt Mule: you had it to spend on ore

Govt Mule: when the time was right

Govt Mule: it also put you into 2nd

Rhodan: yep i was setting up to buy it all if i had to

Govt Mule: allowing me to pass you and take 1st

Govt Mule: so you could buy the ore

Rhodan: you can buy 150 plus and still make money

Rhodan: thats what the land auc can do

Rhodan: why i bought that plot for 2800

Govt Mule: to drop you into 2nd?

Rhodan: yes

Govt Mule: right

Rhodan: or lower

Govt Mule: seems to backfire on me sometimes

Govt Mule: if I get the land to cheaply

Rhodan: also try and control others money

Govt Mule: yeah, I noticed you selling to Tilli a few times

Rhodan: get them to buy so they have no money then you are set to buy

Govt Mule: dropiing him below $50

Govt Mule: I shouldn't have sold that crystal

Rhodan: amazing the depth to this games strategy

Govt Mule: I was sure pirates were coming though

Rhodan: they already came twice

Rhodan: early

Govt Mule: exactly, theres enough randomness to keep it interesting

Govt Mule: but a good strategy usually pays off in spite of bad event

Govt Mule: s

Rhodan: few more tweaks and they will have it

Govt Mule: I still hate it when I lose a plot, but it doesn't necessarily ruin my game

Rhodan: one bad random event at the wrong time and wipe you out

Govt Mule: yup

Govt Mule: I usually get the worst while I'm in 2nd place

Rhodan: i was leading one game big time in 11th round meteor came and wipe out one of two energy plots, the remaing plot didnt produce

Govt Mule: lost a plot, or costs me money before dev so I cant' afford a mule

Rhodan: leaving no energy last round

Govt Mule: meteor took out 2 plots?

Govt Mule: oh one of two

Rhodan: just one then random production kick in and other didnt produce but one or two

Govt Mule: that's happened to me too, where I lose my food in the last round, but then a quake takes out 2 mules so I have no food in rnd 12 to replace them

Rhodan: last round s you are producing 50 plus ore or stite. no production and you are down 5k plus

Rhodan: c64 didnt do that with quakes

Govt Mule: I once went 2 round before I even noticed I'd lost mules :/

Rhodan: but i like it this way

Govt Mule: yeah, this is pretty close to release quality ;)

Rhodan: needs to be some risk mining ore from those mountains

Govt Mule: indeed

Rhodan: what kills me is when someone who is not setup to produce ore helps the one that is to buy out the store

Rhodan: its like they see someone running up to buy and they have to do the same

Govt Mule: what diff does it make if they produce ore or not?

Rhodan: if you buy 20 and the other 50 and you dont out produce him its hard to catch up with stite

Govt Mule: I think it's funny when someone see another do that on one game, then they try it in the next game so you get to see them try to buy 100 ore at 96 ea

Rhodan: 50 ore is 11,250 bucks then you produice 50 more

Rhodan: 22k you can buy 150 plus at 80 or so and still make a killing

Rhodan: been beat that way a number of times

Govt Mule: I guess they figure if they dont buy out the rest, someone else will

Rhodan: i suppose but they are not thinking it thru

Govt Mule: I did that myself in this game, but at least I was producing ore

Rhodan: its hard to swap out on the right side of the river

Govt Mule: yup

Rhodan: you can swap up to six plots on the left you are lucky to get 3 done on the right

Rhodan: i dont win to many games with most of my plots oon the right side

Govt Mule: very true, but you gotta go where they crystite is

Rhodan: yep, but gives you less ability to swap out for the quick buck with prices spike

Govt Mule: well I'm gonna run, gg

Rhodan: gg

Govt Mule: see ya later