Tournament Mode - 12 Rounds
Need 4 players to start - Max 2 computer players allowed
Mean Jim joined the game in slot 1
hickory visits
hickory left the game
jonryker visits
jonryker joined the game in slot 2
Mean Jim: hi
jonryker: hello
joelcade visits
joelcade joined the game in slot 3
joelcade: hey folks
jonryker: hello
Mean Jim: hi
joelcade: tx for hosting
Mean Jim: np
Mean Jim: hopefully we can scare up a 4th soon
Mean Jim: so joel - what was the pissing contest with eumel about... i saw it on the chat
joelcade: I have no idea..
joelcade: i pop into his game, say hi and see the pings approaching 400...
joelcade: I wait a sec, the pop back out to check the other available game..
joelcade: then he starts randomly saying "don't play with joel" in the (empty) chat room..
joelcade: weirdo
Mean Jim: he's on my "don't play with" list. he pretty much sucks the fun out of the game
joelcade: I'll have to remember that...
kipley visits
kipley joined the game in slot 4
joelcade: keya, kip
Mean Jim: brb guys....
kipley: Howdy
jonryker: hello
jonryker: I won a game yesterday and jumped 400 spots....seems strange
jonryker: I wonder if I'll drop 400 when I lose this game?
kipley: The biggest part of the ranking is how many games you've won. So you jumped past 400 folks who've only won one game.
jonryker: ok
joelcade: congrats, btw
kipley: No, you likely won't drop much, if at all.
jonryker: oh, i just play some...i try strange strategies...don't really try to win
kipley: It's mostly about how many wins you have. So you'll stay pretty much constant, until you win another game, when you'll jump again.
kipley: At least we're not stuck waiting at the game summary screen... that music drives me bonkers when we're stuck on it forever!
jonryker: oh, you don't like it?
kipley: I like it in short bursts... not when the game is on hold for minutes upon minutes.
jonryker: I've still got the Atari Hardball tune stuck in my head from 30 years ago
Mean Jim: ok - sorry guys... i just got a job offer. good news for the wife, but not for my mule playing. ready!?
jonryker: job offers are good
joelcade: congrats!
Round 1 of 12
Mean Jim: ths
Mean Jim: thx
jonryker: doh
kipley: whoops
joelcade: :P
joelcade: get my dumb mistake out of the way early today
kipley: He did it on purpose... trying to avoid being in first place and getting bad events! ;-)
jonryker: well, my crappy land plot will ensure I dont' have to worry about that
Mean Jim: sorry meant to hit the down button
Mean Jim: sorry meant to make some crystite
Mean Jim: sorry need some food
kipley: Sorry nobody produced any energy
Round 2 of 12
joelcade: I always lose money on those races...
joelcade: I'm detecting a pattern
jonryker: yes?
jonryker: thx
joelcade: I need the $$
joelcade: :)_
jonryker: now im in for it
Round 3 of 12
joelcade: be free!!!
jonryker: of course...
Mean Jim: and the good news, your empty plot gave us 230 ore!
kipley: Indeed, that probably was the deciding final factor
jonryker: yeah...
jonryker: its not like im the one with the extra land
kipley: No, but you are currently in the lead
Mean Jim: it's the penalty for producing high return crack early in the game!
jonryker: yeah, but that didn't stop me getting the short end when i wasn't
jonryker: what, smithore isn't high return?
kipley: Well, I'll get all the bad events now
Round 4 of 12
Mean Jim: congrats
jonryker: yeah, guess so
Mean Jim: yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
kipley: arr!
jonryker: that's what i thought i heard
joelcade: :P
jonryker: run!
joelcade: teasing
jonryker: i was thinking 200
Mean Jim: it was my intent to sell you one
joelcade: it was my intent to buy one
kipley: Don't need it hardly enough to pay 200... still have one, and a food plot
joelcade: ya...
jonryker: fair enough
Round 5 of 12
joelcade: tons of time
kipley: Yep, enough to catch the wampus, too!
joelcade: you're just showing off, now
kipley: :-o
kipley: Really need to spray that plot for bugs
jonryker: should have saved that bug spray
Mean Jim: well the good news, you only made two units
Mean Jim: if you REALLY want food, and you're in the lead, and you have $1500...
kipley: Don't REALLY want it, obviously
Mean Jim: what i figured
Round 6 of 12
kipley: If folks don't want to sell for what I'm offering, they're free to just let their excess spoil instead. It's all good.
jonryker: i was, of course, thinking 200, but i only had one anyway
Mean Jim: matter of perspective. a unit or two of $50 food spoiling versus feeding the kipley 1st place machine!
kipley: Reasonable enough thought processes, all.
joelcade: he's not ranked 2nd for no reason :)
kipley: I just play a lot, is the only reason. Ranks based on
kipley: total wins, not on percentage victories or beating tough opponents
Mean Jim: decided cheating the pirates 3 turn in a row wasn't helping you sleep at night?
joelcade: :)
Mean Jim: energy's gonna suck
Round 7 of 12
kipley: Needed a bow and arrow to shoot the wampus from afar!
jonryker: that was lucky
jonryker: \dont worry, i'm right behind you
Round 8 of 12
Mean Jim: well that didn't turn out the way i wanted it to...
kipley: Curious... what was everyone hoping for, there?
jonryker: i was hoping for high food
Mean Jim: i'm guessing everyone was hoping to buy the plot for less money
joelcade: like, pot brownies?
jonryker: i didn't have the money
joelcade: here they come!
jonryker: i can't do it
jonryker: run!
kipley: :-)
jonryker: no more
Round 9 of 12
joelcade: just in case
jonryker: smart
joelcade: here pirate, pirate, pirate....
Mean Jim: I'm hoping someone in the store was playing with matches...
kipley: Neither
Mean Jim: kip was right
kipley: Well, I stated after the fact...
Mean Jim: makes me cry
joelcade: I hear ya
kipley: Yes, very painful
kipley: Hard to spike it when you're working all alone
joelcade: nice payday, jon
jonryker: yeah, ive got 3 3star crystite plots and still can't make money
Round 10 of 12
Mean Jim: oh so NOW's the fire
kipley: Ooh, too late for poor Jim
joelcade: didn't see that coming :)
kipley: Oh, fire kept the food price high!
kipley: Unexpected
jonryker: i won a game yesterday with a late food spike
Round 11 of 12
kipley: Indecision!
joelcade: damn lag
kipley: Nice finish, at least
joelcade: barely
joelcade: no pirates the whole game! wow!
kipley: So did pirates never come? I forget
jonryker: i don't think so
Mean Jim: no pirates
jonryker: owwwww
Mean Jim: i've mismanaged the hell out of my ore today
jonryker: nice
Round 12 of 12
joelcade left the game
Computer takes over joelcade
jonryker: no welfare food
Mean Jim: i'd have certainly gone for a cocktail
jonryker: i was busy complaining
kipley: Heh!
kipley: The bartender is a good person to listen to your complaints! ;-)
Mean Jim: ya gotta do what ya gotta do
kipley: Good game, everyone
jonryker: dont know how he keeps that bar afloat, losing all that money
kipley: It had interesting strategic shifts throughout.
jonryker: must be a government run bar
jonryker: vanity sell
kipley: Hey, you have more money than me!
jonryker: small consolation
Game Over
Saving score, please wait...
Score saved
jonryker: hah
kipley: gg
kipley: cyas
jonryker: ggalll
Mean Jim: gg - thanks for playing
kipley left the game
jonryker left the game
kipley was disconnected
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