You need 4 players to start a Tournament game.

Only 2 computers players are allowed.

GabrielPope joined the game in slot 1

anveen visits

anveen joined the game in slot 2

GabrielPope: Hello

GabrielPope: going to wait a few minutes and see if we can get anyone else to show up

anveen: hi, ok lets wait...

GabrielPope: hmm, not sure anyone is really still around this late

anveen: morning here :)

awrzz visits

awrzz joined the game in slot 3

GabrielPope: technically it's morning throughout most of the U.S., and thereby a good portion of the English-speaking online population... but not the part of the morning where people are usually awake ;)

GabrielPope: ok, sounds like there might be 1 more guy coming

YUBinit visits

GabrielPope: hi YUBinit

YUBinit: howdy

GabrielPope: press J to get slotted in

YUBinit joined the game in slot 4

YUBinit: tyvm

GabrielPope: spacebar is the action button, press it to start

GabrielPope: it's used for everything the button gets used for in old school MULE, plus it's also used to catch the wumpus in this version

GabrielPope: also make sure that your chat bar is not active when you're trying to play!

Round 1

YUBinit: think I need an old usb controller for this

GabrielPope: heh

GabrielPope: yeah, the feel of the controls can throw you off a little if you're used to the old versions

GabrielPope: generally the action is faster and more responsive, especially during auctions

awrzz: haha :)

GabrielPope: run mules

GabrielPope: be freeeeeee

YUBinit: damit LOL

GabrielPope: you need to take the mule to one of the stores up top

YUBinit: oh duh I knew that LOL

YUBinit: wow its been a while can we start over? LOL

GabrielPope: what do you guys think?

YUBinit: no no its okay

Round 2

awrzz: this game is so strange

awrzz: cya !

awrzz left the game

Computer takes over awrzz

GabrielPope: huh, at first I figured he knew what he was doing

YUBinit: ah so he now a bot?

GabrielPope: yeah

Round 3

GabrielPope: wow

GabrielPope: now there's a nice catch-up bonus ;)

YUBinit: yeah they took pity

GabrielPope: at least you're better off than the computer

GabrielPope: he's stuck with a smithore plot in the river

YUBinit: can always move it

GabrielPope: the computer's too dumb to do it, though

YUBinit: spoilage still above +3?

GabrielPope: yeah

GabrielPope: 50% surplus food, 33% surplus energy

Round 4

GabrielPope: now I wish awrzz hadn't been such a dumbass about the river :/

YUBinit: I take it the ajoining plots still yeild best in this version?

GabrielPope: yes

GabrielPope: +1 production if it's adjacent to at least one plot of the same production type

anveen: ...

Round 5

GabrielPope: the wampus won't show up on claimed mountains in this version

YUBinit: ah man

anveen: this game is best played when all about same skill level...

YUBinit: I used to be LOL give me a min

anveen: problem with total beginners, hard to if they just playing bad...or actually helping someone else :)

GabrielPope: heh heh, yeah

anveen: ...hard t know...

YUBinit: been a while it's coming back to me :P

Round 6

YUBinit: no crys in store to buy out and raise market?

GabrielPope: crystite's price is random, it's always been that way

YUBinit: I recall being able to buy out store but maybe I remember wrong

GabrielPope: with outher resources, yeah

YUBinit: I want my old atari controller LOL

Round 7

GabrielPope: you should trade in some of your food plains for mining, or at least energy

GabrielPope: or maybe check them for crystite

YUBinit: was hoping to drive up the food costs LOL

GabrielPope: it's not really going to happen

YUBinit: yeah

GabrielPope: anveen and me are more or less self-sufficient on food, and the AI is smart enough in this version to know that you need money just as much as it needs food

YUBinit: heckova start for my first time :P

Round 8

GabrielPope: no more wampus :(

anveen: nice :)

YUBinit: lovely

GabrielPope: switch as much of your stuff over to smithore as you can manage

YUBinit: seeing that

GabrielPope: that price isn't going to go down, and I'm pretty positive we've used up the quota of pirates for this game

YUBinit: lordy the pc still beating me LOL

Round 9

YUBinit: should I give up now? LOL

GabrielPope: SHIT

YUBinit: sorry

GabrielPope: really wish I had contested those land auctions harder :/

GabrielPope: didn't think there'd be such a golden opportunity

GabrielPope: LOL

YUBinit: omg

GabrielPope: never seen the pirates hit twice in a row

anveen: pirate season :)

GabrielPope: lol, shiiiiiiiit

Round 10

GabrielPope: dammit

GabrielPope: lol

GabrielPope: God hates this colony

GabrielPope: He wants us to suffer

YUBinit: yeppers

anveen: yeah...quakes and pirates every time...lol

Round 11

YUBinit: I could use some eggnog

YUBinit: but aint got brandy ;)

YUBinit: so the pebble areas high for energy? used to be the flat plots

anveen: deserts best for energy

GabrielPope: plains are still decent for it, but deserts are slightly better

GabrielPope: like the difference between 2-mountain and 3-mountain tiles for mining

GabrielPope: in general I think production is more forgiving than in the original

GabrielPope: used to be, you pretty much needed several plots AND a good production tile to get decent production

GabrielPope: I'll go way higher

GabrielPope: YUBinit

GabrielPope: why do you have to hate money :(

anveen: wow...nice price now

YUBinit: LOL too late for me

GabrielPope: I would've paid that much from the start, but noooo you had to sell it to anveen

anveen: should have waited earlier :)

Round 12

GabrielPope: we could've completely blown the colony score record out of the water

GabrielPope: but nooo you guys want our colony to be a failure

GabrielPope: a glorious, wealthy failure

YUBinit: I was born in a rice patty LOL

GabrielPope: why does it always have to pick the worst spots to power down :/

GabrielPope: god dammit

YUBinit: wow I really blew this one

anveen: good game

YUBinit: wow I still lost to the pc LOL

anveen: well done gabriel

GabrielPope: thanks

GabrielPope: wow, we rocked as a whole

GabrielPope: we broke 100k even with a bunch of shortages

YUBinit: I'll do another given a min for a break

GabrielPope: I think this might be the first tournament colony to ever get that high

anveen: yes

GabrielPope: aw hell

GabrielPope: it looks like someone's game actually went to 129k

anveen: ohh...

GabrielPope: it had to have been very recent

YUBinit: well hell now I got a handle maybe another?

GabrielPope: welllll

GabrielPope: it's really really late, but sure

GabrielPope: if we have at least 3 people