Ermor MP Battlefield Game - FFA /CLOSED/

[Stormbinder]

Greetings.

I would like to share and discuss what is happening in our tournament game, because I have some questions that I don't know the answers for. It is about Soul Gate Ermor, controlled by (surprise! ) Norfleet.

Now before you all take deep breath and think: "Oh , here we go again, Stormbinder flaming Norfleet, new seria in this "soap" opera..." I would like to state this: I am going to keep this threat polite and neutral, at least from my side. I don't want to start any new flame wars or reignite the old ones.


What I would like to hear are the answers to several specific questions regarding Ermor nation in that game, which is controlled by Norfleet. These are not questions that originate only from me, because each of the other 4 players who are in this game, and who have been cooperating against Ermor all along, would like to know the answers to them as well.


First, some background info about our game: We have been playing on Karan map, 6 players total, standard MP settings. I was playing Vanheim, and as I said Ermor was played by Norfleet. As of Last turn, the game is pretty much over, the Ermor won. We are playing this game with Graphs ON, and from the stats it is clear that the only nation that was even coming close to the Ermor was Vanheim, other nations are very far behind on most graphs. So I have been fighting Ermor for the Last 7 turns or so, until in the Last turn’s battle my forces were completely annihilated while storming the Ermor Castle. I lost my All Father pretender, prophet, SC and entire army to Ermor's 5 SCs (3 Wraith Conculs and 2 Banelords) supported by 3 Dusk elders with Lifedraing Banners each. Of course all Ermor's SCs were fully decked with regular SC's gear.

Now here is the question that is buging us all, since all living nations have been very actively cooperating against Ermor for the Last 10 turns, and we all have scouts all over the place and share info with each other:

In just this single battle, the Ermor have used 470 gems worth of equipment and summons Now, according to the graphs, my current gem income until tha Last turn was about 50+% of Ermor's. As those of us familiar with mathematics may remember from college years , the total gem income for each nation in the game is equal to the area under the Gems Income Graphs. ( in other words it is integral of the graph function).

The graphs in our game are very clear. If we take the total amount of gems collected by our two nations than it is very clear that I have collected about 60% of total Ermor's gems for the duration of the game (I am only talking about regular gem income from the sites, since nothing else is reflected in the gem graphs). Add to this the fact that Arco, Pythium and Jotunheim have been sending *all* their gems to me, since I was spearheading and coordinating our anti-Ermor efforts, than I had in my possession about 70% of the gems that Ermor had.

Now keep in mind, it is just turn 22, standard MP magic 50 frequency. But the thing is, my nation could not afford half of the 470 gems used By Ermor for summons and equipments that they used in just this single battle.

That's almost 500 gems. The number may be lowered slightly if ermor used dwarven hammers to forge some of the equipment for his commanders, but not by too much. What more, based upon Ermor research (which is sky high), and based upon other graphs info, and based upon reports from other allies as well as my own scouts, I can make a good guess that Ermor probably has at least 1500 gems worth of other summons and equipment in his empire. Remember, this is just turn 22, and he didn't search for sites at all up until 7 turns ago. And even now his "official" gem income is pretty low.


Also keep in mind Ermor in this game must have alchemized like crazy a lot of his gems, since he have madcastled most of his provinces (at least 20 castles), build temples and probably labs everywhere. While his money income is totally abysmal, of course.

So I would like to ask Norfleet this - how such amount of gems is it possible by turn 22???


Now before you all guys think of the possible explanations, let me state this:

Some of these additional gems could have come from random events (Ermor is playing Luck 2 turmoil 3, so he would quite a few events). Some of these gems could have come from Raven Feasts, which Ermor could used on some of his high population provinces while he was actively murdering the population. And finally some could come from Clams, since we all know that Norfleet loves to clam hoard. However clamhoarding is not easy to do for the Soul Gate Ermor, since they don't have any water or even astral income, and lack any water 2 mages. It is still possible to do of course, but by turn 22 he could have too many clams, and they could not generate him that many gems. (which he would have to convert anyway)

So where would these 500 gems worth of equipment in just one battle (in which he didn't even used his nearby GK pretender), as well as about 1500 gems worth of Dusk Elders and other summons + additional equipment + gems to achemize to the gold would possibly come from? The Raven Feasts and gems from random events can only get you that far, after all. I would like to hear explanation from Norfleet about it.


Agian, this is NOT a flame tread, so please everybody stay polite and respectful to each other. If there is a valid explanation for all this, I would like to hear Norfleet telling it. Other 4 players in our game also would like to hear it very much, since everybody is as much puzzled as I am.



Regards,
Stormbinder