PBW is very peacefull

Rollo · #1 August 31st, 2001, 02:51 AM

"Has anyone tried the 'take out my 1st neighbor' strategy on PBW? How did it go? I think it would work."

Yeah, I have done that, too. That worked pretty well, because the game is on a small map and my neighbor had the same planets as me. IIRC, by turn 12 I had glassed all his planets and had some really nice worlds to colonize

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Oh, I forgot, another reason I wiped him out early was, because he used the same shipset as I do. You know, just to avoid confusion

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Rollo

Mudshark · #2 August 31st, 2001, 03:17 AM

Great answers, I am in the early stages in a few PBW games (Different name) I am screwing over a neibor just because of the fact that I'm getting bored, not with the game, but because they seem to be having all of the fun. I am playing with the same persom in another game. But the way I intend to play this one is way different. Would it not be better if you could hide yourself from game to game, considering that alians should have a completely different mindset. For example should I be considered a beserker for all time because of one game? I came across a game where you Geo, intevened due to your administrative rights, I must say that every one freaked because they thought you were an Expert. Just a flavor thought. Why would you not want a nutcase to liven up just because he fells like it? whith out staining his reputation. Perhaps this may be a good game to be a berserker? That is what makes this game so great the players that play, and the flexability of the game

Mudshark · #3 August 31st, 2001, 04:01 AM

I think the greatest PBW game would be for one of us to pick our own geo-policical
area (hotspots)for example 1)Jewish 2)Aribic. Any non-USA. I would hope that you would post your findings on this board.
This may ensure that all of us would find warp points to the stars! I wonder if we have the diversity to do this?

Mudshark · #4 August 31st, 2001, 04:18 AM

I for one would like to invade Canada, for the great tasting beer! Let alone your topless laws! Look who Settled this country. the USA has been founded by Puritan, Quakers, the outcasts of Europe. I would love for this sort of game to be started. What I could learn from this!!

Shoujo · #5 August 31st, 2001, 12:34 PM

*sigh* I sincerely hope the game Puke & geo are talking about isn't the game I have in mind. I'm going to have serious trouble preventing this information from affecting my actions in the game...

geoschmo · #6 August 31st, 2001, 02:42 PM

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Originally posted by Shoujo:
*sigh* I sincerely hope the game Puke & geo are talking about isn't the game I have in mind. I'm going to have serious trouble preventing this information from affecting my actions in the game...

LOL. Shoujo, Don't worry about it. Keep in mind, I have not admited to Puke's scurrilous accusations. I was only taking a guess as to who he may be talking about.

He has his perspective about the events in our game, and I have mine.

Without giving away too much about in-game info, I can give you two likely reasons Puke and I are hostile in the Grittech game.

First, we were coming from another game in which our races are long time partners and close allies. Being friends with the same players all the time is boring.

Secondly, The game is a "colonize own type" and we are both Gas Giant Races. That fact alone means we are in competition for scarce planets.

Neither of these would necesarily affect our relations with other races in the game.

When I talked about role playing differently in different games, you can go as far as role playing differently towards differnt players in the same game. It's a little harder to pull off, but it can be fun.

Geoschmo

capnq · #7 August 31st, 2001, 05:42 PM

I've finished one PBW game and am playing two more. All my games have had long periods of early peace, but only in the youngest of the two active games have I not gotten involved (yet) in the war that inevitably breaks out.

I've found that the diplomacy involved in trying to stay neutral in other players' wars is as big a challenge as joining in the fighting.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"