Summer Madness, a game of strategic exploration.

[iainuki]

Anthropos, you have RabbitDynamite's name spelled "RabitDynamite" in the first post.

[binarysolo]

Quick check - did we move to a 48 hour hosting interval? Was expecting to process a turn right about now.

Edit: I guess someone (Fomoria or R'lyeh?) asked for a turn delay, since the game set back hosting by 36 hours from the email note of "The next 2h file is due in by 10:10 GMT on Monday August 17th." I guess delays are quite liberal as advertised (augh I'm going into withdrawals!)


In other news:
I'll be gone from Aug 30-Sept 8 (going to Burning Man). I've gotten a friend to sub for me (a fellow Dom3 newbie) so I won't imagine there to be much impact. Just FYI to all.

[binarysolo]

Wanted:
Gems - D, N, E, A, W... okay, basically everything.



Arcoscephale's Shop of Wonders-and-crap-from-random-events:
Snake Bladder Stick
Black Steel Plate
Black Steel Helm
Pocket Ship x2
Berserker Pelt
Slave Collar
...as well as anything up to Con6, given appropriate magical paths. Prefer 1-turn prepayment (since I'm running low on stuff).

Items listed will be sold at cost, and things purchased in bulk are subject to a delicious discount! Outfit yer naked thug! Delightfully surprise your unsuspecting, non-NAPed neighbor with your watery ride! You're on a boat!

[kianduatha]

Yeah, I just got that myself. Llamaserver never gave me Turn 34 and I didn't catch it in time :\

[Sil]

My turn came fine today. Weird.

I will be flying back to college this Sunday and will not have internet access for about 22 hours. Just to be safe, could the turn hosting for whatever turn starts on Sunday(to be turned in on Monday) be postponed until Tuesday? I am 90% certain I will not need the extra time, but I would hate to stall.

[binarysolo]

Hrm, given that people are talking about llamaserver problems now... I've been noticing a few problems myself in regards to sending multiple .2h files in a day (I generally spend 20-30 min and send a quick one off first, get all my work done, and then focus on a more carefully thought out one later on at night). So it's happened twice, but some times llamaserver doesn't seem to register the second .2h file (I verified vs some in-game actions such as forging). I suppose I'll file that under the llamaserver bug thread but just thought I'd give a head's up as well.

[Anthropos]

I'm afraid our admin is on his way to Canada and in transit Internet may not be so reliable.

I'm going to postpone the next turn until monday the 31st, but I may get time to do my brief turn between now and then.

Bye for now,
Anthropos of Ryleh.

PS: thank you to all of you using effective troops to kick my various armies asses. (do aboleths have asses?) It's interesting to watch, although I am somewhat dismayed at the result.
Live and Learn.

[Sil]

As one of the ***-kickers I feel that you made two errors: an excessively aggressive and incautious diplomatic policy and too much focus on chaff units and land invasions.

To start with the latter: EA R'lyeh is very waterbound(mainly due to fish-mind blasters), your focus should have been expanding in the oceans and ignoring the land. Additionally when you started hitting back against me you should have attempted to raid my provinces, moving in and out of the relative safety of the water. Of course due to my forging gearing up that would have been too little too late as well.

Regarding diplomacy: I had no intention of invading you in the water until I heard that you were trying to build an alliance against me. I would not have been so aggressive on land either, except you claimed multiple farmland provinces, several of which I had already conquered. I felt that was an absurd claim for a nation that is as weak on land as R'lyeh especially against Fomoria in the early game.

Now don't get me wrong. You played a ballsy game and it MIGHT still payoff if my besieging army gets creamed by your capital's defenders. But you could have played it much safer.

Now trading: I am selling Pearls, looking for Earth gems.

[Anthropos]

Given that the ostensible reason for my invasion was a grossly misinterpreted private message that was leaked to my unprovoked invader. I feel justified in exposing both Yomi's treacherous ways and providing any who wish with the details of Formorias troop disposition.

If you want to PM me, I may tell even more.

[binarysolo]

re: Anthropos
I think Sil didn't mean any offense in his reply to ya; just giving you his PoV on all that's transpired.

re: Rabbit
I'll have to side along with R'lyeh on this one... due to its PBEM nature, parts of this game's meta-strategy kinda reminds me of Diplomacy to a certain extent, with all the treachery and enjoyment of that game. I suppose we can do it more no-diplomacy style, but that's a lot of the charm of the game (as well as a lot of the stress). Maybe he's feeding off of that for RP purposes, too.

At the end of the day, though, Dom 3's supposed to be fun, so let's keep it fun and enjoyable. Even when some of us [coughyourstrulycough] are getting our butts kicked over and over by a certain battlefield spell ad nauseum.


Oh and now for something completely different... I was under the idea that we're taking a break this weekend since Anthropos is traveling or something?