The Dance of Civilizations [Diplo Game] [Organization Thread Pt1]

[Byzantium (DoC)]

Oh please! Get over yourself Toni, your making yourself look really silly. It wasn't Byzantium but Persia who was leaking information to the Indians, delierately changing times of attack etc. to undermined the attack on India. Your problem with Byzantium isn't that it isn't trustworthy - we never had any friendship to break - your problem is that I beat you in an in-game war. You were very happy to be the first nation in score, happy to be stronger than me all game, and so were so pissed off when I successfully invaded you that you threatened to leave the game, and although you made a great show of saying you were coming back, in fact you only ever played one turn ever again.

Yes keep going round saying I'm the most untrusthworthy player if you want - if its your form of 'revenge' which makes you feel better - but its a sad way to end what has been a great game.

[Toni]

This eventualy proved true but unfortunalty engalnd trusted byz too much.

Agreed Raz, the Byzantium player has proved now to be the most untrustworthy player. I do not think I or someone else will trust this person from now on. I learned sadly the hard way.

[Toni]

A very solid and interesting game, great group of players!!!

[Rasputin]

The final wrap up

Ok so what was Koreqas plans and motives all game.


Well it all begun in hte beginning. It soon became obvious to me i was on an island all alone and this set in motion the plan to build navy and protect ourselves. So behind everything i did the naval aspect was always there.

We explored as soon as we could get to the other continents and made contact with as many as possible.

The Indians made the first conversion of our people and so we accepted the Tao religion.

We wanted a presence on the main land and so begun diplo moves to get their. The Incan war with the English aided us here by allowing us to negotiate a peace with English for the right to get access to a barbarian city in their south.

We still did al lwe could to help the incans with gift of our galley to them.

We continued to speak with Natives about building closer ties but they were never interested in us so we eventualy decided that our fortunes lay with a stronger English, so the natives choose of rekjecting us early forced us into the English camp.

We used our negotiations to influence both Incans and English to accept Tao as their national religion which went with our plans for taoism spread to all.

At this point it became obvious that India couldnt lose the in game victory and that persia and byz were too far ahead in the voting system so i decided to try new things

Tried so hard to get Incans upset enough to go to war, but everytime got close other things came up to stop it. We werent going to invade Inca but hoped they would attack me. I think civ4 doesnt work well in combat for invaders so prefer to defend.

Then looked at ways of getting others to attack india. Used whinging moaning and diplo to finaly get some interest. But when byz started sending PMS i quickly informed my Turn player to trust nothing he wrote and to only work with england. This eventualy proved true but unfortunalty engalnd trusted byz too much. I also told my allies that the persian invasion of New India was wasted and possibly a divrsion. Again dont trust the persians.

So the last few thousand years was spent on jsut filling in time as the ultimate winners both in game and out were already decided.

So the tricks and double crossing of the end game were irrelevant as it didnt change anything from how it was from AD onwards basically.

[Rasputin]

Well done Byz or Persia on winning the game

remember India only casued the end of game not the win of the game, well palyed everyone in helping india achieve this.

[St Jon]

Let's get the first lot and worry about the final one after. I doubt the final one will prove a tie breaker.

[Ottoman Empire (DoC)]

Congrats India!

Congrats RP for organizing this, as my first diplo game this was incredibly memorable!

Congrats also to my friend Persia and my enemy Russia!!!

[Byzantium (DoC)]

Yeah - I think momentum is an issue. We are already all congratulating India and in a de-mob mood. I wouldn't delay for the other month's results, and yes if India and others want 24 hours fair enough, but if we are not all voted and wrapped up by the 10th I think we will lose it. We have been in a bit of a time warp the last weeks anyway.

[Robert]

Are we going to get the last round of voting results in before we vote for this round? Not sure it matters, just interested.

Yes, well, I assume that WarningU2 will resend the results asap.
Hmmm, thinking about it again, then it may take me some time to calculate the results.

Maybe we should indeed wait for that.

[Robert]

Do more people want to wait to vote for a day or 2?
Personally I believe that we may lose the momentum if we wait too long.

[India (DoC)]

I've removed the identity revealing posts, let's indeed first wait for all the vote results.

Tomorrow the next voting round will start!
The game ends officially when THIS current turn ends. From that moment on you can send in votes/rates.
Stories can't be posted after that anymore.
You can track the remaining time on civstats.

Hey hey.. whats the hurry.. I suggest lets wait with the stories and votes for a day or two.. I will sure add something, but unlikely today and others may do that too. This 'month' is just a week anyway so let's leave it open for those who wish.

[Byzantium (DoC)]

Are we going to get the last round of voting results in before we vote for this round? Not sure it matters, just interested.

[Robert]

I've removed the identity revealing posts, let's indeed first wait for all the vote results.

Tomorrow the next voting round will start!
The game ends officially when THIS current turn ends. From that moment on you can send in votes/rates.
Stories can't be posted after that anymore.
You can track the remaining time on civstats.

[India (DoC)]

Thanks, all!, really great game!

let's see now who will be the diplo winner

[Byzantium (DoC)]

I agree. I'm all for saying that in the future in-game score should make no contribution to the diplo score because of Russia, who made such a brilliant contribution to the game even if in terms of in-game score he was extremely unlikely to get far.