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

[Robert]

I completely agree with all Byzantium said.

Rasputin: you may enjoy normal MP games more then diplo games. Maybe diplogaming is just not your type of game.

[BranksDilly]

His comments were absolutely the only negative aspect of this game. If I have the choice in future I won't play a game with him.

It's one thing if you want to be negative about everything but there's no reason to try and ruin the fun for everyone else.

I suggest single player in future for him, I think he'll find the AI more sympathetic to his whiny rants.

[Orb (DoC)]

I don't see how someone who was in the top 5 could complain so much. Personnally I came into this game with only two goals and neither was to win. I know I'm not good enough yet to have won this game but I still kept playing for the exact reasons Byzantines stated.

Maybe you need to not care about winning so much and just learn to enjoy yourself and be happy with what you where able to accomplish.

[Byzantium (DoC)]

That is so untrue Raz. The game finishes when it finishes. Nobody has the right to say 'well the bit of the game I was interested in is over, so I'm off, I don't care about what other people were interested in'. Many smaller nations had been playing for months knowing that they were not going to particularly affect the outcome of who won in-game, but dedicated lots of time to it because (a) they were here to have fun playing a diplo game which is about far more than who wins in-game and (b) because they are part of the group which means sometimes you can be at the centre of world events, and sometimes you can't. A diplo game is never going to be all about who wins in-game, that's its beauty. It was great fun to try to stop India's victory, and a great shame when we failed, but nobody can say that 'stopping india' was what dance of civilisation was all about. Maybe it was for Korea, it was certainly a dominant feature for a month for Byzantium, but I'd be surprised if it was ever high on the agenda of the Ottomans, Arabs or Russians, and their game is just as important as mine.

[Rasputin]

Did you Raz? As I remember you bailed as soon as the Korean invasion failed. There were still points to be earned and things to accomplish even if a cultural victory was inevitable.

Game was over once the war failed..

And this is why i will never paly again.

I refuse to waste time when there was nothing to achieve.

We could have ended the game that turn and taken votes.

The actions that occured after the war were al ltotally OOC point grabbing efforts.

It should not have been allowed to occur. voting should have occurred there and then.


If this action means no one wants to play so be it.

As the dolhpins would say.,

So long and thanks for all the fish !

[Robert]

Today's the last day to cast your rates!

[Robert]

You offered 1000g but never paid it. As I said, it did not make any difference to Peru so it does not matter.

BTW. Voted

Yes, I did offer it in-game, and next turn it was gone. So I actually did pay 1000 gold.
The only fear I have right now is that I have offered it by accident to the wrong civ.....

[St Jon]

Because a game must be finished. Especially if you're that close to it.
It's a show of sportsmanship. This is both for online and offline games.

For diplo-games this is even more important, because these games are not mainly about competition but about enjoying a game and a story. Finishing the game made it possible for all of us to wrap up our story.

A sport game is not aborted earlier either if one of the teams is having a gigantic lead.
But for the record, when Persia gave 1000 gold to the Peruvians (who totally forgot about that, as I already feared since it wasn't mentioned anywhere), the game was far from over for Persia. Russia was building a large army on my border and I had to upgrade my entire old-continent army.

Yet I wanted to fulfil my promise to the Peruvians, and gave them the money. I'm not sure when I did, maybe even before the war with India was over. I had to pay a lot of nations back. Byzantium (2000), England (1000) and Korea (1000). And thus the Peruvians.
Not to mention, perhaps India was wrong, maybe he made an error settling his GA's in the wrong city. Maybe the Natives actually did do their April Fool's trick for real. I wanted to continue the game as if I didn't know that the game was ending. If the game would not end, I would not have damaged my relations with the Koreans, English, Byzantine and Peruvians. Oh well, assuming that the latter did not forget that the got a large amount of money from a totally not involved party

You offered 1000g but never paid it. As I said, it did not make any difference to Peru so it does not matter.

BTW. Voted

[bamf226]

Did you Raz? As I remember you bailed as soon as the Korean invasion failed. There were still points to be earned and things to accomplish even if a cultural victory was inevitable.

[Rasputin]

I play till the game is over well and truly , if i stopped when it was obvious who was winning this game would have ended very early

lets see if anyone learned any thing

[Native America (DoC)]

Voted.

[Egypt (DoC)]

Sorry for the delay in voting, had my girlfriend's parents staying over, lots of sightseeing

[Robert]

Today and tomorrow are the last days to cast your votes.

Ok, voting starts now for April!

We vote for the events that happened in April.
I'm sure that we can all send in our votes during the next 4 days and not wait to long.
Unless someone asks for a delay, voting will end on April 14th.

Vote here: http://www.warner-home.com/docgame/DoC_Vote.html

[Persia (DoC)]

The game was over so pointless in doing anything, no idea why you continued to play....

Because a game must be finished. Especially if you're that close to it.
It's a show of sportsmanship. This is both for online and offline games.

For diplo-games this is even more important, because these games are not mainly about competition but about enjoying a game and a story. Finishing the game made it possible for all of us to wrap up our story.

A sport game is not aborted earlier either if one of the teams is having a gigantic lead.
But for the record, when Persia gave 1000 gold to the Peruvians (who totally forgot about that, as I already feared since it wasn't mentioned anywhere), the game was far from over for Persia. Russia was building a large army on my border and I had to upgrade my entire old-continent army.

Yet I wanted to fulfil my promise to the Peruvians, and gave them the money. I'm not sure when I did, maybe even before the war with India was over. I had to pay a lot of nations back. Byzantium (2000), England (1000) and Korea (1000). And thus the Peruvians.
Not to mention, perhaps India was wrong, maybe he made an error settling his GA's in the wrong city. Maybe the Natives actually did do their April Fool's trick for real. I wanted to continue the game as if I didn't know that the game was ending. If the game would not end, I would not have damaged my relations with the Koreans, English, Byzantine and Peruvians. Oh well, assuming that the latter did not forget that the got a large amount of money from a totally not involved party

[Rasputin]

Robert, there must be some mistake. According to Raz, only vets win these games

not my claim..


I dont even know who the vets are.


Is a Vet someone who played Diplo in the early days ? damn that is me, and i never win ...


or is a vet simply someone who wins, in which case i tootaly agree. VETs always win ....

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