The Horse, The Deity, The Dude and The Aztec

[Hydey]

perhaps you should have played with me tonight.

[finbar]

At least I'd've got a turn!

[Alexander's Horse]

Test

Ever seen what its like when Deity's capital is taken?

[Hydey]

I wait anxiously for Deity to appear and give his opinion on this.

edit on the request of my father

[deity]

Well Hydey,
Basically the only way the other three players could get me was by conspiring and breaking the rules of this non-alliance game. Makeo's attack on me failed so he ceded a key small city to AH so that AH could attack me before my turn came around.
I had no problem with the other civs wanting to bring down the civ who's SS landed first but I do have a problem with an out of game agreed conspiracy that involved total co-operation in a non-alliance game.

[Alexander's Horse]

Enter the spin doctor

*Caution: Major face saving operation in progress*

[deity]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


Enter the spin doctor

*Caution: Major face saving operation in progress*

Once rules are broken then spin-doctoring and role playing are irrelevant.

You are the one that needs face-saving.

If your attack was fair and square you know I'm a decent and fair person and would heap praise on you. But with Makeo ceding that city in a no city bribe, no unit bribe and non-alliance game makes your gains meaningless.

What's to stop all three of you giving all your cities and units to one civ to attack me on one turn. It's absurd when you consider this as the thin end of the wedge.

Oh, and it's not over yet. Unlike other players I don't quit. I've already got my old cap back and taken three of your home cities and it's still in the middle of my turn... see you at 9pm tonight if everyone is free.

This is personal now, beyond role-playing. THe only way to teach an unfair player a lesson is to beat them by not breaking the rules.

You've had your Pearl Harbour, now see what happens ................

[Alexander's Horse]

Its just a shame you're such a bad sport, a real shame.

But funny as hell too

You're attempts to re-write the game rules after you've been completely outsmarted are just laughable

I mean, what you are doing here is so transparent and only you can't see it.

And it isn't "personal" as far I'm concerned - that would just be childish.

Tell me when the tantrum is over

Btw, did you get anything for the scrap metal of your spaceship?

[deity]

Nice try AH but you don't cede cities or units in non-alliance games - simple.

[deity]

I'm not attempting to re-write game rules. I'm expressing my opinion about city ceding in this non-alliance game and reluctantly accepting the verdict of the players in the game, regardless of how bewildered I am about it.

[deity]

And how am I a bad sport AH?

I'm playing on in the game having put forward my POV.

I'm entitled to be annoyed if I felt that unfair play had occurred which I honestly believed to be against the generaly understood rule of non-alliance - particularly in this game where unit bribing is also dis-allowed.

Isn't the idea behind the 'no unit bribing' rule to stop civs from getting cheap units and unreasonable tactical advantages? If so, ceding units and cities is far worse IMHO.

Also, what do you mean by those king chat statements about you knowing what I'm doing during my builds and suggesting I was up to something?

[Ming]

Classic Stuff...

[deity]

Incidentally, talking about bad sports, I seem to remember that it was you who behaved like a spoilt child and quit a game (as host) when I bribed a unit of yours. There was confusion in the rules but you carried on as though youn had the right to set the rules as you went along. You were voted down that time because most games do allow unit bribe.

The fact is in our current game I continued to play on after expressing my dismay; but you quit like a spoilt brat. I've never quit a session.

[Alexander's Horse]

Oh for Christ's sake get a grip Deity

You seem to have completely lost perspective because you had a bad turn.

Now I don't think anyone has ever accused Makeo, finbar and I of being cheats - and the only special "rules" we were aware of in the game were no unit bribe and no city bribe. Remember the big rules discussion we had on this thread?

Actually I didn't need makeo's city to take you out - it just made sense to both of us a. to avoid going to war b. to save time and c. to save both of us some units. Nothing unfair about that - are you saying makeo and I should restrict our diplomacy when it doesn't suit you?

And actually I miscalculated because although I took your capital, most of your major cities and destroyed your spaceship , I had expected you to go into civil war, which would have left you with about 4 cities and no capacity to counter attack me as you doing now - but am I whining about it? Nah - it was all worthwhile

And I thought it was very sporting of me to wait at the start of my turn as you requested because you said "builds hadn't been saved" LOL!

You seem to have used that time to sell every improvement you could, buy a new capital and re-assign many units to safe cities that would have been lost if I had take my turn normally.

Yes, very sporting of me given I now seem to be being attackjed by units you should have lost

But WTF its just a game and I'm having a ball And what you do to me won't influence the otucome of the game now

I just wish you wouldn't try and tarnish what looks like makeo's rightful victory in this game. Cheers to makeo

Deity goes down like a wounded beast don't he?

Whatever happened to dignity in defeat

[deity]

You can tell when someone's a bit bothered with their conscience when they post so many graphic smilies etc...

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So, now that Makeo has the only SS on its way to AC you are wishing him well?

Interesting. I think this proves my point about the game.
Is that how you played the AI? >> Good luck. I won't attack you. You deserve it...?