Morgan's Voodoo Economics

[Googlie]

Just whiling away some time and started a single-player OCC game (as Datajack)

It's 2141, and I'm alone on a small island, have just spent 40 credits changing to FM, have 6 credits in the bank, and Morgan calls

We trade techs, sign a friendship treaty, and I pop the question "Shall we pact?"

"I'd love to", he replies, "but only if you can see your way to sending me -50 credits"

"Sure", I reply, "no problem". I wire the -50 credits, and we pact.

And, of course, I now have 56 credits in the bank!!

Ah well

G.

[Method]

now that's cool!

[GeneralTacticus]

So, IOW, he asked if he could pay you for a Pact?

[Main_Brain]

You must be a real WorldPower then :=)

[Mr. President]

Ah, computers. Gotta love 'em. Especially when they do something so stupid it's actually funny.

[Kajak]

You have to have artificial stupidity before you can have AI.

[Frankychan]

that's kick a**! I've never seen it happen, but I would like to!

[MariOne]

The evil side of this, is that you CAN technically do the same on a superficial/unadvised HUMAN player....

I think to recall that I once in a game I can't remember, tired to put that 0 energy in the box to make the message pop up by the other guy, and as a prvocation as a negotiation was going sour, I put -100 energy in the box... I think it was with Mongoose himself...

Well, to my suprise he told me that I almost got him, he was just about to accept, giggling at how could I be so confused to gift him 100ec, when at the very last moment he noticed the little minus sign in front of the sum....
I never for one moment imagined that he could overlook and trigger the trap, I only intended it as an evident gauntlet slap in the face....

[GeneralTacticus]

Now that is funny.

[Earwicker]

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
Now that is funny.

Truly! It's one thing to gotcha the not-AI, but a human? Well done! Must be all the sleep deprivation we endure for the game . . .

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Always read the fine print on any contract.

[Mongoose]

MariOne, I plead Guilty with extenuation by distraction. JAMiAM and I were deep in plans to probe rape MoSe Biochemical?, Genaciv was being his normal duplicitious self and I was near to war with Marc...

Wish we could have finished that one, it was building up to be a barnburner.

[DilithiumDad]

Morgan often offers negative money for a pact. I have not seen negative money come up at any other time except from devious human players, as you mention!

[Lucy In The Sky]

Next time, you say, "Let's make it 5K, K?"

[Arnelos]

*bump*

I normally just lurk the AC portion of the site and I hate to bump an old thread back to the top while I'm just mining the AC threads for anything useful, but this thread is the best named thread I have ever seen... I love the reference