Turns of ACT060

[Paul]

2193 to Hobbes.

Morgan called elections for governor. The candidates are Mongoose and Miriam. The current votes:

HenWen 80
Mongoose 97
Paul 12: voted for Miriam
Morgan 26: voted for Miriam
Hobbes 2
Miriam 81: voted for Miriam
Lal 34: voted for Mongoose

[H0bbes]

Added my 2 votes to Mongoose.

Turned, I suspect for the last time, to HenWen.

Hobbes

[Hendrik]

I also voted for Miriam. Turn sent to Mongoose.

[Mongoose]

Curiously, I was given the choice between Miriam, myself and Hen. I voted for myself in a gesture of defiance and to serve as a portent of doom to the rebels. Miriam won, of course.

2194 sent to Paul

[Paul]

2194 to Hobbes

[H0bbes]

Final turn to Henwen.

It's been a different sort of a game. Thanks all.

Hobbes

[Hendrik]

Turn sent to Mongoose. As I took Hobbe's last base, I got the message that "Colonel Hobbes and her henchmen have escaped in a colony pod" !!! I had absolutely no idea do or die was off, I assumed it was for tourny games. I would have waited 5 years before I had taken Hobbe's base had I known. But if Hobbes wants to continue playing then there certainly isn't anything I can do to stop him.

[Mongoose]

LOL I just discovered this in ACT 059 as well. In that game, SMHfan has just taken the last Morgan base, but I still have to make the payments on my loan!! I can even call him on comm, though he has no bases...

This keeps on until the game decides there are no viable starting places on the map. It can make for a very long game.

[Mongoose]

2195 sent to Paul, who is down to a single pop 1 base.

What happens next? I think that as long as there is enough unclaimed land, a player cannot successfully self obliterate and end his game. I am not positve about that...I only ever played one pbem without do or die on....AHAC1. In that game, one player went through 3 reincarnations before finally being eradicated...and that was a tiny map.

And Hen, what were you thinking to take Hobbes' last base, anyway? The ONLY WAY that that action does not end the game is if do or die is off. If it is on, game terminates at the end of your turn. You knew that, or not?

[Paul]

2195 to Hobbes.

As far as I know the "taking a player's last base" bug only applies to games that were started as a scenario. I remember playing a game where someone took another human player's last base and it didn't end the game because it wasn't started as a scenario. But I don't know if that was also the case with this game.

[H0bbes]

Ummm. well I've been reincarnated. How embarrassing. At least I'm miles away from HenWen!!! All the AI comm frequencies have disappeared from my screens too. I suppose I don't have any option but to keep playing?

Turned to my nemesis.

Hobbes

[Hendrik]

Turned to my nemesis

I think the computer stops trying to restart you after year 100... although this could be different for MP games, and the AI is often very tempermental.

[Mongoose]

2196 sent to Paul

[Paul]

2196 to Hobbes

[Tau Ceti]

Urgh. I must have forgotten to turn off that option. But yes, I suppose the only thing to do is to keep playing. No one is restarted after 2200, so this should be the only time it happens in this game. And at least it means that you can go in and conquer the last base of another player.

If Paul obliterates his own base, he will be restarted somewhere else, AFAIK. Mongoose might want to wait a couple of years to take that base, although I suppose it is only fair that Paul should be allowed to obliterate and escape when H0bbes could do so.