A confession ...

[cavebear]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Ming on 10-18-2000 06:16 PM</font>
Some of us might find that comment insulting

No threat is needed to keep some of us regular MP forum players honest. Some of us are just honest people looking for an honest game.

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I was referring to Zone players. Apolyton polices it's own community (rather well, too, I might add). Chill...

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[Ming]

Thanks for clarifying that

[carnide_]

Thx for your posts, Nappy

[SilverDragon]

It is sad that some people cheat, but it is just as sad that whenever somebody does well, they are always accused of cheating. It's a sad world

[Alexander's Horse]

Okay here's my take. Zone players are street walkers - they are only interested in quickies and will do anything to get em. Gameleague players are working in a brothel, lots of competition for top dollar. Apolyton players are at the high class end - they like to develop long term relationships with their clients


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Fear Horse! The Scourge of Cant!

[Nap Bonaparte]

Lesson #3: Exploring
I admit that I dont understand the find city feature. And I was hoping that my distinguished opponent could explain the radar-guided triremes......since he seemed to home in on my SSC with a trireme full of diplos 4-5 turns after he got Lighthouse, guessed the right compass direction and crossed a nice stretch of ocean. At least when I went looking for my opponents, they had found me 1st so I had some intel on the compass direction.......Carnide was to the west and Crusty was to the south. I admit that I had a homing beacon for my invasion force that led to the heart of Carnide's civ.....that homing beacon was called "Cedar Creek". More about that later.
Anyway, very early on one of my warriors reached the North Pole and traveled west until he reached a large continent that spread to the south. Found a couple of friendly archers in some huts and the 3 amigos went exploring. Tipped probably 8-10 more huts, got a couple advanced tribes. Through the wonders of Mikes and Pyramids became a self contained civ of 7 cities...too far away from the Eastern homeland to generate trade arrows but all cherry picking specials to get good production. When I got to the southern edge of the continent, built ports, diplos and triremes. Finally found Carnide about 15-20 turns before the invasion...just to the south of my new western civ. After stealing techs from 3 of his cities, Carnide rushed some vet triremes to the area to stop my incursion. Carnide and I were racing for SoL...he had democracy and I was 2 turns away from researching it. The diplo on my trireme bribed 1 of his vet triremes and took off on a joyride through his civ hoping to find a city, any city, to steal democracy. The 1st city I bumped into was Cedar Creek. Unfortunately the tech I stole was theology so he built SoL on the next turn, but Cedar Creek happened to be the site of JSB. Instead of SoL, I built Leos and after getting Navigation launched an invasion from 10 ports to the NW,N,NE, and E to capture Cedar Creek and anything else valuable around it.Three main amphibious groups approached Cedar Creek from 140 degrees of compass bearing. I tried to stay 2 squares from his coastline to avoid detection but he found me and a major naval battle ensued. I noticed enemy triremes coming from coastal squares to the south(probably rush built) and sent a scout caraval with a diplo to investigate. Found a coastal road square...dropped off a diplo, and and quickly found Big Mound and the capitol of Little Bighorn( only 3 squares away from Cedar Creek). The really cool thing about this was that my eastern amphibious force, while still being 1 turn away from Cedar Creek, was within range of Little Bighorn so I got to launch the attack 1 turn earlier that anticipated(which is important in trying to attack under democracy). Game,set,match.

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" First France......then the WORLD!"

[oedo]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Alexander's Horse on 10-18-2000 11:20 PM</font>
Okay here's my take. Zone players are street walkers - they are only interested in quickies and will do anything to get em. Gameleague players are working in a brothel, lots of competition for top dollar. Apolyton players are at the high class end - they like to develop long term relationships with their clients

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yeah horsie, this could explain why most apolytoners are married and most zoners aren´t.

[rah]

Thanks Odeo, it was refreshing to hear someone defend the zone here. I have avoided the zone due to what I have heard here. Maybe if you posted a list of people that you have played with that you don't feel should be painted negatively by the broad stroke of Apolytoners, some of us might go out there and actually look for a game.

Playing with people repeatedly builds trust and comraderie. But you can't play someone twice, till you've played them once.

RAH

[carnide_]

Thx for the posts, Nappy.
I really enjoied reading your descriptions.
Looking to play with you soon.