The Difference Between Good and Great Players

[StrategicKingMi]

Very few players can compete equally through modern times so they get frustrated and quit/resign as they probably should if the game is no longer competitive.
Good for you if you found compatiable players who can keep it interesting that long.
I, on the other hand, have failed to get a game competitive that long as , utilizing trade routes as well as I do, the longer the game goes, the more my advantage snowballs down on my opponet and they resign. It is my feverant hope to correct this competitive gap, and really, that is why I even post here, ...
maybe, just maybe to get someone to look at things differently, try some of the things I have been endorsing and be able to provide me with that competition and uncertainty....
Enough of this, lets go back to the stupidity....
Ming....your comments .....

[Ming]

Originally posted by DrFell
Sure, I bet you all enjoy having 3/4 of the map empty for 90% of the game.

I don't know what kind of games you are playing... we usually run out of land long before AD and we only play Deity... But then again, we don't play on super big maps. We actually like meeting the other players before the industrial age

[Ming]

Originally posted by StrategicKingMi Enough of this, lets go back to the stupidity....
Ming....your comments .....

Hmmm... I just point out the truth... you just insult people who disagree with you. I'll let other people form their own opinons.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by DrFell

Diety just slows it all down. Quitting 1x games from bordom is BS, the potential is there for a good game most of the time. Deity sucks though because you're limited in city count. I mean, what's the point of all that?

Well this is one of those "to each his own" issue. I like it.

[ramses II.]

@atawa

The year you get republic or trade or something else is only a milestone on your way to your long term strategic aim. Do you surrender if rep comes 500 years later or you aren't able to build LH? I'm sure you don't.
Your strategic aims haven't changed - only your tactical possibilities!
In chieftain, prince king and deity you need good production and good economical base. You need room where you can expand and you need fertile land and hills to mine.

In deity, yo will get those 3x-, 4x- and 12x super-cats some years later- they are called artillery, howitzers, armors and stealth fighters.

[Hydey]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
As long as Hydey doesn't get nuclear weapons

what about that sneak attack finbar has planned for you. oops

[DrFell]

Originally posted by StrategicKingMi
Very few players can compete equally through modern times so they get frustrated and quit/resign as they probably should if the game is no longer competitive.
Good for you if you found compatiable players who can keep it interesting that long.

Actually I've not yet found anyone who could beat me on 1x king, just the games go on longer to later techs.

Ming I was talking about 1x1x medium map duels... not tiny map 2x1x 4-ways

[SlowwHand]

What we seem to have here are many claims of greatness, as long as preferred settings are used.
Sorry, but that hardly qualifies as "great" in my book.

[atawa]

Re: @atawa

Originally posted by ramses II.
The year you get republic or trade or something else is only a milestone on your way to your long term strategic aim. Do you surrender if rep comes 500 years later or you aren't able to build LH? I'm sure you don't.

Off course not, the more challenging the game, the more I enjoy it.

Your strategic aims haven't changed - only your tactical possibilities!

My strategic aims being winning the game

In chieftain, prince king and deity you need good production and good economical base. You need room where you can expand and you need fertile land and hills to mine.

In deity, yo will get those 3x-, 4x- and 12x super-cats some years later- they are called artillery, howitzers, armors and stealth fighters.

Stealth fighters?

I guess you never played MP much, usualy the game is over before electricity.

[StrategicKingMi]

Atawa just kicked my ass, bad... He traded very well, launched a vicous assult. Had me confused from where he was coming from.
Cudos to a well earned win...
(things could have been different but I lost an extremely close and essential 2 battles, losing a ship and 2 settlers early in the game)
Good game....Next...

[rah]

Kudos for Strat for giving Atawa Kudos.
You do have some class.

RAH

[SlowwHand]

This should be in the commercial that says "Yeah. It's kind of like that", talking about refreshing.

[Deity Dude]

Originally posted by StrategicKingMi
Bye the bye, Deity Dude did not kick my ass Spike. In fact I had 6 units, he had 5. We both had 5 citys. I closed him off to most of the board, got most of the huts, destroyed his citys, had a vet archer rampaging down on top of him.
The only thing he did well was not get the 4 empty huts I got, the 4 techs that I got and the 4 barbs from huts that I got.
The barbs killed 3 times as many of my units as he did.
He never even got close to one of my citys, nor did he get many huts due to me cutting him off from them.
I quit because it was just really boring. 1 hour into play and only 10 citys on the board?????

Well I was gonna stay out of this one because the "I'm better then you" threads are the same thing over and over, but, since I was mentioned I would like to respond.

You failed to point out that you were reseaching Monarchy at 24 turns/tech and I was already in Monarchy and 2 or 3 turns from Republic.

You failed to point out that the vet archer you had strolling around by itself would have been bribed in a turn or two by one of my 2 diplos.

You failed to point out that I was keeping my city total low while waiting for Rep due to the riot factor.

This is the point at which you resigned, just as you did in the 2x1x game I was beating you in.

Your synopsis of the game illustrates perfectly why you lost that game. You took a 2x2x king approach to a 1x1x deity game.

You mentioned somewhere that you would play and win one of the "mind-numbing games" for money but otherwise it wasn't worth your while.

FORMAL CHALLENGE TO STRAT:

$50
best of 3
1x1x deity
Loser personally delivers the payoff to the winner.

Please no excuses just say yes or no. We'll let your answer speak for itself.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Deity Dude

FORMAL CHALLENGE TO STRAT:

$50
best of 3
1x1x deity
Loser personally delivers the payoff to the winner.

Please no excuses just say yes or no. We'll let your answer speak for itself.

I was going to suggest continuing our game this weekend DD.........I will have to check my balance first though.

[Deity Dude]

Ill be up for continuing our game Spike

what time is good for you again

was it a duel or did we have others in it (Dank???)