The War

[DeepO]

Arrian, it seems like ND is going to be the biggest problem for Lux... GF has commented somewhere that by the time they can reach Lux, it will be gone

DeepO

[Shiber]

Plus, judging by the power graph, ND is much more powerful than GoW is. According to the early F11 screens and city ratings thereof, I guesstimate that GoW has gotten an average-to-bad starting location.

[Arrian]

It sounds like ND was closer to Lux, and Lux is weak (bad terrain?). So yeah, ND will most likely take care of them. I'm just saying that even a straight GoW v. Lux fight would be advantage: GoW.

Anyway, the rich are gonna get richer over there on the mainland. That concerns me. If this was a more even fight, I'd be estatic - because we could sit back and build (though so would Lego) while the big dogs were slaughtering each other. But it doesn't sound remotely even. Therefore, it is likely that ND will make big gains with relatively little investment. Bad for us.

-Arrian

[DeepO]

Arrian, it's not ND who I'm worried about, the best they can do is get even with us (at least expansion wise). And the investment is not that great, but not nothing either (depending on how Lux is going to react).

I firmly believe it's RP we need to watch out for, as they seem to have had a great starting pos, and are already quite strong. If they don't get involved in some territorial fights soon, they will become like a killer AI... juicy to take on, as you know you're challenged

DeepO

[Shiber]

Originally posted by Arrian
Anyway, the rich are gonna get richer over there on the mainland. That concerns me. If this was a more even fight, I'd be estatic - because we could sit back and build (though so would Lego) while the big dogs were slaughtering each other.

I agree. The best scenario from our point of view would be all four civs on the mainland stuck in a trench war that just wastes their resources and gets them nowhere.

Originally posted by DeepO
I firmly believe it's RP we need to watch out for, as they seem to have had a great starting pos, and are already quite strong.

I agree. They've also got some good tacticians there, and they put a lot of effort into analyzing the score and other public-domain stats, so they have good intelligence. We need to change our focus to RP.
The more I read (especially on the ISDG forum, where some people seem to like to share information that is often of use to us almost freely), the more I get the impression that another war will break out about a month after Lux is finished. Let's hope that someone would rein RP.

[DeepO]

Yeah, strange that so much info gets shared at the IDG, while on the general PTW Demo forum there is so few. We have to watch out to not say too much ourselves...

DeepO

[Shiber]

I agree. Our motto should be: "the enemy is listening".
Just so noone forgets.
Any tips that we have and are relevant, we should share. However, there's no need to reveal sensitive information, or imply that we use certain strategies (e.g. when discussing build patterns, don't say things like "use this pattern, it worked great for GS", that's a little too obvious ).

[Theseus]

Believe me, I can't tell you how much I regret starting the new city placement thread in Strategy (Dominae notwithstanding ).

Yes, I have been very conscious of what to say and not say in the IDG forum.

For instance, I did NOT say that our current situation with Vox is ideal for Ralphing, in that a 2 civ mid-sized continent is ideal.

[notyoueither]

Ralphing? Good name!

[Theseus]

nye, please check out the thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77451

Input desired.

And yes, it looks like "Ralphing" is gonna be a keeper.

Poor SR.