4th MP tournament (or should that be 2nd?)

[notyoueither]

With Snotty's unfortunate situation, let's change things up a bit and have Gramphos meet up with sabrewolf tomorrow. PMs sent to both of them.

sabrewolf, if things do not go as planned, I will be on at about 8pm gmt tomorrow. We could begin our match.

[Fried-Psitalon]

People laughed at my scouts...once.

[Gramphos]

I'm as ready as I can be... (of cource I could have been more ready if I had played more and programmed less)

[sabrewolf]

yesterday i had to interrupt my game against FP.
but it wasn't going well at all for me and i guess i may give it up early if other games take too long.

but to say it short:
- he got a settler of mine. a) because my PC lag was awful and b) because is got a little more pracitse
- no horses, no iron
- he's got an alliance with the egyptians

the rest he doesn't know yet (maybe?) and will come in the AAR (or ARR (after resignation report))

[sabrewolf]

gramphos: i'm ready too... waiting in poly IRC channel

[Gramphos]

The evil Persians have taken Copán from me and has burnt it down to the ground, is now charging towards Chichén Itza. The worls is at war against me, Zulu and Rome fighting on the side of Persions. I forsee a defeat.

[Gramphos]

The persians are now one tile away from my Capital, and I loss is near.

[Gramphos]

Chichén Itza has fallen into the hands of Persiains, efectfulling cutting my country in two parts.

[Gramphos]

Nothing can stop the Persian military. They are now siging Palenque, the new capital.

[Gramphos]

After one turn of sige the second capitall falls into the hands of the Persians, who leave nothing but ruines in their trails.

[Gramphos]

With only one city left, and a settler on a galay I have retired. sabrewolf is the winner.

[sabrewolf]

i'll compile my AAR after eating something.
unfortunatly, i couldn't get screenshots because my computer is a bit f'ed up.

gramphos, nice game. sorry my turns took so long in the end. when i saw the end was near, i started automating workers and governer-managing my cities... but i still took way too long.

anyway, thanks for the interesting game. with no AI between us, it was just something between us. i had some good trades (CoL, currency), which brought me to tech parity and being scientific gave me monotheism. just enough to bribe zulu (the strongest of all) into war against you...

[Gramphos]

At first I thought that I had a quite good start with wines and insense close (red) . However, I found out that the only possible way to irrigate to my cities would be in the pass (blue) on the sersion border, and I realised that I wouldn't be abel to irrigate my land. I wanted to try to get to the Ivory in north (green) but figured that it would take too long to connect it to the road network, and the Persions had already started the Statue of Zeus, and would have it complete before I could have a road done to the north.

[notyoueither]

Some of these maps do strange things to one player or the other, Gramphos. There seems to be quite a bit of luck of the map involved.

[Fried-Psitalon]

Such is the nature of online play, really - I would imagine the SP community would notice it more were it not for control-shift-Q. Map generation can have a big effect on MP games; the skill comes in on knowing how to cash in on whatever the map has given you. Most of the best MP folk are not the best infrastructure builders (though that does help) - they are the ones who are the most adaptable.