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[ChrisiusMaximus]

Back to sabrewolf,

Eliit I have six units outside a Hittite city and will attack next turn, I notice you lost one can you hold on ?

Smelly are you interested in joining our crusade ?

[smellymummy]

any incentives to join the crusade?

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Hittite cities not incentive enough ? one of them has the Oracle

[smellymummy]

you're right, those pesky hittites hold the holliest of temples! it is a just crusade then to capture the sacred oracle, or just to eradicate that fast breeding civ

even though I'm not at war yet, count me in

btw, they will soon have horses for warchariots

[sabrewolf]

1870bc to smellymummy

strictly spoken, human alliances aren't allowed without embassies and aggression pacts. at least that's the rule in the PBEM tournament

but i don't think 3 against one (monarch) AI should give you any problem. your knights will cut through their spearmen like a hot knife through butter

[sabrewolf]

btw: chrisius, i see you've advanced in ranks since we started the fast PBEM. you were prince, now 4 months and several thousand posts later, you're emperor

where do you get in so many posts? DGs?

[smellymummy]

turn sent

sabrewolf, we didn't agree to follow any pbem rules, etiquette or anything like that, now did we?

however i do believe we all agree that we will not cheat. and coordinating attacks on the AI isn't really cheating now is it, as compared to how the AI will coordinate it's own attacks on your weakest spots for example.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

its a long time since I was a prince, but your right i did make the jump to emporer recently.

I was at king for over a year at least, no I dont bother with the demo games really, might have made about 20 posts in the civ3 demo game forum but that is all. to be honest Im not really interested in them.

My post count has increased dramatically since i got into PBEM in February this year. back then I was at about 1800 posts but as you will see from my profile its increased vastly since then.

It means very little to me, all this post count stuff, i really enjoy my PBEM'ing and thats it really. Im also very active in the civ3 stories section, being one of the most regular posters there, writing my own stories and giving support to others who post their stories there.

Before February Id never played a PBEM game before, and my only activity here at poly was in the stories section, but now I find most of my time is taken up by this PBEM obsession I have aquired

[smellymummy]

i was stuck on the lower post count levels for a very long time, 99 to 04

until i started pbeming, and now I'm king!

so if you care about post count titles, then please bow down and pay tribute to the smelly king (eg, tech gifts, cash gifts, etc)

[ChrisiusMaximus]

EDIT, I just checked and Im currently playing in 18 PBEM games, of which 15 are held here and I make regular posts to each of them so no wonder my post count has gone mad.

I satisfy myself with the knowledge though that all my posting is on topic

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by smellymummy
turn sent

sabrewolf, we didn't agree to follow any pbem rules, etiquette or anything like that, now did we?

however i do believe we all agree that we will not cheat. and coordinating attacks on the AI isn't really cheating now is it, as compared to how the AI will coordinate it's own attacks on your weakest spots for example.

yep, we didn't agree to any specific rules, just a "honourable play". and the PBEM tournament etiquette only recently got compiled.

the AI cheats are needed because of the AI weaknesses at seeing general weaknesses (like lack of resource, etc) and other stuff.

as long as you don't coordinate your research (wouldn't be fair, as i can't tell my AI civs what to research next), i don't have a problem

[smellymummy]

i have to disagree about that. i can see why you'd be against research pacts, since you don't have any human players near you. I'm sure then you can see why others would be for research pacts.

in other words I'm for allowing that kind of stuff. maybe we should hold a quick vote on allowing or dissalowing research pacts? I'll follow what the majority decides

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by smellymummy
i was stuck on the lower post count levels for a very long time, 99 to 04

until i started pbeming, and now I'm king!

so if you care about post count titles, then please bow down and pay tribute to the smelly king (eg, tech gifts, cash gifts, etc)

search in all forums, by posts:
- chrisiusmaximus: last 6 months: 1770 posts, last 3 months: 1141
- sabrewolf: last 6 months: 828 posts, last 3 months: 650
- smellymummy: last 6 months: 766 posts, last 3 months: 579

this is really baaad

especially in PBEMs i'm organising, or trying to get rapid-fire sessions done, i'm getting a lot of posts... but even then, i can't get anywhere near 1000 in a quarter of a year

CM, i think paddy is even "worse" than you and has rushed to emperor as one of the fastest.

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by ChrisiusMaximus
its a long time since I was a prince, but your right i did make the jump to emporer recently.

I was at king for over a year at least, no I dont bother with the demo games really, might have made about 20 posts in the civ3 demo game forum but that is all. to be honest Im not really interested in them.

My post count has increased dramatically since i got into PBEM in February this year. back then I was at about 1800 posts but as you will see from my profile its increased vastly since then.

It means very little to me, all this post count stuff, i really enjoy my PBEM'ing and thats it really. Im also very active in the civ3 stories section, being one of the most regular posters there, writing my own stories and giving support to others who post their stories there.

Before February Id never played a PBEM game before, and my only activity here at poly was in the stories section, but now I find most of my time is taken up by this PBEM obsession I have aquired

the worst spamming is done in the democracy games. every active member is nearly immediately emperor. the apolyton community forum also seems to spawn quite a few deities and emperors... most posts not having a great value

post count isn't really so important for me, but seeing statistics of activity phases is quite intriguing

[ChrisiusMaximus]

I dont see a problem with that either, its luck of the draw who you end up next to and if its a human you can either cooperate or fight, I dont see how that has any influence on another player. Also if you happen to be the only Human with proximity to several AI's you have the chance to tech bully the AI and thats not considered a cheat so tech trade and pacts should not be considered cheating either.

In some games Im playing I have quite complex deals going with several players, but in otheres there is no cooperation at all, just pure aggression. Myself I prefer to trade and cooperate but will fight if I see an opportunity too good to miss