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I was talking to my good friend the other day about a PtW game we played a few months ago. We both agreed it was truely the greatest civ game either of us had ever played. He then told me of his feelings of it, and it sent chills down my spine, as it frighteningly paralled reality...
We played on a random map, that was fabulous. It presented interesting strategic designs as well as a good disperssion of resources that encouraged trade. I was the Romans, my friend the Spanish.
After dozens of hours of game time, and a particularly memorable Epic war against the English, I reigned victorious. My friend had done very well himself, he was the second most powerful nation. However, ther was a very large gap in our power. I completely controled one of the two major supercontinents, and many colonial islands around the world. My sheer economic and industrial output was unmatched, my people were very happy, and the red terretory of the Roman Emipre that blanketed the map was a glorious sight to behold.
My friend rememberd it well too. When we were talking about the game, and our recent failures to recreate an equally impressive PtW game, he confided in me his feelings that he wouldnt have dared to earlier. He told me how he felt sooo envious of my strength and power while we were playing. He said he didnt like how I was more powerful and larger than him, even tho his own power was impressive. He told me how during many of our diplomatic transactions and coordinated militray actions, he would deliberately foul up or do something underhanded in the attemt to hurt my success, even tho our official diplomatic stance was allied. He asked me to help him build up for a war against germany, when he secretly set all his cities to build the spaceship, adn win the space race. He asked for gold to help him prepare for war, when he was actually using it for his space endeavors. Meanwhile, my war mobilized economy foolishly and naively prepared for the massive war that never came. He did lots of other stuff too, like trying to plant a spy in my capital, which i didnt take too kindly towards...
He told me he really didnt understand it. He knew we were supposed to be allies and helping each other, but he said he just didnt like how my civ was over all better than his, and he wanted to do everything he could to bring it down as much as he could, with out upsettingme, as he knew that I would crush him if i found out.
I found this very interesting, as I have believed this to be among the mentalities in Real World politics. It often seems to me that countries often do things with the real purpose of hurting the US, even tho they may be officially allied, all because the US is so successful and they are somewhat envious. Even some of our European allies, who are very successful themselves, seem to do clandestine, insidious things too. It is... disheartening
.... PtW, it seems, is an even more accurate simulator than I had ever thought...
We played on a random map, that was fabulous. It presented interesting strategic designs as well as a good disperssion of resources that encouraged trade. I was the Romans, my friend the Spanish.
After dozens of hours of game time, and a particularly memorable Epic war against the English, I reigned victorious. My friend had done very well himself, he was the second most powerful nation. However, ther was a very large gap in our power. I completely controled one of the two major supercontinents, and many colonial islands around the world. My sheer economic and industrial output was unmatched, my people were very happy, and the red terretory of the Roman Emipre that blanketed the map was a glorious sight to behold.
My friend rememberd it well too. When we were talking about the game, and our recent failures to recreate an equally impressive PtW game, he confided in me his feelings that he wouldnt have dared to earlier. He told me how he felt sooo envious of my strength and power while we were playing. He said he didnt like how I was more powerful and larger than him, even tho his own power was impressive. He told me how during many of our diplomatic transactions and coordinated militray actions, he would deliberately foul up or do something underhanded in the attemt to hurt my success, even tho our official diplomatic stance was allied. He asked me to help him build up for a war against germany, when he secretly set all his cities to build the spaceship, adn win the space race. He asked for gold to help him prepare for war, when he was actually using it for his space endeavors. Meanwhile, my war mobilized economy foolishly and naively prepared for the massive war that never came. He did lots of other stuff too, like trying to plant a spy in my capital, which i didnt take too kindly towards...
He told me he really didnt understand it. He knew we were supposed to be allies and helping each other, but he said he just didnt like how my civ was over all better than his, and he wanted to do everything he could to bring it down as much as he could, with out upsettingme, as he knew that I would crush him if i found out.
I found this very interesting, as I have believed this to be among the mentalities in Real World politics. It often seems to me that countries often do things with the real purpose of hurting the US, even tho they may be officially allied, all because the US is so successful and they are somewhat envious. Even some of our European allies, who are very successful themselves, seem to do clandestine, insidious things too. It is... disheartening
.... PtW, it seems, is an even more accurate simulator than I had ever thought...
I will not explain again. Instead, I resign to watching your country shoot itself in the foot.
Of course he tried to backstab you, there's nothing else that interesting to do in such a game.
I learned in the Soviet Union to question EVERYTHING the government says because they lied. They lied to EVERYONE. 
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