Coming out of retirement

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Archaic
No, I can't find it sorry. Probably best that Flubber just plays on from the turn he's already received.

Sorry -- I had not checked here for a while-- I should be able to play tonight

[Archaic]

No problem.

As for the tracking thread...shall we just keep it here for now?

[Hercules]

So where's the turn now ?

[Flubber]

Here it is

I didn't quickly see an email from bdnav and poly is hanging a LOT for me (when at work) so I am hoping that this emssage gets through

[bdanv]

Originally posted by Flubber
I didn't quickly see an email from bdnav

Sent by PM to you and Archaic.

[Flubber]

Thanks

Has the turn moved on?

Oh and looking at the game I can see that everyone except Archaic faces an uphill battle. I mean the guy has the Virtual World, PEG, Empath Guild and HGP that I can recall. So Bases can go to size 3 drone free with free net nodes and energy banks


Oh well the vets map is usually fun so although I disagree with a lot of what my predecessor was doing, (why send out a colony pod to locations where its PTS size 3 will starve down a pop point or two -- seems to defeat the idea of the PTS) it should be fun until archaic crushes us all

Perhaps I am just a pessimist

[bdanv]

2152 sent to Archaic. Sorry for the delay, but ... ... I have something like a mountain to climb

[Archaic]

Sorry Herc, couldn't remember your email. ^^;;

FYI, there's a reload on this one. Forgot to apply the compatibility patch on the reinstallation initially, and got a crash as it loaded.

Oh, and Flubber....I fully expect you to fire off your second Planet Buster ever at me during this game.

[Hercules]

Turn 2152 to Flubber.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Archaic




Oh, and Flubber....I fully expect you to fire off your second Planet Buster ever at me during this game.

err-- nope-- I'd say you will transcend before I could get close to a PB. Now that you pacted with me, I can see how bad it is.

Oh well-- I'll have a bit of fun exploring the vets map again-- I had forgotten how powerful it was --

[Flubber]

2153 onward

[Archaic]

I wouldn't be so sure Flubber. It's been *ages* since I last played this. I doubt I'll be as strong as I once was. Looking over your cities in the base summary screen, it's apparent you're established in the center. You could easily surpass me.

...of course, I haven't tried my old continuous GA booming yet...

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Archaic
I wouldn't be so sure Flubber. It's been *ages* since I last played this. I doubt I'll be as strong as I once was. Looking over your cities in the base summary screen, it's apparent you're established in the center. You could easily surpass me.

...

I have serious doubts. I need a rec commons, net node and energy bank to make any base equal what you get from the outset with your SPs. If I had 20 more crawlers (reflecting that you spent yours on the SPs) I might be happier. I have won games without pretty much any SP you can name but usually I had some other advantages to compensate. Looking at this now we ALL trail you badly in units and productivity.

I'll give it a shot but your start is most impressive.. I am not entirely happy with what my predecessor did but its not terrible. IN any event, it might be fun to try.


After this though I would like to take you on in something from the start. Although if this start is an example of your skills, I fear my game is not up to the challenge.

MY recolection is that I only played you twice before -- one time was a very early game in your PBEMing ( I think it was an earth map-- you were uni, quantaga was Drones and there was a good player as morgan over in North America-- we also had supposed enhanced alien opposition but they weren't really a factor) and the other I inherited an excellent position and fired my first ever PB which pretty much immediately ended the game IIRC.

[bdanv]

2153 to Archaic

[Archaic]

2153 to Herc.

There's another game where we've played together before Flubber. A head to head game. Can't remember where we stalled exactly, but you were the Drones to my Uni, and things were...interesting, to say the least. I have a very tight land mass, compared to your open one, and your sheer industrial production was starting to ramp up to overtake me and my massive research and economy.