[SPOILERS] Zanth's thread

[Gavagai]

Are you fucking serious?



Who even made this map? Would anyone care to explain to me how the fuck our horses are closer to Slowcheetah than to us? And what we are supposed to do, I ask? The absolutley last thing we need now is the war for a piece of land so remote from our bases. But it looks like we will just have to start it because, well, we can't be supposed to live without horses.
But really, our starting position is gross. No horses and only two luxuries in immediate neighborhood, one of which Icense. Fuck mapmaker.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Are you so rude in real life, Gavagai? I'd certainly hope not. Anyway, I thought about putting the horses near your capital but then I'd have given you guys nothing to complain about 116 turn later, so I put it way up here on a tile that, as it turns out, is right on the border between two civs. I wonder, would putting it there lead to any points of conflict, or any interesting decisions for the players to make, or anything like that? Anyway, take heart, this is nothing. Wait until you see where I put your other resources, it's a lark.

[Gavagai]

Are you so rude in real life, Gavagai?

Given the way human psychology usually operates, in real life I should be a shy, meek person, always frightened of her own shadow.
(Speaking serously, it actually works in a more complex way; internet persona usually shows what man will look like in real life in a few years.)
Also, I hope that this map has only one Oil and it is near our capital.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Indeed, there is only one oil on the map, it is under your capital. But it is actually supposed to be Slowcheetah's oil. I'm encouraging him to conquer your entire empire to grab it. Actually, there's more than one oil now that I think of it, never mind, carry on.

[zanth]

Well, GA was obtained by researching music. Good news, but it seems it would be a cultural bomb in order to regrab horses

[Gavagai]

According to civstats Sian is fucked. Furungy took three cities from him in one turn. Too bad that neither of them is reporting.

[Gavagai]

We are discussing our grand strategy with Zanth right now. I stand for triple GA and Cavalry beeline. I think this is good.

[Ichabod]

Are you so rude in real life, Gavagai?

Given the way human psychology usually operates, in real life I should be a shy, meek person, always frightened of her own shadow.
(Speaking serously, it actually works in a more complex way; internet persona usually shows what man will look like in real life in a few years.)

I found this subject to be very interesting. Is there something you could recommend for me to read about it?

[zanth]

Catwalk is doing something weird:
declared some turns ago, having A GALLEY only. He swam south to our southern island (as he haven't landed units and he could do so in a tile from a city I thought that he doesn't have anybody on it). Then he offered peace for 40 gold. At last, when he saw trireme he asked white peace. Well, I sunked that galley and resend peace.

Other news are pretty good: it seems Sloach has a war w/ 2metra, and it's far from our border, it's very pleasant that he would weaken, 'cause he seems to be our first target.

And as for grand plan, yep, trippled Golden Age seems pleasant enough. GP would be quite soon, then building Taj at great city of Quasi-Classic

and then it seems there would be enough time to generate 2 more GP for 3rd GA.

[Gavagai]

Are you so rude in real life, Gavagai?

Given the way human psychology usually operates, in real life I should be a shy, meek person, always frightened of her own shadow.
(Speaking serously, it actually works in a more complex way; internet persona usually shows what man will look like in real life in a few years.)

I found this subject to be very interesting. Is there something you could recommend for me to read about it?

It's just an idea which one of my friends ince suggested and which is in accord with my own observations. This hypothesis is based on the following logic: human behavior in "real life" is by a large part controlled by different kinds of social reflexes rather than by ideas and values he helds consciously. In other words, we often find ourselves doing not what we sincerely think would be the right thing but what people around us expect us to do.
However, when we communicate with other people via electronic means we, as a general rule, feel ourselves more secure and more proteced from social pressure. Hence, we are more inclined to behave in a way we think we actually should.
And the final assumption under stated hypothesis is that our conscious ideas and values do influence our social reflexes but with a time lag of a few years. That's how they can influence our behavior in real life after all, though indirectly. And that's why any new character trait of a person would first manifest itself in the Internet and only after that in a real life.
There is no systematic empirical evidence in support of this theory but I think it is logical and it is consistent with my own observations.