Out on the Rim [Mr. Cairo spoilers]

[Mr. Cairo]

The whole point of the game was to test changes to the mod that makes Astro rushes no longer a requirement on watery maps.

Also, until you had ~10 Frigates in the waters between us I had enough Privateers to control the seas. Not permanently of course, but long enough to burn some of your core and capture some other cities.

Finally, if I had gone for Astro early, you'd still have been my target. SD was just too far away for him to be a logical target for me. You were the bigger threat (than Krill) to me, so I wanted to do something about that.

[Hitru]

Ok, fair enough.

If we would not have settled cities on your continent would you still considered us your natural target?

In my opinion the idea was to test if you can defend against astro without going for astro, which was shown to work as intended in this mod. If you need to attack over seas then I think you still need astro for that, and it was newer intention to change that.

So astro rush is not needed if you have enough good land like Krill had, but if you have to expand overseas then that's still only real option.

[Mr. Cairo]

Ok, fair enough.

If we would not have settled cities on your continent would you still considered us your natural target?

Probably not. I was pretty about that. That land would have given me 5 more cities, it was on my continent, and you were doing a lot better than me at that point. With that land I might have been more concerned with Krill, since I would have had a direct sea border with him.

[superdeath]

Now if i could just get OH to dedlurk my next game... maybe he could explain how not to get an entire 20 cat stack obliterated lol. Where do i sign up for the OH academy?