Pitboss 18 Lurker Thread of Infinite Wisdom

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 95

The lurkers are rich!

wetbandit is fairly brazen... defending a Settler with only a Scout while Nakor has a fortified Warrior right there. Couldn't pick a much more aggressive placement either.

Whosit's stack has almost completely healed now.

[Commodore]

I love how several people are now "hrm...island of profit!" looking at the HAK/Jowy lush prison area.

Although seriously, neighboring Jowy is basically an auto-lose. He gets lumped into a peak-isolated blob with Azza from now on.

[Ceiliazul]

People used to say that about you, Commodore. Anyway, its true that island is going to swing the game hardcore into Oxy's favor if he can claim the whole thing.

[Ceiliazul]

Also, lets test retep a bit more: Who is going to land the mids by t100?

Not sure if you are jooking but just in case in spoilers

Plako or Novice

If you want to know how I guess here are the steps:

First how do you know someone is building the wonder:
-People that overexpand and can't tech anymore will try for Mids to get out of the ecnonomic crash.
-Stone/Marble seems plentiful even if contested.
-Wonder are falling later then normal because people don't want to make big risk earlier but now someone will take the bet in order to end on top.
Now how to guess who is going for it:
- There are 33 players. from there you take away the ones you know for sure are not going for the wonder:
Finharry (lurking) Pindicator(win war recently) Barry (lost war) CH (at war) Whosit (at war) Mardoc (build up) Azza (Build up).
-Who isn't playing his turn regularity for the past 20t.
Hashoosh, Darrell, Caledorn, Qqqqqqq, Bacchus
-Eliminated the lower half of the scoreboard:
Jowy,AT,Furungy,Dhal,Nakor, Molach, MYKI, HitAnyKey, wetbandit, CYneheard, daze, Ruff.
-People that already build a wonder not so long ago:
JoJo (HG), Boldy (bulb Phylo)

That leaves:
Dtay, Ball/Oxy?, TBS, Plako, Yuri, Space, Ataturk( who is Ataturk? Catwalk?) WilliamLP, Krill.

From that bunch I would put my money on Plako or Krill but I think that Plako is more likely to go for The MoM.
Krill on the other hand could easily overexpand and Novice has the skill to make the Mids pretty fast.

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 96

Bacchus razes Yuri's city up by the north pole.

The Black Sword declares war on xenu, who planted a somewhat ambitious city over the channel.

HAK's declaration of war on Yuri looks like it was just to get a Galley through his territory.

Whosit's stack is completely healed now, wonder where it'll move next.

[NobleHelium]

I believe Whosit indicated he'd withdraw and wait for cats.

[Brian Shanahan]

I'm still of the position that Parkin is Barry (or vice versa).

Hilariously, three months later, it turns out that the civ of Barry is indeed being played by Parkin.

I WAS RIGHT!


eventually

[Lord Parkin]

Ugh... so this whole mess with the second reload boils down to the following things:

- Furungy played his turn differently the second time around, though not based on any new information. (dazedroyalty had a Galley next to Furungy's city visible on both occasions, but perhaps Furungy missed it the first time around.)
- dazedroyalty saw that Furungy played differently the first time around, despite the fact that he was first in the turn order and shouldn't have logged in after Furungy played. (He said he wanted to check whether he'd accepted peace or not.)

Basically Furungy changed a move when he shouldn't have, and dazedroyalty looked at the game when he shouldn't have. If either of those things had not happened then no one would have known the difference. Despite encouraging dazed towards the idea that there were errors on both sides, that Furungy had not gained any information, that it was just a size 1 coastal city, and that playing on would better for the game, he was adamant he wanted a reload or a concession from Furungy. Which is technically within his right to insist upon... I just wish he wouldn't. And since neither Furungy nor Caledorn have been online in the past day, we're stuck in this same situation again.

The funny thing is that dazed could easily have hid that Galley last turn out of Furungy's line of sight and there needn't have been this bother. Why he left it in full view of his enemy with the cargo having no movement points is a mystery to me.

[SevenSpirits]

There's a rule against logging in when it's not your half of the split?

[Lord Parkin]

No, I just wish he hadn't.