Neptune's Pride

[Agelastus]

Damn it, someone wake up and help me fight off Agelastus.

Send me tech or something.

If we ever play this again we need a house rule of no attacking AIs or something. It just upsets the game too much. An even better rule would be not to commit to the game if you aren't going to play. 

I've only attacked one AI player deliberately (STA-Tamas flipped to AI control as my ships were already en-route.) Besides, what if it ends up with the AI player sitting square between 2 players going for a win? It could happen if it came down to a three way fight and then one player disappeared.

And anyway, you can relax Jaron. I have no intention of destroying Jaronesia. I only need 5 of your stars after all.

[Jaron]

I'm going to make you kill a million Jaronesians for each star.

[DisturbedPervert]

Damn it, someone wake up and help me fight off Agelastus.

My fleets are on their way!!!

[Agelastus]

I'm going to make you kill a million Jaronesians for each star.

Unfortunately, since I have 4 times your industry and twice your weapons capacity, this threat fazes me a lot less than you might think.

[Jaron]

Our mighty forces will send you running back to your own stars like the weak little girl you are. My flagship, the Jaronesian destroyer, "grumbler's wrath" will spearhead your demise!

[DisturbedPervert]

Send me tech or something.

I'll send you speed tech in exchange for 300 gold

[Agelastus]

Our mighty forces will send you running back to your own stars like the weak little girl you are. My flagship, the Jaronesian destroyer, "grumbler's wrath" will spearhead your demise!

Well, that's scarier...but not a lot...

[Agelastus]

And with the fall of Jaron's capital, victory!!!

I would like to thank Berkut and Grumbler, without whom my victory would not have been possible. I would also like to thank Tyche, the goddess of luck, for her efforts on my behalf.

Results:
(1) Agelastus
(2) Berkut
(3) Grumbler

[grumbler]

I think this game has potential, but the speed of play makes it unsuitable as a web game for people who don't have constant access to a computer.  One doesn't need to act all that often, but one must check in frequently so surprises are less common.  I lost most of my initial carriers because I didn't check in often enough to evacuate them from systems I was going to lose.

Tech transfer also seems too easy.  It might make for a better game to ban it.

[Agelastus]

I think this game has potential, but the speed of play makes it unsuitable as a web game for people who don't have constant access to a computer.  One doesn't need to act all that often, but one must check in frequently so surprises are less common.  I lost most of my initial carriers because I didn't check in often enough to evacuate them from systems I was going to lose.

Tech transfer also seems too easy.  It might make for a better game to ban it.

Yes, as I said earlier, there have been periods I've been checking the game every 10 or 20 minutes (for example, during the opening phases of the war with DisturbedPervert from this game.) That's too often for a web game of this type, in my opinion.

I'm not sure I agree with you about tech transfer. Perhaps it should be made more costly, but establishing a viable long term tech sharing alliance is a key part of the diplomacy aspect of this game. As this game has proven.

[grumbler]

[quoteI'm not sure I agree with you about tech transfer. Perhaps it should be made more costly, but establishing a viable long term tech sharing alliance is a key part of the diplomacy aspect of this game. As this game has proven. [/quote]
I agree that it is the basis for diplomacy.  My point is that it should not be.  It gives alliances too much significance/weight, especially early in the game.

Banning it isn't the only possible solution, but would be better than a failed attempt to "balance" tech transfer.

[Agelastus]

And it seems no-one got my "Shirley" reference from a few pages back...

[fhdz]

So: there's a sequel to this game now.

Anybody up for it?

http://triton.ironhelmet.com/#landing

[mongers]

more tumble-weed.

[Agelastus]

If I could get the page to load properly I'd let you know...