At first I decided not to publish this, but I asked Ramirus for permission and it was granted. I am getting a lot of requests to see this and the maximum number of observers for a PM is 15. I know of no better way to post and maintain the quote tags. Due to quote tag limit I will have to post each pm as a blog reply. If something I have said offends, I apologize in advance, I was not planning for this to be public at the time. This is the dialogue from beginning to end.
I'll keep this short I just needed some cathartic release. I drink a lot of red wine. I love beer but the carbs have caught up with me. Usually every night I pour myself I rather large glass of wine and sip on it all night. Tonight my wife is at work at the hospital so Friday and Saturday night I stay home and watch the 2 kids, aged 3 and 1. About 2 hours ago I went outside to smoke a cigar and brought my wine outside and set it on a brick ledge on the side of the house. After I finished the
In chess anything that is possible within the rules of chess is acceptable. Attempts to mislead the opponent are common practice. The same is true with most Real Time Strategy games like Age of Empires or Command and Conquer.
One significant difference between CN and those games is that the enemy in CN is not clearly defined nor is victory, although in RTS games defined as "free for all" still it is very rare to hear complaints of unethical behavior. Another is that in a chess or RTS game
The highest someone told me they had was around 27 million with trade swapping and mars wonders but the highest I can get is $23,400,752 and that's with picking up an iron/lumber trade every 20 days to pay bills. I think I have the best gross income resource set and I even sold off my nukes. The only income related wonders I lack are minor ones (Moon Colony, Mining Consortium, Movie Industry) and my other 2 moon wonders operate at 50%. I don't think all this adds up to 4 million. I'm at the
Without war people get bored and quit. With war people get their nations smashed to bits and quit. I think the solution is to make war slightly less destructive and allow nations to endure war for longer periods of time. When a ruler spends 24 to 36 months preparing for war and their nation gets destroyed in a month or less, the odds are a disproportionate number of them will quit as they are unlikely to invest another 2 years of their life just to get where they already were. If you graphed
