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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Same. Be real interesting to see how this plays out. I haven't done a Spiral yet.

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I've not done any games with alliances before.

    Are we putting any sort of limits on those, or just anything goes?

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It's pretty much an anything goes sort of deal.

    Just like the real world, mang.

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  • LordGravewishLordGravewish Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So yeah, let the fun start!

    I wonder how this will turn out, seeing that it's a well-balanced spiral map. Well, at least it'll be fun, no matter the outcome :D

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Everyone pays $50 to each other to team up against me.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    How do you guys like my roleplaying?!

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Your roleplaying?

    Are you roleplaying an immortal being who has been reincarnated into another universe, but retains memories of old ones, hmmmm?

    BRB, off to roleplay.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nobody has a sense of humor these days, I swear. D:

    Have we confirmed everyone is present / active in the game? There's a couple players I'm worried about.

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  • LordGravewishLordGravewish Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Henroid wrote: »
    Have we confirmed everyone is present / active in the game? There's a couple players I'm worried about.

    All players except ginsberg have moved already... If someone's not active, it's him.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Man, I had forgotten how slow the beginning of this game is.

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So slow.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Says you guys, the center of the galaxy will be mine soon.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    OUR TENTACLES REACH EVERYWHERE. INCLUDING THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    In 2011, war was beginning.

    Also, I'm selling out hostiles' information I know publicly in-game.

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You're just upset that Imperfect beat you to the center of the galaxy.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Well, he actually didn't encounter any military. I also didn't establish anything for him to take. Still, his aggressive move against me happened in the same fashion as last time, only at the start of the game instead of the end.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Oh come on - we don't play this game because we want FRIENDS.

    We play these games because we want to hate and be hated.

    I'm just tryin' to be #1. =3

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Hm. It seems things are really hetting up!

    I predict a bloodbath!

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    But whose blood will we be bathing in?

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Oh likely mine. But at least it will be entertaining.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Y'know what's fucking great? Imperfect and I were talking toward the start about teaming up.

    And just like LAST GODDAMN GAME he takes a swing at me. Hence the bigass brawl that just happened today at the core of the galaxy. Only this time at least he isn't anonymous to me. Should've seen it coming.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nothing personal, man.

    a) I wanted to play the bad guy who goes early-expansionist, so we didn't dance around the middle all game, and
    b) You left your star wiiiide open.

    Is anyone else having problems with the game not loading at all?

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  • TheOtherHorsemanTheOtherHorseman Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Oh, I thought it was only me

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It's back up, now.

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  • JacobyJacoby OHHHHH IT’S A SNAKE Creature - SnakeRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Just started my first game of this, and here's what I found in the chat:

    Sion: hey
    Sion: I'm going to murder you all.
    Sion: haha just joking
    Sion: but if anyone gets in the way of my advancing expansion or crosses my borders, I will be forced to strike you down.
    Sion: I mean, I will seriously fucking murder you.

    My response?

    Jacoby: Duly noted.

    This should be fun. :)

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  • Enemy Mine X11Enemy Mine X11 Registered User new member
    edited June 2011
    New to the site, just starting a game of neptune's pride and im tired of the free games with quitters. if u know u are a quitter then this isnt the game for u or if u are the type to cry foul. the name of the game is "ILuvApples Game" and the password is "enemy" . good luck
    http://np.ironhelmet.com/detail?game=24576147

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    So I missed the end of our latest game. Mostly because I got consumed.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Yeah, that happened to most. I basically sucked up to yellow and slid into second place.

    I considered backstabbing him at the last moment, but realized that he was so far ahead of everyone at that point that it wouldn't have made any difference to the game at all.

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    We intentionally left one of your stars alone, Henroid, in case you wanted to pop back in and see how things went.

    Overall flow of the game: Early trades between Henroid and Imperfect left me worried as Red pushed to the middle, but then he turned on you and took your central planet. Quick fight between Red/Orange and Red/Cyan ensued, then I brought a massive fleet through and up into Orange's territory, establishing a full alliance with Red at the time. Purple hunkered down and Cyan focused on building up economy and science, falling behind in industry.
    With no support, Orange was quickly taken down, then Red broke most of Purple's central fleets, allowing me to sweep through and deep into Purple. Cyan was still building up at that point, while expanding into all of Blue's outer planets, briefly taking the lead in total planets from me during that expansion.
    Purple got broken, then I turned fleets toward Cyan to pick up the rest of the planets for victory, while Red mopped up Purple for second place.

    The Red/Yellow/Purple battle didn't end up the way I expected; somehow, instead of me throwing my fleet at his defenses, trading my ships to weaken him for Red to finish off, he slipped from me and traded ships with Red instead. That left me with much more industry than anyone else, and I was able to run away with the victory from there, but I made sure my ally (Red) took second, with my early trade partner (Cyan) falling back to third.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    The fucked up thing is that I conducted trades with purple and red, and yellow I was considering but I wasn't sure if you were allied with red or not. I was hesitant to form a three-way alliance because it was a small map and low-count of players.

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    At the start of the game, I saw you and red trading techs. I tried to use that to talk Purple into joining up with me (since his neighbors were cooperating), but he wouldn't go for it. Thus, I was left scrambling for tech trades. Made an early agreement with Cyan, but he didn't keep his science up at the start, and so I ended up mainly trading with Red, leading to our eventual alliance (and ultimate domination of the game).

    I wasn't sure what you were up to early, though--took a long time before you started putting more money into science.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    What I learned in this game is that if you're gonna make trade agreements, you better be beefing up your science because you'll become a bad trade partner. And turned on.

    Fuckers. <3

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I learned that you can set yourself up as the Galactic Bad Guy and still come in second place.

    I think I'll have to play a game of this where I'm a Good Ally and let someone else mix it up to make things "interesting".

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  • JacobyJacoby OHHHHH IT’S A SNAKE Creature - SnakeRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    So new game soon? :)

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  • JacobyJacoby OHHHHH IT’S A SNAKE Creature - SnakeRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    How do you see people trading techs? I've only been playing pick-up games, so I'm wondering if it's something you only see in the pay games.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Basically it's something you have to infer from watching people's profiles as the days go by.

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Watch the graph for one player to gain a tech, then shortly after another player gains that tech and the first player picks up a tech the second guy knew. (No one has traded yet in this game, though; I'll post a picture of it when it happens, if I think of it.)

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Pffts, graphs are for maths. Classes.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    NECROPOST GO!

    I need two more people for this game: http://np.ironhelmet.com/detail?game=26779010

    Password is "mice".

    Yeah, a lot of folks share an IP address, but they're not all on the same IP address. There's two offices here, and everyone inside each office loves the concept of back-stabbery, so don't expect same-IP dudes to necessarily be working together.

    Game starts when those two spots are taken up or in at 1400 EST.

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