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Voting closed: June 02, 2014, 04:59:26 pm

[Shadowlord]

(This is my communication style, and the type of PMs I sent, this is the first time I have been called "Holier than Thou" though.  Perhaps in the future I should try to develope a persona/way of talking for each pretender that is obviously staged.) 

In 403, I played a mostly-insane (but not completely!) pretender whose justification for any given action changed every time a justification was given.

[lijacote]

Personally, I've played (so far!) without honour. In all my games on Bay 12, I have been acting on expediency -- if I speak the truth to you, it is because I believe (ideally) you knowing it benefits me somehow, if not the both of us. Conversely, I might lie to you if I thought it would benefit me in some way as to outweigh the lie being caught. The question I would suggest to ask in any dealing: what does it benefit the other?

Besides expediency and Machiavellian self-interest, I've also tried to play with some roleplaying weight. My characters try to be themselves, they try to represent -- in 401, I am (or was) a demon from the underworld, sent to claim the world for death. Would you strike a deal with something like that? I know my neighbours did so only reluctantly, out of necessity. In 402, I play a group of people acting as though they represented the will of the people, as though they were the revolutionary posse they claim they are. In truth, they are power-hungry old men, who have now found immortality and more. They lie through their teeth if they think it can get them anything. Sure, there are a few true souls left in there, and so they might have a say sometimes. But who is Strangefather? Hah! Perhaps he is trustworthy.

I do worry. When I'm not sure that the other person is aware of the game I play, I do feel guilty. If the other person thinks that my actions are representative of me as a real, fleshy person, and I then act as if I was a lying vampire... well. It does hurt. So here is my warning: I'm playing a game.

[tompliss]

Apparently, the other players have stated it enough, but I'll add my post too :
The highlander metaphor is really great. We're playing entities that want to become gods, and there can be only one.
Of course there will be some, "Holier than thou" feeling, as most of the entities think they are holier than the others.

Most of my messages, public or privates, to the other players (at least for the diplomacy part of them) are a bit pretentious. If I may quote one of the messages I received recently from one of my neighbours, he was "not impressed by [my] needless cocksure posturing".


PS: take your time guys, I won't be home to send my turn for a good 12 hours. so don't hesitate to send messages, and try to work out an arrangement. Early wars are what make nations loose.

[Il Palazzo]

in other news. thrones. i remember they're powerfulish magic sites, yes?

Go to the "statistics" menu(where the Hall of Fame is), and click on the "Thrones of ascension". You can click on each of the thrones to see exactly what additional effects, apart from providing victory points, they have. Some change your default scales, some add extra bless effects, some allow recruitment of special units, some give you gem income. All spread dominion, some better than others.
Most thrones must be claimed to get any effects from them, but a few can provide some basic effects even unclaimed.
They're fun to have.

[tompliss]

Usually, the throne that affect your scales also passively (claimed or not) affect the neighbouring provinces. In the 4.02 round I had the Throne of winter in my empire (it gives water gems and increase the Cold scale by one). Its province and the neighbouring ones were colder than most provinces, even when I had not claimed it. And once I claimed it, it triggered events that added magic sites in its provinces a some of the neighbouring ones, some of them providing water gems and most of them increasing (even further) the cold scale.

[HopFlash]

As some of you know in 4.03 I nearly made all diplomacy in roleplaying my pretender. That evil blood fountain spirit was not the loveliest thing on the planet but straight forward I think. The spirit has made some insults and such. But e.g. I wrote tompliss (my enemy) in OOC fashion that it's only a role I play and has nothing to do with my or his person.
Normally I think that it is no need to mention that but I wanted to play safe here

This roleplaying was a little bit exhausting because english is not my native language and I wanted to stay in my role. And I was unsure if this "work" was worth it. There was "only" some roleplaying going on so the interacting in the council chamber was a little limited (and tompliss had won to fast ).

In this game here I'm communicating as a player and hadn't roleplayed till now. So no insults and such but I'm normally too trustworth as a player for a game like Dominions. But there is normally no treaty that cannot be canceled. So if I make an alliance or non-aggression-pact I can end it too but normally in a fair way but as life is that doesn't need to be and nothing is totally sure.

If I think about it I really should jump into the role of Lady Discordia to make a better game style diplomacy and such

[tompliss]

Hopflash, hope I never meet Lady Discordia.
Seriously, her name sounds like a My-Little-Pony vilain, so I will have a hard time taking her seriously c:

And there is something special about Dominions : Even when I don't plan to RP, I always use some RP (especially since I browse wikipedia about myths on my nation and pretender to find a good name for it), as it add something (not always positive) to the arguments in diplomacy, when it mentions elephant-sized wolves (in 4.06) or eternal winter and legions of minotaurs (4.03).

[HopFlash]

Hopflash, hope I never meet Lady Discordia.
Seriously, her name sounds like a My-Little-Pony vilain, so I will have a hard time taking her seriously c:

hmm...she is a nice one I think...ok...I wouldn't provoke her...but she is a little contrast to this bloody spirit.

And if you browse through wikipedia perhaps you can find a Lady Discordia which can have temples and prophets and such
Perhaps she is inspired from "the real one"...who knows
But we havn't met so perhaps the events in this world change her personality till we have contact...we will see

[Mindmaker]

in other news. thrones. i remember they're powerfulish magic sites, yes?

Go to the "statistics" menu(where the Hall of Fame is), and click on the "Thrones of ascension". You can click on each of the thrones to see exactly what additional effects, apart from providing victory points, they have. Some change your default scales, some add extra bless effects, some allow recruitment of special units, some give you gem income. All spread dominion, some better than others.
Most thrones must be claimed to get any effects from them, but a few can provide some basic effects even unclaimed.
They're fun to have.

The provinces also have a much higher chance to contain magic sites.

[lijacote]

My-Little-Pony vilain

I curse the name, the one behind it all

[RexMundi]

My-Little-Pony vilain

I curse the name, the one behind it all

now it's in my head. clicked the link, didn't even switch tot he tab or let the song start, knew it was this already

[lijacote]

It's been a while since I listened to these. So good, though. I hear the fourth season was better than the third... heh.

[Mindmaker]

No offense Antur. I didn't know you were heading that way.

[Antur]

No worries, my fault for sending the wind riders from two provinces away.

Also i hope i won't find more castles buried in my backyard because it's getting cramped as it is.

[Mindmaker]

Not planning to build one on that province, but I need it to supply another one.

I have conclusive proof that Goethia is the only true god and fit to become Pantokrator.
Flaming Jesus has died for our sins, so our dead may revive as Smoulderghosts to purge the world and reform it in her image.
See for yourself:

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