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Author Topic: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on  (Read 33408 times)

Il Palazzo

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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #135 on: October 07, 2022, 11:05:13 am »

I've only just now realised the game doesn't have a dominions-style option to set oneself to AI once things turn sour (does it??). I'm... not sure how we are to proceed once one or two players are out of the game.
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #136 on: October 07, 2022, 11:07:19 am »

I've only just now realised the game doesn't have a dominions-style option to set oneself to AI once things turn sour (does it??). I'm... not sure how we are to proceed once one or two players are out of the game.

You can call the Secretary and resign your post, not sure what happens to the remnants of your nation at that point.

EDIT: per some guy on some discord 7 months ago-
« Last Edit: October 07, 2022, 11:17:38 am by Karlito »
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #137 on: October 07, 2022, 11:40:00 am »

40k alien natives with machine guns and little cars are encamped less than a hundred miles from the palace. it wont be long now

the ultimate question is, who will win the subsequent fight over my bloodied carcass? I will be passing on multiple lucrative nodes. including a recently discovered and untouched ----------- mine.
Surely you're exaggerating? Shouldn't a strategic relocation of troops be able to stop the barbarians ante portas? Emergency unit recruitment?
At worst, it should be possible to reclaim the city, with merely some highly unwelcome - but not game breaking - damage. No?

@Karlito: ah, alright then
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #138 on: October 07, 2022, 11:47:16 am »

And are you telling me you've never accidentally quit out of the entire game while trying to fire your secretary? uh yeah me neither...
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #139 on: October 07, 2022, 02:38:40 pm »

Is anyone else not getting any goodies when they reach freefolk villages for the first time?
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #140 on: October 07, 2022, 02:40:23 pm »

I think I am getting some, though honestly very little.
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« Reply #141 on: October 07, 2022, 02:55:37 pm »

I'm not sure I've gotten any since the patches. I made contact with 5 villages last turn (mostly based on unifying with that zone) and there was no treasure. Nor was there any from any of my probing of alien lands. Or some shenanigans on my opposite border out of your direct line of sight. It's weird, my memory of that was that villages always gave something.
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #142 on: October 07, 2022, 03:07:05 pm »

I warned you that I was not a great player. We'll see how long it takes them to finish me, since I'm not exactly throwing in the towel. but I am caught between a rock and a hard place and the rock just grew legs and started inching towards me
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #143 on: October 07, 2022, 03:26:34 pm »

Is anyone else not getting any goodies when they reach freefolk villages for the first time?

You have to own the village the turn after in order to get the goodies. But I haven't played since the latest patch.

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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #144 on: October 07, 2022, 03:33:14 pm »

Is anyone else not getting any goodies when they reach freefolk villages for the first time?

I've had terrible luck getting anything this game, though it had happened at least once.
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #145 on: October 07, 2022, 03:38:29 pm »

Like, so far I probably got <10 machines and maybe 500 credits... gold pieces... money? (I don't know what the currency is here) A few high-tech items too. Pretty sure a few times I got nothing.
I figured the dearth of goodies has something to do with the planet being generated tech-poor, or something. There's very few ruins too, so maybe that's related.
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #146 on: October 07, 2022, 04:02:45 pm »

Yeah my one find was like 500 oil. Would have loved to find some machines or credits in the first 10 turns.
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #147 on: October 07, 2022, 06:04:32 pm »

I'll say right now I probably couldn't have conquered the neighbor I did - certainly not on turn 6 or 7 - if not for the Gladius I found. Still lost 4-6k troops in the process, but w/o the 4x/round gauss attacks that came with that I don't think the city would have broken w/o more tanks and/or highly destructive artillery bombardment.
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #148 on: October 07, 2022, 06:27:02 pm »

Salmeuk, my dude. That's not the correct save file you've sent me!
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Re: Shadow Empire PBEM round 2: game on
« Reply #149 on: October 07, 2022, 07:19:37 pm »

Oh, look. There's a market for water again. SELL! SELL! SELL!
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