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[Zorgn]

I got my link fixed. Dunno what the problem was...

[nahkh]

A few megs. An email away.

[mainiac]

Here.

I still lack permission.

[Kebooo]

I'm looking forward to this game continuing, so I hosted the file here.  Please don't share it too much though.

http://s235607088.onlinehome.us/whote/stuff/eofs.zip

[mainiac]

Many thanks, the game shall continue as soon as I finish with a couple of final exams.

[Mlittle]

Yay. The story of treachery and deceit is back. Now if only I could remember where I stand.

[JoshuaFH]

You were about to throw nuclear bombs at all the other players, remember?

[Il Palazzo]

No, no, no. That was me. But I've changed. Now I want to live in peace!

[Mlittle]

You were about to throw nuclear bombs at all the other players, remember?

I do remember something. But they are not nuclear.

[Il Palazzo]

Many thanks, the game shall continue as soon as I finish with a couple of final exams.

Is this in any way still a valid statement, or should we officially close the game, and perhaps discuss all the delusional plans for galactic domination we've had?
Personally, I think I'd support the second option, despite all the fun I had playing with you guys.

[mainiac]

To be honest, I kind of got sick of the game.  I kept finally winning an ally over to my side, then they would drop out and be replaced by a new player hostile towards me.  Quite Sisyphusian.

I mean every player except Pnx launched a sneak attack on me.  All y'all.  Il Palazzo launched like 3 and Boski launched one the first turn he joined the game with a fleet I had been instrumental in giving him.  Looking back, I think that's why I ended up getting so PO'd.  After so many betreyals, cheating didn't seem all that far out.

The biggest question I have concerning this game is why, Il Palazzo, you were never interested in cooperating with me.  Pancreator knows I tried.

Biggest complaint besides the backstabbing is that this game is micromanagement hell.

A thought occurred to me.  The mechanics of this game are a little weak, but the way the players interact is priceless.  It might be really cool if we could remake it as a forum based game.  Does anyone else think that would be cool?

[Il Palazzo]

I guess we should finish this thing then. Everybody will agree that mainiac was such an itegral part of the game, that without him it'd lose too much flavour. Aqizzar might get a bit pissed off, as "the shit just got interesting", though. Or maybe he doesn't really care?
Mlittle probably is ok playing the other EFS game, and won't cry too much.

I mean every player except Pnx launched a sneak attack on me.

To be honest, I recall convincing Pnx to switch sides and attack you, just a turn before he decided to quit(or maybe he just wanted me to think that, who knows?)

Spoiler: hate (click to show/hide)

As for my unending hatred for everything Li Halan, that destruction of my transport(with two pow.legions on board, of course) really tickled me. When I begun playing, I didn't really know what direction to take, then after Criticorum, I thought that it'd be a good idea to rush one player and thus gain a distinct advantage. You were close, you gave me a casus beli and as I didn't know your skill level, I assumed that I could easily pull this off. What with it being unexpected this soon.
And actually, I thought I could finish you off at one point. I had half your farms and mines on Kish, a big stack of Heavy Infantry(which I was churning out with this specific purpose in mind since the begining), and controlled Kish's space. The elections were still far off, so the Fleet wasn't menacing over my plans. Not to mention, Boksi was attacking your forces on Criticorum.
Then I begun to have doubts. I worried that I might not be able to simultainously keep blockading your homeworld and protect my transpotrs(half of that heavy infantry was still at home, waiting to be shipped away), especially since I believed your bragging about imminent completition of Bomber squadrons, and my ships were dangerously low on health after that battle we had.
I'm sure I had other doubts back then, even though I'm having a hard time remembering them.
Anyway, I thought that I could just settle for a minor victory and take Malignatus and some voting deal. Which wasn't really a thought-out decision, and left me with invasion-oriented industry, lots of quickly becoming obsolete troops that nonetheless ate up all my taxes, as well as a complete lack of direction. Not to mention the increasingly wary, of what he percieved(and perhaps rightfully so) as overly aggressive player, Aqizzar. Then there was Boksi, who felt betrayed after I made a cease fire without consulting him(that was a huge diplomatic failure on my side, yes). And of course, you didn't exactly love me after that war. Altogether, a bad decision.
From the perspective of time, I can tell that the two right choices were to either ally with my neighbour, i.e.you, from the start, or finish you off, even if at great cost. There was no third option, and yet I tried to take it.
All in all, a big lesson to everybody who doesn't know it yet: once you commit to something, don't try turning back halfway through.

Later you were invading my worlds, and your terms of peace weren't exactly tempting, so you should understand why I did all I could to hamper your actions. Besides, the fact that you became the strongest economy in the galaxy made you a common threat.

forum game: I'm not sure how it could possibly work. Perhaps because I don't play forum games at all.

[Aqizzar]

Good God Palazzo, you're still keeping track of all that stuff?

Anyway, yeah I wrote this game off for the graveyard way way back when.  There were all kinds of things wrong, not least being that one player was an easily bribed AI and the other kept changing hands between schizophrenics.  Micromanagement was getting to be too much of a bitch, and I kind of ran into that problem where it looked like there was no way I could "win" and kinda lost heart.

But it was a lot of fun guys, and thanks again to everyone who played along for the long trip down memory lane.

[mainiac]

Interesting thing about Pnx.  He declared war on me, but never fought me.  The troops he sent to Criticorum just took control of a farm that I vacated for him and then became tourists.

I think you are also heavily overestimating the invasion of Kish.  That was way in the start of the game.  The reason you were able to capture so many farms was because I didn't want to waste a bunch of metal getting my guns bombarded from space and pulled them out ahead of time.  Pnx had more troops on Criticorum then you ever had on Kish and he was just there for appearances.

My fatal error was probably starting the third war and taking the potshot at your noble.  That was overreaching and I probably should have waited another election.  On the other hand, I didn't know what the diplomatic picture would look like that far in the future.

[Il Palazzo]

Damn, it is strange that I can remember this shit so well after a year. Strange, as in depressing strange, I guess.

Anyway, mainiac, I still think that you couldn't have been able to stop the stack of heavy infantry I was assemblying on Kish. They would've reached your palace in some four years(damn, they were slow) and I really don't see how could you stop them from taking all the scepters. Unless you had some crazy strong secret troops hidden somewhere out there.
On the other hand, should I pull thois off, I'd probably become a sole target of hate from other houses, so this victory could turn out to be quite phyrric. There's no way I could stop Decados and Hawkwood, aided by your off-homeworld forces.
So yeah. In the end, bad idea.

I don't know, the micromanagement never really bothered me that much. Other things, though... the lack of fifth player was the most game breaking. It seems that the missing fifth leg of the galactic stool was the main case of lack of it's stability.