Obsidian Forum Diplomacy Game 2 (OBS-2)

[metadigital]

Look at Reveilled: I bet everyone thought he was dead this round. There is a bit of luck in the game, and a lot of skill and even more deal-making, to tip the luck in your favour.

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Just you wait. I'll win this game yet!

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You could influence the power base in the Balkans, for sure ... it's all a matter of expediency; do mortal enemies temporarily bury the hatchet to take on a mutual enemy, or do they die fighting their nemesis ..?

 

It's all politics ...

[Reveilled]

I can't really remember.  It might have been about the time when France was NMRing and you and England seemed to be cooperating fairly well.  I think I figured if that continued then I might well find myself with my back to an Anglo-German alliance before I could finish up an attack on Russia, and started to wonder if I might be better off sticking with my Russian alliance, at the very least until Turkey and Italy were finished, at which point I could take stock of the situation and decide who I should keep my alliance with at that time.

 

Of course, it quickly emerged after that that I had been stabbed and you and England weren't so close after all, so that all quickly put paid to that idea.

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Didn't quite work out the way you thought it would did it? I actually got a message that England was about to stab me and I decided to stab him first. Don't know if it was true or not because that was the first time that he NMR'd so he hasn't moved since then.

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But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,

In proving foresight may be vain;

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men

Gang aft agley,

An'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,

For promis'd joy!

[EnderAndrew]

I would just like to say, and I intended to email Jags and Darkside with this last turn, that I felt my hand forced in the last turn. There are so many NMRs in this game, that actual Diplomacy has failed. It is just a numbers simulation largely, and Deraldin is out-building everyone. None of the players who are actively playing have much of a position to stop him, and so long as other countries continue to NMR, the outcome of the game was largely inevitable.

 

That shouldn't be a game of Diplomacy. I decided to enter the race for 18 supply centers at the cost of my allies to prevent that. I had assumed that the second Austria was out of the picture, either Russia, Italy or Turkey would get screwed as there likely wouldn't be room for all 3 of us to push north, unless I controlled a good chunk of Austria, Russia pushed through Germany, and Italy pushed through France.

 

I didn't see that happening.

 

Reveiled may preach his "I told you so's" to Darkside about my turning against her, but that decision was not made until about 48 hours ago. I tell every player that I operate on logic, and do what is best for the outcome of the game. In other games, I have been a loyal ally, and even shared victory when I could have taken it for myself.

 

That opportunity was not presenting itself in this game however.

[jaguars4ever]

Perhaps - but it can also be argued that once your enemies have multiplied, you've inadvertently denied your chance and sealed your fate. Only time will tell...

 

There's an old saying: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[Deraldin]

Perhaps - but it can also be argued that once your enemies have multiplied, you've inadvertently denied your chance and sealed your fate.  Only time will tell...

 

There's an old saying: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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So does that mean that you want to join forces and wipe out Ender in exchange for survival to the end of the game, or maybe even second place? "

[jaguars4ever]

Perhaps - but it can also be argued that once your enemies have multiplied, you've inadvertently denied your chance and sealed your fate.  Only time will tell...

 

There's an old saying: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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So does that mean that you want to join forces and wipe out Ender in exchange for survival to the end of the game, or maybe even second place? "

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If hypothetically one were to do the above, it would most certainly instantiate that Ender's vaunted "logic" made a gross miscalculation.

[Deraldin]

If hypothetically one were to do the above, it would most certainly instantiate that Ender's vaunted "logic" made a gross miscalculation. 

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*looks up instantiate*

 

[jaguars4ever]

 

*looks up instantiate*

 

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To represent (an abstraction) by a concrete instance.

[Deraldin]

 

*looks up instantiate*

 

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To represent (an abstraction) by a concrete instance.

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I already got that. You're about 8 minutes too late.

[jaguars4ever]

 

*looks up instantiate*

 

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To represent (an abstraction) by a concrete instance.

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I already got that. You're about 8 minutes too late.

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Oh N0es!1! Not 8 minutes!

 

Pardon me for having a life. )

[Deraldin]

Oh N0es!1! Not 8 minutes! 

 

Pardon me for having a life.    )

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I have a life! Really I do! ... I admit I have no life, I can't even get a part time job. At least I have my homework to keep me from going insane. :'(

 

*Looks at pile of untouched math/chem homework*

 

Well maybe not. I'd much rather play Diplomacy, or failing that, Advance Wars. " Go Emulators!

[jaguars4ever]

What's happened to Metadigital? Please tell me he hasn't gone the way of Nartwak...

[Deraldin]

What's happened to Metadigital? Please tell me he hasn't gone the way of Nartwak...

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OMG!

 

Last Active  10th September 2005 - 10:53 PM

 

Come back Meta! :'(

[jaguars4ever]

Last Active  10th September 2005 - 10:53 PM

 

Come back Meta! :'(

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Any chance of pulling one of those reports on Nartwak?

[Deraldin]

Last Active  10th September 2005 - 10:53 PM

 

Come back Meta! :'(

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Any chance of pulling one of those reports on Nartwak?

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You mean like this?

 

Last Active  18th July 2005 - 07:16 PM

[jaguars4ever]

You mean like this?

 

Last Active  18th July 2005 - 07:16 PM

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Say it isn't so!

 

 

 

I hope Nart hasn't died. That would kind of suck.

[alanschu]

Nah, I just disappeared from the board when I left too.

 

Pending my workload at school, it may happen again!

[metadigital]

Hi guys. Aplogies for the delay: normal services will be resumed shortly. (Insert unnecessary adjectival clause regarding circumstances beyond my control as and wherever necessary.)

[thepixiesrock]

(Insert unnecessary adjectival clause regarding circumstances beyond my control as and wherever necessary.)

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Done and done.

[Darkside]

Oh poo. I was hoping this game had just faded away like a bad dream.

[Deraldin]

Oh poo.  I was hoping this game had just faded away like a bad dream.

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Why would you want that?

[Darkside]

Oh poo.  I was hoping this game had just faded away like a bad dream.

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Why would you want that?

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Oh you know why...

 

dun dun duuuuun :ph34r:

 

Oh well. I still stand a chance, I mean, I still have one border that hasn't been invaded. Oh wait, that'll be gone next turn. Nevermind.

 

About that trade for St. Petersburg. Will twenty pounds of chocolate do?

[thepixiesrock]

You're just disgruntled that I didn't ask you guys to be on my team.

[Deraldin]

You're just disgruntled that I didn't ask you guys to be on my team.

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I keep thinking that you're just spamming this thread and not actually in the game. "

 

Darkside: Depends, what kind of choclate do you have? :ph34r:

[thepixiesrock]

You're just disgruntled that I didn't ask you guys to be on my team.

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I keep thinking that you're just spamming this thread and not actually in the game. "

 

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You're right.