YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [7/24 players left]

[WraithLord]

Short update (to spark some interest in an otherwise quiet game) per turn 94:

Provinces
Nation Provinces
Arcoscephale 31
Ermor 9
Ulm 35
Tir na n'Og 29
Fomoria 60
R'lyeh 45

Forts
Nation Forts
Arcoscephale 12
Ermor 7
Ulm 13
T'ien Ch'i 45
Tir na n'Og 4
Fomoria 20
R'lyeh 21

Income
Nation Income
Arcoscephale 4273
Ermor 1700
Ulm 2367
T'ien Ch'i 5939
Tir na n'Og 3179
Fomoria 4741
R'lyeh 5570

Gem Income
Nation Gem Income
Arcoscephale 106
Ermor 45
Ulm 102
T'ien Ch'i 235
Tir na n'Og 73
Fomoria 128
R'lyeh 120

Nation Victory Points
Arcoscephale 3
Ermor 1
Ulm 4
T'ien Ch'i 6
Tir na n'Og 2
Fomoria 5
R'lyeh 3

GG so far, I hope the remaining players are having fun.

[don_Pablo]

You have omitted TC in the Provinces Ranking

[WraithLord]

Oops, sorry about that:
Provinces
Nation Provinces
T'ien Ch'i 80

Good to know that at least one person checks this thread

[rdonj]

It's hard to say too much without feeling like you might be crossing a line... even for me. So that probably explains why most people aren't saying much. It's too easy to say something that could be construed as being in poor taste as far as the rules of the game are concerned. That's the only problem with this sort of game, the near total communications blackout with your fellow players. I imagine that must be especially hard in a game like this one, that has lasted for a very long time and seems to be coming to a head.

[WraithLord]

you're right of course.
Do you reckon that posting a (perfectly publicly available)short update every once in a while is ok?- If only to bump the game thread so we know it's alive

[rdonj]

Somewhat. The problem is it still looks halfway like diplomacy. Of course, there's the chance that you could use it that way . But I know that you wouldn't, wraithlord. In any case I think what you've done is fine, but it's just really difficult to talk about this game. It's a bit sad, that's part of the fun part of the game for me, talking to other people about what's happening. But eh, what can you do. Anyway go ahead and make postings like what you've done. I can't condemn it and you're right, it's certainly publically available. Anyway, the game is certainly in interesting territory right now. I'm anticipating a possible ending now, and I'm still not sure what's going to happen. I'be b een sadly a bit out of touch with the players lately due to various events going on in my life right now, which I most certainly regret, but I realize there's not a lot I can do about that. It's just sad the game thread is suffering as a result.

[WraithLord]

Yes. I see your point.
I think just to be safe I'll refrain from any such posting here. Indeed sad for game thread but better safe than sorry. Anyone interested can just check the score tables for the game.

It's a shame that such interesting games with lots going on are so quiet so all the heroic deeds end up unknown and forgotten.

[rdonj]

It would appear that TNN has gone AWOL and went AI last turn. They're a pretty big nation, and I really don't think that an AI of that size is acceptable for this game. I'm going to go ahead and see if I can't find a sub/convince the original player to come back and do a rollback. If I can't find one though, we'll have to consider whether we want the game to continue or not in light of TNN's abdication and subsequent damage to the balance of power.

[WraithLord]

How can we consider what we want to do?- It looks like a catch 22. We can't deliberate this in any way w/o compromising our ID. Perhaps a private voting of remaining players would work?

[rdonj]

Yeah, we'd need a private vote with everyone tellibng me what thyey want,and I can release the results publically.

As an aside, TC has declared that it's not interested in seeing a rollback either. This being the case, it would seem that a vote as to whether or not to continue the game should take place now regardless of whether I can convince anyone to keep TNN in the game or not.