Legends of Faerun - Closed (Game started)

[WingedDog]

Could there be an another delay of 24 hours? There was a small hurricane yesterday and I was unable to get home.
Sorry for inconvenience.

[Burnsaber]

I'm really sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm going AI. I really just can't stand the boredom anymore. I know it's a di*k move, especially in this game where the game especially suffers from this behaviour, but damn....

[RANT]

I was really hyped about this game you know? I was really looking forward to write some nice AAR's and roleplaying. But EA Oceania? Seriously? In the start I took the idea with humor, "I mean, they can't be that bad, right?". But damn.. Oceania is simply dull. It has dull gameplay and dull thematics. Triton Kings from the freaking little mermaid disney flick? WTF?

God knows I tried writing AAR's, but the only concept I had was the Triton nobles and their superiority (which can be seen statwise and is hinted in the descriptions). But I really don't want to write about racial superioity (not even in this context), you know, because of what that wanna-be artist with stupid moustache did some years ago.

And the gameplay.. Ugh.. Don't even get me started on this. I did *lots* of fetishes, I did lots of clams and behold! It was dull! The final nail in my coffin was when my prented got feebleminded by a lucky mind blast. It just took me 30 turns to realize that I'm basically dead. You know what kind of cool late-game stuff you can with Oceania nationals? Yeah, not lots. I did empower myself to astral, but meh, I was never able to really benefit from it.

I just finally got sick of it. I'm sick of moving fetishes around. I'm sick of spending my hammer-time to forge Amulets of Fish. I'm sick of the fact that they eat absolutely crucial misc slots from my only battlefield mages. I'm sick of desperately hoping good paths on my Spectres. I'm sick of the fact that I wasn't able to summon my first Lamia Queen until 3 turns ago. I'm sick of hoping that helheim would come underwater to kick my *** and relieve me from playing. I'm sick of being hit by all nice late-game stuff by Helheim and wishing that I had access to those. I'm sick of doing half-assed turns because I just couldn't care less of this half-finished nation that is somehow in the vanilla roster.

I considered trying to find a sub, but that would a total di*k move. The nation is doomed. But instead of going out with a bang, it's withering away, a slow, painful & dull death.

[/RANT]

I'm really sorry for leaving this game like this. I really am. But I just can't stand it anymore.

But I learned something. Never, ever join a EA game wiht random nations. There just is no way I'm going to play vanilla EA Oceania ever again.

[Executor]

Sigh
You wouldn't happen to be next to TC now would you...

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Executor

Sigh
You wouldn't happen to be next to TC now would you...

Yeah, I have some provinces next to him. Don't assume that there is much of fight thought. Just some claymen (the best use of W4E1 Triton Kings, sadly) and navigators.

[vfb]

Sadly, Caelum is not capable of putting up much of a fight against the mages of Fomoria either, whose wicked conjurations of multitudes of Ashen Angels and Earth Elementals surprised our doomed commanders this month.

Our fine feathered fighting forces have had a long slog against the valiant warriors of Helheim and their in-laws, with many glorious deaths on the field of battle for both sides. But we will do what we can with the scraggly remnants of our army to keep Fomoria from getting totally bored out of their skulls.

-- Kinaesthesia of Caelum

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by vfb

Sadly, Caelum is not capable of putting up much of a fight against the mages of Fomoria either, whose wicked conjurations of multitudes of Ashen Angels and Earth Elementals surprised our doomed commanders this month.

-- Kinaesthesia of Caelum

Heck yeah. I'd continue fighting if I had some valiant last stands to do. Those are actually fun. But it will take decades for anyone to actually assault my underwater provinces, that's one of the reasons why I see my postion as so dull. Even once I lose my coasts to Helheim, he'll probably stop there and leave me rot in the ocean. I tried to bate Agartha into attacking me, but to no avail, since he got distracted by Fomoria.

[Executor]

I'm willing to make a truce with Agartha if he'll fight you and there for keep you in the game.

Oh, and that's very kind of you vfb.

[Baalz]

Well, obviously annoying but nobody could reasonably expect you to stick it out if you're that miserable. Thanks for playing as long as you did and no worries (at least from me) about bailing.

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Baalz

Well, obviously annoying but nobody could reasonably expect you to stick it out if you're that miserable. Thanks for playing as long as you did and no worries (at least from me) about bailing.

Thanks, that means a lot for me. In this game, several things just accumulated on me to create a very unusual binge. The lack of indie mages and the sudden loss of pretender paths + unfortunate choice of neighbours. (there wasn't anyway I could have fought against TC in the early/mid game, those Warriors of the Five Elemets just are a counter to all of the tricks I could do). It was nice of Jazzepi to humor me by signing a NAP.

But, luckily it wasn't all for naught. This game gave me inspiration to do my Underwater-mod, parts of which are going into the next CBM. I'm just the kind of guy who can't stand to see something broken when it can be easily fixed. But my underwater rant (trust me, I have a lenghty one) isn't really for this thread.

[Jazzepi]

TC, the nation who only conquers the AI. I actually did rush Arco in the very beginning and we had a nice fight, but that's been pretty much it this game.

Jazzepi