lukeiamyourdad Posted August 31, 2004 Posted August 31, 2004 True. I was wondering why people all forgot that I was alive. Perhaps taking too much time to get to tech2 is a factor. Besides, it was my first game in a loooonnnnnggg time. Strangely, as weird as the second map was, i really liked it. Lots of natural defense barriers. Very interesting.
pbguy1211 Posted August 31, 2004 Posted August 31, 2004 With luke's T2 time, I really wasn't too worried about him in game 1. That was my take. In game 2, it was near impossible for me to get at him. Strangest damn map I've ever seen on this game.
DK_Viceroy Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Shorline isn't that strange a map surely?
Admiral Vostok Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 I didn't notice anything overly strange, but then I didn't spend much time in the north or around luke's borders. I'm guessing that's where the oddities were. Then again as an air-whore I rarely notice oddities in the terrain
saberhagen Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Watch the rec. It was extremely odd. There was a big bit of water between mine and luke's bases with a very long ford between them.
lukeiamyourdad Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Yep. There was no way any gorund force could have survived crossing the shallow whitout getting massacred at the other end. It's an oddity that really advantaged my defense
swphreak Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Well, I don't know if I'll be able to make it this game. It depends on when I get back from visiting relatives.
pbguy1211 Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Well, this Sunday will probably be my last game for awhile. Once the NFL season starts, my Sunday afternoons are occupied by the Pittsburgh Steelers between the hours of 1-4 US Eastern time. So enjoy it while it lasts this weekend!
Admiral Vostok Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Eventually we may need to find another time to play. I'll be back in Australia mid January, and I still want to join in the games but I'm not keen on getting up at 4am Monday morning just to do so!
DK_Viceroy Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Where abouts are you know Pray tell? I agree Though It's gonna be a problem perhaps we could do the game on a saturday. I'm on GMT British time so that's one time zone we've got to try and get it in so far.
pbguy1211 Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 I dunno, pick a day and a time. Sundays will be tough though. And I won't be able to make ALL Saturdays, but some aren't out of the question.
Admiral Vostok Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Viceroy - I'm in Toronto (GMT -5) right now. I'll be here until mid October probably, then I'll be travelling around Europe on my way back to Australia. Then I'll be in Brisbane (GMT +10). Since I'll be the only person in Australia (unless Windu and Froz decide to join in, which I don't think they will) I'm willing to be the most flexible. If I have to be a bit inconvenienced, I won't mind. But 4am on a Monday morning is a bit much
pbguy1211 Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 I also happen to be an insomniac. Meaning I'm up all hours of the night.
lukeiamyourdad Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Yeah I don't mind late saturday night. I really can't on sundays if its too late. College kills my week days.
DK_Viceroy Posted September 3, 2004 Posted September 3, 2004 At least we're starting to get a new common time i'll do a bit of a parruzle and see i i can come up with a time that fits.
DK_Viceroy Posted September 4, 2004 Posted September 4, 2004 I should hope so. We're only discussing a new time is because now that schools back in as well as other things the time has to change.
swphreak Posted September 4, 2004 Posted September 4, 2004 Well, turns out my Uncle has wireless internet, so I'm connected through that. Now it's whether I'm on the road or not on Sunday.
DK_Viceroy Posted September 4, 2004 Posted September 4, 2004 Can some people also give me a few more cities to work with this site did come up with some times you can see em but they're not pretty. Is what I used http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html and this is what i got http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=11&month=9&year=2004&p1=297&p2=47&p3=189&p4=-1 I don't actually live in Birmingham It's just for some strange reason they don'y Have Newcastle Upon Tyne not that i blame them at present because the entire city is up in arms because they finally decided to get rid of the fossilised fool of a football manager Bobby Robson good riddance is all i can say.
Admiral Vostok Posted September 4, 2004 Posted September 4, 2004 Yep, game is still on this Sunday. Viceroy, that's a nifty program you found there. I think the three cities you've got there will cover us since most people are at least in the same timezone as one of them. If anyone feels they aren't represented, speak up! I don't mind getting up early Sunday morning, so one of those options would probably be best as it will be Saturday evening in the UK and Saturday afternoon in the US and Canada. However, we should probably leave the calculations until later, since the program is taking daylight savings times into account, which won't be in use come January.
DK_Viceroy Posted September 4, 2004 Posted September 4, 2004 Sat 9:00 PM * Sun 6:00 AM Sat 4:00 PM * then that line looks to be the most reasonable, maybe even an hor later is better but then that's pushing it for some. If there's one thing i've been good at it's crowd pleasing.
Admiral Vostok Posted September 4, 2004 Posted September 4, 2004 I was thinking the same time. By January daylight saving will be gone which will make it 7am in Brisbane, which is much better.
DK_Viceroy Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 I wanna apologise for disconning last night, I had a feeling it was coming so i gave all my resources to PB, The reason i had a feeling it was gonna do that is because my modem began skweaking which it's only done once before in the last 2 years.
saberhagen Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 I can't even remember how many games we started yesterday, but we only really finished one of them, and I screwed up in all of them! The last one, which we pretty much fought to a conclusion before the dropping started, was on a precipice. Me, Vostok and Phreak vs Viceroy and pbguy. I was on the right wing opposite pbguy, so as usual we fought a trooper war and I came off worse. After failing to get a worker acrtoss the river, I built 2 troop centres and a power core on my side of the crossing and started massing troopers there. There were a few skirmishes between mine and pb's troopers. I held him back but couldn't force my way across the river (he had a turret on ihs side). Because I was concentrating all my force there, I didn't have any troopers or troop centres in my base to protect my workers, which was really stupid, cos pbguy sent a load of mounties round the long way and started to tear my base apart. I didn't know what to do at this point. I needed to bring my troopers back to see off the mounties, but if I did that I knew I'd lose my forward base. So I just procrastinated for a bit, but eventually sent my troopers back and killed most of the mounties, but not before they'd wiped out my turret and carbon centre and a good number of workers. Meanwhile, the troopers I was building at the forward base weren't enough to hold off pbguy's troopers and as I predicted, the forward base was soon gone. I still had enough troopers in my main base to deter another attack, and once I'd got my economy going again I built more troop centres at home. Appeals for help from my allies turned out to be counterproductive as Vostok sent fighters to my protect my base instead of attacking pbguy's economy straight away. I kept fighting into T4 and was the last to get wiped out, but really my fate (and the team's fate) was sealed in T2. In an earlier game, things were even more ridiculous as Luke's dad and Viceory spent the early part of the game doubling Vostok while I got completely wiped out by pbguy! It was actually quite funny when my last 11 workers were slowly trying to rebuild behind Luke's base, and Viceroy suddenly told me to start air whoring! So basically, anyone who finds themselves on the same team as me and against pbguy can safely assume that he will spend the first 30 minutes or so trying (and probably succeeding!) to wipe me out. That's when he's at his most vulnerable. Once he's got rid of me and started booming, there's no way he's going to lose.
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