It was a fun set. Lots of action, lots onlining and lots of trashtalk. Influencing someone's style of play solely through ingame messaging is the most efficient strategy there is
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By the end it was obvious the win would be pretty safe. The buy outs were all Disl's idea. They got tougher to do as you were on to us. We changed strategy (that was pretty much my only major tactical input) to just keep your troops on the market and buy you guys out completely in the last day(s) of the set leaving you with a ton of cash and no market to spend it on. It would have been such a neat way of winning with you guys producing our networth
. That didn't really work since you changed to stoat. I still don't get that. Sure you can make leaders real fast, but with this land, who can't? Suiciding our leaders was also kind of pointless with me being very active and a 22 hit limit. We also controled most of the market at that point. If you would just keep killing our leaders while playing indy and by taking our land, it would have been much tougher. I've seen what Disl can produce as a rat. It would take a lot of cash to buy you guys out.
I have played a ton of prom back in its starting years ('03 - '10). I've played sets with only a 20 active empires but also sets with at some point over 200 active empires. I have never played on servers with this few active players. It was pretty obvious that activity was the key in this set up with this market. I can only say I will not be doing that again. I was fortunate to have had 6 weeks off from work in this set (combo of holidays, vacation and faternity leave) being able to do the hyperactive style that I played. I'm still deleting all the screencaps I took on my phone from comparing nw, market amounts, ...
As for the "networth change notification program" that sevz and snare think I use. I never confirmed/declined, so you guys were always on your toes, but I do NOT have that. The first times that I caught you online were plain luck, later on it became luck combined with the recurring times when you guys were doing your runs. Again being active (and observant) was the key.
As for the market, Shadow, I'd keep it in place for at least a few sets. This might have been a one time thing since it might be tough to redo it. With this few players, I'm afraid 1 or 2 wolfs will always have the advantage making the leaderstrategy even more overpowered. That power would diminish with a big playerbase. Very hard to see what it would do with a big playerbase, but I think it would do more where it was designed for. It was designed to make the game more balanced, but I think it might unbalance it at this point.
Lastly, I had all the networth in the end just for safety reasons. I suggested sending it all to Disl the moment before the set ended but he refused. This win is all on him. He did a ton of thinking while having to put up with my spam on Messenger, my dumb moves (I still don't know who got that 20bil
) and my questions. Shadows food and money injections and him being a decoy appearing to be kind of neutral were a major part of the win also.
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