Thanks everybody for the nice game!
Let me say some words to each of the remaining players. Let's go more or less by player slot.
1+4. Solar Feds, Kira Benodo, and Fascist Empre, Droll: With both of you I had little to no contact, so not much to say there from my side. See you maybe in another game!
2+11. Lizards, Ndek and Rebels, Hypnos Hanse: The both of you were my prime concern in this game. Your alliance was military very potent and had a high planet count, and was bordering my territory. I saw your conflict against the Colonial, and when I noticed you were making progress there, I decided to prepone my assault by a few turns to take the cOlonial space in the Zoie Nebulae, as a good defense area agaisnt LCCs in case of an attack by you. I wonder what would have happened if we really would have gone to war after the Colonial was defeated - it would have been a fierce fight. Likely the Empire/Privateer alliance would have been the big winners from that, so I am glad you finally saw reason and cancelled that conflict. Ndek, you were always fair and square and honourable, the Lokis you traded to me were valuable assets in my move against the Privateer, and our peace agreement allowed me to actually do something elsewhere. I was a bit troubled by your late attack on the Birdmen (my allies) planets, which we captured with significant effort from he Empire, but there is no ground for me to complain on that :) Hypnos, you were a pain to me, always trying to sabotage me, always forcing me to keep forces in reserve, and at the end of the game attacking me. Well done, from that perspective! But let me say, if there would not have been Ndek who I did not know would react in which way if I went to war with you, and the Privateer messing up a perfectly fair peace agreement, I would have attacked and crushed you after you were proving to be so unreliable and war-willing towards me :) In the end, you chose to end our peace and go to war, and have lost your 3rd place due to that, can't say I don't think "serves you right!" :)
3. Birdmen, Pertinax: In the beginning, you fooled me a bit. I was quite worried by your size and suddenly having some Bird Cloakers in my space attacking my economy, forcing me to divert resources from ship building program to mine laying. When we agreed on an alliance then, I was quite shocked to see your empire was large, but very weak (in future I will make more analysis on that before agreeing to alliances :) ). Your military power was a joke, and your economical not much better! Ok, you were under attack by the Privateer, which is a pain, so this partly excuses for that, still it was very weak. I was not sure what to do, as I suspected that in such a weak position a relatively new player ight also drop on me, putting any efforts trying to help in vain. So I limited my help, just doing the absolutely necessary to help in fending of the privateer attack. In the end, I was glad that you turned out to be a reliable, though inexperienced, partner. Together we were able to turn the tide, take revenge on the Privateer and shake the Evil Empire, making their Gorbies useless big piles of metal, weapons and Fighters in space! And in the end, repel that attack from the Rebel and turn him back! It took a very high effort from my side to do all the planning and coordination, but it was a lot of fun! I am sure you will become a very good player if you stick to the game - and from my perspective, reliablity is always more important than skill when it comes to choosing my partners!
5. Privateer, Saurian: We might still disagree on that MBR-Incident, but in the end, you chose your fate. My peace proposal was quite generous given the military situation, as I was more willing to get rid of the Rebel threat, then advance far away from my home area more in the southeast. You cancelled the negotiation, and the consequence was us crushing you - exactly like I told you what would happen. Well, that's Planets :)
7. Crystals, Umbo: Good thing I made the public searching for a replacement on Crystal position, and you took it! Didn't have anything to do with each other for most of the time, but when it became obvious that I would have to fight the Privateer/Emmpire alliance, I saw the opportunity to get you into my alliance since you were under attack by the empire. I gave you pretty much all what was needed (only a Hyperjumper from you was needed to actually take over some ships), but without your web-mining help, the attack and domnination of the Evil Empire Space would have been far more difficult and only half as succesfull. Also, your Webmines were invaluable in my deense against the Rebels, making any assault from him in the end completely senseless. Thanks for your high reliability, don't worry to much about the few cases where circumstances prevented you to do the required moves (only, would be better if you could warn me ahead if this might happen for a turn, so I could have considered that in my planning :) ).
8. Empire, Erku: Well, still a bit sorry that I had to decimate your empire that much, having fought the Borg and the Crystal made you the most active player (behind myself ;) ), so I think you would have deserved some better position in the end. You were victim here by reckless diplomacy of the Privateer. And I really think you would have been better of taking my peace proposal, even if it was harsh on giving up prety much your complete home cluster. You could have made up for the loss however in attacking the Rebels. Now, you just lost your home cluster (well, maybe besides two starbases, to bad I forgot that SSD needs to be fully repaired for IA to work), some more planets outside of that cluster, and used roughly half of your fleet in a fruitless attempt to defend your home cluster - exactly like I told you what would happen. Well, that's Planets :)
9. Robots, Zacha: That's me, I leave other to comment to me :)
Thanks again everyone, I think I will spend some time going through the game from various perspectives. Really happy the game ended now, it really took much to much of my time :) |
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