son of a bitch!

[Jonathan]

What're the odds! What're the odds? At least Prydun has 135 MC of Ironium now.

[Jonathan]

Well, about 1/96, as a first approximation. But still. Son of a bitch.

[Alan]

I'm guessing this is about Stars

[Jonathan]

Yep. Huge comet crashed into my home world. It's practically a whatchacallit, total extinction event (Armageddon has been on a little too often recently). My slightly-recovering resource curve took a nice dip.

[Jonathan]

Luckily, huge comets are apparently made entirely of large quantities of valuable minerals. Not, say, hydrogen and silicon and oxygen.

[Jonathan]

Just for fun:

Martin - 77
Jonathan - 270
Joe - 371
Neal - 397

The first 20 years: Everyone does squat. Martin and Jonathan bicker over Accord.
The next 10 years: Jonathan builds up an attack force to strike at Martin. Joe and Neal do squat.
The next 10 years: Jonathan attacks Martin and halves Martin's resource output inside of three years. Neal really cranks up the economy and outproduces everyone else, including Joe. Joe and Neal both build fleets of escort ships. Jonathan starts a plan of recolonization involving Martin's settled colonies and some genocide.
The next 10 years: We're playing those right now. Whee!

[Jonathan]

Mmmm. I love the smell of victory in the morning, don't you?

Neal's escort ships last year: 61
Neal's escort ships this year: 4

[Dave]

no, i think that's the pizza you left behind your monitor last week

[quantus]

Mmmm. I love the smell of victory in the morning, don't you?

I particularly love the trash talk of someone who has only 3k resource output per year when two other players have twice that much. Also, Neal is only barely outproducing me. I've even taken over first place again now that you've wiped out his fleet.

Why not come bring some my way and see what happens to that rusted up old fleet of yours?

[Alan]

Stars trash talk gets me so hot.

[Jonathan]

Mmmm. I love the smell of victory in the morning, don't you?

I particularly love the trash talk of someone who has only 3k resource output per year when two other players have twice that much. Also, Neal is only barely outproducing me. I've even taken over first place again now that you've wiped out his fleet.

Good!

So young. So much rage. ::sniff:: I thought you'd be happy!

[quantus]

What happened to your fleet? It looks like it got squished.

[Jonathan]

It's in hiding. Clearly.

[Jonathan]

Alas, poor Lop Ears, we hardly knew ye.

[quantus]

It's in hiding. Clearly.

Yes, hiding from the game itself. I knew rabbit holes could be deep, but that's rediculous.

[Jonathan]

Some public player scores are more public than others?

[Jonathan]

When Ultrastations and Battleships collide: on the next Oprah!

[quantus]

Oh man, I've gotta see the next oprah then. Should be interesting. I wonder if you had the resources and minerals to load up the ultrastation completely. I'm betting against it since you have such a paltry resource income.

[quantus]

On further analysis, you're still way out-gunned no matter what you have. I'll just actually sustain more losses than I was hoping. Oh well.

[Jonathan]

At this level, it's all about who hits first. Neal's Penetrators (same loadout as a Lop the Lop Ears) didn't get a shot off at my starbase before they died, though they had almost parity in Jihads (albeit at a greatly reduced accuracy). Initiative and range wins when damage >> armor.