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  Title: My tourney and various thoughts about it
May 23, 2007 - 5:52 pm
Posted By: Oakman

  Going into this tourney, I really didn't expect to do much.  I am honestly supposed to be in Canada at Niagra Falls right now.  This would of left me with a little more than a week to play since I would of left last Friday.  Yet I joined up anyway to help me learn the new version a bit better and hone my skills for the main since it was fast settings.  

Oakmans tourney:

  My original plan was to just build an attack the last few days I would be able to play, and then sell my ship and hand the money to my team to use when I left.  After I wasn't able to start when the tourney started, this still seemed like the logical option and I stuck with it most of the game.  Trade prices were low. Extremely low. In fact probably the worst I've ever seen in a tourney.  If we all started off with pioneers, it would have taken forever to get into another ship.  I think I only traded for a few thousand turns, if that, and put the rest into planets. Then did the IGB snowball.

  My first sector was a nice 5 planet system with a colonist port with no warp links!  I figured it would last 3-4 days, which it did.  My trick to making some cash would be to consolidate once, then upgrade the planets as soon as they maxed out once. I think I built up another sector or 2 while doing this, but they had very little cash on them and I only built them up a little bit.

  The second day of the tourney I had some free time at work so I decided to upgrade my sensors and so some scouting.  Luckily I found a nice RS sector of the legion of steel.  I quickly bought a RB and took down the SD.  It was a 5 planet sector and 3 of the planets I took with no problem.  The other 2 however were heavily defended and had DS in an endy on one.  I pulled all my cash, took a loan, and borrowed some cash from my team mates yet I was only taking out armor every third attack or so, and this was a few hundred (the planet had over 30K armor).  It looked like I wouldnt be able to take them.  Luckily Big got online and allowed team transfers on his big planets and that gave me enough firepower to take them out.  I took a little over 100 bn off those planets, and at the time, it was enough to shoot me up to first place.  I put up a decent amount of SD, enough to make them think twice about taking it, and made some decent cash off them until max griswald took them back the next day.

  My plan was to hop in a voyager the next day, but decided against it cause I wanted to save a bit more cash up.  I ended up helping my team build up a SG with the money I made, and still didnt buy my voyager.  The day after I decided against it and sold my endy and RB and invested into a SC.  The plan from there was to build a shitload of little planets in a bunch of colnist ports and sleep in sol.  These planets had little cash on them and i didnt spend more than 200 turns colonizing each one.  Blitz then took my decent RS sector, and my little planets held up for a little over a day.  The 4th or 5th night in the legion took most of those little planets and my SG.  I had maybe 4 planets making cash during this time and I planned to rebuild the next day since the server was having problems after they took all of them.

Everything went to shit the next day though.  I talked to a few of you about this, but most probably dnt know.  My uncle has been on a respirator for 6 weeks now with ARDS and its still unsure if he'll make it or not.  This in itself is fine, I go to the hospital a few times a week and visit him and my aunt and cousins.  This in itself is enough to delay me playing the game, but I need to do it, and thats fine with me.  However, I live with my parents, sister, grandparents, and my down syndrome aunt who is 55.  The day after I was hit hard, I woke up and went to the bathroom and got ready to tell my mom I was suppsoed to meet a friend at hooters for lunch when my aunt had a siezure.  I heard her scream and she started shaking, and we called 911 unsure if it was a siezure or what.  The way she was afterwards it looked like she may of had a stroke.  She didn't come to until 10 minutes after the paramedics arrived and they took her to the hospital which she is still in.  The past few months her memory had been slipping due to old age, and it seems the siezure made it a a bit worse.  She barely remembers anyones name now (except me for some reason, and still doenst remember half the time).  They say she has bad dementia and it looks like the siezure triggered it and made it worse.  So that entire day I was answering family phone calls and waiting to take my grandpop to the hospital when she got into a room. The next day was pretty much the same, and I couldnt play until later that night, but this didnt bother me since all this took precendece over pretty much everything else.

  I rebuilt a few planets so I could make some cash and built up a few nice size planets in a few different places. I would consolidate constantly, and when I had about 10 trillion, I finally bought my voyager.  I barely got to use it tho since it was 2 days before the tourney closed.  It actually dropped my score quite a bit since I sold my SC along with it.  It wouldnt have been a problem if the tourney went the full time however, the move made me end up just outside of the top 5 by about 100K points. A differential that would have been well covered had I not bought the voyager.  Our team finished 2nd and it was a fun tourney none the less.

Other stuff:

Ship sharing: I knew the legion was going to do it beforehand.  Max was telling me about it even before the draft happened.  Since it has been happening in the main to some extent, I just assumed it would be OK in the tourney even though some people disapporved of the tactic before it happened (TH I hear).  A majority of the players playing the tourney didnt like it, although I could of cared less eitherway.  I just wanted to play.

Team: Claude (kilroy) did a good job of of being captain.  He tried to get us to work together when we needed to, and had a gameplan that changed day to day.  I liked my team and it was fun playing with them since I havent been on a team with any of them in the past, except maybe Big, but that was for a brief time.  I find it strange that I was drafted as high up as I was (from what I hear) seeing as how I barely played the new version, and what I did know was mostly building.  That was the reason for my main strategy being building and not attacking.  

Comments, fighting, and trashtalking: It's only a game, chill!

I think that about covers it. Overall it was fun to play in a tournament again, and I'd like to thank Alf once again for hosting it.  The experience in the new version I got from it was invaluable and probably set me ahead on the main server a few weeks perhaps a month learning things on a fast based server.

Cheers OM




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