Decadence and Disconnects

[shinygerbil]

So I'm feeling like a pimp. Don't ask me why. I just am. I get these feelings. So I try a little decadence (nothing major, mind you), and this is what I get:



Disconnect. Game after game. I haven't completed a game in a while. It saddens me.

But enough of the sob story. I can't help it if other people don't like losing.

Then, finally, a host who I can trust - Masaq. I've seen that name here on the forums, seems respectable. So I join.

Pretty early on, NA starts going out of sync, and finally drops. Suits me fine - I'm SA and I was gonna launch on him anyway.

Continuing on my merry way (involving decadence), I feel I am doing well.

Then this.



I never got to see the end. It's a shame, as I don't think it was Masaq's fault...

So, Masaq, did I win? ;P

(and to prove it was me: http://www.shinygerbil.co.uk/pics/pimp1.JPG)

[Masaq]

Yeah sorry about that; I don't know what was going on but you started syncing, about three minutes later even I did too with about 3 minutes left on the victory timer.

You definitely won; your decadance paid off and left you about 150 points clear of me. Although I'd done pretty shoddily all the way through the game (my own decadent mass-launch at EU and USSR was thwarted), I managed to get four nukes onto Moscow and redeemed myself with a finishing score of about 120.

North America finished with a negative score, as did Europe. USSR placed third, about fourty points behind me.

[shinygerbil]

Weird. Perhaps it's something to do with this 1.43 beta patch. Well, good game, anyway! I did notice that you were unlucky with a lot of your nukes. And I'm glad to see NA got a negative score

[Masaq]

Was ridiculous really- my magnum launch was well timed, and although a counter-attack from bombers hit a few of my silos I got a great deal of my silo nukes off and in a lovely group... and they got wiped out.

I launched 10 bombers in a neat line and they hit Moscow with four nukes, smacking them around something chronic. Made my score wonderfully bouyant considering the thrashing Cario got lol.

Will have to have a proper gamer sometime

[KudrigY]

There really is something with that beta patch. I just got better net connection, and I finally can host a decent (6 ppl) game. And, after 3 games as host... all 3 games ended me crashing after few minuutes (def 4 max, nothing more advanced...) (( So no hosting on 1.43 for me now. I can join to other ppl normally, thou...