The Developer Multiplayer Clash - Every Tuesday at 15:00CET

[Serpent]

Ikhi, Emperor of bordergore.

 

[Zerodv]

Any idea how the Hugbox could deal with the Inca?

 

[Dnote]

Well, I was going to form Japan anyways, there was little reason to stay Uesugi now.

What I am curious about is why Qing has taken some of my land?

 

[Gratak]

Anyone realizing how bugged those big battles are atm? In at least two cases a battle went on for 3 month without a single casualty, because one side was not deploying troops anymore but still the battle did not end:
All times in the twitch video:
1:26:40: End of the battle Persia vs Ethiopia. Nothing happens for at least a month, though they don't show this battle very long
1:27:00: Korea vs Coalition. They go there at 28 of November and no casualties until battle ends at end of february!
Pretty sure the same happened in some battles again Brunei.

 

[Wagonlitz]

What I am curious about is why Qing has taken some of my land?

The AI probably lost a war to Qing---probably a war it started itself.

(Or most likely you were forced to return land to Qing when the hugbox peaced you out of the war.)

 

[Lordban]

There could also have been a revolt the AI did not handle, flipping back provinces.

 

[PsychoLold]

Anyone realizing how bugged those big battles are atm? In at least two cases a battle went on for 3 month without a single casualty, because one side was not deploying troops anymore but still the battle did not end:
All times in the twitch video:
1:26:40: End of the battle Persia vs Ethiopia. Nothing happens for at least a month, though they don't show this battle very long
1:27:00: Korea vs Coalition. They go there at 28 of November and no casualties until battle ends at end of february!
Pretty sure the same happened in some battles again Brunei.

I think they mentioned this in the discussion after the session as well. Might be linked to this line in the patch notes:

Battles should now not end if there is enough reserve still waiting to fight

There could also have been a revolt the AI did not handle, flipping back provinces.

My guess is that it was the work of Qing rebels originating from Korea.

 

[Gratak]

I think they mentioned this in the discussion after the session as well. Might be linked to this line in the patch notes:

Indeed. And they also told about not being able to retreat... I was wondering why they did not retreat from battles they were losing before their artillery is destroyed... I certainly hope those issues are going to be fixed in the release patch because that sound unplayable...

 

[Werther]

The war at the beginning of the session was really cool, even if the coalition won against the korean alliance, it was truly a world war. I don't care about the coalition, but as I'm a StarNan fanboy (even if he was a Protoss player ^^), I was rooting for them (but not on the korean front). StarNan is always impressive, only some month after the end of the Brunei war, he crushed the Kilwan-Ethiopian alliance alone, without the support of Vijy... and he can field 160 mercs, hundreds of heavy ship, maintain his forts and still earn 80 d per month... same thing for score, he is in the top without his VC. I'm sorry, but that's really impressive.

LetterZ did the same as the last dev clash: he is isolated in a nothern country (sweden, korea), was at peace during all the campaign or fight AI, and was crushed in the 18th century by Ikhi/StarNan alliance... exactly the same fate.

 

[sfchammer]

I had such a crush on Kim Catrall back when that movie was released ... your version of the poster is just ... disturbing.

 

[Chaingun]

I think they mentioned this in the discussion after the session as well. Might be linked to this line in the patch notes:

My guess is that it was the work of Qing rebels originating from Korea.

LOL @ picture, AI development in a nutshell. (Yeah unrelated, but that was my first thought.)

 

[Politic Revolutionnaire]

Though this dev mp is not yet over, I would like to suggest for the next one you spawn our role-playing god Groggy as Jan Mayen and have the rest of the multiplayer players attempt to defeat him or survive until 1821, it would be nice to see the dynamic as players strive for both score and survival and to see how they work together. Of course Groggy will have an insane advantage, but I trust him to keep it interesting. The scenario would also probably encourage the most aggressive expansion by the devs we have seen as they try to build an economic base before they die, maybe have to nerf jan mayen slightly or not have a player control it at all, but still it would be one of the most interesting dev games yet.

 

[Gratak]

Though this dev mp is not yet over, I would like to suggest for the next one you spawn our role-playing god Groggy as Jan Mayen and have the rest of the multiplayer players attempt to defeat him or survive until 1821, it would be nice to see the dynamic as players strive for both score and survival and to see how they work together. Of course Groggy will have an insane advantage, but I trust him to keep it interesting. The scenario would also probably encourage the most aggressive expansion by the devs we have seen as they try to build an economic base before they die, maybe have to nerf jan mayen slightly or not have a player control it at all, but still it would be one of the most interesting dev games yet.

Sounds fun^^ Smashing hug-boxes

 

[Politic Revolutionnaire]

Sounds fun^^ Smashing hug-boxes

Well since the past couple games have had such large hug boxes might as well add a new dynamic to them, fear.

 

[sabrewolfacs]

@Bratyn: Unless you have already done so: learn from StarNaN's foolish mistake in the last Dev MP game and fortify Galapagos. He lost his VC because he could not cross the straight to Venice, handing Wiz the victory.
While they may still be able to siege it down if they control the high seas, it is much harder for them to do so.

Remember: you are the next after they eliminated Da9l's, Korea's and Kilwa's VCs. And now with the 4k card on North Africa, the axis of evil hug-box can probably count on Johan joining the dark side defending

@all: Please, please, please shake up things a bit. At least in the last game the leagues were surprisingly evenly matched (Austria+PLC+Spain vs. France+GB+Ottomans+Portugal+Ethiopia+Mughals+Malwa+most colonial nations)

 

[Bratyn]

@Bratyn: Unless you have already done so: learn from StarNaN's foolish mistake in the last Dev MP game and fortify Galapagos. He lost his VC because he could not cross the straight to Venice, handing Wiz the victory.
While they may still be able to siege it down if they control the high seas, it is much harder for them to do so.

Remember: you are the next after they eliminated Da9l's, Korea's and Kilwa's VCs. And now with the 4k card on North Africa, the axis of evil hug-box can probably count on Johan joining the dark side defending

I am well ahead of you, but thanks for the concern It was the first thing I built there. I also intend to prevent hostile control of the high seas at all costs. And yes, we will have to see what Johan does...

 

[StarNaN]

With numbers against us(230k + don't forget the 288k from Brunei), we fought against the evil hugbox. We did not fight because we expected we could win, we did not fight because we enjoyed it, we fought because it was the right thing to do. We knew it wouldn't be easy, we knew a lot of men would die, but we also knew that with strong friendship, passion, dedication and will, we could do it. We could save the world and so we did. If we can keep the world safe and peaceful forever, we don't know. However in 1779, the world was a safe place.

 

[Lordban]

#Propaganda #VoteForEvil

Think of the future! How will we ever see the Alliance of the Daniels if you lie about the other Daniel for defending his lands against unwarranted aggression?

 

[Wagonlitz]

So sad to see you not getting the 3rd place @Da9L. Don't think I've ever liked the sound of being dowed as much as when Z dowed Ikhi with two months back.

Also gratz with 2nd place @Bratyn, though really a shame you couldn't hold 1st. Can't really congratulate StarNaN in that he firstly relied on a monster hugbox, secondly buddied up with the Ottos, and thirdly let the Ottos fight for him... (Also with how he got most of his victorycards from Vijy selling them to him at the start of the session---i.e. he didn't conquer them himself...)



Either way today was a really really exciting session. Especially the last years where it was all about whether Da9L or Ihki got 3rd were really really exciting and Z surely did a great job in trying to mess up Ihki's cards. Really says something about the excitement when there only were 12 points between 3rd and 4th place...

 

[Wagonlitz]

Well deserved diplo trophy to Ihki.


Also Gnievom really should have got a trophy for the Otto's being 3rd in score despite being AI controlled (and with France, another AI, being in the top three too until this session).
Well deserved admin trophy Da9L, and well deserved mil trophy RageaiR---you indeed deserved it in that you were the only one to actually slap the Ottos around. Sure they slapped you around in most wars, but you actually managed to win some wars against them.

Also the hugbox losing 7+ million men with the Incan alliance of freedom only losing around 2.5 million in that last 38 years war is impressive.