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CURRENT DAYS POSTED: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
*NOTE: THIS IS ALL FROM MY POINT OF VIEW, SO MOTIVES, OBJECTIVES, AND GOALS COULD BE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE PERSON MENTIONED ACTUALLY INTENDED*
*NOTE: EVERYTHING IS WRITTEN IN TIME ORDER, SO I MAY HAVE TWO CONFLICTING STATEMENTS ON THE SAME DAY IF SOMETHING HAPPENED, ALSO, NOT ALL EVENTS ARE MAKRED*

Forum Regulars Game (Stefan, Pandasecret (Me), janitorialDuties, crisismana, 6PAYH, Rosslessness, MathWiz9, R10t--, Roadkiehl, and Pmoney)

DAY 1
I peacefully arrange who gets what outpost with my neighbors pmoney, stefan, roadkiehl, r10t--, and janitorialDuties.
If all works out, I will get 6 dormant outposts!
pmoney seems to trust me, only sending 1 driller to his claimed outposts. No other player is in my sonar yet, except pmoney where I can see a generator and factory (no Queen spotted).
Stefan seems pleased with our deal, sending me a peaceful emoji.
janitorialDuties seems friendly, inquiring me about a post I wrote earlier in the forums.
Pmoney may become a difficulty later, as he is the closest, and I also may have some problems with r10t--. Both seem stoic compared to the other more jovial players.
Currently, I have no plans of aggression. My first hire is the Inspector (the other two were Thief and Princess), which I will immediately start shuttling around.
I have also scheduled my Queen to move from her starting Generator to a nearby factory (12hrs away), which she will do after hiring the inspector.
Next hire is Elder, Pirate, or Foreman. Probably going to stick with Foreman as my Queen will have arrived at the factory. Although I'd rather have the foreman near my border with pmoney just in case; I can maybe drill a mine.
Captured my first few dormants, I notice Roadkiehl move his Queen (to Shasta) close to my 3 recently captured dormants. Is he going to try to get offensive hires and attack me or trusts me not to attack him so he can wage wars elsewhere?
Crisismana chats me up, and wants to take an outpost (Garfield) I am going for. After some debate, I tell him I can just gift drillers from that outpost. That seems to stop his requests for Garfield. He talked about wanting Southern expansion, but I am to his Northwest. Crisismana stresses the fact that we should avoid any conflict.
All except one Dormant has been captured. Stefan contacts me about crisismana's strange behavior of wanting to demilitarize any border outposts. I also got intel that crisismana is at war with Rosslessness from Stefan.
Stefan also asks me what to do with his drillers at Tyrion, the outpost which crisismana has requested be demilitarized, although Tyrion is somewhat far from crisismana. I advice Stefan to either move drillers to his border with r10t, or make a mine at Tyrion. I tell him I'll make a mine at Benthic (along Stefan/pandasecret border) if he mines at Tyrion.
janitorialDuties contacts me about pmoney. He tells me he is quiet so it's hard to read him. I tell janitorialDuties I share a long border with pmoney, so I am cautious as well. JanitorialDuties says his treaty is "uneasy" - but no developments have taken place.

*DAY 2 will be posted tomorrow* - Should I edit this post, or add it as a comment?
EDIT: added picture

For day 2, I would add it as a comment.

Great post. Would you mind adding a screenshot or two from the game? Visualization makes this much easier.

DAY 2
After not playing for 12 hours due to a fever, I have now captured all dormants and am planning to build a mine at Benthic, while Stefan plans to build one at Hook.
Roadkiehl is moving his foreman to Shasta, which prompts me to message him to move the foreman away in return I will move my drillers away. I hope to avoid fighting him for at least another day.
Moved Inspector to Pandasecret/crisismana border, and will probably promoted to Security Chief. My hires could be double agent, infiltrator, or tinkerer.
Decided to hire Tinkerer instead of promoting Inspector, as I would have reached driller cap soon.
Public Chat is filled with bunch of random messages...
I forgot to mention that MathWhiz9 built a mine about a day in to compensate for his afk, and will win in 39 days. Pmoney gifted him a bunch of subs, perhaps to form an alliance?
Roadkiehl promoted his Foreman to Engineer and sent him back to his Queen's outpost - Albreed. I no longer deem him a threat.
JanitorialDuties contacts me about a possible alliance against pmoney, and my colorblindness is brought up after I couldn't tell which player was green. I'm not too sure yet, as no one has moved aggressively towards me. It's also notable that he has 103 drillers at one of his outposts. Is he preparing to go to war against pmoney?
Stefan has 132 drillers at one of his outposts (Hook). I really hope he will make a mine soon. In about 2 mines I will have built my first mine, setting me to win in 18 days. I hope I won't attract any aggressors by creating that mine.
I can see on the edge of my sonar that janitorialDuties and r10t are fighting a little skirmish over an outpost. Perhaps there is a bigger war going on? I will contact janitorialDuties about it.

pandasecret wrote:I forgot to mention that MathWhiz9 built a mine about a day in to compensate for his afk, and will win in 39 days. Pmoney gifted him a bunch of subs, perhaps to form an alliance?

As I am out of the game now, I might add a few words here. On one players request, I built a mine and funded a few people in return for some drillers every once and a while. It left me too weak and I had to leave the game.

Great summary so far!

Thanks for your posts, they're a great read! I agree that you should post your new submissions as new posts. Allows for some comments in between.

Once the game is over, we should collect all stories in the topic where we started te game.

I considered doing daily video recaps, but for it to make more sense I just recorded a video about the first week yesterday. I'll add one more recap of everything that happens after yesterday. I'm aiming at 25 minutes.

On topic of the actual game: I understand you wanted me to mine with my drillers on Hook. However, with you gifting all those small subs to Crisismana, you gotta see why I was very cautious to completely open up my territory without a strong backup. You hid a 6 driller sub behind a 10 driller sub, that made me careful!

panda can you reserve first page as 10 days story. so when some one want to read, he just need go to first page. from there you can add and edit comment from previous page too. i had trouble at read cause my mobile has not next button page.

crisismana wrote:my mobile has not next button page.

There should be a little "#" symbol at the top right and bottom right of your page.

DAY 3
I have allied myself with Crisismana, Stefan, and 6PAYH (although not personally), as well as with janitorialDuties. I am willing to help janitorialDuties against pmoney, as pmoney has a longer border with me and outnumbers me in factories on that border.
Pmoney sees janitorialDuties move his army, so he asks for demilitarilization on pandasecret/pmoney border. I agree so that factories are limited to 20 drillers each, and generators to 30. Although this allows for pmoney to fight janitorialDuties better, my safety comes first ;D. I did promise to send janitorialDuties drillers some time in the future though.
Crisismana had some sort of plan ready, but the lack of a navigator or speed unit made him put it on hold. It would have involved me upgrading smuggler to Tycoon, and then him giving me 2 factories and a tinkerer, so that I could build 2 more mines and supply crisismana with lots of drillers.
Stefan made a mine at Poseidon - the outpost next to Hook and where his Queen is. He was the one to propose an alliance between me, crisismana, himself, and 6PAYH.
I have decided that my next promotion will be from Inspector to Security Chief (hire options are Sentry, Infiltrator, or Intelligence Officer), to further protect myself when I build my second mine on my west border, which is relatively far away from my queen. Thank goodness for a smuggler!
Not much happening on my roadkiehl border, which means he is probably gonna build a mine soon or is at war.
R10t has built a mine, and since he has one more outpost than me that puts him in the lead at 15 days. My second mine should change that!

Funny you mentioned I was the one who suggested that 4 party alliance. It's probably true as I like to formalize an alliance and have a group chat to coordinate our steps. I figure that if all players are active in the group chat, it's easy to see if everyone is following the common goal.

However, leading up to that was your message that it might be good to join Crisis and you, before those gifts you were sending Panda might turn into an attack on me. I never knew if that was a honest invitation or a threat. You didn't talk a lot at that point, so that message wasn't taken lightly.

I was having very good communication with 6PAYH and saw that he was working with Crisis, so basically 6PAYH was the best part about joining that alliance. Also, other talks didn't prove fruitful, so it was better to get in this alliance than having 2 or 3 of my neighbours working together against me.