What kind of discrimination do you practice on CC?

[Hitman079]

i'm a world 2.0-ist or whatever. i played one game. OH. at least i died quickly..or did i? i don't recall.

[HorusKol]

having gotten round to playing on all maps yet, but I know that I don't like the freestyle game (go Sequentialism! - sequentialists have a plan... just one step at a time )

I prefer flat rate cards to escalating - certainly think that leads to a more balanced game...

[b.k. barunt]

The Africa map sucks really bad, but escalating cards is the game to play if you have no skill whatsoever. The weakest man in the game can end up winning in one turn.

[MR. Nate]

I'm a freemie, so there's lots of maps I haven't played yet, but would like to. The one that I refuse to play is Age of Merchants. It seems like a completely different game.

Other than that, I'm sort of latently anti freestyle, and anti-escalating. I don't have the time to invest in freestyle, and escalating seems to remove more of the strategy than anything else.

[luns101]

I'm a Beneluxist. (surprised luns?)

LOL

Anglican, in order to be a Beneluxist you would have to refuse to play the map because you have an irrational hatred of it. I thought you loved playing on that map!

Huh?? does that mean Marxists hate Marx?

GRRRRR!

On a similar note...some kid here asked me once if your username meant that you were a crazy fisherman. I guess they thought you were an "Angler".

[DAZMCFC]

any maps with a load of islands or planets/stars. crosswordist,usa apocalypesist,north americaist,ancient greeceist and a few others

to mandy leave Tamriel alone, it`s a great map.

[UnderSeage]

I hate jews...if that counts

[static_ice]

I hate jews...if that counts

shutup fatass!

[Stopper]

The Africa map sucks really bad, but escalating cards is the game to play if you have no skill whatsoever. The weakest man in the game can end up winning in one turn.

It may not have been deliberate, but you make it sound as if escalating doesn't require any skill. I can't put it better than Zawbanjito did all the way back in October 2006:

I used to think [Escalating favours the one-shot strategy over careful planning] too... but check out a game with only high ranked players in it. You'll see everyone spending 90% of the game making tiny, tiny shifts in position. Yet no matter how tiny, each one counts, and each one has to be weighed carefully with a total awareness of the entire board. There's no room for error in escalating... you won't have a chance to recover. Every single country and every single army needs to be taken into account. You have to hone in on the likeliest targets while at the same time blocking them off from other players and protecting your own rear, and this over usually no more than 8 rounds. Needless to say, you need to be so intimate with a map's layout that you could make love to it blindfold and shackled. Pedronicus, one of the best escalating players here, recommends forgetting all the shiny maps in their abundance, and just obsessively playing the same few over and over again with the same options. I totally agree.

Then, whether you're good at all this or not, playing escalating takes guts. Can you take 20 with 30? Can you reach their last isolated country and take their cards? If you don't finish it in one go, you'll probably never finish it. Screw up one time and it is done over finished. But if you pull it off... man, your adrenal glands are dumping everything they have right into your trigger finger! Oh yeah, wipeout! CC's crack cocaine. It's the hardest workout you can get without moving off your ass.

Oh, and I'm a every-map-except-Classicist. But I can be persuaded to play others on occasion.

[DAZMCFC]

that is perfect for escalating. live by the sword and die by the sword. shit or bust , go all the way until it is mathematically impossible. one recent game, i had 4 v 3 v 1 took them out for their cards and went on to win the game. when your down to a 2 v 1 and your praying for that 6 it is so extreme.

[Norse]

I avoid beaners

[Stopper]

that is perfect for escalating. live by the sword and die by the sword. shit or bust , go all the way until it is mathematically impossible. one recent game, i had 4 v 3 v 1 took them out for their cards and went on to win the game. when your down to a 2 v 1 and your praying for that 6 it is so extreme.

I'm glad you appreciate that. I didn't accidentally find that or anything, I just still remember it from when the bloke first posted it. He was joking obviously (cough), and when you're not in a high-ranking game (and I haven't been invited to many lately ), it doesn't quite happen as he describes it in the first paragraph, but that second paragraph is a belter.

I'll just repeat it again, in case anyone else who might be interested sees this thread.

I used to think [Escalating favours the one-shot strategy over careful planning] too... but check out a game with only high ranked players in it. You'll see everyone spending 90% of the game making tiny, tiny shifts in position. Yet no matter how tiny, each one counts, and each one has to be weighed carefully with a total awareness of the entire board. There's no room for error in escalating... you won't have a chance to recover. Every single country and every single army needs to be taken into account. You have to hone in on the likeliest targets while at the same time blocking them off from other players and protecting your own rear, and this over usually no more than 8 rounds. Needless to say, you need to be so intimate with a map's layout that you could make love to it blindfold and shackled. Pedronicus, one of the best escalating players here, recommends forgetting all the shiny maps in their abundance, and just obsessively playing the same few over and over again with the same options. I totally agree.

Then, whether you're good at all this or not, playing escalating takes guts. Can you take 20 with 30? Can you reach their last isolated country and take their cards? If you don't finish it in one go, you'll probably never finish it. Screw up one time and it is done over finished. But if you pull it off... man, your adrenal glands are dumping everything they have right into your trigger finger! Oh yeah, wipeout! CC's crack cocaine. It's the hardest workout you can get without moving off your ass.

[Optimus Prime]

I have never played a game on the Crossword Map, Chinese Checkers Map or Montreal Map. I never will play the first two, but will play the third, now that the graphics have been redone.

I also am really beginning to HATE the Age of Merchants map.

[Skittles!]

Never played Crossword, Space, and some others. I dispise the Classic map, but I'll play it if I have to (Like in a tourny or something).

Escalating.. I can't stand. Same with Adjacent.

[Beastly]

I avoid beaners

I avoid xtratabascos!

[btownmeggy]

Like many others, I prefer not to play Escalating. I'm too risk-averse.

The only map I WON'T play is World 2.0 (2.1 now, is it?). Though, I'm also quickly coming to hate Valley of the Kings.

[Kaplowitz]

Never played Crossword, Space, and some others. I dispise the Classic map, but I'll play it if I have to (Like in a tourny or something).

Escalating.. I can't stand. Same with Adjacent.

how do you hate Classic?

What's World Domination without the World part?

[kwanton]

The Africa map sucks really bad, but escalating cards is the game to play if you have no skill whatsoever. The weakest man in the game can end up winning in one turn.

It may not have been deliberate, but you make it sound as if escalating doesn't require any skill. I can't put it better than Zawbanjito did all the way back in October 2006:

I used to think [Escalating favours the one-shot strategy over careful planning] too... but check out a game with only high ranked players in it. You'll see everyone spending 90% of the game making tiny, tiny shifts in position. Yet no matter how tiny, each one counts, and each one has to be weighed carefully with a total awareness of the entire board. There's no room for error in escalating... you won't have a chance to recover. Every single country and every single army needs to be taken into account. You have to hone in on the likeliest targets while at the same time blocking them off from other players and protecting your own rear, and this over usually no more than 8 rounds. Needless to say, you need to be so intimate with a map's layout that you could make love to it blindfold and shackled. Pedronicus, one of the best escalating players here, recommends forgetting all the shiny maps in their abundance, and just obsessively playing the same few over and over again with the same options. I totally agree.

Then, whether you're good at all this or not, playing escalating takes guts. Can you take 20 with 30? Can you reach their last isolated country and take their cards? If you don't finish it in one go, you'll probably never finish it. Screw up one time and it is done over finished. But if you pull it off... man, your adrenal glands are dumping everything they have right into your trigger finger! Oh yeah, wipeout! CC's crack cocaine. It's the hardest workout you can get without moving off your ass.

Oh, and I'm a every-map-except-Classicist. But I can be persuaded to play others on occasion.

One big QFT. Every single part of it is true IMO. I'm also a non-classicist(?)

People say that escalating takes no skill and you can finish it in one shot, but everyone has that chance. Even in low-ranked games. You have to carefully plan each move so you can bounce back in case someone pops a 30-some-odd set on you. In this regard escalating can take even more strategy than flat rate.

[Skittles!]

Never played Crossword, Space, and some others. I dispise the Classic map, but I'll play it if I have to (Like in a tourny or something).

Escalating.. I can't stand. Same with Adjacent.

how do you hate Classic?

What's World Domination without the World part?

I dono, i just can't stand it. And there's more World in 2.1.

[Stopper]

I'm too risk-averse.

Not that Risk-averse, obviously.

[Honibaz]

I discriminate people who discriminates others

Honibaz

[Skittles!]

I discriminate people who discriminates others

Honibaz

Erm, doesn't that mean you discriminate against yourself too because you discriminate people that discriminate others?

[Honibaz]

I know what cawck mongler discriminates against, people of African heritage! He's racist I tell you, just read this from one his game chat:

2007-07-24 08:16:35 - cawck mongler: this b rt
2007-07-24 08:16:56 - TDiddy: sweet
2007-07-24 08:16:59 - cawck mongler: AUSTRALIA FUCKER, I GOT IT
2007-07-24 08:17:52 - cawck mongler: australia is superior b/c we dont let black pple in
2007-07-24 08:19:18 - cawck mongler: green I feel bad 4 u
2007-07-24 08:20:33 - cawck mongler: u r beside afriKKKa lol
2007-07-24 08:21:22 - cawck mongler: afrikkka is the shithole of the world
2007-07-24 08:22:41 - cawck mongler: the people monkeys who inhabit it r y it is soooo bad
2007-07-24 08:24:05 - cawck mongler: BLUE IM GOING 2 KILL U
2007-07-24 08:24:27 - zeus son: no america and asia are the reasons african people never have big wars with other places retartd
2007-07-24 08:25:03 - cawck mongler: lolwut
2007-07-24 08:25:59 - cawck mongler: green due u wunt 2 b ally
2007-07-24 08:27:36 - cawck mongler: ok green is a faggot yelo u want 2 ally?
2007-07-24 08:27:43 - zeus son: you messed up in the head man
2007-07-24 08:28:05 - cawck mongler: ur retarded faggot 12 year old faggot
2007-07-24 08:28:25 - cawck mongler: GREEN CAN SUCK MY COCK B/C IM GOING 2 KILL THE FUCKER
2007-07-24 08:29:18 - zeus son: why how old are you
2007-07-24 08:29:46 - cawck mongler: f*ck u green u r retarded fag
2007-07-24 08:30:19 - zeus son: tell me your age and ill stop
2007-07-24 08:31:07 - cawck mongler: u r faggot bitch g/b2 israle LAND OF JEWISH CUNTS WHO CANT GET OVER HOLLOWCOST
2007-07-24 08:31:12 - zeus son: comeon tell me
2007-07-24 08:31:49 - cawck mongler: u worthless sack of shit i hope u die im going 2 fuckking kill u
2007-07-24 08:32:02 - zeus son: you wont tell me because your a 35 year old no body that lives with his mom and has no life so he plays online board games with 13 year olds
2007-07-24 08:32:17 - cawck mongler: lol precisely
2007-07-24 08:32:35 - cawck mongler: THAT DOESNT CHANG THE FACT THAT YOUR WORTHLESS FAGGOT THAT IM GOIN 2 KILL
2007-07-24 08:33:35 - spectacle: Ya gotta problem with jews my man?
2007-07-24 08:33:39 - cawck mongler: green, u r gay
2007-07-24 08:33:49 - spectacle: I'm taking red out and then silencing him
2007-07-24 08:33:58 - cawck mongler: no im jewish myself, i just do not like wut israel is doing rite now
2007-07-24 08:34:21 - cawck mongler: yelo we were friends remeber gud times we shared so happy
2007-07-24 08:35:04 - cawck mongler: did u know that the sons and daghters of hollowcost vitims are suing the German government because 'the sorrow past on to their generation' lol
2007-07-24 08:35:27 - cawck mongler: way 2 proove ur stereotype wrong fags
2007-07-24 08:35:33 - spectacle: I have no idea who this guy is
2007-07-24 08:36:40 - cawck mongler: my names Dov Charnesky
2007-07-24 08:36:51 - zeus son: ok if your going to kill me then i will tell you my phone muber and where i live
2007-07-24 08:37:06 - zeus son: and thats not your name
2007-07-24 08:37:18 - cawck mongler: k i will b thar 2morrow
2007-07-24 08:37:25 - cawck mongler: yes it is
2007-07-24 08:37:26 - zeus son: .
2007-07-24 08:37:58 - cawck mongler: DOV CHARNESKY IS SO FINE, DRINKING HIS IMPORTED CAVIER AND JEWISH WINE
2007-07-24 08:38:29 - zeus son: 14 tureman ln Yonker which is in cape cod and (516) 237-8574
2007-07-24 08:38:36 - cawck mongler: SOMETIMES HES ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLING GOVERNMENT FUNDS, BUT HE JUST SAYS ITS ALL 4 FUNS
2007-07-24 08:39:11 - cawck mongler: lol k I'm in Darfur right now, be there in a jiffy
2007-07-24 08:40:16 - cawck mongler: i bet i know y u havnt attacked afrikkka yet green
2007-07-24 08:40:47 - cawck mongler: YOU'LL GET ROBBED 4 CRACK MONEY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2007-07-24 08:41:51 - cawck mongler: hey green, whats your name, I'm going try calling your number lol
2007-07-24 08:43:12 - zeus son: dan
2007-07-24 08:44:37 - zeus son: and yes my mom works there in a big biss in south africa and i went there and it was really nice and everyone there was nice unlike here
2007-07-24 08:45:33 - cawck mongler: I just called and they said no 1 by that name lives there
2007-07-24 08:45:46 - cawck mongler: 'hello is dan there'
2007-07-24 08:46:19 - cawck mongler: 'no, no one by that goes by that name lives here, I am afraid you may have the wrong number'
2007-07-24 08:46:31 - cawck mongler: proof^
2007-07-24 08:46:44 - zeus son: ok thats not me whatever the only thing ill tell you is that i llive in cali
2007-07-24 08:47:37 - cawck mongler: w/e c u 2morrow in ur grave
2007-07-24 08:48:12 - cawck mongler: this game sucks
2007-07-24 08:48:14 - zeus son: why will you be there
2007-07-24 08:48:47 - cawck mongler: i hear about ur penile cancer and that u will die 2morrow, i will mourn ur death
2007-07-24 08:49:47 - cawck mongler: lol afteri play my next next turn u guys can eliminate blu 4 cards
2007-07-24 08:50:03 - cawck mongler: AND THEN ME AND THEN THIS NIGHTMARE WILL FINALLY B OVER
2007-07-24 08:51:58 - cawck mongler: that=bullshit
2007-07-24 08:52:40 - cawck mongler: green thank blu 4 giving game 2 yelo
2007-07-24 08:52:49 - cawck mongler: he will get neg 4 that lmao
2007-07-24 08:53:06 - cawck mongler: then he will have worse ratio then me 4 feedback
2007-07-24 08:53:47 - cawck mongler: ur cool gren
2007-07-24 08:54:22 - cawck mongler: fucking idiot 4 attacking indo tho
2007-07-24 08:54:23 - cawck mongler: fucking idiot 4 attacking indo tho\
2007-07-24 08:54:58 - cawck mongler: blu, up 2 u 2 kill yelo
2007-07-24 08:55:13 - cawck mongler: we all believe in u lol
2007-07-24 08:57:46 - cawck mongler: god u guys r stupid
2007-07-24 08:58:45 - zeus son: shut the hell up no one cares
2007-07-24 09:00:33 - spectacle: gg blue
2007-07-24 09:01:32 - masterkage777: haha
2007-07-24 09:01:59 - zeus son: gg blue and gg to everyone besides red
2007-07-24 09:02:25 - masterkage777: red pull the stick out of your butt
2007-07-24 09:02:27 - cawck mongler: shut up green im goin2 kill u faggot
2007-07-24 09:02:59 - masterkage777: lol wow
2007-07-24 09:03:05 - cawck mongler: masterkage i fucked ur mom last night, ohhhhh i bet ucare soooo much dumbshit
2007-07-24 09:03:17 - masterkage777: still have it up there ehh
2007-07-24 09:03:17 - zeus son: ok so urs saying that you are going to kill me cuz you THINK im gay
2007-07-24 09:03:26 - cawck mongler: good job green
2007-07-24 09:03:42 - masterkage777: ha you can't beat me that's all that matters
2007-07-24 09:03:55 - cawck mongler: no i think every1 qwho was playing this gam+masterkage is gay it has nothin 2 do 2 it
2007-07-24 09:04:41 - spectacle: hey green
2007-07-24 09:04:49 - masterkage777: your so nice red thanks
2007-07-24 09:04:51 - spectacle: Want to take red out and then battle each other
2007-07-24 09:05:05 - cawck mongler: who r u kage
2007-07-24 09:05:29 - cawck mongler: hey green, hes ahead pf u by alot play 4 reel so will i
2007-07-24 09:05:31 - masterkage777: i am the maker of this game
2007-07-24 09:05:59 - masterkage777: i think i will ban you forever
2007-07-24 09:06:02 - cawck mongler: bullshit my dad made this
2007-07-24 09:06:15 - cawck mongler: wait a second.... Dad!?
2007-07-24 09:06:34 - masterkage777: this is your last game cawck mongler
2007-07-24 09:06:44 - cawck mongler: i just checked, apprantly i beat u lier
2007-07-24 09:07:02 - cawck mongler: im in 3 other games dumbshit
2007-07-24 09:07:44 - cawck mongler: SUCK MY COCK YELLOW
2007-07-24 09:07:55 - masterkage777: yes once this game is over your done
2007-07-24 09:08:07 - cawck mongler: YOU R THE BIGGEST FAGGOT EVER 2 WALK THIS EARTH I HOPE U DIE IN REAL LIFE, I HOPE U FUCKING ROT
2007-07-24 09:08:18 - cawck mongler: wut bout other games
2007-07-24 09:08:41 - cawck mongler: i must finish them or else i will look like a jackass wen i deadbeat
2007-07-24 09:08:45 - masterkage777: you will become nuetral
2007-07-24 09:09:05 - cawck mongler: and god forbid any1 think unkindly of me
2007-07-24 09:09:28 - cawck mongler: so i will control neutral color in all games, sounds cool thnx dad
2007-07-24 09:09:58 - masterkage777: you won't be playing at all
2007-07-24 09:10:25 - cawck mongler: did u kow that in north korea wen sum1 is convicted of crime, the whole family is sent to a death camp lik concentration camps used in WW2
2007-07-24 09:10:45 - cawck mongler: another reason y chinks r inferior, in AMERIKKKA we got laws
2007-07-24 09:11:54 - masterkage777: you might be on a few more day's if they deadbeat
2007-07-24 09:12:31 - cawck mongler: and there be 3 zones in north korea, 1st zone is pyongyang where model citezens live, they r always fed, next is pple who arnt model citezens, just normal, they make up most of wut u hear bout korea, then at the far borders its where death camps are
2007-07-24 09:12:47 - cawck mongler: yeah greens going 2 deadbeat
2007-07-24 09:14:26 - masterkage777: lucky you have fun on your last day's on CC
2007-07-24 09:18:56 - cawck mongler: k
2007-07-24 09:22:05 - masterkage777: notice for cawck mongler
2007-07-24 09:22:17 - masterkage777: last days on CC
2007-07-24 10:25:21 - spectacle: I'm done with this game.
2007-07-25 03:01:47 - cawck mongler: lol so both of u deadbeat? i win!
2007-07-25 03:02:11 - cawck mongler: now i just have 2 ait 6 days
2007-07-25 03:02:28 - cawck mongler: 6 more days on cc cause u guys deadb eat lol
2007-07-25 03:02:57 - cawck mongler: fukk u dad i got a week left 2 play ur shitty retard game
2007-07-25 04:14:03 - spectacle: Yea man, so I guess you win by default because your so fucked up nobody wants to play with you
2007-07-25 07:24:12 - cawck mongler: Your chat in game 671874 is extremely obscene. We don't normally get involved with game chat but this is an exception as stated on the Rules page. Tone it down.
2007-07-25 07:24:43 - cawck mongler: I will suicide on whichever one of you spread these lies about me
2007-07-25 08:44:01 - spectacle: I can't believe thats all they did
2007-07-25 08:44:34 - spectacle: anyway your on ignore now
2007-07-25 09:06:04 - spectacle: wow this is so nice
2007-07-25 11:19:38 - cawck mongler: time 2 suicide on green lol ur day r numbered prick
2007-07-25 11:19:44 - zeus son: i did it
2007-07-25 11:20:15 - cawck mongler: i know dumbass y the hell do u think i just said that
2007-07-25 11:21:29 - cawck mongler: yelo u were cool im glad u will win this
2007-07-25 11:22:53 - cawck mongler: or u can try 2 eliminate me, ur going 2 win in the end
2007-07-25 11:24:36 - zeus son: really cuz i think ur days are numbered lol
2007-07-25 11:25:04 - cawck mongler: this is fun, suiciding on the retarded 1 lol i feel like im a good person
2007-07-25 11:25:22 - cawck mongler: both r days r numbered stupid
2007-07-25 11:25:45 - cawck mongler: thats kinda wut i meant wen i said id suicide on u, meens bringinng u down with me
2007-07-25 11:26:25 - cawck mongler: i get 2 break ur bonus again wut fun
2007-07-25 11:27:11 - spectacle: cmon bitch lets see what the tough guy is made of
2007-07-25 11:27:24 - spectacle: did ya hear me? bitch...
2007-07-25 11:27:41 - spectacle: grrrrr
2007-07-25 11:27:51 - spectacle: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
2007-07-25 11:27:51 - cawck mongler: whos bitch me or him?
2007-07-25 11:28:12 - cawck mongler: green if only u wernt so retarded
2007-07-25 11:28:29 - cawck mongler: lol no bonus 4 u
2007-07-25 11:29:51 - cawck mongler: gg green u put up gud fite, not shitty at all/sarcasm
2007-07-25 11:30:36 - spectacle: take the scumfuck outta the game gree
2007-07-25 11:30:42 - spectacle: n
2007-07-25 11:31:09 - spectacle: I'll f*ck with him so you can have the last kill
2007-07-25 11:31:23 - zeus son: ok
2007-07-25 11:31:34 - cawck mongler: lol yes b/c it will change the outcome wen im gone!!!
2007-07-25 11:31:38 - spectacle: Cawck your done. get the f*ck out of this room and the game
2007-07-25 11:31:45 - spectacle: your done goodbye
2007-07-25 11:32:03 - cawck mongler: ohhhhh noooooo id better leave be4 u get grouchy
2007-07-25 11:32:22 - cawck mongler: i wouldnt want 2 ruin either of ur game experiances
2007-07-25 11:33:07 - zeus son: f*ck you red alls you do is bitch
2007-07-25 11:34:59 - zeus son: yellow you should just win this game it will be easier that way
2007-07-25 11:35:09 - cawck mongler: howve i been bitching? lol u just bitched rite there stupid guess u shouldnt bitch
2007-07-25 11:35:32 - cawck mongler: corresction: yellow should just win the game
2007-07-25 11:35:48 - cawck mongler: everygame, player whos yello should always win
2007-07-25 11:37:19 - zeus son: YELLOW is had a w in it
2007-07-25 11:37:25 - spectacle: gg green

Honibaz

[Honibaz]

I discriminate people who discriminates others

Honibaz

Erm, doesn't that mean you discriminate against yourself too because you discriminate people that discriminate others?

Well not exactly, because I don't discriminate myself, but discriminate other people who discrimates others, please excuse my unreasonable sentence.

Honibaz

[Dancing Mustard]

The above chat-log was the funniest thing I've read all day.

I may just move it to Flame Wars...