From: duelge@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jason Duelge)
Newsgroups: rec.games.empire
Subject: UPenn update ... Temekula retirement announcement
Summary: Not too long, but don't bother if you don't like me.  :)
Keywords: You were all just bricks in the wall
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:36:17 GMT
Reply-To: duelge@schaefer.UUCP (Jason Duelge)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics


  UPenn continues to blaze...
  Two of the good guys have fallen.  Salamis and Sundiver worked over
WickedBoss and PlasmaTorp, winning strong victories.  It is now 4 vs
4.  The good guys hold 795 of the sectors, with the enemy holding
a startling 1065.  Salamis and Sundiver have been fighting Temekula,
Salamis has been fighting Aquitaine, beep and Liliput fighting Militaria.
It doesn't seem like any of the remaining countries has taken significant
damage, though.
  A look at the power chart shows :

    - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Aug 29 20:12:25 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
  Salamis 395   88% 240K 8.0K 5.2K 210  4.0K  37K 300  105K 6.2K 270   20  225K
 Temekula 250   96% 202K 8.2K  13K 725  5.1K  40K 350  109K 2.9K 180    7   85K
 Sundiver 265   84% 167K 7.5K 3.8K 355  1.4K  33K 4.0K 100K 2.1K 140   10   55K
Aquitaine 225   89% 163K  10K 3.0K 230  6.2K  20K 4.0K  38K 3.0K 190   20   30K
Militaria 220   85% 156K 4.2K 4.4K 205  4.0K  39K 250   57K 1.5K 160    7   60K
Stuart_Ha 185   99% 135K 5.2K 3.9K 395  2.8K  34K 2.4K  99K 3.5K  80   10   45K
  Liliput 175   91% 147K 6.2K 4.3K 455  6.8K  17K 1.9K  52K 4.5K 150    8   45K
     beep 145   94% 118K 5.1K 8.0K 515   13K  38K 1.6K  51K 3.0K  80    9   35K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.0K  88% 1.3M  55K  46K 3.1K  43K 258K  15K 615K  27K 1.3K 130  720K

  There is a small problem, though.  The spirit behind Temekula made an
agreement with his wife at the beginning of summer.  It seemed an easy
promise to make at the time ... quit empire when school starts.
School starts on Wednesday.
  I feel that the Temekulan side has a very good chance in this game.  However,
i won't be able to play beyond a minimal level after Wednesday, and that
only when i'm able to sneak it in (covertly...).  The Salamis coalition
has shown an amazing time commitment to this game, often playing up to 3
or 4 hours each update.  A low-key Temekula might be enough for the enemy
to win the day.
  The point of this long mope-fest is to ask some kind soul to step up and
put the time in to win this game (for me  :)).  This is older code, so i
would prefer an older code veteran.  Specifically, this doesn't have the
recent plane mods, so you should *know* what that means.  If not, please
don't apply, as you wouldn't be able to do an adequate job.
  Any friends of Aquitaine's are welcome to apply, as his butt is on the
line when i'm a non-player.

In related news, i'll be semi-retiring from empire.
Since BBN ended a week ago...or so i was told ... i have no problem
with that one.  It sure was great fun reading Mirkwood announcements
the last month.  Reminds me of what is best in empire.  That was an
enjoyable game all-around, although i was a bit peeved at the early
'contain Temekula, pick butts for 9 weeks' strategy employed by the
Albania/DreamLands/Lersing/(WREKage/Pern) coalition.  To be honest,
i enjoyed the defensive fighting, as did Dave, and didn't mind not
having to spend the time a 200 or 300 sector country would have
required ... but both Dave and I wished you guys would have taken
us out a long time ago.
  Anyway, i think the BBN code is the best code out there now.  The
powerful ships, SLOW war, better planes, etc are excellent mods.
Research for nukes is a good idea, but i don't like BabyNukes ... makes
the research pointless again.
  I'm probably going to continue logging into Iceland every now and
then.  I hope no one attacks (who needs the measly 15 sectors anyway).
Perhaps some of those countries that were mad at my earlier 'hints'
might do it out of spite, but i can live with that.
  For those that considered me a friend, i may play an occasional blitz,
and Yikes and i will finish our Zdone 1 on 1, so you can peek in on
that one if you are interested.

  A few more random musings ... as i drift off to sleep.  Anyone play
the boardgame titan?  I can't believe i never saw this before!  After
seeing it at GenCon last week (and buying it), i've been playing quite
a bit.
  Kaleb is quite the big guy.  He's in the 100th percentile for weight
now (only 90th for height, so he's a bit stocky).  The point being if
i'm playing empire again in a few years, he'll be my right-hand boy,
(Xandra my left hand girl) and he won't take any crap.  So look out...

  I guess this is farewell.  Sorry this is hard to read, i'm dripping
on the keyboard.  :)

  Take care, everyone.  Except for Stronghold, you can go to hell, you
lousy jerk.  Not HELL, i wouldn't do that to your George.  :)

Jason -- Temekula -- R'lyeh -- Sarnath -- NorthPole
  the younger half of Talakula and Temestrond

ps  Hey, take Lersing to hell with you Stronghold.  You two might be
able to get along