Ovatha Easterling
2nd February 2008, 12:27 PM
Tara, don't be concerned. When Brad gets emotional, it clouds his
judgement. Ed
>From: "Tara Silva" <vanya1@...>
>Reply-To: mepbmlist (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
>To: <mepbmlist (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com>
>Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] OBN DS Screaming
>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:49:40 -0500
>
>Brad I said every time I have seen you. As I said at the bottom of my email
>I was not trying to offend you. I was just using you because you are the
>player I recognized the most. If I am wrong about your actual playing that
>is fine. Since I do not keep tabs on you. All I wanted to know if the
>players who were complaining about the OBN were mostly DS players or if
>they played both sides equally. Please do not take it as an attack because
>it wasn't. Seriously.
>
>Serra
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brad Brunet
> To: mepbmlist (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 5:05 PM
> Subject: [mepbmlist] OBN DS Screaming
>
>
> --- Tara Silva <vanya1@...> wrote:
>
> > I am not sure if I agree with you Clint or not. I
> > would like to know how many of these protesting (or
> > should I say screaming players) play mostly evil
> > nations and how many play mostly good. Almost every
> > time I have seen Brad he has played DS is this true
> > for most of these guys.
>
> Sorry Tara, you're impression here doesn't accurately
> reflect reality. I've played mostly FP in my life
> (2/3 FP) and all my Grudge games as FP (expecting a
> new one next year as DS..). 2 current games are DS as
> I feel like getting around to playing all nations one
> day. One game we've pumped the market and another we
> haven't. I care not either way, and have been on
> record with numerous teams as FP not caring to affect
> the Market. I'm on record in a number of places as
> saying I wouldn't mind/care as a FP if the market went
> crazy and think it would benefit the FP in a number of
> ways that would make it interesting to play it out.
> Imagine the Eothraim or Woodmen running max
> mililtaries and never needing help..? Imagine if the
> FP never sold their 10-20+ thousand Timber a turn but
> instead *used* it..?
>
> It's very difficult to think that in the vast majority
> of cases this market scheme will *not* benefit the DS
> to the detriment of game balance in general. But I
> was proven wrong when I believed that the DS were
> already winning 2/3 of the games. So maybe I/we are
> overreacting to this as well...? Something to
> consider.
>
> So while I agree it's 95+% of absolute benefit to the
> DS, and frequent use of the Single Banker Nation will
> skew the game results towards the DS, I'm not
> absolutely convinced that these conclusions are
> "proven" in any way and in general, I react poorly to
> what I perceive to be reactionary and arbitrary
> decisions. I've made enough of those in my life to
> understand the odds of "correctness" are low (in
> principle).
>
> Regards,
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
>
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>
judgement. Ed
>From: "Tara Silva" <vanya1@...>
>Reply-To: mepbmlist (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
>To: <mepbmlist (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com>
>Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] OBN DS Screaming
>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:49:40 -0500
>
>Brad I said every time I have seen you. As I said at the bottom of my email
>I was not trying to offend you. I was just using you because you are the
>player I recognized the most. If I am wrong about your actual playing that
>is fine. Since I do not keep tabs on you. All I wanted to know if the
>players who were complaining about the OBN were mostly DS players or if
>they played both sides equally. Please do not take it as an attack because
>it wasn't. Seriously.
>
>Serra
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brad Brunet
> To: mepbmlist (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 5:05 PM
> Subject: [mepbmlist] OBN DS Screaming
>
>
> --- Tara Silva <vanya1@...> wrote:
>
> > I am not sure if I agree with you Clint or not. I
> > would like to know how many of these protesting (or
> > should I say screaming players) play mostly evil
> > nations and how many play mostly good. Almost every
> > time I have seen Brad he has played DS is this true
> > for most of these guys.
>
> Sorry Tara, you're impression here doesn't accurately
> reflect reality. I've played mostly FP in my life
> (2/3 FP) and all my Grudge games as FP (expecting a
> new one next year as DS..). 2 current games are DS as
> I feel like getting around to playing all nations one
> day. One game we've pumped the market and another we
> haven't. I care not either way, and have been on
> record with numerous teams as FP not caring to affect
> the Market. I'm on record in a number of places as
> saying I wouldn't mind/care as a FP if the market went
> crazy and think it would benefit the FP in a number of
> ways that would make it interesting to play it out.
> Imagine the Eothraim or Woodmen running max
> mililtaries and never needing help..? Imagine if the
> FP never sold their 10-20+ thousand Timber a turn but
> instead *used* it..?
>
> It's very difficult to think that in the vast majority
> of cases this market scheme will *not* benefit the DS
> to the detriment of game balance in general. But I
> was proven wrong when I believed that the DS were
> already winning 2/3 of the games. So maybe I/we are
> overreacting to this as well...? Something to
> consider.
>
> So while I agree it's 95+% of absolute benefit to the
> DS, and frequent use of the Single Banker Nation will
> skew the game results towards the DS, I'm not
> absolutely convinced that these conclusions are
> "proven" in any way and in general, I react poorly to
> what I perceive to be reactionary and arbitrary
> decisions. I've made enough of those in my life to
> understand the odds of "correctness" are low (in
> principle).
>
> Regards,
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
>
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