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This was a very fun game, though it was fairly simple to control due to the fact that enemies did not share any common targets with one another. This necessitated that non-enemies shared VERY compatible win conditions with another. As a result of this, once I found Flamestrike and General Spoon I was able to reverse-engineer the entire Win Condition chart and thereafter lie to people during enemy swaps knowing 100% that I was not giving them their own name as an enemy of mine once I had even one of their basic enemies. I added Celever and Lady Salamence to the alliance early on because they were honest with their win conditions and could fit quite easily into winning with the rest of us.
zorbees was a late addition only as a result of me running numbers and ensuring that, if I sacked one ship of mine, he could get to 6 points and still win easily with the rest of us. I never added him to our sheet because I was cautious as to give up my information advantage over the rest of the game and Celever didn't really want him to win at all, but given that the rest of us were going to win regardless I decided to give zorbees the win with the rest of us, especially since aska messed up his win condition and therefore he was playing at a disadvantage for most of the game. The only reason I ever favored causing him to lose (early on) was because I thought he was straight lying to me about his win condition, but later I realized that he thought he was telling the truth and it was on aska not him...the fact that everyone in the alliance got freaked out when zorbees gave General Spoon's win condition perfectly and figured he *must* have his own alliance/information source was kind of funny in retrospect though. We were all geared up to fight a massive war with a zorbees alliance with mills in the middle as a neutral in an otherwise 5v5 game...
Cancerous and penguin344 were active and I am sorry that there was simply no way to have either of you two win with us; billymills was the only mathematically possible loser who could've won with us bu it would've required literally everyone in our alliance saccing a ship iirc, and it just seemed way too implausible to actually do; as a result, we simply offed him first instead.
PokeguyNXB was a massive pain to get in touch with and I really wasn't sorry that we eliminated him first, communicating with him was going to be a nightmare if I had to keep doing it (I had to send him like a dozen PMs before he responded to anything and generally he responded not with the information I requested but with statements like 'what?').
s_aman was active via PM and was truthful, but sadly there was no way for him to win with us since Flamestrike was already foregoing 2 points due to Celever being in the alliance, and so including s_aman as well would've created a nightmare (and would've caused zorbees to lose).
billymills, if you had just talked to me the first night when I asked you to we would've won this game together quite easily I feel; however, after talking to Flamestrike I decided to go with him, which necessitated that Agent Brown be eliminated (who I did not know was you at the time).
Thanks to askaninjask for hosting, I thought it was a very interesting game that simply suffered from inactivity on the part of most of my enemies, as well as pretty poor upgrade choices from most players; Blasters and Forcefields were in general useless and only zorbees upgraded Personnel at all out of the non-Alliance members (another fact that made it much easier to simply include him in our winning plans than worry about the headache of having to support EMP him every cycle and hope he didn't get a Personnel support in return...)
Good game all, in the next FFA you are in with me I hope that everyone will talk to me first because I am an excellent ally and only ever lie/stab when I have no other possible option!