2010

Already started playing with PReDS, save in the middle of week 2.

Tried to connect with Alon more than once, but he has real-life difficulties.

I gave up, on 136.
PReDS(blue,barb,Gird,Terek) lose Wicc(red,Tower,Daremif,Gunnar), 8XM12a, 136. Asked Yura to play on XM12, he agreed. We played with RP4 settings, but without obelisks. I immediately spent 113, foolishly losing a scout hero and seeing Bron at red's tavern. Then Yura, with one-day resurrections, sequentially deprived me of Shiva, Tyraxon, Bron. In the map generation, I was pushed into the very center of a road junction, and being out of practice, I got confused: a bunch of directions with castles literally a day's travel from each other; by the middle of the second week I killed 3 computers, then another one — a necromancer, took 2 towns, but still couldn't figure out what to do. There's nothing in the "treasure zones" with the towns. I never understood where the central treasure zone was, I had suspicions, but couldn't find an entrance. Army — wolves from the Citadel, external dwellings, and the native town. 1 Griffin Conservatory in the back of the native respawn, 2 trees in not-so-close areas I also never took. Despite a bunch of castles, constant lack of cash — on 121 I took two medusa hatcheries at the green computer's respawn and that was it, I found no other banks. On 125, Grechkin, roaming the desert on 7 thunderbirds, stumbled upon Gunnar with 6 angels, 200+ marksmen, 5 greater nagas, odds and ends, +2 speed. Vic started taking castles even faster than I captured them at first. Tried to find passages with Terek to 2 utopias, the corners of which were visible, but when yet another promising corridor ended in a dead end, I decided to surrender.
Thanks for the game.