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Well, post Reba's explanations. Otherwise there's only talk like "excuses are even worse than saves". I'd be interested to read them.
Nobody will post them. Because nobody wanted or intended to listen to me or get to the heart of the matter. And I think everything was decided beforehand. Since Redwhite and Neo voiced a clear, unsubstantiated opinion of a general nature, without any arguments or specifics, showing a desire to quickly distance themselves from this issue, in favor of an invisible puppet master. Whether out of laziness, conformism, or personal grudges (and I allow that), they're swimming in "fat" (the vanity of existence) and are only driven by the inertia of awkward, mismatched flailings of their own shell. That was a bit of prose about "associates."
And the fact that everything is somehow hastily and mysteriously cobbled together makes the overall picture absurd and purely provocative.
More to the point.
Decisions cannot be right or wrong. A decision, I'd say, either has or doesn't have an explanation adequate to the player's skill. If it does - no matter how suspicious or lucky the situation looks - you cannot claim maphack (unless it happens constantly).
Specifically to the point
I looked at all the saves. Two were puzzling: the Pandora's Boxes with Ivor and the Utopia with Shakti. The player didn't give adequate explanations in personal correspondence, and I couldn't find any myself no matter how hard I tried (noobishness and derivative reasons are out of the question here).
Neo contacted me on ICQ with some vague suggestion that foreign opponents were interested in my games. Well, I thought, wow, they're showing interest! But it turned out Neo couldn't bring himself to say something like "they're interested in terms of cheating." And I, it turns out, was supposed to somehow telepathically pick up on that information and accept it. But I took that calmly too, since I often play on GameRanger, where a certain part of the rather diverse audience believes that if an opponent takes a long time (more than 4 minutes) or has very strong armies, then he's most likely cheating.
So, Neo did ask me, but only about two saves, and not quite the ones he mentioned here himself. Why this deceit or understatement?
About the first save he immediately admitted it was "nothing," though what that implied... And still he asked why I took the Pandora's Box with Iona and not with Crag Hack. Honestly, I didn't really want to answer, as a future opponent, about my maneuvers. I said Crag Hack needs to fight, and getting a bonus in the form of troops, magic, or gold is better spent using Iona's turn. And if we're counting MP, the cost for that Pandora's Box is 291 MP, not the 100 Neo stated. And that Crag Hack absolutely had to break into the town to reach the external creature dwelling on turn 117, to flag it, and at the same time grab the shield +3+3 and upgrades (and actually turn 116 was almost the most important turn) - and I already told Sticky and Javdet and Neo himself about this when I reconstructed the entire sequence of events. The Pandora's Box not taken by Crag Hack is obvious, but that behind it lies the issue of capturing a key external dwelling - nobody notices that!
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Neo did NOT ask me about the save with Shakti's Utopia!!! Well, if it puzzled you, then ask! So he showed indifference or didn't even look at it. But he made a conclusion!
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There was a conversation with Neo about Ivor and the Pandora's Boxes. Details are very important here (as it turns out over time). I couldn't understand what the catch was myself. I compared - and found it. First of all, you need to pay attention to the resource and gold line. Almost everything is down to zero. Exchanged just enough to buy the maximum army and kill the basilisks. Then a mage guild is built in the Necro village, and after attacking the dendroids, Ivor does NOT take the Pandora's Box behind them, but goes on foot to the Necro village to replenish mana (and only buys the spell book the next day, since there's no gold) via teleporter, and does NOT break movement with 244 MP remaining, as Neo told me. Every penny is calculated to the limit, there can be no question of breaking movement. How, in what way did Neo decide that Ivor breaks movement going to the Necro town, rather than walking? So it turns out he simply didn't look at the save, because he doesn't know the details! And that some analyst - did tip him off. Since Sticky during the questioning also thought Ivor didn't walk to the city via teleporter. What a mess! Regarding the situation, I should still note that if Ivor does take the Pandora's Box, he makes it to the city just barely (50 MP remaining), which would have been very risky and unfortunate if he hadn't made it - and this is considering the uncertainty of MP consumption when passing through the teleporter to the city.
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And again I have to note the superficial attitude toward the situation by the "authorities"... or perhaps deliberately? How many more black threads do you have?
