Finished: 07 AM Sun 08 Apr 18 UTC
Emperor of the Western World
1 day, 12 hours /phase
Pot: 233 D - Spring, 915, Finished
Western World 901, Rulebook press, PPSC, Hidden draw votes
1 excused NMR / no regaining / extend the first 2 turn(s)
Game drawn

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13 Feb 18 UTC Autumn, 902: GOD (Moderator): Hello all, game has been paused due to a glitch of the variant, should be fixed quick though.
13 Feb 18 UTC Autumn, 902: GameMaster: Arabia voted for a Pause. If everyone votes Pause the game stop and wait till everybody votes Unpause. Please consider backing this.
13 Feb 18 UTC Autumn, 902: GOD (Moderator): Resolved, game on
17 Feb 18 UTC Spring, 903: Whoops! Didn't confirm my builds! There goes the game...
16 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 908: GameMaster: Egypt voted for a Cancel. If everyone votes Cancel all points will be refunded and the game will be deleted from the database.
19 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: Wait Bjarmaland can retreat to Karelia?
19 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: That really shouldn't be. It's a fleet and can't cross land.
20 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: Yeah, bizarre indeed. I could not believe that was my option. Do you want to keep going or do you want the Mods to come and pause the game and investigate?
20 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: In the interests of fairness, I feel obliged to tell you that my fleet now in Karelia now has the option to move back to Bjarmaland. Either there is a coding error in the map which means all current games would need to be suspended or let these games run and pull the game for correction or there is some kind of canal? Anyway, letting you know that it has that move option.
20 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: Yeah, looking at the map moves, it seems every game has this possibility. There's no need to do anything now, as I don't want to slow the game down on such a small issue. Perhaps should be queried for future games whether a canal was intended or it's just an error.
20 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: Yes, I agree that we should query this with the MODS for future games but let this one (and I'm in another on this map) continue. I'll open a ticket on it.
20 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: This back from the Mods - "Yes, this is indeed an error. I'll move this to the bugs section so Oli can fix this asap."
20 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: Thanks for raising the issue.
20 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 909: Thanks for giving me a fleet in the Baltic :-P
26 Mar 18 UTC Autumn, 910: GameMaster: LogicCure has taken over Spain replacing "lordgloom". Reconsider your alliances.
08 Apr 18 UTC Are we not drawing?
08 Apr 18 UTC Yes :)
08 Apr 18 UTC Well that was fun generally. Thank you. Alliances a bit tense and its exactly the same in another game on this map where it seems inevitable that there be a 3-way draw. While two games are too few upon which to draw assumptions, my general feeling is that this map is hard to solo. There will be a power rising in the western half and at least another in the east and likely one or both of these will have a close ally - leading to a 3-way. I think it'll prove very difficult on this map, where the players are all reasonably competent, for one to solo over the others.

In the eastern side, there will inevitably be a show-down between Arabia, Khazaria and Egypt, with two ganging up on one as happened in this game and the other I'm in now. Egypt is actually quite strong on this map, while Byz stands very little chance at all unless able to do some smart, fast diplomacy.