I wanted to get through an in-depth EoG, but I'm losing interest, and quickly. Here's the quick version:
Turkey pretty much told me he was blitzing me because of my name/points/GR, metagaming at its finest, so Turkey was easily my most hated player, especially early on, but others would give him a run for his money later on. I was friendly with Germany/England/Italy in 1901, they all seemed like potential allies, and France seemed nice enough, though quite a ways away from me, so nothing could happen with him until later on. The Austrian seemed like a good potential ally, but he supported Turkey into Rumania in 1901, so he was on my shit list. Austria and I seemed to get on track, against Turkey, and the north seemed to make more sense for me to ally with Germany rather than England, even though I enjoyed them both very much early on. Italy talked a big game, about wanting to work with me, but he went after France, so clearly he was leaving me on my own in the southeast. At the point that Austria stabbed Italy, Germany apparently was super pissed, which should have been a clue to me that Germany was more loyal to Italy than to me, and perhaps he was hoping for a CPA. I kept hearing rumors that Austria was raging at several people, and Austria "misordered" a couple times that really cost me, and after he admitted to lying to me in autumn 1901, I had no choice but to assume he was lying to me repeatedly, which sort of jived with the vibe I was getting from him, though maybe I put too much stock into the Austrian talking on the forum about building his GR through live games, and to me live games encourage people to lie more than in non-live, so everything was pointing to Austria lying to me, repeatedly. Anyway, Germany was wantng to piss Austria off a bit, which caused Austria to want to attack Germany, so it seemed I had to choose between Austria and Germany, and given the fact that Germany hadn't lied to me (yet) and Austria was appearing pretty sketchy, it seemed to be time to turn on Austria, especially with Italy shifting back to attack Austria. So, I was working with Italy, to finish off Austria, and then Italy revealed his true colors, a major asshole that only thought of himself that was more than willing to screw me over even though I was supporting him into center after center, but the big problem was that the Turk was still most hated by me for his metagaming, so I put up with Italy in the name of killing the Turk, in the hopes that a GIR would rule the map before all was said and done. Then Germany stabbed me and I totally lost it. I thought Italy was an "entitled" asshole, but Italy and I had not been working closely the entire game, so Germany easily out-did Italy in the self-centered, scum of the earth sort of department, which was especially hard to swallow since the German was repeatedly doing stupid things like dislodging an English unit and allowing it to retreat into his own supply center, so I felt I had propped up Germany year on end, watched him squander opportunity after opportunity, and this was the thanks I got. I honestly was and am disgusted by the German, so even though it was time to help Italy solo, a person I despised in game, it was mainly because I viewed Turkey and Germany to be even worse than Italy, and by a bit of a margin. OH, when Germany shifted on me in the spring of whatever year, the fall could have gone much differently, I chatted with England a bit, because England and I could have crushed the Brown Scum, but England was more than happy to kiss the lying bastard German's ass rather than ally with a loyal sort of guy like myself, which kind of pissed me off, but England was still easily my favorite player that was currently alive and a neighbor, so I did enjoy chatting with him for the rest of the game even though he never really did too much for me from there on out.
So, all that said, this game was very enlightening. I am a loyal sort of person in real life and a loyal sort of person in a game. I tend to want to kill off liars and ally with people that are loyal, but it seems to me that the webDip population is becoming more "entitled", more "self-centered", more willing to stoop to incredibly low levels, and while it is disturbing to me, it tells me I must adjust my game to be more prepared for the bastards, so for that I am thankful. Though, that said, perhaps this was just one of those games, an anomaly, and I shouldn't get too worked up about it...
PS - Honestly, the Turk's metagaming really did skew this game significantly for me, upset me, and likely made other happenings feel worse than they really were. I had never played the Turk before, and in general I think non-anon games are not the sort for me, it only takes one person to "ruin" the game for me, so that's another thing I can take from this game that will lead to more positive experiences in the future.
Discovered Slacker Radio...
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