A Test of Game Skill for WildEyes (Little Upsilon)

On Behalf Of Lorelei I present the following Challenge to the player known as Wildeyes.


<lorelei> I would like to issue a challenge to the player who calls herself "WildEyes". WildEyes is continuously stating that she is the best econ player in the game and has killed lots and lots of people throughout her Sim career. I thereby challenge WildEyes to prove her gaming skills to the Sim Community by obtaining game Level 15, which is the highest level obtained by a simcountry player (Blueserpent). If WildEyes is as skilled in war and econ as she claims, then I see this as an easy challenge for her. As the best player, as she claims to be, she should be able to achieve this level easily. WildEyes, you have 6 MONTHS from February 19 to achieve this. I will see you in 6 MONTHS. :-)

Not the same skill set. Obtaining game levels doesn't mean you're good at war and econ, it means you're good at obtaining game levels.

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Says the n00b who restarts every 90-120 days to live off of game level rewards...lmao

*shrugs*

I'm flattered you'd go out of your way to establish my credibility and concede the argument.

You proved the point that you have no game skill at all. You are only good at quitting after the free ride when the game level awards cease to fund your counterfeit empires.

How can a person, who has no skill other than pressing reset to get a GM welfare subsidy to support his game play, Criticize someone who has exerted a ton of time and effort to achieve the highest game levels the game offers?

If I were Laguna I'd throw rocks at you for even attempting to belittle any player for doing something you could not do even if you tried.

Pointing out the fact that those are different skill sets =/= belittling. I'm just saying that skill in ceramics doesn't equal skill at shooting clay pigeons.

You were saying that ceramics and clay shooting have nothing to do with simCountry? Oooh....

Cuz if you weren't I don't think you made a point at all in that post.

K.

O.o

Isnt lvl 15 a skill of balancing ECON and an army at extremely high indexes? You try it,Scarlet

and i cant war?


Hey Wendy

*facepalm*

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Not the same skill set. Obtaining game levels doesn't mean you're good at war and econ, it means you're good at obtaining game levels.<!-/Quote-!>

I call for a Venn diagram.

Out of curiosity, is Lorelei blocked from the forum?

I don't think so. At the time, she didn't have an active account or something like that.

And HI LG! Where in the heck have you been?

Ah, I see what happened.

Today I went biking to the woods. Now I'm playing chess. Tomorrow I'll be in a race.

In the meantime, I have to make use of my meager econometric skills to do some research about Okun's Law in Portugal.

Lorelei said her goodbyes and she left the game chat and forums because (or in protest) of a certain player elevated to a certain status.

some players actually reach level 15?

they need to share with us newbees, much much love

The level requirements tell you exactly what you need to work on to go up to the next level. Follow them up and eventually you should be able to get to level 15.

Population is the key, followed by paying a lot of attention to your worker balance in every country. Having your own enterprise(s) makes a big difference, learning to IPO-transfer corps and not holding a large military in more than 10-20% of your countries.

Hugs and respect

Jo

xiong, you are no more a newbee than i am, much much love

Jo,

Not keeping a large military in each country - couldn't that be balanced out with the industrial mix by country?

Much respect,
M. Ney

Not sure what you mean Marshal ... can you explain a little more?

Hugs and respect

Jo

If you went with a high tech industry base in the country(s) in question, that would free up a lot more low level workers to put into your military. The more agricultural etc corporations you have the smaller your army has to become, in order to keep everything running smoothly. So if you manage to hit on the right mix (with of course the educational system/pop transfers to back it up) - wouldn't that obviate keeping a large standing army in only select countries?

I've always been of the opinion that in games like this, the military should be the maximum you can sustain. And then a bit more if possible.

Much respect,
M. Ney

this game would be easier if we knew the rules. there are too many grey areas.

for example, if you know the rules of playing chess or checkers...then everything else is base on your skills and experience.

but this game, i have little clues of what variables after what other variables. thus make it hard to do well.

Thanks for the clarification Marshal.

By the time you are getting to level 13 or so, you can't afford to have any unprofitable or low-profit corps in your country(ies), which includes corps that employ a lot of LLWs. But by that time, your education index is such that you don't produce a whole lot of LLWs, so worker balance is not a problem - you don't need to worry about finding employment for the LLWs either in the army or in corps, because you don't have that many unemployed.

You need a DI of 200 to reach level 15 and FI of 140, so you have a choice. You can put high-points-scoring (but pretty useless on their own) weapons in each country (MIBs or defensive radar planes), using the fewest workers, and gear the rest of the economy to making as much as possible to get your FI up. Or you can put all the same weapons in just one or two countries, which will have lower FIs, and leave the rest making as much money as possible to average it out. Either way, the result is pretty much the same.

If you want a war slave, however, with weapons that are actually some use (fully garrisoned and with an adequate offensive), you can only sustain that in around 10% of your empire. The other 90% of countries have to be purely econ in order to bring the average FI up to what you need for level 15. An effective war slave will be lucky to get its FI over 70, even with all its corps maximised, so the other countries have a lot of extra FI points to make up.

Xlong - the skill in this game is to build an understanding of which variables affect which other variables, just as it is in chess. With chess, the variables are the relative positions of the pieces and how they do or don't protect each other and form a good offensive position. With Simcountry, you aren't necessarily facing an opponent, so the variables are more internal. But the principle is the same. The fact that it is so complicated is what keeps most of us playing more than a few months

Hugs and respect

Jo