Thread: Second half of the round
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Unread 8 Jul 2015, 22:16   #239
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Re: Second half of the round
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Originally Posted by NoXiouS View Post
whatever zhill or anyone else said, that must have been luring in the background all round, they do have quite awesome players in tag anyway
At round start, we talked about our goals in Ascendancy, and it turned out about half the alliance wanted to troll and the other half wanted to carebear. We pretty much decided to go with the flow. If the round was shit, we'd troll. If it was good, we'd carebear.

About halfway into the round it had become clear that there were 2 reasonably evenly matched blocks that didn't want to make us (Asc + FL) enemies, so we started focusing more on doing well. You can see this in our size graph, which was rather flat until tick 450 or so, and started looking better from that point on.

Only when we found ourselves in second place on value with a comfortable roid lead (around tick 700) did we start believing we had a reasonable shot at winning, so we took it, and here we are.

So yes, it was always on our mind. Ascendancy has always believed in taking the opportunity when it presents itself. There was no long-term plan for winning, though.
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