KillerBEA

Oh that sucks. Does it hold together long enough to install to your hard drive? It might be worth seeing if you can get a replacement/refund if it is unfit for purpose. Did you go anywhere nice? I have a trip of my own on Saturday. I'm going to my first uni open day at the University of East Anglia. I think at some point when I'm looking round it will hit me just how close I am to going uni. Still another year's worth of overcomplicated biological processes to learn yet though.

No worries about that mate.

Hehe, I wasn't too far off then. Good to see your boosting session went to plan last night. Now you're at my mercy for getting added into the Max Club (mwa ha ha). Edit: Just kidding. You're in the order of Pegleg Pete killers now.

I'd love a board game similar to Age of Booty. A mission creator would've been great too. If you could randomly generate maps and set your own matches up I would still play it quite often now.

Next stop on your quest - Melée Island, and the adventures of Mr. Thriftweed. Have fun.

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That's a good thing that happened for me. Once I upgraded the town they seemed to lose interest in even going near it, favouring fights amongst themselves. I was really lucky there because they only started picking fights with my towns when I started storming round the map. Level 3 towns are just a lost cause, so I think that was definitely a good call. The final cutscene should have been Pegleg Pete being given a final parting gift for his traitorous ways.

Okay, that's not a problem. Hope it all goes to plan for you. Hard 1 and 2 should stand no chance of living up to their titles after you've stormed through the rest of the missions the way you have.

I was on the wrong side of that last second score change 3 times myself. Would've beaten medium 7 long before I did if it weren't for them taking out my towns in the dying seconds. My favourite has to be when they blocked my capture of a town that would've secured victory on 96%, forcing the game to a stalematey.

Great job doing hard 7. I think success on there is very much based on how everything starts off. If you can keep them away from that gold-giving town, and then pick fights with the nearby towns so you can keep upgrading your ship you've got 'em beat most of the time. That being said, it was a dying minute scramble around the map for me too. I left nothing to chance and took out every town I could, and thankfully they were all level 1 or 2 still because of their lack of gold.

If you need a hand with the multiplayer boosting let us know on here and I should be able to help out (probably next week would be the best and earliest opportunity if you're interested).

That seems to be a pretty solid strategy in general when it starts to up the difficulty/element of luck. They can only really get to you by using those power-ups when you do that. Not sure which is more annoying - that monkey thief card, or the whirlpool.

Awesome job completing all of the mediums. I'm a bit jealous that you've made it through them this quickly when they caught me up for so long. You're on the home straight now. Only hard 7 really caused me any trouble, but that didn't even compare to the later mediums to be fair.

We need more games like that. It certainly deserves a sequel, and it'd be a game I'd happily buy. Hope you enjoy Monkey Island. I love the dialog in that game and, to say it in a way that won't spoil anything, some of the command prompts later on are brilliant.

I think my last exam went very well. It was the one I'd been most confident for (organic chemistry), so I have hopes of getting an A in that one. After the exam we got given the list of topics we'll be covering in my 3 subjects next year (chemistry, biology and maths). Biology in particular looks like it's going to take a lot of my time.

Heh, I knew...of course I knew but thanks for the heads up anyway

Durn Skippi.