28/12/2008 · 10:58 PM
#65
I have to say the balzac blast right after server refresh was rather convenient. Sin`s UW would have gone into explore mode much sooner were it not for that incident (and will likely be repeated given its success). If this was actually planned out in advance, you might conclude that it was pretty cheap. Esp how a nearly identical UW on fast under very similar circumstances was taken down rather handily with the help of a few BTCs used on a specific a terran empire. Had the server refresh not happened or the sinarya UW had gone off sooner than it did, the same thing would have happened on fast server. This illustrates perfectly, side by side, the difference a few BTCs make in fighting a UW. If artifacts didnt exist, what you see on normal server would be more common and a UW would be much easier if you maintained control of the ranks.
Unfortunately for normal, the artifacts didn`t come into play again till 8 hours were left, while there were still 29 hours left and plenty of time for EoE to make their move.
So, congrats to Sinarya, but this was a UW that had arties taken out of the game during the most active period of most UWs.