And probably the only one of its kind to date!

A few things that come to my head thinking about it (in increasing importance):

DarthDiddler, Multianna, and myself were (very) badly placed by the map generator. Multi was easily isolated from her allies, while myself and Darth had to fight to decide who could receive support from our allies, and who would end up left to wither on the vine. Additionally, everyone started in one system which (effectively) made it a one star instead of multi-star game.

Darth lost his flagship early, but should not have quit. Had he stuck around, instead of the AI, he could have caused me massive headaches had I supported Multianna and Happy instead of protecting my own empire, and crushing his. Since he quit, I could effectively ignore his world until the situation was in hand on the other fronts. In team games, its actually possible to continue being a power after loosing your flagship, even in early game. This is a huge improvement over 1V1s and FFAs, where that is not the case.

Teamwork won this game for my side, and killed it for our opponents. My side co-operated, and worked together, and thats how we killed our opponents. Had our opponents co-operated -- P5y helping his allies out rather than "being bored" and quiting, putting unified, co-ordinated assaults against multiple targets, etc etc -- they could have killed us. The others could have "fed" DarthDiddler resources, making him a nasty thorn in my side even though he didn't have the worlds to provide him with much resources, while his allies could have stopped us from rolling down their worlds one by one with a "mega-fleet".

Don't quit like P5Y just because you didn't get your way (he wanted a smaller, single-system map), you might miss out on one heck of a game.

Edit:

Oh, and while I obviously can't be sure, I'm willing to bet that this was the very first game of its kind ever played in Sins -- a 4V4 over the internet, that is. The devs may have done stuff in house, but we're the first players to have done it.

And boy was it fun!

A little more of my sermon on teamwork, but even my side could have used a little work on it. Because we tried to keep each other aware, we did quite well, but we didn't do very well, especially at the beginning, of keeping everyone on our team aware of what we were planning. Additionally, we should have kept more chatter going on our status, as several times one person had excess resources while another was scrambling for them.

You know what would help with team coordination would be support for microphones. Will Sins have that in the final version (or does it already)?

There is a team speak server available for Sins -- someone hosted it at their own expense from what I can tell.

That was a fun game Managed to take out Giant's flagship but missed his little colony ship jumping in, so had to waste some time/resources getting Krosovs there to bombard since it's usually bad when an enemy team establishes a foothold right next to your Homeworld (especially with your only ally on that side an AI), but then Ron just had to jump in with his fleet and then I gambled badly on being able to take out his Sova, just didn't have enough Cobalts left over from the prior engagement

And then of course 3 capitals bombing my planet was fun, too We could've done much better if we didn't have 2 AIs already by the time major combat broke out, but alas.

And yeah, teamwork in team games = gold, since 2 combined fleets will almost always > 1 And when I went I fed our team's only remaining human (yay PoorMan) player all my resources!

Slacker. Although to be honest I logged on *just* in time for it. It was a tossup between a Sins game and more Hellgate: London betaing. Glad I picked Sins, though

That's actually quite false

Not to nitpick, but being the only one who left without even 'losing' anything, the implication that you would've been a good 'leader' is quite farfetched The attitude just doesn't match that.

Hell, we didn't take it too seriously, we just joked about it when the AI that took over you decided to try to send ships to help my homeworld and you didn't. But considering we *all* did more than you in that game, you really shouldn't make claims like that

your wrong , but whatever.

well said Amanojyaku i have it the same way.