Military conquest! A not so epic story from a newbie player.
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I've won three games now via the cultural victory, so I decided to go for the military win last night. I'm still getting my space legs as it were, so I was playing on the beginner level. I teched myself up to frigates and basically attacked the whole of the universe at once since all the AI players were so far behind me in tech, money, and general POWAH. I destroyed every ship and starbase in the known universe that wasn't my own, yet I couldn't figure out why military victory status wouldn't go above 33%. The AI players would pop new ships every once and again, which I would quickly blast ]to bits, wondering the whole time why the universe's ONLY military wasn't getting any closer to the win.
That's when I finally broke down--and by finally I mean about 30 to 40 turns later--and read the victory conditions document. Duh. Transports. LOL I was the galaxies biggest and dumbest bully.
One thing I did get out of the experience however was witnessing the AI do something spectacularly stupid over and over (it WAS beginner, after all). An AI player would approach me for peace, at which point I would hand it to them for money or tech, only to have them declare war on me again a turn or two later because they were allied with another player who was at war with me. We want peace, here's fat loot! Nevermind, we want war! Uh, strike that, we really did want peace--here's even more fat loot!
That's when I finally broke down--and by finally I mean about 30 to 40 turns later--and read the victory conditions document. Duh. Transports. LOL I was the galaxies biggest and dumbest bully.
One thing I did get out of the experience however was witnessing the AI do something spectacularly stupid over and over (it WAS beginner, after all). An AI player would approach me for peace, at which point I would hand it to them for money or tech, only to have them declare war on me again a turn or two later because they were allied with another player who was at war with me. We want peace, here's fat loot! Nevermind, we want war! Uh, strike that, we really did want peace--here's even more fat loot!
