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G.R.O.S.S. communication thread.

G.R.O.S.S. communication thread.

Cringe in fear do gooders. The G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy alienS) empire is now formed. In less than an hour we have jumped 95 other Pacifist Doo Gooder victim empires and lept into 40th out of 135 ranked.

We are an evil empire bent on controlling everything and showing all the other empires out there who's boss. US. Are you listening Euro-"Oh lets let everyone be a senator and give em a vote doo gooder democracy alliance?" We come for you.

For a limited time, (untill I decide otherwise) 5 Pure Evil games, (or just impressing me with your game evilness) submitted will get you a Senatorship. Later, being the evil empire pyramid scheme we are, it will take 10. Of course, being the evil empire we are, that gives you no benefits, no pay, but all the alien carnage you crave most.

Now we do realize that sometimes, you just have to fake being good. You sometimes just have to infiltrate that pacifist party. We understand. But we aren't a kinder gentler empire and don't let their pacifism go to your head. And just sometimes, you gotta let the Aliens live (where else would you find slaves for the heavy metal lava mines?)

In the future, we shall update each other in the empire via this thread, brag of our conquests, drink blood wine, and generally just poke fun (creatively and humorously) at those players whom we find to be too goody goodyish.

Our mottos.

G.R.O.S.S. Where being good is merely a temporary strategy.

Just win baby.

Here's your ration of skin you do gooder wimp Drengin slime. Now get back to work

EBZeroMatrix you have been made a senator.

I repeat. Cringe in fear, we come for you.





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Reply #777 Top
WTG GROSS! Knew you all could do it Pontius & Staffa deserve serious kudos. Interesting that the white council while only 9 members is in third. Interesting that they have all these other activities planned. I am subverting their galactic alliance by pretending to support their community endevours, thus guaranteeing they will be bogged down in paperwork and not playing (JK).
Reply #779 Top
Holy Friggin cow!!! An 11,ooo point game got nerfed to 1700. What the heck is going on? That's ridiculous. I had the same stats in that game nearly as the game before and now it's worse less than half the points?
Reply #781 Top
Woah, is there a rolling recalc happening here? Is the SQL still running?

Maybe they continously nerf scores based on the extent of the complaining by the gamer, Pontius. :)
Reply #782 Top
I like that idea. Every complaint gets a 40 point deduction. You criticize the referees, off comes 1,000 points.

Pontius: Just thank your lucky stars you didn't have your Fleet Captain rank stripped. And you are still in the Top 10. And G.R.O.S.S. are still number one. And Staffa is back to number one. But I lost top spot in the small maps as my last game got halved. Oops, 40 points gone. ;)

Gerakken: You mean that you got veteran status, and you don't even know why? Gosh.
Reply #783 Top
Gerakken: Grand Marshall of Unconventional Warfare, the Spymaster Gerakken. Indeed. You had to make that up!!!
Reply #784 Top
Pontius: Just thank your lucky stars you didn't have your Fleet Captain rank stripped. And you are still in the Top 10. And G.R.O.S.S. are still number one. And Staffa is back to number one. But I lost top spot in the small maps as my last game got halved. Oops, 40 points gone

Actually I was #1 on neutral and slipped to #15. . Dang.
Reply #785 Top
EBZ here, reporting from vacation...

Yea, I thought I wouldn't even touch a computer while I was on vacation, but alas, I broke down and did :( .

Anyways things are going great with setting up the Kentucky Fried Drengin franchises :) .

13 days left! Countin them down till I can throw the throttle to full burner can play some GalCiv :CONGRAT: Still lookin forward to joining back up, and to being on reguarly again!

Take care G.R.O.S.S.ers (btw, I miss the old flag lol) Alos, congrats to making #1!!!!!!!
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Reply #786 Top
Actually I have come to believe there is yet another error in the scores that will be corrected.

Medium cakewalk 2846
Small cakewalk 2832
Tiny Cakewalk 1466
large normal 3994
small normal 1664

Gigantic Tough 1684


So they'll get it fixed.
Reply #788 Top
We're just too tough to go down without a fight, boss. Mean, lean pirates we are. I told you that raising the Jolly Roger would do wonders for our morale and crush the heathens! :D

Chris, citizens are raised to veterans all the time without explanation. I am quite sure that few of the recent promotees to veteran could tell you what exactly did it. We can just surmise that we are doing something right. I am not going to lose sleep trying to figure out what the rules are, I am just going to keep being myself. That is all I can do.

And, I am the Grand Marshall of Unconventional Warfare and Spymaster. And don't you forget it. Or haven't enough raids on the enemy threads proven that? ARR! :)
Reply #789 Top
We're just too tough to go down without a fight, boss. Mean, lean pirates we are. I told you that raising the Jolly Roger would do wonders for our morale and crush the heathens

All have been brought under heel. No one dares stop us. But if they try, we'll just steal their wine and women again.
Reply #791 Top
Chris, I think I got promoted to Veteren by being the good fanboy that I am LOL

No seriously, I got promoted due to my many excellent and enlightening posts that have set many a Galciver along the road to Galciv nirvana.

Now I have to hear Staffa's reason on why he thinks he got promoted.
Reply #792 Top
Oh RayChua, I have no doubt that all good chaps and fanboys get what's coming to them. I am a firm believer in what goes around comes around. But nonetheless I just like to know the why of these things. Maybe Staffa became Veteran for services to the Crown.
And get those Canadians! Did they just release the game in Canada or what? Correct me if I wrong, but the Canadians haven't been successful in tiddlywinks in recent memory. Why should they suddenly do so well in Galciv (other than because of their bloated membership)? The Grand Marshall was right all along. *shakes head*
Reply #793 Top
I have no idea why I became a veteran, I only have
a vague idea on when I became a veteran.
Reply #794 Top
Well Staffa, I can definitely see why you and RayChua became veterans, so no mystery there. And Gerakken is a nice chap. But I find it amusing that a few people have been honoured but aren't 100% sure why. Oh well, its none of my business. :)
Reply #795 Top
Lets Welcome aboard the Survey Ship of Doom our newest Marauder RAMONIXLE!!!!!!!!



I'm just a citizen myself Chris. Veteran/Citizen that is out of my hands......So I don't worry about it.
Reply #796 Top
Well Guy's, and Gals, Under the new scoring system, I can be of no help to you by submitting. I need 3200 points or so to to increase my score and see no possibility of being sure prior to submission of getting it. And there's no way for me to tell since this version is displying 300,000 points or so at my end. So.... I'll be playing em to the last turn, saving, and not submitting for awhile till we get this worked out or more peeps get on to the new version. I hope they will be putting out an upgrade that will reflect the scoring formula on the user end soon.

Don't have any scoring advice simply because they may change it again.
Best advice is to play a balanced game. I'm leaning more toward econ boosters at the moment due to the change in mitresoft and the pop change in scoring. Grab all the wonders you can. Watch those leases though. On smaller maps, early in the game, too many of them can swamp you fast.
Reply #798 Top
Great news!! They are going to release a 1.05. It's going to have a feature from the new expansion pack in it. Better and more governors!!! And the scoring is going to be fixed too. Wooohooo. Froggy says it scores a bit higher. So I'm gonna download 1.05 as soon as it comes out and get the scoring scoop. Unless I am on vacation when it comes out.
Reply #799 Top
Pontius, FWIW they haven't touched my scores (yet), (knock on wood). Maybe problems w/ latest version of GalCiv.

Also would you all have a gander at the thread
"Galactic Appeal on Community Projects to all Galcivers"
I am in the process of making a 'strategy guide', incorporated from stuff aroudn the web. It is the ultimate tool for advancing the G.R.O.S.S. propaganda (just kidding). ANyway i posted good versus evil discussion.
Reply #800 Top
Cool Rob. I had a gander. Now make sure you tell everyone Don't bother with any research, you can knock out their dreads with corvettes, etc in that "strategy guide.

LMAO I'm gonna try medium crippling and see if I can score. Milk baby. It's gonna do Pontius' body good. HEHE.