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I just submitted a painful gigantic beyond human for about 1700Mpts. I don't think I'll do that again and don't understand how people can milk games. It's really boring in the end, though seeing I could research Overlord tech in one turn with about 10% research and 60% spending was funny. I think the whole population-based scoring is bogus. I'll go back to tiny, which is much more fun IMHO.

Yea, that was my first game on a Huge map. Just wanted to try it as I usually play on large. It was fun to a point, lots of empire building, but boring in the end. My goal was to not fire a shot the entire game and other then taking over 2 minors and the I-League, I didn't have a single war with the majors. They all kept fighting each other like crazy (with my help of course!).

My plan was to win by culture but that is much harder on Huge then smaller maps it seems. You have to get Party Palaces everywhere. I was up to about 90% culture and had absorbed the Arceans and Torians and I ended up with a Tech Victory instead because I ran out of time because the Alterians and Drengin actually kept their culture up there, but would have eventually lost out. End game was quite boring the last couple techs, hitting the turn button about 30 times each.

Even though I didn't go to war, I had the biggest military there was and could have kicked anyone's arss that tried anything. Had 5 fleets of Dreads/Ranger with minimum 5 combat transports on all the major border crossings, just in case. This did cause me late game economic problems and I had to start disbanding ships en masse to keep from going broke.

Back to Large maps but I'll up it to challanging for the first time and see how I do. It'll probably be two weeks before I get my next game submitted.

9-10 June
JmgK joined Apolyton empire. Welcome!
LDiCesare 100 Painful / Gigantic - Win: Beyond Human
Captain Space 314 Simple / Gigantic - Win: Alliance Victory

~SDC~

The scoring mess wityh 1.40 and 1.44 threw us quite down in the top empires rankings. I actually had negative scores for the 1632 and 1700, now they are both worth 100 (which is still a pain as I lose a lot of points because of that). I hope 1.05 will offer a stable scoring system.

Under 1.044 I suggest not submitting anything but tiny games. Otherwise you really don't have any idea of the score you'll get unless you milk it a lot on purpose...