GOOD LUCK! AntonChanning

On the subject of useless techs - I've always explored all the available stars before I get to Stellar Cartography! I can see how useful it would be if I could get it early enough - anyone managed it? I generally go for the influence techs as early as possible too.

Thanks Anton.Kevin has been hitting the boards as well.The recruiting is a little slow.I saw that GangofMao has joined the Arnor empire.Oh well.We'll just keep plugging along and see what happens.
(Reference to earlier post.)

Now about the cartography.I have been working on a mod that starts here and goes on.It has to do with black holes and more.Yes I also am past the colony phase when I get to this but it helps to find the further planets to send freighters to for trade.

The survey ships start with the basic and work up to rangers and starhawks? depending which way you go.If you follow military then probably rangers get researched first and then the other.I usually make 2 to 4 survey vessels early and don't worry about others unless I build rangers for attack/defense.But this is only good on large or better size maps.Smaller maps maybe one more survey ship.If you get enough bonuses early then some additional abilities can get better to try to offset AI headstart on me when I play crippling level.On easier levels I will wipe out the other survey vessels as the AI won't replace them and get all the bonuses for myself.

About research.I will research all the other things that the AI don't and then trade for the military ones.The AI will research a couple of basic ones from each category but will pursue the military ones first and foremost.I will usually research one that might take 12 - 18 months and use that one as trade bait to get 2 - 5 techs from them including all the lesser ones.I usually don't ask for much money as that caused my only anomalous score on my record.But I will hit them up for all the influence pts they will give and maybe 100 bc as well.Then I will round robin them all with the same techs and hopefully along the way will gain another decent one and keep trading.Sometimes I will hit every civ 2 or 3 times on same turn with all the trading i try to do.

Don't build all the crap on the social screen either as 60% of it is junk.Mostly stick to PQ bonuses and manufactoring and one or two moral builders only(when morale falls below 100).The manuf. ones are great for getting the drop on them as far as wonders/trade goods go.I will pick my best two planets and build the one per race wonders on them so those planets can bang stuff out in a hurry.Also the one per galaxy on my best planet.Don't forget to defend this planet.

Well thats the tips for today.
keep PARTYING!!!
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Got around to finishing my game today and restored our 10k buffer over 19th spot. Just had the one survey ship zipping around the galaxy for the whole game. They are tough little ships. Even when my terror stars got zapped in the final battle, the survey ship fought back and survived!

I've been looking at the mods recently but I'm very nervous about playing through a game only to find that somewhere I've triggered an anomalous score. However, the available PQ bonuses for example must give a boost to your score. Feels a bit like playing using the equivalent of steroids though!

Haven't forgotten about you guys. How's me tab? still active?

Just didn't see the point of posting the data with no games submitted.

I put a strong performance on my bucks night.. I drank every body else under the table and was still able to tell the taxi how to get home. Mind you I was dribbling at 500 words a second.

Kevin out of all my games I have only played a couple that were UNMODDED.I look to keep the repetative events out by having as amany as possible to give each game alittle more randomness.The one anomalous I have was from tech whoring early in game and I had way to many bcs.I have added every single mod from library plus ones that I made.I wouldn't worry to much about 0 scores.I have heard that some are very legit games that something on the code itself caused,not the mods.Some people have 0 scores without any mods too.

We seem to be on a bit of a roller coaster at the moment - jumping up a few places in the rankings and chasing 15th before slipping back to 20th. Its very competitive

The new update apparently has a special mod directory so I thought I'd hold off until I install that before downloading from the mod library.

I haven't really been playing lately as work has been keeping me really busy.Working 7 days a week gets you kinda tired and the little time I do get I have other things to take care of.I still try to get by the community every day time permitting.Hopefully at end of month things should be back to normal.
I haven't heard from Anton lately and don't know what he's up to either.I will try to post another game this week.

I'm also trying to work on a new set of ships but again not much time for that either.If you look on modders page you will see a post I started about modders wanted for project.I am going to try to use some cars,vans,trucks etc.. for new ships.
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Well, I'm keeping the empire warm while you guys are busy with Real life I've been experimenting with a few smaller games that I can play in a couple of hours and dont drag on so long (I really should start using governors). Anyway, we've just squeaked back to 19 ahead of the Benzoians.

And whether you are busy with RL or not, the Spymaster still watches YOU. Just that he does not always make his presence known that often.



I know the feeling there. My problem is that I am so busy looking around and checking things out that my turns drag. The concept of pushing the turn button quickly without looking at much eludes me. I can set the governors up to handle most planets quite well, but I just got to look. Especially at what the aliens are doing on the map. I guess some people are naturally the sit back and enjoy the ride types as opposed to the get a game cranked as fast as one can style.

Yeah, I feel that unless I personally look after my planets I wont notice if they're unhappy or not and give them a morale boost or that they're productive enough to manage some large project now.

RL intrudes for me next week. I'm off to Mexico for a conference

Yikes! 2 days old!

The latest Metaverse Review is out!

http://metaversereview.joeuser.com

Headlines Include:

~ Fellowship of the Ring breaks 3 million
~ Evil Changes Form
~ Weekly Spotlight Empire

And More!

eradicus...you are a true hero...you actually turned JadawinBurnett totally around. I read the post and was just about to start attacking him, but figured it would just start him off and we would get another flame-war.

The way you handled that : Hats of

Thats what makes this community special

Sometimes a kind word is all it takes to turn a person around,but thank you.

I finally was able to get one game finished.Only three more days and this month of work will be over.My parents will be in town all next month and I probably wont get any gaming in at all.January will be the month before I really get back to any serious gaming.Real life has me so busy that its all I can do to drop by here for few minutes a day.Keep us in there KTK and hope that we can recruit some more people.Well back to work I go.

Well, that game now means there is only 8k separating 16 to 20 in the Empire rankings. Unfortunately, I'm only managing to add about 2k per submission at the moment. I think the tweaks mean you have to trade with the majors now or they get more unhappy with you faster so i'm having to adjust my tactics. I may need to take a break to recharge my GalCiv batteries but I'll try to keep us up with the competition.

Have fun in RL!

More help is needed for Hairy the Taco for Veteranship!
please all click the link below and add your support.

http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=112046#112830

thanks

~SDC~

Passing GG is just a hop away. Just a little more effort... Work those aliens, make them admit defeat!

I'm working hard, but with the square root of the number of games factor I'm only adding about 2k per game If only I could survive on challenging I might score more! Still, if I keep submitting at this rate I might make the Admiralty before Christmas!

Anton is just returning from some long business trips, making contacts for all sorts of purposes, visiting family, a couple spells in sickbay, and is half expecting to find his empire in a state of collapse. But he shouldn't have underestimated his generals! They are doing a fine job! Finer than Anton himself...

Hmmm, thats a point he thinks to himself, he better get to work himself and take over another galaxy, just to prove he still can...

...A large cultural conquest with a score over 8000 should do nicely...

I see we've over taken GG.

Oh, and how have things changed since I was last here! Evil Empire have a new Logo, GROSS have slipped to 7, and what empire is that at number 2?

Welcome back Anton
The have been several changes since you last played.There have been 2 additional releases from SDC.The version is up to 1.12 now.The meteverse had quite a upheaval about a month ago with lotsa empire hopping and new ones forming and old ones disbanding.We have managed to stay about the same thanks to KTK who has largely been the one keeping us floating.For me real life has gotten very hectic and I probably wont be around much this month.I will try to check in with the empire occassionally as I can.Refer to post 165 for myself.Well glad to see you're alive and returning to replace my lack of time now.

The #2 empire are several people from other empires that banded together.Cotal is one of them who changed her name several times and floated to a couple empires.
Their thread has some great stories in it.A couple of them should start writing some sci-fi novels.

Also the scoring has been tweaked quite a bit.If you are going to play quite abit then I would recommend d/l the newest patch as your games will get better scores.

Eradicus

Interesting. I was probably going to download latest patch anyway. Not sure how many games I will be submitting over the next few months because I will be moving house and changing jobs, and in fact relocating to a whole different city sometime in 2004. Probably.

But I intend to play at least one game a month. I burned myself out on this game when I first got it, needed a break from it, took one, and now I'm back I'm going to take it a bit more steady...

...After all, I need time for partying and such like in between!

Oh and I've started one of them 'JoeUser' blogs...

http://anton.joeuser.com/index.asp

...If we all do one we can create a PanGaea Cooperative group that we can use as the new Empire page. It will be a good way for us to post our characters and storylines and keep them in one place.

Okay, I've created the PanGaea Cooperative blog...

http://pangaea.joeuser.com

...when Eradicus and Kevin have time they should create their own blogs and request to have them added the pangaea blog group.

It is my hope that we can use the blog group to more effectively develop our characters and storyline than the current static empire page that I host on kiamagic.com.

What do people think?