[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="3326" id="3098845"]@Motti Being threatened is always a good sign! [/quote] It can be. The same AI's keep trying to extort money and send threats, but they appear to be empty ones. I built my two huge fighters and fleeted them with huge empty hulls (with engines, ofc). I went looking for a fight, but the ones with the biggest mouths didn't declare. I went with attacking the closest enemy, the Torians.
Hey Neilo, Snark, Sole, Mumble, Capt and Mina! [e digicons]:beer:[/e] It's good to see everyone gathering around again. I doubt a full on revival is in the making, but maybe the game has a little life left in it. I've started a new vanilla game playing the Iconians. It's a balanced game, so no "all x" strategies are in play. No extreme diplo, no ARC or anything like that. Being the Iconians, I'm not going to limit my
[quote who="dnzrx1" reply="8" id="3095196"]Good lord! What did you do?[/quote] I'm glad you asked. [e digicons]:)[/e] My veteran ships were taking a pounding from the Drengin, so I fleeted them with empty huge hulls hoping to sacrifice the empty hulls and keep the veterans. The opposite happened and the empty hulls got incredible experience during the scuffle while the veterans died. Since I allowed myself two warships in the game, I upgraded two
[quote who="SCampb29" reply="28" id="3087555"]For some inexplicable reason, the opposing powers, even the pathetic bootheel chewing-gum-spot minors, won't talk to me more than once every two months so I can rip off their money. Can't imagine why, I've got diplomatic translators so I'm charming as anything.[/quote] LOL. I feel your pain. [e digicons]XD[/e] Good game, Neilo! Nice score too! I'm looking forward t
There are several victory conditions, but you can select which ones to have open at the beginning of the game. For instance, you can turn off the Technology Victory condition if you want to keep playing past the end of the research tree. So if you want to play for a military victory, you can turn off all other conditions. You only have the option at the beginning of the game though. Once the conditions are set, they're set.
Nice ships, folks! [e digicons]:beer:[/e] I guess my monster level 11s aren't going to quite make it in this thread. [e digicons]:moo:[/e] TBH, I haven't paid attention to what my ships' levels were up until now. Now that I've limited my current game to two warships, leveling is becoming more important though. They'll probably get high for me, but nothing like 52 much less 102. I might be able to squeez
Good game, Neilo! Nice score for a normal style too. 250 att/650 def? That must have taken quite a few shrinkers! I can't get anywhere near those numbers. Did the minors also build shrinkers? On the camera front, here's a review of something that might interest you. This guy does really good reviews of a range of tech goodies. http://ww
Yeah, it was a bit more than I wanted to pay at first, but the cheaper ones had pretty poor resolution, bad reviews and no GPS. This one has some hidden costs too. It doesn't come with memory, so you have to get a decent SDHC card. Even some class 10 cards have done less than adequately, so I got a listed one. I also heard about the freezing up problems, so I got an autoranging power conditioner to make sure over and under voltages don't wipe out the e
[quote who="Neilo" reply="3300" id="3085968"]When ya get that Torian Ale Motti, look around for my old Fembot would ya, havent seen her in years, and i'm getting...well, rather lonely. Nice Camera, that has brilliant resolution! What size it mate? Iv'e thinking about getting a cam i can mount on my RC cars (they are 1/8th scale) to make some vids of the off roading and track work i do with them. something like that might be perfect! Oh...by the way...girls girls girls
[quote who="Neilo" reply="26" id="3085618"]Ohhh....i love the "i hate you" speech! Your game has a mind of its own, the Drengin should prove to give you some hairy moments![/quote] Hopefully, they'll present a challenge. I was zooming over to start up with the Korx and noticed something missing. The Krynn aren't there anymore. In fact, I own Kryseth. It was in the Drath area during that war and it must have been taken by the Drath before I got
Welcome aboard, Galacticruler5000! [e digicons]:beer:[/e] It's been a while since we've seen a new member. I'll break out the Torian ale if I can find it. In totally unrelated and trivia news, my new dash cam came in. Pretty decent resolution, too. Here's a short vid I took on my lunch break today... [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YGvm85Rdqs[/video] New toys are always cool for a whil
It's amazing how things can change in an hour or two. The Drengin had taken the Drath down to 2 planets by the time I started my attack on their remote area. The money I gifted to the Yor must have been put to immediate use against the Altarians, too. The Yor are slightly stronger and the Altarians were almost wiped out while I was building my strategy against them. They were down to 4 planets when I rolled over them. Both of my fighters survived and one ha
[quote who="qrtxian" reply="19" id="3084869"]Current year is early 2234 (year 8). The Yor are my ally, so I doubt that will be any problem. My intention with most of my games is to "play it out" rather then race for any specific type of victory, and this is a good example. It looks like I'm going to win by diplomacy here, but it might take another year or so to fully absorb the Torians and Drengin.[/quote] You won't have to destroy them in the end? I'm ask
[quote who="Tolmekian" reply="16" id="3084265"]Not sure about DA, but if you go into the shipyard there is an option to "obsolete" a class of ships. If you do that, it will ask you if you want to decommission all remaining ships of that class.[/quote] Yes, DA has the same option. And you can always design a new group of constructors later if you want to after decommissioning the class. [quote who="Neilo" reply="15" id="3084216"]Perhaps you can alter your
[quote who="qrtxian" reply="9" id="3083568"]As someone who's modded minors to colonize, I can say that they probably won't be that strong, unless you do more then just give them colony ships.[/quote] Yeah, I guess if they're just going to sit there and drool, I might as well use them up for their economy and take their planets when I'm done with them. [quote who="particlewave" reply="10" id="3083575"]Maybe more will rejoin the fun also, if for no other reason t
[quote who="Neilo" reply="7" id="3083168"]I bet it was the Paulos! I had them colonize a secondary in one of my latest games. IIRC they will colonize fine if they are gifted/trade for, Colony Ships, but they will never build them. At least thats my understanding.[/quote] It probably was them. They must have gotten a ship in trade form an AI. The 2nd planet was already there when I met them. Kind of makes me want to gift several fleets of colony ships to them and see
[quote who="Neilo" reply="5" id="3082886"]i'm not dusting off Autohotkey![/quote] Ditto. Autohotkey was nice when we were running 32bit XP and going full screen on the game. Going windowed makes it limited in its usefulness and I haven't even downloaded it to my current gaming machine. I wouldn't care to reprogram it if I downloaded it either. I'm using social focus with 100% research, so building out Stock Markets takes s
Hey Neilo! Hey qrtxian! [e digicons]:beer:[/e] [e digicons]:beer:[/e] You have a good one going there Neilo. You're doing a lot more nuance customization than I am. It looks like an immersive game. For those who don't know me, I'm an old scoremonger converted to the actual gaming experience too. The scoring part was fun while it lasted, but the soul of the game gets sucked out when you get too far into it. I have
particlewave! It's good to see you again! [e digicons]:beer:[/e] Yeah, we've gone back to the soul of the game instead of working on score. We've had to cripple ourselves a bit to make it more interesting. It might take a little more of that to find a good balance. It sure would be nice to hear some gaming stories form a few more folks too. @Neilo - I see you'e started a new thread for the gaming discussion. I'll
[quote who="JCD-Bionicman" reply="31" id="3080248"]not that anyone will continue to help me further after this comment anyways.[/quote] Well, you seem to realize that you're being pretty rude. People are always willing to help though. In fact, the answers here are more likely to help others reading this thread than they'll help you. If you'd read the answers without the attitude, you might gain some benefit. I'm hoping you can do that, b
[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="3284" id="3080013"]There was a weird bug in DA 1.7 where the game lost track of how much money you had when you were rush buying things, and wound up setting your money to a few hundred million in debt.[/quote] Ouch. I'm glad they fixed that then. [quote who="Sole Soul" reply="3284" id="3080013"]I really think the only way to make it remotely challenging is to never research a tech myself. This means relying on the AI to research -
[quote who="Uvah" reply="28" id="3079813"]I wonder why JCD is not responding to his own thread. Maybe he got cold feet.[/quote] Perhaps he feels like he's not getting anywhere. Granted, he started out pretty arrogant and might have even thought he asked for help rather than demand it. But he got more civil later in the thread and the return tone hasn't changed a lot. (Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that's not deserved or anything.)
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