I remember that price drop. I wish it had lasted longer. Unfortunately, I don't have any details. :(
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I have to put my 1.89 cents in this one. Personally, I prefer to wait until I can get a FREE expansion, thats also as close to bug FREE as the beta testers can get it. I'll take a "double-free later" over a "pay-for now" any day of the week. Adolf(Hitler)?!? Nazism?!? That's beyond "insulting!" You are free to have your opinions, and that's all well and good. But I think labels of that magnitude requires an apology, at the VERY least.
This would be worth doing just to avoid wormholes. Nothing messes up early exploration like a wormhole jump across the galaxy. It effectively takes the survey ship out of the game until it gets back to friendly territory.
While we're on the subject of governors, does anyone know of a mod that gives you a different picture for each governor? It would definitely be helpful if you could determine a planet's development plan at a glance.
I believe the spies were supposed to be members of the target species. Which beggars the question of how you could transfer them to spy on someone else.
I've heard the term "trainer" used quite a bit on these forums and would like to know what they are, myself.
My point was that I simply took disadvangages in areas of the game that I generally ignored anyway to gain a huge advantage in areas I did use. So I effectively had no disadvantages... Which was unbalanced.
Every time it's happened in any of my games, it's always been a race I haven't encountered yet, off in unexplored space. Since I can't do anything about it, I just ignore until I meet up with whoever it is. Often they are wiped out by one of the majors long befroe that happens.
*shakes off dizzyness* Actually, I find myself agreeing with you about Watterson's retirement. Your point about Peanuts is sadly all too true. Still not sure IF I'll submit to metaverse, but if I do, you've sold me on G.R.O.S.S.! (As long as Rosalyn isn't allowed in!)
*unable to post...too dizzy from spinning...* LOL
It's a plot hatched by the evil empires! If you can't see, then you can't implement your strategy, thus giving them an advantage! Fortunately, they don't seem to know enough about human vision to blind us completely! LOL Sorry, couldn't resist! ;)
Would that be the original version, or the portable, "gun" version? LOL
That antaran doesn't stand a chance! Looks like another win for the humans! LOL
Umm...that's "technology"... :(
Calvin & Hobbes is indeed the best comic strip of all time. When Bill Watterson retired, I quit buying newspapers. Seriously, Calvin was the only reason I read them. This is just a round-about way of saying I love your empire's name Pontius! If I ever come to care about submitting to the metaverse, I'll give G.R.O.S.S. first consideration. So, just how high in the tech tree do you have to go to get "nerf technogoly" anyway? LOL
If you ask me, planetary defense should act like a ship in orbit, itself. In other words, the invading fleet should have to fight the defenses irregardless of whether there are ships in orbit or not. Vorlin's right. I have seen the AI use invasion tactics that damaged PQ so badly that the planet was immediately disbanded after capture.
500?!? You'd have a different set of penalties every turn! Talk about a juggling act! Still, it WOULD be very entertaining! :D
ALL Star Wars lasers (blasters) explode on "impact." Why not the big ones, too? At least it's consistent. ;)
For those interested in what nerfs look like, they are featured in Galactic Battlegrounds. And to add to Nibor info: Those who herd nerfs are greatly looked down upon. LOL
Are you online when you try to use them? I'm not sure about the survival guide, but the others all access some part of this website.
I'm not sure this could really be implemented and keep play balance. MOO2 example: I would take (Environmental)Intolerant and Lithovore. This required 10pts of disadvantages. I simply took penalties in areas that I rarely used (like espionage). The result was a race that could out produce the Klackons (No farmers=more workers+no polution penalty) and could nearly out research the Psilons (again, no farmers=more scientist available). I found it almost impossible to lose with this
"We hereby declare war on you. Since we were good enough to warn you, please take no action against us until our first transports have landed. Have a nice day. Sincerely, (fill in name), Terran Leader. LOL
You know you're on a weird topic when rollerball gets quoted in a TBS game forum..... ;p
"BTW, for everyone saying they do not care, why bother to submit scores if you do not care? If you did not care about your score, you would not submit them. Matter of fact, you wouldn't even read your summary. Most likely you either have high scores, so you say that you do not care, or two, you cannot compete with the top players, so you say you do not care." I don't submit. I've never even set up an empire, or whatever. I "truly" don't care about the metaverse. Some of us are like t
It occurs to me that even if we kill him, his replacement will be just as bad... LOL