That did sound rather Borg-like, didn't it?
Aldar
Too many members for a Kingdom and I'm thinking that the Aldarian Empire better reflects the plans for ultimate Galactic domination. If you are reading this and are not part of our Empire, time to join before it is too late :)
Perhaps we should change the name to the Aldarian Empire.
You can maximize your 'empire contribution' by becoming an Aldarian (thanks to Ray for coining the term).
...and for the record, I tried a game with minimal researching last night and can report that this strategy will get your butt kicked.
Aldarians - I like that. What we really need are HTML tags for a soapbox [Message Edited]
Don't make me separate you two :)
Hopefully it won't take another 6 months to double again LOL [Message Edited]
I've never built anything bigger than a Dreadnaught (unless you count terror stars).
[quote]There was more where that came from, but I restrained myself from my original witty and potentially much more caustic post. [/quote] mswaim - Feel free to join the Kingdom of Aldar - you will fit right in :) "Consequences schmonsequences..." - D Duck
Space Napolean - I hear you about time - the house is eating up all my free time. I think crippling is the most fun level for my playing strategy (which can be be summed up as "Hmmmm, I wonder if this will work...") Mistakes at Maso can't be recovered from. Seems to me that being a fan of the New York Wallets (oh, I mean Yankees) is kind of like cheering for Bill Gates to make money.
Hi Rainbird, How about helping us double the number of Overlords in the Kingdom again? ;)
I don't think so. I never build more than a couple star bases in a given sector and I've been using the 1IP bug for most of the games just to speed things up. I just played the last Maso game with settings such that I couldn't take advantage of the 1IP bug - still was able to win but got pretty bored building starbases and almost quit... To be honest, I'm hoping that the new release scoring doesn't make it a requirement to play Maso to be competitive in the Metaverse. I kind of like
Whew! Finally finished that game. Bribed everyone into attacking each other and got their militaries down t othe point where they would ally with me.
Looks like my current game is going to take about a week to finish. Tried a slightly different strategy that is not working out so hot and I'm going to have to build a military and crush everyone. Definately need ot max out te diplomacy pick during setup for maso rather than speed. [quote]What a bunch of goody, goodys we are [/quote] We just use evil as our puppet LOL
Yaahhoooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the Kingdom!
Hmmmm...how to recruit from an Empire who's members already have everything. Hmmmm...I know...I will offer them nothing and hope that they are too hopped up on who knows what to notice LOL No more sneaking by...
Message from Emperor Aldar: Thought this might be of interest: http://www.villainsupply.com/ When you tire of the stigma associated with being evil and decide it is better to just use evil as your puppet, feel free to join the Kingdom of Aldar LOL Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha........where did I leave that XLAIXU GLOBAL DISINTEGRATOR KEY?
Something in your game is triggering the anomalous flag. I've seen other threads with similar topics where Support has asked for the person to send them the saved game and then they will be able to tell you why it was anomalous. There are some exploits that are available in normal game play that will lead to the dreaded 'anomalous' difficulty and a score of zero. Might want to start a new thread 'Not sure why my game was scored anomalous' to get their attention (or try going to the ch
Time to crank out a bunch of games to try to get into the top ten empires.
Another thing that seems to help is to expand your cultural influence towards them in a non-threating way. By this I mean build starbases in their uncolonized border sectors and add cultural modules. Later in the game, you can also colonize PQ 13 and 14 planets in their 'sectors of influence'. I usually send a fleet of 7 constructors to the same sector before colonizing the planet. Colonize the planet and then immediately build a starbase with a palace and maximization in the same
Just changed the Kingdom motto to "Last Kid Picked" LOL
Last Kid Picked is actually the name of a local band. I asked them if I could borrow the name/logo for my sailboat boat - they are very entertained by the whole thing. That is where the little angry stick figure logo came from. http://www.lastkidpicked.com
Or the smallest: http://www.galciv.com/metaverse/empires.asp?id=151
Here is a link to the Kingdom: http://www.galciv.com/metaverse/empires.asp?id=151