Marquesa, start with a tiny-rare map and hit control-N until you get two yellow stars in your home sector. That should be a great help in keeping up (since you'll have twice as many planets as the AIs).
EBZ wrote a guide for how to beat beginner games really really fast. If you look at "EBZeroMatrix" in the Metaverse you can see that there were a few days in which he submitted dozens of games. His guide was the GCCG, the "GC cranking guide." I have no idea where to find it though.
I've wondered that myself.
8-10 should be decent, not spectacular though. (But I rarely play "occasional".) One problem is that "expansion" stage lasts a lot longer on gigantic so you may not know how many planets you'll end up with until you're well into the game.
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Not much forum for me today. The network's down in my lab :(
What map size and star frequency?
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Ray, have you had any luck with the GOTM?
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This was taken from Tolkien, obviously, and inspired by the "Attention Matthew Downie" thread.
Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows The West Wind comes walking, and about the walls it goes. 'What news from the West, O wandering wind, do you bring to me tonight? Have you seen fair Matthew Downie by moon or by starlight?' 'I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wide and grey; I saw him walk in empty lands, until he passed away Into the shadows of the North. I saw him then no more. The North Wind may have heard the harp of the one wh
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Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows The West Wind comes walking, and about the walls it goes. 'What news from the West, O wandering wind, do you bring to me tonight? Have you seen fair Matthew Downie by moon or by starlight?' 'I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wide and grey; I saw him walk in empty lands, until he passed away Into the shadows of the North. I saw him then no more. The North Wind may have heard the harp of the one wh
The Alexians. They give me cash and tech, then give me their high-quality planets when I decide I need them, often built up with Manufacturing Capitals and things.
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Hi Jack L'Eagle! If you mean that exact robot, then i don't know. There were other games where they had robots or scientists announcing techs, though--MOO2 for instance. [quote]Vincible: if I remember correctly you only need to alter game.galaxy. Also, be sure you don't 'X' out the ENTIRE serial. Leave "GC1" in there, as well as the first two letters of the serial.[/quote] And leave the dashes too, I assume. This didn't work for me.
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Awww... group hug everybody! :) I too appreciate this empire a lot more after seeing the turmoil out there. Finished off another 50K game, and actually lost points due to the odd monthly blocks. Oh well, it'll pay off in the long run. I guess catching that Wombat will have to wait a day or two. [Message Edited]
Hey folks, trading for cash with some of the starting minors is back. Makes maso much much easier.
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You wascally Wombat!
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[quote]I just figured this out for maso a few games ago too. And to think of all the times I sat there on gigantic maso with my budget on -500 bc waiting for my trade to pick up. Oh I feel so slow on the uptake sometimes. [/quote] I did too... I'd probably never have figured it out if it wasn't posted. [quote]Is this cash for tech with Alexians on maso a 1.11 thing?[/quote] *shrug* It could have been there throughout 1.10 and I would never have known.
Carielf says: [quote]We do know about the invisible ship bug. We think that it's caused by a bug in the data manager, which is in the very core of our code library. Fixing the bug would affect all of the major systems in the game, and I'd have to write code to convert all of our graphics because they'd crash the game under the fix otherwise. And then, to see if this did fix the problem, I'd have to play for 3-4 hours to wait for it to happen. This could take a week at best to fix. That
The artifact quest he's referring to is the one where a powerful evil cult takes over a planet and declares war on everyone.
This event has so much potential, too. It's a real shame that it's so exploitable. My last game I actually chose to let them get off the ground, just to make it interesting.
Some people do one governor for high-PQ planets and one for the low PQ ones. Most people use one standard build queue, myself included. Captain Bizarre is the first person I've ever heard of who used the third. Generally I have one governor for everything except my best planet, which I oversee personally. That planet emphasizes production and builds all my wonders. [Message Edited]
I've never heard of anyone having this problem. You might have more luck asking in the main forum, the "Galactic Forum." Welcome to the Metaverse btw. [Message Edited]
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So the Kwalasians would buy, then? That makes the game so much easier :(
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Gerakken, agree with Sirian that you don't need to cheese to win at maso. If you want to win every game, then maybe--you'll need to control-N out of bad starts, at least. You certainly don't need to be a ruthless military rusher--I've played several pacifist or near pacifist games.
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Caronids too? Hmm... in my current game the Scottinglas wouldn't trade for cash. I don't think I've found the Caronids yet. Ray, I'll send you the file as soon as I'm in front of that computer again.
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Whatever you think of the maso money nerf (I think it's a good thing, personally) I don't see why Stardock made just the Alexians give money. This turns the early game into "find the Alexians."