Hi, everybody

Let's forget this flame episode and concentrate the original gaming. The Darth Kryo's post was very promising and I believe that Metaverse could be cleaned for all kind of experiment scores.

That could bring back a real clean fight for the best positions.

Syrrus, just couple points ahead. Let's the fight continue.

TBAY, don't give up. Just go to fish and relax. After that the gaming and Metaverse could look much better.

Jarru

Yes. They have completed the recalc and our mighty empire is now in second place. Congratulations everyone. I am sorry couche left us because of last nights incident. We are now also a lot closer to no. 1. It seems like the unfun guy is having trouble recruiting to his empire. He will get top spot as a single player for a while until they adjust his scores for exploitation. I do not think he will be able to catch us on his own as an empire. I will get back to playing more and flaming less. Thanks for all your support. Arrogant people that think they are better than the rest of us really get to me sometimes. I will be posting a large suicidal military victory to my second character by tommorrow night. My computer runs to slow on huge and gigantic maps. It seems to run worse on 1.2 than it did on 1.1. Anyone else notice this? Bye for now. TBAY

Well, I have finially gotten everything cleaned and put up so that I can get in a little bit of gaming. I also managed to get caught up on reading a lot of the "flame war" that took place in other threads. While I can see both sides even Carielf contradicts herself when she said that they hide threads that expose an exploit. SD allowed the so called exploits to be shared and used as they do the experiment. Of course "we" did fire the first shot saying he was a cheater (and I would have as well had I been here) but all he had to do is reply with an "I'm not" and leave our thread. I know it isn't actually ours, but we've used it to discuss things that pertain to how we play and share with others things that work for us. There seems to have been many threads on the subject anyway without it carring over into this thread. It's a shame that it took place. TBAY, man I understand how you feel and think SD should be grateful to have customers that have as much passion for their product as you. I agree that a heads up would have been nice, but SD has lost a lot of their personal touch as of late so it is not surprising.

To anyone outside the empire reading this, I'm only stating how the situation appeared to me. Although I surely did not mean to, if I offeneded anyone I apologize. This is the last I'll say on the subject.

Now I'm told there is a colony ship loaded and ready to take off and the flagship is prepaired to seek out strange new worlds...let the conquest begin! Till later!

Ps. I apologize for the double post.

Well, due to population growth bonus at 100%, I try to keep mine there as long as I can afford it. After I have a couple of good research planets set up and pumping out beakers, the rest of my planets have stock markets covering them. I can then normally set my tax rate to 80% and still keep 100% happy. Of course this has to be adjusted as I start dealing with advaned farms since they boost the population into that extreme unhappy range (25K+).

I'm fairly certain that it would not matter too much in the middle of the game when you have maxed out your planet growth to have higher taxes and less happiness but once you get advanced farms you want them to be 100% happy again until you can max out the population again. I've seen where people say that moral is important, but I think it is only important in getting that all important population number up. I haven't tested it to see if it matters if manipulating things at the end of game is just as productive as keeping it throughout the game.

Hey everybody. Just want to welcome our two newest members. Say hello to Arbiter Gear and Colonel Mustard. The two of you will find a lot of helpfull gameplay hints if you sift through our previous posts in this thread. Feel free to ask any questions as we are all ready and willing to help. Bye for now. TBAY

That game it was military, only got 12k. I was also playing loose clusters. It's almost like a job playing out a game like that at gigantic.

I think the hard part is knowing how long to play the game. That game I just attacked the last 4 civs one after the other, and each of them surrendered quickly. So I didn't really allow the populations to all get to 15 or 25B, or sit and build ships. The game was getting tiresome. I'm probably going to either play gigantic/tight, or try huge/loose for awhile.

For me my scores are fairly consistent :
Soceity, 30-35k
Tech, 20-25k
Econ, 50-55k
Military 12k-30k

For abilities, I've found i like production. So i take industrialists, and :
+20 social
+20 military
+20 pop growth
(+25% morale, i love the Dregin for this...)
+20 economy.
sometimes soldiering with last point, and sometimes 30% pop growth.

I like production, because i find i generally can't spend money fast enough. Also production can't be improved in-game other than the tecs. I think this gets everything rolling for me pretty quickly. I sometimes win games just in the colonization phase by effeciently building colony ships.

I also set anomolies to uncommon. I'm not sure how this works out for the AI, but I get probably way more than they do, and there are not enough of them to fuel anyone with loads of money. Abundant just seems cheesy.

Hello to everyone. I would like to welcome our newest member. Please welcome Trinity. Trinity's total plus the scores the rest of us put up today will put us very close to the top. Exellent score Syrrus K. I wish I had a computer powerful enough to play the gigantic maps. When I play them, I have to save, Quit Reload every 6 turns and still have to take 10 minutes per turn after about the 4 year mark. You will be in the no. 1 spot on your own soon. Congratulations. Can you give us a game sequence of your last game and any tricks you might have used. It looks like playing as an evil race is the way to go. See you all Later. TBAY

TBAY, not sure if evil is the only way. With my metaverse char I use to play evil only because it fits much more better to my playing strategy. On other post they say neutral is much more better for scoring. I think as long it fits to your habit any alignment will work.

Yes, the last game was quite good. I didn't play with abundant planets again and even with loose clusters there were about 450 planets. Some less then in my other big game. I guess this is why I could finish it much more earlier and having a higher score.

I also had a good starting position in the upper left corner. The Korx and Altarian as next neighbours. The Altarians had the best start of all - almost triple of my planet numer. When I was planning the first war against the Korx the Altarian started to fight the Drengin and Yor. While the Altarian fleet headed east to war I changed my fleet as well and then attacked the poorly defended Altarian worlds. My hevay fighters easily took out the whole Altarain fleet when they were massed on only a few points close to the Drengin. Because of that high number of planets I had to conquer I ran out of transports. But fortunately the Korx owned a lot - I bought 40 of them, got them on my territory asap, equipped the not complete filled ones and upgraded them into my fastest transports. This thing quick made me the leading race in all ways.

Then it was quite easy to keep the other ai happy while i took out the unhappiest ai one after one. During this time lots of time I spent dealing with my growing planet number to max every kind of score.

I always supported the Korx if necessary. They went on several wars with other good or neutral races. This helped to keep their fleets down until I found time to defeat them. Another thing is, that you can place contructors close to every ais mining starbase. After the Korx or anybody else destroyed them I quick build my own. So I got tons of bonuses very fast.
At the end the last ai, the Korx, got unhappy with me too and started war. But then I easily could pay 2.000.000 MC to have peace untill all my fleets were build and upgraded with the correct armor and weapons. The final war didn't last very long ...

i would like to join, but i dont know how

i clicked the character i wanted to join but i took mee to its page, and if i click the button next to the character it doesn't do anything

yes, then in the box that came up i wouldn't let do anything, even close the box.
I had to refresh the page to get back.

We're within a game or 2 of getting #1 empire !! I have a game going i may be able to finsh soon too.

I suppose we maybe the only ones still interested in Metaverse tho...