Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread
You have dared to enter the lair of the most ferocious predators in the galaxy!
It is the ulitmate destiny of the Kzinti to conquer the other civilizations of the galaxy, subjugate and enslave any who may prove useful to us, and devour the rest. The Fanged God has ordained that this is how it will be.
In just 26 octals of days (7 months or so...Kzinti count in base 8), the Kzinti Empire rose from obscurity, to #1 on the Metaverse. With the blessings of the Fanged God, we have remained dominant for 100s more octals of days since that auspicious day. We leapt past the other empires, and our mighty domain now encompasses over 32 million more light years than the second most powerful empire. The most recent Galactic Map data shows that we have subjugated over 45% of the galaxy. Many warriors from the old and dying empires have joined us, to avoid being eaten along with the rest. We hunger to establish indefinite supremacy over all the inferior sentient species...
We have also been #1 on the AltMeta for over 3 years running. The Empire grows more powerful with each passing day as new conquests are won, and more warriors join us in our inevitable rise to rule the galaxy!
The Kzinti are a species of bipedal space-faring feline predators, who love nothing more than conquest and battle. Created by sci-fi writer Larry Niven, the Kzinti have had many stories written about them, most notably in the Man-Kzin Wars series of books. They have also shown up in the Star Trek universe, and a number of other realities.

"Kzinti flesh has a very strong and pungent taste. The weak among us are devoured by their litter-mates within a few moons of birthing. Only the swiftest and most ferocious of us survive to their first naming-day. Those not fit to survive will never live to perpetuate their inferior bloodlines. This is the natural law of the galaxy." - Kzinti Warrior
"The meaning of life is the hot blood of your prey on your tongue, the meat that rends beneath your teeth, the corpse of your enemy left in the sun for the carrion eaters to finish, your defeated foe groveling in submission before you. That is what life is. We are the Kzinti, and we stronger, swifter, wiser, and more ferocious than any other race ever was or will be." - Kzinti philosopher

If your claws can grasp it, then it is rightfully yours. - Kzinti proverb
A salute to all those heroic t'kzintar who have made this empire a resounding success. Our conquests continue and the galaxy will never know peace!
Join the Kzinti in our quest for galactic dominance, or become our prey…
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Sentient species taste better...

And as you said, good to eliminate the things that dont work. I think I've got my Swindle strategies honed to about as sharp as they can be. My latest huge all-abundant game should come in at about 625k, or if I took it to 7 years about 650k. About time for me to finally try a gigantic all-abundant and see if I can come close to 1 million!



I've been playing my games with a more balanced approach to score for a while, and looking at my recent scores on huge maps, I think I can be competetive with the top scorers in the game when I do an gigantic all-abundant. I think my approach to building ships for the starbase array helps too. From my military graph you can see I dont do an economy-shattering final upgrade, but instead build ships consistently throughout, staying above -500bc (and below 20k bc of course), to keep pumping out the tech even after the tree is done. Throughout the game, all my planets use "focus" for either tech or social.