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G.R.O.S.S. communication thread.

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Cringe in fear do gooders. The G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy alienS) empire is now formed. In less than an hour we have jumped 95 other Pacifist Doo Gooder victim empires and lept into 40th out of 135 ranked.

We are an evil empire bent on controlling everything and showing all the other empires out there who's boss. US. Are you listening Euro-"Oh lets let everyone be a senator and give em a vote doo gooder democracy alliance?" We come for you.

For a limited time, (untill I decide otherwise) 5 Pure Evil games, (or just impressing me with your game evilness) submitted will get you a Senatorship. Later, being the evil empire pyramid scheme we are, it will take 10. Of course, being the evil empire we are, that gives you no benefits, no pay, but all the alien carnage you crave most.

Now we do realize that sometimes, you just have to fake being good. You sometimes just have to infiltrate that pacifist party. We understand. But we aren't a kinder gentler empire and don't let their pacifism go to your head. And just sometimes, you gotta let the Aliens live (where else would you find slaves for the heavy metal lava mines?)

In the future, we shall update each other in the empire via this thread, brag of our conquests, drink blood wine, and generally just poke fun (creatively and humorously) at those players whom we find to be too goody goodyish.

Our mottos.

G.R.O.S.S. Where being good is merely a temporary strategy.

Just win baby.

Here's your ration of skin you do gooder wimp Drengin slime. Now get back to work

EBZeroMatrix you have been made a senator.

I repeat. Cringe in fear, we come for you.





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Reply #3576 from Stardock Forums Top
All that song reminds me of is playing Doom in my younger days... ah, strafing with the best of them when one missed step in that circular dance of death meant a double shotgun blast in the ribs...

I'm not cultured enough to know the other song (:( LOL
Reply #3577 from Stardock Forums Top
to the tune of Clementine

Doom to Torians,
Doom to Drengins,
Doom to all the alien scum.
They are a disgrace to the galaxy,
Oh, alien scum.

(et cetera.)

and now, a very prestigious piece,
music by SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Lyrics by SIR WILLIAM GILBERT

With Cat-Like Tread

PIRATES: (very loud)
With cat-like tread,
Upon our prey we steal;
In silence dread,
Our cautious way we feel.
No sound at all!
We never speak a word;
A fly's foot-fall
Would be distinctly heard--
POLICE:
(softly) Tarantara, tarantara!
PIRATES:
So stealthily the pirate creeps,
While all the household soundly sleeps.
Come, friends, who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation;
Take another station;
Let's vary piracee
With a little burglaree!
Come, friends, who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation;
Take another station;
Let's vary piracee
With a little burglaree!
SAMUEL:
Here's your crowbar and your centrebit,
Your life-preserver -- you may want to hit!
Your silent matches, your dark lantern seize,
Take your file and your skeletonic keys.
POLICE:
Tarantara!
PIRATES:
With cat-like tread
POLICE:
Tarantara!
PIRATES:
In silence dread,
ALL (fortissimo).
With cat-like tread,
Upon our prey we steal;
In silence dread,
Our cautious way we feel.
No sound at all!
We never speak a word;
A fly's foot-fall
Would be distinctly heard--
Come, friends, who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation;
Take another station;

Let's vary piracee
With a little burglaree!
With cat-like tread,
Upon our prey we steal;
In silence dread,
Our cautious way we feel.
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Reply #3578 from Stardock Forums Top
Hey Pontius, how are you surviving a Huge Masochistic? I can barely survive the Tiny's, thanks to being able to slip in to the end of an invasion...
Reply #3579 from Stardock Forums Top
The horror!! of all the days for bad stuff to happen.
Well yesterday i had a stystem wide overload running Diablo II, LOD. That wasnt fun at all.. soooo sloooww

But I got all my web files and some other stuff from school to post since im blocked there and the server for it is screwed up and all my stuff is down..
there goes my evening.. perhaps now i can get a game in so all is not lost.....

If anyone needs me ill be in the ship rec room. Making mods to my sword and stuff and chowing on some 'space pizza' while watching old earth moves.
Plan 9 from outer space! what a hoot!
Reply #3580 from Stardock Forums Top
Hey Pontius, how are you surviving a Huge Masochistic?
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Thelon, I noticed masochistic became a lot easier once I focused on trade routes with the majors. With the improved relations added to the wars I would buy them into, they would stay off my back. In fact, I try to keep them from ever declaring war on me until I have an alpha strike in place. Culture bombing could also work.

perhaps now i can get a game in so all is not lost.....
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All is not lost? For piracy's sake, all is gained!
Reply #3581 from Stardock Forums Top
Hey Pontius, how are you surviving a Huge Masochistic? I can barely survive the Tiny's, thanks to being able to slip in to the end of an invasion...
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Right now I'm surviving by being a cheese eating surrender monkey. Then once I have them upon the hip I extract more than my pound of flesh.
Reply #3582 from Stardock Forums Top
The 1ip bug is no more. But you can still offer them things like 10 bc's, 1ip on occasion, a tech here and there. I've also noticed just trading tech (rather than giving it away) can improve relations.

I generally culture bomb (still a military win when you turn off the other victory conditions) as it's quicker than a military free for all. I save my military playing for tiny and small maps.

Two reasons for this
1. It takes tons more time to fight a war
2. It takes tons more computing power (that my machine doesn't have) when all the ships are flying all over the place.


When I play Gigantic, I have to time alpha strikes with the express purpose of taking ships off the board so my machine can continue to run the game.
Reply #3583 from Stardock Forums Top
LMAO I love that song Lavalamp. You should join us....

This one, however, needs some work.

to the tune of Clementine

Doom to Torians,
Doom to Drengins,
Die Altarians Die you scum.
You are all a disgrace to Humanity,
You will die painfully alien scum.

Once I dated a she Altarian
But she wasn't alot of fun
Turned her into bbq ribs and such
She died painfully that alien scum.

Came apon a crippled Drengin
Freightor loaded with alien scum
11 herbs and spices later
Kentucky fried Drengin Yum Yum Yum.

Once a Torian made the mistake of
giving a whack right to my bum.
Got my Cutlass made some Sushi
out of that slimy Alien Scum.



Reply #3584 from Stardock Forums Top
Thelon, I noticed masochistic became a lot easier once I focused on trade routes with the majors. With the improved relations added to the wars I would buy them into, they would stay off my back. In fact, I try to keep them from ever declaring war on me until I have an alpha strike in place. Culture bombing could also work.
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Trade with the majors early can really help. On huges, you get less money by focusing on those close to you in trade. But it's well worth it. Once your planets get developed, it's less critical to cash flow but it helps relations with those close so much. The civs on the other side of the map take 50 turns to even mount a token force that can get across the map to you if then.

I usually go with speed+1 Populists, diplo+whatever I can on Huges.

On the tinys and small I go with Populists, Diplo to the max then whatever else suits my fancy (econ+1) etc.

Oh I usually set the aliens to all evil. I find it easier to deal with them when they don't give a flip what I am rather than goody goodies who always end up trying to clense evil. Plus all evil aliens garner a bit more points.

Diplomacy is just too much a key to this game to ignore that bonus for me. And Populists give me a moral boost to boot.

Of the wonders and trade goods. I usually get Galactic exposition and all the other culture boosters except the one associated with the Government tech after democracy.

I try for diplo translators and grav accel early Usually get one of the two but not both. I never get aphrodisiac,

I usually get two of the 4 second wave moral boosting wonders and tradegoods.

I get all the tech ones using diplomacy to get out of war, then fill in my fleet

I get the terreformer about 2/3 of the time. I buy the tech and it if necessary.

I hardly ever get the capitals first (except the tech one)

Oh and your starting position is the key to the game.
Alot of people look for class 20 planets and a starting sector with good planets in it. I've found neither are necessary on Huge.

All you need is a decent size cluster that you are alone in on huge. Your starting sector or pq doesn't affect things as much. You can see where the aliens start by clicking on sectors and checking influence. If it's zero, they are at least 2 sectors away from that square. If you share a cluster with an alien on Huge, it gets dicey early (you are wayyyyy too vulnerable to influence early) I actually find smalls and tinies a bit harder than huges myself simply because you must deal with the influence problem earlier whereas if you can find your own cluster on huge (easy to do within 1 or 2 control-n's) it isn't ever a problem.

I'll post a complete walkthrough if you need it.
Reply #3585 from Stardock Forums Top
Right now I'm surviving by being a cheese eating surrender monkey.
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LOL LOL LOL

I love this line in the game!
Reply #3588 from Stardock Forums Top
I actually am partially french on my mother's side, and fo the record, it's just the generals, colonels, and political leaders who are the cheese eating surrender monkeys.
Reply #3589 from Stardock Forums Top
watch out LLMaster, get too close and they'll BOARD YA!

then itz THE BARREL

doom doom doom doom


:sniff!: ;)
Reply #3591 from Stardock Forums Top
Bonnnjjjjjooooooooouuuurrr! Ya cheese eatin' surrender monkeys! http://sheridan.freewebpage.org/bonjour.wav Hand over ya'r BOOZ!

LOL

Figured it was about time someone raided the raiders! ;)
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Reply #3592 from Stardock Forums Top
Bonnnjjjjjooooooooouuuurrr! Ya cheese eatin' surrender monkeys!
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Careful now you might offend the Euro's or more importantly you might offend the Monkeys associating them with those retreating cheese eaters.
Reply #3593 from Stardock Forums Top
Bonnnjjjjjooooooooouuuurrr! Ya cheese eatin' surrender monkeys! Link Hand over ya'r BOOZ!



Figured it was about time someone raided the raiders!
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Arrrgh Matey, The Drengin, who had about 3,000 dreads on my doorstep can get away with that. That is, Untill I get my Excalibers built. Ye and yer one Corvette cannot.
Now walk the plank and don't let me cutlass hit you in the azz on the way out....
Reply #3594 from Stardock Forums Top
nah, I'm a.. er... Brit. And a guy with a sword the size of Bhutan.
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Ayyyy and a mighty fine sword it is for a land battle. I too have one for off ship excursions Not very useful, however, in the close quarter fightin on a ship.

Now walk the plank and don't let me cutlass hit you in the azz on the way out.

Reply #3595 from Stardock Forums Top
Careful now you might offend the Euro's or more importantly you might offend the Monkeys associating them with those retreating cheese eaters.
End of quote


Walk the plank and Wham!!!!! OOPS me cutless hit im in the azz on the way out.


Fight on!!!! How bout that Notre Lame SC game next year. Ready for another 45-14 drumming?
Reply #3596 from Stardock Forums Top
The long awaited Metaverse Review is out!

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~ Empires secretly planning changes
~ Metaverse experiences Recalc
~ Realms Beyond surpasses 2 million points

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Reply #3597 from Stardock Forums Top
Deploy the Black hole Generator!!!! We'll get those Aussies!!!


Pfffffffffffft

AHA!!!! THEY'RE WITHIN 30K NOW SIR!!!! HEY WAIT, WE'RE GOING BACKWARDS.....YOU MEAN YOU DEPLOYED IT AFT???


Pontius just slaps his head in disgust as the Doom goes backward too....

FULL THRUST...(sigh)
Reply #3599 from Stardock Forums Top
Pfffffffffffft
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LOL

yeah sorry about that. looks like the recalc hit the pirates hard

(:(
Reply #3600 from Stardock Forums Top
yeah sorry about that. looks like the recalc hit the pirates hard
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I told em to deploy it fore!!! Not aft... It was supposed to suck us forward and YOU backward.....
(sigh)