Hi, new here.

By A88mph on July 22, 2012 9:16:30 PM from

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A88mph

Join Date 07/2012

Just got the game on Steam and have a question about the Metaverse.

When I try to make a character, it askes me for a number, is that the same number i regestered the game with?

It might be. I'm not sure I'm familiar with that situation.

But my suggestion would be to copy and paste the serial # from your Steam receipt and see if that works.

I'l be around if you need any help.

Brad

(designer of the game)

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That worked, and now I have a character and an empire on the Metaverse.

few more questions though.

1.) where do I find other empires to see if I would want to join an established empire rather then the one I just made because I could?

2.) I decided to play a metaverse game right after setting up to see what that was like, (just a simple me vs. 1 CPU, still learning the ins and outs. 2nd day after perchase) and for some reason, the game gave me an instant win.

I know thats not suppose to happen, did I trigger a bug somewhere?

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I know thats not suppose to happen, did I trigger a bug somewhere?

What kind of win was it?

I suppose it's possible to get a quick influence victory against only one opponent although I would think you would have to colonize a bit for that to happen so I doubt it would be "instant".

You can disable various win conditions when you setup the game. Various victory types have different score multipliers and so a lot of folks disable all but galactic conquest victory conditions since that gives the most points for victory.

So a little more detail might be helpful also giving yourself more than 1 opponent might eliminate this issue as well.

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There is a game choice that gives all techs at the start of the game, I'm not familiar with it's name, but if this was selected and Tech victory was also selected as a winning condition, might this result in an instant win?

I myself never did mess with any of those settings so others may shed more light.

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1.) where do I find other empires to see if I would want to join an established empire rather then the one I just made because I could?

If you look at the Metaverse high score list you will see the top few empires listed, and you can scroll through the entire list. You will though find it hard to find any active empires, most players have left the game (especially in the top few empires) but you may find a few new steam players looking for MV action.

Best of luck.

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