We did these for Civ games we played on apolyton forums. We'd play the game and post pics of what happened during the game. Kinda like the devlopers journal.
So here's mine, I hope someone likes it. Please forgive some of the AI bashing, part of why I did this is to show my displeasures with the AI. I will be using images hosted by imageshack.us (dunno where else to host them) so if the pics aren't showing up, I'm sorry in advance, hehe. If you want details as to how I have played, just ask.
Settings:
beta4 on metaverse
Me - Drath with +30% ship hp
Crippling Difficulty
Medium Size galaxy
6 races - random
Blind Exploration
No minor races
Abundant planets, tight clusters, all other options on default
Start:
I start off pretty good, in a corner, but there's a few systems very close by. My goal is to grab as many planets as I can, everything else can wait.
Feb 2225: First planet Hestia 1 colonized, it's sweet, size 11 and 2x 300% manufacturing tiles, this will definetly have my manufactuing cap on it.
1 Mar 2225: Xeno Communications completed, going for Universal translator
15 Mar2225: 3rd planet colonized, size 16, still cranking out an Ion colony ship every 3 turns
22 Mar2225: Iconian Refuge says hello, will have translators next turn then off to diplomatic relations and then trade.
1 Apr 2225: I see one morale resource and one military resource close to the Iconian Refuge, gonna snag those two then back to colony ships.
15 Apr2225: I pick the +38% PQ evil choice on Cassius II, nice it's size 16 now.
15 May2225: Torians say hello, kinda. Their text is real generic, isn't that how every race feels? No personality there.
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22 May2225: Thalans say hello, another completely generic message, seriously if I changed the Thalan and Torians starting messages, would you have noticed?
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8 Jun2225: Military resource grabbed, second constructor should easily grab that morale resource as well. Gonna see if I can fill in the rest of my systems. Drengin and Arceans said hello. Drengin message at least told me to beware (of what I have no idea), Arceans message was a joke, almost exactly the same as the thalans and torians. Actually, get this, the Arcean and Torian starting messages are EXACTLY THE SAME. AI personality? Where?
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1 Jul2225: First report is in and I'm doing great. Stellar growth and 4th in power, sweet. Nooo, I lost my pic of my first quarterly report, dang.
15 Jul2225: Pick the Good option on coloniztion, I could've gone with the evil pick for +38% research but I don't want to move too close to neutral.
8 Aug2225: Diplomatic relations done, going for trade (34 weeks) now. I am hoping to grab 3 more planets, then start building.
1 Sep2225: Last colony ship built, I think I will hit both of my targets. taxes set to 39%, 50% research (trade in 2 turns now) and 50% social and at +18BC/turn with 2000 BC in the bank.
15 Sep2225: Trade done, now Logsitics and then Advanced Hulls. All AIs neutral or warm with me and they haven't even talked to me yet.
22 Sep2225: Korx say hello, some of the blah blah mess with us and die. Man, be original.
1 Oct2225: Quarterly report time, yay. I like how it compares my stats to the Thalans, boy the Thalans aren't doing so well, 61% approval? Ouch, that's not good at all compared to my 80%
8 Oct2225: Last planet colonized, it was a dinky size 4, bleh. I've got a great empire, I started in the corner but got 3 systems and 2 resources. It is me and the Torians neck and neck for population with all the others dragging their feet.
22 Nov2225: I pull Impulse Drive, Planetary Improvements, Space Militarization and Space Wepaons in 5 turns total. Thalans offer me this ridiculously bad deal, no thanks. It is however the first time an AI has talked to me this game, yay.
22 Dec2225: I have Laser II and Impulse Drive II so I can now make a decent ship, I christen it the Laser Fighter, it has 2 beam attack and a speed of 3. No one else has ships yet so I don't sweat making any just yet. I start researching Xeno Ethics (9 weeks)
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22 Jan2226: Iconian Refuge has mad resources, 3 of them just in this pic alone. They will be a sweet first target, in due time.
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1 Mar2226: Xeno Ethics is done, I pick Good for 0 BC of course. Xinathium Hull Plating will be done next turn. Dunno what to research now, going to go up the Laser tree for awhile, Laser III in 3 weeks. I'm losing money so I put military spending at 15% (freighter in 4 weeks) and put taxes up to 49%, getting 105 BC/turn with 80% morale and 800ish BC in the bank.
1 Apr2226: First freighter is done. Now it's time to pick my allies and enemies and start taking over the universe. Man, everyone is neutral or warm to me, the Iconians are cool to me, that's because I am near them, it has nothing to do with anything else. I have +diplo skill and +ethical alignment with them, yet we will go to war fairly soon. AI is showing no personality, shouldn't us good civs band together? whatever. Oh yeah and I decided to send all of my freighters to Torian space (which I do almost every single gd game and it comes out the same way) Me and the Torians will be friends, the rest of the universe will be filled with bits and pieces of enemy fleets.
15 May2226: Laser V completed. Time to turn down research and get all my tiles filled and some more starships up. I see the Thalans, Iconian Refuge and Arceans using 2 beam attack ships so let's go down the shield defense path.
15 Jul2226: All planets now have at least one ship guarding them. Going to tone down miliatry spending. On second thought, I'll just change them to build constructors to protect my starbases which need upgrading and defenses. Going to grab a little mini for my shis, then soil enhancement, then Planetary Invasion. Still no word from any AIs, I haven't seen any wars between them either.
15 Aug2226: Hestia I is a super production powerhouse. Check this out.
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22 Oct2226: Ramping up resaerch a lot, after Planetary Invasion I got starbase fort I and now am going up the Shield tree until I can fit a 2 shield strength onto a ship.
1 Jan2227: UP meets, and despite my vote they apodt a 10% tax on anyone going to war. Haha, silly UP.
22 Jan2226: Plasma Weapons and Shields II are done, which means I can make this sweet small hull design, I name it the Laser Grinder as it will grind away at anything with it's sweet defenses.
1 Mar2227: omg omg omg omg. The Drengin have talked to me! This is the first non-trade request I have had (and only one trade request so far) But it's pretty dumb, the Torians are my friends buddy, good buddies. Anyways I go down the Soldier tech path and my fleet are gathering near Hestia I and forming up for the assualt on the Iconians.
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15 May2227: Fleet is getting big. It's time to strike the Iconians. Fleets and forming up and zooming off to their targets, I will hit them in multiple places at once blitzkrieg style. I won't do anything fancy, I just flat out outnumber and outproduce them, and they don't seem to be doing anything about it, they have no friends, no military, no economy and soon no planets. What's the Iconians 'game plan?'
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Note: I haven't done anything to isolate the Iconians, this is simply what happens. I haven't even touched diplomacy, I haven't done a single trade or made any threats or even just said hi to any race. I do not have a high diplomacy score and I did not build the diplomatic galactic wonder.
1 Jul2227: Two pics for ya this turn. One is the quarterly report, I am 4th in power lol and the drengin are #1 but asked me to help them vs the torians 5th in power? wtf? Second pic is my obvious fleets near Iconian planets. I will give them one more turn, I gave them plenty of warning...
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8 Jul2227: Bam bam bam. Goodbye Iconians. Lol at the Iconians build, nice usage of bonus tiles
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1 Sep2227: Been having so much fun with the Iconians, I've been steamrolling them. This was the batle for their homeworld, pretty epic, huh? lol. Also check out their morale, Informtion warfare for the win.
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1 Nov2227: the Iconian Refuge has surrendered. yeah that's right hobos. That certainly was a long war. Never had any contact from any AI, actually the AIs like me much more now than they ever have! Next are the Arceans, might as well take them out considering I am right in their territory (they don't "know what I am doing yet" lol) No demands to get my ships out of their space, no nothing, the AI is just sitting their, no plan no nothing.
22 Nov 2227: Check out this new ship I made, I call it the protector. Yes, those are subspace rebounders and that is 10 defense before my +92% defense bonus. Mwahaha this game is so over. Tir-Quan is also done, even better, bwahahaha.
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22 De2227: Glorious day today, the AI spoke to me! *Gasp* The Torians now want help vs the Drengin. Here you go man, 1 BC. I would give them 2 BC but I don't want the Torians to get out of control with power. They still count this as me giving them aid. Bug? Poor design? I dunno.
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8 Jan2228: First Protector rolls off the Hestia I assembly line. The thing is massive, 11 attack, 20 defense, and 23 hp, holy moses.
22 Jan2228: Arceans finally get the hint, they declare war on me. Well to be fair I had parked transports by his planets for the last ten turns. Arceans like me a year ago but now they hate me, ditto if I would've done this to the Torians or Thalans, it's not AI personality here, they all do the same thing.
8 Sep2228: After a long and very boring war (don't think I lost a ship) the Arceans surrender. Phew. Oh yeah the Torians asked for aid once during my war, but 100 BC later they were happy as can be.
Note: The Torians and the Thalans have been at war with the Drengin all this time. The Korx have done nothing all game. This is consistent with all of my games, the AI will fight each other if they have opposite ethics, but other than that they will just do nothing. Arcean, Torian, Dengin, Thalan, Korx, they have all acted the same towards me, the good ones like me, the evil ones hate me, but they are all acting exactly the same, no personality at all. I left my flank wide open, no one took advantage. I was at war a lot, no one made demands or made threats or tried to bring in an ally against me. I was only contacted by the AI 4 times, once for a trade, once by the Drengin for help, and twice by the Torians, that's it. No one pushed influence starbases or military starbases close to me, parked their fleets close to me or even begged for mercy. The Torians did put 2 economy starbases deep in my territory, I am a bit perplexed by that, as there isn't even any trade going through there.
The game is over, the Torians, Thalans and the Drengin have beat themselves silly. The Korx will be destroyed by me once my fleets form up. If I take over the Korx and they have enough planets I can probably just get an influence victory. If not I can blitz either the Torians or Thalans or take out the Drengin and ally with the Torians and Thalans. Either way, the game is over, it's just mop up now. Here's my last pic:
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Going to finish it up then post it to the Metaverse. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it, if you have any comments or like it and want to read more, just give me some feedback.