I'll join up - but I post my losses as well as my victories, so be prepared.

ill join u aswell i am currently ranked 400 i try to post 3 games a week

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Welcome Orca777. Are you friends with Orcas 1 thru 1000. If we had all of them we woud be number one already. There seems to be a problem with the meteverse empire signup. Keep trying to join as they should have it fixed soon. If you have any questions about game strategies please ask me on this thread. Bye for now.

orcas with doom rays...where do i sign up

THAR SHE BLOWS! MAN THE HARPOONS QUEEQUEG!

Welcome Thawalk. Good to have you aboard. I am just about finished a suicidal conquest victory on a large map which will bring us up to about 17th place. I have promoted all the new people that join us to senators. The first 20 will be promoted. After a few months I might add new senators if they are productive in recruiting new members or they are putting up massive scores for our empire. Bye for now. I had tried to post a long strategy plan for getting a good start in any game. I see that it was not posted. I will try to rewrite it and post it later tonight. Back to work. TBAY

Welcome Norad and Razius. We are growing in leaps and bounds. If you can help me recruit some more players we will rise to the top in no time. The top empires' scores will drop substantially when they finish the recalc as their top players all have a lot of 1.1 beta scores that were not recalced. In the past 2 days we have gone from 1 member to 5 and have moved from 21st place to 11th. I have just promoted you both to senator. Bye for now. TBAY

Yes. I am very interested in a web page. It will give me more ammunition to put in my shameless plugs for our empire that I am posting everywhere. I should have some tips for all of you soon. I am also frustrated with the scoring system. I just posted a large map suicidal win, played without tech trading, and only scored about 32000. This took me 3 days to play. I had a suicidal win on a medium sized map a couple of weeks ago that took me only 5 hours to play, as I was tech trading, and I scored only 500 less than the game I just posted. It is much more of a challenge to play without tech trading but you aren't rewarded for it. When I play with Tech trading I can usually complete the whole Tech Tree in Just over 2.5 years. This enables me to dominate the galaxy alot earlier, and score much higher. It seems the earlier you achieve domination and max out all areas, the higher your score will be. I might of scored higher on the game I just posted if i had kept a "pet planet" of the last remaining race and ammassed trillions of dollars but that becomes boring as all you do is press end turn. Now that I know I can beat the game without tech trading. I think I will rattle of a few Medium sized maps with tech trading to get our empire in to the top 10 or higher. Keep me posted as to the web page. I will rewrite the post that got lost ( some reason it didnt post) on an early game strategy and will have it posted within the next couple of days. And norad you should give some advice to the newer players also as you are getting very good scores for the difficulty level you are playing at. A couple of your tough scores are higher than my suicidal wins. Bye for now and keep up the good work.. Oh Ya. Have fun Too.. TBAY

My style of gaming tends to be a "builder" as I like to build up everything before attacking but in all honestly the higher scores I've acquired have come from being a conquestor from the start (since the acquired techs add in to score as mentioned above). I also am a builder. At the hardest levels the AI races build up their military much quicker, and want to expand their territory much earlier in the game. Becouse of this it is almost impossible to avoid going to war early in the game. If you can survive the first war, and aquire most of the defeated AI's planets before it gives up and hands its planets to another race, You stand a chance to compete for the rest of the game. At that point I usually form an alliance with the strongest race that has the same ethical allignment that I have. That way I can concentrate on building my worlds to the max and spend more money on research, knowing the other race is covering my back. Bye for now, TBAY

Howdy all!

Just wanted to let eveyone know that I've got my hosting set up and now I'm just waiting on the nameservers to resolve. When they do resolve, I've put a temp page up for the orcas. Since I've wasted this much time finding a host, I'm going to go ahead an get a game started and will probably wait for the weekend to actually work on the site. I haven't made up my mind on if I want it to be on a subdomain but for now it will be on the root domain of Link. I will also be putting up a forum in due time. If anyone has any suggestions or if you have ship pictures you might like on the site let me know. I'll also set up an email address once everything resolves (probably tomorrow since I'll be in the game for the rest of the night). TBAY, as commander-in-chief I'll set you up with a pop 3 account for recruiting if you want it. Guess that's it for now. Take care.

According to my host, the above link should work. Either it doesn't or my ISP has not resovled the domain yet but either way it isn't working for me. If it is my ISP, I have to say this is the longest I've ever seen it take. Could one of you let me know if the link works (it should take you to a temp page) so I'll know which group I'm going to have to raise hell with. Thanks.

Yeah, I'm still getting DNS errors too. Its been over 48 hours, so I'll try tomorrow to see what may be causing it. I have to admit that I didn't work on the page any today as I got into a huge map and played until just a minute ago. I'm having to use toothpicks to hold my eyes open just to post this. Hopefully I can get the game finished fairly quickly in the morning since I'm down to 1 AI, and he trapped in a corner. Take care all.