Hi, everybody

There is something very odd in metaverse. My point suddendly drop 320 000 to 250 000 when I post my 16th game worth of 90 000 points  

Have anybody any explanation?

Jarru

Been playing as much as I can but have never done anything with Metaverse. Any advice before I try my first Metaverse game?

Thanks,
Devast

Thanks Syrrus. So, in order to get the medal indicating which level I actually play at, I have to play above it. And, the more games you play, the more penalised you are in your rank. Geez, what a system!    I'm starting to see why so many people complain about it.

Been playing as much as I can but have never done anything with Metaverse. Any advice before I try my first Metaverse game?

There isn't much difference in a metaverse game than a regular one. The only difference is that your score is uploaded to the server. Having said that, you can tell that we have been looking for ways to get the highest scores possible. Difficulty plays a minor role as it seems crippling-suicide doesn't make much a difference but cakewalk thru tough does seem to make a difference. Map size tends to make a big difference but I think that is only because the bigger ones allow for more population, military, etc.

While there are the few of us trying to max out scores (and prove to SD there are exploits) the main purpose of our empire is to just have fun as well as give us a place to chat about the game. If you have any questions, we are more than willing to try and help out so feel free to ask away. Till later!

Map size allows for more planets, but so does simply turning up the planetary abundance value. Useful if you don't want to play larger maps, or aren't sure if your computer can handle them (both true for me).

Warning, cheesy exploit included...

I just posted a game that scored 85k. In this game I rushed to huge hull tech and started pumping out a few with stingers. This put me in the top military position and kept me there as I upgraded my ships. Having that advantage, I never went to war. Yes it was a long drawn out game as I basically just won a culture victory without building any culture starbases. Since the only option I have available is for a conquest victory, after the last planet switched I won a military victory and never fired a shot. To give me time to gain the techs for the huge ships I avoided the diplomatic techs and without communiction it kept the AI from attacking. Once I got ahead of them in military power I sped throught the diplo techs to get to the forms of government so I could afford those ships. I probably could have extended the game by giving planets back to the last AI so I could increase my population/military ranking, but to be honest I was starting to grow bored with the experiement. I think this does prove that battles do not make a lot of difference. My population was only a little over 3t and the game was only 15k less than my previous game where I had 8t pop and had to use my military to win the game. I think the 5t in population is what made that difference.

End exploit stuff....

gallagher118 - I have to agree, the gigantic maps are rather drawn out. Once you basically beat the AI back, you've won but you have to clean up all the hold out planets. I think med-large maps are more of a challange too, as far as the game goes. Gigantic maps are a challange of staying interested until the end, at least in a conquest victory, but easy as far as the AI is concerned.

On a side note, that game has put me 9k behind Jarru and moved us into the 4th place spot. I've also added some color to the site. I'm still playing around with it during breaks from the game. Till later.

Bump

gallagher118 I am sure that turning off tech trading does not give you any bonuses. One of my lowest scores on a huge map playing at the suicidal level was with tech trading off. The game is much more challenging and more fun with it off but you are not rewarded for it. Disabling victory conditions gives you a higher score as a military victory has the highest multiplier. As to your other queries I am as lost as you are. They made a great game but it seems they do not Know how to reward proficient players. It is frustrating in that respect but I still greatly enjoy playing the game. Also playing at the suicidal level takes about twice as long to finish and max. out all areas, yet you only get a very small bonus over the crippling level. There seem to be a lot of players that feel the same as we do, but the devs seem to be more interested in adding more features than fixing the existing ones. Every time they add new features there are more bugs to be repaired which means they have no time to fix the old problems. I have learned in my life that sometimes you have to take one step back to take two steps forward. Bye for now. TBAY

Well i should be into the top10, right with jarru and major tom, so we'll have 3 in the top10.

I need to look for a job... I've been treating this game like a job for the last week or so...

Should i start a new character or does the averaging not matter since i've got 30 games behind me ?

Orca777 - noradster at gmail.com

gallagher118 - I'm not sure if there is another level for divisions but I'm pretty sure that when you submit a game it totals your games and divids by 3. I think I'm going to play one more game with Major Tom and then go ahead and start a 3rd one. Again its boring at times but I think I've figured out how to get 100k+ on a game on gigantic maps. I'll know for sure on the next game. Anyway, if you are happy with your character then go ahead and keep playing it. I'll probably go back to using norad before long.

God this website sucks. Freaking horrible slow. Ok here's that link

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Hey Norad, how many years do you target the game to go ? From what i've read if you play too long your score will go down. I've been getting better scores just by taking my time, where i used to try to crush the AI's as fast i could. Like you said though, it gets boring...

well, my 2 better scoring games go 10+ years but I really think that population is the reason. The last game was 10 years, but I had 6T population. I experiemented on the game before and 2T at 5 years I only would have scored 65K. It may suppose to award you for faster games, but as long as you have 300+ planets still generating population it will outweigh ending the game early. Really makes no sense to seem to want people to sit and hit the turn button just to get a better score.

I had to pull up my end game:

Society: 57180
Tech: 36118
Econ: 90805
Military: 47022
End game: 1 May 2235 (game starts at 2225)

It does take forever.