LOL It's only a 30 day experiment. Join and all will be revealed. Nothing even revolutionary or anything close to "cheating". I agree looking at his scores it seems impossible but apparently not. Now if he can coach me to those scores he's also a brilliant coach.

Boy I sure cause trouble. I do not plan to stay at number one, I plan to use metaverses own scoring system against me to halve my score after I reach number one. I am not using cheats to achieve a score. One could argue my methods are exploitations of the AI algorithms, I would not completely disagree with that. Your attitude, and more importantly the one of your friend Syruss, makes me want to stay above him in rank just to upset him. I will not fall as low as him though and bother doing that.

Nothing is broke. This game is programmed well. Every single game there can be found a way to optimize playing if you really want to. These are called "cookie builds" or something of the sort, according to a friend of mine more experiented in strategy games.

Don't launch attacks on me, thanks.

This is correct. I do plan on also figuring out actual cheats for the game with the help of my friend; however, this has not been done. I am currently playing the game with nothing but my brain. Whether I commit score suicide via metaverse halving, or my scores are completely whiped, you will soon have your precious spots back.

His site= his thread on the GC2 forum.

Your recruitment= "I am willing to teach the first 10 players who can beat tough my stategy"

That, and if I am going to be honest I would again mention that optimisation like that requires intelligence, something various memebers of said thread are severely lacking. "Omg j00 cheatzz0r!"

Stop whining, because unfunf is a better player than you. The methods he is using are legit, and if he wanted he could remain above you permanently. If it was me (being a person without much in the way of moral fibre) I would just stay there, one position above you all.

Stop the "WAA I WANNA WIN WAAHHH HES CHEATING BECAUSE ME LOSING=CHEATING" attitude. This forum contains no five year olds, last time I checked.

hat, and if I am going to be honest I would again mention that optimisation like that requires intelligence, something various memebers of said thread are severely lacking. "Omg j00 cheatzz0r!" [/color] [color="#0000FF"]Marcathonas He is using Algorithms. I do understand algorithms. They are very easy to learn. You could train a chimp to apply them. They are a very easy way to beat any game. They take no brains at all. I refuse to use algorithms as they take the fun out of experimenting with different strategies. This will put the final nail in the coffin of the allready dying Metaverse. If you haven't noticed, there are allready very few people posting to the metaverse. I do not understand why the new scoring system was implemented. Sure the Galciv1 scoring system wasn't perfect, but it kept people interested for years. I posted almost 200 games to the GC1 Metaverse. Technician posted well over a thousand. Many many people posted over a hundred games. The Galciv2 Metaverse is dying after only a few months. Marcathonas, you would not know this as you have only posted one game to the Metaverse. The more you play the game, the more you are penalized. After game 4 the total is divided by 2. After 16 games it is divided by 3. After 32 games it is divided by 4. Is this any way to encourage a player to play lots of games? This is my last post to this thread. I hope The Metaverse survives, but the more people support this exploitation of a game the sooner it will die. Oh and where did you get the info. that he was asked by Cari to do this test. It isn't in any of his threads. I think you make this stuff up to annoy anyone that genuinely wants to prolong the life of this game and not see it destroyed by exploiters. Have a nice day. TBAY

I'm locking this before it gets out of hand. Rest assured that unfunf is cooperating with the devs to prevent future abuse of whatever system he is using (I have also seen him discussing it with Cari on IRC).