OH cool i think i could do that.

too funny

I think several equals 5. Also as Marshall mentioned the purple heart doesn't show up in your forum posts, don't know why. It's too bad because it is a pretty medal.

The only thing is to ask Stardock and get them to make the necessay change to display it.

We do expect to implement medals on the AltMeta. The Purple Heart, the Racial Medal and a Versatility Medal (wins in all bracket types) are those among discussion. We also anticipate having the ability to link to a display of AltMeta medals similar to the current AltMeta banner. Of course you'd have paste it into each post to get it to show up and this is all still to be defined and implemented.

Unfortunately not--been pretty busy of late.

Retires don't count for the purple heart. You gotta take your lumps, you can't just give up and expect to be rewarded

Really no point in losing 5 games if the Purple Heart Medal is disabled.

Ah, ok, well I did post 3 military defeats; but unless the purple heart is going to show up, I don't see any reason to post defeats, do you?

Well although I was suppose to get a *real* Purple Heart; because of being in a jeep accident while in a war zone when I was posted to Camp Holloway in Pleiku Vietnam. At the time I refused it; because the jeep wreak was not part of a combat mission; but rather I wound the jeep out to tight on a gravel road and it fish tailed and I rolled it up into an empty ammo bunker.
My (executive officer, 2nd in command) told me that any time a soldier loosed blood in a combat zone he qualifies for a Purple Heart. I informed him that I though it would cheapen the medal for those that won it for being wounded in an *actual* combat situation. The , said that it really didn't matter; because the regulations stipulated that the purple was to be given to *ALL* service personnel that lost blood in a combat zone regardless of how the blood was lost.
I continued to refuse it, and he said that he could not force me to take it; but that his opinion was that in later life I would regret not taking it, and guess what he is right. I also found out that any Purple heart recipient gets $10 a month for the rest of his life. I know that isn't any big deal; but now I am trying to get a service connected disability; because of all the physical problem I am having associated from that wreak.
Any how; because of a lot of service personnel having their records destroyed by a fire in either Missouri or Illinois (I can not remember which), the Veterans Administration could not find any proof of my having a jeep wreak or of being in a coma for 3 days. They denied the claim back in 1983 and did what they call a final adjudication which means that it could not be re-opened unless or until I could *prove* that the jeep wreak was factual.
Well to make a long story a tad shorter. After the advent of the Web, I tracked down my old , yes the same one that said I would regret refusing the purple heart, he sent me a notarized letter on Department of Defense letterhead, countersigned by the Major under him (my old is currently in charge of the Army's Combat Readiness Center), to both myself and my VA DAV (Disabled American Veterans) rep.
My DAV rep and I sent it in and the VA re-opened my claim because I needed to send them "New and Material Evidence" before a finally adjudicated claim could be opened. Any way had I accepted the Purple Heart in the first place I would have had the proof of the jeep wreak; because on a Medal Citation it gives all the reasons surrounding the reason for the citation.
So, although I is I guess sort of misplaced vanity (I suppose), I sure would like to see Stardock re-institute the Purple Heart.

I came into this game late; because I only started playing on the 17th of March; but I have been playing every day pretty much all day/night with very little sleep. I don't think I am doing to bad considering how short a time I have been playing. In my info it says that I joined back in 2004; but that was just joining Stardock to download some of their free win tweaking utilities.
I guess it is the addict in me. I smoked cigarettes for a little over 26 years and then after having to have a stint put in my heart I gave them up cold turkey back almost exactly a year before 9/11. I will be coming up on 7 years without them, and I sure wish I had all that money I would have spent on cigs.
If you don't mind my asking, how long ago were you in the service? I enlisted 10 days after my 18th birthday back in 1971, went to Nam in 72-73 and got out in 74. I wonder how may my age are in here playing compared to those less then half my age, lol. I guess it is like my VA doc says, that I am still 18 mentally; but now my almost 54 year old body has a hard time trying to keep up with my that 18 year old mind, rofl

Well if they still have the games and don't want or use them, I know a couple of players that would play if they had the game; but just have a tight budget

I created my own empire, and it is comeing along. My empire "Sugien" is ranked at 186 in the empire listings. I will however stop over for a visit and think about it.

Quixen, have you ever played an old BBS game called BRE (Baron Realms Elete)? It is sort of like DA and DL; but text based. I use to play it on my own BBS and other local BBS's. I ran my BBS as part of FidoNet, and had the BBS on an old C=128 running in 64 mode with a whopping (for the times) 20Mb Lt. Kernal HD. I loved my old C=64, and it took some persuading and giving me a free 8088 IBM pc to get me to chang over ot pc's

There's a "How old are you thread" that's been kicked around a few times. It's been awhile since it's seen the light of day. It might be a good time to resurrect it if someone feels like searching it out.

I'm 54 as well, and I also had a heart attack that "helped" me quit smoking. Never was in the military although I did spend two years in military school. I think all the attention that certain folks paid to how shiny your shoes were or how high a quarter bounced off your bed pretty much convinced me that I wasn't cut out for the military, although I do respect those that have served.

As far as rank there's nothing wrong with 186. There are many empires of one or even two or three and there are empires of far more. The only thing about the rank is that currently the AltMeta takes data only from the top 100 empires. It's certainly possible to crack the top 100 empires with an empire of one but it'll probably take a little bit of work. It all depends on the size of galaxy you prefer to play (i.e. larger galaxies = higher score). Of course part of the point of the AltMeta is to provide a bracket system (still in the design phase) that will allow folks to more fairly compete with others that play similar game types.

Anyway this is a lot of information for a new player to instantly absorb, the best advice is to poke around, dig up some old threads discussing strategies and ask questions. In no time you'll be giving other folks answer to their questions.

As Quixen suggested you should stop by The Core if only to check out another source of GalCiv2 information. It's a good group of folks.