Take your time, Oldstatesman. We're all old, it's a given that we move slowly.

good luck ghostwes and company I would like to congratulate you guys on becoming so succssesful so quickly  

Doh - forgot to mention a name. I suppose I assumed there would be one included for me. Anyway, that was a few days ago and I managed to figure out that the invite was sent to my email address and not to a message box here (regardless of my account settings) so please ignore that one.

According to the poll results on the side, it seems that most GalCiv players get their game news from Usenet. Usenet?!? How many people under 35 have even heard of Usenet? Craziness. Myself, I love Usenet, but still...

Embird (Makara), welcome to the empire, ma'am -- your fantastic scores will be a great boon to our growing empire.

I see that we also have fresh wins submitted by Brogan the Bad and Simian X. Good job, guys!

I managed to submit my first crippling level game yesterday. Honestly, it didn't seem much more difficult than painful; I think I got lucky with positioning etc. Still, feels good to get higher level difficulties completed, though, surprisingly, the game did not give as many points as I expected it to. I'm not quite sure how the scoring works yet.

If anyone else happens to be reading this, please feel free to join our growing empire (assuming you are 35+). The more the merrier.

Indeed, we have just moved into fifth place.

Of course, if you look at the scores for the top three empires, we still have a lot of catching up to do heh. This must be how Liechtenstein feels.

By the way, I have collected some of the best hints from this forum and compiled them into about a five page document. If you want some help with improving your game on higher levels, I can send this your way if you like. I think it has definitely helped me, though I seem to do a few things differently than most (I love military starbases, for one).

Emailed.

One old bat heading your way...

Hey guys.. remember in the good old days before electrons where recycled?

That was just after rocks where invented.

Let me also wish you luck!

got it thanks ghostwar. though i seam to be having issues with my isp's cache server.

Didn't know about the Dune reference. (has been 20 years since i read it.)

For me bakka stands for Bloody hard yakka getting on the internet. Cause at the time I was trying to get an Amiga 500 with a direct connection modem to connect. (it didn't work )
I've used bakka as a handle since then which was around 1994-95.
Also been told it means idoit/silly in Japanese
Bakka'n is also something to do with professional wailers at middle east funerals
Tis a town in Russa or finland i think.

Here's a question ... I just finished a Metaverse game, but there was no option to post it at the end. It's always been automatic before, when I won one ... how to post a finished game to the Metaverse when it seems to have decided it wasn't a Metaverse game? I have the endgamesave.sav to re-load. (20k points I was hoping to add to our score).

Thanks for any assist   

If you get a metaverse game that doesn't submit, try support@stardock.com to see if they can get it to go.

Thanks, kryo and of course (my) Emperor ghostwes. I sent off an email and included a copy of the endgamesave file with it a little while ago. ... not only is kyro omniscient, but telepathic too! awesum

[edit]I must be dyslexic ... K R Y O ... that's the second or third time i mis-spelled it all-in-all[/edit]