Hmm...The last time I saw her, Playjeff was heading out into the desert with her in tow.  In fact, I seem to remember that she had that last bottle of ale with her too.

Yeah, I like the dash cam.  It probably wouldn't work well on an RC car though.  It's physically pretty small, but the wires would get in the way.  There are sport cams that would do great though.  There are also some that go on RC aircraft.  I'd bet one of those would work pretty well.

The one I took the video with is a V1000GS.  It's 1080P at 30 FPS, so it's kinda like being there.  It's supposed to look even better when the sun's out, but oddly, we've had nothing but rain and overcast here.  Not that I'm complaining.  Our drought situation has only been upgraded from "exceptional" to "severe".  

And yeah, I like Motley Crue too.  Classic stuff.   

Yeah, it was a bit more than I wanted to pay at first, but the cheaper ones had pretty poor resolution, bad reviews and no GPS.  This one has some hidden costs too.  It doesn't come with memory, so you have to get a decent SDHC card.  Even some class 10 cards have done less than adequately, so I got a listed one.  

I also heard about the freezing up problems, so I got an autoranging power conditioner to make sure over and under voltages don't wipe out the electronics.

Still, it was nicely priced for the quality.  It matches the performance of the $400.00+ models for around half the price.

I was considering a cheaper model that looks like it matches the one I bought, except that it has 4 LEDs.  The deal breaker for me was that according to reviews, it only shows speed in KPH and I wanted MPH.  If KHP is ok, that one is $135.00 at

 http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/511185394-Car-DVR-Camera-with-GPS-Logger-Ambarella-Chip-Full-HD-1920-1080P-30FPS-H-264-4-wholesalers.html?biz_type=sitePromo_wto_buyer360_clc&url_type=wto_clc_pic&productId=511185394&crm_mtn_tracelog_task_id=6704287&crm_mtn_tracelog_log_id=1151422448

Here's a vid of that one...

Finished my war game! Not sure where i last updated, so i'll just give a quick review..

I think i was about to wipe out the Korx and the Drath last time i updated, both those fell easily. None of them had upgraded their ships to combat my missile attack and as such i was able to really focus on engines with my ships since i needed very little attack.
I got a few shrinkers from them and did my upgrade, with more engines still. After this upgrade my huge hull had 50sp 250att/650def.

The Klikiss (yor) were next and fell in one turn, my transports were also upgraded to 3k troops and 50sp.
Last of all was the Altarians, who fell in two turns.

I could have really ended the game so much sooner i guess, i just never saw the need to pull the trigger till the last few AI were left, i was happy just rolling over them in a easy fashion. Once i went full mil spending, i built up more transports than i could have used and with 50sp ships it was done and dusted very quick.

Here's the screenie, it scored quite well for a straight up game.

Only thing that wasn't vanilla about the game was my custom, it was an ARC, but for my race mod not for scoremongering, and some of the AI races were custom, but it was only the flavor of the races that were changed.
I had under my SCC any ships that were surplus, which had a small Mil SB array over it, only 6 or so bases and not even fully built out.

I gave up doing anything with my econ once i had payed the leases off. All i made sure was that each planet had a built IS, VR and a Farm III. I was getting just over 300k per turn and ended up with over 2mill in funds by the end...

Next is a TA game, either one where i will let the game dictate to me it's course, or a Terran diplo game....

No they didn't, and i traded them the req'd tech. And yes i think every AI had a shrinker, so 10 in all, perhaps 9, i don't recall the Arceans having one, i did hit them very early. I make sure to trade the req'd min tech to the AI as soon as i get it, since the extra bonus in the hands of the AI, is no threat, but the bonus or you when you get it is all cheese!!!

As for the score, i was quite surprised, i have no idea what type of scores folks were getting on straight up suicidal games, or if they were even played. I'd guess Purge would have an idea of what scores he was getting before he went down the diplo route....In any case, thought i could care less, it was a pleasant surprise to see a good score for the game time i put in....

Very compact, but may lack the HD quality i want to go for.  Size is no real issue...the cars are quite large, but something smaller, and more to my needs...lighter, will allow me to adjust the weight distribution better. I load ballast on board for some of the larger jumps i do, when your 30ft in the air, landing perfectly is essential!!!!

I recall a bug once with building the shrinkers, that if you cued up your shrinker and then gifted that planted to a minor, the shrinker would still be in your build cue since it hadn't completed, and of course the minor doesn't destroy it, so..voila 8 more shrinkers.

Pretty sure that was patched out though....

It's really an apples to oranges comparison comparing DL galaxies with 350 planets versus DA galaxies with 750 planets. Also the later standalone versions of DL (specifically v1.31 and v1.4x) were significantly different than any of the v1.5 and later versions of DL incorporated into DA which basically allowed you to research, produce and upgrade while bankrupt, none of which you could do in DL 1.4x.

Anyway with that caveat emptor and the knowledge that there has *always* existed at least some minimal form of score "milking", I would say the closest thing that existed to a "straight up suicidal game" were the 300K games played by both Magnumaniac and Syrrus K. Interestingly enough I don't think Purge ever got much more than 500K using his "peace for planets" strategy nor do I think he ever achieved much more than 100K without using it.

Both Magnumaniac's and Syrrus K's strategy depended on early outperformance of the suicidal AI colonization, in general doubling the colonization of a single AI and that was pretty much it.

It really wasn't until I combined Purge's initial development strategy with the 24 MSBA, always getting an Economic Boom on Oct 1st, 2226 and a bankrupting game ending massive upgrade, all of which other than Purge's usage of Diplomacy were of my own invention, that anyone began to come close to the 1 million mark.

It's because of my first hand knowledge of Magnumaniac's game that I always considered him the best colonizer in the game. However I would be loath to mention Magnumaniac's colonization ability without also giving credit to the one person that I believe to be a better colonizer than Mag and that is Sole Soul.

 

True, I misspoke somewhat. Initially you could do everything *but* research which included social and military production through research focus, ship upgrade, building rush buy *and* ship rush buy all while bankrupt. They did close the ship rush buy loophole while bankrupt but given you can still produce hulls via research focus and upgrade while bankrupt the point is somewhat moot. The only thing that can't be done in bankruptcy these days is research.

Yeah that was a DA game. 508K was his best in DL v1.4x which as far as I can tell was the 2nd highest DL v1.4x game ever played after my 1.09M.

http://metaverse.galciv2.com/index.aspx?g=player&id=7913

http://metaverse.galciv2.com/index.aspx?g=player&id=11342

But if your point was to compare "straight up suicidal games" the best representative of that would be anything from Mag or Syrrus K in DL v1.31 or DL v1.4x.

http://metaverse.galciv2.com/index.aspx?g=player&id=6898

http://metaverse.galciv2.com/index.aspx?g=player&id=11229

 

Holy Crap, people are actually posting in this thread? And playing GC2!?!

 

How's it goin', all?

Hey All. Good to see some old faces in here.

 

@ Neilo, I had the same problem after that ground breaking patch v2.04. Here is the link to help you out (Reply #50). Best of luck!

You have my vote on getting the ball rolling and I would like to see that happen! Just make sure you all drop a comment or two in our thread too.

We are looking for players to join to become aggressive Admirals to lead your fleets across the Galaxy!

Empress Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

 

Hey Neilo, Snark, Sole, Mumble, Capt and Mina!    

It's good to see everyone gathering around again.  I doubt a full on revival is in the making, but maybe the game has a little life left in it.  

I've started a new vanilla game playing the Iconians.  It's a balanced game, so no "all x" strategies are in play.  No extreme diplo, no ARC or anything like that.  Being the Iconians, I'm not going to limit my military, but the limitations seem to be built in anyway.  I have a single fighter that I traded for and no tech to speak of.  I've been threatened twice, but refused to give any handouts to the extortionists.  It's Dec year 0 and my empire is in dead last place.  

My ability to colonize is limited to slow colonizers that I'm building on my homeworld.  I haven't built another starport yet due to economics.  I'm sure things will turn around before long.  At least my economy is balanced and staying above the -500 mark.