Tournament of Losers! - Running June 6th to July 15th!

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Tournament of Losers!

From June 6 (starting tomorrow) until July 15th, I'm running an unofficial tournament. All players who own Dread Lords or Dark Avatar are welcome and encouraged to participate.

The Scene

Wyndstar recently ran a Battle Royale Tournament (I have wholeheartedly stolen the format, some of the text and the rules of his original OP for this post! I don't think he will mind. And I would certainly like to thank him!) Three races came out at the bottom as clear losers, nicely balanced across alignments. But which one is really the worst to play?

All three races have timidly retreated to their corners of the galaxy, showing their true cowardice, lack of ability and lack of skill. The Iconians have joined them...Just because they are a loser race too! Which one will be forced even deeper into its corner? Which one truly deserves to be extinct?

The Rules

Who Wins: The Race which scores the highest when the raw scores of all the submissions are added up at the end of the tournament will win.

Who Loses: The Race which scores the least number of points by the end of the tournament. This race will be crowned the Grand Galactic Loser. Help keep your favorite loser race from being the king of the losers!

Tournament Length: This Tournament runs from June 6th to July 15th. On July 15th, I will post the results of the tournament. I will try to do regular interim updates.

Submissions: Every skirmish matters! To submit your score to the tournament, simply post to this message with a screenshot from your metaverse profile.


Only games with a date in the lower right hand corner that were submitted between June 6th and July 15th will be accepted. No cheat flagged games will be accepted. If there is a question about the validity of any score, it will be resolved by referring to that players official metaverse profile by me. For this tournament, games played by the races listed below will be counted. Players are free to submit as many games as they choose as long as they are legal metaverse submissions within the appropriate date range.

If you have problems taking a screenshot, please post the date, score, race and character profile where the metaverse game you wish to submit can be found.

Feel free to include a blurb about your experience playing your chosen loser race!

So who will lose? Which race is really the worst? Was I right to unilaterally include the Iconians? Your games will decide the answers!

Good luck to all!

Final Scores:

1. Drengin: 598585
2. Altarian: 370825
3. Iconians: 324800
4. Arcean: 226500

Let me be the first to denounce the Arceans as the Grand Galactic Losers. Yes, they are the race so inept that they can't even successfully pilot a starship into a sun to end their own existence and so cowardly that they can't manage to end their own existence through any other way. The good races think they are to pathetic to bother with, the other neutrals fail to notice them, the Drengin will not enslave and the Korath will not spore them, because they are looking to enslave and spore intelligent races. They must forever wander the galaxy begging other races to put them out of their misery and end their pitiful existence.

All may now dis and disdain the Arceans, the Grand Galactic Losers.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This is so cool. And I love the humor. To be fair, the Iconians were the fourth worst in that tournament. They just happened to score almost as much as the bottom three combined (not quite though). The three you listed really did have a very sorry showing.

No problem on stealing my language. If it works, why fix it? Good luck with this. Thanks for the honorable mention.
- Wyndstar
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I see my favorite race is in there. WEEEEE AAARRRE THE LOOOOOSERS MY ALTERIANS AND MEEE  
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
PlayJeff and his Altarian woman (shakes head)....It must be the facial tatts

Great to see this is up and running, nice work Purge.

Guess i'll have to put my current game on hold and see if i can find Kona, the mangy dog, he most likely is drunk again, last time i saw him he had his head in a bottle of imported and illegal Torian Ale. Guess i will have to go down to the "Lizard Chain", his favorite bar, and give him a swift kick, there is work to be done....

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmm...A chance to break in my second user. I might have to find an evil empire of tyranny to put him in. I wonder if I can find such an empire?   

My current game can wait. New one will be cranking up tonight. Thanks for doing this, Purge!   

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
PlayJeff and his Altarian woman...


I think she looks more like a disgruntled Soccer Mom than a world leader. Neilo, do you call them "Football Mums" down under? Maybe "GravBall Mom" to keep it strictly sci fi...

I am beginning to despair at the amount of time my current large galaxy game is going to take. I may take this up as a side venture in a small galaxy. Hmm, I haven't played the Arceans in ages. But mine will be evil Arceans. Muahahahaha!

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks all for the support.

The suggestion of using a second character for these tourneys is a good one as well. Especially when playing with one of these races!
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Neilo, do you call them "Football Mums" down under? Maybe "GravBall Mom" to keep it strictly sci fi...


No, no...soccer is soccer. The Australian view of the game soccer is not too different from North America's. In that it doesn't matter a great deal. (oh no i'm gonna cop it from someone for that comment ) So a soccer mum is still a soccer mum, and they drive around in the 4X4's that never, ever go anywhere but to the school and the shopping mall. We have three different codes of football, neither which are soccer, Rugby League, Rugby Union and AFL (Aussie Rules). They are territorial as the southern and western states embrace AFL and the eastern and northen states the two Rugby codes....So to a Victorian AFL is football and to someone from New South Wales, me, Rugby League is football. There is little love lost between the two. Id liken it to Chev and Ford, generally if you like one then you can't stand the other....

Haha, i guess you didn't expect the Australia lesson when ya wrote that....sorry

As for "GravBall" i hear they play that on Wardell IV and Cordellia II. I would very like to see the new HoverBall League on Iconia. Mmmmmm all those fembots running around in their miniskirts..

Hmm...A chance to break in my second user. I might have to find an evil empire of tyranny to put him in. I wonder if I can find such an empire?


Geee i do hope there is such a place, it sounds like a very interesting empire....
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The suggestion of using a second character for these tourneys is a good one as well. Especially when playing with one of these races!


/Warning Shameless Plug Ahead\

If you need a home for that second character Purge, i think you might find it at the Tyranny of Evil. I hear they are the newest and most evil place to be.....

/End Shameless Plug\

I am beginning to despair at the amount of time my current large galaxy game is going to take.


Yeah, my last Gig/abundant all, took nearly 3 weeks to complete and about 1 whole week of that was just 2 or 3 turns...How you do that on the hardest levels Purge is still beyond me.

Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
WHY OH WHY can we not all have Alterian women? Which I might add has much better breath than the Korathian women  
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for starting this, Purge!

Luckily I had just started a game as Altarians before you announced this.


The real problem with playing as Altarians, if you're doing so because you find the Altarian woman attractive (as I do!), is that you can't see her then . In that sense, she's better as an enemy. Just think of the make-up sex after a brutal war
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
One question, Purge. Will you kindly allow me to post my scores as I did for Wyndstar's tourneys? I can't take screen shots, but I'll just copy all the info from my character's "report card" and, if you feel the need to confirm my data, you can do so easily by looking up my character. I'm terribly sorry to give you the trouble, but I won't be able to submit scores otherwise. Unless, of course, you come to my house and show me how to use software to take screenshots. I'd be all for the latter solution, though I expect you'll prefer the former (if you'll be kind enough to allow it).

Thanks again!


Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The Altarian are no losers, I will soon join the fight!!!
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
At this point I wish I had started as Arceans, as I know them the least of all the races. Is there anyone excited for this tourney who plays Arceans with any consistency?


Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
At this point I wish I had started as Arceans, as I know them the least of all the races. Is there anyone excited for this tourney who plays Arceans with any consistency?




Later in the game there first strike ability is hard to beat.
Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yay, another tournament!

Whut, no customs allowed?! ...awwww man
Guess ill have to play the pathetic Iconians then. Oh joy. X-P
That, sure as hell, will be a defeat. Haha, i like that tournament already.
Im busy with another MV game right now though, so the Iconians will have to wait.

Good luck to all of you, may the best looser win!
Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yay, another tournament!

Whut, no customs allowed?! ...awwww man
Guess ill have to play the pathetic Iconians then. Oh joy. X-P
That, sure as hell, will be a defeat. Haha, i like that tournament already.
Im busy with another MV game right now though, so the Iconians will have to wait.

Good luck to all of you, may the best looser win!


i THINK my custom race would be the loser of the loooosers, they're even lonesom  
Reply #17 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i THINK my custom race would be the loser of the loooosers, they're even lonesom


Your custom race sure is a disgrace, hehe.
Seriously though, how did you manage to mutilate them so badly? They usually
rawk, you know.
They are highly capable, you just need to teach them more powerful Kung-fu. Like
Super-Diplo-Fu and stuff. And if you go for First-Strike-Fu, it will rain chicks.
No more lonesomeness!
Now fix them please, they are about to realy hurt the good reputation of their kind.
Reply #18 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i THINK my custom race would be the loser of the loooosers, they're even lonesom


Your custom race sure is a disgrace, hehe.
Seriously though, how did you manage to mutilate them so badly? They usually
rawk, you know.
They are highly capable, you just need to teach them more powerful Kung-fu. Like
Super-Diplo-Fu and stuff. And if you go for First-Strike-Fu, it will rain chicks.
No more lonesomeness!
Now fix them please, they are about to realy hurt the good reputation of their kind.


Yea, shoulda named them the pikes instead of the pikelings then theyd rock  
Reply #19 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

One question, Purge. Will you kindly allow me to post my scores as I did for Wyndstar's tourneys? I can't take screen shots, but I'll just copy all the info from my character's "report card" and, if you feel the need to confirm my data, you can do so easily by looking up my character. I'm terribly sorry to give you the trouble, but I won't be able to submit scores otherwise. Unless, of course, you come to my house and show me how to use software to take screenshots. I'd be all for the latter solution, though I expect you'll prefer the former (if you'll be kind enough to allow it).

Thanks again!





Absolutely acceptable!
Reply #20 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
At this point I wish I had started as Arceans, as I know them the least of all the races. Is there anyone excited for this tourney who plays Arceans with any consistency?




Later in the game there first strike ability is hard to beat.


I have played 1 game as the Arcean. And that was just to get my Racial Victory medal.
In actual fact i can't stand them, there my pick for the loser here. Though the Iconians will not be far off them.

Drengin for the win....
Reply #21 from GalCiv2 Forums Top


While I didn't think I could join in, I decided a tech win with the Altarians only takes me about 20 mins, and I could spare that to support the cause.


~ Cowering in their corner of the galaxy, the Altarians were surrounded by aggressive and competant neighbors. Trembling in fear, they resolved to do what any true coward would. They tried to imagine that they were not a weaksauce race ripe for the butchering. As billions of them spent all day hoping and thinking in terror, they managed to stumble on enlightenment. That'll teach those warmongers!

Altarians - hot leaders and scary thinkers!

- Wyndstar
Reply #22 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Whoa! One year?!? How did you pull that off, Wyndstar?
Reply #23 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And the Altarians take the early lead!
Reply #24 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The Australian view of the game soccer is not too different from North America's. In that it doesn't matter a great deal.



Soccer is tha bomb Neilo! Bet you watchd tha world cup and screamed out like everyone else during that ****ing Wog game...
Reply #25 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Whoa! One year?!? How did you pull that off, Wyndstar?

Um, I was playing as the Altarians? If I had gotten any bonus tiles on my homeworld I could have done it in 0 years. Tech wins require no work but grinding the turn button if you know what you are doing.

- Wyndstar