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

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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 #101 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Here's another score to complete the weekend's Tyranny of Evil Drengin scoring trifecta. I was going to play it out longer, but I guess I pushed too hard on the last enemy and they caved before I intended. Weaklings.






Spore. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfrakker in the galaxy. Accept no substitutes.
Reply #102 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Updated:

1. Drengin: 216975
2. Iconians: 211450
3. Altarian: 209805
4. Arcean: 188000

With the flurry of Drengin activity the worm has turned. All the way from proto-dead to first place. The Arceans are now looking like the most likely to be voted out of the galaxy!
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Reply #103 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Here's another Drengin blast.

Character: Bastard
Years: 3
Diff: Maso
Victory: Military
Size: Medium
Alignment: Pond Scum
Score: 23450
Version: 1.61DA
Date: 6/25/2007



This was an especially weird game. The Korath were by far the top race for most of the game, but they never researched or built any spore ships. That made the conquest much easier, no need to say!

Reply #104 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My first gigantic game. Diplomatic only because it was taking sooo long.

Reply #105 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Updated:

1. Altarian: 244315
2. Drengin: 240425
3. Iconians: 211450
4. Arcean: 188000

The Altarians have made their move!

It's interesting that despite their slim lead, so many people have put in an Altarian game.
Reply #106 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I was going to play it out longer, but I guess I pushed too hard on the last enemy and they caved before I intended.


I know what you mean. In this one, the last AI, Torians, just declared war and surrendered to me in the end. They wouldn't accept peace, even when I offered all of my tech, money and trade goods. I wasn't pushing them that hard either. I had even gifted a planet with two galactic achievements and some of my military to them a little earlier. My military buildup had just started and I never built anything stronger than a medium missile boat.

A bit disappointing, since I was playing pretty sloppily too. Could have phoned it in. It was my fault for taking econ and morale abilities and Fed Gov with the Altarians. They were just too strong throughout the game.

Anyway, here's the submission...
Reply #107 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Could have phoned it in.


"Hello, Tlas? Yeah, this is the Evil Altarians. We're in your galaxy now. ...Yeah, we're gonna be neighbors. About three systems away, in fact. You're... What? Moving to the Andromeda Galaxy? Oh, so sorry to hear that. Bye. click Whaddya know, green flight. What, do we smell or somethin'?"

I've turned off surrenders in the game I started last night, hopefully that will stop this silly fatalistic AI behavior. I opened relations with my nearest neighbor by sporing their homeworld on the turn after their first freighter reached me. Muahahahaha!


Reply #108 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I opened relations with my nearest neighbor by sporing their homeworld on the turn after their first freighter reached me. Muahahahaha!


As any disrespectable neighbor would do

"here ya go, a selection of our finest wines and art works"

"well thankyou, please take this thermonuclear device in our appreciation!!"

Anyway here is my Drengin effort, such a shame though in early december of my last year, after a long drawn out fight. (9 civs and at war with the Thalan, Yor and Terrans from about turn 15) i get the jagged knife. I lost 200 or so planets but the remaining AI (thalan and torian) lost all but about 5 planets and of course they then up and surrended to me. This should have been a 100K plus game but in the end i got screwed.....poor me...





/Bad Muther Fraker\

Purgatory is upon you. Redemption is forfeit. No-one will be saved. Your destruction is our dawn.
Reply #109 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In this game the Iconians had 10 planets (occasional planets setting) and surrendered to Lord Kona before our transports could even reach their space. Talk about pacifists...

Reply #110 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
1. Drengin: 349075
2. Altarian: 278815
3. Iconians: 211450
4. Arcean: 188000

A commanding lead for the Drengin....That's why I always use a poking stick and not my finger!

Keep them pouring in. Seeing the Drengin in the lead is a bit of a surprise.

BTW I hate the surrendering thing too. I always turn that sucker off.
Reply #111 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I hadn't played the Drengin before your tournament. The "gameplay" is easier than the Terrans but requires a bit more micro (note: I'm still playing with DL). Colony rush, rush to Harpoon II, rush all planatery invasion techs while assembling forces, kill closest opponents. Improve military and repeat. As your empire grows, the tributes from the other races will flow.
Reply #112 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I seem to add scores only to the lowest race at any point! Just bad luck, I guess.


Character: Bastard
Race: Arcean
Years: 5
Dif: Maso
Victory: Military
Size: Medium
Alignment: Neutral
Score: 21350
v.1.61DA
6/28/2007
Reply #113 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh, oh, with CornhuskerMac's entry the Iconians have almost, ALMOST slipped into last place. Will their destiny come to fruition?

As for the rest of this, Altarian players need to unite! How are we getting beaten by the Drengin. Time to load up some score grinder games....

~ Wyndstar
Reply #114 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I seem to add scores only to the lowest race at any point! Just bad luck, I guess.


I can't think of anyone who could possibly need it more!

1. Drengin: 349075
2. Altarian: 278815
3. Iconians: 211450
4. Arcean: 209350
Reply #115 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hi guys, i just want to go off topic a bit and put a shameless plug in for the "Metaverse League". It is in it's final development stages and should be ready to go quite soon. The concept is having teams of 4 players in each team playing games in a structured enviroment. There will be monthly rounds with set objectives, such as win a conquest victory on a medium map or an alliance victory on a small map. Settings such as anomolies, clusters, tech rate, minors/majors amount of AI etc..etc.. will be given out for each round and will be the same for all players. The players will be free to select what race they play as and the settings pertaining to them.

Points will be awarded for a win in the correct category plus bonus and penalty points for highest scoring games/quickest games and games that go too long.

This only scratches the surface of what is happening so if it sounds interesting please check out the League thread and please join in and help crown the very first "Metaverse League Champions"

See you there





Reply #116 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Despite never meeting head to head the dreaded Drengin still managed to oppress their
fleeing slaves who insisted on huddling in the middle of the map



Edit: seems one of the compression schemes somewhere along the way was lossy

2 games

Character: Gustavus
Version: 1.61DA

Drengin
Years: 4
Diff: Tough
Victory: Alliance
Size: Medium
Alignment: Pond Scum
Score: 8160
Date: 6/29/2007

Altarian Resistance
Years: 3
Diff: Tough
Victory: Technology
Size: Medium
Alignment: Very Good
Score: 5510
Date: 6/28/2007
Reply #117 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I now believe fully that the Iconians are the WORST race by far!!!!

Nevertheless, they have fired another shot:


Character: Bastard
Race: Iconians
Years: 6
Dif: Maso
Victory: Military
Size: Medium
Alignment: Very Good
Score: 23100
v1.61DA
7/1/2007

Reply #118 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thinking and brooding on neutrality, the Arceans decided that all that was good and all that was evil must be wiped from the face of this sector. And so they cleansed their sector in a river of alien blood for they were the only neutral race in the sector.

Character: Gustavus
Version: 1.61DA
Arcean
Years: 5
Diff: Painful
Victory: Military Conquest
Size: Medium
Alignment: Neutral
Score: 17150
Date: 7/2/2007

first strike = no defense = win; I was taking out medium ships with tiny ships, and not suffering any attrition
Reply #119 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, the Drengin had no points when I started this game. Now I'm just adding to their lead

This was my first military conquest, as well as my first painful game. Took a lot longer than my tough cultural win!

Character: SeanThornton
Race: Drengin
Years: 5
Dif: Painful
Victory: Military
Size: Large
Alignment: Neutral
Score: 42000
v.1.61DA
7/2/2007
Reply #120 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, the Drengin had no points when I started this game.



You played Drengin as neutral? Why? You can have easy 100% econ bonus, plus awesome weapons bonuses with evil!!!! Why ever play Drengin as neutral???!!!


However, they've fired their shot.


Evil is always best!!!!

Reply #121 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You played Drengin as neutral? Why? You can have easy 100% econ bonus, plus awesome weapons bonuses with evil!!!! Why ever play Drengin as neutral???!!!


Well, let's see....

I'm pretty new to the game, so didn't realize this was bad form. I like neutral for the Morale (more taxes, more pop) and soldier bonus, for invasions. I guess I missed where evil gets an econ bonus, I don't remember seeing that in the description. And as far as better weapons, weaponry was the least of my issues in that game, I was already wiping up the opposition

Thanks for the tip, though, I'll look at it more closely in my next game.


Reply #123 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm pretty new to the game, so didn't realize this was bad form. I like neutral for the Morale (more taxes, more pop) and soldier bonus, for invasions. I guess I missed where evil gets an econ bonus, I don't remember seeing that in the description. And as far as better weapons, weaponry was the least of my issues in that game, I was already wiping up the opposition

Thanks for the tip, though, I'll look at it more closely in my next game.



Sorry, I was mostly joking. Drengin just happen to be the most evil race, that's all.

If you go evil, you can get a 100% economic bonus if you build the Mind Control Center. It's available after you research Xeno Ethics, Good and Evil, then the last evil tech whose name I don't remember. Plus with evil you get really cool weapon possibilities about in the middle of the weapon tech branches. They are very expensive, though, so it helps if you have good industry and economy.

Good luck in future!
Reply #124 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
1. Drengin: 441235
2. Altarian: 284325
3. Iconians: 234550
4. Arcean: 226500

Things are looking up for the Drengin. It appears the Arceans and Iconians are racing for the bottom!
Reply #125 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Drengin just happen to be the most evil race


Hehe. My kinda race.    Actually, neutral Drengin sounds kinda interesting to me. I might have to give it a try sometime.

Here's another boost to their evilness though...