No probs mate.

We better hurry up. Only 14 days left.

OK, I'm sorry to say that I'll have no chance to try again for this round. Here's what my neutral bugs were able to do:

Score for the A-Team: 8120


Character: Bastard
Race: Thalan
Years: 4
Dif: Maso
Victory: Tech
Galaxy: Medium
Alignment: Neutral
Score: 8120
v1.61DA
7/14/2007

@CornhuskerMac - I'm flattered that someone of your experience would be asking a a relative noob like me about the game.

The score itself was deliberate. I told my teammates about some of the strategies I used and intended to use and had let them know beforehand that I was shooting for a 20k game. This was in our private team thread at the core. I also tried for a two year and 1 year win. Those were less successful.

I brought up the need for our empire to have a private strategy forum where we could discuss and test new ideas amongst ourselves. I can use some help in experimenting with strategy combinations, since I don't have unlimited time to devote to it. This will be done within the empire I'm affiliated with, if we can make it happen.

I'm unaware of any possible way to cheat in this game and if there's a way, I'd rather not know. Everything I did in this game has been mentioned in this forum, except one particular item that I don't fully understand yet. It'll need some further investigation before it becomes a viable tool. I made reference to it in our empire thread, but no details until we can collectively verify it.

I think I still have the start and one turn before the endgame saved. If these can be used for discussion, I'd be more than willing to send them to neilo. I don't know where they are, nor how to package them for sending, so I'll need some help on that part. I also heard some rumors about a .xml that can be used for verification. I no longer visit the core, but it was being discussed when I was active there. I can send that if someone will explain how.

Meh.

Not only did it take me nearly a month and several tries, but still I have to post a defeat.

Tech Victory simply doesn't suit my style of play. Nevertheless, I got up to Deeper Understanding, before suffering a Cultural Defeat at the hands of the Terrans. The worst part is that I saw it coming. I already had troop transports enroute to a three-planet minor in a last ditch effort to gain some galactic influence back.

The Terrans would have never been so aggressive (conquering first the Torians, then the Iconians (who surrendered to them rather than me, who had shoved thousands of BC down their throats)), but... well...

I didn't like the Torians, so I paid the Drath and Terrans to go to war. The Drath, as expected, lost enough ships that I in turn could conquer them. The Terrans, however, went into overdrive and built a military like I have only seen flying Drengin colours ever before.

Long story short: I lost.

Team A

Character: Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
Years: 6
Size: Medium
Difficulty: Normal
Race: Thalans
Outcome: Cultural Defeat
Points: 625

Date: 09.08.07

I'm looking forward to the next round.

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Sounds good.

But until then, I'll PM you with a temporary offsite link. Perhaps you'd like to join in with the experiments and discussions. It would be great to have a veteran like you in our midst, if you're willing.

Uh. Midnight where?

Only three more day and I think I'll be able to finish. Actually, I will be able to finish regardless, the only question is whether or not it will be a decent scoring game or not.

Initally I hadn't wanted to bother with score and was looking for a quick victory as a source of bonus points. However, that didn't work out for me because all in all my first attempt at a medium galaxy game was rather sloppy.

My normal strategy of planet specialization didn't work very well with only 3 planets to start out with. Once I did take over the weak sisters in the game and I was in a position to exert my will over the rest of this rather small galaxy, it was already 5 years into the game. Clearly, quickest victory would be out of the question.

In any case, regardless of the score, a suicidal victory is still a suicidal victory even if it isn't the quickest or highest scoring.

If I had to assume then that's what I'd assume as well. However I'd hate to make that assumption and find that someone meant east coast Australia time (whatever that is).

Midnight on the 13th as per this forum, which is EST of the U.S.A. I thought it best to just have the time frame the same as the board.



Well as of writing this, it is 0955 Saturday 11th August. I think on average Australia is around 14 to 16 hours ahead of North America.



I had a similar problem. My lack of experience at the smaller maps hampered me and i play a slower deliberate style of game. Rushing just didn't help me, the lack of planets was too great.

In the end i got a slow win but with no real score to write home about. I did enjoy the challenge though.

Hmm, I had originally posted a game won in 4 years, but reposted for a 5 year win for a couple k more points. Maybe I did that backwards. I thought I would get more chances to play a few more scenario's, but really didn't. I still think a 2 year victory should be possible, under the right conditions. Maybe I'll make an attempt at one this weekend.

-5:00 I believe. You can easily check by right clicking your taskbar and going to your time/date adjustment. Look at the time zone tab and it gives you relation to GMT for all the zones in the dropdown box.

No i think your point came through. I too am happy to keep it this way but for pndrev and others if there are enough of you, then we could do something different.

After all we always said we will be flexible with the league. But i do think we will have to go with the majority on this, time will tell.

"time will tell" haaahaaaha i kill me....