Just thought id show off my new "500" medal. Wish there was a new achievement medal to show off as well....Hopefully the medals and the MV get some attention in 2.0, it was said this would be so.

A couple times lately with gigantic ZYWs I've had a cheat flag be tripped and I cant figure out why.  Both times it was with games over 100k, but other than that there was nothing unusual about them.  For one of them I reloaded to turn 1, replayed, increased my score, and resubmitted successfully.  For the second one, either it didnt notify me or I didnt notice somehow (unlikely), until after I had deleted the save game file.  Anybody else having similar problems?

Also, for the tiny ZYWs I only reported my best score overall, but actually also have these:

39,900 Devilcat, game # 232

39,200 Devilcat & Slayer-Churuff, at least 4 different games

I just assumed only the best for each person was being listed, but maybe I should be listed three times under tiny.

Sentient species taste better...

For the 2nd game I mentioned, it's remotely possible I finished on April 1.  But for the 1st game there was definitely something strange going on.  Any savegame that I reloaded immediately notified me a cheat flag had been tripped, no matter what point it was in the game.  The only savegame that was "clean" was my turn 1 save.  If a setup looks good enough to possibly break a record, I'll have a bunch of saves so I can try to squeeze out a few more points.

Sentient species taste better...

This may be the most (or at least close) research I've had on one planet during a ZYW.  I had three 1000bc anomalies in the game.

I think I'm going to replay and try for a better score.  This one came in at 98k.

Sentient species taste better...

do you mean the texture in the upper left corner?

I turn off some of the graphics, including planet textures, to improve performance.  It really only matters in games with hundreds of planets, but I dont bother changing it back for ZYWs.

Sentient species taste better...

Ok i would like to include myself into the esteemed Zero Year Club!

16 week game netting 64400 points!

Nice going MS, and on TA too, which is far harder.

Now all i need to do is work out which techs to go for to max out my score a bit more..

Oh and i lied 2 more to close out on.. 7 for the day is not a bad evenings work. The only thing i would say is that ZYW are great for points but dont really do a lot for the fun of playing the game. That said i will carry on knocking them out to see how well i can do in a week with my little empire of one!

Woot Fleet Captain already

Game 20 under the bag. Just got to wait fo rthe MV to update and see where it puts me now?

Hmmmn I got to get me one of these ZYW's sometime soon

Another personal ZYW high score:

Congrats on your ZYWs Masterlink!

Sentient species taste better...