Dear Ray and Councial Members
Thank you for accepting me as a white council member!
I am not that good but this game really makes me try harder to win.
Hope to learn a lot from here.

From Seoul (temporariliy in Edmonton Canada)
Bostonrpgmania
(who with a 4 year old kid it is really hard to find enough time for this game!)

Glad to see you make a first post in our thread, bostonrpgmania. Big welcome to you again.

I dare say we have one of the more multinational empires around for our small size. I'm a Singaporean, J4 an Irish/Japanese, boston a Korean, Sergey a Russian, Gezz a Turk(?) and rest of us Americans (?). Did I get all of you right?

Hey Bostonrpgmania, Welcome. Don't have kids, but at work 12 hours a day, so it definietly puts a dent in playtime...ahhh..well...
Welcome to the White Council! and have fun!

Hey guys,

Let's play some 1.044 and send our save games over to Brad so that they could be used for his 1.05 testing if he so chooses.

I've started up a Maso/Medium/Abundant. I would be playing it for Military Victory. What I personally would be doing will be to check the score when I can win it the first time and then proceed to attempt to get the highest possible score through boosting my pop/economy/tech.

The White Council Empire News 9-10 June
Sergey Pakhomov 335 Painful / Medium - Win: Alliance Victory
Sergey Pakhomov 322 Painful / Medium - Win: Alliance Victory
Sergey Pakhomov 8321 Crippling / Medium - Win: Military Conquest
redshift8 3560 Crippling / Huge - Win: Military Conquest
redshift8 3104 Crippling / Small - Win: Military Conquest
redshift8 2258 Crippling / Tiny - Win: Military Conquest
J4 5445 Tough / Gigantic - Win: Military Conquest
jus4golf 973 Tough / Tiny - Win: Alliance Victory
jus4golf 384 Painful / Tiny - Win: Alliance Victory

~SDC~

Once again sincere thanks to Ellestar for proving that even with all the bickering that goes on we are all still a community. Not that I dislike the bickering mind you.

~SDC~

Do you need these news? I can get it for all major empires. By the way, it seems that Canadian Star Federation will be 1st soon.

~SDC~

I personally think it's great Ellestar!

The Canadians have seemingly come from nowhere and taken over. We may have to work up a special spell for them. I actually believe that once the scoring is restored to normal they will quickly fall out of favor with the metaverse gods.

~SDC~

Hey Pontius, thanks for offer!! Sales...yikes...I need my weekends and beauty sleep. I once dreamed of becoming a roadwarrior, but instead I moved to tokyo and get beaten down by rush hour every day. I've been a software tech for a few years, wierd market nowdays.


I started out doing programming. Real Pit. They pretty much forced 15 hour days out of you and never paid you for it. Then I got my advanced degree, Found out no professor jobs, then went into real estate.
Heavy heavy divorce and burnout though. Some just jump through all kinds of hoops to chase sales all their lives rather than controlling their own lives. Sad to see when it happens.

We moved ahead of the Canadians! Back in 3rd and moving on up!!!

~SDC~

Great! Ellestar thank you.

Couple of quesitons:
On average how many years does it take for you to get dreadnaught tech?
How many years does it take to finish a game?

I never kept track and I'm at work now, so I can't check this out.

I know I know...I should be working...hmmm Well back to work then :notsure:

After my last post internet was completely down during the last days. It's incredible to see how everything gets paralized in this country. The whole system, companies, social insurances, bureaucracy, etc. is cut. The financial (and social) loss is reaching insane levels.

I hope I'll get through with this post, because the connections are still far from being normal.

Additionally I suffer from constant crashes since a few days. I think I have to install Windows from the scratch.

Meanwhile I managed to finish a large map, but couldn't submit it for obvious reasons. Now I'll try again.

Concerning the coordination of the suggestions project: It doesn't seem very rational to take that responsibility under this circumstances, but I promise to reserve a whole day for research in the depths of the forum after connections are normalized.



Regards to everybody from isolated Gezz
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Gezz,

And I thought I was having a hard time being taught a lesson by the Maso Galciv AI. Certainly hope that the situation would improve for you folks over there. Don't worry about Project #1, just help out when you are able to.

Gaming wise, I've just given up on my Maso/Medium game that I started in 1.044 but continued in 1.05. It was rough. Managed to blitz the Dregs and Tors for 50% military victory but still found it impossible to win because the remaining 2 superpowers (Yor was friendly) were at war with me and both have dreadnoughts to my frigates (think it was about year 6-7, J4). Found it extremely cheesy that I was relying on fleeted starfighters to take down their dreads. Anyway, have started another Maso/Medium under 1.05 and its a much better start so I'm rather optimistic that I'm going to win this one.

I'll be out of town for up to one week and won't be able to post, except today.
Have fun playing!

Finished up the second attempt Maso/Medium game that I was referring to above. It was a cakewalk because the starting position (with +1 speed) was so good that it enabled me to get 50% military victory through colonising. Rushing Dregs (who also colonised well) enabled me to capture about 2/3 of the galaxy. With the remaining powers friendly to me, I went on the build up my economy and tech before finally culturally flipping them for the win.

The picks I used are +1spd, +20econ and +10 soldering. My party was the one with +20morale and +20diplo. I like the above because spd and soldering helps me in rushing. Econ and morale helps my economy and diplo is obvious.

Will now try for Maso/Large. Hope you guys are have having fun with 1.05. Any comments on the new version?

I have first tried my painful/mid sized game.
Uhhhhh I manged to survive at the end against red guys but finally crushed..
I think for galciv, initial position is the most important factor for wins and urges people to use Ctrl N alot. However even with Ctrl N, i was crushed..no exceuse
Any adivice for painful game would be welcome!

Excellent work everyone! We've moved by the Euros!

Ray congrats on moving into 2nd!

~SDC~

I dropped a large/challenging in the bucket about 8 hours ago... quite a game, I tried out (or, rather, improvised on the spot from stuff I had heard) some new strategy.

I was really running roughshod over those poor AIs though... +2 speed let me win the colonization race hands down (the Arceans, as always, did quite well for themselves, but I still beat them) and +20% pop growth helped me keep my pop graph nice and above them. I couldn't pump out the starfighters quite fast enough, so the Drengin's declared a war on me that I let go for a number of turns before eventually just giving them some tech to leave me alone. I "physically" secured a military resource between the Drengin and I by putting 8 star fighters 'round it, and once I SB'd it and another one I had little problems keeping the AI off my back. I also got two econ resources and (important) two influence resources...

I did a lot of tech trading and got some nice tribute set up, set my spending to 50% to accumulate cash, and split my production between constructors and tech, teching to get the resource mining modules and constructors to build them. I also built 1 production starbase in each of my inhabited sectors, in lieu of planetside production buildings (the only things I built on the planets were soil, habs, bank, EN, and a few other morale boosters ... there were a few fusion plants at first, but the apparently-recently-raised-to-3 maintenence cost wasn't worth it so I tore 'em down). Trade goods and wonders I simply leased, though I didn't decide to until I lost a few of the early ones (Eyes went to the Altarians... they're not critical, but I really like having them).

After a while my military bar was rather above everyone other than the Arceans (I had Star Fighters with 9 attack, little else) and a great deal of cultural influence, so I started planting culture-SB's in enemy territory in an act of open cultural warfare... that was the beginning of the end Once the planets started flipping, they didn't really stop. The Arceans fell to two starbases placed in the heart of their territory, no shots fired

And that was how I wasted about 7 hours of Friday night-Saturday early morning...

Hi, all.Its me former Sergey Pakhomov. I have just started as new player. It was not fun to throw away all my games medals, titles etc. But I dont see other way to explain that the current system is ill.

If White Council members consider this action as unworthy to be a member of the Council feel free to exile me, but I'll be happy to stay a member of empire.

Sergey,

As I mentioned before, this is your game and I have no right to tell another player what they would want to do with it.

Guys,

After reading Staffa's and Sergey's posts, I can say I empathise with what they are going through. I think the Metaverse is a great idea for a single player game and it deserves to be supported. However, I find myself playing the Metaverse much more than playing the game because honestly, who doesn't like to see himself move up the ladder and also to see his own empire do well?

As such, I have decided that I will no longer participate in the Metaverse and I will be disbanding the White Council. I hope that by doing so I will still find the interest to play this game when the Expansion pack comes out. Else, I am certain that I would be thoroughly bored before that trying to get the highest possible score.

If you empire because you want to be part of an empire striving to be number one, there is a number of good ones (GROSS, ANZACs, etc) out there which you should join.

Let me say that I really appreciated your participation in this empire and I hope you continue to enjoy the game.

Rob, if you are reading this, pls carry on the good work that you have started with the Galciv strategy guide. All the best to you on that.

Ray, you are a gentleman and a scholar. The white council's rapid rise to the top will surely be a staple of the metaverse history books.

redshift8, my Illinoian brother, the MWC calls...

Senator idleprocess
'Manifest Destiny'
The Mid-Western Confederation
http://idle.thehueys.com/midwest

~SDC~

Ah, I see the vultures have come . The MWC is definitely another empire that is worth joining.



Anyone knows how I can exit the Metaverse? I've tried changing my nick but I can't seem to associate my s/n with my new nick.



Alright, seems to have succeeded.
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