CalifDude

Playing DA. During the colony rush, you see a Galactic Resource (let's say it's a military resource) and a Class 4 Planet on the fringes of your territory. You can build either a constructor and get the resource, or you can build a colony ship and colonize the planet, but not both, before the AI gets there. Which one do you go for? You might want to discuss whether your answer would be the same for a Class 3 planet, or a Class 5 planet; or maybe if you could acquire two resources a

Assuming it it is open to newbies, can someone direct me to where I can find out what the Altmeta is about? Thanks.

Coming to the table so recently, I'm not aware of all the lore of the MV, the Empires and the MVL, and I assume there are good reasons for everything, but I was surprised at two things: That the MVL teams are not Empire teams. That the MVL does not have separate divisions for DL and DA games. As for the surrenders vs no surrenders question, as a DA player I would vote for no surrenders in any MVL round, because I've had experiences like Wynstar's and I feel that the AI su

OK, but neither adding range or cultural influence adds anything to your game score as far as I know. To increase your score you must need to use at least two constructors.

Idazen, as a fellow new team player, I had the same trouble with getting to my Team A forum, and thought it was a problem in my PC registry, but it turned out that the Core administration is just slow in validating you as a forum member. They finally sent me an e mail saying I was validated, then I was able to post with no problem. I suggest you watch for the e mail.

From reading the manual, I thought that when you build a starbase, it has no effect until you add a module, meaning that it takes two constructor ships to get any return from a starbase. Is this true? Or, does the starbase have effect as soon as it is built, before any modules are added, so that you get a return from using only one constructor? (Not talking about a resource base, just an ordinary starbase you can build anywhere.) Thanks for your replies.

I haven't seen TA, my suggestion was based only on the DA invasion scenes. If TA has movies that sounds good to me and my post may be superfluous.

SB, I take it from this post that it is the date stamp in your MV games record that determines your submisson rank, rather than the date you decided to submit the game for MVL record, provided you made the submission before the Round ending date. If that is so, you can shoot a good game, but hold off submitting it while you try to improve on it without losing your early submission rank for the good early game. Do I have that right? Thanks as always. In Round 6, my first game looked l

My humble suggestions after playing DA for a while. The screen for invasions might best be a movie that has exciting and chaotic battle scenes with no attempt to relate to actual troops of the player and AI facing each other. The invasion scenes in DA look like the French against the Prussians in the 19th Century because of the attempt to depict the actual troops. Just have a movie that moves from venue to venue of starwars level troops, vehicles and ships blasting each other amid f

I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to post a screenshot. Can someone give me instruction? Assume my IQ at about 80 for instructions. Thanks.

My submission for Round 6, The A Team, Califdude: Character: Wotan Race: Custom, DA 3 yr. Challenging Military Victory 5,950 Points. Submission Date: 1/23/08 Is this an adequate submission? I don't know how to submit a game directly from the MV account.

Question about the account for an MV character. I just completed a game that I opened in MV and intended to be available to submit for Round 6 for my MVL team. When I completed the game, MV did a strange thing...it updated my total score and changed my MV ranking, but it did not list the game in the games played by my character, Wotan, so there is no way I can submit it. Possible answer. The list of games for Wotan has six games and there doesn't seem to be room for more games on the

Thanks, SB

Thanks SB

Did you open the game in Metaverse? You can't just play a game and then post it to Metaverse, you have to open it in Metaverse on the first start-up menu, then at the end of the game a screen will appear asking if you want to record it in Metaverse.

Yes, thanks, I assumed the submission rank had to do with the game scores, which it does not. However, it appears that the average submission rank is a factor in the team's bottom line score, so it's best to submit early on...is that correct? Thanks.

Call me Duh, but I really don't understand MVL scoring. In Round 5, Iztok turns in 11,200 in 1 yr and gets submission rank 19? PlayJeff submits 11,200 in 4 yrs. and gets submission rank 22. Galen sumits 5,400 in 4 yrs and gets submission rank 6? I must not be understainding what "submission rank means." Can some one clarify this? Thanks a bunch.

If there is a need for a player to fill out a team that otherwise wouldn't be able to play in Round 6, I'd be glad to fill out the team. I played the Round 5 game as a trial and won it easily at the normal level, except that it was supposed to be an influence victory and I won it as a military victory. I could also have won it as a diplomatic victory if desired. I don't really understand the strategies for an influence victory, something I still have to learn. But the Round 6 game c

I started to pose this question on the DA forum, but decided it was subtle enough to warrant the attention of the pros here. It involves better understanding of how the overall productive capacity of a colony (its GNP, if you will) can be used to the fullest extent in situations. Let's say that at a point in a game you want the absolute maximum investment in research that your race can get. And let's assume you have moved the slider to 100% research and 0% social and military, and clic

I've been reading the seminal threads by Wyndstar, Purge and Mumblefratz on strategy for GA, posted by them in October, 2007, and have a question: Were these strategies developed while playing DL, or were they playing DA by that time? Some of Wyndstar's most vital ideas had to do with the tech speed in the game conditions. I had been playing all my games at normal tech speed, so I thourght I would try one at the fastest tech speed. Just when I thought I was going to win the game, I

Good stuff, thanks.

Interestng, thanks.

Thanks, guys, some interesting stuff there.

The more I think about winning a game by conques in around 50 turns, the more I know I have a lot to learn about this game. Glad I joined up with T of E and hope the members don't mind questions. Anyway, is it possible to win a game by conquest without invading the AI colonies...that is, without having to research the techs and build transports, and then move transports across the galaxy to the AI colonies? Seems like the minimum number of turns it takes to do this even on a tiny galaxy would

Call me Bubba, but I don't understand what you have to build on the tiles that have a 100% approval bonus or a 100% influence bonus. Some tiles have text about being a natural place for interstellar tourists to visit, and I've sometimes built Entertainment Centers on these. Don't know if that's right. It would help if somebody out there would give a rundown on which social improvements get the benefit of thexe tiles. Manufacturing, Research and Farming (food production) bonuses are obvious, b