Embird

Another 78K for the Empire.

Knightblade05 Iraq had nothing to do with the twin towers. Sadam hated the Taliban and Iran. Remember, he went to war with them?

As I see it. there are only two possible outcomes in Iraq. After the Civil war. the Sheites will win and set up a fundamentalist Moslum State. similar to Iran and probably allied to Iran. Or. During the fighting, a strong military leader will emerge, similar to Sadam and he will set up a military dictatorship, similar to Sadam and probably backed by America. The reason the killing does not stop in order to get the army of occupation to leave, is because it is easier to

Sugien. Don't worry about anybody else. Go to the level that you enjoy. If you get bored, then you can up the difficulty. Personally, I like the crippling level. Anything above that is just hard work.

Come on guys. This is great. Help him out with game related ideas to overcome his writers block. Do it by personal email, so as not to spoil the effect.

similar trick is to get someone else to pay you to declare peace on someone you are at war with. Note, you can declare peace with them even though the initial 8 turns of war hostility has not passed, so you can't talk to the AI you are at war with directly. This is the best way to start and stop wars in the same turn. That is a brilliant idea. I must try it. Thanks.

. I haven't seen an AI ever pursue a real culture war strategy. Occasionally they throw a starbase out but I haven't seen them pull it for a major strategy They scatter influence star bases randomly around the Galaxy. Very annoying, but they don't have any effect

I have learned to turn the special events off. They totally spoil the game for me.

Welcome! Make sure to check out the HCH forums at, I have been there and there is a message saying that it is closed to new membership.

BrianPitut. I had a similar problem. I emailed support. A couple of days later I got a reply saying my problem was fixed and then the game submitted just fine.

When you get three or four people in the Diplos who get dump a game approaching half a million points, it makes the little people's efforts a little futile in the race for top Empire. Unless you have people like that, you will never catch them.

When you save a game in order to quit, I would like some visual indication of how the save is progressing and when it is finished. Several times after a quicksave, I have quit the game before the save is complete and locked up the computer. Very annoying. Equally annoying, is having to watch the 'activity light' on the computer, before quitting. It always gives an extra couple of blips, just when you think it has finished.

Dang. I thought he was the Easter Bunny. That had explained where all my little chocolate easter eggs came from--it was his miniaturization bonus. Clearly a Hitler clone must be on the staff of Stardock and has programmed a series of creepy Easter eggs into the game. Who can find them ? Who is he ? How has ne concealed his identity ? Is this game his practice run for the Fourth Reich... is space ?

Got an email from support saying my problem was fixed. Game is posted. Never did know what the problem was.

No number. Like I said, just the message that it was not possible to post it.

Obviously, for some reason, I am not allowed to post to the Metaverse, so I will not be bothering with it again.

I completed my first metaverse game. It asked if I wanted to post to the Metaverse....Yes. Asked to log on...Did it. Said it was posting the game. Then got the error message saying it was not possible to post it. Tried yesterday and today. Is the Metaverse down?

Just completed my first metaverse game under DA. I get asked if I want to post the score to the Metaverse. Then the message, connecting to the Metaverse. Then I log on. Then I get the message " unable to post to the Metaverse. Do want to try again ?" I have tried several times. No luck.

WOW !!!!

I have found that the best defence is just the minimum in all three categories...at the same time. Anything else is just a waste of time. As for attack. I find the best way to go is to concentrate on one type and ignore any defence on the enemy ships. It makes the military research tree a bit pointless.

This is all too complicated for me. At present I am playing a game without the patch. I am putting no defence on my ships because it seemed to have no effect and the AI was not using it. After the patch is defence worth bothering with ? A simple yes or no would be good.

I do hope these changes will make the AI start using defence on it's ships. At present, because defence is totally useless, I never bother researching any of it. It is much better to go for the maximum attack possible. The AI never uses it, so there is no point in researching anything other than the fastest attack technology, Beam. This makes the whole research tree redundant and removes an interesting part of the game. This opiniom is based on my experiences in one game.Whi

I seldom finish a game. When it is obvious that I am going to win, I start another. I cannot be bothered to laboriously invade the remaining enemy planets, one at a time. Waiting for an endless stream of ships to cross the whole Galaxy. The one exception, is a Civilization that has given me a hard time, early in the game. I enjoy totally exterminating them. I usually play on giga

Embird, PhadeDarken and any other current or former members should not let this opportunity slip by. I am not joining any Empire. I am a different person to the one who joined BSG. I prefer to work out how to play the game for myself and to work out my own tactics for different set ups. That is the main enjoyment for me. I do not want the tactics, methods, handed to me on a plate. I also do not want to be depressed by seeing how cle

Thanks. I needed reassuring. I was too impatient. It does work. It has been a year since I played the game. The medals etc. are misleading, I inherited them. Sorry about the double post...same excuse