Magnumaniac

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[quote]This is definately a Million Point Map. I just need to tweak my technique a little.[/quote] I am still unsure as to whether Gigantic or Immense is best for high scoring - I seem to get on average about 45 planets more on an immense map (~570 compared to ~525), but the extra time taken to colonise them all possibly hurts the score more. e.g. on Gigantic, I can expect to own every planet in the galaxy (bar one, obviously) by 1 Feb 2228, on Immense I fi

[quote]I would like to welcome our newest Senator, Vigilante, to the Twilight Pub.[/quote] Thanks - just submitted a ToTA game under that character, so I guess that makes it official :) You can use more than 1 governor in 2.02 - you just have to be careful not to leave any governors permanently assigned to a planet. Going into the Details\Governor screen selecting a governor, then selecting "None" straight away will populate the planet with the queue of that gov

[quote]The i7 920 OC'd is as quick as a i975 at a saving of £480. Though it will run a little hot.[/quote] Agreed - and the i7's are very OC-friendly. Not sure how Intel expect to ever sell a 975 (at least not to anyone tech-savvy). You shouldn't have any heat problems. I'm running an i7 920 OC'd at 3.33, with the Noctua dual fan heat pipe, in a Coolermaster Scout case - and it runs a lot cooler than anything I've had previously. Even ran it at 4Ghz for a while (har

[quote who="jacklv" reply="3628" id="2357061"]There is a familiar name seeking his third 1st place. Three days, over a million. All work, no talk. [/quote] Damn, almost sneaked in without being noticed :) Anyway, now that the natural order of the Meta and Altmeta has been restored, I can break wind silence... Snarkotamus has only got himself (and ClanLindsey) to blame though - all those helpful

[quote]Ohhh i see another use for it too....hmmmm *thinking*[/quote] Me too ;)

[quote]Mag got 97k? Really?[/quote] 97,650 if you must know :D I'm sure there is 100K to be had on a TA Immense. I actually plan a little experiment after finshing my current "big" game - I think I know how I can get a ZYW on a TA Immense, all-abundant with 9 AIs now. Will be interesting to see how it compares score-wise with the more standard ZYW (probably less, as I know I'll have to probably push the game into November / December).

[quote]I have just been busy is all..[/quote] Yeah, those Altarian love slaves take some pleasing ;)

[quote]The game only displays the ship movements that are in its current view.well, will this make the time shorter or will it take just as long but you just don't see them moving anymore?[/quote] It does speed things up - but not to "zero-time". Depends how many individual ships or fleets have to move, their speed (i.e. how many parsecs they have to be moved), and your system. Once you get into the thousands with speeds of 25+, then turns can still take quite a while to process. <b

Was this happening for all buildings on the planet? If not, which particular building type were you trying to place the agent on - some do not allow agents.

Herodias is correct re. point 2 - all the AIs complete their turn first, and when you hit "End Turn" for the first time, the AIs then perform their 2nd turn. Re. point 1 - you need to specify what form this "jump ahead" is taking. Do you mean in their apparent area of influence? If so, then it is likely that AI has selected influence bonuses or the political party that gives +inf.

[quote]I'd kill to be able to launch ships from the Colony Management screen.[/quote] That's a good one, you get the shield symbol indicating ships in orbit - so why not make it clickable to launch. Another vote for this, and for something that has been mentioned in the past... more keyboard please! Give us a keyboard shortcut for all common buttons (such as "Buy", or "Accept" etc). Alternatively, user definable hotkeys.

[quote]I'm beginning to think he has a split-personality.[/quote] Hmmm, a schizophrenic lizard - something like a crocogator then!

What? No mention of Morrowind in here - the best first-person RPG game by far, ever! A shame they dropped the ball so badly with Oblivion - very pretty, but that's about the only thing good about it. [quote]Bladurs gate full series Icewind dale full set Masquerade Redemption (the first one with Christoff not really linked to Bloodlines other than universe). Also Planescape Torment Both KoToRs Both Fallouts Both Divinitys (Divine/Beyond) All the

[quote]what about those annoying AI colonized class one and two planets[/quote] Are you mad? :NOTSURE: Those PQ 1 & 2 planets terraform into anything from a 13 to 19. If you really must, you can easily destroy any colony you own from the colony screen after taking it.

[quote]since at the end of the tech tree, your ships can fire black holes and doom rays anyways, why can't I destroy entire planets.[/quote] Because you can destroy whole star systems instead :D Miner automation has to be the number one annoyance for me - so much so, that I just don't use them at all anymore. Nice idea, generally well implemented, but completely ruined by the lack of a viable automation process.

You can't brown-nose your way to close relations (that would make an alliance victory far too easy, like it was in GC1). You need to be at friendly, have more + modifiers than - modifiers with the race in question, and just wait. It will happen eventually. It's going to be easier with races of the same alignment, that you have trade with, have never been at war with etc, and will always be a lot easier if you have the strongest military in the galaxy. Note for TA only:

[quote]PS: By the way, Magnumaniac, is there a limit in TA on the number of planets?[/quote] 540-550 does appear to be the top limit. The PQ 1's and 2's are gone, which accounts for a lot, if not all of the difference. [quote]You are either a much, much better player than I, or there is a difference in the way the scores are managed with the 2 expansions...[/quote] The latter, certainly. Not so much in the way the scores are calculated, but rather in the fact that ther

[quote]Then, lemme be blunt & direct, ansury...[/quote] Hehe, the blunt and direct response I was contemplating wouldn't have made it past the word filter :D The constant whining by one individual because they don't like one feature (that has been in the game for almost a year and a half), and can't adjust their play style to cope with it, has rapidly become more than a little tedious. So much more eloquently put, Zyxpsilon!

[quote]BTW Mag, nice to see you took that record from Livonya, your 1,064,000 beats the 1,062,950 they posted.[/quote] Not really - it is comparing apples to oranges. On a gigantic map, I suspect that game would have scored approx 950K. On a DA gigantic... who knows, the 2 are very different games. I learned a few things from that game, that I could use in DA aswell - so I may at some point go back to see what I can do in DA. Livonya deserves the accolade of the highe

[quote]Better to subjugate the universe than to listen to the endless squabble of old fat diplomats.[/quote] The pen is mightier than the sword! Just ask KP how his most recent conquests have been achieved - I think you'll find more "big stick diplomacy" has been used than actual fighting. What you do with the subjugated foe afterwards, of course, is a different matter entirely - there is always plaenty of room at the slave canyons :D

[quote]The Stargate Command has become the 10th most powerful empire in this galaxy, yet you speak as if your warriors are grass-eating cowards afraid to engage in honorable combat.[/quote] They also do not appear to understand the number 1 rule of diplomacy - negotiation is best done from a position of strength! If not, then you better have something very big and juicy to offer ;)

[quote]You wouldn't have perhaps had 10 SCC's in this game would you?[/quote] Actually, it was TA with the Yor tech tree - there is no extended diplomacy branch. No-one ever got beyond researching advanced diplomacy, so there were no SCC's anywhere in the galaxy. Military graph curve was consistent with what I am used to seeing. [quote]It must be a unique feature of ToA that allows this kind of research spending or is it simply an extension of an "all labs" strategy?[/quote]<br

[quote]Thalan game - final score 1,031,100 Society - 148,814 Tech - 20,331 Econ - 325,907 Military - 636,290[/quote] Interesting... Society - 141K Tech - 204K Econ - 382K Military - 435K taken at December 22nd 2234 in TA (equates to 2233 in DA as TA games start a year later). Very similar total when added together - and a very similar overall total aswell - 1,064,000. The most interesting thing is that I only had a grand total

[quote]Thanks Motti! I decided to make run for it, and did a couple dozen ZYWs in one evening to get there. I've been there for about a week, but I bet you or Mag or someone else will grab it back sometime soon![/quote] Can I have my nice shiny medal back please? ;)