Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Except for the top all the levels can be expanded or shrunk to fit as many players as are available. So the only reason the crest is bigger then the middle right now is that there are more players on the crest then in the middle. That will even out as more players move up from the bottom to the middle and more of the current crest games end.

Geoschmo

[ June 11, 2003, 00:58: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Phoenix-D v Roanon:

Game's over. I went for mines for once, to try and box him in and then use my superior research to overwhelm..he boxed me in with mines instead. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif It was all downhill from there, and after loosing 90% of my defense fleet I surrendered.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Thanks for the game, Phoenix-D.
It was a very good one (at least for a newb like me), I have learned a lot. For instance that Minesweepers techlevel 1 suck http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
I was a bit surprised that you were content with defending - I lost some time organizing paranoiac defenses. But with 5 systems vs. 15 systems you cannot outresearch me unless you have 300% bonus http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Took me a long time to breach his defenses though, he was dug in nicely. But thanks to my paranoia I was prepared for the worst and exactly that was what I got http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

"But with 5 systems vs. 15 systems you cannot outresearch me unless you have 300% bonus"

And you didn't notice yet that the three systems behind me were planetless. Useles.

Like I said, I just didn't move -quite- fast enough.

EDIT: Also wish I knew why most of the times you swept my mines I got no message. Very odd, that.

[ June 11, 2003, 23:22: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Strange that. But I didn't sweep often, after that initial "sweeping by running ships into" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I was too scared... I just stood nearby waiting for my sweepers to be retrofitted from this useless level 1 tech. As far as I remember the first (but very complete) sweeping happend when I entered your system in the upper right corner, I didn't do anything before.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Yup. No message there, or any sweeping for that matter til the Last turn.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">After review some of my Last turns in a multi game I think you only get this message if your mines do some dammage. If 100% are swept you get no message.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

They did no damage the Last turn either..

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Small wonder with my fleets sweep capacity of 98 mines http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This happens to me quite often; I just blow it off...