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

Man, I hear ya, Rags. I had a similar start (meaning at the edge) with Kazarp and though I had two lines out, they both went to nebulas. Thought I was in trouble for sure.

But, it sucks when expansion is the name of the game and you only have one road out of your home system. Not to mention Goz must have started in the middle somewhere, making it somewhat easy to block you in (not saying it didn't require skill, just that position helped out).

I guess you never saw his homeworld?

It's good to see such a good attitude when luck throws you a curve. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Feel free to stop building warships. I don't mind at all. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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

BBegemott vs Krsqk, 2402.0

No much action in this game yet. We started on opposite sides of the map and finally met a turn before. I have a little initiative at the moment as I found myself in the 1st place Last 10 turns. However the game is very early- one little mistake and the things might change to the opposite. I'm sure the game will be getting more & more interesting from now.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, I'm sure he either started in the far north-western corner or south-western corner. This was one of Tesco's maps with the starting positions in it. So as far as that goes it was probably even, he just might have had more good planets on his way to the middle then I did. Possibly a faster trip to the middle of the map as well.

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

Well, unless the Baron self-destructs, this game is just about over. The SOB ( http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif which is short for fine gentleman) has more of everything! More mins, more research, more ships, more imagination, more talent.... Well you get the idea. Combine that with my feckless play and it's no contest.

I could hold out for quite a while merely waiting for him to conquer everything but the writing is on the wall. A few more turns to see if he makes a major blunder (hah!) that will allow me to recover...

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, I'm sure he either started in the far north-western corner or south-western corner. This was one of Tesco's maps with the starting positions in it. So as far as that goes it was probably even, he just might have had more good planets on his way to the middle then I did. Possibly a faster trip to the middle of the map as well.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">After looking at the map that Rags put up we were both 4 jump points away from where we met. I will tell you that after being in the SEIV school of rapid expansion there are some technques that enhance ones ablity to expand. However when you do them you are taking chances. I think I lucked out in this game. If you look at my record I am at 2 and 5 in the Koth standings. So I think luck definitly plays a role in the starting position in these games. Several times my opponet told me I had a bad start position. In One of my wins I was the next system over from the other player but it was his gateway to the rest of the map. We were playing Default.

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

I'm ready to play for a few hours, Georgig, if you are willing to either let me run the turns (if I can get the master password from Asmala) or run (and mail them) it yourself.

Then, after things get right with PBW, we can just upload the latest GAM file and go back to normal.

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

Grazic's EEEvil EEEmpire vs Grandpakim's Confederation Update - 2407.3

It appears that we both have fleets in the north. The EEEvil North Fleet (37 ships) has just advanced into GK's territory, destroying a small defense on the Warp Point and destroying the planet of Gergan V, which we believe was where our stollen EEEvil people were living as slaves. GK has 31 ships on his training Planet & moon in Gergan II. We suspect that the fleet is being retro-fitted or is untrained which would explain why they haven't attacked us yet. There is also an undefended colony on Gergan IV.
Now which one should we attack? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I think SOB could be used to sum me up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I do take offensive to "more imagination, more talent" however. Having LCs with DUC V, Shields V & ECM III or LCs with 1 DUC V & many Point-Defense V, doesn't really take imagination or talent.
We do appear to have more mins, more research, more ships, but then again, we have 2 colony types which could explain it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Plus you have given us some technology. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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

Baron, your ship designs are nothing special. Your tactics are. At least they are far superior to mine. In hindsight, I could have done many things better but I am unable to compete with your superiority in production of all sorts. That you have a second colony tech puts you 500000 to 1000000 research points ahead of me! I still have a few aces up my sleeve but if they fail... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

With PBW inaccessible, looks like we'll miss our usual start-of-the-week blitz. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ August 04, 2003, 04:50: Message edited by: Grandpa Kim ]

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

And I was looking forward to another 10-20 turns today. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif