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

yea, I dont know what happend. I was verry spread out I think. so it took me to long to get my ships to the right places, since you had propolsion experts that helped you even more.
also you had scanner and ecm advantage and I had to race to get the techs and upgrade all my ships.

anyway good game.

asmala - put me on ice for a few weeks, I am going away at the end of the month and I dont know how often I will be able to get net accsess. so till I find out put me on hold.

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">OK, done.

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

Slynky vs Spoon - 2405.0: Slynky Surrenders

Good game, Spoon! I knew it was going to be tough when I saw that you started with 2 large breathables and a medium breathable in your starting home system. Ugh... Nearest thing of that size to me was 3 systems away.

On this Last turn, when you got my best mineral producer, I knew it was a lost cause. My mineral planets were SOOO bad...I had to have 16 miner ships just to keep a fleet of 60 destroyers in the air! Not counting my homeworld and the planet you clobbered, only 7 of my 41 colonies had mineral percentages above 2 digits and none of them with more than 6 facs.

I know you had your share of problems to overcome, too, as you had to go through 2 nebulae before you could get to a good system (4 out of 5 systems behind my home system had no planets). You played a good game and the jump on research (from your home system) helped you in the early battles. I could never really recover considering all the mining ships I had to build to try and keep myself in minerals.

Good luck in your journey up!

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Great game - I'm sure I would have lost if I didn't recieve what was probably the best starting system I've ever had in any game... Even with that advantage, you kept the pressure up.

That, and I made so many mistakes...
- took Bloodthirsty happiness type, thinking that since we were at war it might be better than peaceful. Instead, most of my planets stayed at Indifferent for most of the game. Until I researched Troops...

- ... which you might think would have helped me capture more planets -- it wasn't until the Last turn that I realized I had my Troopship set to Optimal Range. Oof!

- I had the Load Population bug happen to me 3 times before I figured that one out (or rather, until Asmala explained it to me...)

- And my favorite mistake -- designing and building a whole line of ships without engines. I deserved the loss just for that one!

Good luck on your next game. I learned a lot from this one, so thanks!

[ January 22, 2004, 00:39: Message edited by: spoon ]

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

I wonder if MM is going to work on fixing that load population bug for the v 1.85 patch realise.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmmmm, that's funny...I don't see any updated KOTH page. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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

Try to hit refresh, it may help.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, it works at home but it didn't when I tried at work. I clicked "refresh" but that didn't help. Guess I'll look again tomorrow at work.