Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

Post it man!

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dragonlord:
Well, all hell is breaking loose now in Spiralus. But most players are intimately involved in this (except Rollo I think)... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have to admit I don't have a clue what's going on at all http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif. So far the only human player I have encountered is Dragonlord. Because of some twists in the map I encountered the Earth Alliance in the early game no matter in which direction I was exploring. Still having lots of fun, though.

Rollo

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

OK, in a nutshell what happened:

My race is by far the strongest in this game because I had the luck of a central starting position which allowed me to trade with everybody and block players from establishing contact with each other. I've played as a peaceful merchant race from the beginning.

However, now there is not much for me to do anymore. I have all the tech I wanted, got some 80 planets, 200 ships, all built up and upgraded to the max. So I started looking at the victory conditions (400% of 2nd place player) and figured that if I could take out the fleets of No2. I would drop his score enough to win.

Problem was, I had to declare war to do this, which wasn't in the nature of my character. (this was before I became enlightened about roleplaying). I let my own human desires drive the action of my character and declared war with a pretty thin in-game justification. The player I went to war with was very pissed, believe me. I still feel guilty about that.

Another race, which I had been carefully grooming to help me in this war, decided that my sudden war was so out of sync with my peaceful char that he suddenly switched sides and started helping my intended victim.
He even convinced a small race which was under my protection to surrender to him, and now suddenly has a presence on my border.

In the east of my empire I am peacefully working with the Space Vikings to eradicate a rather strong AI race, though this will take time.
Meanwhile everybody's score is suddenly shooting up, while mine remains fairly constant (no more room to expand), so short of galactic domination I see no way to ensure victory for my Dragons.

And being a huge central empire with 2 and potentially 4 pretty large human empires attacking you from all sides is tough !

(edit: typos)

[This message has been edited by Dragonlord (edited 18 August 2001).]

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

The Space Vikings are glad to announce that the heinous regime of the Earth Allinace has finally been ended. The war criminal President Sheridan has been captured and will be held responsible for the atrocities commited under his rule. He has not only been killing millions of Vikings, but of his own people as well. A few months ago we liberated one of their small mining moons and the workers there very really happy about that. In the following month that outpost was completely destroyed by EA forces causing the death of 100M of their own people!
Luckily we have encountered the Irha-Nrr in this month also. I have contacted them and offered to turn Sheridan over to them. I would imagine that they have developed methods to deal with genocidal war criminals http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif.

Rollo

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

Heh. Unfortunately, the Irha-Nrr try not to play the "blame game," especially not with individual members of a species. They simply try to ensure that violent species never have access to dangerous toys ever again.

We have a small colony of Terrans which is being maintained as a "wildlife preserve" to ensure that the species doesn't go extinct. If you hand Sheridan over to us, we will place him in this colony. Even if he rises to a position of local leadership among the populace, all spacecraft and advanced facilities are under Irha-Nrr control and therefore off-limits to Terrans except as passengers.

He will never be able to command spacegoing forces again. Perhaps this will be seen by your people as suitable "punishment" for an expansionistic tyrant?

Meanwhile, Elder Avatar's forces have just finished annihilating one of the Yvelom's undefended homeworlds far behind the border, totally ignoring the massive Yvelom warfleet nearby. So much for their promise to target military equipment only. I'm going to have to set aside a Dragon reserve at some point, I think... http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

Ah yes. As for the destruction of that homeworld: using the Yvelon's own logic, (which they applied to the Terrans), that was a military target. Homeworlds have a high construction rate and can produce dangerous ships fast. We intend to destroy another one, then turn our attention to the main Yvelon fleet. After that, our objective will have been achieved and we can sue for peace, helping the Yvelon to build up the remains of their economy. (hoping that their defeat on the military level has dissuaded them from any future militaristic dreams).
What won't help their economy though is the planets they destroyed (abandonded) all on their own http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon9.gif

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

Can't blame you for doing what I would've done in your place http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif This of course doesn't mean Shepherd Ikul is happy.

The abandoned planets aren't a serious concern. They were all small and tiny planets of little economic value whose only purpose was to construct ships.

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by BeeDee10:
We have a small colony of Terrans which is being maintained as a "wildlife preserve" to ensure that the species doesn't go extinct. If you hand Sheridan over to us, we will place him in this colony. Even if he rises to a position of local leadership among the populace, all spacecraft and advanced facilities are under Irha-Nrr control and therefore off-limits to Terrans except as passengers.

He will never be able to command spacegoing forces again. Perhaps this will be seen by your people as suitable "punishment" for an expansionistic tyrant?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hmm yes, sounds pretty good. I mean, if we just wanted him executed or so we could have done it ourselves http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif. I guess there is no galactic tribunal or some such, or is there?

Rollo

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

Hehehe, Dragonlords eastern front is crumbling into dust. I just tore one of his fleets apart and now have two fleets in the Dragons soft underbelly. Sorry, this may come a little late to some of you.

Hey, Dragonlord, what have your captains been drinking? They can't even hit the ground http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif.

I apologize for boasting too much, but you guys should have seen the battle in the Wanduk system. Ohoh, better be quiet now and prepare for the Dragon counterattack...

Rollo

Re: Spiralus PBW discussion thread.
 

Perhaps one day we _can_ see the battle for ourselves. I save all the turns that get emailed to me until after the game ends, so we could swap passwords afterward and view key points in each others' histories to see how things actually happened in the past. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

Of course, that assumes that none of you is reusing their passwords in other games. If you are, though, shame on you for such an insecure practice. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif