[geoschmo]

Drake,

I am doing better in my current (read Last) contest game. I used your map. I was not able to beat your time for conquering the quadrant. I only was able to get it done in 2.1 years instead of 2, and that was using the Population Expert racial trait, and my game ended up with only 15 ai instead of 16.

I tried several times to get a game with 16 ai, and it only came up once, and that without a gas giant race (I use an ice race myself).

I did considerably better your time to get my first ringworld up as I did my first one in turn 45 and my second in turn 47. Don't feel too bad about your score though because I just can't seem to be able to work on more than 2 or 3 at a time. I keep running out of resources. These babies are expensive to build! I expect it to pick up some later as I start getting some resources back from the first few, but at my current rate I won't be breaking your 278 Mil.

I am thinking I may have concentrated more on research facilities, which cut the time to the stallar manip and baseship tech, but it is hurting my ability to actually produce the bases.

Anyway, we will see.

Geo

[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 19 February 2001).]