See how efficient my propaganda is? Slynky, who beat me in our only KOTH game, is now singing my praises. A few months ago, I did not make it to his poll of the best players, and now I am in his top 10, or even top 5. I merely need to increase a bit my reputation, and he will make me the best player out there.
Of course, I hope everybody will conveniently forget I have a knack for losing fleet vs fleet battles, and seldom take such gambles anymore.
Kidding aside, Geo is quite right in saying he has a weak economy. Economies are always too weak, even if you are beating a world-record of expansion. And there is no such thing as having too many resources and/or research; you have 700,000 research points by turn 75? You should have had one million! Ah, you have one million? Better try to reach one million and a half then.
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