[DavidG]

Originally posted by Slynky:
Yeah, I thought 300,000 points for intel research was a bit much especially considering the food contamination successes (which hurt a few turns every time you killed of all the pop on a planet but I had 4 frigates stationed with pop on board that could get places fairly easily). You might have been better off putting those 300,000 toward Ice (or Gas) tech and those intel facs to research and resources.

Yea 20/20 hindsight. I have used Intel quite effectivly in a couple KOTH style games. The problem this time is I seemed to run out of facility slots. Also I perhaps should have pulled the move I pulled once on Rags. That is start 11 food contamination projects at once and let them all finish on the same turn. hehe Now that hurts. But this time It seemed I wouldn't be able to build enough facilites to make it work in time.
I don't know if it was the same for you but I just didn't seem to have the facility space I was expecting. Maybe it was just the map or just me.

Of course another big reason I probably lost was underestimating you. (which is entirely your fault. All those "oooo I'm playing the guy 2nd on the standings thing". hehe. Being 2nd in the standings mostly just means I've played a lot of games.

I actually thought about making the KOTH program do the standing by won/loss percentage. (but then I would drop down. hehe got to be some perks for writing the program )