When you first meet a race

[tesco samoa]

How do you judge your self.

Are you like me and go. Damn I am in trouble.

Or

'I have her. Release the dogs of war'

Yep it is another topic about first contact.

Does and don'ts

But mostly how you judge your preconseption (they should enable the spell checker for this site )of strenghts and weaknesses of your race vs what your guessing for the alien side.

Try to keep the topic to the first few turns you meet someone.

When I first meet a race I always assume I am behind in ships so I start cranking them out Quanity replaces Quality until I feel safe.

And I am always behind on research. Never matters what happens but I know I am behind.



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Inter arma silent leges

[chewy027]

i usually just try to make a treaty until i find out more about them. Plus when i have the treaty i can see their score and what they got .

[Puke]

you are always behind, until you have everything. thats my philosophy.

when i meet a race, i evaluate it by what they have, and what I think they want. If i think we would be in competition for things I need, I will find an excuse to go gunning for them.

If it looks like we could get along with a solid border or if cross colinization is feasible, i try to establish relations. likewise, if it looks like our technology paths are complimentary and/or we might have common enimies, i will try to establish relations.

for me, its sort of an all or nothing sort of thing. the longer you wait establishing a treaty and dicking around playing nice with someone you plan to kill later, the longer they have to build up. blitz in there, take them out, dont try to buy time unless it would be extremely advantageous for you, and you know that they wont be able to compete with your growth. on the other hand, when you do that, you have to expect them to realize it and attack you when you are in your expansion phase.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[Phoenix-D]

Depends on who I'm playing.

If I'm doing the Certdsh, who are xenophobic isolationists (mostly) I tell them to stay out, then cut off contact except for warnings. This resulted in a scenerio that was eerily like one of the Bolo books I had read- except I bailed before the war started. Literally- I packed up the Certdsh and left! Neutral happyness is a PAIN, FYI.

If I'm playing the race I'm using in Puke's end of the universe game, I try to be friendly with everyone. They're sorta hippy-like actually. "Hey, you glassed one of my planets. Cool light show, man.." OK, not THAT bad, but still

Phoenix-D

[Coal]

When I first meet a race, I start to plan the conquest of them. I try for diplomacy, but I know at some point we're going to fight, and I'm going to be ready. And I'm also power hungry and don't like neighbors being to close. If they start colonizing inside my borders, my fleets will be quickly moved to pre-invasion stations.

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'Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?'
Grand Moff Tarkin, just before the Death Star blew.

We are Dyslexia of Borg, futility is resistant, your *** will be laminated.

[Atrocities]

When I first meet a new race:

1. Avoid ship contact
2. Send nice message
3. Get insulted
4. War is delcared upon me
5. I Kill the AI

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New Age Ship Yards

"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Captain Picard STNG

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