Good TG contest map available

[Drake]

You can definitely build more than one ringworld per system, all you need is a free star. I think there are 3 or 4 systems in that map with 3 stars.

I think I ended up getting around 1.3M in resource generation from each ringworld, so with 48 ringworlds, that comes out to over 60M in resources alone just from the ringworlds!

That's pretty much the only area that I think the score could be significantly improved upon. If you can get them up faster, you can put more facilities on them. I didn't end up hitting the max for domed ringworlds, so I didn't have to worry about converting them to a new atmosphere at least.

I have no problem with making the save games available. There's really no 'secret' to it, just quick expansion, use of the AI surrender dominoe effect (as I like to call it), and doing everything I could to improve my total resource output for the endgame. I stopped research completely at about turn 100, and only built 4 facility types on my non-system enhancement planets once I finished the ringworlds and didn't need storage anymore.

And don't be faking me out with word of contest changes! I'm half-scared they'll think that kind of score can't be achieved without some kind of cheat, so therefore whatever I did will be called a cheat. Ok, I don't seriously think that, but still...

I definitely have to give credit to this board for helping me get that score. Around turn 60 or so, I was reading the board and saw a post that mentioned something I had assumed I couldn't do. Without seeing that, my score would have been 1/2, 1/3 or less of what it ended up being. I'll have to track down who that was and thank them.

Well, I think I'll stop giving hints on how to hit that score. The people I'm competing against are smart enough as it is without me drawing a step-by-step diagram on how to beat me, heh.

-Drake

[This message has been edited by Drake (edited 13 February 2001).]