The neutral challenge

DirkHowitzer · #1 February 7th, 2001, 02:51 AM

You guys should try what Henk Brouwer suggested in his post in this thread. I did things alittle differently...did a little Role Playing as to a disasterous even on my home world(nuclear war, accident, etc...).

So anyways when I began the game I built one colony ship and sent it out having ditched my homeworld(abandoned...). I settled the poorest planet in my system and went from there. Did a little more role playing stipulating that I couldn't colonize my original homeworld for at least 100 turns due to high radiation levels or somesuch...

Anyways it was quite fun. You start out with a MAJOR population deficit and lack of research and production...quite fun.

Being ever the resourceful one, however, I have since claimed 5th place out of 16 and am beating everybody I've contacted in resources and research so it's not all bad...

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WhiteHojo · #2 February 8th, 2001, 05:28 PM

update on the low AI bonus N.C. I mentioned in my Last post.

1st contact was achieved around yr 2412.0. The now hated Pionda race (look like rock faces). This very unfriendly race promp'tly attacked my homeworld - fortunately my race was rather suspicious of this strange new intruder so was able to put up a couple of small WP w/PDs & TPs - beat off the attack.

This incident, needless to say, led me to view ALL new races with suspicion, not initiating contact w/any new race untill they approached me 1st a verrrry nervous way to play if you're a small, weak empire hoping to not get crushed.

At 1st contact, I was in 11th (the EEE were actually in Last by a few points). But the notable thing was that the EA were already in 1s w/1.2 Million points to my lowly 112K (I had jacked up the Mega Evil Empire setting to kick in at 1 Mill and 200% of 2nd score - I believe EA was MEE at this time)

Anyway, I expanded to 2 neighboring systems, continued fighting my little personal war w/the Rock Heads - made Partnership treaties w/the 2nd & 3rd place races and have a TR treaty w/the EA - after I glassed one of their colonies in my adjacent systems (nothing makes me madder than goin thru all the trouble of building a Col Ship, sending it to the system to colonize a green plus world and finding that I was beat to it by some other race!!!) Fortunately the EA weren't too concerned w/the loss of 1 of their 195 planets (I had 5 - I am in such trouble).

I have clawed my way to 6th place, control 4 systems have 20 ships (cruiser/Lt Cruiser), have around 55K RPs, & 8K Int Points... of course, the EA have 2.5 Million in score, something like 100K Intel Pts, and over 200 ships & 1000 units (game limits were supposed to be 1000 units & 500 ships - on a 200 system galaxy - all pts were b/f the bonus is added, 2X I believe)

Pray for the mighty Nar Empire - now I know how Switzerland felt in WWII - the whole galaxy is at war and I'm trying to just survive.

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[This message has been edited by WhiteHojo (edited 08 February 2001).]

Zanthis · #3 February 8th, 2001, 07:06 PM

WhiteHojo wrote:

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...fortunately my race was rather suspicious of this strange new intruder so was able to put up a couple of small WP w/PDs & TPs - beat off the attack.

You beat them back with toilet paper? I'm impressed.

WhiteHojo · #4 February 8th, 2001, 10:01 PM

Never underestimate the power of a good roll of Charmin!!!!

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Character is best defined as that which you do when you believe nobody is watching.

geoschmo · #5 February 8th, 2001, 11:18 PM

Well Zanthis, he said he was being attacked by the rock-faced Pionda's.

Everybody knows paper covers rock.

But watch out for the scissor people WH!

Alpha Kodiak · #6 February 10th, 2001, 11:59 PM

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Originally posted by Daynarr:
This sounds like my Sergetti . Good luck.
Make sure you tell us how it went, so I could improve them more.

Yep, it's your Sergetti alright. I haven't had much time to play (some strange thing called work keeps getting in the way) but I have run through several turns since the initial combat. I backed off and started trying to build up. So far I have seen nothing of the Sergetti. I don't know if they are going to come after me soon, or if they are going to give me time to build up what is at least a semi-functional defense. Time will tell....

Dracus · #7 February 11th, 2001, 01:15 AM

I play like this all the time, I do not research any weapons until first contact. I only explore one sytem at a time. The game I am playing now has 14 races and 200 systems.
made contact on my 3rd turn, they entered my home system and sent a trade treaty. they have not been back since. they nor have they explored beyond thier home system which is next to mine. I never sned ships into their system nor beyond their system. My next contact came after I had moved two systems out. This race declared war on me. since I do not explore beyond one system at a time, I had no idea how meny systems they own.
I never use the map to look this up. once war is declared I switch to weapons research. I also impose a rule that I can not glass any planets. they must be captured. In 4 weeks real time playing 3 hours a day, I have captured 30 planets in 5 systems from them. but have 6 races in my empire since it seems that they like to either capture other Ie races or use subVersion to get planets to join them. only 4 planets that I have captured had the crystal race I was fighting. hope I find their home system soon. plus the game now reports 3 new races are out there somewhere.
Yet I have yet to run across the actual empires of the races that once owned these worlds. 2 still only have 2 known races. They all seem to be voiding the war zone.