Spiralus PBW discussion thread.

[dogscoff]

Wierd coincidence... I've was drawing Space Viking comics at school. ooOOOOoooOOOOooh!!

ANyway, permission to use it is yours as soon as it's working. I'd also love some help with the AI files, although I'm more worried about the "clever" stuff (i design files, anger files) than the spech, which I already have some ideas for.

Anyway, we're getting off topic. Can we continue this conversation on the proper thread? I'll bump it to the top of the forum for you...

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"

[Dragonlord]

Yep, we are indeed getting off topic, so let me try to wrench this thread back to Spiralus. I have moved the discussion about possible new games to:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/For...ML/003294.html

OK, we are now in turn 8 of Spiralus, and things are developing much faster than I had anticipated. Amazing how much can happen in 8 turns. Initially we didn't have much to talk about as we all build colonisers and scout ships, but now:

The Dragon Hegemony has already made contact with 3 races. The Amon'krie immediately turned hostile and have already destroyed two of my colonisers. Research has immediately shifted to defensive technology, and I should have mines on the next turn.
We have also encountered ships led by "Spock" and by "The General". That corner of the galaxy seems quite cramped, so it will be interesting to see how they wish to handle diplomatic relations. If all goes well I'll have treaties with them soon.
I really miss having the Propulsion Expert trait, my colonisers are sooo slow.
Then again they don't loose time going through wormholes into new territory.
Did I mention yet that I love being an Ancient Race? :-)

How is everybody else doing?

[BeeDee10]

I've hit a nice sweet spot in setting up my shipyard capabilities; I can pump out useful frigate designs in a single turn. I may experiment more extensively with smaller ship designs this time around.

[Phoenix-D]

Two contacts myself.. I seem to be boxed in even MORE this time.

I'm really glad I'm not playing the Certadsh. They'd go nuts at the dealing I'm going to have to do.

Phoenix-D

[Rollo]

I have one contact so far with an AI I have never been up against before. They declared war on me already.
Hmm, I guess they don't like the "Viking way of life" .

This game is fun...

Rollo

[Dragonlord]

Ouch. the two contacts that Phoenix mentioned are the same two races that I discovered. Something seems to have gone wrong with the equal distribution of starting positions. We now have 4 of the 7 human races boxed into a sector that is altogether maybe 15% of the galaxy.
If this turns to war, (and two races are close to war already) then it could be that the other three humans have free reign over the rest of the galaxy (after killing off the AI). It remains to be seen whether one or more (of the 4 up north) human races will come out of our corner with sufficient strength to take on the other three races who will have quietly grown big.

My own position: I have soom room to expand eastwards, but two of the other northern races have to go through me or the Scrons to reach the rest of the galaxy...they're boxed into a corner. And I expect to find another race to my east soon.

Will keep y'all posted on developments.

[Dragonlord]

Hmm, posting seems to be dropping off.
Doesn't anybody have anything to report?

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