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Old August 1st, 2001, 06:21 AM

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Grr. I'm feeling pretty isolated down in my corner of the quadrant, buried behind empty systems. How am I supposed to police the universe when I barely even communicate with it, and have insufficient productive capacity to mount a mighty fleet?

I'm working on it, though... hope I can catch up to everyone else quickly enough to play a significant role again.
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Old August 1st, 2001, 06:47 AM

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Beedee, I have some scouts on their way who are tring to locate you.

Phoenix, the Tyrik system (i think that was the name) is in a cold war state, but I did warn you! when we set up the trade many turns ago I mentioned there would be frigates from the Bakulon and Scron in that system, and that you better be on friendly terms with them.

If your new colonies can survive for one turn it will be better cause you can then have mines launched above them. And you have been trading with the Scron and Bakulov for so long I doubt they'll go to war with you over some colonies, they probably need the resource income to fund their cold war.

That's another reason why I have T&R treaties with most races, by now these are in the 15-16% range, and I produce more resources and research than any other race, to continously impress on everyone how important I am to their economies, which will hopefully dissuade people from turning on me. As you can see from the tech I offer for sale, it is all benign stuff I research, like Mineral Mining II and Cargo II (need those warehouses to store all the profits from trading !)

But I went a bit overboard, with my reduced maintenance (Merchant ability) and 20% extra to my trading skill, the resources are coming in so fast I can hardly keep up with warehouses, even with all planets constructing something. And of course, seeing money going down the drain due to lack of storage is the ultimate sin for my race

I probably overcompensated for my mistake in the Letharg PBW game, where I relied so much on trade that I went nearly bankrupt when three players turned on me at once

(I still won that game though, so don't be getting any ideas :-)
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Old August 1st, 2001, 06:51 AM

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Well, at the moment our sector has Dragon waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in front, me in distant 7th, and the other two races back behind me in the overall standings.

How many of the races are human and how many are AI, anyway?

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Old August 1st, 2001, 07:43 PM

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Last I checked I was in _10th_ score-wise. I think that part of the blame lies in how I was trying to save the atmosphered planets for other species to colonize, despite only have two systems with planets readily available. That policy has undergone revision now. There won't be _any_ organic species left alive if I don't get on the ball soon.
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Old August 1st, 2001, 09:40 PM

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Phoenix, there are 7 human races and 6 or 7 AI races.
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Old August 3rd, 2001, 05:30 AM

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Beedee,

I have finally discovered where your race lives and perhaps we can come to your rescue. We're sure to have some nice technology that you could use...for a small price
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Old August 4th, 2001, 01:01 AM

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Rollo, King of the Space Vikings, seems to have disappeared today. He was holding up all the games I was in, and finally I decided to execute the turns manually since I knew that by that time it was 2 AM where he lives, and he was unlikely to meet the upload deadline.
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