Spiralus PBW discussion thread.

Phoenix-D · #1 August 14th, 2001, 06:00 AM

OK, I am SERIOUSLY embarrased.

Despite having a much, much larger tech base, the Dragons didn't have phased shields when they attacked. I did, and we were both uisng PPB Vs. If I hadn't refitted my entire fleet at the same time, I would have tore him to bits!

Phoenix-D

Dragonlord · #2 August 14th, 2001, 08:22 AM

Yes I was surprised I survived that battle so well ! My ships in that fleet were outdated of course, they had been sitting in that system for 6 months while I tried to sort out the diplomacy. I assume I had the luck that I attacked just as he was refitting his shields !

Meanwhile, hell is breaking loose. 4 AI races suddenly decided to declare war on me, for a moment I though I went MEE but I don't think so because 2 other AI's are still trading with me. Perhaps some treachary from a human whom I gave the AI comm channels in good faith and then persuaded them to attack me?

Hmm, I must investigate...will keep you all posted.

BeeDee10 · #3 August 14th, 2001, 08:36 AM

If so, the human player isn't _me_. I still barely have any contact at all with the outside world at this point, let alone influence.

Dragonlord · #4 August 17th, 2001, 04:39 AM

Well, all hell is breaking loose now in Spiralus. But most players are intimately involved in this (except Rollo I think) so I'm not sure how much info I should post here. If there's anybody out there who is not in tihs game and would like to know how it is going, let me know.

Gorgo · #5 August 17th, 2001, 08:45 AM

Post it man!

Rollo · #6 August 17th, 2001, 11:26 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Dragonlord:
Well, all hell is breaking loose now in Spiralus. But most players are intimately involved in this (except Rollo I think)...

I have to admit I don't have a clue what's going on at all

. So far the only human player I have encountered is Dragonlord. Because of some twists in the map I encountered the Earth Alliance in the early game no matter in which direction I was exploring. Still having lots of fun, though.

Rollo

Dragonlord · #7 August 18th, 2001, 08:06 AM

OK, in a nutshell what happened:

My race is by far the strongest in this game because I had the luck of a central starting position which allowed me to trade with everybody and block players from establishing contact with each other. I've played as a peaceful merchant race from the beginning.

However, now there is not much for me to do anymore. I have all the tech I wanted, got some 80 planets, 200 ships, all built up and upgraded to the max. So I started looking at the victory conditions (400% of 2nd place player) and figured that if I could take out the fleets of No2. I would drop his score enough to win.

Problem was, I had to declare war to do this, which wasn't in the nature of my character. (this was before I became enlightened about roleplaying). I let my own human desires drive the action of my character and declared war with a pretty thin in-game justification. The player I went to war with was very pissed, believe me. I still feel guilty about that.

Another race, which I had been carefully grooming to help me in this war, decided that my sudden war was so out of sync with my peaceful char that he suddenly switched sides and started helping my intended victim.
He even convinced a small race which was under my protection to surrender to him, and now suddenly has a presence on my border.

In the east of my empire I am peacefully working with the Space Vikings to eradicate a rather strong AI race, though this will take time.
Meanwhile everybody's score is suddenly shooting up, while mine remains fairly constant (no more room to expand), so short of galactic domination I see no way to ensure victory for my Dragons.

And being a huge central empire with 2 and potentially 4 pretty large human empires attacking you from all sides is tough !

(edit: typos)

[This message has been edited by Dragonlord (edited 18 August 2001).]