All My Friends

[Taqwus]

Heh. I started a game with the full Version Last night (woohoo!), and am facing a nearly identical situation... and yes, my score ~500k or so. Tricky game because (a) I chose Gas, and therefore have to defend more systems to keep the same number of planets (albeit I've now got all three colony techs), (b) graph connectivity is quite high, so my borders are rather long.

OTOH, the AIs show no ability yet to detect my cloaked BC/DNs, so I can hit their outlying worlds (don't yet have Quantum Reactor, not sure if I have solar panels yet. I need to focus on three combat research priorities -- solar sail, quantum reactor, and talisman-of-unearthly-accuracy.), and I'd been mining since pretty early in the game, so my minefields destroy an average of 4-5 ships/turn...

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Seawolf]

Taqwus,

Did you set the computer players with a bonus? If you finding th egame to easy raise difficulty as well as AI player bonus and see what happans.

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Seawolf on the prowl

[Taqwus]

No AI bonus... yet. But perhaps there should have been, given the sometimes odd decisions I made (e.g. religious tech) and that they aren't obliterating me in an 8-on-1.

*shrug*

Just have to get more speed and range before one of 'em wises up and gets WMGs or, worse, starts capturing my ships with intel. Hrmph.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night