Evidence That Your An Idiot Emperor If:

[Alneyan]

Starhawk said:
52. You never build anything larger then an escort even when you have Super Monitors available because you just love the word Escort.

You would be surprised. Never mock the almighty Escort of Doom. Frigates might be preferred from time to time, but the point stands; these little ships can be deadly if you are caught unaware.

81: You somehow manage to research Resource Converters, and put them on Repeat orders. Several months later, you are still wondering about what happened to your collapsing economy (do not worry though; you aren't the only one, as this mistake is probably one of the most common).

82: You have set your neighbouring system(s) as "Systems to avoid", and ticked the "Ships should not travel through restricted systems" option. The same goes for minefiels.

83: You have confused the "Demand surrender" option and "Surrender", and/or the "I want to be subjugated!" and "I want to subjugate you!".

84: You have been researching Tachyon Sensors and Organic gathering (from level IV to IX). In a high-cost research game.

[AMF]

Alneyan said:
83: You have confused the "Demand surrender" option and "Surrender", and/or the "I want to be subjugated!" and "I want to subjugate you!".

OK. Funny true story: remember the NGC4 game? Well...in order to save my life I offered Roanon (Primeval) my subjugation. Unfortunately for him I offered the "you become subjugated to me treaty." If it had been intentional it would have been a great little tactic becuase, suddenly, the most powerful empire in the game was my subject. Talk about a boost to my struggling economy. I loved it. Of course, had to scrap the treaty the next turn...but it was quite a hoot.

[Randallw]

alarikf said:

OK. Funny true story: remember the NGC4 game? Well...in order to save my life I offered Roanon (Primeval) my subjugation. Unfortunately for him I offered the "you become subjugated to me treaty."

I have considered this on purpose (but only because I consider and analyze all possibilities, including "will my partners fleet coming to help me suddenly attack me" ) but wouldn't cheat like that .

102. Built an expensive planet builder and then sent it to a system with no sun.

[Aiken]

103. You think that SEIV is a dull game because it doesn't allow you build even Pub I and Wal-Mart I facilities.
104. You believe that numbers "74% 37% 136%" in the planet window mean the strength of alcohol drinks produced there.

[Alneyan]

105. You spend several days starting at your TV, trying to figure out where is the APB channel. ("American Premium Broadcasting")

106. You refuse to cross any wormhole since an AI has told you to "beware of strange wormholes".

107. Likewise, you took the "mineral planets are the best" motto too literally, and only build mineral extractors. You wonder why your two DUC I escorts have been beaten by one hundred APB XII dreadnoughts.

108. You have been crushed by said dreadnoughts, and still wonder at that. You thought these ships were actually called "Dread-nots", and carefully followed this instruction.

[Starhawk]

109. You just spend the whole game building star killers then nova every system you see.

110. You NOVA BOMB your allies entire navy by accident (someone did that to me and I was pissed I lost 140 dreadnoughts/superdreadnoughts and about 2000 troops!

111. You declare every thursday "free booze night" for your Empire and are suprised when the enemy suddenly attacks every thursday during happy hour.

112. Your National Anthem is "Shake your Booty" or "Disco Inferno".

113. Your leader's name is Bubbah and your highest level of military technology is "Da Shot Gun"...

114. You run your empire like the Federation of Planets (I.E. you make peace with everyone even after they butcher millions of your people.)

(Edit: I just changed the numbers thats all)

[Randallw]

Starhawk said:


114. You run your empire like the Federation of Planets (I.E. you make peace with everyone even after they butcher millions of your people.)

115. You put being friendly and helping potential competitors above the good of your own people.

116. You allow neighbours, and allies, who could turn on you in 10 years free reign through your systems to spy on all your planets and defences.

117. You don't start exterminating every Last religious zealot in a race as soon as you discover them.

[Atrocities]

118. You are a religious Zealot with the ability to use the Talisman but never do because it costs to much.
119. You are the Federation of Planets.
120. You believe that it is better to wait 20 turns before you begin colonizing space on the assumption that faster engines, via 20 turns of research, will make you colonize faster thus making up the time you lost. (I have seen it done people)

[Instar]

aiken said:
104. You believe that numbers "74% 37% 136%" in the planet window means the strength of alcohol drinks produced there.

Theyre not??????!

[brianeyci]

Alneyan said:You would be surprised. Never mock the almighty Escort of Doom. Frigates might be preferred from time to time, but the point stands; these little ships can be deadly if you are caught unaware.

I was thinking of a strategy like this. A small ship, large enough just to hold the right number of boarding parties to take over a larger light cruiser/battle cruiser type ship. Armed with one puny weapon. Once a ship's shields are down, it goes in for the kill.

Brian