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[Kamog]

I have finished a game 3 or 4 times. They were all a long time ago. I remember wiping everybody out and getting the victory message and it asked if I wanted to keep playing. That was against the A.I., before I installed TDM. I think that happened maybe twice. Nowadays, I keep starting new games and don't get that far. If I'm really ahead of the A.I.'s, so that I'm sure that I'll win, I bored of continuing so I restart. Or if I'm badly losing and know I'm dead, I restart a game instead of continuing until I'm wiped out.

I also had a couple of games that finished because I lost. I think I got killed by Tessellates once, and another time by some other race, I forgot who. Ah, glorious defeat! I remember losing multiple ships to lack of maintenance each turn, and several successful intel attacks destroying facilites and damaging planet conditions each turn, with most of my world rioting. Each turn I lose a couple of planets. It was hopeless but I fought to the very end.

The other reason that I keep restarting new games is because the turns keep getting slower and slower and I get tired of waiting for the A.I's to finish their moves. At the start of the game, the turns process in seconds and it's great. Then as the game progresses, it takes longer and longer. In the beginning, I sit and stare at the screen during the A.I.'s turns. Then, when it gets slower, I start doing other things like getting a snack or tidying my desk. Then it gets even slower and I do stuff like eating dinner, doing my laundry, reading books, practising piano, and so on between turns. Then I get tired of the game because it's too slow so I start a new game and the cycle repeats.