I am bummed out

[SirDarwin]

Ummm, 1016B ... so 1,016,000,000,000 that would be 1 trillion and 16 billion
so congrats you made it.

[Blue Lord]

I was showing the game for a friend and I demonstrated the Diplomacy by requesting my strongest foe to surender. To my surprise he did. A nasty tought rised in my head and I demanded surrender of a race that I hadn't even openend fire at, since I came in contact with them afte the first one surrendered. He surrended too. My conclusion is that there's a thing just like the MegaEvil empire setting that when you're score is X % of the second, he'll surrender.

Very bugging since I only colonized half of the known galaxy and after that I just sent out any thing I had to find the remaining neutral's, and they surrendered on contact as expected.

[apache]

Well, maybe once MEE has been engaged, the remaining players should all sign military alliances that cannot be broken until the MEE has been wiped out or reduced to maybe half of Last place player's score (not including neutral's scores of course). Surrendering for anyone except the MEE should also be disabled at this point. But the percentage for becoming MEE should probably be raised slightly since you would theoretically be facing the entire remaining galaxy.

[Taqwus]

Perhaps the most amusing surrender I've received came in one game where the Eee traded me a commlink for some race (on the other side of the Eee, apparently; I had no idea where they were.)

I called 'em up, asked them to surrender (at the time, my empire was already fairly badass, and I usually play Evil, so hey...) -- and, surprisingly enough, they did.

After that, it may have been just a coincidence but the Eee were pretty angry at me.

*500* ships in a fleet ?!

In my present game, somewhere 'round turn 280-290, w/ ~500 colonies so far (but all the surrendered ones are rioting... it's REALLY tempting to just blow up their planets) and 430B, I doubt I've more than, oh, about 60 warships in total. Probably fewer. But they're VERY nasty max-tech warships -- only one's ever been destroyed, maybe one other battle one sustained minor damage due to carelessness, and 4 enemy AIs have been vanquished so far...

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Jubala]

Is it just my impression or does everyone brag about how they can beat the AI without even getting hurt? What's the fun in that? No pain no gain I say! I find myself doing my battles in strategic more and more these days as it will at least give the AI a fighting chance to hurt me a little in the process. I just take no pleasure in onesided slaughter. No fun to win if you just walk over the opposition all the time. Imo at least.

[Socialist]

Jubula,

wait till we can play humans..no easy kills
much more interesting..grin..

ill play you once they get it fixed that we can.

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Waves his Red flag

Socialist

[Jubala]

Socialist, we can play humans now. PBEM. I know, I do. Much better competetion. I suppose you mean TCP/IP and I'll gladly play with you when we can.