Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?

[Rathar]

I am sorry, for this being the very first incident to upset our people We can only give indifferent (Large piles of police troops you know..)

Thanks

Rathar

[Renegade 13]

Most odd...Glyn and I seem to be missing from the hill!

This gets us from Indifferent to Angry!

[Alneyan]

Annoying. Near as I can tell, you are supposed to be on the first level. Is that correct?

By the way, you aren't going to riot anywhere. We only have one world, so this is our homeworld, and the main homeworld never, ever, riots. So, I'm afraid you'll be stuck on Angry.

[Renegade 13]

Yep, we're on the first level. Thanks!

[Glyn]

The reason our game was not listed was because we were using stealth play mode!

[DeKaye]

Geo victor in Geo VS Fuzzie game.

Thanks for a great game Geo. I am amazed at how long I lasted, but have a suspicion you took your time in destroying my wonderful empire. It was kind of like a cat playing with it's prey before it eats it. LOL.

Good luck to you in your next game.

A side note: I just don't understand how you guys can support so many ships. I constantly struggle with resources. I have boosted my Mineral minning abilities and I still have challenges. What's the deal?

Fuzzie

[Alneyan]

Well, either your Empire isn't optimised, or you do not expand fast enough. There is virtually *one* optimal Empire around here, with a couple varieties for the spare points. just don't go too far, like I did right now: 0% reproduction is a major annoyance (bah, I *need* to play offensively now). Maintenance (at least 110%) is particularly important here.

I've always felt SEIV is all about economics, and hence expansion. Fewer colonies on a given turn snowballs into fewer resources, lower technology levels, fewer ships and poorer ones, and so on. When the playing field is more or less equal, and both players will it, then tactics and the like can play a role; I must admit "battle between two fleets" is something I do not indulge in myself.

Of course, I'm also the worst tactician on this side of Betelgeuse, so my whole strategy is ripped off from Space Invaders: if the first wave won't get them, the second one will. Or the third one. Or the Star Destroyers wave. So what if our ships, despite better training, equipement and numbers, get beaten up? Assimilation is inevitable.

[Rathar]

Once I get mining 2 I whip out lots of remote miners (and for extra nice places, at mining 1). This helps a lot with resources as does maintenance picks in the initial empire creation.

Rathar

[Alneyan]

Please note that this is the last KOTH update as you know them. From now on, KOTH updates will be handled by a third party maintainer, and will involve extensive use of Flash, Javascript (and plain Java, of course), and the BLINK tag, among others.

[DeKaye]

Thanks for the advice.

Fuzzie