Pickup game on PBW, starting now...

[geoschmo]

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Here we go. Gonna start a game tonight and see how many turns we can get in before someone decides to go to bed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

After tonight will go with 24 hour turns, but go faster if we can.

At most 5 players, but I'll go with less if it looks like there isn't anyone else that wants to play.

Five Good Starting planets.

No Talisman or crystal Armor, although you can still use the racial traits if there is something else you are interested in there. I am counting on people to be good sports about anything else that could be a problem. If you have something that concerns you let me know.

All other game settings default

[geoschmo]

Ok, game started.

[Slynky]

geoschmo said:
Ok, game started.

Willing to bet I won't drop first! (though I'm exhausted from trying to sleep in hotel rooms away from my "Baby").

[geoschmo]

Hmmmm, I'm thinking if I had just returned from a three day trip I'd have other things on my mind then Space Empires. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif But glad to have you in teh game anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Slynky]

geoschmo said:
Hmmmm, I'm thinking if I had just returned from a three day trip I'd have other things on my mind then Space Empires. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif But glad to have you in teh game anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

LMAO...you weren't the only one with those thoughts...but those things were taken care of before I committed... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif (evil grin).

[geoschmo]

Slynky said:

geoschmo said:
Hmmmm, I'm thinking if I had just returned from a three day trip I'd have other things on my mind then Space Empires. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif But glad to have you in teh game anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

LMAO...you weren't the only one with those thoughts...but those things were taken care of before I committed... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif (evil grin).

Ah, so now we hear the real reason you are exhausted. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Slynky]

Exhausted? LOL. Wifey was with me when the doctor asked if I wanted a sample of Viagra...before I could say "no", she said, "He doesn't need it at ALL!" He just grinned.

[Slynky]

However, why am I in 3rd out of 3 players????!!! (beer?)

[Slynky]

Slynky said:
However, why am I in 3rd out of 3 players????!!! (beer?)

You guys MUST have a bunch of base stations...why am I in 3rd?

[Alneyan]

Fear not Slynky, and join the Followers of Primitive. Within our little association you shall learn to enjoy having a lower score early on, and will delight of being the Last player of the pack. Truly, as the Most Enlightened Primitive himself put it, it could mean the other player(s) have more ships than you do, and are therefore lagging behind in expansion. Of course, if you are still Last by turn 50, you should start worrying. A shame you cannot see the exact score of the other players though.

The other alternative is to join the Geoschmo Alliance, who does not care about score, and actually likes to be Last (at least, he said so to me). But I am not supposed to be recruiting for Geo after all; join the Primitive Ones instead. You will not be disappointed by the quality of our teaching, and we are willing to give you a total refund after the first three courses if you aren't convinced! And there's more to it: half price if you attend our earliest courses (at dawn, your time)! No strings attached to this once-in-a-lifetime offer.

[Slynky]

I can always depend on the wit and humor of Alneyan to raise my depressed spirits.

As to score, I suspect someone found a ruin that gave them another colony type. Or both. Me? I found the dreaded "massive fill-in-the-blank" weapons. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

[Alneyan]

Well, I have another interesting story if you want Slynky. Let's say we are on turn 70. Your Empire has a score of 7.5 million points, 800,000 research points (you had 500,000 of them on turn 50), about 2,000,000 resources, 450 ships, 450 colonies, three times as many systems as the other player, and virtually maxed out technology. It doesn't seem to be a poor situation at all.

Now, you have forgotten how to use a military, and got four of your fleets destroyed despite being more numerous and having a tech lead. You have firepower unheard of at your disposal, and yet your target is still alive, smirking and apparently not too frightened by the three hundred dreadnoughts you have just sent on the front. Doesn't that just seem odd?

Oh, I am in the situation described above, and the target is Geo. I have never been doing so well with economics, but my military skills aren't exactly stellar in that game. I believe we should play together again; that was a working association, with your superior designs and my fondness for economics, and our levels are close enough (unlike my association with Primitive, where I only act as Asmala-fodder). Hmm, would that be aggressive recruitment?

[brianeyci]

Finally a chance to play the Kings all at once!

Brian

[brianeyci]

Damn the game already started!

Brian

[geoschmo]

Slynky said:
As to score, I suspect someone found a ruin that gave them another colony type. Or both. Me? I found the dreaded "massive fill-in-the-blank" weapons. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

Hmmm, well I hope not Slynky. I thought I turned off ruins, but I must have forgot. There don't seem to be very many though. I can only see one in my area, and it's the wrong planet type.

[Slynky]

geoschmo said:

Slynky said:
As to score, I suspect someone found a ruin that gave them another colony type. Or both. Me? I found the dreaded "massive fill-in-the-blank" weapons. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

Hmmm, well I hope not Slynky. I thought I turned off ruins, but I must have forgot. There don't seem to be very many though. I can only see one in my area, and it's the wrong planet type.

Makes me feel even worse! I've found about 5 (and settled them). A couple of OK ones (supply 2, mineral 2, and that neural thing). Got 300,000 minerals now, though! One yielded nothing (must have been something that I already had). And after all that, STILL 3rd place! Grrrrrr.

[Slynky]

I think the game is pretty much over, too. Never did like running around "glassing planets" when it seems obvious the game is over.

2.1 million in score. 141 colonies in 30 systems. 235 ships. There is a bigger fleet preparing for each of you...bigger than the one currently in each of your empires. They consist mostly of BC and BA hull ships and all move at a speed of 9. Next turn, I'll refit my stellar ships to 200-sector openers (they have already arrived close to the staging area).

Flatline's bad luck was taking Gas, I guess. Seems like gas planets sucked for him this game. I also got about 6 techs from ruins. Never a colony type, though. I never used the Neural Net thingie. Best I got was Mineral 3 (when I had mineral 2), I think. Storage 2 was kind of nice. And, I got cruiser when I had it about 25% researched. I settled a planet this Last turn and got that Planet Utilization stuff (who cares, right?).

In closing, I'd say the game worked out fine with 3 players who decided to stay independent and not jockey for a 2 vs 1 position.