Has any one ever actually completed a full game?

Instar · #1 May 5th, 2001, 01:37 AM

Well, I have beaten a lot of games, but I dont remember how many. Its always when I conquer the entire universe

Deathstalker · #2 May 5th, 2001, 01:46 AM

Damn, I havn't even got to turn 120 yet

Seriously though, I would love to finish a game but either a new patch or a new modpack or a good race come out and I restart.
Right now I have restarted about 12 times in the past week cause I am re-tweaking my Borg and Y'Gathian Free States shipsets and seeing how they do. (so far the Free States can mostly keep up with tdm-Xi'Chung, the Borg currently lag behind.....but they are getting better

)

------------------
"The Empress took your name away," said Chance.
Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

Dr Strangelove · #3 May 5th, 2001, 01:50 AM

Yes, I've completed a full game, and I've had the full Version for only 2 weeks. I haven't lost sleep at all.

Daynarr · #4 May 5th, 2001, 06:13 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Trachmyr:
My longest game went 278.4 YEARS!

Unbe-freaking-lievable.

raynor · #5 May 5th, 2001, 10:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Dr Strangelove:

Yes, I've completed a full game, and I've had the full Version for only 2 weeks. I haven't lost sleep at all.

Just *one* game in two weeks?

Trachmyr · #6 May 5th, 2001, 11:31 PM

Wow, I didn't realize that 278.4 years was going to be THAT much of a surprise... Most of the game I've played in my mod have gone over 150 yeras... I guess it's a mixture of playing style and my mod, I move cautiously... always securing a sysytem 99.98% before moving on... I always play with 254 systems and High Tech cost (and low starting tech). Additionally, my mod has a lot of "features" that make the game more strategic... thus slower (For instance, Ion engines I use 30 supplies, and a heavy destroyer needs 12 to get speed 4!, a battle-cruiser would need 24 (x30 x movement = A lot of supplies)... and that's not the most fuel-hungry engine (which would be Fission Rockets, you can get to speed 6 but they use 60 supplies per move).... between that, and the fact that it takes a lot longer to get a Very stong industrial base (All domed colonies can only have 2 facilities, and produce resources/ships at only 1/4 the rate of a medium planet... plus bigger ships cost A LOT more (i.e., about 75 100-ton cutters cost the same as 1 1500-ton super-dreadnought... that's 5x as expensive for the same total tonnage... but that one superdreadnought would waste all 75 cutters!)

I've done so much work on this mod, but I can't "finish" it and post it until MM gets CUSTOM GROUPS working! I was really hoping that the Last patch would include it, I guess I'll have to wait a while longer...

Magnum357 · #7 May 6th, 2001, 02:27 AM

Ya, I agree with you. I'm not sure why that is a shock for people aswell. Although I know most people like short, fast type games for SE, I personally like to take time for strategy and develope forces in long wars. I set all my tech costs high so it takes a while to develope certain types of tech. I just hope that Malfador put a high limit to the number of turns you can actualy play in this game.