EEEvil Empire has arrived...and brought friends :)

[Deathstalker]

Ok folks, the first release of the EEEvil Empire is finally here (hmm...presents for all of you on my birthday....weird but works for me )..

It is posted in the shipset/mod section, as well as another pet project of mine the Red Gauntlets Mercinary Guild Unit (or just the Red Gauntlets for short)...

Many thanks goes out to Andres for the conception/birth of the EEEvil shipset, he warped the original EEE and made them look quite....disturbing..... Thanks also goes out to Spoo/Askan for their role in 'helping' the EEEvil evolve ( and get their butts handed to them in pbw ) as well as any other players who have butted heads with the EEEvil or the Red Gauntlets.

Comments/suggestions are MORE than welcome, this is a work in progress, tweaks will be made and 'patches' will be released for all my shipset AI's (I for one am VERY anal when it comes to a few things...se4 being one of them ). Things that 'may' have to be worked on is the Vehicle Construct txt for the EEEvil depending on how the space yard ships and kamikaze/boarding ships work and the attack ships for the gauntles depending on how the use of 'smart bombs' goes.

Thanks for listening to my rants and raves. Have fun and happy conquering.

On a side note there is also an alt race pic for the EEEvil with the shipset for those who don't appreciate my style of humor, use that and the default speech file/diff shipnames file and all will be well. Emp.files for 2/3/5k are included for both shipsets.

'Nuff said.

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"And what the hell would you know about sanity?" demanded Beatrice. "There are depressed lemmings on the edge of cliffs who've got a better grasp on reality than you have. And more common sense."--Simon R. Green 'Deathstalker Rebellion'.

"We are all...the sum of our scars"....(paraphrased) Matt. R. Stover-'Blade of Tyshalle'.

"Memory," the old man said softly, "is tricky. I have learned two things from it. One: That without meaningful memories, there is no life. Two: that we are desperate for our lives to make sense, to have meaning,--and at a great enough remove , all memory is malleable." -Michelle West 'Sea of Sorrows', SunSword book IV.

[capnq]

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hmm...presents for all of you on my birthday....weird but works for me

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Aha! Now we know that you're a Hobbit!

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Deathstalker]

Heh!, funny thing is I play the EEEvil alot like a slightly 'nuttier' Version of Gollum.

A few people were interested in game stats for the EEEvil, ie, expansion rate etc.

I have started a new game, and will post the results here. It contains a LOT of user made races, so a few familiar faces will pop up.

Game Stats: Med Cluster (wormhole anywhere), Med Tech start (low cost), 3 good planets, Intell OFF, Maxed out starting resources, 400ships/3000units. 5000 point emps. I am playing a Religious/Crystal/Hardy/Adv. Storage race. rock/oxy for planets.

The AI's: with turn 1 stats: I start out in 10th of 12th positions
The Vaxin 4th,
Xi'Chung (tdm-xpert) 1st
EEEvil Empire 6th
Addisian Empire (latest Version) 8th
Red Gauntlets 2nd
StarWars Empire 1(my AI, latest Version) 3rd
Aquilaeian Empire 5th
Toron Confed. (tdm) 7th
Zorian (latest AI) 11th
Orks (latest AI) 10th
Dragons AI beta 1.0(for Andres), 12th.

Stats as of turn 5 (will post at turn 10, and then 10 turn increments after that)

me 11th,
Vaxin 3rd (12ships, 4planets)
XiChung 1st (14/4)
EEEvil 12th (2/6)
Addisian 2nd (10/6)
Aquilaeian 9th (7/5, 161 units)
Torons 6th (6/7)
Zorians 10th (7/4)
Orks 8th (10/3)
Dragons AI 7th (13/4)

Will post more later.....


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"And what the hell would you know about sanity?" demanded Beatrice. "There are depressed lemmings on the edge of cliffs who've got a better grasp on reality than you have. And more common sense."--Simon R. Green 'Deathstalker Rebellion'.

"We are all...the sum of our scars"....(paraphrased) Matt. R. Stover-'Blade of Tyshalle'.

"Memory," the old man said softly, "is tricky. I have learned two things from it. One: That without meaningful memories, there is no life. Two: that we are desperate for our lives to make sense, to have meaning,--and at a great enough remove , all memory is malleable." -Michelle West 'Sea of Sorrows', SunSword book IV.

[Deathstalker]

oh, as a Last note, this is a sim-move game so it is played just like pbw/pbemail, strat combat only, move at end of turn etc. Makes it much more difficult, AI's are set at max difficulty and on Med bonus...

[Deathstalker]

TURN 10 Stats:

me 11th place (8 ships/7planets)
Vaxin 8th (13/6), Xi'Chung 1st (28/7),
EEEvil 7th (14/9/148 units), Addisian 3rd (19/7), RedGauntlets 6th (14/8/293units/56tech), SW-Empire 2nd (21ships/11planets/84units/54tech), Aquilaeian 5th(13/9), Torons 10th (10/8/83), Zorians 9th (10/5/19units/7bases/50tech), Orks 12th (14/6/88units/52 tech), Dragon AI 4th (23/4/39units/45tech)

Noteable Events:EEEvil at war with Zorians, Dragons AI at war with Torons, Xi'Chung at war with Orks, Aquilaeian @war with Addisian, Orks @war with Vaxin and Xi'Chung.

I have only met up with the Orks, seem friendly, mainly playing a defensive game and not taking advantage of the AI's weaknesses.

[Deathstalker]

TURN 20 STATS:
me11th(15ships/14planets/170units/50tech)
Vaxin 6th (19/5/181)
Xi'Chung 1st (48/9/41units)
EEEvil 2nd (22/13/820/6bases/70tech)
Addisian 3rd (28/9/392/6bases/66tech)
Red Gauntlets 7th (18/9/552/74tech)
SW-Empire 4th (22/13/457/2base/69tech)
Aquilaeian 5th (23/14/296/3base/60tech)
Torons 10th (13/8/526/1base/64tech levels)
Zorians 8th (10/4/422/10base/61tech)
Orks 12th (10ships/5 planets/336units/3base/56 tech levels)
Dragons AI 9th (22/6/49/2/52tech)

Noteable events:
EEEvil@ war with Zorians, good defensive fleet use vs. Zorian colonizers (fleet of 6 ships), picked off 2 this turn alone.

Gauntlets: War @ Empire, War@ Dragons,

Back to the game.....

[Deathstalker]

Hope I'm not just talkin' to myself

TURN 30 STATS:

me4th (34ships/13planets/175units/59tech)
Vaxin 11th (18/4/178/65)
Xi'Chung 6th (16/12/123/73tech)
EEEvil 1st YAY! (29/12/7base/1145units/89tech)
Addisian 7th (24/8/484/73tech/5bases)
Red Gauntlets 5th (17/12/592/87tech)
SW-Empire 2nd (27/13/589/80tech)
Aquilaeian 3rd (30/14/677/73tech)
Torons 9th (16/9/1066units/71tech)
Zorians 8th (11/7/455/11bases!/65tech)
Orks 10th (20/7/681/4bases/65tech)
Dragons AI 12th (18/7/61units/3base/57tech)

notables:EEEvil still at war with Zorians, Trade with Empire,
Red Gauntlets War with Empire, Trade with Addisian, Orks, Vaxin and War with Dragons AI.

more later.....

[tesco samoa]

typing my friend typing to yourself.



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[Alpha Kodiak]

I noticed that in your game, the Vaxin are dropping in the standings. I'm curious if you have any observations on how they are doing that might make them better.

[Deathstalker]

I attribute the Vaxin dropping due to the fact that their home system has little in the way of planets to colonize, the adjoining systems are all non-planets(just asteroids) or nebula, except for a system they are fighting over with the Orks and the Addisian home system, who they are also at war with. Combine this with the fact that both they and the Addisian colonize gas giants this spells trouble from the start. The system was a med cluster so the AI would have time to get a good start in their own clusters, didn't quite turn out that way...Am compiling turn 50 stats right now, havn't posted due to other things happening but I will post stats in a little while. As of turn 50 the Vaxin stand in 10th place, at war with two empires (Orks, Addisian), with only 4 planets (Aquilaeian have 27!!, Empire has 18 and the EEEvil have 12...).

Yep, I would put their place totally due to their starting position, which means everything in this game..No matter how good the AI is....(other games I have played they have remained top 3-4)

Anyone else have thoughts on the Vaxin?? (or for that matter, how are the EEEvil doing?? Anyone?.......)

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"And what the hell would you know about sanity?" demanded Beatrice. "There are depressed lemmings on the edge of cliffs who've got a better grasp on reality than you have. And more common sense."--Simon R. Green 'Deathstalker Rebellion'.

"We are all...the sum of our scars"....(paraphrased) Matt. R. Stover-'Blade of Tyshalle'.

"Memory," the old man said softly, "is tricky. I have learned two things from it. One: That without meaningful memories, there is no life. Two: that we are desperate for our lives to make sense, to have meaning,--and at a great enough remove , all memory is malleable." -Michelle West 'Sea of Sorrows', SunSword book IV.