Do you know whether passive spies are capable of tech-steal (or how tech-steal in general works now)? Also, have you had a chance to see if there were any changes to the espionage ability? Is +100 espionage worth anything now? Thanks for your work on all of this btw! :).
Harborne, thank you for getting this taken care of and for letting us know.
Also, any word on how tech stealing works now? Undefendable tech-stealing espionage sounds like a mixed bag, though it could be interesting. Thanks for all your hard work :).
I agree.
Great game Ragnar! Some excellent times coming out of that settings groups :).
While we're bragging, I beat two races in a ZYW on suicidal 5/7/2007. So while I'm far from the best, I may have been among the first :). Curious: Has anyone gotten a ZYW before that? I checked Wyndstar's characters and didn't see any that early (though my 3 ZYWs back then were a modified version of a strategy he posted, so credit to him).
Good game Silverbeacher. It's sad, but I can't actually remember exactly what I did in my game. As I recall it mostly consisted of going as the Terrans, maxing out diplomacy, and abusing the AI as much as possible in negotiations :).
RATM would have been my guess as well, but I don't recognize the lyric.
This improvement looks fantastic. Thank you :).
I appreciate the continued support of Galciv2 and the work you've put into this free update. I will say though I'd truly hoped some tweak would be made to make spying bonuses at least somewhat useful. Being able to spend half of your income on spies (like the Iconians +100 espionage)) is something that really is not useful. Something, anything, that makes the espionage bonus useful (increased tech steal die rolls, more spies for the same money, spies gain intelligence faster
Quite a nice game Davabled. It will be interesting to see whether anyone beats that time on those settings!
With enough minors to sell tech to, a favorable home planet and decent results from anomalies (cash helps almost as much as 25% research bonus), 0 year win is possible (unless my memory is mistaken). I'm pretty sure Wyndstar described the technique a year or so ago, so if someone wants to do some digging in the forums, that might give them an edge :) On another note, Dystopic and I have agreed on an end-date of 12:00 PM on Sunday, Oct. 19. Please note that this is not the
Buggy forum (edit function is not working correctly). If anyone can delete the first two (and this post) that would be much appreciated!
Great game KP! I wouldn't have thought anyone would get a score that high with a 2 year win. Since you've already posted, I feel safer posting my option 4 win: 1 year, 26,600, Twilight v1.96, timestamp 9/16/2008 9:39:28 PM, suicidal, cultural conquest, neutral alignment, Large map, Humans, character JustinSane6.
edit: Character JustinSane6
Well, now that KzintiPatriarch has posted a game with a different settings group, I feel safer posting this: 1 year, large map, cultural conquest, Suicidal, Neutral, Twilight v1.96, Human, timestamp 9/16/2008 9:39:28 PM. Great game KP. I wouldn't have thought you (or anyone) could score that high with a 2 year victory!
Each player should only play one game, excepting teams with 3 players who wish to submit a fourth game (to increase their chances at the individual bonus points). If a team with 3 players wants to submit a fourth game, they've got to let Dystopic or me know, and we will randomly assign a player from that team to play two games rather than one. So for the team, you will need to submit at least 1 game from each of at least 3 different settings options out of the 5 available. T
Hello everyone! And thank you to Dystopic for putting together an excellent OP describing what are some complex round settings. Everything looks good except that I believe we had intended tech trading to be on rather than off in settings group one. More minors means more money from selling tech, so tech victory comes even faster :). We hope this round is fun for everyone and that team strategy will now play an even more prominent role. As Dystopic said, if anyone
Smaller update: Everyone should have recieved a PM by now. If we've missed you, please yell at us and we'll fix it :). Thank you very much!
Dystopic and I are honored to serve as Co-Commissioners, particularly given how ably that position has been filled by Commissioners-Emeritus Neilo and SilverBeacher. We both have enjoyed playing in the Metaverse League for some time and look forward now to helping keep it going strong. Fundamentally, the league exists to be fun, and has done wonderfully at that. We'll do whatever we can to make sure that it stays fun for all Metaverse League members and that the Metaverse Le
A richly deserved 21 hammer salute at that! :) Thank you SilverBeacher. You truly have done a fantastic job.
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. One of the most influential Sci-Fi works ever. Even more important, arguably, than McGuyver. That is a brilliant idea for an empire actually :).
Yes, a bit of clarification would be appreciated!
Yes, I'm still around. I've just been quiet lately :). This is largely because I feel that basically all of the options under discussion are worthy and have little distinct preference between them. I'm perfectly happy to go with the majority opinion on what course to take from here. I did however quite like Dystopic's suggestion of having all victory rounds with unique 4 unique settings, with each team needing to submit a game on each setting group as well as v
Outstanding show. I was too young to properly appreciate it however. I wish they'd re-run it somewhere. I'm not quite motivated enough to buy DVDs :).
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