I haven't played at a level that seriously challenges me yet, so I've never had to diversify from my one winning strategy:
Turtle - build - crush all that oppose me - flip the rest.
I'm sure at the higher levels I'll need to get more creative.
Diplomacy and tech trading is a large part of my game. I can't recall an AI player ever declaring war on me, they all love me so much. I have no qualms declaring war on the evil baddies, but I never do on the Altarians and Torians.
As an aside, Ray, did you play SFB (or maybe SFC)? Just wondering when you got to using the term 'Alpha Strike'. 
        
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From the wild one:
1. Drink beer
Unfortunately, I tend to do this first - you can see why I never make it to maso level....
2. Techno whoring
3. Alpha strike
      
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I picked up the term from someone on the forum, H50.
 
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What about an alpha-Beta Strike. Oh wait, that Supermarket is nonunion. My bad.
 
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Whilst I am a "higher number", I go back to the OS/2 version in 1995 - I only discovered the Windows version last month....
Alex
(rapidly approaching a half-century!)
  
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Alex, you belong to the Precursor list 
I wonder who else played the OS/2 version here?
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Rumors of the Pirates' demise were greatly exaggerated. Write up tomorrow.
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To score big, the strategy. Turn turn turn turn especailly early. Don't take too much too fast. Culture bomb near the end and take em all rapidly. You get no points for building pop after you've taken most of the map. Of course it's boring as heck so I don't worry too much bout that and just play. If I score, I score. Although I think I'll be playin stock ai's for awhile till they fix a glitch.
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I just found this thread and decided to just say "Go FotRE" to all fellows.
Ok, here it comes:
Go FotRE!
*runs back to play*
 
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Nice of you to drop by, Bombashaman.
Have fun with the game!
And thanks for the encouragement, we have some catching up to do with GROSS.
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Strategies (though limited):
1.)Patience - build economy and military
2.)Tech whore
I tried an "Alpha Strike" last night. It backfired on me and I got wiped out. The stupid Arceans apparently noticed the transports and decided to chew me up. 
It seems my best strategy is to keep the strongest empire occupied with the other empires until I am strong enough.
By the way, looks like I'll be updating the Fellowship News today...
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Good work on the Fellowship News, Barry!
Yes, the near complete assimilation of FF by GROSS is indeed headline material.
I will definitely suggest some material for our website by this weekend. Maybe you can give me your email address.
Once our veteran member J4 returns, I'm sure he would be delighted to join you as a reporter. If you are interested, search for J4 in the forum and read his old Galactic News Network reports!
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End-of-Week business report
Ray, my email is  Email
Believe it or not, I actually check my email during the week more than I do during the weekend.
I've been trying to offset the GROSS/FF merger by recruiting more. I figured if all of FF merged, we'd be down by somewhere around 120,000+ and that's a wide margin.
I'll take a look through the forums for J4's GNN.
I'm working on a game that I hope to finish sometime this weekend. Everyone in the Fellowship needs to crank out some games this weekend for us to stay competitive.
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We were behind GROSS about 150k points just 1+ week back and somehow we managed to get more than 70k ahead. 120k isn't unsurmoutable.
The old dynasties of Apolyton and European Alliance held huge leads previously but see where they are now.
We just have to keep plugging away at both games and recruiting.
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For all who are wondering, I just updated the Fellowship News. You can read it here  Link
Ray: Yes, we'll just have to work a little harder, but we can regain the lead.
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It's a good read, Barry.
You have a flair for the dramatic. Always good for a reporter.
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Just had a look at J4's GNN. Had quite the laugh! That was perfect!
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Reposted for our enjoyment:
GNN---Humans found to be cheating
The Alien Intelligence Community was in an uproar today when the non-profit galactic corporation (NPGC) found that Humans were regularly cheating while playing Galactic Civilization.
Emperor X-1 from the Yor Empire had this to say:
"It was very odd indeed that no matter how hard we tried our Overlords were not able to penetrate the human Corvettes. Well...we later found out that the humans stacked 99 Corvettes and we were unable to get through."
"Yes! We Love War, but these humans...they war...call peace...war call peace...they war...how can we keep up!" said Drengin General Charzak
"Humans must play fair and stop complaining about the Alien Intelligence Community cheating in the game, we do not as long as we are kept at an Intelligent level." Torian ambassador said. "We are bugged in some ways, yes, but cheaters no! We will persevere and may BRAD be with us."
Thanks to J4 for this article!
Brought to you by the Galactic History Channel
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The first is a reference to the Fleet Defense Bonus. J4 was using stacked ships to defeat bigger enemy ships.
The cheating reference was targeted at a spate of "AI cheats" threads that appeared during that time.
Sure brings back memories.
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The original post left out one type of "cheat" that would really bug me if I were an A.I.
"We were winning handily when all of the sudden the space-time continum went into flux and we found ourselves back in time 5 months! All races seemed to have lost all memory and advances that had been gained. And now, strangely, the humans seem to know all our top secret plans and are doing much better."
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Hahahahaha!!! Yes, the Load Button cheat.
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