What? I gotta go through that ordeal again?
        
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Ray - better install a rear-view mirror on your staff. EBZ's hot on your trail...
    
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Yeah, I know he will pass me very soon just as he passed Pontius and Staffa.
I wouldn't be able to keep up with him unless the new scoring system really is very significantly enhanced for the higher levels.
I'm playing a Maso Gigantic now to test out the new beta scoring system. I expect to win but can't tell if I can finish it soon.
   
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Something about this statement just seems wrong...playing a Maso Gigantic just to test a scoring system. 
By the way, happy Monday everybody. Hope your day starts better than mine. 
   
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vincible: Done!
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Did I miss something, or do we have another member of the Fellowship? Bradley@Maple, welcome to our little corner of the woods! It's been quite a strange weekend for me, so if I'm a little behind on the news, sorry.
If you'd like to submit a backstory for role playing (or if you just feel like writing down something just for fun), feel free to post it and I'll add it to the website.  Link
BTW, updated the Fellowship News (small article)
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What's wrong with it?
As far as I know, I'm the only Beta tester who plays Maso.
I'm 75% done with my game. Crushed 3 AIs militarily and got the last two fighting. Should be able to win and submit latest by tomorrow.
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Bradley just joined us a short while ago, Theoden.
He's the reason why we are 60k ahead of GROSS rather than about equal.
Nastavnik, my gigantic games take between 6-8hrs of game play. I've cut down on a lot of constructor micromanagement to save time.
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iCaRuMbA! Thats a big score Ray . . . geez! A personal best at that! Congratz 
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Thanks Cotal, but my personal best was achieved three months back. See below.
#4 by Veteran _Terminator_ - 4/30/2003 4:17:05 PM
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Unfortunately, Frogboy zapped my score because he didn't believe anyone could have gotten that score without cheating. Obviously I didn't cheat.
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Miles Naismith aka Zyrixion's back story:
Born in the Nothern Kingdom of Arthedain, a river-trading city of Caras Celairnen, Zyrixion's Mother and father worked hard to raise him right. Zyrixion's father worked as a trade-good buyer/seller and earned enough to provide his son with good books and a good mentor, a bard named Tridar. Zyrixion's mother also worked, in the city market place where villagers from all over Arthedain would come to buy their wants and needs. Tridar taught Zyrixion well in the ways of the bard, and after his mentoring was over, Zyrixion decided to follow his own path of learning, studying monk/mentalism skills at a local monastery. Zyrixion quickly realized that he had too many interests and not enough time to pursue them, so he opted to be more of a bard than a monk. One day, he decided he wanted to be an adventurer, and went on a quite a few adventures, allying with this adventure party or that, defeating rogues and marauders who threatened trade in the kingdom. Zyrixion meet many rangers in Arthedain, and he picked up an odd skill here and there from them. One day Zyrixion's travels took him all the way to the kingdom of northern Gondor. There, in a city near Isengard, he met a wizard, Ray The Wanderer, who accosted him. Zyrixion was playing a local game in the tavern, and Ray asked if he was intereseted in adventuring. Zyrixion agreed to join with Ray's Fellowship of the Ring party, and though uncertain of the others at first, he quickly realized he had found the long-term adventuring group which he was looking for.
I hope that's enough info for you all. I have been busy lately and haven't posted any RPG, but maybe I will post again in the near future. 
  
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I was going to suggest a change to my background story, but I think I will let it be as it is.
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Ray,
How do you do that? It takes me a couple of days to play any size game. Do you or does anyone have have some efficiency tips?
Thanks.
Rick
   
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One thing I do is to fleet my constructors, then hit build starbase, and all the upgrades are automatically prompted to you, i.e. all contructors in the fleet build one star base at once.
That's the only tip I know of, but I would like to hear someone else's approach if they have one.
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Thats a good tip Miles! I haven't tried that in 1.05 because (in past versions stacked constructors would only build one structure!) But if thats been fixed that'd be awsome! I gota check it out!
It takes me about 3 to 4 hours to tech through to Beyond Human on a Large Map (year 2210ish or there abouts) on Normal difficulty and build absolutely everything. (War party, +++ social prod +++ millitary prod as the ability bonus settings).
Having a station mining (or even mining nothing) in each of your systems with all mining slots full increased social and millitary production in the vicinity ALOT speedwise.
Some of the buildings and techs themselves (esp certain wonders etc) will increase your production speed and research astronomicaly. (i.e. I built a Galactice Monument in 3 turns! Thats really maxing out the speed!)
Also Auto-attack on Medium maps when your technologically superior is a neat 'set and forget' aspect which lets you get on with it.
EBZ I suspect would have all the angles on ultra-speed. If my math is correct anyways . . 
Incidently . . . I'm conducting an experiment!
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How do you do that? It takes me a couple of days to play any size game. Do you or does anyone have have some efficiency tips?
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Basically, I have stopped building a ProdMax starbase in every sector I own. Now I build just one in my wonder/TG building sector.
It's tedious on a big map where I have to constantly click on the SBs to see if they need more constructors. It would be great if I could instead see the SB bonuses on the main map.
I've also stopped upgrading resource SBs once I know the game is won. I don't build cultural SBs anymore. In my last Maso Gigantic, I've built only one to flip a sector in the corner.
So basically, 95% of the modules I build now are mining ones.
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Incidently . . . I'm conducting an experiment!
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And what kind of experiment would that be, Cotal?
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. . . well I'm trying (as best I can to play through on a very similar setting/scenario) for each of the difficulty levels! I know its been done befor but I'm finding it interesting noting the subtle changed in difficulty at each level.
My first observation is that calkwalk and beginner offer 'much of a muchness' scorewise for completing the same tasks etc, eventhough in the later the AI actually 'moves' and 'occasionally' does something!
The only problem with my experiment is that I still can't get to the mid-game on maso, my economic style just can't cope with the AI self gratification bonuses . . .
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Someone used to say that a monkey making random keystokes can win Galciv at Calkwalk.
Yeah, 10k points is too high a reward to beat up comatose aliens. I suspect that most of the points come from teching rather than pop.
If you are challenging Maso, Cotal, do remember to check out the Maso Strats thread over at the Strat forum.
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Ray I will do! I can't believe how agressive the maso AI is . . . it's certainly a quantum leap difficulty wise.
Semi related I guess. The minors (especially the ones that appear later in the game and have all the techs I do) colinized nearly 2/3 of the planets on beginner while I wasn't paying attention . . . oppps.
Even less related . . . I got so fed up trying to survive on maso I played that 10k calkwalk game as a form of 'therapy' . . . I was quite shocked at the score too
Incidently, some of the 'grovelish chat' that the other races say in the diplomacy screen on calkwalk is quite funny . . . There's one (by the Yor) which was like a 150 word essay on why I'm so great and fantastic! I nearly fell off my chair in fits of laughter!
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I keep almost starting a game, and then stopping. I fear I might be pushing the envelope of GalCiv burn-out.
Big maps take too long. I like the small maps but dislike that I've got to step off the gas and 'tech-up' in order to score well.
I might try Maso but it sounds like more of a chore than a game. Maybe I'll play something else for awhile...
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Take a break, H50. 5 games in a week is a lot.
Or try playing with cheats just for the fun of it. The advanced start option could save you a lot of time.
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