Could not access it for 12 hours myself. Just managed to get in.
         
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Hmmm...I was wondering why I couldn't get onto the site. I thought it was still the gremlins in our system. I'm still having puter problems at work. 
   
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What? The two biggest trash talkers both put one in that came up short? Talk about the least satisfying revenge award. Oh joy oh what a happy day it was yesterday on the 18th. 
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Cotal...you are one weird chick...camping? 
  
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That, from the sad person who had to post numbered messages to get a nice number in his own thread....
  
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| Hey friends, I was wondering myself if all of the forums were down. Glad to see I'm not the only one here. B |
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Hey B,
Yeah. Funny thing was I thought it was a problem at my company's side as our internet server went down as well. But imagine my surprise when I got the server too busy message from Galciv. 
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I've started on my next game. A Maso Gigantic Rare. All of us got equal starts with the Dregs slightly better. Used tech trading to get on relative tech parity with the AIs and have decided on go on a military rush approach.
Basically, it is my belief that once you can take out a sizeable AI on Maso, you would have achieved the critical mass to win that game.
The Dregs declared war on me but I went ahead to strike at one other Incredible AI. Arceans are, IMO, one of the worst if not the worst defender out of the five AIs. Their fav orbital defenders are colony ships. . They even send their battleaxes out to space.
Didn't really have the time to execute a proper Alpha Strike but managed to take out 2 planets at start. Another two were taken out through deft maneuvring of spd 6 Transports vs their spd 2 Death Knights.
Captured 4 out of their 8 planets and managed to secure peace. They still had hordes of Death Knights flying around but they were largely ineffective. Will be deploying my forces to take out their last 4 planets in an Alpha and if I succeed, the game is won.
Luckily, the Altarians have declared war on the Arceans as well and their Death Knights are helping to clear some of the Arcean ships. I still have to deal with the Dregs who are Strongest in both Military and Economy. Hopefully, they will tire of war and ask me for a peace. Currently, they wouldn't give me peace even if I offered them everything.
I had alot of fun with this game. I think my strategy of alternating between Maso and Crippling is sustaining my run for much longer than I've expected.
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| That, from the sad person who had to post numbered messages to get a nice number in his own thread.... |
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Just ignore him, Alex. Why bother with someone who always wants to have the last word?
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Just kiddin' Cotal - it's just rare to see computer gamers talk about interests AWAY from the keyboard! And you'd better watch your spelling - I'm old enough to point out that 'canoodling' has a slightly different meaning than paddling in water!
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It is worth repeating an useful advice from Andreas Finn when playing at Maso.
It is to keep a cool head when you see yourself hopelessly outmatched in terms of military. It is still possible to win if you are able to take advantage of certain AI weaknesses.
In my game, the AI's battleaxes are 9/12 in orbit while my frigates are 6/4. Wouldn't have managed to capture any of its planets so easily if it had one battleaxe defending each planet. But knowing the military behaviour of the Arceans helped me to overcome them.
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| Just ignore him, Alex. Why bother with someone who always wants to have the last word? |
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It looks like you just bothered......... Again.
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| I'm sorry, but no matter the context, that's a rather funny statement. |
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It sure was Kit. And they'll never know how funny either.
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| Just ignore him, Alex. Why bother with someone who always wants to have the last word? |
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Seriously Ray. Do you really think anyone with at least half a brain won't recognize this for what it is?
"I'm not talking to you." "Mikey don't talk to Stevie or you can't be my friend."
Once I graduated primary, I got over that kind of thing.
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| Yeah, I lost some points for GROSS today with my anomalous score. Blahhh. Congrats though. Beware, beer run coming. |
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Wombat and I have both responded to your post elsewhere, B. Try resubmitting, it should clear up that anomalous score.
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| Ray, you are amazing. That is so many levels above where I can ever dream of playing. . Make sure you are taking notes so you can write "Ray's Gal Civ Strategy Guide for winning at crippling and maso levels". I, for one, would love to read it. |
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Problem with writing a guide is that the game changes so quickly so the strats may become obsolete quickly. I still prefer my current way of sharing on a real-time basis. I will probably write a more complete one when I retire from this game.
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| Just thought i'd drop in and say hi. I see the XP isn't out yet, sigh. I'll be patient I haven't played any recently, i've been waiting for the XP. Glad to see teh Fellowship is still kicking and in 1st, esp since GROSS has #2-#6 slots on the top players list. Anyway gotta run. |
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Hey Gibbie! Good of you to drop by.
Yeah, Brad mention that it will only be out in another couple of weeks so I guess early-mid Sep. Really hope to you see some of you (KseAli, redshift, etc) back here playing once the Xpack is out.
And you may want to revise your excellent strat guide to cater to the new Xpack features and changes. Wonder what happened to Ralegh?
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Four posts in a row.
The Fellowship has broken through the 1.3M score barrier. Great job, people! 
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