Ray, if you're around, the saga continues in the chat room.
       
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I have to say, I got a kick out of reading the last few day's posts. I'm sorry I'm not more vocal, but I hope you guys know that your story-telling efforts are appreciated.
I submitted a game yesterday, work doesn't permit more game playing time, but I try to finish one per week. 'Course I had that Anomalous score a game ago, that's what you get when your modding experiments cross the line. 
If anyone has any questions on modding the game, you can post here or the Mods forum, and I will do my best to answer.
Have fun gaming!
   
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Theleb,
As Pontius mentioned, cultural flipping cannot be turned off. In fact, many military victories are won via massive culture flipping with cultural victory switched off.
Personally, I don't build any cultural social improvements, except embassy when there is really nothing else to build. Mining influence resources and cultural SBs are much more value for money IMO.
I don't usually build any cultural resist as well. I find that it is better to deal with the cultural aggressor in a more direct way.
   
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Interesting observations about influence, MP.
It does make sense for the AI to be wary about attacking an enemy with higher influence due to the potential reversion of a captured planet back to defender.
However, there is a hypothesis that a superior economy deters aggression as well. May be a combination of factors.
I do notice that at the mopping up stage, I could plant cultural SBs in the middle of the AI's sector and not get a whimper from them. It is often where we are on par that I would get the demands to hand the SB over.
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Do try to participate whenever you can, H50.
I would love to see your halfling alchemist in action someday in our MMORPG.
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| Calvin and Hobbes has brought me many hours of joy and I think GROSS is doing a valuable service to the world by exposing more people to it. |
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Just a guess here, vincible, but are you saying PBP is Calvin and Gerakken is Hobbes? Kinda fitting... unless I'm just thinkin' too hard.
   
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Seems like there were some movement in our membership.
As I've mentioned in an earlier post, I would greatly encourage new members to sign onto this thread and say hi and/or introduce themselves.
We would really like to get you know you better.
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Status on our MMORPG. Current characters:
Fellowship
Ray the Wanderer, Human Wizard
Gengsta, Human(?) Wizard
vincible, Human(?) Wizard
Theleb, Human(?) Knight
Mad Prophet, Human(?) Psychic(?)
H50, Halfling Alchemist
NPCs
CariElf, Half-Elven Cleric
If there are members of the Fellowship who want to get involved in the MMORPG but prefer not to write stories, just tell us your preferred character and we will write you into the stories.
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The only way I know to trigger the anomalous score is to have a too high average PQ for your planets. I tripped over this a couple of games ago, when I experimented with putting back in the 2 PQ bonus granting techs at the end of the tech tree.
I don't believe 70,000 BCs would trigger. My last game I had over 100K and it still posted fine.
Did you get several of the PQ 'blossom' events?
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It happens, Vincible, even to those playing without mods. See Frogboy's earlier post:
"#2 by Avatar Frogboy - 4/26/2003 11:03:42 PM
sixtoes - for some reason the game thought you were cheating. Send me your saved game and I;ll look into it ( Email). Anomolous doesn't mean you were cheating of course, just that something got triggered."
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Someone mentioned also that resubmitting the anomalous game works. You can try that.
H50, maybe you should try as well. May not be a problem with your mods.
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Seems to have worked, vincible. U're moving up 
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I didn't keep a save of that game, unfortunately.
I'm not really that concerned about it. It goes with the territory, sometimes my Alchemical experiment blows up in my face. 
If anything, I'd just like the game deleted.
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Oh, and I'm glad resubmission worked for you, Vincible!
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SD doesn't believe it deleting games for players. They feel that once they start doing so, they will be flooded by deletion requests.
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Yah, I know it won't happen. No matter, I'll keep playing, modding, and submitting. What happens happens.
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I loved the early UFO releases too. Try it and tell us if SpellCross is fun.
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One thing I didn't like about the xcom's were that the story was exactly the same every time. And the hard levels weren't an expanded story. The Aliens just waxed you more at first and were harder to defeat. I learned my lesson on the second one to skip the junior levels and go to the hard one right off.
Theleblk: Ironic, you can win by cultural domination without flipping a single planet. You can also win by military domination without conquering a single planet.
 
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| The name G.R.O.S.S. is a Calvin and Hobbes reference. |
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Doesn't everyone know this? vinvible, you implied that we're somehow exposing people to Calvin and Hobbes. It's a great idea, but I fail to see how we're doing that if the only connection is in the name.
This is all just a horrible misunderstanding!  Why oh why can't we communicate? It's like you don't even know me anymore! That's it!  I'm breaking up with you!
Uh... rrrrrright.
(edit: I can't spell when I get all emotional)
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Hey guys,
I have a good smiley now
Goodbye Neutral.
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