Playing a very interesting Maso Gig game.
Have an average start with the Arceans right next to me. They had 10 systems and I spent most of my early game in a sea of yellow influence. In this game, I went for Stellar Carto in the colonization phase to find out where the yellow stars were in areas out of my reach.
I knew I had to rush the Arcs and I took four of their systems quite early. Managed to secure peace by offering up quite a few techs.
Took another 2 systems quite a while later when they declared war on me. Then I had a very lucky UP event which enforced a galactic ceasfire just when I needed it to reposition more transports nearer to their systems.
I expect that this game will be won once the Arcs are destroyed.
Fun.  Amazing that I still enjoy the game after 6 months of playing. If not for Maso level, I would certainly have stopped playing months back.
          
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I'm happy to see you still playing and having fun. I haven't been around lately, but I just wanted to stop in and say hi.
   
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Good to hear from you philopoemen. 
What's keeping you busy nowadays?
Admiral Sherbert,
Sure. Tell us the attraction behind your mods.
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Well played Admiral Rick! 
   
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Submitted my game. Have to thank Cotal for reminding me that I don't have to max out everything to get the top score of 60k.
However, I seriously think Stardock will nerf diplomacy or at least make it more expensive. I'm sure they will find most if not all of the Maso players loading up on diplomacy. It's almost like the PQ+15 times.
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I'll make this short:
Baby on the way
New apartment
New job
Insane mother & father
Other then that, it's been pretty quiet 
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I don't think we will see a revamped system before at least 1.2. Likely GC2.
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Can this thread be divided or started anew? It takes forever to load through my 56K modem (I've finally managed to get to page 82 once after a lot of failed attempts. So if I haven't responded to your bon mots on pp 83 on, it's only because I haven't read them.)
 
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Valid concern, Bolger.
Though this thread does have a lot of history and sentimental value, I'm all for starting a new thread to facilitate more participation from everyone.
If nobody objects, I will start another thread soon.
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I don't think the size of the thread is the only issue at work here. Stardock's servers in general seem quite a bit slower than they used to be, particularly in the past week. I'm on a cable modem, and it often takes 30-45 seconds and two tries to open brand new threads, let alone this one and Threadzilla. Hopefully, this is an indication of more traffic around here.
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Good morning everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend! It's back to the grind today...
Rick, thanks! And congrats to you for Admiral! WTG!
I think we definitely need a new thread. Balrog has outgrown his cave.
Well, I'm pretty frustrated with the game today. I decided to drop back and play a Huge/Crippling yesterday. I got a good start and everything was going great. I kept my maximum diplomatic picks and all the AIs seemed to stay off my back. Fearing an anomalous score (because I seemed to be doing so well), I kept retiring to see if I still had points. Well, I got cocky and didn't do it for a while. When I did decide to, it came up as anomalous and I didn't have a save game that wasn't anomalous. 
Look, I'm clearly not an expert player and I was amazed at how well I was doing on a Huge/Crippling. It really, really disappoints me that I wasted a couple of hours just because I was doing too well in a game that was clearly over my skill level. Anomalous scores shouldn't be quite so easy to get, in my opinion. They work great for weeding out ppl who are modding or using the cheat codes, but what about those of us out there who are playing games with a genuine desire to improve ourselves? Do I have to play Masochistic now for the rest of my game playing? I don't really want to do that...
I guess I'm just upset that a Crippling game would come up as anomalous. Just ignore my rantings, there's really not much any of us can do but hope we don't trip the mysterious anomalous flag and get penalized for doing slightly well in a game. 
 
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Even on cable, loading up this thread is taking way too long.
I'll start a new thread soon.
And welcome to the Fellowship, Aazarn!
Good to have you aboard.
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Welcome Aazarn!
In case you haven't been there, check out our empire website at this  Link
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Theoden - hope the family is recovering well. I think you are right to be dismayed to get an anomalous on Crippling; I can only think you tripped the 'excess cash' flag but you'd have to be doing amazingly well on Crippling to do that?! I appreciate Stardock wished to squash the 'cranking' but this seems over the top - do you recall your best cash balance in the game? Maybe send the file to Stardock for analysis?
Well done on the previous maso win though!
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