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Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread
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Wombie,
I think the best I did was around 20,000 BCs. Yes, I don't know how I was doing it, but I was doing very, very well. I just kept bribing the AIs to go to war with each other and then sent colony ships everywhere. I was colonizing PQ14 planets like crazy! I figured I needed to get as much influence as I could.
I may finish the game and not submit it, but send it to Cari and ask her to see what I did wrong (or what tripped the Anomalous flag).
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I'm on LAN and this thread loads slowly for me. I'd say Ray will start a new thread soon, and we'll just retire the Balrog.
Celeborne, congrats on your normal/gigantic! Don't worry about moving up the difficulty too fast. Look at my games and you'll see I haven't moved up in difficulty too quickly. Maso and Crippling were too hard for me until just recently (heck, I think they still are!). Do yourself a favor and play the difficulty that you're comfortable with. Playing Maso right now might frustrate you into not playing the game anymore, which is the worst thing you could do!
BTW, didn't you ask where to post your backstory for the website? You can just post it here, or if you want to you can  Email it to me.
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by Veteran vincible - 10/6/2003 12:24:16 PM
The whole site has been loading slowly for me (on university ethernet). I don't think that this thread is any worse than the rest.
I don't object to starting a new thread--I just don't think it will be particularly helpful. Ray, if you do start one, are you going to put some sort of "summoning" or something like last time? Give us a bit of warning to prepare stories, if you do.
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Rick, I have limited experience on gigantic due to the limitations of the computer I played most of my games on. But on huge and gigantic, in my experience, the AI is weaker. Diplomatically, it doesn't understand that with more planets, things which affect your whole empire rather than an individual planet are more valuable (starbases, trade goods, etc) so its trading is even more out of whack than it normally is. On my current maso gigantic I bought up every resource starbase using normal tech trading. And militarily, once it declares war it takes a really long time for its ships to arrive, so you have a really long time to react, whereas on the small maps every turn is important. Basically the large maps are much more forgiving of mistakes.
    
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Just wanted to chime and say how much I love Excaliburs! Had to reinstall the Bonus pack to get them again but now all systems are go. Last night I finished up a game in which the Drengin were the last race to fall before my armies. I waxed the Yor and Torians with a quick transport+starfighter early rush and that made the rest of the game a breeze. The drengin were last on the list and they had amassed a huge armada of dreadnaughts and rangers. I would say they had about 50 roaming the space lanes which is a lot for a medium map. Anywho, i built a single Excalibur called the "Abyss" hehe, positioned it in the middle of Drengin fleet, and commenced the butt woopin. Like a fox in a chicken coop. I had built all the wonders/trade goods, research every tech, and had 3 maxed mil resources. The result, Abyss had 585 hp and 480 for an attack value! I used it kill every single drengin ship and never lost a single hitpoint. Muhahahahaaaaaaaaa.  Talk about Shock and Awe baby!!!
   
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Ok people, let's migrate our discussions over to the new FotR empire thread that I have just created.
 
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, anti-inflammatory Rx, and a splint. Hope I can get back in the groove soon. I will definitely play maso - either a large or small map. It might be fun to get to 100 games submitted some day. Talk to everyone later. 
