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Luck bruin77!
Congrats Ray on your silver medal. 
        
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Welcome back Staffa, I was hoping you wouldn't notice me moving past you 
Nar, I think I would need a good 10 games at 15k to reach 100k total. Can't do that in a week. Maybe two if I play non-stop.
And Pontius, the game can't be milked now, Brad said so  . I'm merely playing the game as Brad wants the game to be played, which is SimGC. I get my kicks now from the occasional Maso and the GOTM.
No worries, Gerakken. Due to the criticality of the mission, we need a first rate job from you. Take all the time you need.
Good luck bruinb77, do share your exploits with us!
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Thanks, Nemesis of Ray.
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Quite a number of us have come to this stage of disillusionment with the Metaverse, Theleb. The ones who get over it are still here in the forum. The rest are gone.
But to be fair to SD, there will never be a ladder that could cater to most players. For the camp who prefers similar scores for all 4 victory types, there will be those who think they should score differently. For the camp who says speed would be rewarded, there will be another who likes SimGC and smelling the flowers.
The only near unanimous factor is that difficulty should be the key component of scoring and unfortunately that issue is yet to be resolved. But it definitely indicates that most people would like the Metaverse to be more a reflection of skill than commitment.
If you find that you are unable to make peace with the Metaverse, then ignore the scoring aspects of the game. Play the game for fun.
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Hey all. Thought I'd stop in and say hello.
That Ray, he's a committed recruiter. 
I can't say I've been submitting much to the Metaverse lately, but the FotR is welcome to my crummy 20000 points.
Now maybe I should read those Tolkien books at some point...
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Really glad you decided to join us Michael!
We try to find a good niche for ourselves in this Metaverse. I believe we are the only empire so far which has been explicit in saying that we would like to serve the community. We are also into discussing strategy and thinking up new ways of playing the game. Lastly, we enjoy roleplaying, with a fantasy flavour, not just Tolkien.
Now it would really be great if you continue to run the GOTMs and we have other Fellowship members running other game forms like the Sequential Games.
Speaking of which, no takers for Sequential Games playtesters?
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That's the game form we were discussing in posts 70+ where players take turns to play the same game towards different goals.
I posted in #112 asking for two playtesters to test out the concept. If you are keen, we would need another player to test/compete against you.
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Funny Gengsta, I meant post numbers not players.
Great, Gengsta's in. Anyone wants to playtest this concept with him? It would be good if it could be someone in roughly the same time zone to speed things up. Gengsta's in Boston.
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Alright guys, you know we were talking about playing Challenges in which a player is presented with an advanced game state in a near-hopeless situation. The Challenge is obviously to reverse that and win.
We potentially have one from Gibbie in which he is stuck in a corner and faced with a war against a powerful 3-way alliance.
I want suggestions on what we should call this type of Challenge. Let's crank those creative juices of ours.
First one from me :
The Phoenix Challenge - Rising from the Ashes
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Go for it, Gengsta, our MMORPG has quietened down too much for my liking.
And we have seen jaw-dropping role-playing stories in other empire threads recently.
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How can it be? How can it ever be if submissions are voluntary and we don't play against each other? The answer, my friend is blowin in the wind. WOOOOOOOSH!!! IT CAN'T!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOSH. The answer is blowin in the wind. When oh when will we stop chasing a pipe dream and just have fun?
  
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Ah, I was wondering if you are not going to show tonight, Pontius. Busy cranking out your next gigantic, are you?
You forget my friend that this is also Brad's dream as well. I've reposted his old posts where he talked about making the Metaverse ranking a vague reflection of skill and his dream scoring where there are big differences in scoring between difficulties.
But it's his Metaverse and his call on the scoring. I've just holding on to some faint hope that he would tweak the difficulty scoring someday. That would be the only change I would ask for in the current scoring mechanism.
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