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Morbutor,
Click the icon that looks like a magnifying glass - it's on every post in the thread. You'll note that the icon now has a red "X" through it.
When you click on the text that reads "Show My Watch List" at the top of a thread, you'll get your short list of favorites.
       
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Well, at least I finally finished a game. That's an accomplishment for me these days. Time to upgrade to 1.10...
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Blue:
I disagree completely about standard membership sizes for the top empires. Take a look! Locality empires tend to be bigger, with fewer submissions per player; ANZAC is a bit smaller because of a group leaving and because you're trimming the zero-pointers.
Granted, FOTR, GROSS and MWC are a well-matched trio in terms of size - AT THE MOMENT - but everybody else is all over the chart. I think with the expansion pack here at last and submissions and recruitment obviously going up, the status-quo Metaverse that we've seen for awhile is in for a change.
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Hi Judys! Just thought I'd pop in - haven't visited for a while. Obi - do you have a real sense of recruitment rising significantly? I'm not sure empire size matters either - most big older empires have lots of 'dead wood' collected over time in their ranks; ANZAC just actively prunes them out. I reckon most empires would, at any one time, probably only have 6-10 active members (playing and posting). Players rotate in and out re their activity, of course.
     
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Wombie:
Yes, I do think there's a spike in activity around here that isn't restricted to us old-timers. We've picked up a fair number of recruits lately, most of them new to empiring or to GalCiv in general. That this is happening as the xpack is coming out is an awfully big coincidence.
Blue, there are other ways to contribute to an empire besides just posting games. I'm averaging one game a month lately (trying to do better!), but work and family commitments are making a lot more demands on my time lately. Plus, there's the Jedi Republic website (shameless plug - visit  Link !) that's taking up 5-10 hours every week...
Sure, the Metaverse ladder is important - it's why we came here to begin with. But empires also provide a good sense of comradeship, a place to swap strategies and stories, and to provide a forum to talk about similar interests. I don't like the idea of kicking somebody out just because they can't meet an arbitrary schedule. If it's working for ANZAC, that's fine - but this is supposed to be about fun. If I have to schedule something, it stops being fun.
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Wow - we hit post #500 and nobody commented...
Drew3077, your first Jedi milestone. By the way, what's up with your two submissions? They don't show if you won, lost, or anything...
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Take care in the real world, Berserk. If you have a few minutes, stop by the Forum anytime to say hello.
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Blue:
No problem, no harm, no foul, no offense. Everybody wants activity in their empires. There are, however, many types of activity - hence the rub.
Good luck against those pesky Midwesterners.
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I think you get that when you retire and submit a game.
  
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Not much difference, Dooku. But it was interesting to see bagginz from Stardock was only Ambassador. I thought Ambassadors were player access-levels.
Scanned through old Fellowship posts, I got first on 31 Jul so it's been 7 weeks I guess. Can't rememeber exactly but I think Staffa got it for more than 2 months.
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Dooku:
Just sent you a reply - I still had the original.
Sherbert:
If you're going to be busy with school and such, feel free to stop off here in the Forum and say hello anytime. This is as much a community as a game.
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Don't think you can see strats from a savegame Dooku because it is just a snapshot.
I'm writing a Galciv blog over at Joeuser and most of the strats I'm using will be there. 2 articles are up already.
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I think the joeuser blog will be clearer than the Maso Strats thread in the Strat forum because it's summarised.
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. I'm using a friend's computer right now.
