Meglobob's tip of the day:-

No. 2

Each metaverse game has a 'sweet spot', if u finish the game on this spot or as near to it as possible u maximise yr score. Finish earlier or later and yr score will be considerably lower.

I probably need to start playing fast research to shoot for the 3-4 year win...

Yes, I agree. I use very fast research for my metaverse games. Also an experienced player should consider buy now, pay when I am mega rich method of play.

Currently playing a 1.3 Gigantic map game, I am hopeful of a big score, at least 200,000 pts, hopefully alot more...  

They do take a long time to play however.  

Meglobob's tip of the day:-

No. 3

The Customize Your Civilization screen is probably the single most important part of GC2. Choose yr race/abilities with care and due thought, u r stuck with them the entire game, which on a gigantic game can be a long time indeed.

View the free abilities of all 10 races by clicking abilities, hit reset, scroll up and down to view free abilities, go back, repeat for other races. It will give u some interesting insights/ideas.

An example is the Torians/Drengin get +25% morale for free. Other races after pay 3 ability points just to get +20%! The Torians/Drengin r great for playing GC2 v1.31, morale problems? What morale problems?

There r lots of other good free picks.

BE THE BEST. JOIN THE BEST. B.C. SPACE ORCAS WANTS U! JOIN OUR EMPIRE TODAY.

I greatly appretiate your hard work Meglobob. Keep it up. Everything helps. Thank-you very much for your efforts. TBAY

One turn spent on xeno research isn't a bad way to start either, but then impulse absolutely...

Also note it depends on your starting location. If you're very isolated sometimes speed may not be needed to grab the planets you want. (may want to go for research or economy sooner.)

Sorry Galactic Empire.




I tried to rally to troops, sadly there were no troops to rally.



Hail Orcas.



-lovepump

Welcome Love Pump. Your score is high enough to be made a senator. We will catch the diplos with your help. Once you get your current character in to the top 25, I would suggest creating a new character. This is because the more games you play with a character the slower the total score increases. Your total score for any character is divided by the square root of the number of games played. As we have half the membership of the diplos we need to create more characters to catch them. Feel free to play any way you want to enjoy the game. This is just a suggestion not a mandate. Great to have you aboard. Bye for now TBAY

Now, exactly how do u play a game that fast?

I think we would all like to know that.

Hello everybody, nice to see that we almost got the Diplomats ...

Yep. I think we may catch them in the next week or two.  

what? probably because of yesterday when I submitted two games? The Yor map was actually my first 1.3 game. I didn't finish it - I told about it in the orca's forum. I'm just updating to 1.31 so I took it as a personal challenge to win it before. A lot of the "work" has been done already.

Ah, I was hoping for some huge speed tip...

Looking forward to seeing u hit the 1,000,000 points barrier.      

Meglobob's tip of the day:-

No. 7

Ship type - Ferry.

When u have maxed the engine tech line out ie...researched Hyperwarp 3, u should consider creating a ferry class ship. This ship will typically consist of 2 - 3 advanced troop pods, for 2B - 3B population and rest of space, hyperwarp 3's. Typical speed of this ship 60+ parsecs per turn.

The purpose of this ship is to ferry yr population around yr empire ie...take 3b pop. from that core world that has 15b on it to the frontier world which has 536m. U will typically need only 2 - 3 such ships to be effective, so very little mirco-management, especially as they will spend most of there time on autopilot.

The advantages in doing this r :-

1) All yr worlds continue to increase population each turn, which means a bigger metaverse score.
2) It's easier to manage morale across yr empire.
3) New world's gain a big population to help defend against invasion and can fill 1b troop transports up to continue yr expansion through conquest.
4) Get more tax income from new conquered worlds.
5) U have an emergency reserve of 2 - 3, 2b - 3b troop transports to use in a crisis. Where u need that world and u need it now.

BE THE BEST. JOIN THE BEST. B.C. SPACE ORCAS WANTS U. JOIN OUR EMPIRE TODAY.

Alright!


just posted a 38250 on a huge/maso,

Orcas are less than 4000 points shy of the top spot.


Almost there boys and girls!


-TAz

aka Lovepump

Meglobob's tip of the day:-

No. 8

Keep those good times rolling...

The economic boom event is very common, I have had it in loads of different games, its especially powerful early in the game, the first 2 years or so. It typically lasts 3 - 6 months before yr economy returns to normal.

To get the most out of it u should start a huge and I do mean huge program of rush buying economic buildings, especially everyone's favourite building the stock exchange. Fill all yr worlds up, the more worlds u have to fill up the better. The effect of those economic buildings is doubled and a snowball effect occurs with u having more and more money to spend each turn, on yes, more stock exchanges. By the end of the boom u should be a economic supergiant, more than cabable of squashing all opposition with ease.

BE THE BEST. JOIN THE BEST. B.C. SPACE ORCAS WANTS U. JOIN OUR EMPIRE TODAY.

Welcome aboard Petit Mal! Always great to have another player in the tank! Lets go smoke the diplo's!