It looks like at long, long last I may have broken into the top one hundred. I will have to wait for the next update, but I should be sitting on exactly the one hundred ranked player spot.
I have to tell someone about this last game of mine. I decided I wanted a token Pond Scum game, so that the Metaverse calculator would have less trouble evaluating my alignment. The Arceans got into a dominant position quite early, and eventually started to invade everyone else. It wouldn't have been so bad, except that all the Good races they attacked surrendered to them! Anyway, I thought about using my usual Influence tactics, but there was clearly too much risk in provoking the Arceans. Anyway, by the time I started researching Tech Victory, there was just me, the Arceans, the Terrans and the Thalans left. With about a dozen turns to go, the Arceans finally declared war on me. Too little, too late. They blew up a lot of my ships, but I fought off their few invasions and won the game.
