Re miners, its the opposite in DA - the factories have been nerfed to provide incentive to mine, and to use a new Industrial Production Improvement - the Power generators (three levels - Fusion (+10%), Anti-Matter (+20%) and Quantum (+30%). They are still balancing everything - a tricky job due to the huge number of new features, but so far the miners are shaping up nicely.

There have been a few crashes - one notable type they are beavering away try to track down at the moment - but so far I am very very impressed. There is a massive number of new features, and to have so few crashes is a real pat on the back for the dev teams. They are doing their usual great job.

I'll try to time out this weekend and get a few screen shots for you.

Regards
Zy

I do like the logo, lord knows I could not do any better. I guess the only thing about the logo I do not really care for is the bright Icon with the triangle, it does not really fit in my opinion.

As far as the slogan, I like "Our logic is undeniable" as stated in previous posts by other members. However, I am also a bit dark at heart so I would have to go with something like...

Absolute Logic through Mass Chaos.

Way to go everyone on reaching the 3 million mark! May the next 3 million be just as fun!

Good morining HCH!

I wanted to give a congrats to Jeff Graw for completing his first Metaverse game with us, and I wanted to give a congrats to everyone who helped our score move up another 100,000 points.

Keep up the good work, and have fun!

AlexAtticus

I wanted to give a congrats to Jeff Graw for completing his first Metaverse game with us, and I wanted to give a congrats to everyone who helped our score move up another 100,000 points.

Thank you very much. You can make that two now

Hail Senators of the HCH!!

Brezelius sends his greetings. The Martians have determined that they would like to see a competition among the members of the empire. Our humble opinion is that we could pick a weekend in which all members would try to submit a game(s). The charater earning the most points during that weekend would be recognized. This might cause a jump in the empire's point total bringing more glory and perhps new members to the High Command Hegemony. Does this sound like a good idea? Please give your imput!

Brezelius

Brezelius sends his greetings. The Martians have determined that they would like to see a competition among the members of the empire. Our humble opinion is that we could pick a weekend in which all members would try to submit a game(s). The charater earning the most points during that weekend would be recognized. This might cause a jump in the empire's point total bringing more glory and perhps new members to the High Command Hegemony. Does this sound like a good idea? Please give your imput!

I *like* the idea! I wonder if we can also get some prize/s into the mix? Total Gaming memberships/renewals anyone?

Good point Quixen. Maybe we can make it in a whole week, not only a weekend, and limit it to one, or any number of games we agree, per person. We can make it so that even if you send more than one game, only the best score we'll be counted. That way people are encouraged to send games but we don't penalize people who can't send more than one. But then we make it into a quasi competition of who is best playing GalCiv2 and the people who are at the top of the Metaverse will just win. Someone can think of something?

Jeff Graw, it's true some prizes would add something nice to the mix. I see only one little problem, since TG has, as of now, not yet decided to sponsor this competition (we'd really need a name by the way) we have to see how we can pay for the prizes. Right now donations come to my mind. If some people donate we can pool it in a PayPal account and then buy the prize for the winner. If someone else has another idea as how to pay for the prizes and/or some other prizes (that might not involve money) then please express yourself.

Another point would be when the competition should be. If it were for me, I'd say let's do it in January. I have college examinations starting tomorrow 'till the 22. of December, then comes Christmas and then I'm going to Berlin for the new year with my GF and some friends. So I'll not be able to play untill at least the 3. of January. But anyway, it shoud be when everybody agrees.

And the last point, is there anybody who can programm here? I think it is possible to work with the RSS feeds of the Metaverse to make a ranking (like the alternative metaverse created by kryo), otherwise we'd have to do it manually
Well, that was a long post.

Greetings to you all.

For those of you who enjoy conquest victories, how do you deal with the mind numbing logistics and tedium of destroying thousands of ships? Is there a simpler way to do all this that I'm missing?

Hail HCH and good day. Instabattles is a good way to shorten this up. In game, go into the menu, then interface. In the Battle Legnth box set it to Instant Battle. You don't get to see the ships fighting but the amount of time saved in incredible. This works for space battle with ships and destroying ships guarding planets. Hope this helps!

Fuels Chief -- Thanks for the tip. I'll absolutely do that... Part of the boredom was waiting for combat lags to resolve themselves. I like watching my death beams and other assorted kick-ass weaponry disolve enemy ships but in a game where you literally have to destroy thousands of enemy ships, you just don't need to see the sparklers every time...

MarshallONeil -- I've been following the (heated) discussion about speed on other threads and I think I understand where the developers are coming from. But on a gigantic map it adds to the German military planning factor in a major way. It's sad to admit, but I just don't have that kind of patience. Ever read Haldeman's Forever War? They'd send taskforces out to take enemy planets realizing that it would take decades for the troops to reach their objective and when they did they faced an enemy that had years to develop more advanced weaponry. I think of that story every time this subject comes up. Makes for good scifi, but not so much for gaming...

Berzelius: I like the idea of a competition among us! I think it should be week long competition and if we do it, it should be sometime in January because of the holiday season. To be fair, like Kudlelv said, we should only count the highest scoring game each person submits. But also to be fair to the ones playing for fun, we could also have a competition for the most number of quality games submitted, I would like some better ideas for this though.

As for prizes, I really don't have any ideas at this point, I'll let you guys decide on that   .

Cumberburg: Congratulations on your game! I always like to leave my victory options open in case I get stuck in a situation that you describe. Fuels Chief's advice to help that problem is the way to go if you want to go the conquest route, but it will still take sometime.

Best of luck,
AlexAtticus

Hi and welcome to the HCH Leppla!

Just looking around in the forums I found this thread and it looked like what you may be looking for. WWW Link

Good luck
AlexAtticus

Considered yourself warned Hegemony pretenders, the Empire is coming for you...