A world full of surprises

[Earthmichael]

 

[t_ras]

 

[roninscg]

 

[Armageddon]

 

[Earthmichael]

I really have the Usurpers on the ropes now.  If you are still being bothered by them, I would be surprised.  I would think they would be 100% concentrated on defense right now.  I took another 3 of their cities this turn.

One think I think is weird is that you can never capture a Usurper city of size other than 1.  If the city is larger, then a bunch of colony pods flee the city, reducing it to size 1.  So you always have to grow the cities from size 1.

Anyway, I should be done finishing off Usurpers in another 3 turns or so.  Sparta is no longer a threat.  Does anyone need some help with the Hive?

Once we eliminate the highly cheating AI players, what is supposed to be the purpose of the game after that?  Are we to try to achieve ascension?  It says specifically that we are not trying to achieve a conquest victory, so I have been fairly freely trading conquest tech to fellow human players.  Are we now supposed to win by ascension, economic victory, or  planetary vote?

 

[Armageddon]

I think we should go for those kind of victories to have a new goal.

[t_ras]

I think the only strait foward "pair victory of two humans which can not be military" is diplomatic victory. Although maybe if two player run to tracendence (or money) together, that might be enough. Although then we need to have amechanism to state the second winner. Lets say that there is (of course) one winner wich is ovius and the second has to be one (and the only one) that was at least 10 turns before victory pacted to the winner.

[roninscg]

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[Armageddon]

Gonna play as soon as possible, the latest Sunday evening. Sorry!

[Armageddon]

 

[Earthmichael]

 

[t_ras]

 

[roninscg]

 

[Armageddon]

Thanks to our troops and the help of our allies and friends, the notorious and peace-hating leader of the Spartans, Colonel Santiago, has been captured and sent into long-life prison within our library consisting of the works and writings of Mahatma Gandhi.
And on...

[t_ras]