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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:37
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Now at 2231 and building the TOE-- my tech rate is every two turns with 70% Labs and I plan to slam it to 100% Labs soon ( and experiment with FM/knowledge instead of green wealth)-- I do not want to peeve off the cult though as they are pretty good pactmates.
The agrarians had submitted to me, but when they would not give me a base I wanted, I broke pact and took it. They submitted again and gave up a base but when they would not give up more and started building probe teams, I figured it was best to take them out. They should live maybe another turn.
I am now number 1 in the powergraph and just recently got a message that the Hive and Pirates have joined forces against me. The Empire has hated me for while so soon it will be me and the cult pacted down south with me having a vendetta against all the northerners and the cult not enjoying much better relations. In the last two turns I have had forces landed near my crawler field which highlights my need to place a military outpost up there. My naval forces killed the transports but not before some of my crawlers died.
I am thinking that I may transcend and in the tech world my conquest of the agrarians has had a nice benefit of 3 AAs which I should be cashing very soon
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Flubber
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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:37
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Originally posted by Lazerus
It sounds like i've got the bigger military |
For sure although I am "unsurpassed" on that front in my game. I only have about a dozen choppers doing homeland security, 6 or 8 mopping up the Agrarian front and 2 sitting in seabases that are out of range of my lands and just barely in range of the Pirates, serving as an early warning bulwark from that direction-- I might actually build a few more bulwark seabases since its tough preventing the landings with the increased naval ranges.
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Originally posted by Lazerus
but you're going to beat me to transcendance, 2242 i'm going to get cybernetic, i think i'll switch to green/knowledge/cybernetic to try keep my police rating up and raise labs to get 1 per turn from there. |
Hmm tough to assess since I don't know where you are on the tech tree exactly-- I'm currently researching advanced EE with the idea of improving my former fleet-- my energy park has not been growing fast enough to accomodate my growing crawler group. After that heading to cybernetic would be a goal although I will risk the AA cashing even if it gives less useful techs techs. The TOE should guarantee me a tech a turn for a while . . . probably even at 70%
quote:
Originally posted by Lazerus
Realised if i didn't waste calling the council to try for supreme leadership a little while ago i could probably have won via that in a few turns.
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I never really thought about that route . . . plus the self-denial of the EG would hurt me there ( its one of my self-restrictions against the AI now never to get the EG)
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Flubber
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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:37
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Good stuff
I'm in the midst of turn 2238 and am building a nanohospital in my science base and also slamming things to 100% econ for one turn to start rushing hab complexes. I should also build the UT next turn and I am still raising land like crazy.
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Flubber
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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:37
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I couldn't quite manage to beat Laz as I transcended in 2260. I actually think I could go back to my last save and at least match the 2256 as I made a number of mistakes the key one being not reallocating a bunch of crawlers away from my best science city to avoid a lot of wasted labs. I had a bunch of turns (maybe as many as 5 )where my labs were way more than enough to get two techs in the turn but I was simply too lazy to rehome 30-40 crawlers. My other mistake was not grabbing quantuum power at the first opportunity to get some quantuum labs in my best bases.
In the last few years, the cult peeved me off again as they sent MASSES of probes at me even when treatied. Despite having no commerce, I managed to tech at 3 techs a turn at the end.
Thanks to chaos theory for an interesting scenario. The differences were intriguing but I found that playing as an isolationist builder worked pretty well as long as I raised enough land so that attacking forces came ashore away from anything vital. That and a couple of seabases that allowed no enemies to traverse certain waters helped a lot.
NO PBs flew. At the end I was tempted to start shooting down enemy satellites but figured every ODP was better as protection.
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Blake
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Brainfallocatione
Oct 2000
time: 17:37
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Pretty easy so far, 2156.
I started out by loading a CP into a boat and sailing off yonder (impressive move speed), this CP got dumped off about 10 tiles from HQ and immediately founded a base, in case it was the territory of another player (as you can found in another players territory if you havn't met them). It turned out to be right next to the Dawn base Well of Souls.
Relations started off cordial with the Dawn, after a while he rang up in a panic about pirates, my first instinct was to laugh at him and his silly childhood fantasys but my advisor pointed out there was an oppurtunity here and I formed a pact with the dawn against these "Pirates". Sweet deal.
Boy did I feel silly when a couple of pirate ships showed up and killed one of my transports! Anyway the pact turned out useful when the cultists defended one of my bases from a pirate scout patrol attack.
At 2156 I have rapid crawler production, the Dawn has been thoroughly hemmed in by a line of bases, the Manifold Nexus is under my control (maybe boy genious shouldn't have showed me where it is!), I'm running wealth only, as Cha Clueless Dawn is in a pact with me, and I'd rather keep it that way until I feel the need to make him donate the Virtual World to my cause.
I forsee no serious problems, the PTS will probably be my first SP, but the Dawn pratically built the Virtual World for me. My strategy will probably be to conquer the Cult fairly soon and make them surrender, then donate the bases of other factions to them while I build up my homeland. The agrohippies are helping keep the dawn contained, and I'll probably conquer them and hand their bases over to dawn, prehaps making them submissive also. That's the plan anyway.
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Illuminatus
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Salvaging Unity Fusion Core
Jul 2003
time: 06:37
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Certainly interesting scenario.  I believe the key to winning the scenario is popping pods. I've sent probe teams to unity foils and ferried them across land where they popped pods with remarkably good results. As new bases grew slowly, I had them build several new PT for exploration which also explored a good portion of Planet and popped a dozen pods before falling prey to NL.
One of PTs ferried east encountered Cultist pod, which was successfully subverted for 200 credits, but was well worth it as Manifold Nexus is now in my teritory. I have a pact with Cult and trade technologies with them but to maintain pact I had not run FM in early years before IA (which I got in 2124).
I have popped up 15 artifacts by now (MY 2133), of which 11 were not destroyed by NL. I've used 6 of them to build PTS in 2125  , only a year after I discovered IA. I used one to speed Weather Paradigm, and payed out the rest recently with EC (had to help myself by taking a loan from Cult :scared . Four of them are active, but pretty far away, and foil is needed to transport safely three of them. Since I lost one to IoD it will take some time until they reach my teritory. If I haven't lost four of them to NL perhaps I could have saved money on building the TWP which I could use right now to hurry CPs in all bases.
I have pact with Cult, I have Agrians comm frequency, but since they show up as seething I avoid communication with them. A turn ago, I saw a fight between a MW and their CP which they lost. Surprisingly, their CP was about ten squares from my outer reaches, so I am worried a bit about eventual contact. Also, Cult also seems to send most of his CP westwards, thus denying my teritory. I attempted to buy one Cult base which is dangerously close to my teritory but the little brat asked for over 1000 ECs. We remain pacted, mostly due to me agreeing to any trade they suggest.
I've lost most of scouts by now, and most of them are escorting AA to shore. Hive has discovered SotHB (  ), and built HGP. It seems that it will soon finish Command Nexus too, beating Pirates. Strangely enough, no one is even attempting to build WW. Deirdre is building CDF. Due to PTS I presume I can match AI grow in future (17 bases now), but I spent almost all of my cash reserves and they are needed now to hurry CPs and RecTanks. When I get 4 AA back (hopefully without NL interference) I could perhaps build WW (if no one builds it) or CDF (since Cha Dawn is researching II). I will need to do something with Cult too, since its base is only 5-10 squares away from almost all of my western bases.
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Cataphract887
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conquest win 3 moves into turn 2251,reloaded the same save and transcended at 2241. am on orginal smac and played it yesterday(first smac game in ages).i finished tech advances by 2230 with 12000+ sci per turn (2 techs\turn),i got screwed up by the fact that smac golden ages dont pop boom,which i totaly forgot 
i just used singularityL hover tanks with drop pods and finished everyone off in 20 turns or so...the hive added 10+ turns to this,i had to rush dozens of gravships on site(the hive homeland) to conquer them. used Sing busters,3 on hive,1 on pirates homeland(had nowhere that wasnt protected by aerospace to drop on)
i wonder if the smac versian isnt easier somehow,i got ALL SP except for four(of which only maritime was usefull). i never lost a base,and never built any defensive units even(constant FM).it might have been harder if they actually attacked me,but i was pacted with pirates+agrians=safe?
and i can upload my saves later,but im at my cousins house and unbeleivably we have no internet at home ATM(thats why i havnt been on lately)
do i get fastest win award? 
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Flubber
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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:37
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Originally posted by Cataphract887
conquest win i wonder if the smac versian isnt easier somehow, |
Perhaps-- well the tech tree will be different with a ton of different SPs available but I don't know if that would make it that much quicker
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Flubber
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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:37
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Originally posted by Chaos Theory
I suppose this one was a bit too easy. I'll make amends soon enough. |
Well I do know I played it far too safely in retospect. When I play a scenario on the first go through, I just play to win which means I am pretty conservative. If I played it now, knowing the layout of the factions I could have speeded development by ignoring military longer.
I don't know that it was "too easy", but it was defintely possible to build and pretty much ignore the other factions
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13-07-2005 20:08
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Might be quicker then transcend.
. I did manage to get almost all midgame and lategame projects (I lost HSA and DT to AI however). Most of AIs were busy building missiles and needles.
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