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Anun Ik Oba
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Grace of God
Sep 1999
time: 00:14
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Here is the current roster for this AX succession game:
Anunikoba (koba@home.com)
Scipio (brperry@pacbell.net)
Commodore (jbgibson@arilion.com)
johndmuller (JohnDMuller@msn.com)
Tau Ceti (tauc@hotmail.com)
Walt (?? still need this one)
SITS (tony@tlafave.demon.co.uk)
Play 20 turns- complete your 20th turn but do not hit the 'end turn' button. Save the game at that point, zip it, and send it to the next player in line. Then post here the fact that you are done, and the game has moved onwards.
The settings are medium everything, with all conquests active, directed research, etc., Lal, thinker (for the drones). We are playing against the original factions on a standard map.
Also, as far as certain game exploits are concerened (reverse engineering, base trading, what have you) I don't have a problem with us utilizing these. Just as long as you don't do something crazy (break out the map editor), I will have no objections with the use of the 'STANDARD' exploits. But you guys decide.
If you can not play your turns (for whatever reasons), just let us know and we will skip you in the line of succession until you are able to play once again.
Good luck!
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Scipio Centaurus
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2140 to The Commodore
Last edited by Scipio Centaurus on 17-07-2001 at 08:53
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Scipio Centaurus
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I went ahead and sent the 2140 SAV file to johndmuller and The Commodore. Maybe johndmuller can go ahead and play 2141-2160 ahead of time, just in case The Commodore can't get the turn to work on his machine by wednesday evening. But if Commodore gets the turn out, JDM could just discard the 2140 SAV file and play the 2161-80 turns instead.
Hopefully something can be worked out...
- Scipio
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Walt
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Louisville, KY, USA
Jan 2001
time: 05:14
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I left my email address in the old thread in the general board, and I think Tau has it anyway, but just in case, I can be reached at
wschellin@yahoo.com
- Walt
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Walt
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Louisville, KY, USA
Jan 2001
time: 05:14
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I've just played four turns, and I have a few questions.
One: since we've completed over 100 Mission Years, am I playing 20 turns, or just 10?
Two: I'm in a position to build a SP or two (or three). Are we playing with the crawler upgrade trick, or not? I don't generally play with it, but if everyone else wants to, I suppose I could...
Third: Just FYI, I couldn't keep Zak's last remaining base on the continent without waiting for him to repopulate it, so I just killed it and expanded our borders. He still has the single sea base...
Tree Farms are growing all over, we've switched to a Wealth-motivated economy, and I'm starting to crank out formers.
I should finish up today or tomorrow and send it on...
Walt
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Scipio Centaurus
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quote:
Originally posted by Walt
I've just played four turns, and I have a few questions.
One: since we've completed over 100 Mission Years, am I playing 20 turns, or just 10? |
OK, since no one else answered I'll bite. Depends on whether you think 20 turns is too much for an evening of play. I think the point of the succession format is to allow each player to play a comfortable amount of turns in a single session and then pass off to the next player. Up to you in other words.
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Two: I'm in a position to build a SP or two (or three). Are we playing with the crawler upgrade trick, or not? I don't generally play with it, but if everyone else wants to, I suppose I could... |
Again up to you. See Anunikoba's first message in this thread...
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Third: Just FYI, I couldn't keep Zak's last remaining base on the continent without waiting for him to repopulate it, so I just killed it and expanded our borders. He still has the single sea base... |
Hope he's up for some cutting edge research on marine exobiology? 
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Tree Farms are growing all over, we've switched to a Wealth-motivated economy, and I'm starting to crank out formers.
I should finish up today or tomorrow and send it on...
Walt |
Sound like the game'll be over by the time it reaches me again!
- Scipio
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Anun Ik Oba
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Grace of God
Sep 1999
time: 00:14
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Smack- I didn't start this as an ironman game. Since we are not in competition with each other, I felt there was no need.
As far as the current turn lengths are concerned- if you don't want to play 20 turns, then don't; just pass the game along, stating that you decided not to play a full twenty. However, do not play more than 20, even if a player before you decided to short change him/herself, UNLESS they explicitly let you have their turns. In that event, just let us know what has transpired, and all will be well.
When I see the game again, I will see how big our civ has become, and make a suggestion on shortening the turns thereafter.
<--- Paul Shaffer?
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Walt
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Louisville, KY, USA
Jan 2001
time: 05:14
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Sounds good. I did in fact play 20 turns. It didn't seem like too much. Managed to complete the PTS, the Energy Grid, and the Thing-that-Gives-You-Perimeter-Defenses. The Ascetic Virtues is set to complete at the beginning of 2221. I elected not to use the upgrade trick.
It's 2221, and we still haven't pop boomed. I'll leave that for someone else. Turn to SITS shortly.
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Tau Ceti
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Kyoto, Japan
Nov 1999
time: 14:14
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quote:
Originally posted by The Commodore
Did you manage to make him a pet, or what?
And here I was thinking it was to late for a rover rush... |
It almost was, especially as we did not have even Applied Physics yet at the start and he had a Perimeter Defense in University Base. But as he defended it with two scout rovers and one recon rover, it looked takable. So I went straight for Impact weapons and built a couple of probes - he was just too tempting a target with a large empire, on our continent, with 6 or more techs we did not have.
About two turns before I had originally intended to attack, he left UB completely undefended. That was an offer I could not resist. After that he went quickly downhill (though I had to sabotage every facility in one other city to get the Perimeter Defense there, and bought a couple of other cities). The war was over in 9 turns. He refused to surrender, though.
One event that helped immensely was Deirdre's building of the Empath Guild, followed immediately by our being elected Governor. Got probably 8 new techs and two pacts in the trading sessions afterwards.
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Anun Ik Oba
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Grace of God
Sep 1999
time: 00:14
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Just sent out AXS001 turn 2260. Would have sent it sooner, but my ISP was down.
Here is an update of what I have done:
Tsiolkovsky Institute has been used as a military depot. Even though I have established peace with both Deirdre and Yang, I have built many grounds units, and have them standing by for transport.
Yang is a problem, but not now. Deirdre offered us a truce after I reclaimed Velvetgrass Point (wise decision on her part).
I had started building an energy park in the northwest quadrant of our mainland. All that was done was some fungus clearing and some land raising. There is also some nutrient rich land in that area, which would be good for crawler farms.
Pacted with Morgan. He is too weak to be a threat, so I figured I would just leave him alone.
The jungle is open, and ready for colonization to the south of our mainland.
CIU- Counter Intelligence Unit (infantry chassis Probe unit for probe defense actions; just in case you were wondering).
Built up a small navy, since we have the maritime controller, and many of our enemy's bases are in the sea.
Needljets are scattered throughout the world for patrols and fast/first strike capability.
Besides these, our empire is a prosperous in all ways- good job everyone involved! Next time, though, I think we shall go with Transcend difficulty, to make it more challenging. 
And, I think it is time that we consider shortening the number of turns we each take. 20 turns is a lot of work at this stage of the game. And besides that, I would like to at least see the game once more before it is over!
I suggest 12 turns for now.
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Walt
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Louisville, KY, USA
Jan 2001
time: 05:14
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Might I suggest that we send every turn iteration to all players, just so everyone can see how we're doing, not necessarily to play it?
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Scipio Centaurus
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12 turns played and game turn 2272 sent on to The Commodore.
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My! How our fledgling empire has grown.
Sent some war 'materials' south from Loaves & Fishes (renamed U.N. Seabase #3) to pay a social call on Sister Miriam at He Walks on Water... Ran into some Gaian units on R&R there, and since we had a truce with the Tree Lady I decided not to complete the conquest. Meanwhile, Brother Yang of the Hive took advantage of our troop deployment from U.N. Seabase #3 to launch a sneak attack and managed to capture the base. However, I liberated our beautiful sea outpost from this maniacal despot the very next turn. (I do not regard U.N. Seabase #3 as defensible against determined opposition, but I did not see that during my most recent administration).
Had a lovely chat with Dierdre about this same time and persuaded her to renew our truce by gifting her with Silksteel Armor technology. Tried to arrange a treaty with her, but was unwilling to pay her bribe - Pre-Sentient Algorithms. The very next year she launched a surprise attack at Velvetgrass (renamed U.N. Exploitation Agency). The attack failed and we still hold that (indefensible) outpost. Noticed some green air units moving into a blue base about this time - though I did not catch any message about an agreement to combine forces against us.
We had plenty of ECs saved up so I switched us to Dem/Planned/Power for rapid pop growth and a better war footing.
A couple of years later Santiago launched a surprise attack at U.N. Seabase #3, so we are now at vendetta with everyone except out dear Pact Brothers Zak and Morgan - who BTW, have generously pledged their support to us in our war efforts!
Energy park development proceeding apace with several tiles at max altitude and a couple of crawlers already suckling at the solar collectors.
Got into a 4 way race for the HSA and paid 820 ec at U.N. Headquarters to ensure our victory. Diedre was pounding U.N. Exploitation Agency with probes on an annual basis. Decided not to use crawlers to buy the SP... So natuarally about a dozen Locust swarms flew in from nowhere, destroyed a couple of crawlers and completely emptied U.N. Headquarters. Luckily there were no Locust swarms left to invade the base. I managed to restock the garrisons and save our HQ from depopulation. Curiously, the Locust attacks happened right after I brought the SP to within 1 year of completion, so if the base had lost population the SP might not have been completed. The Hive had 16 years to go for the HSA and over 4000 ec... probably enough to rush build it - which was exactly why I rush built it first.
I was working on a long term plan to beef up our frontier garrisons - a Chaos Tactical NJ (Chopper when we get MMI), Trance (maybe empath would be better?) Chaos Skimship and AAA Silksteel Sentinels assigned to every frontier outpost w/ the NJ and gunboat on alert. We should also place several tactical air units on alert near our energy park, because Locusts and enemy penetrators seems to thrive on crawlers.
One base is working up a conventional missile design. AAA Silksteel Sentinels and Trance Chaos Skimships are already built. I don't think there are any other units that need to be prototyped. Didn't design a PB, but that deficiency could be corrected at any time. ;> It would be wise to get some Orbital Defense Pods launched ASAP, as most of our opponents have access to PBs by now.
We just acquired fusion, but the others won't be far behind.
We could stand to put some more coastal seabases in a ring around our main continent. Closely spaced seabases (overlapping production zones) cut down on a lot of nonsense with enemy troops landing by transport and wreaking havoc on the countryside.
U.N. Commerce Commitee has been on infinite rover production with units being passed off to other random bases for support and then released on full auto-pilot. Might be a good idea to grab some of these and assign 'em to coastal patrol duty, especially on the west end of our main landmass.
Several bases have pop boomed near the end of my turn and most core bases now have Hab Complexes. I also placed Pressure Domes in many bases in case our cruel exploitation of Planet's resources triggers biblical flooding.
I glimpsed a green unit attacking a blue unit right near the end of my administration.
A volcano erupted circa 2268 extending the western end of the central landmass - and making it difficult for us to provide naval reinforcement at U.N. Seabase #3, BTW.
If our opponents continue their timid bahaviour it might be OK to switch back to wealth accumulation to take advantage of our 2 Pacts.
Zak and Morgan may have finally completed their latest techs so courtesy calls to investigate tech trades may be in order as well. Might be worth our effort to gift these boys with some energy credits from time-to-time just to help out their research rate.
Good luck to my successor!
- Scipio
Last edited by Scipio Centaurus on 26-07-2001 at 01:03
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Walt
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Louisville, KY, USA
Jan 2001
time: 05:14
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FYI: I'll be gone until Wednesday. If the turn gets to me way before then, skip me. If it doesn't reach me 'til Tuesday, though, just send it normally and I'll play it first chance I get when I return.
Ciao, guys. Have a good weekend.
Walt
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16-07-2001 06:32
on my first round when I couldn't find the manual save file at first. If it is there, it might save you an hour or two.
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