Finally checking in. The forums tend to be so slow that I don't have the patience to wait for threads to load sometimes.

Hello.
I am still trying to work out how to play the game.
I will eventually be a casual, part time player ,with low scores at a low level.
I see that some people have already worked out how to achieve maximum scores every time.
If I were to join the metaverse, would low scores drag down your overall efforts?

I came to this thread because there seemed to be more activity here than most places.

So 6th game in. Should make top 25 again. I noticed we slipped a bit in the rankings but no fear there. Our leader almost has all of the orange juice out of pc.

Vulcan2. To us it really isn't about making some one play to 'our ' rule set. The important thing is having fun playing the game. Several of us a hold-overs from various empires of GC I. We all have different play style and strat. that we use to enhance gameplay. Some of us even worked on the beta for this game. You will find that this will be one of the most active threads anywhere in these forums because we like to talk about the games we play. You are certianly most welcome here.

We have another site too. Lots of stuff there. http://www.thegalacticcore.com There is already an active section dedicated to GalCiv I & II, and there will be an additional Empire thread soon.

I just finished game 6 with a conquest victory. Thankfully the Terrans surrendered to bring the game to an end. I just can't see score milking when I can be starting another game.

I think they might have fixed something with the meta submissions in the latest patch... first game that's displayed the right difficulty level for me, and look at the score!!!!

1 Pond Scum 15 Military Conquest 567172 Suicidal Gigantic v1.0X.1 3/9/2006 4:54:03 PM

Sheesh. Still has you as unranked.

Ooooo.... Nice Magnum.

DG... Retired???? Boo! Kill'em all or die trying

What settings did you use for this one?

Was Occasional stars, common planets, common habitable planets, loose clusters, abundant anomalies, normal tech rate, max 9 opponents, culture / tech victories disabled, custom race.

Got a big boost around 3 years from the end, with the all planets within 2 sectors event - got 50 new PQ11 planets out of that.

Got a big boost around 3 years from the end, with the all planets within 2 sectors event - got 50 new PQ11 planets out of that.

I figured that total population plays a big role for the score in the end. Do you have any other hints regarding the scoring - or are they "business secrets"?

I wrote an article about (more or less cheesy) tactics for Suicidal difficulty, your comments or additions would be much appreciated: Link

Still off work with this damn Flu bug

Hmmm... got PC fixed and GC2 re-installed... off work with flu bug...

I can see how that works!

That's right - as long as your pop is below that number, it will grow (up to the absolute maximum cap of 100 billion regardless of PQ) - which means that on a PQ9, the max pop is 20 billion, but if its at 19.999 billion and growing at 250 million a week, you will actually get 20.249 billion on the planet.

Not sure how it's handling the displayed PQ being reset at reload - that kind of confuses the issue. I think it remembers the PQ increase from soil enhancement etc in the max pop calculations unless you build the orbital terraformer (or I suppose choose neutral alignment), which seems to throw everything out.

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