Zakharov.....

[Velociryx]

Field Report: Game to 2210

Event Log:
2203: Founded Lab Three
---> Santiago declares me 'fat and weak' and starts a fight.

2204: Tech Advance! Planetary Economics
Global Trade Pact Measure fails (3 for, and 4 against) Ah well.....
3 Hybrid Forests begun

2205: 2 More Hybrid Forests Begun

2206: First casualty of the war. Plasma Defensive Rover lost....I am upgrading the Trance Garrison and one unity rover in that base to plasma armor - also rushing the Creche at the base under attack

Also, founded my 20th base (Academy Park)....the pod sneaked out under fire, slipped down the road past Santiago's forces and built the base....whooo-Hoooo! Switching to Dem....I'm done expanding for a while and it's time to move on to the next phase in the program....

Santiago's next attack sees the loss of her attackers. No enemy forces anywhere inside my borders....prolly more on the way.

2207: 1 Additional Hybrid forest begun. Switching from Market to Planned to the first stage of a two-stage boom. Setting allocations to my usual 40/20/40 for the boom cycle.

2209: Tech Advance - Cyberethics. No changes to SE table at this time (wanting to keep the +2 industry)

Game Stats at 2210:
# of Bases: 20
# of Techs: 26
Game Score: 251

Income = 59 per turn
Techs coming in every 8 turns

Population: (formerly listed as 139, which was my council votes - actual pop = 93)

Currently ranked unsurpassed....significantly ahead of the next nearest competitor (Santiago).

And now....back into the fray!

-=Vel=-

[This message has been edited by Velociryx (edited November 07, 1999).]

[Capt Dizle]

Vel, is that 139 pop or 139 votes?

[Capt Dizle]

Report from the Lt. Colonel:

MY 2200

Writing these reports is a tiresome chore. So are the worms....so far in the game I have lost 12 units to the natives.

Free market time! The base facilities are coming along nicely with the aid of those hard working supply miners.

Dipolmacy: 1 Pacts, 1 Treaties, 1 Vendetta, 1 Truce. (unchanged)

Stats:

# of bases: 19
# of techs: 26
Score: 322
Pop = 87
Income = 140/turn
Techs coming every 5[next breakthrough in 3]
Superstring in 3 turns

Active Units:

14 Formers
17 Clean scout infantry
1 Unity Rovers
4 Mind Worms
3 Sea Formers
1 Colony Pod
5 Clean Formers
25 Crawlers
1 Clean Destroyer Transport
1 Empath Scout Infantry (and yes, I made a kill with it)
2 Clean Sea Formers

Production:

5 Destroyer Probe Teams (guess what I have in mind?)

Secret projects completed:

Human Genome (I wonder if anybody noticed I spelled this wrong-twice)
Empath Guild
Planetary Transit System
Virtual World
Citizen's Defense Force

Working on 1 new secret project

Breakdown of Alpha Centauri Score:

Pop 86
Commerce 85
Tech 26
Secret Projects 125

I am now running Dem/FM/Wealth at 40-10-50

Somebody needs to make a spread sheet and enter all this data for analysis. I am not going to post any more because 1) I have only played to 2204, and 2) I want to give some others a chance to catch up.

Of course, at the rate Vel is playing and writing reports, he will transcend before morning.

He better, it might be the only way he can claim to have "transcended before jimmytrick"



ps. Vel, next time you post, why not include a run down of base facilities built. There is a screen that shows that so you won't have to count.
[This message has been edited by jimmytrick (edited November 06, 1999).]

[Velociryx]

My apologies JT....I forgot that my council votes and population were not the same. Soon as I'm done here, I shall go back and edit the population figures in the three affected field reports so that the reflect population, rather than votes....

Now, for the good stuff:

Field Report to 2220:
Event Log:
2211: Finally remembered to upgrade my other unity rover and independed scout to Plasma, with an eye toward moving them down toward the base Santiago went for last time.

2212: Detour. Santiago lands elsewhere in the empire, kills the trance garrison, but cannot take the base (no moves left). Dropping into classic builder defense mode....piling crawlers and formers in the base with an eye toward upgrading the survivors to armored variants next turn. Also did a little garrison shuffling, moving two trance garrisons from nearby bases into the embattled one. (Base Defenses: Two Trance Garrisons, two crawlers, and a former)

2213: Both Trance garrisons killed in action, but they put up a good fight. The attackers are significantly weakened. Both Crawlers and the Former receive Plasma Armor upgrades.

2214: Santiago's attack force beaten by a frenzied, half-crazed (and obviously drunken) Former Driver. The driver was given the UoP Medal of Honor for bravery, and his former dubbed "Peace Frog."

Switching out of planned and back to market to get ready for stage two of the Boom. (Independent units arrive on scene....too late, but at least they're on the coast now).

2215: Got challenged for governorship by Lal (Santiago voted for him....was I surprised? LOL).....My burgeoning population enabled me to win the election despite that.

Tech Advance! Centauri Meditation
Popped a pod and got a Unity Chopper....I am now brandishing it in front of whomever wanders near my coast.

2217: Cashed in my two Plasma Crawlers for their full value to help rush a Hybrid Forest.

2219: Tech Advance: Advanced Subatomic Theory.

Game Stats at 2220:
# of Bases: Holding at 20, but will be expanding again soon.

# of Techs: 28

Income 464 per turn
Techs now coming in 3

Score: 349

Force Total:
18 Formers
2 Scout Patrols
8 Supply Crawlers
1 Unity Chopper
5 Clean Plasma Sentinels
1 Plasma Former ("Peace Frog")
1 Clean Transport
14 Trance Scout Garrisons

No Units currently in production

The Honored Dead:
1 Former
2 Clean Plasma Defense Rovers
1 Clean Sea Former
4 Trance Scout Garrisons

Goal for next segment: To rush build everything needed to begin phase two of the pop-boom.

Oops....forgot....JT - Per your request, here's the list of base facilities I had as of 2220:

12 Children's Creches
20 Recycling Tanks
1 Perimeter Defense
12 Recreation Commons
11 Energy Banks
20 Network Nodes
11 Hybrid Forests
8 Research Hospitals
2 Hab Complexes

-=Vel=-



[This message has been edited by Velociryx (edited November 07, 1999).]

[AnnC]

Report from Ann the Academic:

2160 Stats:

14 bases, 1 colony pod
Pop: 25
Income: 16/yr
Score: 63

13 techs (1 from a datapod, 1 from artifact)
Now researching Environmental Econ, next breakthrough 6 yrs
Tech cost = 433, Tech/turn = 48

Security Nexus:
13 Formers
9 Trance Scouts
2 Unity rovers

Production:
3 Colony pods
1 Former

Human Genome Project complete. Highest overall, regained highest tech rank because of artifact. Contact with two factions: Believers, treaty; Spartans, vendetta (their idea, not mine).

I'm way behind here - I've got 40 turns to play before I even come close to catching up.

[Velociryx]

Field Report - The game at the end of Mission Year 2230

We're cruising along quite nicely now.....done with most of the essentials, and building defensive stuff now (Perimeter Defenses, Aerospace Complexes....gonna bulk up my garrisons and such until Fusion Labs....which should not be long now)

Event Log:

2222: Tech Advance! Silksteel Alloys

2225: Tech Advance! Follsil Fuels

2227: Tech Advance! Air Power

2230: Tech Advance! Mind/Machine Interface

# of bases - holding at 20, prepping a few new sites now.

# of techs = 32

Income: 562 per turn
Techs every three turns
Game Score: 402
Population: (correctly listed, this time ): 149

Active Forces:
18 Formers
2 Scout Patrols
8 Supply Crawlers
1 Alien Artifact on my Transport, making his way back to civilization
1 Unity Chopper! (which has done a fine job of killing worms, and is now hardened, despite the fact that I'm running wealth and he started at "very green"
1 Clean Impact Squad
1 Clean Missile Squad
1 Recon (Laser) Rover
1 Clean Plasma Defensive
6 Clean Sea Formers
1 Clean Transport
14 Trance Scout Garrisons
and, last but not least:
"Peace Frog"

No units currently in production

The Honored Dead:
1 Former
2 Clean Plasma Defensives
2 Clean Sea Formers (Santiago's really starting to get on my nerves with that)
4 Trance Scout Garrisons


Facilities at my bases at the end of this segment:
20 Children's Creches
20 Recycling Tanks
5 Perimeter Defenses
20 Recreation commons
16 Energy Banks
20 Network Nodes
7 Biolabs
20 Tree Farms
20 Hybrid Forests
13 Research Hospitals
20 Hab-Complexes

Everything is in place to do part two of the Pop-Boom....all that remains is to hit the switch.....could have started it already, but I was giving my formers a little more time to do some more planting before hitting the Nitro switch again.....but, starting in 2231, I'm gonna see how big the bases can get....

-=Vel=-

[Capt Dizle]

Well, I could not resist one more post. Since Vel started this thread with a 2207 report, I just have to bring "you guys" a least part of the way up to date with my 2207.

I have had a very good seven years in the new century.

Finished the Maritime Control Center and a pack of Destroyer Probe Teams. Traded for a couple of techs that Lal stole from Yang.

Then I ripped the Hive off for SFF, and took AMA and HEC from the Spartans. I think I am at 33 techs or so.

And then I rush built the Ascetic Virtues SP.

This is getting interesting.

[AnnC]

There you go again.

[AnnC]

Report from Ann the Academic:

2170 Stats:

15 bases, 3 colony pod
Pop: 38
Income: 45/yr
Score: 78

15 techs (1 from a datapod, 1 from artifact)
Now researching Industrial Auto, next breakthrough 1 yrs
Tech cost = 578, Tech/turn = 124.8

Security Nexus:
15 Formers
14 Trance Scout
2 Unity rovers

Production:
1 Trance Scout

Highest tech and pop ranks, Deirdre is highest overall. Contact with three factions: Believers, treaty; Spartans, vendetta (their idea); Gaians, vendetta (their idea).

Time to call it a night.

Starting in 2185, the micromanagement bacame tiresome. Right now i'm wrapping up 2199, and will post 2200 stats verboosely. Looking promising

2140
7 cities/ 10 pop
8 techs / breakthru in 7
1 contact

2170
12 cities/ 47 pop
20 tech / breakthru in 6
Lal is governor
3 SP complete

2190
20 cities/ 85 pop
26 tech/ breakthru in 4
Flo is gov'
5 SP complete

[Capt Dizle]

It looks like Flo has raised the bar and AnnC has a great game going. I wonder if there is a record for fastest transcend on a huge map?

I am going back to bed.

[Velociryx]

Field Report: Game to 2240:

War....

2231: Deirdre joins forces with Santiago to stand against me. Miriam launches a surpirse attack as well.....three on one at present....::yawn::

2232: Neural Amp Complete.....Bring it on, Deirdre....Looked at Diplomacy screen to find that Lal too, decided to party.....make that four on one....so much for my commerce income....

2234: Tech Advance! Doctrine: Initiatiive

2235: Cyborg Factory Complete....even with Wealth, the troopers I'm cranking out are pretty doggone good.

2237: Tech Advance!: Optical Computers
Boom complete. Dropping back to Market.

2239: Tech Advance: Superconductor

Game Stats:
# of Bases: 20
# of techs: 36
Income: 578 per turn
Techs in 2
Population: (forgot to get - Will add later)
Score: (forgot to get - Will add later)

Force Totals:
18 Formers
2 Scout Patrols
1 Unity Chopper
1 Probe Team
1 Clean Missile Rover
1 Clean Sea Former
2 Clean Missile Shock Troops
7 Trained Silksteel Garrisons
14 Trance Scout Garrisons

In Production:
1 Trained Gun Needlejet
1 Trained Gun 'Copter
3 Trained Silksteel Garrisons
2 Probe Teams

The Honored Dead:
1 Former
4 Trance Scout Garrisons
7 Clean Sea Formers
1 Clean Missile Rover
1 Trained Gun Needlejet (???) - Have not built one yet, but it says I've got a dead one....

&&&

Field Report: Game to 2250:
Preparations continue

2241: Tech Advance: Applied Relativity
Project Complete: The Longevity Vaccine

2241: Trade Pact Measure passes (now that I'm not getting any commerce)
Beginning military upgrade

2243: Tech Advance: Advanced Military Algorithims

2247: Tech Advance: Fusion Power

2249: Tech Advance: Orbital Space Flight

2250: Ten Fusion Labs completed thus far.

Game Stats:
# of Bases: 20
Income: 616 per turn
Techs in 3
# of Techs = 41
Population: 259
Score: 526

Field Report: Game to 2260 (Actually, I was in the middle of a fight and forgot to save until the start of 2261)

Vel - The Warmonger.....

2251: First Sat. Launch....peekaboo....Planning my assault and rushing a couple of punishment spheres. Morgan gets in on the action.....

2252: Tech Advance: Organic Superlube

2253: Base Capture!: Belly O' The Whale (Believing)
Founded: Pavlov Biolab

2254: Tech Advance: Advanced Space Flight
Base Capture: Morgan Hydrochemical (Morganic)

2255: Founded Korlev Center. Also gave two formers in an embattled area the "Super Frog" upgrade (trance, silksteel)

2256: Tech Advance: Monopole Magnets
Founded: Lomonosov Park
Base Capture: Loaves and Fishes (Believing)

2257: Base Capture: Morgan Ocean Resources (Morganic)

2258: Political shennanigans. Deirdre calls for a general election and my only remaining ally (Yang, believe it or not) abstains the vote. Everyone else votes for Deirdre and they still do not have the votes to unseat me. Zakharov retained.

Game Stats:
# of Bases: 31
# of Techs: 45
Income : 781 per turn
Techis every 3 turns

Game Score: 604
Population: 303

Unsurpassed in every category.

Active Forces:
14 Formers
1 Clean Missile Dragon
1 Clean Chaos Interceptor
15 Clean AAA Chaos Shock Troopers
5 AAA Chaos Squads
23 Clean silksteel Garrisons
1 Clean Sea Former
1 AAA Silksteel Cutter
1 Trained Chaos Needlejet
7 AAA Chaos Cruisers
1 Trance Silksteel Garrison
10 Fusion Cruiser Probe Teams
9 AAA Silksteel Sentinels (Sea base guards)
8 Trained Chaos 'Copters
1 Shard Infantry
1 Cruiser Transport

[ProvostB]

i transcended in 2261 on a huge map....

[AnnC]

Report from Ann the Academic:

2180 Stats:

18 bases
Pop: 55
Income: 94/yr
Score: 107

20 techs (most of the new ones acquired by trading)
Tech cost = 1010, Tech/turn = 204
researching Doc:Initiative, next breakthrough 1 yrs

Security Nexus:
18 Formers
18 Trance Scouts
5 Supply crawlers
2 Unity rovers

Production:
supply crawlers, infrastructure, SP

Virtual World to be complete in 4 yrs. Highest overall with top tech, pop, and territory ranks. Contact with all factions: Gaians, vendetta (their idea); Hive, truce; Morgan, pact; Spartans, vendetta (their idea); Believers, treaty; Peacekeepers, treaty.

[AnnC]

Report from Ann the Academic:

2190 Stats:

19 bases
Pop: 69
Income: 103/yr
Score: 149

24 techs (stopped keeping track of how they were acquired)
Tech cost = 1221, Tech/turn = 289.2
researching Synth Fossil Fuels, next breakthrough 4 yrs

Security Nexus:
18 Formers
15 Trance scouts
3 Clean trance scouts
13 Supply crawlers
2 Trance plasma cutters
2 Trance destroyer transports
2 Unity rovers
1 Unity foil
2 Artifacts

Production:
3 Destroyer probe teams
1 Clean trance scout
supply crawlers, infrastructure, SPs

Virtual World complete. Highest overall with top tech, pop, and territory ranks. Contact with all factions: Gaians, vendetta (their idea); Hive, truce; Morgan, pact; Spartans, vendetta (their idea); Believers, treaty; Peacekeepers, treaty.

[Velociryx]

Well, my beauitful Builder game has degenerated into a mop-up....::sigh:: Ah well.....

Since everyone decided to stand against me (except for Yang, who has been very silent since I began my manuvers), I decided to see just how much trouble I could cause for them....

Also, I noted that my base count was off in the last segment, and that is because I forgot to mention the capture of a pair of Santiago's sea bases....don't even know what year I got them in.....when I get into the war makin' aspect, I sometimes forget myself....LOL

Event Log: Game to 2270
2261: Tech Advance: Nanominiturization
Captured Morgan Studios (Morganic)
Captured Morgan Intersteller (Morganic)
Captured Deirdre's fishery (Gaian)
Captured Port Grace (Believing)

Project Complete: Supercollider

2262: Tech Advance: Advanced Ecological Engineering

Captured Consecrated Waters (Believing)
Captured Fisher of Men (Believing)
Captured Hommel's Citidel (Mainland Spartan)

2263: Captured Water Garden (Gaian)
Captured Sea Outpost (Spartan)

2264: Tech Advance: Industrial Nanorobotics
Captured Water to Wine (Believing)
Captured Garden of the Deep(Gaian)
Captured The Lord's Mercy (Believing)

2266: Project Complete: The Theory of Everything
Tech Advance: Digital Sentience (Adding Cybernetic to the SE Mix) (Now Running Dem/Market/Wealth/Cybernetic) - 50/50 spread

Founded Nadezjda Hope

2267: Tech Advance: Sentient Econometrics

Founded Cosmograd
Founded Library of Planet
Capture Great Zion (Believing)

2268: Tech Advance: Self Aware Machines

2269: Tech advance: Frictionless Surfaces

Founded Buran Prospect
Captured Morgan Transport (Morganic)

2270: Communications are restored (I didn't even realize they were off....shows you how absorbed I get....LOL) ....Morgan contacts me and submits. I contact Santiago, but she still wants to fight. Planning to take another Believing base or two then try with her.....

Game Stats:
# of Bases: 44
# of Techs: 53
Income: 375 per turn
Techs coming in every turn now.

Population: 423
Game Score: 914

Active Units:
Too damnned many to count in any reasonable amount of time....LOL

More later....

-=Vel=-
PS....forgot to mention that when Morgan submitted, I gave back all but two of the bases that I took from him. Kept two so I could maintain a presence on his starting continent....just in case.....
-V.
[This message has been edited by Velociryx (edited November 07, 1999).]

[Capt Dizle]

No time to make a major report or even play.

38 techs in 2120 and the Gaians have declared war. I'll get MMI next turn and cash an artifact to keep Deirdre from getting it. That will be 40 techs, 3 from artifacts and one from a pod. Building fusion labs.

jimmytrick out

ps. I am definitely over my head at this point. Normally I go for the kill not this transcendence baloney, so I am making this up as I go. I guess I'll have to figure out the punishment sphere trick.

I keep giving my tech away as fast as possible but it is hard to help the A non I keep up. Nothing to steal!!!!!!

My fastest transcend on a huge map was after 2300. That's not going to do it.

[AnnC]

Report from Ann the Academic:

2200 Stats:

20 bases, 1 colony pod
Pop: 82
Income: 120/yr
Score: 193

26 techs (some researched, some traded, some stolen)
Tech cost = 1478, Tech/turn = 357.6
researching MMI, next breakthrough 3 yrs

Security Nexus:
19 Formers
10 Trance scouts
11 Clean trance scouts
1 Impact infantry
5 Probe teams
23 Supply crawlers
2 Trance plasma cutters
3 Destroyer probe teams
4 Trance destroyer transports
2 Unity rovers
1 Unity foil
2 Artifacts

Production:
2 Destroyer probe teams
3 Destroyer transports
2 Prove teams
1 Clean trance scout
1 Fungicidal former
supply crawlers, infrastructure, SPs

Human Genome, Virtual World, Maritime Control Center complete. Highest overall with top tech, pop, and territory ranks. Contact with all factions: Gaians, vendetta (their idea); Hive, truce; Morgan, pact; Spartans, vendetta (their idea); Believers, treaty; Peacekeepers, treaty.

Report from Rektor Flo (shamelessly stolemn from Lt. Colonel, cause its such a pain to type):

MY 2200


Diplomacy: 3 Pacts, 2 Treaties, 1 Truce. (unchanged)
Gov: Rektor Flo, global trade pact

Stats:

# of bases: 22
# of techs: 31
Score: 727
Pop = 147
Income = 753/turn, maintainancde -101
Techs coming every 3 ; 720 techs/turn
Applied relativity in 3 turns

Active Units:

17 clean Formers
3 clean scout infantry
1 trance scout infantry
4 scour skirmisher
2 alien artifacts
1 unity Rovers
4 trance plasma sentinel
3 trance synthmetal sentinel
1 synthmetal garrison
1 scout rover
6 Sea Formers
2 Colony Pod
8 Crawlers
1 skirmship supply
1 trance plasma hoverboat
1 Missile infantry
6 Missile Rovers
4 scout patrol

Secret projects completed:

Weather Paradigm
Merchant Exchange
Command Nexus
Virtual World
Citizen's Defense Force
Neural Amplifier
Ascetic Viutues
Longevity Vaccine

Working on 2 new secret project

Breakdown of Alpha Centauri Score:

Pop 188
Commerce 308
Tech 31
Secret Projects 200

I am now running Dem/FM/Wealth at 50-0-50

2210:

diplomacy went down the drain. Vendetta with all 3 girlie factions. 2p acts and a treaty with the guys.

23 bases/ 195 pop
38 tech, output 1274.4
9 SP

2220:

getting in techs every year now at 80% research :
28 bases/ 256 pop
47 tech
11 SP

2225:
is waiting for my workday to finish (as if i had started yet . Exciting turn.
Miriam is not a hugre threat, but has basically her whole army on my continent. Her tech 12-3*2-inf and 12-<1>*2-9 interceptors. Launched a surprise attack, and i don't have enough military to make it a quick campaign.

The good thing: 51 techs, 1 next turn, + 2 from the universal translator in 2226. Captured an artifact from Miri, too

27 bases/ 305 pop
researching about 4000 points at 60%

ETA for transcendence: 2245, unless the HQ gets busted before

[Velociryx]

WOW.....Methinks Flo will put us all to shame.....GREAT game sir!!

I have gone back and analyzed where my game went astray, and I've pinpointed a couple of areas....room for improvement.

The three things Vel did wrong in his game:
1) Did not make aggressive use of probe teams. I found myself in something of a diplomatic catch-22 here. Everybody wanted to play nice and sign treaties in the early game, and I was unwilling to risk the commerce income for the short term game of tech....thus, I had to do most of my own research (the exception being the trades made immediately after getting the Empath Guild...after that, I was refused trades at every turn...)

2) No boreholes. Primarily, I was doing this out of curiosity. Normally, I build at least one per base, and even that would have had a profound impact on total research generated, but....(and now I know why curiosity killed the cat).

3) A wierd beeline. I've been experimenting with a "hybrid" beeline which enables me to pull down combat techs in tandem with the typical builder stuff....it didn't work so well...LOL

All in all, I'd say I'm having a decent game tho....nothing to set the world on fire, and it certainly won't win the prize....I've already played beyond Meister Flo's estimated Transcend time, and he got to techs in 1 VERY quickly! (which I was mightily impressed with!).

Will try to finish my game tonight, and duly post the results....

-=Vel=-

[Akron]

University of Planet under The Great Akron
Mission Log Summary (Planetfall to 2140):

2102: University Base founded!

2103: Baikonur founded!

2107: Breakthrough! Biogenetics discovered! First research breakthrough on Planet!
Information on Industrial Base found in the Unity Wreckage on the outskirts of University Base!

2110: Scout Patrol sights what seems to be an area of Unity Wreckage, but investigates only to find it to be an ancient alien artifact! It will now be escorted safely back to Baikonur for further study.
Another investigation further north by a Unity Rover yields a second artifact! Many remain puzzled and held in awe of the coincidental news. Further study on this one to be held in University Base.

2111: Breakthrough! Social Psych discovered!
First encounter with former colleague Sister Miriam, now leader of the Believers. Negotiations held immediately. Peace Treaty signed.

2116: First alien artifact arrives in Baikonur. Colonists are held in awe as it is brought through the city and linked to the Network Node. Scientists examine and study it and make wondrous discoveries on Ethical Calculus!

2118: Further study and examination of the second alien artifact in University Base leads to new discoveries on Planetary Networks!
Social Engineering restructured using recently discovered Planned Economics.

2121: Breakthrough! Discovery of Secrets of the Human Brain stimulates excitement in University Base, leading to discoveries on Gene Splicing!

2122: Relativity School founded!

2123: Zarya-Sunrise founded!

2134: Breakthrough! Knowledge on Industrial Economics refined for life on Planet!

2135: Zoloto-Gold founded!
Negotiations with the Believers held to reform relations. The University does not submit to threats regarding confidential information on Gene Splicing. Believers refuse to trade tech. Negotiations end.

2139: Mir Lab founded!
Drone riots begin at University Base! Special permission to rush Recreation Commons received.

2140: Monitoring Station founded!
Drone riots in University Base end.

End of 2140 Stats:

Well, a satisfactory first forty years, but I haven’t expanded quickly enough. The bases are still quite undeveloped, including the terraforming. Currently, tech progression is at an ugly eleven turns per tech. I’m looking to expand ruthlessly into the surrounding terrain to boost this stat. Since I usually play with Blind Research (challenging, frustrating, and interesting), I also found making a good beeline difficult. That’s right, this is the first time in four months I’m playing this way, so a little research in the datalinks was called for. I have yet to take a conquer tech, instead directing research towards Industrial Automation and then Environmental Economics. Expansion has proved slow as I have partially neglected to rush build and create an energy infrastructure, though in the last ten turns I caught on. Gene Splicing, though, has proved useful in boosting population growth. Anyway, here are the stats:

Rank: #1
Might: Unsurpassed
Tech: #1
All other categories are lead by other factions
Overall: #1
Second Place: Spartans

Diplomatic Status:

Treaty with Miriam

Total Techs: 10
Tech Per Turn: 25.2
Tech Accumulated: 126
Tech Cost: 270
Techs every 11 turns

Energy Reserves: 9
Total Income: 10
Total Maintenance: 0
Total Loan: 0
Net Income: +10/year

# of Bases: 7
Population: 11
Largest Base: University Base (size 3)

Base Facilities:

1 Headquarters
2 Recycling Tanks
7 Network Nodes

No Secret Projects under construction by any faction.

Security Nexus:

1 Colony Pod
6 Formers
4 Scout Patrols

Under Construction:

1 Trance Scout Infantry
1 Former

Units Lost:

1 Scout Patrol
1 Unity Rover (A treasured and valuable piece of equipment built on Earth lost in combat with a mindworm. The last of its kind. Gone.)

Breakdown of Alpha Centauri Score:

Population: 11
Technology: 10

Alpha Centauri Score: 21 (pathetic)

Well, not too bad for the first forty turns.

Looks like everyone else is far ahead of me in turns. And in their 2140 stats. Especially Flo. But how do you get 600 credits per turn by 2100??? Must know! Please give me the save and saves leading up to it! Please!

Anyway, how much time does everyone else spend playing Alpha Centauri? I can only squeeze one to two hours per day into my schedule. So it usually takes me a good week or so to finish a game.

Good Luck to everyone else. Well, now continuing on…

The Akron

[Capt Dizle]

Huh? Whatsa! Yawn.....

Oh, it's The Akron. I was asleep. I wrote a special program to wake me up when someone posts to this thread. Rings a bell.

The answer to your question is no sleep all weekend. I am sure you'll understand if I go ba.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Velociryx]

Final Field Report. Game completed in Mission Year 2287.

(I saved off in 2280, but went ahead and played thru).

Final Score = 1347
Final Pop = 562

(I've got the event log, but mostly it's tech advances (1-3 per year), with a few SP completion notices thrown in....I was able to negotiate favorable peace settlements with the other factions I was warring with (ie, everybody but Yang), but no more slave factions....and, I had hoped to squeeze maybe one tech advance out of Morgan (which is why I gave most of his bases back, but he was not getting techs fast enough, and I finished the game before he could even get one....ah well).

Summary: An average game, esp. in light of Flo's masterful performance!! In fact, I think I'm gonna go back and use my original tech bee-line to see if I can come close to matching it....JT, I'd say, given your last report, that you've got a solid shot at opening up a can of whup....well, you know....hehehe....on me and topping that score.... If you're interested in doing this again tho, I'd certainly like another crack at it....

-=Vel=-
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[Capt Dizle]

My God, I thought I was doing okay. I should not have sent the game to Flo! Wow!

[AnnC]

Report from Ann the Academic:

2210 Stats:

22 bases, 1 colony pod
Pop: 95
Income: 133/yr (net)
Score: 239

33 techs (some researched, some traded, some stolen)
Tech cost = 2217, Tech/turn = 404.4
researching Superconductor, next breakthrough 2 yrs

Security Nexus:
43 Formers
9 Trance scouts
14 Clean trance scouts
1 Impact infantry
1 Trained Impact chopper
12 Probe teams
27 Supply crawlers
2 Trance plasma cutters
2 Destroyer probe teams
5 Trance destroyer transports
2 Unity rovers
2 Unity foil
6 Artifacts

Production:
3 Destroyer probe teams
1 Probe teams
1 Clean trance scout
1 Empath scout rover
1 Clean Chaos chopper
supply crawlers, formers, infrastructure, SPs

Human Genome, Virtual World, Maritime Control Center, Citizen's Defense Force complete. Highest overall with top tech, pop, and territory ranks. Contact with all factions: Gaians, vendetta (their idea); Hive, truce; Morgan, pact; Spartans, truce; Believers, treaty; Peacekeepers, treaty.

[AnnC]

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