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[GlyphGryph]

4 cities, a handful of formers, and a nice large army.

I'm feeling pretty good, so far.

[10ebbor10]

Ok, make sure you're around in three years when this game is over.

Sorry, should have read the thread better. I will stick around, though.

If you want to, I suppose you can take over The University. Having serious trouble currently to update in time, something which is not likely to improve in the near future.

[tahujdt]

Ok, make sure you're around in three years when this game is over.

Sorry, should have read the thread better. I will stick around, though.

If you want to, I suppose you can take over The University. Having serious trouble currently to update in time, something which is not likely to improve in the near future.

My favorite faction. I would sure like to. Is that ok with everyone else?

[PTTG??]

If Ebbor's OK with it, I don't see why not.

[Twiggie]

University is pretty much every new player's favourite faction, they're the least balanced of all the starting 7, thanks to the importance of tech and nigh-irrelevance of drones. The gaians come a close second in being overpowered, thanks to that lovely efficiency increase. Then spartans and un are tied I think, followed by hive (tech penalty), with morgan (tech/energy bonus but harsh pop and support limitations) and finally the believers (massive tech penalty) bringing up the rear. The gaps are hardly equal though, and they are more exagerrated at the outliers (Uni and Believers).

Wasn't planning on writing all that, but mh

[PTTG??]

One of my best games was as the believers. I did end up in a food-rich region and ended up population exploding, so there's that.

[mastahcheese]

University is pretty much every new player's favourite faction, they're the least balanced of all the starting 7, thanks to the importance of tech and nigh-irrelevance of drones. The gaians come a close second in being overpowered, thanks to that lovely efficiency increase.

Back when I had this game when I was a kid, my brother would always choose the university for the tech boost, and I started as the Hive, and never really did that well. But then when I discoved the Gaians, I was able to make ludicrus use of their ability to capture mind worms, and after I figured out that you can change your civics (or whatever they're called), and then focus it all on being as green and tree-hugging as possible, than the chances of mind worm capture actually increases. Just keep a few plots of fungus a bit away from your base, and have high-level units stay on patrol = free units. The looks on my brothers face face when he soaks countless hours upgrading his weapons and armors, only to be assualted by psychic damage. I never even realized they got an efficiency boost.

[GlyphGryph]

My favorite faction. I would sure like to. Is that ok with everyone else?

Just as a note, the University is currently my good friends.

[tahujdt]

Reading the rules and I find this:

No using the design workshop

I assume that means 'Super Singularity Gravship Probability Fungicidal Formers' are out?

Whenever I take over the world, I have an army of those continually clearing fungus and raising ground. Also, I bug-exploit to get a borehole on every uranium flats square, is that out too?

[Twiggie]

bug exploiting is out, yes. using the workshop is fine as long as you don't reverse-engineer to make units that you shouldn't have access to - if you have all the pieces visible in the workshop (under their respective tabs), you can build it.

the main example is that you cant use PlanNet to make rovers.

[10ebbor10]

So, what do you prefer. Me playing a last turn, me sending on the safe to the new guy, or me doing nothing at all and you sorting stuff out.

[Karlito]

I'd say, if you want to play one last turn, go ahead.

[Twiggie]

Well, looks like we're still on ebbor's turn, so, tahujdt, if you wanna pm me your email I'll forward you the save and password.

[PTTG??]

Well, let's have SOMEBODY play the turn. That would be ideal.

[Twiggie]

yeah i'll send the email when i get back to my pc.