*pail*

I knew it !

Yo, I own Draugnar's ULTRAULTIMATE PORTABLE DICTIONARY BFG OVER 9000 now! Quick check: diplomatise - stab, collect things - steal, earn ranks and stuff - masking one's low self-esteem with worthless virtual appraisal. In other words, nothing new. Everyone please stay clear of Sargmacher IRL, he conquers Belle Epoque Europe in his free time and has all the personal traits for being good a t it.

Somebody has already started on the drugs...

yes, thanks zultar *pail*
ummm...I actually don't know what to say to that ulytau

Don't worry about it, jmo.
That's how most people respond to ulytau.

I would preffer if everyone acted as if I didn't post anything, I'm a very shy person and public attention gives me goosebumps. Especially when I'm rushing through zultar's iron ration of crack and related stuff.

I'm in late, but I liked alpha centauri most of the 'civ' franchise. You get to make your own units and such...

and Sarg, the Gaians were the best, and always my fav faction. They got the native lifeforms (worms) early, they upgraded fast, and while they were pathetic on defense, their offensive abilities were unstoppable (especially early in the game).

@Sargmacher - It has ground missions / away teams, and you do progress in rank, collect shoit for your away team and for your ship. You train your captain (you) and crew) NPC "pets" that you control directly or let run indirectly. Your missions can be everythign from combat to collect items to simple "go here and talk to so and so". Pretty much everything in WoW is available in some form in STO.

For teamwork, you can team with other ships in space or build an away team of freind's captains for ground missions. But the nice thing is a well trained crew will let you do the ground missions solo for the most part. You don't have to be on when your friends are to run a mission, but if you are, you all just take your captains with no extra crew and run them.

I will just have to play larger pot games *which I want to do anyway* rather than play for 30-50 like I normally do since the vast majority of multis are under 101. I wish players would play those games though. I really don't get the mentality of playing for anything under 30 anyway in live games. On the civ hijack (I don't really mind) I loved Civ: Call to Power which was like civ on crack in the late 90s and then 3 and 4 also great (Go Persians!!!!) and I was one of the higher ranked players in online Civ Revolution for X Box, in which case it was really only a choice between the Zulus or Greeks.

@Fortknox: Spot on, especially with the making your own units aspect. I don't know why they didn't carry that forward with the new Civ games. Alpha Centauri had some create ideas.

I wasted far too many hours on alpha centauri. The University was my favourite faction, although I did have a soft spot for the Morganites as they always seemed to be competing with the Believers to be the first to go. The designing units aspect was great, until you figured out one that was cheap and highly effective that made winning too easy. Did anyone else find that the bad guys seemed to be able to nuke you from anywhere despite minor details such as missle range?

When it comes to designing your own units, nothing beats Aurora, a 4X game so hardcore that setting it up properly is a full-fledged game in itself. Indeed, the time I spent on actually playing that game was an order of magnitude lower than the time spent on micromanagement, enacting various preparatory measures and similar bureaucratic junk. That game will kill you.

Kind of roaming off topic, but where/how do we report multis? I'm playing the game listed below and it sure looks like Europe was Russia's puppet.

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=63968

email the mods at [email protected]. Include game id, and suspected nations involved and they will look into it.

Email the mods?! The point is that the botnets have taken over.
EVERY dip game or variant Game now standing that is not now unpaused by now should be wiped out, since the BOTNETS cannot unpause.
PLAY Hardball Kestas.

What? If you have figured out a way to program a botnet that can play diplomacy you could probably make some money off of that, since I'm pretty sure an efficient one has not been created.

That is not true. The Czech is one. He is a multi AND a bot. He is a meta-multibot who likes to play with himself.

Does he touch himself too? 

Octavious: The believers were the WORST. Nothing but loyal to you, then one day the leader wakes up and has a dream where god spoke to her and he wants her to take you out. It's completely random! "God told me to kill you". I -always- took her out first. No need for crazies, thank you...