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You guys are doing an outstanding job running up the boards! It's been quite fun chasing you! If we're lucky, we can both just run right up to first and second! 
          
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Hey, now. The Diplomats have plans for number one. You guys can take second and third.  
    
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Yes...right now, I think the Diplomats, Guardians, Canadians, ANZACs and GROSS are the most active. There's still stuff going on in the other empires, but these empires are really kicking it up a notch!
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Hmm. You even order us right. 1,2,3,4,5. Yep.
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Hello, new snack checking in. 
  
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Move to the dark side, Tech.
  
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I like my little blue face....
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| Now down to specifics... I found the difference between crip and maso is how fast you switch from planet rush to tech rush. That really needs to happen in the first 14-18 months on a large or huge. By that I mean you need to switch from 100% mil spending to 100% tech spending with in that time frame. Oh... And leave behind any PQ 14s. On tiny or small maps... (which I don't play by the way) I suspect the switch over happens much earlier. Like 6-8 months in. |
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My strategy in tiny / small is to go 100% spending, 39% tax forever. Set the research to 70% and social to 30%. I research the trade items and all non military techs. I sell everything I get but only after I know that I can beat the AI to the trade item. I usually start out with 2 - 4 planets no resources. I send 1 frieghter to each of the weakest majors. I try will eventually trade the clothing tech to 1 or both of the minors to get caught up with the military techs that I missed. If I do everything right I can usually have battleships built before I am in a war with anybody.
If I see a major AI that is weak and I am not ready to invade I will give them military techs so that they can hold off the larger majors for a while longer. This also gives me a chance (although rare when playing crippling) of getting them to surrender to me instead of other majors.
I sometimes play with +25 luck and that usually gets me one or two rangers before anyone had more than 1 battleship. I did play one game that I have +50 luck and I had 8 rangers while every one else was still building frigates. Very easy game and quick.
I am holding out buying a computer until after Doom 3 is released. Hope it gets released soon. I will wait though. I am a Doom junky!
 
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