The Metaverse has been wildly successful in getting people to play Galciv for a much longer time that they would normally would.
Yet, at this point in time, I would very much like to spend my gaming time playing games that challenge and interest me, and not play Galciv just to do well on the Metaverse, which I did for a good 8 months last year.
It is no longer the game that draws me back here but the people. So I'm just venturing to see if there is any opportunity to me to continue friendships built over these months elsewhere.
I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for strategy games that are conducive to community building.
          
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Glad to see you back, if only for the people, Ray.
Actually, that is probably the most important feature of GalCiv. 
  
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| Happy Sunday. Saw a couple of good movies in the last two days. One was The Color of Money with Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. The other was Lone Star. Both were very entertaining. |
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Get a copy of "The Hustler" with Paul Newman if you haven't seen it yet. It definitely fills you in on the character.
I thought TCOM was a prime example of the concept of an actor getting his well earned oscar a movie or two late.
  
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Not that TCOM wasn't entertaining. It was quite entertaining.
Oh and I saw some movies as well.
"Heat" with Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino and alot of other big hitters.
Too many cooks spoil the gruel. It was an excessively lengthy film that actually could have been done in two, rather than the 3 hours it took and lost nothing in the process. But It's still a good discount rental with coupon or something that they always put out.
Waterworld. Have you ever seen a movie that you absolutely know you should think stank but you like it anyway and darned if you know why?
This is one of those for me.
Terminator3, The Rise of the machines.
I finally saw this one for the first time. It is a good flick if you haven't hyped yourself up for it. But it's not going to dazzle you with much new compared to T2. The Bad Robot is a woman (and a wiley one at that) and she has internal weapons rather than having to steal one. Arnold is once again the good robot. Oh Cybernetic Organism. It fills in the story nicely though which is what I got it for.
| I dropped in a 60k for the home team yesterday but haven't started up a game today. The NFL Europe football game is calling me to watch it. Later |
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Oh God if my wife caught me watching any football past the Superbowl and before college season starts she'd toss the tv through the window.
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I've been away because of the game Runescape. Like most MOGs, very addictive (despite encouraging you to spend long periods of time standing still and mining coal). I've decided to try to resist the temptation to upgrade from the free version to the $5 a month version, if only because I might find it impossible to give up.
Played another game of GalCiv in an attempt to break me out of Runescape's spell. This time, I played in a Medium galaxy with all evil opponents for a conquest victory. On AP Beta, you can come close to 60K under those circumstances. Not quite as fast as an alliance victory, but more varied and unpredictable. There were two other races in my home sector. I researched 100% directly to Impulse drive, and then conquered one of them before he'd built any defensive ships.
A film I saw:
The Station Agent
This is an odd little film about a dwarf (not the bearded battleaxe-wielding variety) who is interested in trains, and... Well, that's a pretty comprehensive summary of the plot, come to think of it. Quite enjoyable, occasionally funny bits, but when it suddenly rolled the credits I was taken off guard - there had been no sense of climax.
 
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I'm playing with them mostly pure evil and myself as pure good. A couple of tricks I've learned (hope none of our rivals read this): (1) High initial diplomacy, obviously. (2) Ctrl-N until you're fairly central, so you get a better share of the galactic trade. This boosts relations and pays for future bribes. (3) You can't bribe someone twice in two turns, but you can bribe them twice in one turn. By the look of it, the best bribe is to keep giving someone small amounts (techs and cash over 99 turns) until they say, "You humans are always so generous..." If you can get everyone to friendly at the start of the turn, you can ally with them all at once.
Still can't get any minors to appear...
I frequently get beaten to Diplo Trans, but it doesn't matter that much. I just make it a priority to trade for it. When I'm playing for alliance, I'm not worrying about military, influence, etc, so I can focus on the things that count, like researching techs the AIs don't have.
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| Still can't get any minors to appear |
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This sounds like you have the minors switched off. Check the "minors" on/off button to see if minors are off.
    
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| Check the "minors" on/off button to see if minors are off. |
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I'm 99.9% sure I did that.
| Got a 60k for the military victory on large. |
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Check out my last game. 58.9K on medium.
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| I'm 99.9% sure I did that |
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If the square next to words "Initial minors are off" is empty, it is off. It must have solid dot in square and the words "Initial minors are on" must appear. The first time I played I thought you had to put dot in square to turn them off when its actually the other way around.
editted for spelling
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Good. Shows respect. Bad spelling irritates me.
Shame you got 'edited' wrong.
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| Bad spelling irritates me. |
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It would probably be easier if you posted a list of what doesn't irritate you Matthew. 
 
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| Shame you got 'edited' wrong. |
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I saw that too, but decided that editing an edit would just be too anal.
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| It would probably be easier if you posted a list of what doesn't irritate you Matthew. |
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Certainly:
Zeppelins
The word "Iconoclasm"
Créme Brûlè
Please confine all future remarks to these subjects.
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Does this include Led Zeppelin?
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The band was originally intended to be called "Lead Zeppelin", as in, "go down like a lead Zeppelin". But they thought the "lead" might be mispronounced to rhyme with "read", and so delibarately spelt it wrong. It is misspelt, and therefore irritating.
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| It is misspelt, and therefore irritating. |
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Understood.
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