I pick the party that gives +20 morale +20 diplo and then get more morale and diplo through picks. I'll have to see what it is for sure. Just a minute. 
          
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Do you research, Yellows, Greens, and do you research the Industrail techs.
Leave out the Reds and only some Defensive?
   
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Ok. It's Populists, +20 Morale, +20 Diplo. Then, I get +20 Morale, +20 Diplo, and +30 Influence from picks.
Good work UB!! 
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I do the industrials too, if no one is trading defense I do a few of those, but generally no red. Not until middle game at least.
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Im going to try that, less money over more time
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It's now a hell of a lot cheaper to Terror star alpha strike than it is to culture bomb 
  
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Loth, about the PP...They are less effective in AP, however, I've been lucky enough to get some influence wonders before the AI in my games lately. Plus, allies don't mind a PP in a sector with their planets in them. Get two in there, maybe 3 and FLIP. That's my big cheese tatic.
The Arceans have been trying cultral conquests in my games in AP. The are building influence SBs all over the map. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Ive noticed to in AP that the AI loves to target you in maso for cultural bombing. I had the Dominion of Korx actively building culutral star bases in my sectors trying to flip my systems, and it was hard to combat that, as well as there military.
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| The Arceans have been trying cultral conquests in my games in AP. The are building influence SBs all over the map. Has anyone else noticed this? |
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Yes yes yes, they where doing it to me as well, luckly I had some influence wonders built.
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Nice BOMB Littlewotts 
UB - You should be OK to move up in difficulty - things only really change a lot when you hit Maso.
MC - stick with it, there are many different ways to play Maso, you've just got to find the one that's best for you.
And Lothmorg.... take a break 
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Ok guys thanks for all the tips I just got, One thing I think Im doing wrong is not allying with another major as well which will allow me to flip some of there planets to me with cultural bombing and not get into a war with them over it.
Well I might try again..... wish me luck 
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Indeed.
I'm off to bed. I think I'll get rested up before I drop in few more games tomorrow.
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Galaxy-wide war is what you want. I let the bully AI (ie. strongest military) declare war on me, then I make a few alliances, build up to no. 1 in military (AMMs are your friends ), then everyone wants to make peace with you. After that, just break the alliances and leave everyone fighting eachother while you get on with building constructors and taking over all the resources
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4 The Jedi Republic Jedi_Master_Yoda 60 819 3260958
5 The Galactic Guardians Theoden of Rohan 18 578 3072594
6 Canadian Star Federation Paguma 116 1130 2855105
Great job this weekend, guys!!! We're now over 3 million points!! That's a tremendous achievement!
It's great to see the new 60k bombers in the empire! Everybody is doing a great job of learning their way around AP, I see. To hell with Culture modules...I didn't build a single one this last game. The AIs will happily trade every Transport and Combat Transport they own to you for techs, TGs, and cash. It's so fun watching system after system fall using their own troops against them!  Oh, I did build two Terror Stars...I wanted the Yor to go down in style!
I have noticed the AIs using culture bombing techniques a bit, but to be honest with you, they don't do much anymore and I will gladly watch those stupid cretins throw away their money on a Culture Palace instead of building Overlords! Culture has been effectively taken completely out of this game now, just like the Tech victory was. Since I have always used invasion more than anything else, this doesn't bother me very much. But I know several people can't be happy with yet another method of winning being nerfed.
Well, my little Dull Thud kept me in the Top 25 for another few minutes, so I'm happy. Is it me or is the activity level going up some? It's getting tougher and tougher to stay in the Top 25 now (at least for me).
It's been a fun weekend for me. Hope everybody else had as much fun as I did! Goodnight everybody (well, have a good rest of the day MC!) I'll talk to everyone tomorrow!
 
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By the way, if anybody wants to see something funny...check out Lothmorg's statbot page!
The King of Consistency!
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He is also called the "King of Pure Evil"
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Be wary about being dragged into war .
BTW, have the maso tips in the H&S section of the Senate Halls been helpful?
  
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4 The Jedi Republic Jedi_Master_Yoda 60 822 3269194
5 The Galactic Guardians Theoden of Rohan 18 582 3113875
6 Canadian Star Federation Paguma 116 1133 2857159
Go Guardians!!!! Congratulations!!!!
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I have to play 3 games for every one he plays, just to stay a few thousand points ahead. On the other hand, one million is getting pretty close!
