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Go for it MC! I think you're in the right place for inspiration round here 
So, Greldon for No.1 at lunchtime? 
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As do most people I'm sure  The things we'll do for shiny bits of metal 
Morning to all the other Guardians. Hope your dad's doing OK Terl!
          
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| Morning to all the other Guardians. Hope your dad's doing OK Terl! |
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As do I.
  
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| Go for it MC! I think you're in the right place for inspiration round here |
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Thats for sure Magnum. Terl's stories are a very big inspiration. After working my way through this course maybe I can get a book published in 20 years from now
The statistic's of getting a novel published is very much against me, but they say if most people can stick it out for they eventually become successful. Thats the number 1 tip by most published author's, dont give up, most people give up to early and never realize there potential. So Im prepared to have my first 5 manuscripts rejected
Writing is definatly a skill thats learnt over time like an apprenticeship really. Anyway enough ranting from me about writing. Although Ive noticed that most of us here love writing and reading stories.
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 Then you can retire to the coast, and spend all day playing GalCiv 15, trying to catch Greldon at the top of the metaverse
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I'm sure there will be plenty, Tech. Not sure how much use they'll be to you after Theoden's finished with them though
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A septillion. And here's a useful number for you: a sexsexagintillion. That's a one, followed by 201 zeroes.
I'm not sure if kicking the retired players (or at least the zero-pointers) out of the Fellowship would do much good. The number of active players would remain the same. The merging of old alliances might work better, if we could just persuade some of the alliances with only two or three active members to abolish themselves and join us (or each other). But they're probably committed to staying where they are by the same sentiment and loyalty that keep me where I am.
| The statistic's of getting a novel published is very much against me, but they say if most people can stick it out for they eventually become successful. |
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Who's 'they'? Can they prove it? I demand evidence!
Sorry. I've harboured a bit of a grudge against the publishing industry ever since my first novel was rejected by an editor who read my first chapter and told me the prose style was too flat, which meant that (a) writing the rest of the novel was a waste of time, and (b) since I couldn't tell that my prose was flat just by looking at it, I can never write anything now without worrying that I'm doing it wrong.
   
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Woohha...i started reading up on this thread a few weeks ago and got to around march 2nd. Then i left it again...thats 112 pages ago. Admitted i didn't manage to read those 112 pages.
Congrats to the soon to be numero uno. 
Just a thought, any of you guys ever considered join the GC chat (irc, on SDC as well) ? It would be nice with a little more activity in there
 
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Good Morning Guardians!
Wow! What a night! Greldon will be in first place with his next submission!
Great job everybody on your submissions last night!
exalteddruid, looks like both of us learned our lesson on getting that Beyond Human win...time to kill some Yor!!
MC: Good luck in your writing career!
Downie: How many publishers did you send your manuscript to? Sometimes one will like what another doesn't. Prose style too flat? Maybe they need to read one of your "Milady" stories! 
Tech: I totally agree...the Beyond Human scoring is way too low for the current game. It might have been cheese in the old versions, but it's tough to get now with the more intelligent AIs. It should certainly score more. Oh, and the medals given to the Guardians are recognition for lots of things. Here's a  Link to what all the current Guardian medals mean. It's just kind of nice to get a little something for special achievements.
Well, speaking of medals, I need to go update the Roster page!
 
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I drop in there every once in a while in the evenings, but nobody is ever there. I can't access it from work, either.
Say, Aaberg...didn't you knock Loth out of 5th? 
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What?!!
I'll have to do something about that.
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Seems to be our backup motto here
Good luck bonscott (I was expecting an Aussie to be behind that nick ). Feel free to ask any questions, there are some damned good experts in here.
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The difficulty seems to be quite a bit tougher in AP...dropping back isn't a bad idea if you haven't played in a while!
| I decided to go military victory all the way. I made the mistake of fogetting to turn off culture victory so I hope I don't "back into" a culture win, but I'll take it. |
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If you see the countdown start, just declare war!
| Many Yor will die soon as I get Battleship tech soon. |
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MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
| Oh by the way, I was ranked around 119 or so when the Metaverse first started. Before the first "nerf" of the metaverse scores. I dropped to 350 or so after that first nerf. Shortly after that I stopped playing. |
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Don't worry too much about the scores...just enjoy killing the Yor...umm...I mean...playing the game!
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Hey Terl! Going to be another busy day today? I think we could all use a little story!
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Just the one. I don't take rejection well. It's also very hard these days to persuade anyone to even glance at your first chapter and then tell you it's bad.
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Says you, but for all I know you might have no taste.
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That's me!
Terl: I just posted something in the Conclave I would like you to take a look at...
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