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| Yeah, I remember that, but I am offering the tempting option. |
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Hmmm, you're tempting him, and I am the one saying "wait, make sure it's OK first". I think we are reversing our roles, twin. 
    
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Magnum could really help you out with the alliance victory wins at maso. He plays huge maps, alliance victory and gets 60k for his games and does them in 70-90 mins I think.
Are you having trouble with keeping the AI's from declaring war on you?
In my games I never research Military tech's anymore as the AI will research them 5 times quicker then I can do it. So I just research tech's such as basic repair or nanobots and drones, then the AI will come along and offer dreadnaught tech and other valuable military techs for these.
I also research techs early on that adds more trade routes, rasies income through ecomomic infrascture, manufacturing, and morale boosting social projects that allows you to keep taxes at higher rates.
Going for an alliance win I would research trade techs very early on to establish trade routes quickly and get those alliances quicker (trade the AI for there frieghters in there systems orbit). I pick Diplo +50% and Trade routes +2 for ability picks, and populist government. This helps me tremendously in the diplomatic arena.
If you can get the AI to not declare war on you early on, you have the game in the bag at maso. Also trade trade, trade, and trade tech for tech's, thats how I keep up in the tech race. Minors are a great source to trade a few of your simple techs for there many better techs earlier on. With high diplo skills you get alot better deals for your efforts. Bribe a war or 2 earlier on as well.
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A big factor to is the alignment of the AI. If there all pure good, it is easier to keep relations friendly if your playing a good alignment yourself, but it is alot harder for you to bribe them into having a war. If you play with more evil alignment AI's then it is alot easier to bribe them into fighting each other, the more of them fighting each other the more trade comes your way, the better relations improve, the more money you get. But the trade off is, it is harder to keep them at friendly earlier on with no military.
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ABT I hope I was able to help a little. All the best at beating maso again. 
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Thought I'd drop of a handful of points before bed.
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Good night all! 
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| Im definatly not very diplomatic at the best of times. But if I wasn't a die hard Guardian loyalist the Diplomat's probably would be my next prefered empire for me |
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I'm definetly not very good at protecting the universe from evil aliens, or killing yor when at the best of times. But if i wasn't a die hard diplomat loyalist the guardians would probably be my next prefered empire for me 
  
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| I'm definetly not very good at protecting the universe from evil aliens, or killing yor when at the best of times. But if i wasn't a die hard diplomat loyalist the guardians would probably be my next prefered empire for me |
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Wow--quite night! Good morning, all.
Lothmorg, if I'm not mistaken, that "tink, tink, tink" was the sound of you taking over 4th place. Right? (If so, congratulations!  )
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Good morning all! Actually, I think I took 4th sometime over the weekend. 
But thanks anyway!
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Oops. I'm still confusing game points with metaverse points, I think. Hopefully in the coming weeks I will begin to understand the difference--from experience!
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I wish. Sadly, no. Greldon is keeping that 200K buffer right where it is. 
There is no way I'll make those kinds of points up until my next block (@13th).
I'll keep trying though.
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| Lothmorg just "tinkles" all over the place! |
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If all goes really well, I might have a chance at 3rd... Unless Jaxom plays anything.
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| No matter how many times I explain it, they just refuse to believe in the importance of defending the galaxy against the Yor. |
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Terl, it's funny how employers can miss that importance. But who will they come running to when they find their profits are being decimated by Yorians?! Oh yeah, then they'll understand the importance!
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Too funny, Greldon. (Odd, I'm getting the urge to do the same! That's either very right or very wrong!  )
Go Lothmorg! (Living vicariously through the exploits of others, no less.)
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Guten Morgen Guardians how goes the yor "recycling expedition" ?
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It would be cool to have the Guardians controlling the top two spots in the Metaverse! (Even cooler to control the top three! Has that been done in recent Metaverse history? I'm presuming that there was a lot of movement in the 'early days' when the overall scores were low and there were fewer registered players--but that things have really heated up since then.)
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Morning XGE! Gee, in my novice classes they've been teaching me that Yor are good for nothing. And now you bring up this recycling thingy? I'll have to ask my professors about this. (Oops! Was I not supposed to talk about the novice classes? )
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Yor recicling is a big bussiness for the Diplomats!!!!
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Yor recicling is a big bussiness for the UNNDEAD too!!!!
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We are the GROSS, we came we saw and we took the post, I mean the next one)
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