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adecoy95 -> a rags to riches story (image heavy) (4/10/2011 2:16:43 AM)
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this is my rags to riches story, a story about how a galactic conquest game fell flat on its face right out the door. its going to have a bit of a background update on my situation at the moment
as you can see i lowered research rates quite low, i wanted to make techs feel important.
agression is normal because i wanted to be able to get a few allies, make things interesting.
lots of stars, because you can never have too big of a galaxy.
i made them mostly habitable because i wanted to have a large end game, i am going to be agressive, but not overly so. so i wanted there to be room for other empires to grow and flourish.
i chose old because i wanted the ai to get some good independants, and im happy to say this worked out well, a few of my neibors got some quite good treasures
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/1.jpg[/image]
i made the tech level just above starting, because i wanted ships to have a wide variety of things to use, without the ai having to waste time researching every little thing.
i think that young is 2-5 worlds, but i could be wrong, whatever the case, i started with two worlds, one of them only had about 800 million.
i thought about putting corruption at low, but i decided against it.
home system normal, i want them to matter, but i dont want them to matter above all else.
i chose military dictatorship because it puts me in an odd situation, my income takes a hit due to the approval loss, but i gain some important bonuses for a warring faction, a high priority will be to find a new government
chose edge because it usually puts me in hilarious places in varied clusters (and it did this time too)
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/2.jpg[/image]
i dont like stumbling upon another of my race, and i certaintly dont like seeing it 5 times, so i never random races. i gave them equal footings tho.
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/3.jpg[/image]
no victory condidtions, but the world is still story rich. i have tried using victory conditions before, but they just dont seem very interesting.
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/4.jpg[/image]
this picture illustrates my early game problems and why my economy is currently in the hole (and has been for almost the whole game)
as you can see, polymer was extremely far from my home world, and once the home world stockpile dried up, i had to wait forever to start building again. i didn't take any screens, but i at one point had dozens of ships waiting to be built but could not be.
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/5.jpg[/image]
i have captured a few independents, but they are not giving as much tax income as i would like.
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/6.jpg[/image]
my current, valiant fleet, that defends all of the empires interests and protects against her enemies. the rest of the ships running around are automated and constructed with approval.
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/7.jpg[/image]
i will let this picture mostly speak for itself, but its not good, i try not to mess too much with base designs if i can help it, but when a small space port costs 18 THOUSAND to build because steel, polymer and gold are at 2.5 each, i might have to do something about it.
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/8.jpg[/image]
i managed to get two alliances, one of them with the distant frog people, and the other being the great and powerful ketaros. it cost me some quite uneven deals to get them to like me enough for this, but i desperately needed the trade income to stay afloat, my economy was being annihilated by such extreme costs that even my explorers cost 3500 to build
here are some more screens to help illustrate these issues.
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/9.jpg[/image]
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/10.jpg[/image]
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/11.jpg[/image]
laugh all you want, but your eyes don't deceive, that's some expensive steel.
fortunately, i got lucky, and found two sources of rare resource, and currently i am going to try to turn my economy around with them, before its too late!
[image]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/adecoy95/12.jpg[/image]
and that's basically where this AAR begins
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