After a longer pause, again I've been hit by a moo-streak - the game has a way of keeping one coming back. ;-) I wanted a try a more trade oriented game for once and osg-38 seemed line the perfect fit. As usual I played with embryonic18 (and missed the offical deadline to boot), so this will have to go to the shadow report.
I'm writing this mostly from memory and by using the automatic save files. One of these days, I will do a real timeline generator, which gives stats and infos about new tech ...
initial expansion (2300-2399):
2306 Vox, 45 Minimal artifacts founded.
chose artefact planet for location and tech boost. Started trickle-research on range5 before 2310 as it would be necessary for eastward expansion and to reach Beta Ceti, the terran 100 in the SW.
2331 Keeta, 50 Steppe founded.
2333 Rhilus, 100 Ocean fertile poor founded.
2340 Kronos, 70 Ocean founded.
Kronos was a very close call b/c 5 years later a Klakon stack with 3 mediums arrived but got "defeated" ...
... by a single scout2 of mine (the stack by the cross-cursor) which managed to dodge the 2 nuclear missle salvos.
2344 Beta Ceti, 100 Terran founded.
2344 Seidon, 70 Ocean founded.
2347 Herculis, 50 Steppe poor founded.
2352 Firma, 65 Arid founded.
2353 Rigel, 55 Steppe founded.
2355 Vega, 70 Arid ultra poor founded.
2362 Celtsi, 65 Arid founded.
Up to this point, Sol was busy churing out colships. For further expansion, controlled inferno was need, which popped around this time.
2368 Arietis, 40 Barren hostile ultra rich founded.
2369 Tyr, 30 Inferno hostile rich founded.
2370 Dunatis, 35 Tundra hostile founded.
2380 Jinga, 55 Arid poor founded.
2392 Draconis, 45 Dead hostile founded.
2392 Whynil, 50 Tundra hostile founded.
2399 Drakka, 20 Toxic hostile founded.
war and peace (2400-2499):
At the turn of the century, a had trade and NAPs with all of the AIs. 2417 the Bulrathi terminated our NAP but didn't attack immediatly, so I had enough time to secure the border planets.
2421 Neptunus, 20 Toxic hostile founded.
In 2425 the trade situation was
for a base score of 1575 and the political situation was still all love and peace.
The situation 10 years later however was an almost complete dogpile (the Darloks would declare soon afterwards).
It turned out to have been good luck that I drew the Comet event in 2428, which I prompted me to rush-build a reasonable fleet featuring a huge design with hv ion cannons, grav. beam and durally / autorepair all of which have been tech.-traded at some point.
The ships also came in handy to guard new colonies for my last expansion wave when inf-bases+reserve tanks finally fit on a large ...
2433 Bootis, 35 Dead hostile founded.
2434 Collassa, 10 Barren hostile founded.
2437 Omicron, 35 Dead hostile ultra rich founded.
... and later when some enemy-of-my-enemy diplomancy was called for:
2454 Helos, 65 Ocean artifacts conquered.
2459 Artemis, 60 Arid artifacts conquered.
I managed to rectify the diplo-situation afterwards (also using the "break alliance with another race" quite a lot, which I never have used before in any moo game iirc), but didn't quite get to 1575 rc trade income by 2475 and things went downhill again afterwards.
the new era (2500-):
Since most AIs already had PS-XV, I had to backtrack to OmegaV-bombs and since I would need some air-to-air firepower anyway and had some time to kill:
2524 Orion, 120 Terran Orion founded.
In the meantime, I had my combat-speed 7 bomber fleet ready but I only used them for surgical strikes on the battle screen on Zhardan, Nazin and Ursa which brought the AIs in line again. This time, I took no risks and graciously handed out gifts to anyone who wanted them. In 2549, I took a domination victory with 47 own + 11 AI votes vs. 11 votes form the coids (no screenshot due to appearant 5 attachment limit). Last trade was
for a total score of 1575 + 1575 = 3150.
cu
ignatius
I'm writing this mostly from memory and by using the automatic save files. One of these days, I will do a real timeline generator, which gives stats and infos about new tech ...
initial expansion (2300-2399):
2306 Vox, 45 Minimal artifacts founded.
chose artefact planet for location and tech boost. Started trickle-research on range5 before 2310 as it would be necessary for eastward expansion and to reach Beta Ceti, the terran 100 in the SW.
2331 Keeta, 50 Steppe founded.
2333 Rhilus, 100 Ocean fertile poor founded.
2340 Kronos, 70 Ocean founded.
Kronos was a very close call b/c 5 years later a Klakon stack with 3 mediums arrived but got "defeated" ...
... by a single scout2 of mine (the stack by the cross-cursor) which managed to dodge the 2 nuclear missle salvos.
2344 Beta Ceti, 100 Terran founded.
2344 Seidon, 70 Ocean founded.
2347 Herculis, 50 Steppe poor founded.
2352 Firma, 65 Arid founded.
2353 Rigel, 55 Steppe founded.
2355 Vega, 70 Arid ultra poor founded.
2362 Celtsi, 65 Arid founded.
Up to this point, Sol was busy churing out colships. For further expansion, controlled inferno was need, which popped around this time.
2368 Arietis, 40 Barren hostile ultra rich founded.
2369 Tyr, 30 Inferno hostile rich founded.
2370 Dunatis, 35 Tundra hostile founded.
2380 Jinga, 55 Arid poor founded.
2392 Draconis, 45 Dead hostile founded.
2392 Whynil, 50 Tundra hostile founded.
2399 Drakka, 20 Toxic hostile founded.
war and peace (2400-2499):
At the turn of the century, a had trade and NAPs with all of the AIs. 2417 the Bulrathi terminated our NAP but didn't attack immediatly, so I had enough time to secure the border planets.
2421 Neptunus, 20 Toxic hostile founded.
In 2425 the trade situation was
for a base score of 1575 and the political situation was still all love and peace.
The situation 10 years later however was an almost complete dogpile (the Darloks would declare soon afterwards).
It turned out to have been good luck that I drew the Comet event in 2428, which I prompted me to rush-build a reasonable fleet featuring a huge design with hv ion cannons, grav. beam and durally / autorepair all of which have been tech.-traded at some point.
The ships also came in handy to guard new colonies for my last expansion wave when inf-bases+reserve tanks finally fit on a large ...
2433 Bootis, 35 Dead hostile founded.
2434 Collassa, 10 Barren hostile founded.
2437 Omicron, 35 Dead hostile ultra rich founded.
... and later when some enemy-of-my-enemy diplomancy was called for:
2454 Helos, 65 Ocean artifacts conquered.
2459 Artemis, 60 Arid artifacts conquered.
I managed to rectify the diplo-situation afterwards (also using the "break alliance with another race" quite a lot, which I never have used before in any moo game iirc), but didn't quite get to 1575 rc trade income by 2475 and things went downhill again afterwards.
the new era (2500-):
Since most AIs already had PS-XV, I had to backtrack to OmegaV-bombs and since I would need some air-to-air firepower anyway and had some time to kill:
2524 Orion, 120 Terran Orion founded.
In the meantime, I had my combat-speed 7 bomber fleet ready but I only used them for surgical strikes on the battle screen on Zhardan, Nazin and Ursa which brought the AIs in line again. This time, I took no risks and graciously handed out gifts to anyone who wanted them. In 2549, I took a domination victory with 47 own + 11 AI votes vs. 11 votes form the coids (no screenshot due to appearant 5 attachment limit). Last trade was
for a total score of 1575 + 1575 = 3150.
cu
ignatius