Sorry I'm late again, I'm pretty bad at this. I don't really have time right now to do a full report, but I'll post a few notes and my score.
I started out by playing a few impossible games with the same settings as the Sakkra, just to see if I might have a chance at winning without using any reserves. I haven't played much with the lizards before. I lost a few very quickly, but eventually won a game... but not easily enough to think I could have done it without reserves. So, I decided that I would put reserves into my homeworld on turn 0 and go from there. It ended up making the game pretty easy; it could have turned hard at any time if the Klackons had turned on me (though my defenses were developed well enough after the expansion phase that I'm pretty sure I still could have won if they attacked later than that. But I allied with them very early, and despite their erratic trait, we remained allied the entire game, down to the final vote in 2500.
I expanded as much as I could as quickly as possible, the speed of which almost rivaled impossible AI expansion thanks to the favorable map and doubled production of Hoard. I got to 12 planets before anyone else, in 2366, and already had over 1/3 of the votes. I should have started swallowing up the cats and shifters soon after, but as usual I dilly dallied and waited a while to build up my military. I forgot to take a screen shot of my 2400 reserves, but I had not intentionally put anything into them and was only up to 9800489 BC. I finally start attacking in 2425 or so, and have basically eliminated the Mrrshan, Darloks, and Meklar (leaving them each with one world) by 2485. IT +100 comes in at this point, locking down my victory in 2500 for sure. I'm still not really paying attention, though, and it's not until 2497 that I really buckle down and scrap all my ships, bases, and stop spying and put everything into reserves. My last time I could check reserves before winning was 2499, where I was only up to 9960828 BC, not very impressive. I did a poor job of putting more reserves in because I was focusing a little too much on winning more. I could have gone a lot easier on ships and research at the end of the game.
So, my final score was 19761317. Not too great, but could have been worse.
I started out by playing a few impossible games with the same settings as the Sakkra, just to see if I might have a chance at winning without using any reserves. I haven't played much with the lizards before. I lost a few very quickly, but eventually won a game... but not easily enough to think I could have done it without reserves. So, I decided that I would put reserves into my homeworld on turn 0 and go from there. It ended up making the game pretty easy; it could have turned hard at any time if the Klackons had turned on me (though my defenses were developed well enough after the expansion phase that I'm pretty sure I still could have won if they attacked later than that. But I allied with them very early, and despite their erratic trait, we remained allied the entire game, down to the final vote in 2500.
I expanded as much as I could as quickly as possible, the speed of which almost rivaled impossible AI expansion thanks to the favorable map and doubled production of Hoard. I got to 12 planets before anyone else, in 2366, and already had over 1/3 of the votes. I should have started swallowing up the cats and shifters soon after, but as usual I dilly dallied and waited a while to build up my military. I forgot to take a screen shot of my 2400 reserves, but I had not intentionally put anything into them and was only up to 9800489 BC. I finally start attacking in 2425 or so, and have basically eliminated the Mrrshan, Darloks, and Meklar (leaving them each with one world) by 2485. IT +100 comes in at this point, locking down my victory in 2500 for sure. I'm still not really paying attention, though, and it's not until 2497 that I really buckle down and scrap all my ships, bases, and stop spying and put everything into reserves. My last time I could check reserves before winning was 2499, where I was only up to 9960828 BC, not very impressive. I did a poor job of putting more reserves in because I was focusing a little too much on winning more. I could have gone a lot easier on ships and research at the end of the game.
So, my final score was 19761317. Not too great, but could have been worse.
