Sulla's Abbreviated Imperium Fourteen Game

[Sullla]

The title sums it up.

http://www.garath.net/Sullla/MOO/imperium14-1.html

[RefSteel]

For whatever reason, the Meklar have way more tech than anyone else. They're almost where an Impossible AI would be.

After playing through the game, I examined the AIs' first moves via ALT-GALAXY to watch for consistency (if my start had been highly unusual, with a fair number of starts featuring e.g. the Meklar running away with the galaxy or an AI - especially the Meklar or Darloks - being at risk of elimintion or irrelevance, I wouldn't have submitted the map) and found that the Meklar always send their initial colony ship to the large artifacts world of Vulcan first thing. I would imagine this alone goes a long way toward explaining their impressive tech rate.

Thanks for posting a great report - a very readable turnlog (and not ridiculously long like mine tend to be). And while I realize you'd have liked to have had more time to trounce the AI more thoroughly, there's certainly nothing wrong with becoming Prime Minister of the Galaxy!

[sargon0]

Yes, Controlled Dead or IT20 was a key early decision. I went IT20 because I thought I still had room to expand to non-hostiles and wanted to benefit rich Selia. Of course finding Inferno next and cats stuck on range4 helped (they were missing range5 and passed on range6)! If IT30 comes next instead of Inferno and cats come calling with range5 I might have had some explaining to do.

The Meklars had great tech in my game also (double mine when I met them in 2363) but were stunted to 4 planets. They skipped range 5 (which would have given them Dolz + Incedius) but missed long opportunity to expand to Klystron then Rhilus.