I had forgotten today was the post day. Barely made it with 50 minutes to spare even though I finished this weeks ago. Rename the save files as .gam to view my end game and 2500 results.
End result:80 techs stolen and I won for 160 points total.
Good evening. I’m the Grinch! Today marks the first year of Christmas Eve, which last 100 years. Christmas Day on 2400 also last 100 years. Then its 36,400 years before the next Christmas. I don’t have much time to enact my plans masquerading as Santa. During Christmas Eve, I will be unable to trade period with anyone. No need to even talk to anyone. During Christmas Day, I must gift every tech not in the computer tech field to everyone every turn to keep up the charade. Once they figure things out though, they will all ally against me, greatly increasing their tech output, which will give me plenty of goodies to steal, my ultimate plan, as per the law, no researching can be done by Santa on Christmas Eve or Day!
I take a look at the map. Potential AI surround me. From eyeballing the distances between planets, if I go north, I can potentially leap-frog all over the place (depending on Planetology), while if I go west/east, I believe I will need range 4. If I’m wrong, I lose something like 5 turns before my 2nd planet is colonized. My gamble pays off. I ended up sending my colony ship to the only planet I could colonize!
2303 There are 9 stars within scouting range. I build 5 “scout 1.0” Send pop like normal to colony.
2304 Build another 2 scouts.
2308 Silicoid scout runs from me at Kailes. This must put him to the yellow in the south.
2310 Get Tundra from Artifact planet Thrax. I would prefer range or a jump start on computers in order to give me a boost in spying, but its still a better pull than a lot of techs.
2317 Meet a Sakkra Colony Ship at Trax. He retreats. Puts them at NE somewhere.
2329 Colonize Kailis
2335 Bear Colony ship at Kakata This puts them to the NW yellow. Colonize Thrax.
2338 Colonize Esper Meet the Bears/Silicoids who are 5PE and 3PE respectively.
2341 Start 2 clicks each into spying on Bears/Silicoids. Will have a spy in 4 years.
2343 Colonize Draconis
2344 Colonize Darrian Simium must have been scouted by the Silicoid already as I get no tech from that planet.
2347 Start building a medium Heavy Laser from my rich world to protect my borders vs bears and a medium design with 6 lasers to help shoot transports down. They are about to scout Draconis and I can’t stop them as I have no armed ships yet.
2349 Steal Range4 from the Bears. I had hits in 4 fields.
2352 My lasers shoot 1/3rd of the transports the Bears sent and I defend the planet against their 14 million against my 27 and I win by 1. That was closer than I thought it would be!
2353 Steal Pop10 from Silicoid.
2354 Colonize Crypto. Get the 8 planet benchmark.
2356 Steal Jammer1 from Bears. I’d prefer RIW80, but no option in that field. Silicoid have warp2 that I want…hopefully steal it soon. Increase my spying.
2357 Colonize Klystron
2358 Colonize Drakka
2361 I scout Willow and get nothing. Someone else must have gotten there first. The Silicoid desire my goods at 100 BC a year. I say shove off.
2362 I get the merchant event. First event in the game. 600 BC. I have been reserve spending every turn anyways and can’t spend it all. Eventually I will though and it’s better than a planet going poor.
2363 I steal RIW80 from the bears. Finally! This is with 6 clicks on them for the past 9 years. I increase spying more.
2364 I colonize Argus
2365 Steal IIT9 from Silicoid. Bears finally declare war. They are erratic and I believe they only know me, so I have been expecting it for the past 27 years.
2366 Steal Hand Lasers from Silicoids and Barren from the Bears
2367 Steal Mark2 from Silicoid
2368 Steal Shield2 from Silicoids and HyperV from Bears
2369 Scouting Iranha gets me RIW60. How did no one scout this yet? The Human’s have a colony there as well. Did they colonize without scouting it? Must be a bug. I don’t’ know how Human didn’t get the tech.
2370 Colonize Ajax, Steal Gatling Laser from the Silicoids. I’ve almost stolen a tech a turn, but with 6 total spies in the Silicoid/Bears halls and my racial advantage, I don’t know how much of that is luck. I meet the 5PE Humans. Start spying.
2371 Colonize Herculis. I just realize I might have gotten the RIW60 from that planet and not Iranha. Which makes more sense. I must have just assumed it was Iranha.
2373 Steal Scanner from Humans and IRC3 from Bears
2374 Steal Death Spores from Bears Colonize Mu Delphi. I start building bases on trickles from all planets that were previously maxed out.
2375 Steal warp2 from humans. Finally! My transports have been so SLOW!.
2376 Colonize Simius
2377 Steal Range6 from the Bears
2378 Steal Jammer2 from the Humans and frame the Sakkra (between them and the Psilon) Steal Sheilds3 from the bears.
2379 Steal Enhanced Eco from Bears.
2380 Colonize Artemis.
2382 Steal Pop20 from Silicoid who catch me and steal Duralloy Armor from Bears.
2383 Steal range5 from Humans and frame the Sakkra.
2384 Steal personal Deflector Sheild from the Humans and frame the Sakkra.
2390 Bears come to me asking for Peace. I say yes.
2392 Aquilae finally maxes out. After 90 years with reserve spending for about 25 years. Steal NPG. Humans declare war because they catch me.
2393 Steal jammer3 from Bears and Mark3 from Silicoids
2394 GNN report. I am first in technology.
2395 Ajax just went Rich. I got over 5k in reserves. I have 16 planets. Humans have 9, Bears 7 and Silicoids 6. Sakkra I still haven’t met even though I know where they are and the Psilons I believe are stunted in the NE. In 5 turns I can start gifting techs.
2396 Steal Ion Cannon from Silicoid and Controlled Dead from Humans.
2400 Christmas Day! I gift the Bears 9 techs, the Silicoid 7 techs and the Humans 8 techs.
2404 Colonize Berel, GNN message: Darloks own 17 systems.
2408 Steal Jammer4 from Silicoids.
2409 Steal Sheild4 from Bears. Colonize Maretta. We finally have the vote. Bears vote 6 for me. Silicoids send their 6 to Humans. Humans put up 7 for themselves. Sakkra send their 2 to me, which I thought was odd since they were allied with Humans for most of the game. My framing them against an honorable opponent must have sent them into war when I wasn’t looking. Psilon send their 2 to the humans. I vote 13 for the humans and choose not to accept ruling going into final war.
With such a late vote and no runaway AI, I doubt I will have the top score if someone else goes to final war before me. Hopefully, the AI’s start researching like crazy now. I have 20,000 in reserve, so I mass bases everywhere. Start building medium Heavy Ion cannons to protect my 2 new colonies. I meet the Sakkra. I max spy spending on every nation, 40% of my planet’s expenses.
2411 Steal Mark4 from Silicoid.
2412 Steal Improved Eco from Silicoid
2413 Steal Auto Repair from Silicoid
2414 Steal Range7 from Silicoid
2415 I find Orion
2417 Steal Fusion bombs from Bears and Battle Suits from Sakkra
2418 Steal Anti-Missile Rockets from Bears and HyperX from Silicoids.
2419 Steal Mass Driver from Bears
2421 Steal IIT7 from Silicoid.
2422 Steal Neutron Blaster from Humans
2423 Steal Inertia Stabilizer from Sakkra
2425 Quake hits Psilon colony.
2427 I steal Inferno from Sakkra and Pop30 from Silicoid. I defend Maretta against Silicoid transports just barely.
2428 Steal Improved Scanner from Bears.
2432 Steal Advanced Scanner from Silicoid
2435 Steal Bio Toxin Antidote from Bears
2439 Steal Ion Rifle from Sakkra. Bomb Parana
2441 Steal IRC4 from bears, colonize Mobas.
2443 Colonize Maalor.
2447 Steal Scatter Park V from Sakkra and Pop40 from Silicoids
2449 Steal IIT6 from Silicoid.
2450 Steal Hard Beam from Bears.
2460 Steal Advanced Eco from Bears.
2464 Steal Cloning from Bears.
2465 Steal Atmospheric Terraforming from Silicoid
2467 Steal Mark5 from Silicoid.
2468 Steal Zort Armor from Humans.
2469 Steal Merc Missiles from Humans.
2471 Steal Personal Absorption shield from the Bears and Class5 shields from the Humans. I get the comet event at Drakka, which I destroy in under 6 turns.
2474 SOL goes Fertile.
2475 I steal Toxic from Silicoid and Jammer6 from Sakkra.
2478 Colonize Trax and Rotan.
2479 Steal Mark7 from Humans and warp3 from Sakkra. Colonize Cygni and meet the 5PE Psilons.
2480 Steal Radiated from the Sakkra
2481 Steal warp4 from Silicoid. Invade Paranar successfully but get Repulser beam and energy pulsar. That means I can’t steal it.
2483 Steal Cloak from Human and Anti Matter Bombs from Sakkra
2484 Steal range8 from Sakkra and Colonize Talas and Uxmai Get the GNN 26 planet benchmark
2485 Steal Fusion Rifles from Bears and Planet Shield X
2486 Steal Omega V from Bears
2487 Steal Stinger Missiles from Bears
2488 Uxmai is destroyed by humans.
2489 Steal range9 from bears.
2490 Psilons destroy Cygni.
2494 Steal Doom Virus from Bears
2495 Steal Mark6 from Psilons
2497 Steal Sheilds9 from Humans and Pop+50 from Silicoids
2498 Steal Personal Barrier Shield from Bears
2500 Christmas is finally over! I got 24 planets, a little under 75k in reserves. I drop spying from max on everyone, to 5.2% I turn tech spending on, focusing on weapons and propulsion. Time for extermination
2500-2550 Bears destroy Talas. I steal and learn a bunch of tech. Kailes goes poor. I build couple thousand Omega V with Zyro Shield/Cloak/Stabilizer every turn and bomb the Silicoid planets in the SW and the Bears in the NW except Kakata which I invade from 6 planets. First attempt fails (300 vs 223 and I only kill about half of them.) and 2nd attempt succeeds.. By 2551 the entire western map belongs to me. I have a small Herc missile 2 shot variety to patrol my new worlds
2558 GNN: Message Bears Exterminated. Should have done it on 2553, but they kept escaping death just barely each turn by re-colonizing the same planet until they were out of colony ships. Since I only had bombers there suicideing the planet, I had to wait until they used all their colony ships/
2565 GNN: Message Sakkra Exterminated. My Herc design switched to offensive and is owning all ships everywhere.
2572 GNN Message: Humans Exterminated.
2575 GNN Message: Silicoids Exterminated
2576 Extermination Win. I had 8k Herc ships, 2k Omega ships and 1K Neutronium bomb ships. Also, ended with 30k in reserves.
End result:80 techs stolen and I won for 160 points total.
Good evening. I’m the Grinch! Today marks the first year of Christmas Eve, which last 100 years. Christmas Day on 2400 also last 100 years. Then its 36,400 years before the next Christmas. I don’t have much time to enact my plans masquerading as Santa. During Christmas Eve, I will be unable to trade period with anyone. No need to even talk to anyone. During Christmas Day, I must gift every tech not in the computer tech field to everyone every turn to keep up the charade. Once they figure things out though, they will all ally against me, greatly increasing their tech output, which will give me plenty of goodies to steal, my ultimate plan, as per the law, no researching can be done by Santa on Christmas Eve or Day!
I take a look at the map. Potential AI surround me. From eyeballing the distances between planets, if I go north, I can potentially leap-frog all over the place (depending on Planetology), while if I go west/east, I believe I will need range 4. If I’m wrong, I lose something like 5 turns before my 2nd planet is colonized. My gamble pays off. I ended up sending my colony ship to the only planet I could colonize!
2303 There are 9 stars within scouting range. I build 5 “scout 1.0” Send pop like normal to colony.
2304 Build another 2 scouts.
2308 Silicoid scout runs from me at Kailes. This must put him to the yellow in the south.
2310 Get Tundra from Artifact planet Thrax. I would prefer range or a jump start on computers in order to give me a boost in spying, but its still a better pull than a lot of techs.
2317 Meet a Sakkra Colony Ship at Trax. He retreats. Puts them at NE somewhere.
2329 Colonize Kailis
2335 Bear Colony ship at Kakata This puts them to the NW yellow. Colonize Thrax.
2338 Colonize Esper Meet the Bears/Silicoids who are 5PE and 3PE respectively.
2341 Start 2 clicks each into spying on Bears/Silicoids. Will have a spy in 4 years.
2343 Colonize Draconis
2344 Colonize Darrian Simium must have been scouted by the Silicoid already as I get no tech from that planet.
2347 Start building a medium Heavy Laser from my rich world to protect my borders vs bears and a medium design with 6 lasers to help shoot transports down. They are about to scout Draconis and I can’t stop them as I have no armed ships yet.
2349 Steal Range4 from the Bears. I had hits in 4 fields.
2352 My lasers shoot 1/3rd of the transports the Bears sent and I defend the planet against their 14 million against my 27 and I win by 1. That was closer than I thought it would be!
2353 Steal Pop10 from Silicoid.
2354 Colonize Crypto. Get the 8 planet benchmark.
2356 Steal Jammer1 from Bears. I’d prefer RIW80, but no option in that field. Silicoid have warp2 that I want…hopefully steal it soon. Increase my spying.
2357 Colonize Klystron
2358 Colonize Drakka
2361 I scout Willow and get nothing. Someone else must have gotten there first. The Silicoid desire my goods at 100 BC a year. I say shove off.
2362 I get the merchant event. First event in the game. 600 BC. I have been reserve spending every turn anyways and can’t spend it all. Eventually I will though and it’s better than a planet going poor.
2363 I steal RIW80 from the bears. Finally! This is with 6 clicks on them for the past 9 years. I increase spying more.
2364 I colonize Argus
2365 Steal IIT9 from Silicoid. Bears finally declare war. They are erratic and I believe they only know me, so I have been expecting it for the past 27 years.
2366 Steal Hand Lasers from Silicoids and Barren from the Bears
2367 Steal Mark2 from Silicoid
2368 Steal Shield2 from Silicoids and HyperV from Bears
2369 Scouting Iranha gets me RIW60. How did no one scout this yet? The Human’s have a colony there as well. Did they colonize without scouting it? Must be a bug. I don’t’ know how Human didn’t get the tech.
2370 Colonize Ajax, Steal Gatling Laser from the Silicoids. I’ve almost stolen a tech a turn, but with 6 total spies in the Silicoid/Bears halls and my racial advantage, I don’t know how much of that is luck. I meet the 5PE Humans. Start spying.
2371 Colonize Herculis. I just realize I might have gotten the RIW60 from that planet and not Iranha. Which makes more sense. I must have just assumed it was Iranha.
2373 Steal Scanner from Humans and IRC3 from Bears
2374 Steal Death Spores from Bears Colonize Mu Delphi. I start building bases on trickles from all planets that were previously maxed out.
2375 Steal warp2 from humans. Finally! My transports have been so SLOW!.
2376 Colonize Simius
2377 Steal Range6 from the Bears
2378 Steal Jammer2 from the Humans and frame the Sakkra (between them and the Psilon) Steal Sheilds3 from the bears.
2379 Steal Enhanced Eco from Bears.
2380 Colonize Artemis.
2382 Steal Pop20 from Silicoid who catch me and steal Duralloy Armor from Bears.
2383 Steal range5 from Humans and frame the Sakkra.
2384 Steal personal Deflector Sheild from the Humans and frame the Sakkra.
2390 Bears come to me asking for Peace. I say yes.
2392 Aquilae finally maxes out. After 90 years with reserve spending for about 25 years. Steal NPG. Humans declare war because they catch me.
2393 Steal jammer3 from Bears and Mark3 from Silicoids
2394 GNN report. I am first in technology.
2395 Ajax just went Rich. I got over 5k in reserves. I have 16 planets. Humans have 9, Bears 7 and Silicoids 6. Sakkra I still haven’t met even though I know where they are and the Psilons I believe are stunted in the NE. In 5 turns I can start gifting techs.
2396 Steal Ion Cannon from Silicoid and Controlled Dead from Humans.
2400 Christmas Day! I gift the Bears 9 techs, the Silicoid 7 techs and the Humans 8 techs.
2404 Colonize Berel, GNN message: Darloks own 17 systems.
2408 Steal Jammer4 from Silicoids.
2409 Steal Sheild4 from Bears. Colonize Maretta. We finally have the vote. Bears vote 6 for me. Silicoids send their 6 to Humans. Humans put up 7 for themselves. Sakkra send their 2 to me, which I thought was odd since they were allied with Humans for most of the game. My framing them against an honorable opponent must have sent them into war when I wasn’t looking. Psilon send their 2 to the humans. I vote 13 for the humans and choose not to accept ruling going into final war.
With such a late vote and no runaway AI, I doubt I will have the top score if someone else goes to final war before me. Hopefully, the AI’s start researching like crazy now. I have 20,000 in reserve, so I mass bases everywhere. Start building medium Heavy Ion cannons to protect my 2 new colonies. I meet the Sakkra. I max spy spending on every nation, 40% of my planet’s expenses.
2411 Steal Mark4 from Silicoid.
2412 Steal Improved Eco from Silicoid
2413 Steal Auto Repair from Silicoid
2414 Steal Range7 from Silicoid
2415 I find Orion
2417 Steal Fusion bombs from Bears and Battle Suits from Sakkra
2418 Steal Anti-Missile Rockets from Bears and HyperX from Silicoids.
2419 Steal Mass Driver from Bears
2421 Steal IIT7 from Silicoid.
2422 Steal Neutron Blaster from Humans
2423 Steal Inertia Stabilizer from Sakkra
2425 Quake hits Psilon colony.
2427 I steal Inferno from Sakkra and Pop30 from Silicoid. I defend Maretta against Silicoid transports just barely.
2428 Steal Improved Scanner from Bears.
2432 Steal Advanced Scanner from Silicoid
2435 Steal Bio Toxin Antidote from Bears
2439 Steal Ion Rifle from Sakkra. Bomb Parana
2441 Steal IRC4 from bears, colonize Mobas.
2443 Colonize Maalor.
2447 Steal Scatter Park V from Sakkra and Pop40 from Silicoids
2449 Steal IIT6 from Silicoid.
2450 Steal Hard Beam from Bears.
2460 Steal Advanced Eco from Bears.
2464 Steal Cloning from Bears.
2465 Steal Atmospheric Terraforming from Silicoid
2467 Steal Mark5 from Silicoid.
2468 Steal Zort Armor from Humans.
2469 Steal Merc Missiles from Humans.
2471 Steal Personal Absorption shield from the Bears and Class5 shields from the Humans. I get the comet event at Drakka, which I destroy in under 6 turns.
2474 SOL goes Fertile.
2475 I steal Toxic from Silicoid and Jammer6 from Sakkra.
2478 Colonize Trax and Rotan.
2479 Steal Mark7 from Humans and warp3 from Sakkra. Colonize Cygni and meet the 5PE Psilons.
2480 Steal Radiated from the Sakkra
2481 Steal warp4 from Silicoid. Invade Paranar successfully but get Repulser beam and energy pulsar. That means I can’t steal it.
2483 Steal Cloak from Human and Anti Matter Bombs from Sakkra
2484 Steal range8 from Sakkra and Colonize Talas and Uxmai Get the GNN 26 planet benchmark
2485 Steal Fusion Rifles from Bears and Planet Shield X
2486 Steal Omega V from Bears
2487 Steal Stinger Missiles from Bears
2488 Uxmai is destroyed by humans.
2489 Steal range9 from bears.
2490 Psilons destroy Cygni.
2494 Steal Doom Virus from Bears
2495 Steal Mark6 from Psilons
2497 Steal Sheilds9 from Humans and Pop+50 from Silicoids
2498 Steal Personal Barrier Shield from Bears
2500 Christmas is finally over! I got 24 planets, a little under 75k in reserves. I drop spying from max on everyone, to 5.2% I turn tech spending on, focusing on weapons and propulsion. Time for extermination
2500-2550 Bears destroy Talas. I steal and learn a bunch of tech. Kailes goes poor. I build couple thousand Omega V with Zyro Shield/Cloak/Stabilizer every turn and bomb the Silicoid planets in the SW and the Bears in the NW except Kakata which I invade from 6 planets. First attempt fails (300 vs 223 and I only kill about half of them.) and 2nd attempt succeeds.. By 2551 the entire western map belongs to me. I have a small Herc missile 2 shot variety to patrol my new worlds
2558 GNN: Message Bears Exterminated. Should have done it on 2553, but they kept escaping death just barely each turn by re-colonizing the same planet until they were out of colony ships. Since I only had bombers there suicideing the planet, I had to wait until they used all their colony ships/
2565 GNN: Message Sakkra Exterminated. My Herc design switched to offensive and is owning all ships everywhere.
2572 GNN Message: Humans Exterminated.
2575 GNN Message: Silicoids Exterminated
2576 Extermination Win. I had 8k Herc ships, 2k Omega ships and 1K Neutronium bomb ships. Also, ended with 30k in reserves.
