Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread » Forum Post by KzintiPatriarch

Emperor_Seth

Behold, using my special strategy, I have managed to get 186,900, the highest score ever gotten using TA.

Congrats Seth!

Snarkotamus

Bad, Bad Squirrell!
Plus, it's just plain fun to toy with the Vegans/Paridians/etc. for a while and then obliterate them suddenly without any warning or apparent reason. Much like KP does with new Empires.....

Playing with your food before you eat it is the feline way. [e digicons]}[/e]

Admiral Davis

reply 24

Hello, I'm just introducing myself. I'm Admiral Davis, and I wanted to say thanks to the Kzinti Empire for their invitation, to which I gladly accepted.

Welcome Admiral Davis! [e digicons][/e] May the Fanged God favor you in battle!

mADDYman

reply 25

Welcome Admerial, i'm maddyman. I'm also with the kzinti empire so you'll be seeing me round a bit. Praise KP (KzintiPatriarch) he's the one who sent the invite and would be happy to answer any question you may have... oh!, not meaning others in the empire won't answer you it's just not all of us keep up to date with day to day affairs in the kzinti empire.

Definitely ask any questions you may have, and someone will be sure to answer you pretty quickly. Probably Sole Soul or Loupdinour, but occassionally someone else will slip an answer in first.

Sentient species taste better...

Probably Sole Soul or Loupdinour, but occassionally someone else will slip an answer in first.

SS has been quicker on the draw lately. I think I've been napping.

Loupdinour

reply 2

Probably Sole Soul or Loupdinour, but occassionally someone else will slip an answer in first.
SS has been quicker on the draw lately. I think I've been napping.

No, I've been sick this past week and a half.

Thanks again for the welcome. And I do have a question. I was thinking about downloading a couple of mods to break the monotony of my games(not that they've been getting boring, but a little change here or there is always nice). What I was wondering is, can I still play games with mods and upload my scores from such games to the metaverse? If yes, what are some mods you would recommend?

Admiral Davis

reply 4

Thanks again for the welcome. And I do have a question. I was thinking about downloading a couple of mods to break the monotony of my games(not that they've been getting boring, but a little change here or there is always nice). What I was wondering is, can I still play games with mods and upload my scores from such games to the metaverse? If yes, what are some mods you would recommend?

technically you can, but it will trigger a cheat flag. your score wouldn't be counted in the official MV, but it would be counted in the altmeta.

i recommend doing what you find most fun.

Sole Soul

reply 3

Quoting Loupdinour,
reply 2

Probably Sole Soul or Loupdinour, but occassionally someone else will slip an answer in first.
SS has been quicker on the draw lately. I think I've been napping.

No, I've been sick this past week and a half.

That sucks...hope you are starting to recover. I was thinking you had been a bit quiet this week.

Admiral Davis

reply 4

Thanks again for the welcome. And I do have a question. I was thinking about downloading a couple of mods to break the monotony of my games(not that they've been getting boring, but a little change here or there is always nice). What I was wondering is, can I still play games with mods and upload my scores from such games to the metaverse? If yes, what are some mods you would recommend?

I dont do much at all with mods, because I play all Metaverse games, but there is a full Kzinti mod here in the Library. AF_Ronin created it along with some imput from me.

Sentient species taste better...

i recently installed DA and have been testing different ARC's...in MV just in case i get lucky with a map. in the current game the AI (4 suicidal) appear to be morons. 8/26 and only 23 planets have been colonized, most of them mine. I sense "cheat flag". i changed homestar, homeworld and super ability. i've retired to make certain it's MV, but don't know what trips the flag.

do you have to submit to trip? do i need to create another character to test the ARC settings?

I sense "cheat flag".

I sense "Ctrl + N resetting difficulty to Fool".

Homestar and SA don't trip it-I don't know if homeworld does, though.

dystopic

reply 5

Quoting Admiral Davis, reply 4Thanks again for the welcome. And I do have a question. I was thinking about downloading a couple of mods to break the monotony of my games(not that they've been getting boring, but a little change here or there is always nice). What I was wondering is, can I still play games with mods and upload my scores from such games to the metaverse? If yes, what are some mods you would recommend?
technically you can, but it will trigger a cheat flag. your score wouldn't be counted in the official MV, but it would be counted in the altmeta.

i recommend doing what you find most fun.

Okay, thanks. I want to continue to up my metaverse rank, so I'll stick with my old guns. By the way, I think it's somewhat ironic that I've been winning games by military conquest even though I never build any ships besides constructors. I really love the influential starbases.

And I was wondering, if game settings such as planet and star frequency affect my score. I've been playing on gigantic maps with star and planet frequency set to rare, so that all the major races(including myself) only have the 2 colonizeable planets in their home system, while there is 1 system with 5 planets housing all the minors. I like to play like that, because it makes it easier for me to stay competitive with the other races, as well as making it quite easy to conquer them via influence.

Heh, so I guess I'm asking, if there are more systems and habitable planets, does that in and of itself increase the points I will get by winning?

I sense "Ctrl + N resetting difficulty to Fool".

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homeworld doesn't. if i encountered a hole in the code, i wouldn't submit. what trips the flag? i want to test whether i made a error in edit.

in the current game the AI (4 suicidal) appear to be morons. 8/26 and only 23 planets have been colonized, most of them mine. I sense "cheat flag".

To my knowledge, you haven't done anything that would trip a cheat flag. However, even if you had, you have most definitely not done anything that would cause the AI to fail to colonize. Tripping a cheat flag will not cause the AI to forget how to colonize. The logical explanation for that phenomenon is that you've managed to get the AIs to reset their intelligence to Fool via using Ctrl + N (bug which supposedly got fixed). If you haven't used Ctrl + N, then I don't know.

got cha'. i did crtl n...several times. would submitting a dbug help them find it or do they care at this point?

edit : jesum h jones, can you imagine the ctrl n's happening out there now?

Hey Admiral Davis, do you have TA? Cause if so I'd like to share my strategy with you on how to get over 100k points. Also I'll give this strategy to only a few players but only those who struggle to get more than 20k points.

jacklv

reply 12

got cha'. i did crtl n...several times. would submitting a dbug help them find it or do they care at this point?

To be perfectly honest, I don't know. I was under the impression the issue had been fixed in DA, so the question arises what version you're running (1.8, 2.0, etc). It's also possible it was simply fixed for TA and failed to get backported.

It wouldn't seem to do any harm, though I'm not sure a debug would be sufficient; a savegame might be necessary.

But in answer to your question it's unlikely that it will be fixed at this point since/if it hasn't already, and since DL and DA are both essentially dead at this point.

version you're running (1.8, 2.0,

FYI, UE ver 2.01. doubt SD would fix it. at some point, you have to cut and run. it might even help UE sales. thanks.

Emperor_Seth

reply 13

Hey Admiral Davis, do you have TA? Cause if so I'd like to share my strategy with you on how to get over 100k points. Also I'll give this strategy to only a few players but only those who struggle to get more than 20k points.

Unfortunately, I do not have TA. I don't have either expansion pack yet. I'm running the basic Dread Lords. And unless I can find a job soon, or get some disability income, I won't be able to get the expansions anytime soon.

Hmmm, how can I get my awards/medals to show underneath my posts?

When you go to view one of your MV characters, click the "Default" button next to whichever character has the best stats. Every medal that character gets will go underneath your posts after that's done.

BTW, welcome to the forums and the MV.

Sole Soul

reply 8

Homestar and SA don't trip it-I don't know if homeworld does, though.

It does not. It is almost certainly the CTRL-N bug, which resets AI intelligence to fool.

Admiral Davis

reply 9

And I was wondering, if game settings such as planet and star frequency affect my score. I've been playing on gigantic maps with star and planet frequency set to rare, so that all the major races(including myself) only have the 2 colonizeable planets in their home system, while there is 1 system with 5 planets housing all the minors. I like to play like that, because it makes it easier for me to stay competitive with the other races, as well as making it quite easy to conquer them via influence.

Heh, so I guess I'm asking, if there are more systems and habitable planets, does that in and of itself increase the points I will get by winning?

The four major components of score are economy, military, social, and tech. Having more planets will directly increase your social and econ score, because you'll have more people (social) and be bringing in more revenue (econ). It will also help to increase the other two components as you'll also likely be producing more tech and more warships. A key element in this is speed. Try to increase any and all of these four score components as swiftly as possible and your overall score will also increase significantly.

Sentient species taste better...

Cypher

reply 17

When you go to view one of your MV characters, click the "Default" button next to whichever character has the best stats. Every medal that character gets will go underneath your posts after that's done.

BTW, welcome to the forums and the MV.

Thank you!

KzintiPatriarch

reply 18

The four major components of score are economy, military, social, and tech. Having more planets will directly increase your social and econ score, because you'll have more people (social) and be bringing in more revenue (econ). It will also help to increase the other two components as you'll also likely be producing more tech and more warships. A key element in this is speed. Try to increase any and all of these four score components as swiftly as possible and your overall score will also increase significantly.

Sentient species taste better...

Okay, that's what I figured. What I've been doing is mass producing Constructors on my home planet to build influence starbases right next to the other civs planets, then I use their planets to increase my economy, research, and build more constructors. I've been keeping the planets and systems to a minimum to keep the other civs from expanding and overwhelming me. But my games have been getting quite easy as I've gotten better at doing this, so it's about time I either upped the difficulty again, and/or changed the settings.

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Cypher - Global Moderator

check-out www.galciv2guide.com.

Thanks for the tip! It is a great looking forum, and I joined right up.

ps I hope I did not duplicate anyone else's avatar, but when I saw this on the news, I could not resist.

It was a terrible battle, the brave Kzinti warriors fought as best they could, but the enemy was using...... water balloons. They had no honor.

LAMO+

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!!!!!! [e digicons][/e] i didn't vote

the first wife took this pic. the beacht sold it.

I've been working on my latest Swindle, trying to break 700k on a Huge map, and I think I'm going to do it. Here's a shot of my econ at the height of my largest net BCs, during Year 3:

I managed to break 1 million net BCs. I estimate the game will come in at over 750k! Last score test at the end of Year 3 was 450,100.

Sentient species taste better...