metaverse score? all I'm interested in is epic stories...

U will love the game when u get it, its 9.9/10 and I never give 10/10  

I haven't got a story for u but there r a few on this board (try AAR's, after action reports and the journal I think), also real good news, the expansion (Dark Avatar) is going to have a epic story creator. So hopefully every game u play will have its own epic tale...cool...can't wait...

Thanx, I just realised having decried the metaverse I did it on a metaverse thread

I'm not new to internet forums but I'm finding this one a little difficult to navigate.

Yeah, trying to figure out these boards is frustrating.

I don't have much of a story to tell, except my four games I have posted to the metaverse thus far were each accomplished without initiating any war, and not getting in a single war with any of the major civilizations.

Unfortunately I upped the difficulty a notch on my current game, and after failing to gain a foothold in my territory with colony ships to several lesser worlds within my territory (my influence is too strong, and several alien civilizations' colonies erroneously placed within my borders before I could send my upgraded colony ships to all of them), the Iconians thought they'd vent their frustration by declaring war.

Given how peaceful my previous games had been, I was a bit unprepared and hadn't researched any serious military technologies. I quickly traded my technologies with the other civilizations for all their technologies and money, and scurried to put together the best design I could, and converted my 30 or so colonies from engine-upgraded Constructors to the new small warship to defend my colonies. I have had to devoute my research into military technologies, and now am producing warships with a strong defense against the Iconian laser-armed warships. Fortunately, the Iconians seemed ill-prepared to launch their war, and do not appear to even have the capability of producing troop ships, which has given me time to protect most of my colonies.

Unfortunately, my computer is prone to overheating while playing GC2 (I keep spending more and more to cool stuff, and just bought my third computer case in a month that I hope will do a better job at cooling), but just before the last crash, I destroyed an Iconian Influence starbase and an economy starbase at the edge of my territory (where they have a colony near mine). I am researching Planetary Invasion, the technology that allows construction of troop ships, and look forward to driving them out of my territory. They have probably 5 or 6 colonies within my territory, 3 or 4 of them nearing revolt (which would convert them to mine). They have some primitive laser warships with no defensive capability, whereas all of my warships have anti-laser shields and ar armed with Stinger missiles and my newest design has six times the anti-laser shield strength as the Iconian's average ship's laser weapon.

In short, I may have been foolish in not building any sort of military, but my powerful economy allowed me to quickly close the gap and, in the end, its the Iconians proving themselves foolish for declaring war on me with no real capability to do any real damage. I will probably offer them peace after I've taken their colonies that fall within my cultural borders, but only if they make it worth my while by surrendering every last dime in their treasury and every technology they have that I don't already have.

i game i am still playing on is then i play as a custom race,

i started in a bad place in the galaxy, i was only able to colonize two planets outside my homesystem, and even worse. the dominion of korx was blocking my way out in the galaxy, but i had some luck to. one of the planets i colonized was a lvl 19 planet.


i build up some military units whit laser cannons and began to trade whit the drath, another race who blocked my way, so sudenly the korx declared war, and i was not ready for a war just yet, but to be able to resist a bit longer i builded a new ship who should stop ther advance, the shielder. it had no enigne, just laser cannons. i fought that it would be destroyed i was suprised by how well it fought. three ships attacked it, they were gone in notime, so i bulded a lot of them and begun my counteroffensive.


i crused ther military forces and began a blocade on korx 2, and soon i got plasma weapons and made the shielder 2. then i began to reasarch on planetary invasion. they began to beg for peace but i had only one thing in my mind, complete annihilation of the korx, then i got planetary invasion i bulded some transports and invaded, a failure, i sended in another transport. a sucsess. now i turned against anhoter world controled by the korx, i dont remember the name.

at the same time both the altarians and the arcenas helped me and gave me some starships. i sended the ships into the battle and son the planet was my. then i began to blocade on the korx homeworld as i attacked another. soon both was my and the korx was gone, the i saw that i was the strongest civilization in the galaxy. i allied myself whit the yor. but sudenly it they was in war against the altarians. (it was the altarians who declared war against the yor.) soon the whole galaxy was in war expect the arceans who looked on. i helped the yor and rushed into the war. my trade whit the drath was broken and i lost some battle against them. right now i dont now that to do. the drath has better ships than me and the yor cant help me. the fight for survival aganst the altarians. but soon my ships will get defenses, the shielder have no defenses but it will soon have, i hope....