How Microsoft dominated the galaxy

heh

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Ok so seriously, I had this sick idea after watching Fight Club - that corporations would dominate the world right? So why not put that little mix into GalCiv2? Thus was born the modified Terran Race - Microsoft, lead by none of other than "Chair Punter Madman"...

Ok so jokes aside, here was my idea and it worked AWESOME.

Customized Terrans:
+30% Influence (Commercial Giant...duh)
+20% Economics (Gifted Moneymakers)
+15% Morale (brain-washed employees...)
Pacifists (bwahaha - funny I know, but I had too)

Everything was on Random for a Medium Galaxy, with opponents on Painful difficulty. If people really want a walk-through of what happened I could, but here's the general idea.

I landed 4 *nasty* opponents, one close and the others equally distant - I landed 2 more plants besides Earth/Mars of 13 and 9 quality. No anomolies and horrible planet quality. After that I stuck to two major mottos:

"You can't talk with money in your mouth" - I fed my 4 opponents enough money to back-off and kept them at bay for quite awhile as I worked my way down for the entire cultural tech tree. A few influence starbases to win the Senate vote, but not enough to anger anyone in the beginning - maybe 2 at max. I led one to fight another (disabled tech trading and minor races, that's cheap), side stepped a war once by paying the guy 20,000. Typical business tactics....just stall

"A true pacifist is evil to the core" - That's right, Ethics trained and I went evil as soon as possible. Why? You have any idea how many upgrades those influence stations take with all options?!? It's like 15+ just for influence! So yeah, free money....oh and Mind Control Center is awesome and fits the Microsoft way. Resistance is futile! It's ironic how well Diplomacy+Bribery+Evil works.

I pretty much side-stepped every major fight (I had one, thankfully I had Evil weapons - Psionic missles are nasty and easy to get), I quickly took over planet after planet, throwing money at people so they'd die quietly....I lost 1 ship and killed 13, and yet I won a resounding victory.

Tip for the influence fanatic: Sit with 10 transports just outside an enemies influence and in one turn, buy one starbase and upgrade the heck out of it (it's free if you're evil). Watch their standing go from friendly to hostile in one week, but I've had a planet turn in 3 weeks after that tactic.

Long live Borg-Microsoft Domination!
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I love it    I truly hate Microsoft    I'm dreading Vista   
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I love it I truly hate Microsoft I'm dreading Vista


I really, really, hope that they've upgraded themselves into irrelevance with Vista. Their latest round of 'features' doesn't even pretend to be good for users. I might eventually migrate to a cracked version, but I won't even consider using the kernel-protected internet-verifyed piece of crap they're trying to foist on us now.

Microsoft has every right to control my computer, provided that they buy it for me.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Have you noticed that the only thing it's politically correct to hate is Microsoft? Oh yeah, I mean Microsoft and smokers. So if you'll excuse me I have to stand outside in the rain and grab a butt.

Actually, I haven't had a smoke in over five years now but I still enjoy the smell.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Have you noticed that the only thing it's politically correct to hate is Microsoft?


Then just for the record I also hate golfing, T.V. news, and peanut butter.

I would hate for people to think I was politically correct.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think this whole thing about being politically correct is way out of hand. It's now politically correct to be extreme about being politically correct. Ridiculous.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's now politically correct to be extreme about being politically correct. Ridiculous.


This is way too deep for me. Is it politically correct to object to being extreme about being politically correct just because it's politically correct, or is it politically correct to justify being extreme about being politically correct because it's not really politically correct?

On another note, I like the idea of corporate overlord races, I think it's got great potential as a mod.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nice way guys to completely take a strategy/ideal post and turn it political....

Thinking back, I should have gone neutral first to get my improvement squares, then turned Evil for those. When you go from Neutral to Evil, do you lose the improvement squares?
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can't change alignments after getting xeno ethics. Neutral doesn't fit mister softy anyway. Evil all the way.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If you cant change alignment once choosing, then whats the point of the sliders afterwards? Is it just for initial cost amounts?
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If your talking about the slider on the Alignment screen. It's game controlled by the planet event choices you make. You can't adjust it on your own.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I understand that, but your civilization may be "Evil" ala the choice with Xeno Ethics. But what happens if later you make all good choices, does your race repent or do you auto switch later?

I choose good once for 10,000 bc since I had made some evil choices, and I kept making them later with no real problem...my question is why cant my civ change to evil later after the initial choice?
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I understand that, but your civilization may be "Evil" ala the choice with Xeno Ethics. But what happens if later you make all good choices, does your race repent or do you auto switch later?


That strikes me as odd, since normally ethical events completely stop once you research xeno ethics.
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yea, Those events should cease once you choose. I can't remember ever having ethical choices after choosing alignment.
Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Cool  

Now I will do one except with wal-mart.

Long Live Wally World!  
Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This would be a great mod if you made each side into a major corporation and gave them a big bonus to trade and a penalty to economy and ship attack. You could tweak the improvements, too, to put more emphesis on influence/resistance and super projects.