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Empire thread --> The Gerontocracy

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The Gerontocracy is here, and the universe will never be the same.

This empire is intended for players over the age of 30, hence the name of the empire. Judging by other threads, that means about 89% of us. For that other 11%, my advice is to hurry up and get older; in the meantime, though, there are plenty of other empires to join, even if they're not nearly as awesome as we are.

Click here to join this empire.
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Reply #76 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
oops ... ! here it is then -
Siege of Centauri
Reply #79 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, I'd like to ask permission to join your Empire, too.
I am of age and my computer is definitely slow enough for this empire - I'm just glad this is a turn-based strategy game...
Reply #80 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, I'd like to ask permission to join your Empire, too.
I am of age and my computer is definitely slow enough for this empire - I'm just glad this is a turn-based strategy game...


Sure don't see why not ! Welcome. Soon as I or one of my compadres figures out how to send the invite (the Emperor will be back in a few days) then we'll make it so!

The_Butter_Flies !! [drums and bugles][marching bands]

I'm glad this is turn based game too. bf2142 gets a little too bloody and personal. Supreme Commander AI is so dumb it's like wrestling with a little old lady. This is much more relaxing, and more fun.

[PS] I don't see where I can send an invite, however if you go here The Gerontacracy Empire page, there is a little "join Empire" button under the Emperor's Picture. As a Senator I think I can accept an application, but dunno how to send an invite. Sorry I'm yust a liddle cog in the machinery   

[PPS] Mods if you see this, please delete my test posts above (73-77) if you want to. Thanks!
Reply #81 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm here, no worries.

I see we've added a few new members, which is great. Welcome to all of you.
Reply #82 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh yihoo, I've joined. My old bones rejoice.
Looks like I'm the first Plebejan in this empire.
Well - I wouldn't mind becoming a senator- too, if your excellence Lord Ghost of Wes don't mind (please).
Reply #83 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for adding me to the empire ghostwes. I'm all tuckered out now just thinking about all of the challenges ahead... time for a nap

Btw, I'll be 54 next month (just for the record)
Reply #84 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Actually, I think someone else must have added you, but no matter, you're both welcome here.

A fellow Canadian, I see. I'm in Windsor, Ontario myself.

And like in Canada, the Gerontocracy simply appoints senators heh.
Reply #85 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Senator appointments

I'm in Toronto.

Just on my way out to stock up on duct tape and beer (I'm such a hoser)
Now, if The Home Depot and The Beer Store could form a merger, they would corner the market for males 19 to 65... a killing I tell you, an absolute killing!

I don't know who to thank for my acceptance into the empire, just assumed from the previous posts that it might have been you ghost...

p.s. Let me know who to thank.

Reply #86 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I wanna live in Canada too! [snif] How come you guys have all the fun? I always hear good things about Canada, and I really enjoyed my visit to B.C. way back when.

p.s. Let me know who to thank.
Well it wasn't me ... I can't even find the "join Empire" button without 15 minutes of intense concentration ... sigh ... back in my younger days, I coulda ... uhhh, what was I saying?
Reply #87 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
ElWhopO, as a prerequisite for living here, you must have watched all re-runs from the Bob and Doug McKenzie's "Great White North" show, The Red Green Show, Trailer Park Boys, not to mention pledging allegiance at the holy shrine of William (Bill) Shatner, recite all Toronto Maple Leaf and Montreal Canadian hockey team players living and dead from as far back as 1967 (cakewalk), and have used the word(?) "eh" in any sentence structure, and have at anytime purchased beer, smokes (cigarettes) and groceries in that specific order.

In lieu of that, a case of Molson Canadian and a secret password (please!), will get you in like nobody's business.

Shall I start the paperwork?
Reply #88 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
ElWhopO, as a prerequisite for living here, you must have watched all re-runs from the Bob and Doug McKenzie's "Great White North" show, The Red Green Show, Trailer Park Boys, not to mention pledging allegiance at the holy shrine of William (Bill) Shatner, recite all Toronto Maple Leaf and Montreal Canadian hockey team players living and dead from as far back as 1967 (cakewalk), and have used the word(?) "eh" in any sentence structure, and have at anytime purchased beer, smokes (cigarettes) and groceries in that specific order.

In lieu of that, a case of Molson Canadian and a secret password (please!), will get you in like nobody's business.

Shall I start the paperwork?


He(ck) yeah! I'd give a truckload of beer to get out of this rat-nest!   
Reply #89 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Why don't all you old foggies join us whales. I am the emperor of the space orcas and I am 47. If you amalgamate with us, I will make all of your active players senators in our new empire which I will Rename "The Geriatric Whales of Doom". What do you think? We may Regain No. 1 spot. Bye for now TBAY
Reply #90 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Why don't all you old foggies join us whales. I am the emperor of the space orcas and I am 47. If you amalgamate with us, I will make all of your active players senators in our new empire which I will Rename "The Geriatric Whales of Doom". What do you think? We may Regain No. 1 spot. Bye for now TBAY
Are you serious? What a Deal! [pauses][puts communicator on "super-secret-interoffice-red-phone-command-mode"][Scumby, come into my office - I have something I want you to do ... ][clicks back to normal] What do you think, ghostwes? Is whale-poo-poo too stinky for us?    My Huggies are not waterproof!
Reply #91 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Wales? I don't speak Gaelic! On the other hand the grass really is said to be greener there....
Reply #92 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No disrespect to the Orcas, but I vote to keep the Gerontocracy independent. There's too much merger mania in the world these days.

Besides, Orcas don't live as long as humans in industrialized nations. They're about finished by 35...
Reply #93 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
When is ghostwes getting back, anywayz. I kinda miss clesaning up after the old far... oh, nvm.

In The NEws, I should have my first tough victory today or tomorrow (and I didn't even have to restart). If I had tech or diplo victory enabled i could have finished it already. Those darn Arcaens tricked me into giving up an economic treaty early on, and now they are being obstinate. Everyone else is ded, why don't they just give up?

P.S. - to use quotes you can click 'quote on the post to get the whole thing or just highlight the text you want and click quote for that post, if anyone wanted to know. darn, how come there's no little smiley with a halo, that's one of my favorites.   


Reply #94 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm back, but I still need to catch up on everything.

No disrespect to the Orcas, but I vote to keep the Gerontocracy independent. There's too much merger mania in the world these days.


I agree. I appreciate the offer, but I think merging would be the wrong thing to do, especially as many people signed up to the Gerontocracy because of our focus on older players.


Reply #95 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm back, but I still need to catch up on everything.
Welcome back. Looking forward to your gerontological genius getting going great gunz. Have a good vacation?
Reply #96 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I am an older newbie, and I would be honored to both help and receive help from your wizened citizens. "MalcomReynolds" requesting citizenship.

PS - I notice no losses showing on the records for this fine empire. That is perhaps intimidating to newer players such as myself. Is this an advanced empire only, in terms of both age AND skill?
Reply #97 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Have a good vacation?


Quite relaxing, thank you.

I am an older newbie, and I would be honored to both help and receive help from your wizened citizens. "MalcomReynolds" requesting citizenship.


Citizenship granted. Welcome aboard, sir.

PS - I notice no losses showing on the records for this fine empire. That is perhaps intimidating to newer players such as myself. Is this an advanced empire only, in terms of both age AND skill?


Well, I can't speak for the others, but in my case it's because I give up on games long before they're recorded as a loss by the metaverse. In fact, I have no idea what happens when one loses... is it interesting? Heh. In any case, no need to be intimidated
Reply #98 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I notice no losses showing on the records for this fine empire. That is perhaps intimidating to newer players such as myself. Is this an advanced empire only, in terms of both age AND skill?


Captain Mal. If you put your mouse pointer over the pretty coloured
clock after the medals, you will see that most of us are at the lower levels of difficulty. Some at cakewalk.

Like gostwes, I have never posted my losses.
If you do, it brings down your overall acore on the Metaverse. On the positive side, if you post five, I think it is, you get a medal.
Reply #99 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have no idea what happens when one loses... is it interesting?
[choke-spits coffee all over monitor   ] Might be interesting to a conisseur of cussing to be a fly on the wall at my place! [don't tell anybody but ...] I lost one game (retired) and have been getting a nice rush from the excitement of knowing this AI can actually beat me if I don't try ... at tough level that is (smirk-I'm such an irrepressible adolescent) ...

naw, don't be intimidated. It's all good fun, and this is a pretty good empire to be in. Let's just have fun and eskreww the rest!

If anyone has any trouble with posting to Metaverse or anything, the issues can be solved, don't be afraid to ask. We all put our clothes on one-leg-at-a-time (if not then I wanna be a fly on the wall for that scene!)

By permission of Emperor ghostwes (?),
ElWhopO "the Magnificent" (until I lose another one and get depressed   )

Reply #100 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
ElWhopO, as a prerequisite for living here, you must have watched all re-runs from the Bob and Doug McKenzie's "Great White North" show, The Red Green Show, Trailer Park Boys, not to mention pledging allegiance at the holy shrine of William (Bill) Shatner, recite all Toronto Maple Leaf and Montreal Canadian hockey team players living and dead from as far back as 1967 (cakewalk), and have used the word(?) "eh" in any sentence structure, and have at anytime purchased beer, smokes (cigarettes) and groceries in that specific order.


All this time I thought it was the whole illegal alien status and subsequent inability to get a job that ultimately made living in Canada impossible for me. There I was calling the US embassy and Canadian immigration trying to figure out how to make it work. Well, they never mentioned anything about Great White North or Red Green Show. I was forced to watch a hockey game while I was there but I guess by then it was too little, too late, and I never could get the hang of having to go to separate stores for beer and groceries. That's just odd.

So anyway, ghostwes, if I promise to submit a game before the end of the year can I join the group?