Yeah i looked for a place to start a tyranny thread, but the choices are limited. I'm sure if we start one and a suitable sub-forum is created Kryo would only be to happy to move it for us.
I might see if i get the time over the weekend to create a new banner for us.

Its good to see all of you too.

Yea I just reinstalled the game and playing for the first time in like 4 years. I had a gigantic game going for over a year when my computer died.

Hello to all!

I see some familiar names and faces. Good to see that there is still an interest in the GalCiv universe.

I hope GalCiv III will attract some of the old crowd back from the past. I still submit a game or two when I find the time.

Cheers everyone!

Hi all!  It's good to see you here! 

You're probably already aware, but in case you're not, there's good news on the carrier front...

With all this talk of GC3, I figured I'd load up TOA and give it another shot.  Not a metaverse game or anything.  I played on normal difficulty and was disappointed in how poorly the AI did.  I guess playing suicidal for so long spoiled me.

Anyhow, I didn't build a single military ship.  I thought I had influence victory turned off, but I won by influence fairly early.  I'm not sure how that happened.  I wasn't even through the tech tree and there was a lot of the galaxy that hadn't been colonized.  Here's the result...

Have fun with the campaign! I started one a long time ago, but went to sandbox before finishing it.  

I'm running a new TotA game on tough.  I'm liking the AI much better.  The NPCs are actually pushing back and pretty much the entire galaxy has been colonized.  There are wars breaking out and I didn't even have to instigate any of them.

I was invited to assist one of the NPCs with a war, but declined the invite.

I still haven't bought a single warship and I have the most powerful military by a small margin.  I've been trading for fighters as usual.  Influence starbases are my primary attack weapon.  My economy is overheating. I might have to change strategies from econ to research if I don't want to hit the penalty limit.

The game is so much more fun when not playing for score.  My next game will have to be at a higher difficulty level, but I think I'm reaching a good balance. 

I never tried any of the campaigns but I was always a little bit curious how they might play out regarding the back story and all.

I think I might try to play all of the different civs before the next incarnation appears (I've got plenty of time), a promise I made to myself a long time ago (DL,DA?) but just wound up playing my favourite three or four over and over again.

In my last game I was using it as a lab experiment, sort of (tiny, one opponent, 8 minors, etc.) and basically just screwing around trying unorthodox methods, like gifting all my worlds to one minor civ, with the exception of one class 20 planet I think it was plus my home world. I would then bribe most of them to go to war with each other.

As someone who has slowly worked up to Painful, I appreciate hearing that it isn't all that bad to be here and I don't have feel a need to push to reach higher and higher levels.  It is a satisfying contest and I don't play for score. 

Happiness!

In the past, I had settled on crippling as my standard fun game.

Just played one and found it much more difficult than I remember.

I'm right there with you on that, but you're ahead of me so far.  I'm only back up to Painful now and have no idea where I'll end up.  I'd bet Suicidal will be too much though. 

I'm on my 3rd game since firing up TotA and a lot of it's coming back.

Yeah.  Playing on lower difficulty levels is helping. That economy can be a fickle beast. You're bouncing around the -500 level and a few weeks later, you're suddenly in the green.  

I haven't figured the math out yet.  On my current game (Painful) I wasn't even listed in the top 15 races for quite a while.  Even the minors were more powerful then me.  A year later and my area of influence is second only to the Thalan. The root cause was the economy. 

Im going to have play a few game i think....

Just finished watching Jimmie Johnson take title #6, so might just celebrate that for a while and think about starting a game...

Ohh Demigod....wish that community didn't die..loved that game! I'll have to re-install that too!!!

Well, that was going to be my last game for a while.  But then my wife kinda goaded me into upping the difficulty to suicidal.  So now there's a new game in progress.

I really like the unique tech trees.  

I'm usually top dog on tech, but that's not easy to do on suicidal.  The Torians are on top of everything by a wide margin and I've been buying trade goods from them.  

I've been threatened several times by the evil races, so I've had to buy fighters to have some semblance of a military.  It's typical for me to buy fighters, but there hasn't been such an urgency to do it until this game. 

I think I can turn this one around for a win though.  The humans are pretty overpowered when it comes to diplo.  

I guess the chores can wait.