Hmm, this place looks familiar. offline for 8 months and I come back to see Impulse with a new owner, no hint of GC3(that I've found yet) and a ton of dust on everything. I'm back to annoy and enlighten(yea right ) though. 

GC3???? Whats that? From what i can gather, certain folks have forgot what game brought them to the dance....Elewhatel?

:p

It's good to see you DA and Neilo!  

Is anyone playing Elemental?  I don't know anything about it other than the fact that I heard the name around here somewhere.  That, and from the rumor mill it was evidently never finished, but they released it anyway?  Confusing stuff for my little pea brain.

Lately, I've been playing Freespace 2.  I had to upgrade my joystick in order to play it, but it's working now.  It's a nice throwback to the old Wing Commander days.  There are several mods on the open source circuit so it should live a while.  A head to head version over the net would be awesome.

I'll probably see you folks on facebook more-so than here.  Hopefully, we'll find another team type game to slug it out with the general populace.  Evony was fun when the humans were playing, but then the bots took over.  I couldn't see the fun in bot farming just to get ahead in a game.  Mafia Wars got real boring when they dropped combat in favor of farming.  I guess that's the way with MMOs though.  Shame, that.

Surely there's something on the horizon.

I'm not really playing anything but SC2. I'm waiting on the Star Wars MMO to come out and i'll sink my teeth into that. Plus im looking forward to a RTS MMO called End of Nations.

I had a look at Elemental, but it didnt grab after 30mins or so, plus i too read that it was full of bugs, thought to be fair to SD, that would have improved for sure.

I'm on FB often and my skype is always on. Now that DA is back online perhaps we can dust off Demigod for a few games?

I'm back to playing Demigod again.  I downloaded it from Steam and started over.  Hope to see you in there.  I'm 3vilTwin1 on Steam and in the game.

hiya motti! i wonder if the steam and impulse versions of demigod use the same servers? im always keen for a game of demigod, u still have skype on your demigod installed machine?
Use either skype or facebook even mate and lets organize a game!

i have time, ill check around the traps and see if we can meet up!!!

Yeah, they use the same servers.  I've been on here and there, but not at very long stretches.  I even made it to #1 on the Pantheon for a day, not that that means anything.  It was fun though.  I think I wound up at #3 due to lack of playing.

I was able to get into a game with DarkLiath hosting once.  It was the only time I've ever seen her online in there.  She's incredibly patient and tolerant when it comes to noobs like myself.  Our side won, despite me.    

Skype is on my gaming computer, but I haven't hooked up my headset in a while.  I might have to rummage around to find it.  Of course, I could always just message you in skype.  I'll try it out.

I take it no TOE members are around anymore save for the occasional appearance from Motti or myself?

I'm thinking about getting back into the game, not in a big way but just some fun MV games, just as soon as gamestop sort out my impulse issues.

I can't drag anyone kicking and screaming back into the game for some fun???

Wonders if i just keep posting will anything happen!

sometimes....sex sells.

I did it but it dosen't really work?  Glad to see you back.

Happy New Year!

We are looking for players to join to become aggressive Admirals to lead your fleets across the Galaxy!

Empress Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

I'll keep posting anyway. I have started a giga abundant all suicidal map, im colonizing, see how i go, but at this point, if i break 100K i'll be happy, but....i'm playing this one, not working for score, and its fun to be back in that mode. I'm not even sure i could turn this into a mumbler even if i wanted to, i can't bloody remember how!!!!

I fired up DA after re-installing it from Impulse.  When I tried to start a metaverse game, it said that my game wasn't registered.  I guess I'll need to offer sacrifices to the computer gods and scatter some coffee grounds and such.  

Maybe I should remove Impulse and re-download from the Stardock site.  I haven't recently bought anything from gamestop anyway.

I'll try sometime later.

Yeah i had to re-register both DL and DA to play as well, i did it from the impulse orb thingy.
I just finished my game and subbed it. I played a giga abundant all scattered stars suicidal game and used no mumbler techniques.
i colonized the hell out of the game and did not draw it our for score. I didnt even go after all the resources or anything, just jumped on the AI as fast as i could.
Here is my effort, and its the first time i have played suicidal that wasn't a ZYW or a mumbler.

Sorry about not being on Skype mate, i didnt even realize it wasn't on, my pc has really turned on me. I got all my parts now, so i'll start backing up and building the new pc today. My skype is on though and i will be able to play some DG if your keen and able mate. Just hit me up on skype, it's on!! lol

l8r

Nice game Neilo!     I don't remember much about it either, but I'm sure it'll come back to us if we poked around ingame for a while.  

No prob about Skype and Demigod.  I'm back on long hours again, so my gaming time will be cut short.  A TBS like Galciv2 might suit me better for now since I can save it and walk away.  

I removed all traces of Impulse from my machine last night and got the serial number update from the Stardock site.  I didn't even have to uninstall DA to get it to work.  I just updated the serial and logged into the Metaverse just to test it.  I might try a game tonight if I can set some time aside.

As the game comes back to us i think we can pursue a new type of game. the game where you win as fast as yuo can, but via colonizing, not mumbler or ZYW. Would be intersting to see what "traditional" scores are attainable. I'll ponder on this more tomorrow, need to be a new cpu cooler and get reinstalled!

@Mottikhan

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We are looking for players to join to become aggressive Admirals to lead your fleets across the Galaxy!

Empress Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

@Neilo - Yeah, I think I could get into some regular games.  Maybe some mass colonizing and such.  I remember the blank hull upgrade trick for surveyors, colonizers and constructors.  It might be time to revisit that old tactic.

Good luck with the new build.  I bet it's a screamer.

@SaintMina - Hi, and thanks for the info.  If the game crashes after I launch it, I'll reset the sig.bin.  For now at least, the Metaverse login seems to be working.

 <edit> For anyone reading who will be resetting the sig.bin, your old metaverse game will likely show a cheat flag if you started a game with the old sig.bin and try to submit the end game after crafting the new one.  We had issues related to changes like these back in the old days with upgrades and whatnot.  To be safe, start a new metaverse game after the reset and don't try to resubmit any old ones. </edit>

Ha! I used that old trick a little! I went the old route of building out planetsolely for Manu. I'll start another game in a few days. 

So, for those not in he know, i'm building a new Pc. Corei5 2500k, GTX560ti, 16GB Corsair Vengeance ram, 120GB Corsair Force SSD, on a gigabyte Z68 board, all in my antec 900 case with my thermaltake toughpower 1000w PSU. I wanted to run my old DuoOrb cpu cooler, cause, well for one thing, it does a good job and fix what aint broke, and two...it looks killer.

But.......DuoOrb cooler won't fit in the new rig, the Corsair Vengeance ram i bought has 75mm heatsinks, and the cooler doesn't have the height to allow for that. So i head off to a pc part superstore in Sydney to buy me a new cooler. I get home after a collective day of 6 hours on trains (cheaper than driving my thirsty V8) get home open the cooler and it still covers the #1 ram slot!!!!!

So that was wedensday. Thursday i get to do the train trips all over again, return the cpu cooler and pick me up a complete thermaltake water cooling kit. It's another $70 but at least i will able to run all 16GB of my ram......

If it wasn't going to hurt so much, i'd facepalm myself for hours, not so much for my stupidity, but for having do Sydney by train all over again!!!

Nice system, Neilo.  That should be able to handle anything you throw at it.  

I wish we had a decent public transportation system here in Central Texas.  Our only option is to have a car or truck unless you want to take your life in your hands and go two-wheeled.  Motorcycles might as well have targets painted on them.   There's the bus in the larger cities, but they run slow enough that walking can be serious competition.  My truck is also a V8 and my wife's car is not only a V8, but wants premium gas.  They're both fun to drive, so I guess I can't complain.  Still, riding the subways in London and New York and trains in Chicago has me wishing we had something like that.

I started a DA metaverse game last night.  Suicidal, gigantic map, all abundant, scattered, tech set to very fast.  Being a techie, I went Altarian.  It gave me that race as a default anyway, so why not?  Not much time to spend in there and I was pretty slow about choosing each move.  I forgot most of the UI.

I was quickly reminded of how important the minor races are in floating the economy.  My tech is screaming and I'm buying most of what I care to produce.  But the money stays yellow and runs into the red quite frequently.  I wonder about the AI.  They're not gaining techs very fast and their economies look as bad as mine.  Maybe they're wasting money by adding excess stuff to their ships.  I can see scouts flying around, so that's probably where a lot of it went.  My blank hull colonizers are scouting for me.

The minors are fat and willing to pay for any tech I care to dole out.  I've met 3 so far almost exactly when I needed them.  They kept me from hitting that -500 mark until my last move.

I just built the Spin Control Center and saved the game before shutting it down.  My economy went way into the red when I did that, so I hope I can do some trading when I fire it back up.  I don't have a military to speak of, so I might have jumped the gun on getting the SCC.  Time will tell.

I have just under 20 planets.  I think it was 18 when I looked at the list.  AFAIK, my closest competition has maybe 6 or 7.  There are colonizers flying everywhere, so I'm sure that'll change per turn.  I don't have the range to see what the middle of the map looks like.  I hope there's a planet out there for me to do some staging.  I'm stuck in the lower right area, but not boxed in.

I've found two of my favorite resources out there.  One Morale and one Military.  Sadly, I don't have any constructors and little money to set aside for such ventures.  Enemy scouts are close to them, so it would probably be a waste of effort to upgrade a blank.  I'll take them later when the wars start.

Your game seems to have been played in 1 day, Neilo.  That, and it was a 3 year game.  I've barely gotten through the middle of year 0.  You'll probably be done with your second or third game before I can get through my first.  Oh well.  I'll poke along and hopefully get some decent score out of it. 

Good hunting.     

I'll read that soon Motti, just checking in before jumping on the trains again, and wanted to drop Mumble a hello in the ToE thread!
Hiya Mumble, Join us for some chat mate!

I have a question:

Can you submit games that has been played in Twilight of Arnor or it needs to be Dark Avatar?