Agent Smith is both wise and skilled...we salute you!

Sentient species taste better...

First time I've broken 200k in an all-rare setup, having only 3 planets at my disposal. The techscore was overhelming, and it could have been better just that I lacked tiles for labs...

This has only been possible because of Empress GmOOnii's "Special ARC" (Advanced Race Customization). In short, this game played against 4X the Dread Lords, who got some things much better than any Stock Race.

However, in the end, they all gladfully surrendered, still trembling in fear having to face the omnipotency of the Forces of Night which surrounds my every move 

 Not Empress, Emperor GmOOnii look at the avartar, does that not look like Emperor to you, fool. We demand retribution, "Off with his head" as the they say and we want our seals back too.  Opps, did we say seals, Naa, we said squeals. We want our squeals back. That was close, they almost found out about the trade, stop tyipng, Oh Rats!

Well....

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Gender: Female

 

"The fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side... Death is a natural part of life... Attachment leads to jealosy, the Shadow of Greed that is..."

Congrats Maiden!  And thanks to Gmooni for providing some helpful information.

Sentient species taste better...

Hrm... a list I am not on.  Where DID I put that game... (shh I know, it's on Impulse, my way sounded better).

Agt. Smith shows mercy, oh boy ,  just let you know, your mercy shows,  just how weak you really are. We found those 4 Dread Lords and sent them straight into a red gaint sun. By the way, stay away from our sweet tasting seals.  

Saint Mina has found away to sell Phasors to Korath HomeWorld for 1597bc and then take thier HomeWorld and resell the Phasors to Yor HomeWorld for 1597bc and then take thier HomeWorld and resell the Phasors to Iconian for 1597bc  and then take thier HomeWorld and make Total War Pofit of 30,402 to 58,622bc. Here is the results. a new personal record KP.

 

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... so you've found your way all alone ... observe where this will lead to ... from Phasors it's just one small small step to Psyonic Beam ....  can't I seduce you? It might double the results (see above @ Agt. Smith). Is your alignment really that much worth? Why limit yourself, when you can take it all?

And what do we have here - sinfull greedy, isn't it? Not quite saintly.... and it will fall back upon you if you overstep the line, believe me; you're not the first lil'angel to fall ...

Congrats on the new personal best Gmooni!   

Sentient species taste better...

KP, thank you, there is feast at my empire, bring your own seals food and drink.   You are always welcome there.

Back to battling Germans in CoH the Fish Heads to save the Seals.

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May I introduce  

Lady 'T-Killer X' joins into the crusade for universal dominance:

 

 

Though built from cold Duranthium-steel foremostly, she possesses such charming elegancy that even the Dread Lords became peaceful (as lambs) and delivered their armies (and fund$) into her custody and supervision.

 

Hmm.... now where the heck did I put those constructor-fleets for these Military Bases....?

@M666, where,   there is nothing but a black box with a white border and in the upper right corner, there is small white box with a red X in it. Oh get it, the X is what you are talking about, very sneak.

 

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 We have pushed the B.C. Orcas back into their 4 Inner worlds and their Core World. Our New Secret Ships has replaced our Old Spore ships. We no longer use Spore Techs.  Here is just a taste of what our furture holds below. Another personal best for Saint Mina for saving all those seals. Has anybody seen Jedi Master Yoda? I wonder if he has that new techs found Devilcat's hide out, yet???

 

 

 

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  ähmm, not sure what this all means....

but let me just explain that, as you certainly know, this character is from the 'Terminator 3' movie, where good ol' Arnold said about her that she is a Terminator designed to terminate Terminators - a "Terminator Killer", that is, she is the Jackyl amongst the Wolves. And fits thereby perfectly into my MV portfolio.

Originally deemed 'T-X', which is nothing but an abbreviation (for 'Terminatrix') to outline her female gender, which suits perfectly into her role as it is said (if we can trust the biblical tales...) that it are always attractive women who cause invariably the downfall of goodwilled men.

For example, it is the same with the "ess" in "Empress", which then could also be "Emprix"    or "Empr-X GmOOnii of Adepta Sororitas"...

You see, it's really not what you (probably) ment...

thus spoke MaidenXXX

@M666, I am truly sorry for the any misunderstanding,   there was something wrong with the forum picture, (forum go boom kinda thingy) in fact that was just it, there was no picture, I made a pun on there being no picture. You know invisble, stealthy and sneaky like how my reply #37 messed up on me and I just left it, you haved to highlight the rest of it to read it. What you said I understood but the picture I didn't see until later. At first I thought it was going to be a ship because of what it was made. Then again War is the Art of Deception and Illusion so there you have it.   

Oh, by the way, very nice score  and I hope the those Dread Lords won't give you anymore problems because now they just wait for to slaughter to begin. Good Hunting

A mind-blowing score Maiden!    The Metaverse has some mighty big cracks in it now. 

Congrats on your progress with your empire and personal scores Gmooni!

Sentient species taste better...

KP check reply #38 again please because forum go boom and being fixed. That is the right picture now.

Thank you

Edit: No more orange papyrus font 12!  

Edit1: I got it back!

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KP, instead add this one.

 We have begun our attacks on The fish heads Inner Systems and meeting heavy resistance.  We still looking for Yoda. We could use his help!

 

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Great score GmOOnii. Breaking 150k under the saintly alignment is astounding Did you yet get up to ZPA's?

btw, I couldn't pass your message to Agt. Smith (still on secret mission...) because it was blank. Would you please be so kind and resend it?

No problems at all. Any Friend of Darkness is welcome in Hell, where we put some stolen   at stake to celebrate our new Alliance Pact of Blood!

Seems like 'Saintly Alignment' is more viable when battling against the DL's:

because concerning MM on Cargo Hulls, nothing beats ZPA's in combination with all those defensive bonuses one can get...

 

c'mon GmOOnii, I wanna see more score! You research up 'Invention Matrix' after 'Total Majesty', and from then on built only these. Take the DL's planets one-by-one, turn-by-turn, and use their planet(s) to build more labs, and fill up your $.

btw if you ARC them to either 'Sol'-, 'Drengia'-, 'Iconia'- or 'Drathis' System they will have lesser Bonus-tiles (= more for you!) as when using 'Thalis', but you'll get more planets from them which will increase your research-output, and take the society-score up a bit.

Hmm ... Dread Lords as multiple opponents?

Given that using this "Special ARC" is responsible for a dramatic increase in ZYW scores perhaps an asterik should be noted on the older entries that clearly did not have the advantage of using this configuration?

Also while I do respect the concept of "Empire secret" everyone must realize that nothing stays secret for long. So in fairness to any ZYW players that aren't either members of Kzinti Empire or GmOOnii (assuming there are any such players still playing the game) then I direct you to https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Cheats_and_keyboard_shortcuts.

"To play as dread lords: create a new civilization called dread lords, leader lord dread, portrait the guy with the hood on, the sign is the fire ball, the planet amalda. save the civilization and load another, then load the dread lords again, and it should be a "major" race with racial abilities and the dread lord hull design. Play the galaxy, click turn once, and their race will be just like the dread lords against you. One problem, they have a bad economy."

 

Should that be *asterisk*, *^*^* or simply *.  Your *thoughts*.

Spent too much time on my copter to spellcheck. That's version 3.0 there. I had a hard time getting it to go fast enough. That plus a couple adjustments due to font differences between Word and Paint.

No worry about spelling.  I often make the same mistakes.  The new spell checker is very handy though.  Bara doesn't get enough credit for his efforts.  Don't you agree?

Somehow I knew the chopper was of your own design...an artistic sense.

I had one I copied from someone else but it was small and had extraneous text. If you look through the edits of the reply you'll see it at the beginning.

I then did a search and found the http://gickr.com site which allows you to upload 2 or 3 jpg's or some other picture format files and it will make a gif of them for you.

At first I tried to copy the two different text patterns into paint to create the two files to upload but I couldn't get the positioning of the copter consistent between the two files and so besides the copters "blades" rotating the entire thing shook back and forth. Then I came up with the idea of generating one file with all the text in both pictures, made two copies of it and then deleted the text that didn't belong in each and voila a rotating copter that didn't shake itself to death. All then that I had to do was to play with the speed options to get it to run at the speed I wanted.

All in all I probably spent as much time figuring out the gif as did figuring out the Dread Lords ARC.

Yes and yes. I don't envy Bara's job. I always preferred to create my own designs rather than have to maintain someone else's design. And these forums spread over at least 12 separate sites are probably as complex as exists and it's simply evolved over time, probably handed down from one engineer to the next for at least ten years, perhaps more.

Then you go and try to fix something and something else seemingly totally unrelated breaks somewhere else. I certainly don't envy Bara's job. However everyone's job sucks one way or another and whenever something about work bothers me I always fall back on the same mantra, "the check clears". I suspect that those Stardock checks have no trouble clearing.