Mmmm!  Roasted eyeballs!  I call dibs on one of them! 

Sorry to get a little off-topic, but I'm in the middle of my first Metaverse battle in the name of the ToE and I was wondering if you can save a MV game, quite it, and then come back to it later? I would finish it all in one go, but I've been playin so long that I'm pretty sure my eyes are gonna fall out of my head.

Now I know why someone shouldn't probably choose a HUGE map for their first battle.

yes, of course you can

( sigh of relief)

Thanks for the help dystopic.

Can you really blame me for askin, though? I've only been playin for a day!

better safe than sorry.

I've been known to leave GC2 running for 28hours+, but I don't think I'd be able to keep it going for the six weeks it takes me play a points mongering gigantic .

I'd never have the patience to sit through a galactic. It is such a slow start and it's just too large. The gameplay slows down completely. Medium is often the largest map I will play on. A nice steady start and it's soon followed by some more eventful happenings.

I've kept games going for a week or more without shutting down.  Helps keep the influence stat from cratering.  I have a gaming computer that was dedicated to Galciv2 alone.  That was up till about a month or so ago.  I haven't played a game for a while and have been using the machine for other stuff.  I'll probably get back into it in a couple of months.

Of course, any influence resetting task will renew the calculation, so that's a good alternative.  A task can be creating or destroying a starbase (any type), colonizing a planet or invading one.  I assume that losing a planet would also do it, but I haven't tested that theory.  The only time I've "lost" a planet in recent memory is when I gift one in the final battle with the last AI.

In case anyone was thinking of it, adding a module to a starbase won't reset influence, nor will increasing/decreasing influence on an existing planet (embassy or the like).

A Rosie Clone stealing your baby...

Now you know!

~cocks his AdBlock shotgun and shoots that whale~  phew, now that picture is gone.

All that is necesarry is to destroy or build a starbase.  That's the easiest way at least.  During the points-grinding phase I have a few extra constructors hanging around for that purpose, if I need to reload.

Sentient species taste better...

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."

Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!! My eyes!!! My eyes!!!

Have you ever seen a queen ant above the ground before cause they are fucking huge, I saw one digging out a new colony in my back yard, I decided to poke it with a stick. It got pissed off and tried to chase me.

ants are kinda scarry. for example...

Ravoux's slavemaker ant (Epimyrma ravouxi) is a species of ant in the family Formicidae. It is endemic to France. The queen acts like she's dead, but she's really not. Then ants from another colony drag her back to their nests, and she wakes up and kills the "enemy" queen. She wraps herself in the dead queen's carapace, and begins producing eggs. The slavemaker ants then overrun the colony and then find a new colony to take over.