Yeah.  I'm not even sure if our old tactics would work with TotA.  Some probably would, but likely not all.

I'm doing all labs on my current game.  I doubt that I could win on suicidal with a balanced approach.

My starting position was great.  I started almost smack dab in the middle of the map.  With the Terran diplo skill, it was the best place to be.  I got an econ event that turned the game around, too.  It didn't last long, but it was long enough for me to upgrade my planets and start a war with the weakened Korath.  I took several planets and the Drengin finished them off.

Right after the econ event went away, the inevitable happened.  The Torians had enough of my shenanigans and attacked.

I built some powerful ships when I went against the Korath. Pretty much invincible. When I turned them against the Torians, this happened...

A little underestimation on my part.  The war rages on.

I see some thought has gone into your ship designs!


Thats one thing that derails my TotA games, i get too into designing ships and waste precious game hours in the shipyard rather than playing out the game!

How's work mate? No rest for the wicked i assume!

As a note for those that are booting up TotA, be aware that there are some flaws in the AI (well, not so much AI behavior) as serious tech tree issues, as some of the races tech trees lack connecting technologies (either cutting them off from later game techs, or severely hampering their growth potential.  I know the Korath, Drengin, Yor, and I think Thalan (or maybe it was Iconians) definitely suffer from this.  However, some other races (Krynn, Torian, and Terrans) have much fewer tech issues (mostly since they use only a slightly modified DA generic tree)

Someone had a made a mod that fixed a lot of the glaring issues (I have it myself, but then I haven't actually truly played a GCII game in years now; almost all my video gaming time is either spent in Azeroth or playing Civilization V {Brave New World}) but I'm pretty sure the mod isn't in the Library, however I do think there's a forum post with the link.  

Anyhow, hoping to get my Founder tag for Christmas (finally should have some extra cash, even after all the gift purchases) and definitely looking forward to GCIII and hopefully some co-op play.

I'm also really glad I built my PC this year, so I can handle all the awesome stuff that Frogboy is going to throw at us. 

Hey Silver! Are you referring to the tech mod that stefan did? It was on the i-mod server iirc. I have that one and it fixed the trees for TA...not sure i have actually used it though, since i either play TA modded with my own Saga of the seven suns mod, or as the terrans...

Yeah, I never got into the ship customization thing as far as visuals go.  I like the newer ship designs in TotA though.  The long ships seem to be based on the Honor Harrington missile ships and then there's the Borg Cube.  I didn't see a flying saucer in there, but it was easy enough to do.

Hi Silver.  Yes, I've heard that there are mods that take care of the tech tree and other buggy things in the game.  I've never played a mod version though.  

On my suicidal game, it was kinda anticlimactic after I got the proper ships to take the Torians out.  They were the only credible threat and the rest fell quickly.  I was going to do an alliance victory, but everyone had Xeno Ethics.  I could only ally with the evil races.  That wouldn't save much time, so I just took everyone out with the leftover ships.  I didn't bother building up my planets or avoiding the economic penalty and that saved a lot of time.

I've been having problems loading the games up to the Metaverse.  The first one uploaded once I set IE as my default browser.  The second one took several attempts before finally uploading.  I've tried several times to upload this latest one to no avail.  The game crashes whenever it tries. It's a good thing that the Metaverse no longer has the importance that it once had.  I just gave up on it.

With Steam's after Christmas sales, it was a no-brainer to download Anno 2070.  I grabbed the "Complete Edition" along with Endless Space Gold.

I tried out Endless Space last night and it seems like a nice game.  A tad slow in the beginning, but that's pretty normal for a 4x game. I should be able to waste quite a few hours on it. 

Nice! Have to see how you go with Anno and hit up a MP game one day! I think i have endless space, never played it though...have to really get into some of the games i have and never looked at.

I just posted my first game in about 4 years.  With everyone else's scores so old I think I finally made it to the top 200. lol

I lost once when the Alterians got a tech victory, I almost forgot how to play.

Hey!!! Nice to see you about! Yeah, its nothing like riding a bike is it?!

Here it comes, boys and girls!  Hop to it if you're going to pull the trigger!   

My days of playing Endless Space exclusively are coming to and end.  (Although it'll probably be on my list of toys for quite some time.)

I'm still playing anno 2070...i want to get back to bf3 and actually go and buy bf4, but i havent got my resource chain/city building fix just yet!!

hi, i created my own empire, how do i put my data game play into my empire, i am in but appears to be 0 game pyed , when i played over 100

oliver if you haven't you might want to make another thread.

How did you all become Founders?

Anyone from the ToE playing GC3?