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. 

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

@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

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. 

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 have a question:

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