Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread

KzintiPatriarch

Join Date 05/2007

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Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread

You have dared to enter the lair of the most ferocious predators in the galaxy!

It is the ulitmate destiny of the Kzinti to conquer the other civilizations of the galaxy, subjugate and enslave any who may prove useful to us, and devour the rest. The Fanged God has ordained that this is how it will be.

In just 26 octals of days (7 months or so...Kzinti count in base 8), the Kzinti Empire rose from obscurity, to #1 on the Metaverse. With the blessings of the Fanged God, we have remained dominant for 100s more octals of days since that auspicious day. We leapt past the other empires, and our mighty domain now encompasses over 32 million more light years than the second most powerful empire. The most recent Galactic Map data shows that we have subjugated over 45% of the galaxy. Many warriors from the old and dying empires have joined us, to avoid being eaten along with the rest. We hunger to establish indefinite supremacy over all the inferior sentient species...

We have also been #1 on the AltMeta for over 3 years running. The Empire grows more powerful with each passing day as new conquests are won, and more warriors join us in our inevitable rise to rule the galaxy!

The Kzinti are a species of bipedal space-faring feline predators, who love nothing more than conquest and battle. Created by sci-fi writer Larry Niven, the Kzinti have had many stories written about them, most notably in the Man-Kzin Wars series of books. They have also shown up in the Star Trek universe, and a number of other realities.

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"Kzinti flesh has a very strong and pungent taste. The weak among us are devoured by their litter-mates within a few moons of birthing. Only the swiftest and most ferocious of us survive to their first naming-day. Those not fit to survive will never live to perpetuate their inferior bloodlines. This is the natural law of the galaxy." - Kzinti Warrior

"The meaning of life is the hot blood of your prey on your tongue, the meat that rends beneath your teeth, the corpse of your enemy left in the sun for the carrion eaters to finish, your defeated foe groveling in submission before you. That is what life is. We are the Kzinti, and we stronger, swifter, wiser, and more ferocious than any other race ever was or will be." - Kzinti philosopher

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If your claws can grasp it, then it is rightfully yours. - Kzinti proverb

A salute to all those heroic t'kzintar who have made this empire a resounding success. Our conquests continue and the galaxy will never know peace!

Join the Kzinti in our quest for galactic dominance, or become our prey…

Click here to join the Kzinti Empire!

Click here to visit our forums at the Galactic Core

Click here to download the Kzinti ship and race mod from the Library

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KzintiPatriarch

Join Date 05/2007

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Cannibalism. Kzins taste of chicken and clouds, or butter and dreams. Either way.. .. .I need to do more Metaverse. I have a game going, but it is taking longer than expected due to a massive all > vs me for unknown reasons. I only held about 40% of the galaxy then, "Your war machine must be stopped!" , so.. fun times.

Edit : meow.

I find that if you keep the enemy civs at war with multiple opponents, they are almost always too busy to declare war on you. Keep inciting wars among your opponents, and even better, make sure they are far across the galaxy from each other. That way they'll keep spending on their war machine, but achieve very little. If I do get that message from a civ, its often from the Terrans, who say "The was once a nation-state called Germany....", etc, etc.

Hey Motti, I see you passed me up in the rankings once again! This is a very temporary injustice though, which will be rectified later today.

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Hey Motti, I see you passed me up in the rankings once again! This is a very temporary injustice though, which will be rectified later today.

Yeah, he passed me up too. Luckily for you, O Leader of the Kzinti, that that character is not a Kzin. I may be wrathful deity but I'm not against a good competition either.

ps: nice job on the shiny new bronze medals; I'm a lil jealous

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Well, I just went for broke and won, luckily. Turned all my stuff over to military pumped out about 30 transports and 15 medium hull sized ships divided them up and prayed to god I got good rolls on the planets. So it all turned out well. ~Also~ Why is my "custom" race medal not showing up with the rest of my medals?

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the favorite race medal will only appear if you have played a DL game, or in case all you play is DL games, only where one race has the majority of games played.

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Thank you, Silver.

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KzintiPatriarch

Join Date 05/2007

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Well done Mulfia. You're gaining victories at a nice pace!

Thanks for the info Fights-With-Words, you are a veritable font of GalCiv knowledge.

Motti, I've leapt ahead of you again...tag you're it!

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lots of reading and playing...

as for a reply to your message...

"For too long a growing menace has plagued our universe, ravaged our worlds, and destroyed our cities. This menace is unyielding and relentless in its quest for dominance. Only a simple option has been left to those in its wake: to submit to its power or to be utterly vanquished. It is because of this that I give this rallying call to all that may hear it, the Kzinti Empire is a menace to the galactic order and peace of free peoples of all walks of life and must be stopped at all costs. I may be only one soldier, but let others join me in quest to topple this regime before all is truly lost.

Silverbeacher,
Emperor of the Olympian Gods"

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KzintiPatriarch

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Only a simple option has been left to those in its wake: to submit to its power or to be utterly vanquished.

Fights-With-Words speaks truly....his Delphi Oracle must have prophecised that it is our destiny to subjugate the entire galaxy. The Fanged God will devour the essence of your gods and absorb what power they have, just like all other gods before have been destroyed and consumed. It is good to see our rival has gained the courage to oppose us. It will make the hunt much more interesting.

It may be time for a new name for Fights-With-Words, so we will now call you Honorable-Doomed-Enemy.

Enough talk...we have a galaxy to conquer!

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I tawt I saw a puddy tat. I did! I did! I did taw a puddy tat.

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MottiKhan

Join Date 04/2007

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Motti, I've leapt ahead of you again...tag you're it!

Sadly, I won't be responding to the challenge right away, since I'm playing my current game in the Kzinti Empire.

DA seems significantly different from DL and I'm learning quite a bit in this first game. I'm also having to alter my strategy now that I'm attempting a gigantic galaxy. It might take some time.

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KzintiPatriarch

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Excellent news on both fronts then!

When I first played DA, I found the extreme planets aggravating, because there would be all these planets I wanted, but couldnt take for a while. Now though, I often let the enemy civs colonize them, and they make nice targets for early invasions. Or if I dont go to war with that specific civ early on, the planets within my sphere will flip over to me. I do like that it breaks up the colony rush into different periods.

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Sadly, I won't be responding to the challenge right away, since I'm playing my current game in the Kzinti Empire.

Motti! I had not expected this of you...

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Come on folks, try to punch in some games. I just joined, bringing with me 1.3 million points.

I'll try talking some of the Orcas over as well. Second is in reach.

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KzintiPatriarch

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It is truly an exceptionally glorious day for the Kzinti Empire.

A special welcome to our newest member and Hero (Senator), Gallagher! He is one of the elite players of the game, and the Kzinti will benefit greatly from his skills. We are now within striking distrance of the High Command Hegemony.

Also, a hearty welcome to our new members, urface, Tykko, Barka, and Darkmonkey! May you have many victories and become great Kzinti Heroes!

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KzintiPatriarch

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Another good day for the empire today, as we gained about 80k.

A couple people joined up, and more players submitted games. Personally, I've got one game completed and another in the works.

We have two new members today, Di55ec7i0n, and Colonel Mustard! Welcome to the Kzinti Empire!

I dont remember who it was that suggested reading John Ringo to me, but I'm about 1/3 of the way through A Hymnn Before Battle. I'm not finding it to be that interesting. There's almost no depth to the setting or the characters. For example, in 2001 the humans find out that there are star-faring civilizations involved in a great war with each other, and the war is headed towards Earth. There is about 6 billion humans, versus hundreds of trillions of aliens, whose technological capability is many times greater. Yet, the reaction of the humans, except for happily gearing up to go to war, is virtually nil. I think a situation like that would initially cause a lot of chaos on Earth, with rioting, looting, suicides, people going nuts, governments falling, etc. At the very least, people should be feeling a little down...

But in the book there's nothing. I find that quite mystifying. I'll finish the book, but I probably wont continue with the series.

Next I'll try Verner Vinge as someone also suggested.

Motti, how is your game with Miaowara Tomokato coming? My gf thinks your character name is especially clever.

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Franco fx

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Come on folks, try to punch in some games. I just joined, bringing with me 1.3 million points.

I'll try talking some of the Orcas over as well. Second is in reach.

Waiting for TA to load up MV. I put up a game recently for DA but I am loving TA and my hearts not in the older games anymore. I will be going for the 50 game medal this year.

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Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire yet? I have to say I'm a little disappointed at the lack of overall game content from structures to units.(played all three sides multiple times) Ugh, anyway.. back to my sweet sweet galciv2.. sorry for the lack of recent victories.. I will make up for them.

Edit : I should probably make a kitty?

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KzintiPatriarch

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Come on folks, try to punch in some games. I just joined, bringing with me 1.3 million points.

I'll try talking some of the Orcas over as well. Second is in reach.

Waiting for TA to load up MV. I put up a game recently for DA but I am loving TA and my hearts not in the older games anymore. I will be going for the 50 game medal this year.

I agree Franco, I really wish that they would make TA Metaverse compatible. I bought it a while back, but havent played it yet, because I want to keep submitting MV games, climbing the ranks, and winning victories for the Empire. They need to get it done!

Nope, I havent played Sins. I might check it out, but I havent decided yet. One I know I will get though is the Master of Magic remake/sequel they are working on.

I did see that you submitted another victory Mulfia.

Cat oriented characters/pics are cool, but certainly not necesary. If you stick with something anime, I'm sure you can find all kinds of cat-people pictures. There seems a strong fascination with that in anime.

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MottiKhan

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Motti, how is your game with Miaowara Tomokato coming? My gf thinks your character name is especially clever.

Please pass my thanks on to your gf. The character is from the Samurai Cat books by Mark E. Rogers. The name struck me as funny and I liked the artwork.

My game is somewhat of a mixed bag. Being my first gigantic map, I've had to alter my strategies quite a bit just to stay in the game. It's also my first attempt at Dark Avatar.

I'm playing Yor on suicidal. Currently, it's year 3 and I've finally gotten my ranking above the minor races. I've been in a war with the Iconians for about six months and they're starting to seriously fortify their core now. All of their rankings outclass mine by quite a bit, but I'm bringing them down little by little.

My techs are coming from them, since I can't seem to get much research done on my own. All of my colonization techs and my top military techs have been stolen from them during the war. They only have a handful of planets left in my territory now and those will be mine in about two or three turns. I'll then be able to focus better on their shrinking border. I'm hoping to get my military rating higher so I can hold off the emminent attack from the Terrans and Altarians. The only thing holding them off is the "Too busy" factor.

Add to the confusion those bad slowdowns and ever increasing out of memory crashes, and the game becomes sort of frustrating. I had some in DL, but DA is much worse so far. I'll try to complete this game, but I'm not sure if it'll let me. At one point, it was giving me the out of memory crash every turn.

I think you're playing 1.6x too. Do you have any pointers on keeping the game going without those annoying crashes and slowdowns? I have all of the video options turned down or disabled and my system isn't a dog by any means. I'm using a memory manager, but even that doesn't seem to be enough.

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KzintiPatriarch

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I found that when I went from DL to DA I had to lower the difficulty level a couple notches. I've worked my way back up to where I have it higher than it was originally, but I'm not up to suicidal yet. I always steal a large amount of tech from conquest, because it's impossible to keep up in the beginning.

I know my system could not handle a gigantic map, so I've never attempted it. I get slow-downs and memory crashes on huge maps, even with some of the graphics features turned down or off. Once you get closer to the end-game, and theres less AIs doing things, the memory problems seem to fade. Hopefully you'll be able to make it to that point! The solution that I intend to do sometime soon is get more RAM. I have 1 gig right now, and I'll go up to 2 gigs. How much do you have at this point?

Definitely try to keep those nearby opponents at war with other AIs, so they stay "too busy".

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MottiKhan

Join Date 04/2007

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Mine is a custom gaming computer, so it has 4 gigs of RAM. I originally built it for distributed computing projects (cancer, malaria and AIDS research and such). Under XP, I think the max is 2 gigs though, so the extra isn't being used when I play GalCiv2. I'm letting Windows manage the page file and have a memory manager that I run when playing GalCiv2. It's the only program that needs one, but even with it, I'm getting the crashes.

The game freezes several times during every turn now. It's managable for now, but frustrating. The crashes are worse.

I'll go on with the game and hope that things calm down later. You're right in that the AI is doing a lot right now. Especially the Dregin with their free ships that they keep getting. I'm looking forward to taking them on when I'm strong enough. That'll probably be an epic war.

I'm down with the flu right now, so my mood and thought processes aren't up to par. I'll probably be able to put up with the details better when I'm healthier.

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They claim to have solved some of the memory leak issues with the new expansion. I never play a crowded maps with lots of star or planets unless I'm on my desktop at home which is about twice the machine of my laptop.

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KzintiPatriarch

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I think now that the "habitable planets reduction" has been reversed, I'll update to the latest version of DA, once I complete my current game. Hopefully the memory problems will be reduced.

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One thing I've found for out of memory, is not letting it actually happen...

I play with auto save set to 3 turns. Superstitously, I don't like it to save too often. As soon as I see the graphics knock out, I finish the turn (not hit turn tho...), alt-tab out, alt tab back in, and then save.

When I say graphics knock out, for me that's the white box of doom that replaces explosions, or the other favorite, the mangled background for invasion.

Alt-tabing out frees up enough that I can always save it. I don't push it after that though... (then you get really bad crashes...)

For me, i can play gigantic, but I can't play abundant/abundant. I throttle down stars or planets. Also setting away from scattered reduces planets as well. For me, these settings on maso give about 100k average, without too much of a memory issue. (when it crashes, I take it as a sign to quit...)

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Ugh, crap score for last game. I feel that I've been ripped off.

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