Hi

The "Qourth Empire" is still active, we just are as active as we used to be.

I would the empire to be added to the "Quiet" (maybe very quiet, lol) list if possible, so the players still posting can be recognised.

Thanks

Q

Hi Quorth,

I dont think Cypher has been around for quite a while, so this thread probably wont be getting updated.

Sentient species taste better...

I´m searching for a Empire. I come from Germany and i dont think there will be a german speaking Empire so i´m up for any Empire. My goal is to reach one million points. My target is between
it be to play on suicidial of difficulty. Is out there a
Empire which can support me with valuable tips?

Sent you out an invite, and the link to our forums.  Welcome to the Metaverse!

Sentient species taste better...

Thank you for the invitation!

  By the way are you interested in joining an Empire if so go to Forums then click on Metaverse there you find Empires that are active, I would not want anybody to join a dying or dead one. I would join one that is in the top ten, Oh by the way. I have an Empire you should read about, click on the link below to take you to my empire. You know you can do whatever you want to do because you have a choice.

 KP you are fast or I am just two days to slow.

Good Hunting

Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

When our Enemies win a battle, they called a Victory

but when Saint Mina, Our Living Saint wins a battle, our Enemies called it a Massacre!

No mercy! No Respite!

I'll try and get hold of Cypher and see if he can update this list. btw Quorth, been a very long time since i seen you about, good to know your still active!

I thought that Kzinti is inactive, because before i posted here i have pm them and i didn´t get a respond. In the Kzinti Empire i have found what i searched for. I try now Gigantic on suicidial. In the first game i lost after 2 years, because my military might was too weak. All Empires have engaged at war with me. When i win at least my current Game i delete my previously scores. I hope the second gigantic/suicidial will be better one^^. I think Galciv 2 is a good game. Other Games like Civ 5 isn´t good as GC2 is because there is no meterverse or a good score system (Civ 5 is screwed up in the score system).  Next time i buy GC when it comes out.^^ I've missed a lot!

@ Inknbation

May I ask, what were you looking for and what did you find?

Drop on by my little empire and add a comment.

I'm still reading through this thread.

I'm pretty brand spanking new to GCII, and I can beat half the scenarios on normal.

I originally came here wondering...  what's the point of Leaderboards, or Metaverse??  I'm still looking for that answer. 

edit: In addition, I noticed that espionage/spies only give you information about other races.  Do they ever sabotach?  Also, all my spies dissappeared like a bug after I eliminated a race that my spies were working on.  I mean, c'mon, it's not like we're going to kill our own spies... or is that what happens?  Basically, just before the killing blow, remove spies... ugh, annoying.

charliec -

When the game was newer, the Metaverse was apparently a way to have competition among players in a game w/o multiplayer.  High scores, total Empire scores, etc were a source of interest.  Many players had discovered tricks or even exploits and tried to keep them "secret" within their Empires.  See the "Economic Powerhouse" post by Mumblefratz for one such example.

One I discovered independently involves a simple way to get a slightly better planetary starting setup.  I sometimes still use it, but only on Suicidal.

The spy bug you referenced has long been known.  The player who first documented it noted that when a race was exterminated with spies assigned to it, that the spies did not really die, but simply could never again be accessed.  For example, the intel level on the extinct race will continue to increase and the player will even get notifications when each increase occurs, though the race is gone!  The player described it as the spies "becoming archaeologists." 

Spies placed directly on improvements on specific planets do appear to have effects.  That is, they appear to deprive that planet or empire of the benefit of the improvement while they are there.   I say "apparently" because i have never been able to prove it.  In some cases, they seem not to have an effect.  Very rarely, a player will get notified that a tech has been stolen by espionage from a race that has at least one spy assigned to a planetary improvement.  There reportedly is no relationship between which improvement is targeted and the tech that is stolen.

Wow.  I didn't think a thread from the metaverse would pop back up after being dead and buried for years.

Old memories of a bygone era.  

Yep, back then, we had these things called "CD"s that held a small amount of music and even games!  Some games even required the CD to be in the drive before you could play them.  Nobody needed HDs bigger than 250GB and Windows could access a whopping 2 GB of RAM!  Yeah, good times. 

awe, there's a known bug that Steams ultimate edition of this game...  It wont let me upload my game points because the game crashes everytime...  Well, crashes everytime right before it tries to login to the metaverse