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Ok well I was planning to start the game soon (as in, as soon as enough people chimed in to start) but with all the turn-around, maybe a recap of who is signed up is in order...
Confirmed in:
Zed
Nicolae
Mist
Pending, waiting on game arriving:
Ilios
Mardoc
Maybes:
antisocialmunky
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Nicolae, Mist, would you like to start now or wait a bit for some of our other players to be ready to go?
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I hate to pay for a game twice, but $16 is cheap enough I could persuade myself I'm not  . Game installed, says 1.8.0 in the lower right corner. I should be ready to go.
I like the premise of the Hiver gates the best, but perhaps we should simply go with whatever race Zed thinks will be easiest to learn (and easiest to recover from mistakes with).
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I don't mind, start when you feel like it. I've never been into the succession game scene, so someone else should figure out the settings.
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I would like to note that Hivers are actually wickedly difficult. Your subspace ships are slow. And I mean SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Really the only offense is spam 4-5 fleets each with a Gate ship, pray one survives long enough to setup, then run in your hammer fleet.
That being said, they have some of the easiest defense due to the insta-jumping. And remember, more gates = more room to send ships, so put a gate everywhere. Conversely, kill all Hiver Gates.
April 19th, 2011, 23:40
(This post was last modified: April 20th, 2011, 02:54 by Nicolae Carpathia.)
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I love Hivers, between them, Liir, and Zuul, they're the 3 more interesting races. Humans, Tarka and Morrigi are boring  .
And Hivers aren't that hard to use. They take a while to set up, but early gate fleets of a gateship + tanker are sufficient for your initial network. After that, it's probably a good idea to send an escort of a few DEs or CRs with your gatefleets, in case of nasty surprises. It's really annoying jumping into a beautiful large yellow planet, then getting shredded by stupid swarmers before you can even explore that 50HAZ system. Once you get a foothold, you just build a ton of cheap colonisers and deploy them at the same time.
EDIT: Then again I was playing on Normal difficulty, and the AI isn't that intelligent. Probably won't hold up against a real foe.
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Looking forward to lurking this.
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Nicolae Carpathia Wrote:I love Hivers, between them, Liir, and Zuul, they're the 3 more interesting races. Humans, Tarka and Morrigi are boring . Not really sure why you say that, I play all the races and I find each is interesting in its own way and has its own way of doing things. Obviously some races suit some players' styles more than others, but... boring? Really? 
Suggests to me that you don't really understand them.
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Fluff wise they're boring. Hivers are insanely familial space ants, Liir are violently pacifistic space whales, and Zuul are violently violent space kangaroos. The rest don't quite compare.
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Ah well if you're purely talking about the race backgrounds, then that's purely a matter of taste. Which races have the most character depends on what you value in your characters. So, while I can't say I entirely agree -- I find the Human and Morrigi backgrounds a bit more interesting than the Hivers -- I can appreciate your perspective.
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Hiver ships can take a ton of punishment.
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