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Holy smokes I can't believe you pulled it off. I still only roughly understand how too. Can you break it down what exactly turned poo poo around for Ghana?
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From the boring backwater of the medieval era, to the masters of the galaxy, Ghana sure has come a long way, hasn't it? Did we ever find Earth?
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Jul 31, 2014 07:19
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Yet another in a long line of magnificent and successful LPs, Grey. Thanks again for all the entertainment!
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Jul 31, 2014 07:23
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Holy smokes I can't believe you pulled it off. I still only roughly understand how too. Can you break it down what exactly turned poo poo around for Ghana? A last ditch desperate fleet with one goal - take a Planet Destroyer to the enemy home world, and destroy it, whatever the cost. The fleet succeed, and did not live much past the battle. It's going to be an awesome holomovie.
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Jul 31, 2014 07:25
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NewMars posted:From the boring backwater of the medieval era, to the masters of the galaxy, Ghana sure has come a long way, hasn't it? Did we ever find Earth? I'm sure it's waiting for them out there, somewhere. A Mecca for all mankind.
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Jul 31, 2014 07:32
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Awesome job, Grey. I can't believe you managed to win the game after having such a horrible experience with pirates.
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Jul 31, 2014 07:33
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Fantastic work Grey, and a great job well done. Long live the Snake in the Well!
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Comstar posted:A last ditch desperate fleet with one goal - take a Planet Destroyer to the enemy home world, and destroy it, whatever the cost. The fleet succeed, and did not live much past the battle. It's going to be an awesome holomovie. This basically. I was going out, there was nothing I could do to stop the Shaktur until the Guardians gave me that planet destroyer. I knew that it would be mobbed after hitting a single world - that's what happened to the two the Shaktur threw at us. So I made the decision to hit the enemy main target. As has been mentioned before, the Shaktur homeworld has a unique wonder called the Palace of Eternal Darkness - This gives them a massive production boost - They also built about ten wonders on that planet, taking it out basically gutted their economy and forced them to pause the attack. This allow the other races breathing room to build their forces and counter attack. I then realized that the AI could beat me in space 9 times out of 10, but if I could land troops on a planet, I could take it. I'd wait until a world only had a few ships then throw everything I had at it, landing troops, taking the world and depriving them of that income. - for most of the game I've been surviving on gifts and bonus trade income, but after a while the rich worlds I was taking paid off, and the Shaktur kept having to draw their fleets off to defend other worlds, meaning they could only do the occasional counter attack. Once the momentum started, it was just a matter of scraping the troops together to keep it going. Thank god this was only a 700 star system game!
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Jul 31, 2014 07:34
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Awesome LP, as usual!
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Jul 31, 2014 07:39
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That was outstanding! Victory from the jaws of defeat, in the face of overwhelming odds, through guts, tenacity, and the Ghanan will to put the biggest, most potent vessel right into the core of our opponent's strength and fecundity. Not only did we secure the Galaxy, the way in which we did enshrines our Ghanan virtues!
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Jul 31, 2014 07:40
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As always throughout history, Ghana prevails. Whether it's the North Africans, the Romans, the Scandinavians, or the evil insects from space, Ghana prevails. Great job, Grey Hunter!
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Jul 31, 2014 07:54
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One of the most satisfying endings to an LP that I have ever read. Distant Worlds in particular really fulfilled its promise of being a space opera simulator. Well done Grey!
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Jul 31, 2014 08:19
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I said it before and I said it again, this proofs that the best method to deal with galaxy threating, incredible powerful, old races is to nuke their homrworld.
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Jul 31, 2014 08:32
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So what happens to the millions of Shakturi under Ghanan dominion?
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Jul 31, 2014 09:16
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My view? Assimilate. We are not Shakturi. We don't enslave, we don't exterminate.
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Jul 31, 2014 09:24
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Bloodly posted:My view? Assimilate. We are not Shakturi. We don't enslave, we don't exterminate. We love!
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e X posted:We love! There's a lot of Shakturi and I doubt there are many insect lovers between Ghanans. Fooking prawns!
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Jul 31, 2014 09:43
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Amazing end to an amazing LP. Well done, Grey!
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Jul 31, 2014 09:55
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That was awesome! Ghana prevails! Long live Ghana, saviors of the Galaxy!
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Jul 31, 2014 10:15
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Anticheese posted:So what happens to the millions of Shakturi under Ghanan dominion? They will learn to accept the Snake in their Well.
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Bloodly posted:My view? Assimilate. We are not Shakturi. We don't enslave, we don't exterminate. You might want to chemically castrate though... otherwise the Shakturi will simply breed and breed and bide their time until they take over the Empire from within by sheer population disparity.
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BwenGun posted:You might want to chemically castrate though... otherwise the Shakturi will simply breed and breed and bide their time until they take over the Empire from within by sheer population disparity. Outbreed Ghanan's? Do you have any idea just who our founding fathers are?
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I have no doubt that the Shaktur will become excellent Ghanans now that they are in the Empire. Also that was a bit of a close call for a while.
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BwenGun posted:You might want to chemically castrate though... otherwise the Shakturi will simply breed and breed and bide their time until they take over the Empire from within by sheer population disparity. So, the Ogoonu way, then?
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That was an amazing roller-coaster ride of an LP, Grey! It had thrills, chills and spills aplenty, and it was a marvel to behold!
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Jul 31, 2014 13:49
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BwenGun posted:You might want to chemically castrate though... otherwise the Shakturi will simply breed and breed and bide their time until they take over the Empire from within by sheer population disparity. If they manage to outbreed the Ogoonu, they deserve the Empire. In fact, that would prove that they truly understand the Snake in the Well.
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Jul 31, 2014 13:49
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That was great, especially the Planet-Destroyer's ride to glory that turned the tide. I really thought you were going to lose before that.
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Darkrenown posted:That was great, especially the Planet-Destroyer's ride to glory that turned the tide. I really thought you were going to lose before that. So did I, I've never had this game hammer this hard for this long before. Three worlds left before going under, I thought I was going to have to pull a Battlestar Galactica and have the last update loop back to the first as humanity once more destroys all technology to avoid the Shakturi menace.
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Thanks for the LP it was a fun ride Comstar posted:A last ditch desperate fleet with one goal - take a Planet Destroyer to the enemy home world, and destroy it, whatever the cost. The fleet succeed, and did not live much past the battle. It's going to be an awesome holomovie. I think this is basically the plot in Ender's Game
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Jul 31, 2014 14:44
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Thanks for the LP!
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That was an amazing, absolutely amazing game Grey. You managed everything from the Profound, (unifying Africa.) to the absurd. (We got Mecca How?) You managed the highest and lowest game I have ever seen. After getting dropped to three planets... hell after being Pirate central for the entire beginning of the game I would have called this game a wash. You managed to turn it all around and bring Ghana to the top with one move. Ghana's finest loving hour. And of course, it used a planet destroyer. At least this time you didn't do it by accident! loving beautiful. That doomed fleet blowing up the Shaktur Home-world, giving everyone the time to regain their feet, is going to be a movie that will keep getting remade for centuries.
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"Yeah, hey, let me call you back. We just conquered the Shakturi and my snake's a little worn out."
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Jul 31, 2014 20:33
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This was a great read. Well done Grey.
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Jul 31, 2014 21:04
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Well done Grey, that was an awesome LP! Thank you for all the awesome Ghana related memories, I can't wait to follow your next project!
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Awesome LP, thank you Grey.
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Man, what a wild ride. I'm assuming you have plans for submitting this to the archive? It's something that I really want to read again a year from now.
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One thing I still don't understand about this game: how the hell do you keep track of what resource does what, and how much stock you have of each, and how significant a shortage of, say, gold is compared to [other mineral]
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You can check in the 'Expansion Planner' how many sources you have of a given resource, plus how big the shortage is (f.e. a 1k shortage or a 15k shortage). Every planet/station has its own stock of material, which the civilian fleet will ship to wherever it is required (if you have no shortage of freighters). Strategic resources are used as building materials. Every component costs a different amount which you could look up in the component viewer, but that's not really needed. Since the civilian economy pays for stations and is often a lot richer than the military economy is, you can just spam mining stations everywhere. The only resources worth keeping a close eye on are either Caslon or Hydrogen, depending on what you use for fuel.
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Note that civilian freighters seem to be allergic to retrofitting so if you start in the Age of Shadows you will be stuck with a bunch of civilian freighters with no FTL drives pootleing around your home system. I assume they eventually will retrofit a warp drive or die in a pirate attack but its kind of funny watching these lines of STL guys crawling across space.
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