Well I am just tired of trying to be member of other empires, so I am going to fly "solo" for a while. Nice being part of your empire but I cannot have access to the website or to post from work either, so it is becoming a stressful situation for me. If I can solve this problem I will return.

I don't blame you though.. I've been considering the idea too, or of just joining one of the lower empires to give 'em a big 150k boost

Of course, I'd come back here after I got their hopes all up
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Mayito,

Hope you make it back soon. I'm pretty sure you've got some DNS issues at home, as for work, it maybe a proxy/firewall issue :notsure:

You can always configure an lmhosts file and put 66.88.43.221 as idle.thehueys.com or the hosts file in linux/unix.

idle

~SDC~

Lets all welcome our newest member:

Damanthia

Welcome aboard, visit our site http://idle.thehueys.com/midwest and sign up there, check it out!

idle

~SDC~

Glad to be here.

In related news, I was having some problems accessing the website last night as well, but now it appears to be working correctly. Don't ya just love funky networks?

Well mine (thehueys.com) has to be the funkiest, well, not anymore. Any DNS problems anyone has had are now history as I am no longer running SOA for thehueys.com. All DNS is being handled by communications.


idle

~SDC~

I am back, I was tired this morning and very frustraded, now I just submitted a 10k score game and it doesnot shows in the individual player list. I know they are renovating the server so hopefully it will show after that.

Welcome back brother!

let me know some specifics on your errors and such, via jeremy@thehueys.com. I probably won't be able to help much with your work PC but we can surely get your home pc squared away.


idle
~SDC~
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Mayito! Brother! Welcome back into the fold. You are a machine like kryo!

~SDC~

Thanks, I was tired yesterday, specially after submitting my game and not seen the score show up on my race for the 25th spot, I submitted a 10k game and it shows in our team totals, but no in my individual total.

It seems that the player profile totals and the empire stuff are not always in sync. I don't know why or what governs it. We are glad to have you back nonetheless.

~SDC~

Just a word on DNS stuff. Whenver there's a DNS change, it can take a while for it to propagate to all the servers on the internet. That's why some people won't have problems and others will. It can sometimes to 2-3 days.

I am going to step out for a week at least until this website gets fix, you cannot do almost anything except posting in the forum, if you visit the mods forum and open one tread and then try to open another in the same mod, the computer sort of freezes, the same with the strategy forum. You can't refresh the empire data, you can't get your score added to your individual data, I just ask myself was needed this DNS change? The only thing I have seen so far is pure havoc. My head hurst for so much disconnected things.

Mayito, I was having the same problems. Try logging out and logging back in, then refresh. That worked for me. The site seems to be acting much better now.

What's this? Is football season overwith, or has it been such a long time since Gerakken has crashed into this thread? All this talk about server hijinks is definitely a drastic departure from the usual fare here. Ah, your trick is revealed. This is merely a distraction to disguise the fact that the Children of the Corny have snuck into striking range of the mighty pirates of the Metaverse. Yet another empire seeks to fence us in and confine our raiding space.

Shoot, we were trying to con you, but it is hard to con a master of disguises. LOL LOL

Wow this is the most active this thread has been in a long time. I hope everyones network issues have been worked out. Gerakken I would watch out for those Anzacs as well. They and we have been very active lately. All the crops are in and we farmers have nothing better to do than post scores and can perserves. Of course the Anzacs still have there sheep but we will not go there.

Hey Idle, I also find that I can't access our site from the Empire page here on the Galciv board. Anyone having trouble try this link for now
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Our T1 is up and down as of 4PM CDT. SBC is working on our line and it will be fixed soon.

idle

~SDC~

Thanks Surther for the link, this one that you posted works for me the one from our empire site doesnot work, man I though I was going crazy!!!

:notsure:

Seems I forgot to add the 'www' alias to 'thehueys.com'. eheh

oops

idle

~SDC~

No Problem Mayito, Hey congradulations on getting back into the top 25.

Woohoo I just submitted a large maso for 41k, putting me back in #9 and #1 in MWC

The scoreboard has changed drastically since my last post.

Cotal the new Queen strategy

. Get a start in the 'middle' of the map (or as close as you can)

2. Make sure you have a nice Sol . . . PQ 19 or 20 (I'm pretty rough on my citizens early on)

3. Save the game

4. Load your saved game and build a couple scout, set spending to zero (reduces your own pop-ups) and scout out as far as your collony ships can go . . . draw a little star map if it helps you remember where the nearest good systems are . . .

5. If there are 5 or more habbitable planets within range reload your previous save and you should be able to get to them first with ease (millitary spending at 100% until all your collony ships are built, sending them out as you go) . . . note you can click on stars you know you want even if there is a fog of war on the reload via the mini map.

5a. If your exploration turns up a bad position (i.e. not many habbitable plannets nearby) just restart . . . you've only lost about 5 minutes . . .

6. As soon as you've built your last collony ship switch to full research spending . . . I go after all the diplomatic pics then the Manufactuing Capital (Nano-something can't remember) pics then all the 'ready next turn' techs then stop researching.

7. By this time your survey ship and other AI's Frieghters should have found each other (thats partly why you take the middle first up) Around this time you set Social to 99% (with 1% research incase your scout finds an annomaly bonus) . . . .

8. Go after Diplomatic Translators if they havent been built already otherwise condstruct a Manufacturing Capital pronto . . . the AI is very slow to build it (it's focused on millitary techs I guess?)

9. Its cheesy and I know it . . . but befor I go after a TG/Wonder at this stage I save the game and 'occasionaly' reload if someone else beats me to it (esp influence/diplomatic bonus TG/Wonders) early on . . . most of the time you'll get them though, or you should with practice.

10. While I'm building these along with my 'economy augmenting' social projects on all planets at full speed I trade like a 'Wall Street Stockbroker' everything I have as I get it . . . after a bit of practice you'll have 'all' the techs the AI has except some of the millitary techs. I always use influence here to see what a techs relative worth is (since they rarely trade for cash) If the AI won't trade me for something I ask for Influence instead (As Ray the Wanderer said they'll get it from someone very soon anyway) . . . The only exception is when I have a Tech exclusive to a project I'm still building . . . they can have that after I'm finished with it!

11. About now you might notice your almost broke (-500 bc), this not good! There is no alternative other than to decrease overall spending until you've got a positive cash flow (asking for Tribute isn't a good idea on maso . . . hehe). Since you've built alot of social projects a 'slight' reduction in Tax will make your population shoot up sharply hence increasing revenue until more trade ships come in to take up he slack . . .

12. It goes without saying that you keep an eye on your relationship with all the AIs throughout the early game and throw them a bone or two when they start looking at you sidways . . .

13. Since your in the middle of the map by default your everyones number one choice to trade with . . . to keep it that way start bribing AIs to war with each other, this also wastes thier resources and reduces the threat of them attacking you instead.

14. Early-Mid-game. The Minors are strating to fall behind in tech (to few planets). Your economy should be booming by now so you can offer the weakest AI something substancial for Battleship tech . . . once you have either this or Disruptors all the AIs will probably want to ally with you . . . . Send your combat Transports out using constructor base bridges to all the Minors you can find. While your doing this beguin reasearching again . . . Cultural Modules and Troop Techs.

15. Send out constructor fleets to each minors sector you plan on invading and build palaces to defend against the AI flipping you after you've invaded each Minor.

16. Now you have a foothold in another AIs space increase millitary spending further (making constructors) to try and flip as many neighbouring systems as possible . . . Culture bombs are so very powerful, I luv it!

17. All the while watch what the stronger AIs are researching and grab the tech off them befor they have a chance to build the associated Wonder/TG (esp Cultural conquest, Historical Preserve and later Dark Side and 4 Philosophy) . . .

18. Basically you don't really want one AI to dominate the others so help out your allies where you can so things are equitable . . .

19. Ussualy two of your allies who arn't coping too well will surrender to you befor the end game starts . . . yeay! great! Be careful to have a few constructors on stand by since some of thier planets social improvements won't be up to scratch (high flipability?) . . .

20. If the Dregens are still around you'll be able to save at least an hour of research in your game virtue of the fact that you can steal so many techs off them (this inclues all the long techs at the end of the game!). Increasing espionage to exploit this well intended feature . . . lol

21. If all goes well by the time you finish your research they'll be only a dozen AI systems left . . . If they don't seem likely to flip send 10 constructors to nestle up againts each, build Terror Stars, break your alliances and Destroy them (Ouch thats nasty!)