🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24 Jun 1997 14:42:26 GMT, Yo S. Yoon <lal...@cslab.vt.edu> wrote:

>I played hard, huge, 8players and without the patch(because I heard the cost
>of "creative" went up). I managed to assembel a fleet of about 60 ships 
>including 40 Doom stars. Guess what, the Gnolams had a fleet of 138 ships
>including 84 doom stars(I was Meklar). Of course I had to fight and see
>what happens for the heck of it, and my ships were all destroyed when
>they went about 2/3 of the first turn. I had better tech(finished all)
>but mattered very little. 
>And just wondering, has anyone seen anything bigger? Well, this was my
>first time playing hard(Actually I won the game by vote since I had way
>more population) and playing average, this kind of thing just doesn't
>happen because they tend to kill each other very soon.
>Anyway, just a thought.

I've hit the max total # a few times in huge games, but I don't recall
an actual number.  My general strategy is to hang back and get a big
tech advantage, unfortunately this tends to let your final couple of
opponents get fleets built that are just silly, not to mention fairly
easily decimated even with initiative turned on.
--
Scott Dawson
tr...@ubertruck.com
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