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Getting back to the Early Empire game, do your logs indicate how many turns it ran or your approximate population by the end? Were you running the largest galaxy size?

If there's a log for the Early Empire game but not the Steppes Expansion, am I correct in assuming the Steppes Expansion was played first, hit you with inspiration, and then had you playing the Early Empire game while taking notes to hash out background?

Going back to Arioch's seed playthroughs... did the Silicoids do one of those random 'surrender to another player' events in the Steppes Expansion game? Given how you've written them as *embarrassingly* susceptible to Loroi telepathy, it makes me wonder if you had them just straight-up surrender to ...

'Die', 'ramp up my industry so I crank out colony ships like mad and outcolonise everybody else', to-may-to, to-mah-to. *regards net income of above 9000 BC per turn just before hitting Antares on my last game*

I like starting pre-warp, because having the option to delay space technology in favor of getting some early infrastructure in factories and labs is interesting to me. I also normally play Humans or a science and money-focused custom race using the Psilon portrait, neither of which gets pasted too h...

Also on the topic of how you set the game up, what starting tech level did you go with? I tend to like starting pre-warp, but I might be unusual in that regard.

Did you actually conclude a formal alliance with the Gnolams in that game? It sounds like you had strong relations with the Gnolams and the Trilarians, although whether that meant a full alliance or just non-aggression pacts, trade, and research treaties is an open question... at least, the way I te...

Looking over the Sister Worlds again, it's clear Maia was a huge (or maybe large, but I'm guessing huge) low-G gaia world in the playthrough, which raises the question of what space monster was guarding it in your playthrough. Heh.

So, leaving aside the Steppes Expansion game as likely being spoiler-y... I'm guessing the Early Loroi Empire game had you as the Elerians finding two splinter colonies, one on a swamp world and one on an ocean world, subjugating the Mrrshan, Meklar, and (most of) the Alkari, in war, then winning th...

Ithekro wrote:Since these races are semi-based on the races in Masters of Orion, which race do the Historians represent again?

Four arms and advanced technology? The Psilons.

The Union race I'm actually interested in learning more about is the Neridi, as well as being curious to learn a little more about their constitutional monarchy.

Large guilds will have communal creches, but small companies or self-employed individuals may take a more personal role in child rearing. We then get to the question of how a self employed loroi get the right to breed. My impression is that Loroi societies on average prefer to avoid self-employed p...

The Nibirien are actually clearly the blue 'natives' of MoO2. I think *that* is pretty unambigious. And come on, the Pipolsid are clearly more inspired by Trilarians than Psilons. Peaceful aquatic beings with unique capabilities in propulsion is basically the Trilarians to a 'T'.

My suspicion is that the Neridi (diminuative traders and administrators) are actually the *Gnolams*, while the Historians (four-armed highly advanced race) are the Psilons. An offhand comment somewhere suggested that the Meklar eventually mutated in concept to the Mannadi, although the similarity be...

Are we looking at the same GURPS sheets? I'm seeing a Telepathy power of 17 for Fireblade and 15 for Tempo.

What do the 's', 'sh', and 'b' in this this image signify?

Absalom wrote:The Nazi party even included "socialist" (that's what the 'z' stands for) in it's name.

'Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei', or 'NatSi'- 'National Socialist German Workers' Party'. A strong commitment both to socialism and to nationalism.

How do you make a verb into a noun in trade? Write to Writer for example. Is it that you add -en to words that end in consonants and -di to words that end in vowels? In most cases you put -adi on the end, truncating the existing vowel if it's an A or an I. So "write" ( sonni ) would become "writer"...

Are Garden-type worlds categorically superior to Island type worlds? They have all the biome types that Islands have, plus that all-precious Forest type that's so beloved by so many races. I just think Islands are nicer, is all. Islands have larger biome zones for Reef, Ocean, and Vents. Under abso...

I'm pleased you're enjoying it! It was an enjoyable task to write, on my end.