Easiest level

[Kirov]

For everyone bored with Transcend as much as I am, I'd recommend "switching factions" scenario.

Play a faction for 50 years, then switch to the weakest. repeat every 30 turns. If any faction is in danger of getting eradicated by AI, switch to it shortly before that.

you can even _lose_ against yourself, esp when in 2300 you end up with a faction that have one ocean base and you have to fight with several chopper-riding factions at one time...

It's the only challenge which i enjoy to play, because I prefer to have to do my best instead of handicapping myself by not using crawlers and so on.

[Commy]

I actually have tried that before...it was very entertaining...but I soon got bored at the end as I was playing as Miriam in a sea base completely surrounded by ocean trench...I'm sorry, but when it takes 20 turns to build one freaking probe team, all is at lost...

[Urban Ranger]

Nothing wrong with playing on easier levels.

The highest level I (and some other person ) have played is Thinker. However I have just recently restarted, so I am sticking on Librarian level now. Don't want to think that much anyway

[Frankychan]

hey, everyone starts off somewhere...shoot, it took me 2 YEARS just to get up to Librarian. Now, I play Thinker and Trascend games. My Transcend games are very wishy-washy...sometimes I'll be ruling everyone and other times I'll get my butt handed to me.

But Lazarus' tips definitely helped me out.

[CEO Aaron]

I too play transcend exclusively these days. I once did Kirov's faction-switch game, except that I built my Morganite empire for 100 turns before switching to a very backward and hemmed in Sparta. It was pretty impressive to have to fight an uphill battle against the AI, though watching it mercilessly level my boreholes and disband my crawler army was enough to make me weep. Even so, I was never able to get out from last place. I had an alliance of convenience with Miriam, and we were both mercilessly hounded by the Juggernaut morgan and an extremely irritating Yang. I suppose I should dig that game up sometime to witness the inevitable end.

[Dis]

I play on Thinker level. Just below Transcend. Transcend gives me trouble with my play style. So I just stick to Thinker.

[Senethro]

Originally posted by Dissident
I play on Thinker level. Just below Transcend. Transcend gives me trouble with my play style. So I just stick to Thinker.

Altering your game to your playstyle, rather than altering your playstyle to the game?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Senethro
Altering your game to your playstyle, rather than altering your playstyle to the game?

That's what Captain Kirk would do

[Frankychan]

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


That's what Captain Kirk would do

Finally an answer to the bumper sticker posed question: WWKD?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


That's what Captain Kirk would do

my hero.

[Barinthus]

I suck

I will need to post my saves and get some feedback here. Some of my fellow pbemers have been kind enough to give me advice and I've learned from them. You know who you are

[Senethro]

Captain Kirk was a n00b and I've no idea why Spock wasn't the captain.

[Commy]

WJSHD

What Jesus Should Have Done

[Kataphraktoi]

implying he didnt do something that should have been done?