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Regarding the Clarkson standings....

I appreciate the people who stood up for Creepazoids placing higher.

Now for my opinions.

Creepazoids was not a meso that game.  Mesos always win.  Therefore
the only question was WHICH meso would win?

GEM was a well designed race, played rather well, and apparently
scrapped their gov center for early resources and didn't get
caught with their pants down.  [Newbies, don't try this at home.
Scrapping your @ only gives 250 res, but will cost 913 to rebuild.
And will most likely be built at a lower tech than the tech 100
@ you started with.  Scrapping your @ is risky, but if you can do
it without getting pegged, it can be VERY rewarding.]

Creepazoids tried to play without allies since it was a small
15 player game, and had a leader and 1 gov.

GEM had a techie ally, a leader for their race and 4? govs, one of
whom was relatively inactive.

With 7 star systems per player, Creepazoids managed to land 200
colonies, but could not afford the time to do all the civ shuffling
and stuff involved with KEEPING the colonies.

When GEM eventually got to our systems, he merely absorbed our 
populations wholesale, and did it without destroying the planet.
We would have to DESTROY a planet to take it back.  This is why Mesos
always win.

GEM was well played, well designed, and worked hard on diplomacy and 
arm-twisting.

Creepazoids was designed as my *LAST* attempt to play a solo techie.
I wanted to make one last try at a techie that could WIN.  My conclusions
are that without a LOT of automation (to order all those ships) mesos are
easier cuz pods are launch and forget.  And even if mesos weren't easier,
they still always win due to absorption not damaging a planet.

No problem.  If I want the fun of playing a techie again, I'll just know
ahead of time that it isn't a winning race and I'll be some MESO's pet.
In fact, I'll probably be GEM's pet. :)  I developed a lot of respect for 
GEM's ability in the Clarkson game.

But I still say: my governor (Vorlons) is the hardest working gov in the
universe.  Heck, he worked harder on my race than I did.

Anyway, justwanted to add this little bit of revisionism from the history
books of the Creepazoids.

Slugs and Kisses,
         -Creepy





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