by achrilock
social
A great hand of metal and bone, of sinew and circuit, reaches upward from the rubble to grasp the stars once more. Game spawned a fanatical purifier empire right next door to mine. First people we met. They attacked immediately even before their language was translated. Each of their four fleets (after 30ish yrs of game time) was twice the power of one of my two. Fought ‘em to a stalemate, after losing my science planet.
Teched up. Raised fleet cap. Sold everything that wasn’t nailed down, during an energy shortage, to buy alloys. When they inevitably returned a few years later it was a roflstomp. Broke their initial push and ran straight to their homeworld and made a little rubble of my own. Most of them are now _grob. The ‘magic’ fleets are annoying, but at least the AI has learned to consolidate them at crucial moments. It’s brutal sometimes, but realistic.
We are GROB. We elicit apprehension. AI flipped the table cause it was afraid of the killer robots. It’s like, gee, I wonder why they decided to become killer robots?! 🤪 I did alright, tho. We get ’em next time. That’s the great thing about the GROB. They always come back…
Being on social media is like public elementary school. It’s full of sadistic window-licking fools who believe in Santa, the worst of which either hold great sway over others or get paid to work there. Methods of social control are decidedly unchivalrous and frustratingly indirect. If lies don’t work you get the abuse. If the abuse doesn’t work, they put you in solitary confinement. I been playin’ this game since I was still wetting the bed, lol.
Speaking of gangs, in the last two of these my sneaky adversaries decided to team up on ol’ achrilock. Must be a day of the week amirite? 😆 In all seriousness, gg to all involved. I would suggest a ‘lock teams’ toggle for FFA matches, though, as it’s… FFA and not teams.
Morning, Blizz. Just wanted to chime in and say that if you lock anything, even cosmetics, behind group content I’m not buying the D4 expansion. Put up with that shit for years in WoW, fuckin’ mouthbreather bullshit day in and day out. No. Just no. Never again. It’s a singleplayer RPG. Everything should be soloable. Scaled content for groups is fine. Locking pretty behind the guild gate isn’t. We buy your battle passes. Leave us alone and let us play.
Well thangs was a goin’ great and then there was an Unbidden crisis, which spawned right on my border, in three places… okay no biggie handled. Then, immediately after, the Fallen Empire right next door awakened with 2 million fleet power and said ‘you ain’t winnin’ this one.’ GG. And it ended with the AI repeatedly bombarding one empty planet and refusing to finish the war it started. Back to respawn, I guess 👾