Neptune's Pride : Triton (Day 11)

Things are getting increasingly complicated and I am checking into the game 4-5 times a day. I have been rushing at the beginning of each cycle to buy lots of economy and industry to get the full use of each day, but because of that I haven't always had money by the end of the day. Lately I have been more cautious, and left a little cash to make transactions between players and also to build a much needed carrier late in the day to gather the growing amount of ships on my planets.

Unfortunately, after winning a battle (barely, darn defense bonus) my fleet continued on to the next planet, you can see in the bottom left, and is now flying to their deaths at that purple stronghold. My ally Dark Blue is really messing things up there for purple, and since I don't want to get pinched in again by him I have send another carrier out to attack yellow and give myself safe passage to the lower part of the galaxy. It will take a long time to get some more fleets down here, probably 2 days but when they arrive they will be quite large. Heopfully, Light Blue (as seen in the diagram as being the leader at the moment, as far as Stars are concerned) doesn't attack me, a double front would be my ruin at the moment.

Neptune's Pride : Triton (Day 10)

So, this is as far as I am going to push in for now, I am trying to put more effort into expanding my economy and trading for some technologies before all remaining players start fending for themselves. The Light Blue, despite being my ally has been moving large fleets right near stars that create our border, so I have that to worry about in the north, so I will try to calm things in the south and move a little slower, defend when I can, move in on Purple but  not too quickly, trying to get them to attack me so I get a defense bonus. Yellow is also moving in on the action so we have a 4 way conflict going on here, so I am trying to make it look like I am NOT a weak target.

Neptune's Pride 2: Triton (Day 9)

I am now fighting it out with the Green player, although I am sure he is in trouble (my fleet is quite large, he's being attacked by an opportunist Purple and probably also by my Dark Blue ally). I now have to be concerned less with Green and more with Purple - who is being controlled by the computer and (this being my first game) I have to play a catch-up with when it comes to tactics. I will try to reinforce my position on my secondary planets (just behind the front line) and leave more fleets behind on planets, instead of draining them of all ships every time and building a large fleet!

Neptune's Pride 2: Triton (Day 8)

It has begun and I have access to green now. This is the kind of situation you can get in because of the slow order resolution. My fleet has left the planet, I can't change their orders once they are in hyperspace and now I can see that by the time they will get there they are going to be dealing with a much larger fleet. Darnit.

Neptune's Pride 2: Triton (Day 6)

Still penned in. So I have decided to ask my ally Dark-Blue (AllyWlz) to allow me to pass over one of his planets to get to green. He agreed. The fleets have been sent out. We are on the brink of war!

Neptune's Pride 2: Triton (Day 4)

I am maneuvering my fleets in the hope that my alliances with light-blue will hold and that my research into hyperspace travel technology pays off so I can finally reach green and get some action in this game.

Neptune's Pride 2: Triton (Day 3)

Well, nothing much has happened. I have set up some research on Terraforming and Banking (I am thinking that I probably wont get rushed and can therefore attempt a little investment). This is the Intel chart that scares me a little, seeing some other factions invest in Weapons (probably people who AREN'T on their very first game, so I am using them as a guide). I am the cluster of RED planets on the left of that zoomed out map, I have an alliance with both Dark-blue (AllyWlz) and Light-Blue (Vastgrishnakh) at the moment. Interestingly, the game has alerted me that AllyWlz shares a network address with Orange (Mister Creazil) - so I am a little weary of a pinch between those two, but I think Vastgrishnakh will hold them apart for now.

Oh and Green (Groek) has already been placed under "AI Administration" for inactivity. I like the sound of that, very....machine-like.

Neptune's Pride 2: Triton - The Beginning

So it begins. Well, it turns out that actually I am not playing with my friends because I joined the wrong game. That suits me well though, then I can play this game as a tutorial and hopefully do a little better when I do play with my friends in the coming days. So far I haven't really done anything, but make fleets (which I guess are called 'Carriers' in the game and 'fleets' in the tutorial videos - and send them to close by planets, anything in range really - and then i spent the rest upgrading some Economy and Industry on what I thought is my "home planet."  This, accidental playing-with-strangers-game also makes it a little easier for me to write about any happenings during the game since I doubt any of these strangers will thing to google me.

Hohokum

I have a list of Playstation games that I would love to play - and when I get my hands on a PS3 I'm going to work though that list, this is another reminder that original and interesting games exist on the console. 

Thief is Back! February 25th!

I have been asking this for years: "Where is this console generation's 'Thief??" We've had so many Assassins's Creeds so many things like Dishonored....Now it seems there's one on the horizon, finally.