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.