I was playing my file the other day and got a hinkering for conquering a large planet so I challenged Earth. Took a few minutes but I finally got tribute from it. I looked at my ranking in the system and it said "Usurper" or something like that. Can anyone tell me exactly what this is since I am too lazy to look it up?
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Originally posted by Feast:
**I was playing my file the other day and got a hinkering for conquering a large planet so I challenged Earth. Took a few minutes but I finally got tribute from it. I looked at my ranking in the system and it said "Usurper" or something like that. Can anyone tell me exactly what this is since I am too lazy to look it up?
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I've seen that rating before in systems where I was really hated...I too don't know what it means. Maybe it is worse then a Galactic Scourge? 
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Usurp:
{yoo-sűrp} v.
To unlawfully seize and hold power, property, or authority.
Usurper: n.
One who usurps.
Roots: Middle English Usurpen, Old Enlish Usurper, Latin Usurpare - to take into use.
In EVO, it means that you have dominated some of the stellars in a system. If you've dominated all the stellers in a system, you become an overlord.
(This message has been edited by Blackdog (edited 03-02-2001).)
That's interesting. The word almost implies that you already rule over the system. Did you actually take over Earth when your legal status was Unsurper? Usually when I take a planet, my legal status is "Overlord."
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Originally posted by WarBeast:
Did you take Earth ** and Luna? it could give you that rating cause you took only one of the 2 (well, technically 3) planets.
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True. I'll bet that you are a Unsurper when you own only part of a system, and then become Overlod once the whole system is conquered.
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You get the Usurper title if you don't own all the planets in a system. For example, if I conquer Borb Station but not Voina I'm a usurper. But once I hold both spöbs then I get to be an Overlord.
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You get an Uspur status when you've only dominated one of several other inhabited planets in a system. Overlord is when you've dominated all the planets in a system and fully control the entire system.
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Yep. If you take over a system with more than one planet/station/moon, but only take over one of them instead of all of them, you get Ursurper. I took over Emalghion without taking over its two moons and got Ursurper, but I've conquered both moons now so I'm an Overlord status.
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Ok, gotcha. Thanks for the explanations, guys!
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My fav way to take over is by using space mines and lotsa escorts. I get six Azdgari Warships and have them deploy all their fighters. Then I lay a single space mine on the planet. I demand tribute and they appear, explode and hand over the planet!
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Originally posted by Ubermann:
**My fav way to take over is by using space mines and lotsa escorts. I get six Azdgari Warships and have them deploy all their fighters. Then I lay a single space mine on the planet. I demand tribute and they appear, explode and hand over the planet!
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Awesome idea! I've never tried that with the space mines. 
Usually I get a lot of escorts also, only they are usually Crescent Warships, or United Earth vessels if I have access to them.
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Bah...escorts. I like challenges. I'll go for dominaiton as a loner!
Its actually really fun, because, with escorts, they can blow up the defense fleet without even getting a single shot thrown at them, because defense fleets want ONLY you. Thats why I dominate by myself.
Ofcourse, then there are places like Gadzair...
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One thing about the difference between Usurper and Overlord: I was in some system (can't remember which) with three inhabited planets--something like Emalghion--and after dominating two of the three stellars, I was an Overlord. I think you only need to have 51% control of a system to be its Overlord, not necessarily 100%. That's why 2-spöb systems give you Usurper, b/c you're at 50%.
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