Turn 250: 1300AD

[DeepO]

Aeson, go to sleep. I know the situation where you keep yourself up far beyond bed time when a save needs to be played... at least it's not 7 am for you yet

I think we've got to start to think on diplomacy stuff soon, both for ND and GoW. But there is no need to do this the coming few hours... and I've got some more application letters to write

(BTW, there is a possibility I'm visiting the US shortly... discussions are progressing with a firm which has a branch office on Wall street. Part of the training would happen there. Nothing decided yet, but some progress is being made on my working situation... finally!)

DeepO

[alva]

Originally posted by Aeson
I have 4 80MM case fans fans (all 31cfm and 21dba ). The ambient case temperature is good, staying around 32C Idle and 35C load. I took a look at everything and the video card's fan wasn't working (Old Radeon 8500 LE). Probably was that that caused the lockup, but I'm still in the dark why the CPU is running so much hotter than it was just a couple days ago.

Maybe silly but you never know, I have to clean my fan every couple of months because of cathair.
If I don't my PC's temp goes up quite significantly too.

[Cort Haus]

Is there any Diplo I need to do?

[Aeson]

RP should be told that we are sending them most of our cities on Lego and Radio. And that Flight will be coming next turn, with Computers the next. Have them keep enough cash over the next couple turns to upgrade their Infantry to MI. Mention that if they can build an FP (not in the city opposite Port Isolation) and Palace jump to Lego soon that would probably be best, but they would need some Infantry/MI over there to protect their holdings before then. Also send them a copy of the division agreement so they can plan their city placement and border expansion. Tell them that the S mountain has Uranium on it so they can plan to properly defend that tile and place the claiming city appropriately.

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I think we should at least try to talk to ND before we settle on the idea of war between us. Apollogize to them for our unit on their side of the Lego division. Say that we didn't realize that our unit might be in the way of their colonization this turn. Don't mention the Uranium, it should be clear enough why we are bringing up units on "the other side".

Then mention the noticeable buildup by both sides in the straits between us. Ask them if they would be interested in an agreement whereby both teams can agree to only having a limited number of scout units in those straits for the mutual safety of each of us.

This turn and the next might be our only shot at avoiding war with ND. If they see all these BBs and Subs coming online at this current high clip maybe they will rethink the possibility of a successful crossing. The other possibility is that they try to rush things and leave their invasion poorly executed.

[Theseus]

Interesting diplo idea: What about airing the situation in the public forum? (albeit potentially dangerous, given our track record there )

[vmxa1]

ND has gained a lot of new players lately. I have seen a number of new (to me) name posting the save and comments.

I wonder if that has lead to the new posture?

[Cort Haus]

Message sent to RP. Sorry it was a bit late, I only just saw Aeson's post. The ND idea is good - I'll draft that up later, I have to go out now, but I don't think the public forum needs this aired yet.

[DeepO]

no, I'm sorry... I've been terribly busy the past few days, and it won't change anytime soon. I hope I'll be able to hop in here tomorrow to give some comments, as I've got to run again.

Just a small one for the road: Whatever gets sent to ND, we can not assume that ND knows we've got a spy placed. Therefore, we can't simply say that we would like to avoid the buildup of marines, as they are unnecessary... Let's not give them any info they might not have for the moment!

DeepO

[Arrian]

Woah. I haven't checked in for a while...

ND is mobilized, based on that screenshot of the city investigation. Oh dear.

-Arrian

[Cort Haus]

Message sent to ND apologising for tank and suggesting we limit the naval build-up.

[notyoueither]

Good. If they bite we can bring marines into the discussion.

[notyoueither]

If they don't bite, we prepare the pine boxes, cause a lot of them would be needed.

[Krill]

If Lego was WWI, this is going to be WWII, especially with nukes being so close...I agree with you there, NYE.

Anybody care to place a wager on how many turns and months this game will last?