~Academician Voltaire for Director of Science~

[Nubclear]

(RP mode on)

To both candidates:

Do you have a sense of humor? Do you socialize, get to know people, instead of locking yourselves away in a room using computer? Can you take a joke? Thanks

[Method]

while i can take a joke, i wouldn't be talking, Mr 6.5 posts per day.

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by TKG


while i can take a joke, i wouldn't be talking, Mr 6.5 posts per day.

lol

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by TKG


while i can take a joke, i wouldn't be talking, Mr 6.5 posts per day.

6.5 vs 1.27? Hmm....Anyway..

Volitaire, can you please answer my question?

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
(RP mode on)

To both candidates:

Do you have a sense of humor? Do you socialize, get to know people, instead of locking yourselves away in a room using computer? Can you take a joke? Thanks

Yes, I do have a sense of humour, though it is slightly different from most peoples (mainly political humor, well politics itself is a joke).

As for the 2nd question, I have been locked away in my room for the past week using the computer (not of my own free will, the weather is just terrible).

Yup, I can take a joke

[Crisler]

The idea of taking Mobility as a free tech sounds like a good compromise to me.

E.L. Crisler
First Commissioner

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by Crisler
The idea of taking Mobility as a free tech sounds like a good compromise to me.

E.L. Crisler
First Commissioner

Yes, it would allow us to continue with research on other fields while meeting the needs and wants of the Office of the Commissioner.

[Crisler]

Originally posted by Voltaire


Yes, it would allow us to continue with research on other fields while meeting the needs and wants of the Office of the Commissioner.

Listen closely, that is the sound of a SERIOUS suck-up you are hearing.

E.L. Crisler
First Commissioner
"yes I have a sense of humor and so does God, don't beleive it, just look in the mirror."

[Lemmy]

Have either candidates run simulations to see if it's posisble to be the first to reach SotHB?

[Method]

good idea. i'll do that (soon)

[Method]

simulations indicate that perhaps secrets is not something we should aim for. the gaians ( ) got it in 2136 while i still had 12 years left to go on it. the university (who i made contact with) seemed more interested in planetary networks and such.

of course i didn't exactly get an "ideal" start. south of the freshwater sea. not a single rainy tile to be seen. i made contact with the hive and traded with them, so that may have slowed my tech rate down. and social psych was unavailable, so i went for info networks (zak wouldn't trade it). of course i went for ecology first.

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by Crisler


Listen closely, that is the sound of a SERIOUS suck-up you are hearing.

E.L. Crisler
First Commissioner
"yes I have a sense of humor and so does God, don't beleive it, just look in the mirror."

Poor humble old me suck-up to the all-powerful Great Commissioner Crisler?

(BTW did I mention eloquent your writing is today, absolutely inspirational)

[Voltaire]

I ran a total of 5 simulations, in the first 2 we did not receive Secrets of the Human Brain first (we were a few turns behind the University); in another 2 we did receive it first; and in the last one out of the 5 we made the discovery on the same year the University did though we did not receive the free-tech.

I’ll run some more simulations to get a better look at what our chances are of discovering Secrets of the Human Brain first are.

[DeathByTheSword]

this is a 1/2 chance that we get it (counting the fifth simulations as 1/10) i do not think that we can say we need to get after it. a too big of a chance that some gets it before us and that the citizens want an other tech

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
this is a 1/2 chance that we get it (counting the fifth simulations as 1/10) i do not think that we can say we need to get after it. a too big of a chance that some gets it before us and that the citizens want an other tech

Well from the looks of after running a few more quick simulations, our chances are about 50/50 (slightly less). Perhaps we should hold off on this discussion until we have a better grasp of the conditions we will be facing (since from the looks of it our landing site did have a great deal of influence on our early research rate), by holding off until we know where we are on Planet will let us calculate the odds of discovering the Secrets first with a lower margin of error.