Turn Report 2216-2222

[GeneralTacticus]

The main events:

1) Most of the Drone Riots died down, however, those in Tacticus Academy continued, and they destroyed the recycling tanks.

2) We then experienced a Network Overload at TA which wiped out our research, due to the delays caused by the riots.

3) We located and infiltrated the Spartans, who declared war after we refused to give them Cyberethics. They seem to be located in the Monsoon Jungle.

4) We suffered a number of mindworm attack, which cost us a Gatling infantry squad near TA, and a laser foil in eastern sea. We were also forced to arm two crawlers in order to hold off mindowrm attack from the sea.

The chatlog will follow shortly.

EDIT: at least, it will if Hercules is still around to post it.

[DeathByTheSword]

what do you mean with arm two crawlers?

[GeneralTacticus]

Spent 90 ECs on each one to give them Synthametal armour and Hypnotic Trance. Turned one of the worms into charcoal, and the other one is staying put for now.

[Lemmy]

eek..you played 6 turns
How long did it take?

[GeneralTacticus]

A little under four hours.

[Hercules]

Partial turn chat log. Timed out after first two hours so that part is missing ?
I notice it is missing who said what , but the information is in the copy between <>. Wonder why it disapppears.
Start of #smacdg buffer: Sun Jan 12 01:41:27 2003
* Now talking in #smacdg
Drogue: they have all those things, and they still
rioted.
connection timed out
they have a net node? etc
i thoughgt only rec commons
They'd have had the Node if they hadn't
interrupted production by rioting.
Anyway, where was the base ast of Concordia
supposed to go?
East.
1,74 wasn't it?
18,74, rather.
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&thread
id=71531
border of us and morgan
CONCORDIA.
2 squares SW of pool
sorry
Oh, and herc: We just built the first working
model of Plasma armour at NA.
Time to start upgrading.
Yippee
agreed
only needed in outside bases though
Herc wanted upgrades in Centralis, too.
as agreed and as per build qs
GT: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&th
readid=71888
I upgraded them to police untis, and now we don't
have to worry about Drones any more.
east of concorian base
thanks.
take out fungus on yellow E, E, E, N of condordia
In progress.
Now whatd id DBTS want me to do with the former at
11,105?
no idea.. where is that:
?
Hang on, found it.
He wanted a condenser.
sounds ok
btw, Arurora now has three formers.
What do you want me to do with them?
One's clearing fungus and another's planting
forest.
And a third wa sjsut built.
road to new base, a couple of condensor/farms for
crawling (if needed) and then give them to somewhere else
Ok, in prgress.
OH, and do your ealize that we have an AA in NA
that we STILL haven't used?
then give it to abase we can use it in!
more tech
We may be able to use it NA.
Shall I try?
can we??? if so yes
Yes, it worked, and we got Advanced Subatmoic
Theory.
No wait it may come in more useful later
Subatomic.
oh well, too late.
Besides, what for?
well, another tech prob,im all for using them
Ok, now what to do with the formers near xanadua?
Xanadu.
?
forest if none there
or road if needed
or farm/condensor
Apparently he wants them sent to NT and handed
over to you.
ok, sounds good
And the square already has farm/solar.
keep one of tehm and defungus one square inland
Ok, 2219 complete, and out probe foil is
approaching BRC.
The laser foil hasn't found anything.
BRC?
blast figle crag?
Well, for once nothing catstrophic happened this
turn.
rifle*
lol
Yes, Blast Rifle Crag.
even I kne taht
knew that
hmmmm... didnt register for a sec
Ok, we have a laser foil near a pod with an IoD
further on. we can pop the pod *OR* attack the IoD.
I say pop the pod; we'd have only 50/50 odds of
killing it if we attacked.
pod
id got for attackj personally, but pods ok i guess
Something else to report: Zakh has built a new
port much closer to our other probe foil.
yay
I'm redirecting it to there.
infiltrate!
btw herc: I've just found a sea with your name on
it.
'The Mouth of Hercules'.
objective one
Found anothe rpod near NS.
pop?
it's with a Lsaer foil.
Hallelua
how many moves?
1.
f*ck.
wait
yeh, go for it
The othe rpod contained another IoD.
thank god for trance.
its only 50 50 whichever
And so did that one.
ohhhh not good
Oh, and no it isn't; it's 60/40 in our favour.
Or more; the second foil is hardened.
alraight
those keys
Mysidia just built a supply crawler, but Voltaire
gave no orders for it.
What should be done with it?
yes, buit its the saem whetehr we attack or let it
attack
No, it isn't.
Psi combat at sea is 1 vs 1.
Trance only applied if we defend.
yes
defend
yes, so better to defend, im trying to say why we
should pop with omne turn left,, ratehr than waiting to
attack it
We can't attack anyway; no movement left.
Now, the crawler?
Shall I just have it crawl forest?
which one?
might as well
In Mysidia.
IT was just built, and Voltaire left no orders.
forest
btw what happened to foil at 127,81
yep, sounds good
What foil?
There was a probe foil there which is going on to
infiltrate at BRC.
thats where it was at 216
2216
Alsol, I think the Gaian foil had a fatal
encounter with an IoD.
:-(
The toher probe foil just spotted a badly damaged
one.
And now gaian foil.
no.
what ahppened to Kass btw
Alright, now where was the CP at NT meant to go?
heys in #apolyton
What's this about Kass?
just wondered
um... not sure, lemme see
Now, the CP?
He usually turns up. did I miss his apology
There was meant to be another base near xanadu,
wasn't there?
2SW, 2 S of NS
yes
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&thread
id=71532
top pic, blue
Ok.
And I think we ought to build a base S S S of
Xanandu later, as well.
It gets a monolith and and a sea nutirent (once we
clear the fungus).
And it might be named Cyclops
sounds good
What did you want done with the other xanadu
former?
did you want it sent to NT as well?
Do you think the response in the name thread by TKG on
naming seas was sufficeent to rename the sea of pholus as
this sea is belongs to us
possibly, poll would be nice, but it was wanted
IMHO
um, no idea, i would look, buit i cant
Hello?
do wehatever u thinks good
The othe rXanadu former send it south to where the new
base might be
I just sent it E to help the theird former.
third.
ah well
either sounds good
Ok, now what do we do with the second western
probe foil?
It's uncomfortably close to an IoD.
The damaged IoD.
avoid
the 2nd one?? probably infiltrate the believers if
possible
and yes, avoid
Uh oh.
\
While trying to avoid, it spotted another one
equally close.
So I'd day it's probably going to die.
say.
go for the one with less health
oh well
a small prayer
id better call it a night in a sec, its 1am
Is ther much left this turn apart from giv orders
Gov orders
There's the western laser foil.
mine or hercs?
has it got orders
Herc's.
And the Eastern rpobe foil
Did it steal from The LEader's Horde last time?
If so, we should send it somewhere else.
why?
Decurity will be VERY tight.
Security.
ahhh, ok then
send it up, the coast
another tech
To Labourer's Throng? It's the next base up.
Herc, what aboutm your foil?
GT: yep
anyways, im gunna go to bed now... need sleep
badly
cheers guys, nicely done
bye
* Drogu|DEI has quit IRC
bye.
Herc?
Hello?
yeah bye. just hold with western foil
Hold?
Why?
It was looking for more Spartans, remember?
Ah that one
head south
Ok.
It just ran into an IoD in the fungus.
run?
yes
Okay, report: we lost one foil to the IoDs (the
south eastern one), killed another one, but there's a third
closing in, and we just had worms land near TA.
are we enough to make decisions?
Can I send the Gatling squad in TA to kill them?
You're DPo, after all.
It will have to attack at 2/3 strength, but if we
don't kill them, thye'll massacre our crawlers.
Yes how many worms
Oh, and something else: The Gaians pledged Blood
Truce with the believers.
2.
So, can I?
whats the odds on the worms
A bit better than 50% I expect.
Shall I check?
Yes
Exactly 50%.
whats our morale rating a tpresent
Disciplined.
If need be, we can always upgrade the nearby
crawlers to have Trance and armour.
good idea
It will cost 90 ECs for each one.
So, can I attack?
what is Ta base status did we upgrade to 131
Yes.
go for it
It's a police unit, though.
It lost, after reducing 1 worm to 30% health.

Do the upgrades?
still go for it and me a friend of our native culture
yes
Bit sad about the gatling
oh well, it's not as if it was a very good unit
anyway.
That's not really going to comfort the families of
the dead, though.
we can get the worm next turn somehow can we
If they attack, the damaged one is charcoal, and
the other one should be damaged pretty badly.
What we should really fear is that they may start
destroying condesnsers.
any thing else that concerns me though as dir it all
does
Any more orders for that western foil?
It's gotten away, it seems.
escape
Oh, and we just infiltrated the Spartans, too.
Like I said, it's gotten away.
Ah interesting what base does the probe return to
TBIBTU.
Pity, because that means we can't use it over
there any more.
handy enough
Though we can approach from the other side.
Ok, there's a pod in the fungus near the south
eatern probe foil.
pop?
eastern.
how many moves left
Irrelevant; it's in the fungus.
So it would end it's turn if it popped.
I'd say leave it, actually; we can't take the risk.
we' ve not had a lot of luck with the pods bar 100 ecs
a while back.
Exactly.
So, leave it?
yes
Ok, we left it, and no IoDs popped out of the
fungus when we entered it.
I spotted another pod, too, to get later.
Look forward toseeing the map
Looks like the Spartans are experiencing economic
difficulties.
They get only 3 per turn and have to pay 6.
So they lose three per turn.
It is now a job for forien relations
foreign
2221 complete.
2221 or 2220
Okay, the dmaged worm attacked a crawler and got
flamed.
It's now 2222.
time to stop
The second one did nothing.
We were going to play to 2223, remember?
But, i suppose we can stop here.
I thought it was to 2220. I think we should stop
because there are just 2 of us
Ok. Can you deal with the chatlog (what you have
of it, anyway)?
I have no idea what to do
Neither do I, actually.
hmmm
oh, stuff the chatlog.
I'll try to copy to word and other avenues. But bye
bye meantime
ok.
Hang on, I just figured out how to do it.
go to buffer and click 'Save as'.
Then save save it, open the file with notepad and
you'll have the chatlog.
Herc?
Hello?
Oh, what the hell.
wheres buffer
Under the menu next to file.
The on that looks like a table.
one.
found it I think i have only the bit after Imy
connection timed out
End of #smacdg buffer Sun Jan 12 01:41:27 2003

[Drogue]

I think you need to put it into a txt form in your IRC channel, as DBTS said. We don't know who said what from that

[Voltaire]

Ah crap, I though I had left orders for newly constructed supply crawlers, but I guess I only left them for new formers. Though that’s not the issue right now.

This is the second turnchat in a row that my orders to construct a thermal borehole have been ignored. Why exactly is that???

[GeneralTacticus]

1) You're supposed to poll it.

2) In this case, it couldn't be built at the location you specified anyway.

[Hercules]

Best I could do under the circumstances. Specific advice welcome, but hey, I didn't realise I would be the log reporter.
Funny thing is I think people (citizens) can recognise who said what.

[GeneralTacticus]

I think one thing this really proves is that we need Empath Rovers badly. They would have dealt with a worm invasion as happened in this session without breaking a sweat.

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
1) You're supposed to poll it.

The constitution doesn’t specifically stipulate that a governor must poll to take an action; it is very general in stating that a governor need only poll to receive guidelines on how to run the region. That is a mere matter of semantics, and I do see my order of the borehole as being enough of a deviation for the previous terraforming policy that it would require a poll (which I shall conduct before the next turnchat).

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
2) In this case, it couldn't be built at the location you specified anyway.

Perfectly understandable, I’ll check in advance if the terraforming order can be carried out before giving it.

[GeneralTacticus]

The constitution doesn’t specifically stipulate that a governor must poll to take an action; it is very general in stating that a governor need only poll to receive guidelines on how to run the region. That is a mere matter of semantics, and I do see my order of the borehole as being enough of a deviation for the previous terraforming policy that it would require a poll (which I shall conduct before the next turnchat).

Drogue stated, and I saw no reason to doubt him, that according to Maniac's 'Big Huge Taraforming Poll', all boreholes had to be polled in advance.

Perfectly understandable, I’ll check in advance if the terraforming order can be carried out before giving it.

Good.

[DeathByTheSword]

i have looked at the sav and i saw that miriam had or has a war with deirdre and deirdre attacked the spartans atleast ones.....girlfights but still wars have been in this continent

[GeneralTacticus]

Yes. The war between the Gaians and Believers seems to be over, but the war with the Spartans isn't. I'm beginning to suspect that the Believers are located on the Ilse of Deianira, rather than on the actual continent. This would seem to be born out by the fact that their only known land base on the continent is a captured Gaian one, but they have at least on e sea base.