Turn Thread for MY2111 thru 2120

[johndmuller]

Hi Mateys,
I'm back home and trying catcvhing up on what is going on; I'm replying to Cap'n Herc's email that I'm willing to either finish the turn - or not - and addressing the few loose ends he brought up.
BrownBeard

[Makahlua]

Were you going to poll the trade to Miriam for next turn? At this point, I worry that an extra tech would increase our research time to the next tech..and I hate giving anythinig to her anyway

[Googlie]

I can't tell from the diplo screen records - have you gotten any other commlinks from Miriam yet?

G.

edit: I see not (by "offering all tech" to the CyCon, none come up)

[johndmuller]

Most of you already got this in the email, but for those who didn't, I'm copying it into the official record here.

(Speaking of those who didn't - Cap'n Maki, I got bounced again -this time on your new address - isn't it xxxmakahlua@earthlink.netxxx (minus the xxx's of course)?

Anyway, here is the report:

2220 - rest of turn

So the Cuspidore felt a little like living dangerously in his last turn before Cap'n Hercules flies the banner of Cap'n Hook atop his mainmast. He popped a newly discovered unity pod in the NW with the Schooner Santiago, without enough mp's left to run away from any Native life that might ensue and got . . . . . another freebie build, to finish the just started Command Center at Boot! The Unity Gunboat PMS-001 popped the pod in the east, revealing . . . (*#&@&%#!!)! . . . another *#&@&%#!in' Sonar survey, this time exposing a nearby IoD with a Spore Launcher aboard. BrownBeard, still a bit *&$#ed by finding the *#&@&%#!in' Sonar survey inside the treasure chest, ordered the attack, despite the somewhat worse than even odds due to previous damage, but bravely prevailed and sent the *(^%^$in' worms on their way to visit Davey Jones. Unfortunately, the PMS-001 has now accumulated 70% damage and will need to sit around for repairs for a while; OTOH, the PMS-001 got a minitreasure from the IoD of 20 PoE's and a morale promotion; furthermore, in recognition of the bravery and skills of its crew, the Cuspidore ordered the previously unnamed vessel to be Christened as the Admiral David Glascow Farragut. Sorry, Cap'n Hercules, but you've now got two ships in drydock for the next 4 to 6 turns till they get their damage down to 20%..

Unfortunately, I inadvertently hit the return when I was reviewing the end-of-turn position, intending to look into a base, but it does the turn complete thing if you have already moved all the pieces, so I wasn't able to save off a copy of the end-of-turn position for you'all to look at. I replayed it from the save a few times, but I wasn't able to duplicate the sonar pop, so we'll have to wait til next turn to see the additional map. I'm including the intermediate file that Cap'n Hercules sent - you'all can play on with it if you want to see if you get the sonar pop on the east, or to just play with it. IIRC aside from a few extra tiles in the west, the only difference in the view is that sonar revelation. I was in the process of updating my operations chart when I had the early end of turn, so I didn't update any of that on the turn thread, but Cap'n Herc probably won't be using my bookkeeping system anyway (it is kind of a PIA to do much manual stuff with more than a few bases anyway).

The worst of it was that I hadn't got around to accepting the Borg pact, so that will have to wait until next turn; I'll put a note to that effect in the Bravenet forum so they don't get too impatient. I don't think that there was any other unfinished business in our turn so isn't particularly a problem - shows that it is definitely time for me to retire though.

So the only other problem is that I can't get onto Poly to post the turn, so I just emailed it to Buster and Mongoose (and Googlie) and maybe post it later, if one of them doesn't post something first.

Oh, by the way, we seem to be right up there in the power chart now - we are second only to one of the AI (the DJ's I think), although we are not leading in any of the categories.

Speaking of wealth, I didn't get to rush part of the Cmd Center at boot since we got it for free, and I didn't really want to rush Rita's Party boat this turn anyway, so we are right up there in terms of Pieces of Eight - it looks like a good idea to rush Flubber's Party boat next turn and perhaps the new (scout) build at Boot and maybe the new BootyBoat at Sealurk even.

So good luck to Cap'n Hercules as the new Cap'n Hook.

the Cuspidore BrownBeard.

Apparently Googlie got the turn anyway, so I assume it also went to the other two, although they have been uncharacteristically slow (i.e. not immediate) in their response.

[Googlie]

I can play through to the beginning of your next turn and do some turnstart screencaptures to help in the discussions meantime

G.

[Hercules]

Good idea

[Googlie]

The ocean west of 'Rita (sorry for the graphics - paint does a lousy job)

[Googlie]

Now east of 'Rita

[Googlie]

Your build status and energy reserves

[Googlie]

Your Security Nexus

[Googlie]

The other known factions (and the power graphs)

[Googlie]

The graphics are lousy in paint. After I get back from my golf today I'll see if I can save them in Word or some other program that better represents the colors and gives you a better map to plan ahead with

G.

[Makahlua]

Whew, finally I can get on! Cuspidore, I tried setting up both an @earthlink.net & @mindspring.com, but either way, I can't log in to em *sigh* Let me see if I can find an alternative (brand-new yahoo or hotmail addy perhaps) The @benzautin.com one does seem to work b/c I got the weekend round of emails from Cap'n Herc ok....*kicks the internet for being &%*%%*

edit : cleaned out and activated spamguard for xxxmahkinadragon@mindspring.comxxx - let me know if that one will work for you

[Hercules]

I can't see them anyway. Same as I can't see the Drones mini icon