Internal Affairs Function's Office

[Corellion]

And the annoying perfectionist in me has an answer.

By moving before building the road, the resulting connection will be significantly shorter (3 tiles, IIRC). This will allow for much faster transportation, and a better road system for the formers to get around on, even if it requires more time to build.

And I'll be glad to order it back... I had thought that the garrison had to already be in the base before we could safely do that.

Edit: Whoops... I missed the horizontal road connecting those two tiles... I'll remedy it.

Edit2: I said I was a perfectionist... I never said I was perfect.

[Maniac]

Thanks.
Is it ok btw to move the Pi Square crawler in the direction of Logic Loop?

[Corellion]

Indeed it is.

BTW, sorry I haven't been here lately... I had to go out of town.

[Maniac]

No problem.
In the meanwhile, may I suggest switching production to a 1-1-4 Gun Foil if we get DocFlex next year?

[Corellion]

Indeed you may, and indeed I would agree.

[Maniac]

From another thread:

And if we're going to do that, we may as well hold off on the gun foil and build our gun cruiser.

Sounds good. May I then suggest we now build a second former for that base? The more formers now, the more crawlers we can build later.

[Corellion]

Agreed!

[Maniac]

Corellion, you haven't given orders yet and many formers have finished their current task. May I therefore suggest:

Research: Switch research to Doc:Ini after we get DocFlex.

Boolean Bay: move the forest worker off the field to stop the drone riots.
Pi Square: change production to former
Binary Bastion: set productio to former
Mythical Matrix: ??? - CP, former and crawler all seem fine...

Formers:

former in Binary Bastion: move one tile NE and build road.
former (75.75): build road
former in Mythical Matrix: move one tile NE and build road?
former (70.66): build road
former (72.64): move to (71.63). Use the road and river, so you will still have 1/3 of a movement point left. Then start cultivating a farm.
former (70.56): move one tile SW and build road

[Maniac]

Corellion, a question. Shouldn't this better be the other way around?

Change nutrient worker in Boolean Bay to forest worker

Since I played the turn right before you gave your last turn orders, I removed the nutrient worker instead of the forest worker you asked.

[Corellion]

Yes... sorry. Choose the option that prevents our citizens from starving in two turns.

[Drogue]

Corellion: A few points of interest:
1) I need new build orders for 'Poly Prime, DBTSverse Portal and Aurora, as all either next turn or the turn after, will have nothing to build.

2) Zetaris is building a crawler. It will atke 6 turns to build it, or 31 ec to hurry it. IMHO hurrying seems like a good option.

3) Boolean Bay will lose a worker next turn unless the worker is changed from Forest to Nuts. Though they have drone problems, it maybe worth saving? Either way, we need some drone control there ASAP.

Overall, the formers seem to be concentrating on roads when there is no decent terraforming done to work (look at Binary Bastion). I think a Forest first is needed, and then roads to connect. Let them work something decent.

A few points to discuss

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Corellion
Yes... sorry. Choose the option that prevents our citizens from starving in two turns.

Sorry, that post wasn't read until after I'd played the turn Will change it next turn.

[Maniac]

My humble opinions on the matter:

I need new build orders for

'Poly Prime

Former or crawler perhaps?

DBTSverse Portal

Rec commons?

Aurora

Rec Commons or CP?

IMHO hurrying seems like a good option.

We might need that cash for hurrying some rec commons where needed.

Overall, the formers seem to be concentrating on roads when there is no decent terraforming done to work (look at Binary Bastion). I think a Forest first is needed, and then roads to connect. Let them work something decent.

I agree there is too little decent terraforming done. But roads are crucial too. IMHO the solution would be to build more formers, and not having to choose between roads or eg forests.

[Corellion]

I thought that connecting the southern bases (BB and BB) to the main section was the most important, so that our soon-to-come crawlers can easily get around. The tiles currently being worked for roads (by both southern formers) were going to be targetted for forests as soon as the roads are done. If anybody else has concerns regarding terraforming, then bring it up... we haven't had a discussion on this in quite some time, and I need to regauge factional position.

[Drogue]

If we built a forest first, we would have something to work, that doesn't make us grow too fast (no drones problem or other squares needed) and would mean the crawlers will be built faster. Also, the roads would still be in place by the time they're needed. It takes a fair few turns for those roads to be needed, whereas the forest is needed as soon as the base is built. Personally I think terraform one square to be worked, then build roads, then terraform other squares. That way the base has something to work while roads are being built.

I agree with Maniac that more formers would be good, but we also want crawlers to speed up production, and Rec Commons/CPs to grow. Until we have some spare building capacity, I think we need to terraform one square first, as mentioned above.

I'll have a look at the save again, but I think Maniac's build proposals look good