Second Function's Office

[Illuminatus]

Actually I my five year gaming career of SMAC I have encountered tons of bugs, so this bug is still a surprise to me - unpleasant one.

[Maniac]

According to the never-accepted constitution Social Engineering is part of the Second Function's Office. So I have found a good excuse to bump this thread.
The matter is going FM or not, and when.
It is possible, with 20% psych, to go FM this year already. The only problem would be Thermal Tassagrad, which would suffer from drone riots due to that impact cruiser near Calico. So until Calico is captured (hopefully next year already ) and the cruiser thus is in CC territory, all four Tassagradian citizens would need to be turned into doctor for one year. So my question is: should I change to FM this turn already, or wait longer until we've had plenty of opportunity to discuss and poll this matter?

[GeoModder]

Not FM yet, we're going to have pacific drone problems then also when the fleet is going to Atlantis in what? 2 turns?

Constitution never accepted
Do we have an 'organized' anarchy here then?

I'm going to check and force implement that gov poll immediately!!

[Maniac]

Originally posted by GeoModder
Not FM yet, we're going to have pacific drone problems then also when the fleet is going to Atlantis in what? 2 turns?

Will the fleet move to Atlantis? Atlantis is a land base, so the fleet can't help in assimilating it.

Do we have an 'organized' anarchy here then?

I would call it "flexible organization".

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Maniac
Will the fleet move to Atlantis? Atlantis is a land base, so the fleet can't help in assimilating it.

I mean one of the transports, but a impact cruiser wouldn't be bad for protection in case one of the missing PEACE boats roams around (it all depends on what transport is used for bringing units to Pampalona and Atlantis afterwards. I always have problems letting units board the right ship.

[Maniac]

IIRC transports don't cause pacifism drones. I could be wrong of course.
Anyway, no FM for now. We'll see what happens later.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Maniac
IIRC transports don't cause pacifism drones. I could be wrong of course.
Anyway, no FM for now. We'll see what happens later.

transports not, I suppose, but the units on board?

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Maniac [*]Also a bit of the NW of Little Accident was revealed after the base capture. Could there be a PEACE vessel there?

I have a question about your remark here. What has the revealing of a NW tile to do with the possible presence of a PEACE vessel? Is this another bug?

[Maniac]

Due to the CyCon techsteal ability, every time we capture an enemy base we get a technology of the enemy faction, or if we already own all the enemy techs, the enemy's world map. That (stealing map) is what happens now every time we capture yet another PEACE base. We got their map when we captured HMB, and also a turn later when we now captured Little Accident. This turn those few squares in the NW of Little Accident are revealed after capturing that base, while last year the squares were still unexplored. The most likely explanation seems to me that there is a PEACE schooner on that location.