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    John says:
    yeah but what happens if I suddenly get a big assignment or something
    John says:
    there needs to be a backup guy
    Jamski says:
    then you have to fail it
    John says:
    so what happens if I decide to quit the ACDG?
    Jamski says:
    you can't
    Jamski says:
    you're too vital to lose
    John says:
    because nobody is willing to do the mircomanagement?
    John says:
    come on buster does it with his faction
    Jamski says:
    because noone is interested
    John says:
    in fact he outdid me when he built the WP
    Jamski says:
    unfortunately most people just want to spam
    John says:
    he mircomanaged more than me and managed to build the WP 1 turn

    earlier than I thought possible
    Jamski says:
    The trouble is John, that its not really a job that CAN be shared
    John says:
    although that was me predicting his mircomanagement, compared to him

    mircomanaging his own turn.
    John says:
    so I suppose he had the advantage
    Jamski says:
    maybe by two people that could actually sit down together and play

    the turn?
    Jamski says:
    OK, very important
    Jamski says:
    We MUST try to play the next turns together
    Jamski says:
    you play and I'll duplicte the moves on my screen
    Jamski says:
    yeah?
    John says:
    okay then
    John says:
    and the chairman said he was interested in learning how I'm figuring

    out the production queues and money management
    Jamski says:
    Right, I need to run some build/former/turn tests
    Jamski says:
    well, then we can try and do it á3
    John says:
    okay
    Jamski says:
    right I want to produce a time plan,
    John says:
    time plan?
    Jamski says:
    like turn 4, forest finished, start work on farm etc
    John says:
    it only takes 2 turns for a forest to finish
    Jamski says:
    turn 6 scout patrol finished, move worker to forest
    John says:
    with 2 terraformers
    Jamski says:
    its just an example
    Jamski says:
    I want to tune and optimise my plan
    John says:
    okay
    John says:
    well there's alot of worker shifting next turn
    John says:
    as I'm shuffling the crawlers around
    Jamski says:
    If only we'd got the damm WP
    John says:
    yeah
    John says:
    but we didn't have a hope
    Jamski says:
    my plan is REALLY t-forming intensive
    Jamski says:
    and we need to beeline for eco engineering not flex or impact or any

    of that crap
    John says:
    you need to convince chairman
    Jamski says:
    I need ti convince YOU
    John says:
    I'm staying out of long term planning
    Jamski says:
    you get to actually choose the tech when you play the turn
    John says:
    I choose the tech that most people want
    John says:
    In the case where it's reallly really obvious
    Jamski says:
    anyway, if we don't get it soon, then we don't get boreholes or

    condensors
    John says:
    I chose it by myself
    Jamski says:
    then choose the eco eng. route please
    John says:
    oh ****
    John says:
    oh damn it
    Jamski says:
    Otherwise we'llget to the situation where we need 48 turns to

    research it
    Jamski says:
    what?
    John says:
    drones jacked up their tech rate with their new crawlers
    Jamski says:
    meaning?
    John says:
    meaning we have less than 1 turn to organise tech with them
    Jamski says:
    ****
    Jamski says:
    well, I'm decided that we should work together for eco eng.
    John says:
    Get chairman approval or a majority vote.
    John says:
    either will do
    Jamski says:
    actually we can take it as our next tech
    John says:
    majority vote is minial basically 4 votes for
    Jamski says:
    let the Drones get something else we want
    John says:
    but don't you understand
    John says:
    if the drones and us tag team our tech research
    John says:
    we get ecological engineering 2 times faster.
    Jamski says:
    we can go much faster
    Jamski says:
    but... eco eng is THE NEXT TECH
    John says:
    is it?
    Jamski says:
    how can we tag team it
    John says:
    but we still need genetic engineering first?
    Jamski says:
    we need IA nad Cent Eco
    Jamski says:
    for the HGP
    Jamski says:
    but for EE we need IA and Cent Eco
    Jamski says:
    which we have
    Jamski says:
    since we can build formers and crawlers
    John says:
    we need gene splicing
    Jamski says:
    no
    John says:
    for EE we need gene splicing and cent eco
    Jamski says:
    yes
    Jamski says:
    I just checked
    John says:
    that means ethical calculus, gene splicing and then EE
    Jamski says:
    so we get the Drones working on Gene splicing?
    John says:
    they need to work on ethical calculus first
    Jamski says:
    then we trade then biogen
    Jamski says:
    or what?
    John says:
    I'm trying to think
    John says:
    it doesn't look good
    Jamski says:
    I need to empty my arse... brb
    John says:
    we need to pick up social pysch
    Jamski says:

    Jamski says:
    no
    Jamski says:
    not really do we?
    John says:
    because we can't choose ethical
    Jamski says:
    dammnation
    Jamski says:
    but we need to
    a) get the restriictions lifted
    b) build boreholes and condensors
    Jamski says:
    as soon as possible
    John says:
    well the one reason I'm not whole heartedly going for EE
    Jamski says:
    is?
    John says:
    is because I'm wondering if we can just probe the uni for our techs
    Jamski says:
    that will cause vendetta
    John says:
    if we get away with it?
    Jamski says:
    it HAS to cause vendetta
    Jamski says:
    its the PBEM rules
    John says:
    really?
    Jamski says:
    if you probe someone without permission
    Jamski says:
    you HAVE to declare vendetta
    John says:
    isn't that only if you're in treaty
    John says:
    we're currently in no contact
    Jamski says:
    best to check
    Jamski says:
    but vendetta is fine
    John says:
    *giggle*
    Jamski says:
    just as long as you know
    John says:
    well I'm not sure
    Jamski says:
    its not like they'll invade us, is it?
    John says:
    maybe start mindcontrolling university bases
    John says:
    if they complain
    Jamski says:
    LOL
    John says:
    it's not like they can steal techs from us.
    Jamski says:
    because we have sooooooo much cash to do that
    John says:
    oh yeah
    John says:
    hrmmm
    John says:
    well we could just try sending over impact rovers
    Jamski says:
    but first we need an impact rover factory
    Jamski says:
    and I don't mean one base
    John says:
    we're pretty screwed aren't we
    Jamski says:
    nah
    Jamski says:
    we have the ability in about 30 turns to raise an enormous army
    John says:
    we have the ability to raise 3 scouts in every base right now in 3

    turns
    Jamski says:
    umm great
    Jamski says:
    that would solve ALL our drone problems though... hmmm
    John says:
    lol
    John says:
    yeah
    John says:
    but we miss out on the HGP
    Jamski says:
    perhaps we should take the WP off the Drones?
    John says:
    not until we get another ally
    Jamski says:

    John says:
    those drones haven't permipacted yet
    Jamski says:
    no, forget it anyway
    Jamski says:
    in a war, they'd still give us too much trouble
    John says:
    yeah buster has experience and mircomanages
    Jamski says:
    and they have too similar a set-up to us
    John says:
    well they have more tech than us
    Jamski says:
    what we can do to the Uni is "increase Drone activity"
    Jamski says:
    that's always evil
    John says:
    heh
    Jamski says:
    when every base ends up as JUST drones
    John says:
    and after getting the VW
    John says:
    they'll be rather vulernable
    Jamski says:
    hehe
    John says:
    give us your tech or else we'll keep inciting drones
    Jamski says:
    getting the VW must be the Uni's main plan
    John says:
    the problem is university will go running to the pirates
    Jamski says:
    we need to make a deal with the Pirates
    Jamski says:
    for every three Uni bases we take, you get one of them
    Jamski says:
    or for every two
    John says:
    having the university in a pact with the pirates is worth more than a

    few university bases
    Jamski says:
    and share all tech
    Jamski says:
    dunno
    Jamski says:
    maybe they'll want to jion the winning side?
    John says:
    maybe they don't want us to win
    Jamski says:
    hmmm
    Jamski says:
    we'll have to try diplomatic channels after we meet them
    John says:
    they'll want to keep the university running as long as possible
    Jamski says:
    We only ASSUME they have a pact with the Uni
    John says:
    so we don't get powerful
    Jamski says:
    they could just be trading
    John says:
    Lets see power graph JUMPS HEAPS
    John says:
    I reckon they're pacted
    Jamski says:
    trades of 3-4 techs wold do it too
    John says:
    and did you see how the cycon and pirates all got IA

    John says:
    the university wouldn't give IA unless they were fully pacted
    Jamski says:
    you think we're up against a 3-way pact?
    John says:
    maybe
    Jamski says:
    hmmm, unless the Cycon researched it
    John says:
    we could ask googlie
    Jamski says:
    Like he'd tell us
    John says:
    so fast?
    Jamski says:
    they do have +2 research
    John says:
    but didn't the cycon only get IB and IE last turn?
    Jamski says:
    Ummm, perhaps
    Jamski says:
    perhaps they cashed a AA
    Jamski says:
    we just don't know
    John says:
    there are no AAs
    Jamski says:
    true
    Jamski says:
    perhaps they got a tech froma pod then
    John says:
    anyway I have no idea whether to go after EE or flex
    John says:
    techs from pods are only basic ones
    Jamski says:
    I'm for EE
    John says:
    that don't have prerequsites
    John says:
    lets post this MSN conversation and see what other people think
    Jamski says:
    really? Well I learn something new
    Jamski says:
    OK
    Jamski says:
    I'm gonna go and test some stuff now
    John says:
    okay

  • #2
    techs from pods has been disabled in this game, as have AA's

    G.

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