Angels MY 2151-2160

[Mart]

2151
This is report of what happened during this turn. Issues in the next post.

• Our scout patrol in Googlieplex succesfully defended the base from mindworm boil attack. It is currently 60% damaged. We won this turn 1 battle, and lost 0.
• The 4-3-1 hive unit was replaced by 4-2-1 hive unit. Smart hiverian moove! That one in the circle in right upper corner
• The second mindworm does not move
• Spartans completed Command Nexus and started Maritime Control Center
• Morgans build Planetary Energy Grid. Instabuild? We do not know.
• We completed Adaptive Economics. Social Psych Chosen next.

[Mart]

And more detailed issues:

• What to do with Rover and 2 probe teams? Leave them where they are?
• The second mindworm did not move. We might attampt to kill it from south, but there is fungus, so I thought about going from north as indicated. Though there is a problem, since it will occupy the rover for several turns. i estimate the attack for 2154.
• The second mindworm was killed in the attack, thus Snowflake scout would return to the base to put back in the line those drones.
• Do we build PEG??? I may be wrong, but think Morgans have it instabuilt. So we would waste a lot of crawlers. Discussion later in this thread.
• That long-time hive synth is now on forest - self grown...

[Mart]

And here some thoughts about SP. I would build PEG now, if agreed on it, but otherwise I would not push toward making any other SP. If we do not build PEG, thus we have 9 crawlers, which already do a lot of good stuff. Loosing PEG is a setback, but we can offset this by skillful economic management. Let aim for population boom as fast as we can. Let's build new bases. Presently we have Psych this much, that it can easily help any new drone problems. New bases will give us more energy, science, crawlers - I do not need to point it I guess. We have Virtual World - lets use it ASAP. If opportunity comes we may build Citizen Defence Force, Ascetic Virtues or Planetary Datalinks.
But let us do not complete any SP just for having one more if we do not really need at the moment this new SP. Maritime Control Center is probably also lost - Spartans apparently want it.

[ForesterSOF]

Population, Build and Tech seem to be the area we need to fucus on.

In other word MRM and EM leaading us to work hand in hand with the Gaians.

[Hercules]

Looks that way Forest

[Hercules]

The Spartans have advised that Morgan will complete PEG in 2151. We've been pipped at the post.

It would be interesting to know when they acquired Adaptive Econ.

As a result we need to build net nodes and probe foils.

Spartans have considerable knowledge of Morgan it seems either by pact or infiltration.

[Hercules]

So lets rehome a crawler to RPS at the earliest opportunity to boost probe production and think about a net node at Kody next.

[Mart]

Network nodes will be in 3 bases now - EM, KP and KC. We buy them, as energy comes. then population can grow beyond 3.

We also should start some colony pods - maybe SH or Verres loft - have to take a closer look. Our eastern border has the best terrain now.

[Hercules]

Don't forget to keep up diplomacy with the Spartans and Gaians before we close just in case they agree to tech trade.

[Mart]

Yes, Gaians haven't responded yet. I think of proposal to Spartans about Ethical Calculus. Details in infotrade thread.

[Mart]

Some analysis of our faction state, just to monitor it and have some help in planning. Also to rise our spirit, as I expect these stats to increase rapidly.

Base		|Prod.	|Energy		|Labs
				
Enigma Machine	| 11 	| 10(-)=10	|  3
Kahlua Probing	|  7	|  9(1)=10	|  2
Snowflake Heav	|  7	|  7(1)= 8	|  2
Kodycryptor	| 12	|  6(1)= 7	|  2
Rock-Paper-Sci	|  9	|  5(2)= 7	|  2
Googlieplex	|  6	|  5(1)= 6	|  2
Verres Loft	|  8	|  2(1)= 3	|  0
Heaven's Gate	|  3	|  1(3)= 4	|  1
Hercules Stat.	|  2	|  2(2)= 4	|  0
----------------------------------------------
		  65	  47(12)=59	  14

So as can be seen, our best energy base is EM, though minerals are better in KC. We should first also hurry Network Node in EM, where we get 2 additional lab points (they are rounded up). KC finishes a crawler yet, so network node comes later.

Also I felt that because we will have more crawlers than expected, we need more improved tiles for their crawling, so SH and VL make formers.

I would do colony pod in SH then. VL has some quite good nutrients too, after crawlers was put on the mine.

Some last thought - as network nodes become more abundant, we could lower psych in social engineering, thus getting more science. In periphery bases we would use doctors if needed, or maybe just crawl energy, if low efficiency wouldn't make it pointless. I think that when around 5-6 biggest bases have network nodes we might consider it.

[Mart]

Just forgot to do it in the previous post... end save 2151:

[Hercules]

If anyone needs the password to open the above save file send me a PM, email or post here.

[Kataphraktoi]

yes,that would be nice william@pembrook.net

[Mart]

Just something to know: