Lordship of Development

[Net Warrior]

I see, so with 12 bases at size 1 we'd need 1 police per base. We'd wind up with 1 police and 1 doc if the bases were size 2. What about size 3; would we finally get a 2nd worker here?

[Chaos Theory]

Size 3 bases:

1 content, 2 drones
add 1 doctor
-> 2 drones
add 1 bdrone
-> 1 drone, 1 superdrone
add 2 psych
-> 2 drones
add 1 police
-> 1 content, 1 drone; riots

Nope, if we have a barely content (using all of its drone control and with balanced talents and drones) size 2 base, adding another pop point will just demand another doctor.

Incidentally, here is how a size 2 base with a doctor and police unit and a bdrone looks:

1 content, 1 drone
add 1 doctor
-> 1 drone
add 1 bdrone
-> 1 superdrone
add 2 psych
-> 1 drone
add 1 police
-> 1 content

So the doctor doesn't do anything besides prevent itself from being a drone; the police unit would quell a superdrone just as well.

[smacksim]

Makes Planned not quite as attractive for us without drone control. Hopefully we'll take care of that soon.

If you haven't voted in Illuminatus's new base-production poll, do so. Also, we need some proposals for former movements I believe...

[Chaos Theory]

So only smacksim and I have voted so far, and Illuminatus will, soon. Anybody out there?

As far as former movement, we need to get some forest started near the uranium flats, and near the Ruins, where there's so much fungus we can't use most of the monoliths. A short road heading north of our territory might be convenient, if we watch it. We need some sensors, too, preferably on good future base sites.

[Net Warrior]

Sorry but I'm inundated with PBEM's and I've got to catch up. I'll try to get back on board by 2127

[Chaos Theory]

Plan of Action for 2127

Build road with base 4's former

Build road east to base 6's site with other two formers

Move new CP towards base 6's site

Pop fungal pod with rover, retreat if necessary (>1 mind worm, cannot capture any).

Move foil north, hugging the coast if the rover needed to retreat.

[Natalinasmpf]

I was wondering why we are not scouting more towards the landbridge side...we have quite an amount of deployable military to accomplish this, right?

[Illuminatus]

Well MW is going north, and we know Yang is to the north, important question is what goodie terrain does he have (as map creator said he has extra good terrain). He probably has Jungle, but perhaps even a little more. Oh, and we should get probe teams to infiltrate him, MW should only pop pods for now.
Orders look good

[Chaos Theory]

We don't have much deployable military - just the rover and mind worm. The spore launcher is needed as a garrison now, though I'd like to free it up by building a scout at Gaia's Landing.

[smacksim]

Re: Plan of Action for 2127

Originally posted by Chaos Theory
Pop fungal pod with rover, retreat if necessary (>1 mind worm, cannot capture any).

for this pod.

Move foil north, hugging the coast if the rover needed to retreat.

After we've landed the rover, if it's safe, return to pick up the mindworm at the top of our continent.

NW -- drop rover -- wait-for-safe-rover --> West

[binTravkin]

I just sighted that we have no forests in production..
Maybe we should plant some, so at the time IA arrives , we have something to crawl..

And by the way - do all cities have enough 2nut, 1min squares available?
If some don't, they should be given forests too..

[Chaos Theory]

Originally posted by binTravkin
And by the way - do all cities have enough 2nut, 1min squares available?

Nope, some have to rely on monoliths...

Summary of worked tiles:

Gaia's Landing: 2-1-2
Dreams of Green: 2-2-2
Lily of the Valley: 2-2-2
Fallow Time: 2-1-2 (I hope), 2-1-0
Virgin Soil: 2-1-1, 2-1-0

Each base has an unworked 2-1-0 tile within its radius except Virgin Soil, which can't work another tile anyway until rec commons.

[smacksim]

binTravkin, you can download and play the end-of-turn save from our topped thread to check out the bases so far....

A review of our turns played so far shows that we have valued: Solar/roads/defungusing for roads over planting forests so far. Now that we have some production, indeed, it's time to think of forests.

[binTravkin]

Now that we have some production, indeed, it's time to think of forests.

Well, that's what I meant!
That's were the fun begins!

[binTravkin]

Actually - if every one of our current formers could spend 4 turns for forestation, we shouldn't need any more so soon, as our area is quite wet and forests will be expanding, so by the time we get IA, there will be enough of them!

4 turns = 1t-road + 3t-forest