Lordship of Development - volume II

[Chaos Theory]

Turn's in!

Both trades were successful. The Angels and/or Spartans may be annoyed next turn

Yang moved a probe team up to two mind worms and a probe team. Needless to say, it will be dispatched.

Will be playing eventually.

[Illuminatus]

May we have the confirmation that is was Lal who asked the commlink?"

The deal we had pending yesterday as we waited for your reply was with the Peacekeepers, yes.

"Also, would you part for his frequency for 25 credits?"

Eventually yes, but at this time we are seeking the return on our investment to concentrate on Doctrine Flexibility, at the expense of Industrial Automation. We are (presumably) behind yourselves, the Angels and Morgan in the building and deployment of crawlers, so the lucrative "middleman" role between yourselves - and the Angels - with the AI regarding tech trades is one that we would like to maintain at least for the next few turns.

"One another thing - it is likely you got Ethical Calculus or Social Psych from Lal. If this is the case, we would be interested in negotiating a trade with you for data on any or both of these technologies"

We have Ethical Calculus, but we are reluctant to trade it at this time.

We are not yet in possession of Social Psych (although our agents about to call again on the good professor might return next year with the blueprints), but we do possess Secrets of the Human Brain which we would be willing to trade to you for an equivalent technology.
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I will psot this here, since it is urgent.
I think this is very rude coming from Spartans do not agree to trade Ethical Calculus - we traded them IA for all sakes! I suggest we ask them to trade Ethical Calculus, reminding them that we traded IA to them, and if anyone was to be reluctant to trade, that should be us. I suggest we ask them to trade us Ethical Calculus so that we can provide them with Doctrine: Flexiblility (I suggested this to them).
I think we should consider threating with rejection of offers, thus placing us as middleman between them ans Angels - they said they can't obtain Morgan commlink, why should we believe them they can obtain ours then? Aren't all commlinks of equal value to AI? Thus we can assume that they can't buy Angel frequency. We should seriously consider if we wish to accept both deals.
Also, we should be able to infiltrate Yang this turn, using our probe on foil. Could you do this before moving our units north, so that we have Hive intel - I am not sure if it is smart to advance north without scouting - what if we find rovers on the landbridge? We wouldn't find out until it is too late.

[Chaos Theory]

The plan of movement for our foil would scout the land bridge. That combined with infiltration should give us a very good idea of whether we should press an attack on Yang.

If the Spartans are going to be stubborn, then we can terminate our treaty with them after the 8 years. We might as well keep bothering them until then.

[Chaos Theory]

Plan of Action for 2144

Move 2 new CPs to good base sites. We can put both in the Uranium Flats. The site in the Ruins is more-or-less reserved for the CP that will come out of the nearby base in a few turns, so don't try to put another CP there.

Blow up Yang's garrison and advance on his soil if the foil doesn't reveal anything threatening on the way. The forest there helps, because it renders his rovers harmless.

[laurentius]

Yeah, ok. Could you include buinding of more new probe teams to the set as well?

[laurentius]

Originally posted by Illuminatus
We do need ambassador to Sparta. How about you?

Thanks, but I dont currently have the time nor the skills for such an important task.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Who do you talk to in Sparta?

And can't we just ASK them directly why they are reluctant to trade?

[Chaos Theory]

Okay, suggest where. We have two active probe teams, both in or near Yang's territory.

[binTravkin]

I think this is very rude coming from Spartans do not agree to trade Ethical Calculus - we traded them IA for all sakes! I suggest we ask them to trade Ethical Calculus, reminding them that we traded IA to them, and if anyone was to be reluctant to trade, that should be us

PLEASE, do so, I tend to think that they think we're a bit naive!
Show them our sharpest thorn!

[Chaos Theory]

Turn's in!

[Chaos Theory]

Plan of Action for 2145

Probe a tech from Yang.

Move 2 CPs to Uranium Flats, 1 to the spot cleared on the river near the Ruins.

Possibly advance from the east towards Yang with the healthy mind worm; position the other to heal.

Depending on whether the garrison in Society Grid is still there, or has moved, heal the northwestern mind worm, or retreat a tile, or perhaps press the attack (risking our mind worm, but then retreating also risks our mind worm).

[binTravkin]

CT, could you provide map data?

[Ouro_827]

I'd love to take a look at the turn, but I finally got around to it... and the password has been changed.... People? What's the new one?

[binTravkin]

changed?

How can one ever change a password?

[Ouro_827]

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure they did it in the last game... unless I typed in the password wrong six times.....