Turns of Democracy in Peril

[Darius]

Thanks for spotting the Hive boat. I took a chance and attacked it with my 50% damaged jet, and I lost. I also took a whack at one of your mindworms, but I ended up killing the Fungal Tower instead.

Knowhow2, I offered you Nonlinear Math.

2184 to John.

[johndmuller]

2184 to knowhow2

Well, I also had mixed results in the combat and diplomatic arenas; I lost a brave rover to one of those %$%^@ MW's despite 3:2 odds, but finished it off with a garrison unit. I should have a decent amount of additional force in the neighborhood next turn if they don't knock themselves out on my defenses. Darius, I didn't even know that there was an FT under the MW's!

I probed away that Yang BadBoat up north (its now my BadBoat); too bad you hit it so hard, it will take 2 more pacifist-drone turns to get it into my sea territory. Dumped the garrison stowaway and am once again off to DroneLand with the (now) 2 formers. Any protection/recon-information would be helpful; I think I'm headed to Free Drone Central.

I stole Cyberethics from Yang (let me know if you'all want it), but sadly lost the probe ship. Does the dip that Yang took in the power graph mean that he got Fusion Power?

Having gotten the AMA from Knowhow2, I am now researching Intellectual Integrity (est. 2187), so SuperConductor would be a good thing for you to do, Knowhow2, if you like the idea of Fusion for us; you could also duplicate me on Intel Integ and then switch after I get it.

[knowhow2]

turn 2184 to Darius

switch to Superconductor as suggested. However since I went of FM my research is quite slow compare to earlier so it would take some time to have another breaktrhough. Perhaps I should go green once I pop-boomed enough?

Cybernectic & Adv Mil Alg are the preq for Pre-Sen Alg, a preq for Fusion.

[Darius]

Yes, John, Free Drone Central would be fine. Be aware that you will have to cross a sea fungus square outside the base. I just flew from Shanghai to FDC and there are no enemy vessels within a three-square swath along that route.

The Hive does not have Fusion Power. I do not know what caused that dip. (Would Fusion do that?)

2185 to John.

[johndmuller]

2185 to knowhow2

Finished off the MWs for now (cost me another good rover).

I think that a new reactor does that to the power chart (perhaps the existing units are downgraded as all of them are suddenly no longer the best weapon, armor, etc. or else they spend a lot of ec's upgrading).

Knowhow2, given what we have and what we are working on, Presentient is the only prereq to Fusion yet to be started on. We don't have the tech for "Green" yet (Cent. Empathy), nor do we have a lot of the prereqs for Hybrid Forests. We do, however, have the prereqs for SuperString (Chaos weapons).

Perhaps we need to think about our next set of research targets.

[knowhow2]

turn 2185 to darius

Well if they have the Fusion and we don't then there wouldn't be a fair war would it. Anyway I think Fusion goes before Chaos weapon. Since they have the PDL we can't outtech them so we have to conquest at least some (or boost me up so we can go for Diplomatic, still we need to conquest sooner or later to reduce them).

oh and another thing. I am having major problems with those gigantic files (128k) at hotmail so in the future I would like to download the turn here instead if it's okey with ou john.

[Darius]

The Hive has 9 needlejets in operation. (Or was it the University? I forget now.) But get this - the Consciousness has a chopper in operation and a drop infantry in production.

The Spartans are pummeling my southwest coast. (Spartans? How did they get down there?)

Knowhow2, with the problems on Apolyton's server lately, I doubt that you'll do much better downloading turns from there, not to mention whether the administrator would allow it.

2186 to John.

[knowhow2]

Well I fail to see why the administrator would have a problem with it. You put the file in I download it and then you take it away. It would however take effort out of John (since he's the one that have to put the files both on and off his posts).

My problem is to me hard to work with. As soon as the files are bigger than 30k I start having pronlems. I have to press "download" one or two more times to make it work (the first time a second download comes up and the second just proxy but if I click it a few times the other two will "let loose" so that it can download the rest). With this more than 100k files sometimes the thing get so stuck that nothing helps. I have to restart my computer and that takes like 5-8 minutes each times. This annoys me a lot. I don't know why but it easier to download from here (when it use to work ).

so anyway it's up to you john.

[johndmuller]

2186 to knowhow2

Darius, I almost attacked or asked you to attack the (Drone) ProbeShip down aat (67,31)

Knowhow2, I'm attaching the turn and will e-mail it as well; we can each see what the difference is.

Edit - Saving w/o attatchment

[Darius]

2187 to John.

The Spartans landed on my SW coast. I killed one unit, subverted another, and sank their transport. I have a probe foil within range of a Spartan base to infiltrate them next turn, if they don't have a probe in that base.

[johndmuller]

2187 to knowhow2

Finished researching Intel Integ; now doing Presentient; will finish about the same time as you guys.

Knowhow2, I'm attaching the turn again and have e-mailed it again as well; maybe this time we can each see what the difference is if Poly is cooperating. Was able to drop the old one OK; don't know if it really makes any difference to anyone or to the system, but seems like a good thing to do (except for the PIA factor).

[knowhow2]

turn 2187 to darius

Downloading the files from apolyton takes one second, downloading from hotmail takes at least a couple of minutes (if nothing goes wrong which happens way to often). So if it's okey with you I would like to download the file from apolyton.

[johndmuller]

2188 to knowhow2

Darius: Your Former at (53,33) is finished the BH; Please move it to (55,35) for another BH - Thanks. You've got the transport back now (sorry I forgot to tell you about the formers last turn, I suppose you noticed anyway).

[knowhow2]

2188 to darius

what do guys think about repealing the charts? No right now but in 5-7 turns when I've got a bigger airfleet and all of them armed with Nervegas. Just gas some bases away and we're in driving seat. Any thoughts?

[Darius]

2189 to John.

Repealing the Charter sounds cool to me. I've never done that, though. Are there any negative side effects?