Ministry of Imperial Expansion (Term V) - Ideas and Comments Thread

[Meshelic]

Panzer32 - exploring is both under the jurisdiction of the SMC and the IE. Currently THAT is being worked out in the constitution (I believe) and those responsible are hammering out the results soon.

[Arnelos]

I'd be in favor of exploration being under the IE for now, as I argued in another thread... but I think Aggie is currently working on naming a deputy for that.

Perhaps Jonny and Aggie should go talk the matter over?

[Meshelic]

Arnelos actually Aggie has named his deputies. Those positions fall to myself and Shiber.

[Jonny]

I believe that at the current time exploration is under the control of both the SMC and the IE minister. (I think it works by the IE minister telling the SMC which general direction to explore in, and then the SMC actually moves the units and does the exploring.)

And Panzer, I agree - the IE ministry is obviously becoming redundant and obsolete.
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Are there any more comments on the city sites?

I believe I will start a poll soon, asking if we should build a city at ANY of the sites. If poll shows that we should build a city at one (or more) of the sites, I will then have a poll to see which of the sites we should build at first.

[Aggie]

For the record exploration is and will be under the SMC, and I have appointed deputies for this job. However the IE's input will always be appreciated and considered. This job will become more visible once we get navigation, right now we are moving our galley along the sea/ocean barrier to see what we can see. Soon a galley will be in that large area of sea off the english coast.
Aggie

[Aggie]

Jonny I really like the city site near the wheat, neat the old american city, a culturally strong city here could secure a flip of those cities.
Aggie

[Meshelic]

I agree with Aggie upon further review of the maps. There really is only 1 site that will be of much use. That is, unless we sack a city and burn it down...

[Meshelic]

YES! Made it to Prince!

In light of my recent promotion, I shall throw a huge party at my home in Tassagrad, all are invited!

[Panzer32]

Im supplying the music:

[Meshelic]

nice! panzer32, hehe

[E_T]

THe French Cities that are soon to be ours

I would like to discuss some possible plans for our soon to be new cities. With the addition of 5 Cities, it will effect corruption in our outlying cities, Including Contagion and the FP build. I'd like to do two things:
1) Move Amiens south by one tile. Jerusalem's borders will be expanding next turn (730AD) and so the move will not effect our access to the SP deposit that is between the two cities. This also allows New Amiens to have access to the Plains to the SW and be able to grow to a fairly good size (Especially after they are RR'ed).

2) Combine Lyons & Basancon to a spot that will cover both the Iron & SP deposits, here is the map (pardon the messiness of it):

THis will do a couple of things:
a) Reduce cultural pressure on the city from the Greek Capitol of Athens. We might just conquer Basancon and have it quickly flip to the Greeks. We will have to spend a lot of money to prevent that.
b) Reduce by 1 the number of cities that will be contributing to our overall corrution in our outlying cities (atleast until the FP is built).
c) better access to more Grassland for Growth

E_T

[Jonny]

E_T, I really like the idea of building a new city between Bescanon and Lyons. Of course, that will have to wait until we conquer and destroy those cities...

[nz_upy]

And this New Site has a good chance of giving us an ironworks. Yeh Baby.

[Shiber]

Good point!

[Aggie]

Good idea Et. by the way we are now t-5 for attack.
Aggie