Turn 177 - 620AD

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by DeepO
I'll tell you what will happen: the Lego's will die laughing... leaving all their land free for us to claim. We better just put settlers on those boats

DeepO

it will be horribly embarrassing. i just hope the sting remains until mrines so we arent the target...

[DeepO]

Once espionage is ready, there is another problem, or maybe a smart trick we could use. Does anybody have any idea if propaganda works? You don't need marines to conquer a city, if you can buy it...

From the civilopedia, it seems that only the city in which a spy is planted can be turned, but as you most of the times plant a spy in the capital, that's no use, of course. Would it be possible to turn a small harbor city, with transports one turn away?

DeepO

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by DeepO
Does anybody have any idea if propaganda works?

DeepO

Our cultural strength could help here.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by DeepO
I started disbanding units, to see where we stand. With one disbanded MI, we became weak... that means their force is about 25% stronger then ours. My guess is there never will be any possibility to invade Lego, or we should go through Vox.

This is a banned tactic, as it involves manipulating the save in a way that cannot be undone later. It'd be similar to moving a ship towards Lego to see if they had a naval screen up, then Cort not actually moving it in the turn he plays. It gives you information you shouldn't have unless you're fully willing to commit to the first action (that is, actually disbanding as many units as did).

A general rule... if you can't undo it, don't do it unless that's the official turn you plan on sending.

[asleepathewheel]

whoops


thanks for the notice big guy.

[DeepO]

Wow... sorry about that

You see what happens if you give me the save? I guess this was not that bad a transgression, the first unit Lego would build, we have the same results... but still, I'm sorry to have unwillingly 'cheated'.

DeepO

[Arrian]

Guys - I'd edit the above posts, removing the information gleened from what DeepO did and do your best to forget it.

It cannot be undone, but with everything else going on, we probably will forget about it, and it's best not to have the info lying around.

Dunno, maybe I'm just grasping at straws here...

-Arrian

[Cort Haus]

OK, I've purged my reference to that thing that never happened.

[DeepO]

I'm not sure, guys. I mean, I made a mistake... nobody is going to forget it, but deleting it now seems like we would try to cover it up, and that is not the case. I am hoping though that Lego builds one miserable unit next turn, so that we get the same analysis, only 1 turn later, and without any cheating...

DeepO

[Arrian]

It's not covering it up: The EYE saw it. He knows about it.

The question is whether or not he feels we ought to disclose our mistake to the other teams?

In the grand scheme of things, this is probably pretty minor, and we know it wasn't intentional or anything.

-Arrian

[vmxa1]

Not to be coniving or anything, but for all we know it has been done by others and they never mentioned how they came to the conclusions.

IOW anyone could do the same thing and never mentioned anything but the F3 results. It is not exactly going to make a difference in what we do next anyway. So we now know not to do it.