ACDG5: The Governors' Association

[vyeh]

We've picked Centauri Ecology and Doctrine: Mobility. What are the implications for the fourth tech choice for each of the possible third tech choices (Doctrine: Flexibility, Information Networks, Industrial Base and Social Psych)?

Assume we've picked Doctrine: Flexibiltiy. What are our choices for the fourth tech?

Following the procedure:

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Biogenetics 10 Discover
Industrial Base 11 Build
Information Networks 12 Discover
Applied Physics 13 Conquer
Social Psych 14 Build

Since there are no Explore techs on the list, the joker tech is the Discover tech nearest the beginning of the list, Biogenetics. Since 12 is evenly divisible by 3, Information Networks will not be available.

If we choose Information Networks, what are our choices for the fourth tech?

Biogenetics 10 Discover
Industrial Base 11 Build
Applied Physics 13 Conquer
Social Psych 14 Build
Planetary Networks 32 + 3 + 7 = 42 Discover
Doctrine: Flexibility 46 Explore

The joker tech is Doctrine: Flexibility. Since 42 is evenly divisible by 3, Planetary Networks is not available.

For our Industrial Base as our third choice:

Biogenetics 10 Discover
Information Networks 12 Discover
Applied Physics 13 Conquer
Social Psych 14 Build
Doctrine: Flexibility 46 Explore
Industrial Economics 45 + 3 + 7 = 55 Build

The joker tech is Doctrine: Flexibility. Since 12 is evenly divisible by 3, Information Networks will not be available.

For Social Psych as our third choice:

Biogenetics 10 Discover
Industrial Base 11 Build
Information Networks 12 Discover
Applied Physics 13 Conquer
Doctrine: Flexibility 46 Explore
Doctrine: Loyalty 43 + 3 + 7 = 53 Conquer
Ethical Calculus 44 + 3 + 7 = 54 Explore

The joker tech is Doctrine: Flexibility. Since 12 and 54 are evenly divisible by 3, Information Networks and Ethical Calculus will not be available.

[vyeh]

Explanation of 2104 Former and Crawler Moves

BRCM Former moved 1 sq. S onto monolith. Next turn it will move 1 sq. E. In subsequent turns, it will complete the road to East and then move to the first expansion site to help clear fungus.

East Former built road. In subsequent turns, it will move 1 sq. W into the first expansion siteand help clear fungus.

HQ former continues to clear fungus 1 sq. NE of HQ. In subsequent turns, it will build road to complete the interbase road network.

BRCM crawler moved into HQ and convoys 1 min from BRCM to HQ. By taking one min from BRCM, we will delay the completion of the colony pod until the turn after BRCM grows to 2 pop., which is the earliest BRCM can build a colony pod. This also contributes one min to the SP. Next turn the supply droid will re-home to HQ and move 1 sq. NW and crawl 2 mins/year.

HQ crawler moved 1 sq. NW, convoyed 2 min to HQ and revealed two more monoliths. In subsequent turns, it will move another sq. NW and convoy 2 mins/year to HQ. If it hadn't discovered a suitable square for crawling either NW or W of its current position, the crawler currently in HQ could have moved downriver to the mouth of the river and crawled 1 min.

East crawler moved 1 sq. W and convoyed 2 nuts to East. It will continue to crawl 2 nuts/year until East is on the verge of growing to pop. 2. Then it will move into HQ and convoy 1 min (which would have been wasted since the colony pod will have one more min than necessary the same turn East grows to pop. 2 and be forced to wait a turn). After that it will be re-homed to HQ and convoy 2 mins/year to HQ (of the six monoliths, one goes to BRCM, two are available for HQ workers and 3 are available to be crawled for HQ).

[vyeh]

Some early thoughts on diplomacy



Since our population is 3, we know that the other factions can't have more than 3 pop.

Since University is ahead in tech, we should trade tech with University only if we are getting a good deal.

[vyeh]

Explanation of 2105 Moves

BRCM Former moved 1 sq. E. In subsequent turns, it will complete the road to East and then move to the first expansion site to help clear fungus.

East Former continues to build road. In subsequent turns, it will move 1 sq. W into the first expansion site and help clear fungus.

HQ former continues to clear fungus 1 sq. NE of HQ. In subsequent turns, it will build road to complete the interbase road network.

HQ crawler moved 1 sq. NW, discovered 1 more monolith and convoyed 2 min to HQ. By moving, it is clearing the monolith for the HQ worker.

HQ worker moved from monolith 1 sq. NW of HQ to monolith 2 sq. NW of HQ. This clears monolith for the crawler newly homed to HQ.

BRCM crawler re-homed to HQ, moved to monolith 1 sq. NW of HQ and convoyed 2 mins.

East crawler continues to crawl 2 nuts/year until East is on the verge of growing to pop. 2. Then it will move into HQ and convoy 1 min (which would have been wasted since the colony pod will have one more min than necessary the same turn East grows to pop. 2 and be forced to wait a turn). After that it will be re-homed to HQ and convoy 2 mins/year to HQ (of the seven monoliths, one goes to BRCM, two are available for HQ workers and 4 are available to be crawled for HQ).

BRCM scout moved 1 sq. S onto monolith and promoted to disciplined status. This completed move from the last year.

HQ scout moved 1 sq. NW. The HQ scout is moving to protect the first HQ crawler.

East scout attempted to move 2 sq. S onto the former (only made 1 sq.). The East scout is moving to support the East former when it moves into the fungus.

[vyeh]

Some early thoughts on who to fight



Three factions have built in advantages in vendetta:

Hive (perimeter defenses)
Spartans (+2 morale)
Believers (25% attack bonus)

It is probably best to avoid fighting these three factions until we gain a tech lead that allows us to match their advantages, although a blitz against the Believers might work (they don't have a bonus on defense).

One faction has a built in disadvantage:

Gaians (-1 morale), although this is partially offset by the ability to capture mindworms.

It might make sense to take out the Gaians before their advantages in Planet and Efficiency give them a decisive lead in mindworms and techs.

It certainly would make sense to take out the University before its advantage in Research gave it a decisive lead in techs.

We can go either way with Morgan. A vendetta with Morgan has no particular difficulties; on the other hand, a treaty or Pact could provide lots of commerce income.

[vyeh]

Hurrying formula for units

How do you calculate the energy cost for hurrying units?

If you have 40 or fewer minerals missing from completion, you can look up the value in Nethog's rush table. It assumes that there are at least 10 mins in the production box. If there are less, you need to double the figure in the table.

The table is derived from MariOne's work here and here.

First calculate the complete hurry cost

CH = INT (M(2 + M/20))

where CH = cost for Complete Hurry and M = # of Minerals needed to complete the unit.

If the number of minerals in the production box is less than 10, double the result.

The partial hurry cost is

PH = ROUND UP (N * CH/M)

where N = Number of minerals hurried for the unit.

Suppose in a few turns, we plan to build a 1-1-(4) foil (requires 20 mins) in our expansion base as the first production.

The production box begins with 10 mins. The number, M, of missing minerals is 10.

CH = INT (10 * (2 + 10/20)) = INT (10 * 2.5) - 25

So complete hurry cost is 25.

If we only want to hurry 5 mins (base square will produce 1 min and rolling canyon mineral bonus square will produce 4 mins),

PH = ROUND UP (5 * 25/10) = ROUND UP (12.5) = 13.

If you check Nethog's rush table for the row for 10 missing minerals, you will see that the total completion cost is 25 energy units and that a partial completion of 5 minerals will cost 13 units.

[vyeh]

We've picked Centauri Ecology, Doctrine: Mobility, and Doctrine: Flexibility. We retrieved Industrial Base from a unity supply pod. We've accumulated enough labs to research another tech. What will be our choices?

Following the procedure:

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Biogenetics 11 Discover
Information Networks 13 Discover
Applied Physics 14 Conquer
Social Psych 15 Build
Industrial Economics 4 + 45 + 7 = 56 Build

Since there are no Explore techs on the list, the joker tech is the Discover tech nearest the beginning of the list, Biogenetics. Since 15 is evenly divisible by 3, Social Psych will not be available.

So we will be asked to choose from Biogenetics, Information Networks, Applied Physics and Industrial Economics.

If we choose Biogenetics, it will be discovered. What will be our next choice?

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Information Networks 14 Discover
Applied Physics 15 Conquer
Social Psych 16 Build
Industrial Economics 57 Build

Since there are no Explore techs on the list, the joker tech is the Discover tech nearest the beginning of the list, Information Networks. Since 15 and 57 are evenly divisible by 3, Applied Physics and Industrial Economics will not be available.

So we will be asked to choose from Information Networks and Social Psych.

If we choose Information Networks, it will be discovered. What will be our next choice?

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Biogenetics 12 Discover
Applied Physics 15 Conquer
Social Psych 16 Build
Polymorphic Software 5 + 22 + 7 = 34 Discover
Planetary Networks 5 + 32 + 7 = 44 Discover
Industrial Economics 57 Build

Since there are no Explore techs on the list, the joker tech is the Discover tech nearest the beginning of the list, Biogenetics. Since 15 and 57 are evenly divisible by 3, Applied Physics and Industrial Economics will not be available.

So we will be asked to choose from Biogenetics, Social Psych, Polymorphic Software and Planetary Networks.

If we choose Applied Physics, it will be discovered. What will be our next choice?

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Biogenetics 12 Discover
Information Networks 14 Discover
Social Psych 16 Build
High Energy Chemistry 5 + 13 + 7 = 25 Conquer
Industrial Economics 57 Build

Since there are no Explore techs on the list, the joker tech is the Discover tech nearest the beginning of the list, Biogenetics. Since 57 is evenly divisible by 3, Industrial Economics will not be available.

So we will be asked to choose from Biogenetics, Information Networks, Social Psych and High Energy Chemistry.

If we choose Industrial Economics, it will be discovered. What will be our next choice?

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Biogenetics 12 Discover
Information Networks 14 Discover
Applied Physics 15 Conquer
Social Psych 16 Build

Since there are no Explore techs on the list, the joker tech is the Discover tech nearest the beginning of the list, Biogenetics. Since 15 is evenly divisible by 3, Applied Physics will not be available.

So we will be asked to choose from Biogenetics, Information Networks and Social Psych.

In summary, we can choose:

(1) Biogenetics followed by Information Networks or Social Psych
(2) Information Networks followed by Biogenetics, Social Psych, Polymorphic Software or Planetary Networks.
(3) Applied Physics followed by Biogenetics, Information Networks, Social Psych or High Energy Chemistry.
(4) Industrial Economics followed by Biogenetics, Information Networks and Social Psych.

Following the plan of "claws and fangs," I think we should go for Applied Physics.

We will exceed the bureaucracy limit with the second expansion base. A bureaucracy drone will appear at our second base, BRCM.

This means that at pop. 1, the garrison will be suppressing a drone. At pop. 2, there will be a drone riot. Since we have a police rating of zero, only one garrison can be used to suppress a drone.

So we need to begin working on Social Psych (which will give us Recreation Commons, which will suppress two drones). In addition, Social Psych will give us Doctrine: Loyalty (Command Nexus, Perimeter Defense, Police State) and Ethical Calculus (Children's Creche, Democratic).

[vyeh]

Movement when popping a mindworm

When a gun foil moves into a non-fungus square and pops a mindworm, it loses two movement points. So we need to have at least three movement points remaining before we pop a pod in a non-fungus square (so we have a movement point remaining to attack the mindworm).

If a gun foil moves into a pod in a fungus square and pops a mindworm, it loses all four movement points. So you might as well move into a pod in a fungus square no matter what your movement point status.

[vyeh]

Sea Colony Pods

A colony pod built on a foil chassis costs 7 rows of minerals (70 minerals when Industry is 0, as it currently is for us).

However, when a sea base is established, it automatically gets a pressure dome, which has the same effect as Recycling Tanks (which cost 4 rows).

So it essentially cost the same to build a land base with Recycling Tanks as it costs to build a sea base with Pressure Dome.

[vyeh]

Tech Choice between MY 2119 and MY 2120

Between 2119 and 2120, we will discover High Energy Chemistry.

We will have researched Centauri Ecology, Doctrine: Mobility, Doctrine: Flexibility, Applied Physics and High Energy Chemistry. We retrieved Industrial Base, Biogenetics and Information Networks from unity supply pods. We received in trade from Morgan Industrial Economics, Social Psych and Secrets of the Human Brain. What will be our choices for the next tech?

Following the procedure:

t = 11.
s = 7

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Nonlinear Mathematics 11 + 8 + 7 = 26 Conquer
Polymorphic Software 11 + 22 + 7 = 40 Discover
Planetary Networks 11 + 32 + 7 = 50 Discover
Doctrine: Loyalty 11 + 44 + 7 + 62 Conquer
Ethical Calculus 11 + 45 + 7 = 63 Explore
Centauri Empathy 11 + 58 + 7 = 76 Explore

The joker tech is the Explore tech nearest the beginning of the list, Ethical Calculus. If Ethical Calculus was not the joker tech, it would not be available since 63 is evenly divisible by 3. None of the other values of t+n+s is divisible by 3.

So we will be asked to choose from Nonlinear Mathematics, Polymorphic Software, Planetary Networks, Doctrine: Loyalty, Ethical Calculus and Centauri Empathy.

[vyeh]

2122 potential research avenues

We will have researched Centauri Ecology, Doctrine: Mobility, Doctrine: Flexibility, Applied Physics and High Energy Chemistry. We retrieved Industrial Base, Biogenetics and Information Networks from unity supply pods. We received in trade from Morgan Industrial Economics, Social Psych and Secrets of the Human Brain. We received in trade from Yang Optical Computers. Which techs do we have the research prerequisites for?

Superconductor 7 Conquer
Nonlinear Mathematics 8 Conquer (currently being researched)
Advanced Military Algorithms 17 Conquer
Polymorphic Software 22 Discover
Planetary Networks 32 Discover
Doctrine: Loyalty 44 Conquer
Ethical Calculus 45 Explore
Centauri Empathy 58 Explore

I think the two most useful techs are Planetary Networks (probe teams, planned) and Ethical Calculus (children's creche, democratic).

Together the two will allow us to pop-boom.

[vyeh]

Tech Choice between MY 2131 and MY 2132

Between 2131 and 2132, we will discover Nonlinear Mathematics.

We will have researched Centauri Ecology, Doctrine: Mobility, Doctrine: Flexibility, Applied Physics, High Energy Chemistry and Nonlinear Mathematics. We retrieved Industrial Base, Biogenetics and Information Networks from unity supply pods. We received in trade from Morgan Industrial Economics, Social Psych, Secrets of the Human Brain and Planetary Networks. We received in trade from Yang Optical Computers. We received from Deidre Ethical Caluculus and Advanced Military Algorithms. What will be our choices for the next tech?

Which techs do we have the research prerequisites for?

Superconductor 7 Conquer
Polymorphic Software 22 Discover
Doctrine: Loyalty 43 Conquer
Industrial Automation 46 Build
Gene Splicing 49 Build
Centauri Empathy 58 Explore

Following the procedure:

t = 16
s = 7

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Superconductor 16 + 7 + 7 = 30 Conquer
Polymorphic Software 16 + 22 + 7 = 45 Discover
Doctrine: Loyalty 16 + 43 + 7 = 66 Conquer
Industrial Automation 16 + 46 + 7 = 69 Build
Gene Splicing 16 + 49 + 7 = 72 Build
Centauri Empathy 16 + 58 + 7 = 81 Explore

The joker tech is the Explore tech nearest the beginning of the list, Centauri Empathy. If Centauri Empathy was not the joker tech, it would not be available since 81 is evenly divisible by 3. Since Superconductor (30), Polymorphic Software (45), Doctrine: Loyalty (66), Industrial Automation (69), Gene Splicing (72) have values of t+n+s that are divisible by 3, they will not be available.

So we will only be given a choice of Centauri Empathy.

[vyeh]

Tech Choice between MY 2142 and MY 2143

Between 2142 and 2143, we will discover Synthetic Fossil Fuels.

We will have researched Centauri Ecology, Doctrine: Mobility, Doctrine: Flexibility, Applied Physics, High Energy Chemistry, Nonlinear Mathematics and Synthetic Fossil Fuels. We retrieved Industrial Base, Biogenetics and Information Networks from unity supply pods. We received in trade from Morgan Industrial Economics, Social Psych, Secrets of the Human Brain, Planetary Networks, Gene Splicing, Centauri Empathy, and Ecological Engineering. We received in trade from Yang Optical Computers. We received from Deidre Ethical Caluculus, Advanced Military Algorithms and Doctrine Loyalty. We received in trade from Zakharov Industrial Automation and Polymorphic Software. What will be our choices for the next tech?

Which techs do we have the research prerequisites for?

Superconductor 7 Conquer
Advanced Subatomic Theory 12 Discover
Doctrine: Initiative 35 Explore
Intellectual Integrity 37 Explore
Doctrine: Air Power 39 Explore
Centauri Meditation 47 Explore
Neural Grafting 52 Conquer
Environmental Economics 59 Build

Following the procedure:

t = 23
s = 7

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Superconductor 37 Conquer
Advanced Subatomic Theory 42 Discover
Doctrine: Initiative 65 Explore
Intellectual Integrity 67 Explore
Doctrine: Air Power 69 Explore
Centauri Meditation 77 Explore
Neural Grafting 82 Conquer
Environmental Economics 89 Build

The joker tech is the Explore tech nearest the beginning of the list, Doctrine: Initiative. Since Advanced Subatomic Theory (42) and Doctrine: Air Power (69) have values of t+n+s that are divisible by 3, they will not be available.

So we will be asked to choose from Superconductor, Doctrine: Intitiative, Intellectual Integrity, Centauri: Meditation, Neural Grafting and Environmental Economics.

[vyeh]

Tech Choice between MY 2148 and MY 2149

Between 2148 and 2149, we will discover Doctrine: Air Power. Assume we haven't done a tech trade with Zakharov or anyone else in 2147 or 2148:

We will have researched Centauri Ecology, Doctrine: Mobility, Doctrine: Flexibility, Applied Physics, High Energy Chemistry, Nonlinear Mathematics, Synthetic Fossil Fuels, and Doctrine: Air Power. We retrieved Industrial Base, Biogenetics and Information Networks from unity supply pods. We received in trade from Morgan Industrial Economics, Social Psych, Secrets of the Human Brain, Planetary Networks, Gene Splicing, Centauri Empathy, Ecological Engineering and Environmental Economics. We received in trade from Yang Optical Computers. We received from Deidre Ethical Caluculus, Advanced Military Algorithms, Doctrine Loyalty and Cyberethics. We received in trade from Zakharov Industrial Automation and Polymorphic Software. We received in trade from Santiago Superconductor. What will be our choices for the next tech?

Which techs do we have the research prerequisites for?

Advanced Subatomic Theory 12 Discover
Superstring Theory 16 Conquer
Pre-Sentinent Algorithms 30 Discover
Doctrine: Initiative 35 Explore
Intellectual Integrity 37 Explore
Centauri Meditation 47 Explore
Neural Grafting 52 Conquer

Following the procedure:

t = 27
s = 7

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Advanced Subatomic Theory 46 Discover
Superstring Theory 50 Conquer
Pre-Sentinent Algorithms 64 Discover
Doctrine: Initiative 69 Explore
Intellectual Integrity 71 Explore
Centauri Meditation 81 Explore
Neural Grafting 86 Conquer

The joker tech is the Explore tech nearest the beginning of the list, Doctrine: Initiative. If Doctrine: Initiative was not the joker tech, it would not be available since 69 is divisible by 3. Since Centauri Meditation (81) has a value of t+n+s that is divisible by 3, it will not be available.

So we will be asked to choose from Advanced Subatomic Theory, Superstring Theory, Pre-Sentinent Algorithms, Doctrine: Intitiative, Intellectual Integrity, and Neural Grafting.

[vyeh]

Tech Choice between MY 2153 and MY 2154

Between 2153 and 2154, we will discover Doctrine: Initiative.

We will have researched Centauri Ecology, Doctrine: Mobility, Doctrine: Flexibility, Applied Physics, High Energy Chemistry, Nonlinear Mathematics, Synthetic Fossil Fuels, Doctrine: Air Power and Doctrine: Initiative. We retrieved Industrial Base, Biogenetics and Information Networks from unity supply pods. We received in trade from Morgan Industrial Economics, Social Psych, Secrets of the Human Brain, Planetary Networks, Gene Splicing, Centauri Empathy, Ecological Engineering, Environmental Economics and Fusion Power. We received in trade from Yang Optical Computers. We received from Deidre Ethical Caluculus, Advanced Military Algorithms, Doctrine Loyalty, Cyberethics and Pre-Sentinent Algorithms. We received in trade from Zakharov Industrial Automation and Polymorphic Software. We received in trade from Santiago Superconductor. What will be our choices for the next tech?

Which techs do we have the research prerequisites for?

Advanced Subatomic Theory 12 Discover
Superstring Theory 16 Conquer
Intellectual Integrity 37 Explore
Centauri Meditation 47 Explore
Neural Grafting 52 Conquer
Adv. Ecological Engineering 62 Build
Organic Superlubricant 68 Conquer
Orbital Spaceflight 77 Discover

Following the procedure:

t = 30
s = 7

Available tech, values of t+n+s and type of tech is

Advanced Subatomic Theory 49 Discover
Superstring Theory 53 Conquer
Intellectual Integrity 74 Explore
Centauri Meditation 84 Explore
Neural Grafting 89 Conquer
Adv. Ecological Engineering 99 Build
Organic Superlubricant 105 Conquer
Orbital Spaceflight 114 Discover

The joker tech is the Explore tech nearest the beginning of the list, Intellectual Integrity. Since Centauri Meditation (84), Adv. Ecological Engineering (99), Organic Superlubricant (105), and Orbital Spaceflight (114) have values of t+n+s that are divisible by 3, they will not be available.

So we will be asked to choose from Advanced Subatomic Theory, Superstring Theory, Intellectual Integrity, and Neural Grafting.