The Ghosts Amongst Us turn tracking thread

[Mr. Harley]

2173 - Morgan.

[Fosse]

Guys,
Hotmail has been giving me LOADS of problems in the last few days (as Shawn can attest, at least )

It's having errors, not attaching files, refusing to download, being too busy, and generally just a PIA.

I'd like to transfer as much of my PBEM to kylebenanderson AT gmail DOT com from now on.

Thanks!

[Net Warrior]

2173 to PK (at the new address )

[Fosse]

turn to Gaians.

[Chaos Theory]

2174 -> shawnmmcc

1 reload due to forgetting about the Design Workshop lockup bug.

[Mr. Harley]

2174 to Morgan.

[Net Warrior]

2174 to PK

[Fosse]

2175 to Gaians

[Chaos Theory]

2175 -> shawnmmcc

After decades-long study of objects of unknown origin, Gaian scientists have pieced together the foundations of language. We shall once again be able to build the Tower of Babel!

[Chaos Theory]

I can't seem to get the email through, so here's the turn:

[Mr. Harley]

2175 - Net Warrior

I've been finessed - reference the F5 screen. Very, very nice.

In case you hadn't noticed with my first set of Post Fusion artifact connecting, after five shots I couldn't even get Retroviral Engineering - which was available. I thought Morgan would get Cloning Vats for sure, so I played transport handoff and rushed some others I hadn't been planning to turn in. It's played hob with getting some other items back home - look at my Drone problems at Birr, three of those mindworms were supposed to be home before I went free market - but I decided the cost was worth it. I've figured out mostly how you guys did it from my turn notes - sweet.

[Net Warrior]

[Mr. Harley]

BTW - in case you didn't know - you must use the XP patch to pop-boom as Morgan (or Yang). Otherwise the Golden Age won't give you +2 Growth.

[Net Warrior]

Hmmm....mentioning pop-booming are you ? I was thinking that the vats might just get me back in the game and then poof, they were gone . Well played Uni! And oh yeah, I'm fully patched .

[Mr. Harley]

It essentially forced me to try running 10% of my economy to psych. When I went green and started one of my two independent rovers North I met a cluster of worms, and there were four of them stacked happy as a bug in a rug coming at me. I had the kill the remaining six. The only problem is that the ones I captured were already inside my boundaries, so they are not independent. Of course if they had gotten into my territory unharmed (I was NOT fully garrisoned at the time)...

I had taken them north into the fungus to pop pods and build in size. But the transports that were supposed to bring them back ended up rushing artifacts back. The resulting pacifism drones were unhandlable at Birr with four mindworms out of territory when I went FM. I had almost no remaining crawlers because I had used them for building some stuff. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise, since it appears that all the engineers I could run at 10% psych versus Empaths and/or Thinkers with no psych cost me two research points and actually gave me more energy - that caught me by surprise. I do take a slight hit in minerals, but the Engineers more than make up for that. Serendipity.