Girls Night In - Turn tracking thread

[Mart]

Brother Lal is busy preparing official notes. He has no time for games at the moment...

[binTravkin]

Brother Lal is busy preparing official notes. He has no time for games at the moment...

[Mart]

Welcome Message to Leaders of all Factions on Chiron

Brother Lal is happy to send this message to all Leaders on the planet. After 52 years in the isolation the U.N. starship "Unity" survivors can finally be contacted. Presently the U.N. Authority will contact all Leaders inquiring of your needs and emergencies which might arise during the isolation period. The Authority will be happy to help you in its capabilities. We ask in return your cooperation regarding sharing of the retrieved technologies from Earth. We also can provide needed technologies to Factions in need.

Brother Lal
Mission Secretary Mart

[binTravkin]

52 is correct, not 152..

[binTravkin]

good!

[Mart]

Special Note to Faction Leaders

After considerations The U.N. Authority decided to send the following message to all interested Factions on the planet. It has been yet on Earth decided that the mission will elect Planetary Governor within the Planetary Council. Using the procedure determined by U.N. on Earth, present vote numbers among Leaders of survivor communities are as follows:

Sister Miriam		53
Colonel Santiago 	50
CEO Shawnmmcc		49
Brother Lal		44
Lord BinTravkin		23
Academician Googlie	16
Chairman T_Ras		11

Considering that Sister Miriam and Colonel Santiago according to the rule would be nominated in the elections, The U.N. Authority feels that more detailed negotiations are required with Sister Miriam and Colonel Santiago regarding their appropriate cooperation in leadership of this mission. For this reason the elections will not be held this year.

The Authority wishes in the near future to provide all Factions with commlinks to all other factions without any additional conditions. The date of such commlink release will be announced in the near future.

Mission Secretary Mart

[binTravkin]

Where's the turn then?

[Mart]

Dear Lord BinTravkin,
Chiron is large planet. Imagine the Secretary Mart is doing all alone the work for Brother Lal sending out communication to all factions on Chiron
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Lord BinTravkin, the first interfactional message goes out to Gaian Union.

[Mart]

2153 to Gaians
Offers inserted in commlinks.

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Exclusive Inerview with Brother Lal
from "UN Voice of Chiron", 2152

Rep. Newsman: Brother Lal, it appears that planetary community may feel surprised by the completion of "Empath Guild"?

Brother Lal: Yes, I believe for some factions this has been indeed a surprising event. Some probably have not expected the U.N. to pursue this research direction. However, we did it. And with tremendous cost.

Rep. Newsman: What will change as for the interfactional relations?

Brother Lal: Factions will have now mutual contact.

Rep. Newsman: Please, excuse me, I haven't formulated my question correctly. May other factions expect some serious change in U.N. Authority policy towards them? In short, Would you abuse the Emapth Guild?

Brother Lal: Mr. Newsman, "abuse" is a strong word. You certainly know that the U.N. is devoted for peace. I do not think that other Faction Leaders should be afraid of anything.

Rep. Newsman: Some may not like the infiltration powers you now have.

Brother Lal: In what way the Empath Guild is better than a well working spying networks? I would not exagerate here.

Rep. Newsman: And increased votes in the Planetary Council?

Brother Lal: We are United Nations. Our support is strong in Council. I think this is the way things should be here on Chiron.

Rep. Newsman: Really interesting years are in the near future.

Brother Lal: Yes they are.

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Mindworm Attacks More Frequent
from "UN Voice of Chiron", 2152

Two strong mindworm attacks had place within Peacekeeper Territory in years 2151 and 2152. Experts investigate possible causes of the increased activity of native planet life.

[binTravkin]

2153 to Hive

[t_ras]

Comunicat to all Hive commarades:

We jave sign a trity of friendship with the lastings of what use to be the U.N.. We beleave this people to be honest and trustworthty. We look foward for more merchant interchange between our comunities and also culutural exchange that might result in convising people with rou right way of life.

Cammarade Chairman T_ras.

[Googlie]

2151 to Shawnmmcc

Originally posted by mart7x5
Rep. Newsman: What will change as for the interfactional relations?

Brother Lal: Factions will have now mutual contact.

Note that the Empath Guild only gives the commlinks of all factions to the faction that builds the EG (ie, the PeaceKeepers)

Other factions do not yet have the commlinks of each other until they meet, pop the commlink thru a podpop, or if the PK's trade/sell/gift it to them.

(Note that I have not attempted to contact any other faction - other than the PK's who first contacted me. ...................... post here if the concensus is that we now have open contact between all factions and I will change my alpha.txt file to accommodate this (I have the following set-up - my bold italics:

Extract from Googlie's alpha.txt file

Gravity, ; Technology to allow orbital insertion w/o Space Elevator
EcoEng2, ; Technology for +1 mining platform bonus
PlaEcon, ; Technology for economic victory
1, ; If non-zero, probe teams can steal technologies
1, ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in net games
0, ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in hotseat/email games
50, ; Maximum % damage inflicted by arty versus units in base/bunker
99, ; Maximum % damage inflicted by arty versus units in open
100, ; Maximum % damage inflicted by arty versus units at sea

G.

[Mart]

Yes, ofcourse.
Brother Lal refers to situation when all commlinks will be released later, as the statement several post before says that.

Currently if you wish to contact other factions, with which you do not have contact yet, you may send a request to Brother Lal's office. Secretary Mart will be happy to help you
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Before the Authority will release the commlinks through the game, Lal can just forward messages.
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Well, I think that the setting may stay like this, the way you showed. I plan to provide all human factions with mutual contact in a few turns, but for now, please refrain from contacting each other between factions that do not posses commlinks in the game yet.
Some time has to pass before the excellent PK efficiency will complete all necessary UN procedures....

I can forward messages - I guess this is possible - what I mean by avoiding contact is not establishing Treaties or Pacts, not exchanging technologies for the time being etc.
If you wish though just to exchange information by forwarded messages - that is I guess possible, as in the real situation it would be:
Factions A and B cannot talk directly, though A sends message to Lal and Lal to B. What may be in messages... anything from weather conditions in base X to list of technologies you have or locations of your bases. Provided you would want to release such information to a factions you may not know anything about, where it is located more or less etc.
So sending messages through email should be ok, as long as you actually do not trade techs in game or establish Treaties or Pacts if you haven't met in game actually.

I just realized that in fact I cannot forward any commlink at the moment. I wonder if this will change next turn. If not, when the date of commlink release come, we may work it out - the way alpha.txt may be changed, but I would hate to do it - I play also other SMAC game... I wonder if this was intended by game designers. If Empath Guild gives commlinks why not to give/trade them? Unless "...gives commlink to every factions" is something different, but I would be surprised. After this many years still SMAC has a lot of new things for me.

I hope that what I wrote above is clear enough to understand what kind of contact at this moment is offered by PK. If not please ask.

This may hinder this my little advantage of being able to communicate with you all, but anyway I believe my playing as PK requires roleplay like this and I like it this way. The disadvantage is that you might exchange the information between yourself about what techs you might trade later, but anyway... This will make this game more interesting I hope.

[t_ras]

I agree, no comunications.

[Mr. Harley]

Until the first election is held, no comm.

2153 - Lal