27-06-2004 07:21									#1
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Sorta like a cybercafe - where we put everything that doesn't quite fit anywhere else.

Talking of which, do we agree that we need:

> A turn reporting thread, where the turnplayer can post a pre-send .sav for final comments and adjustments (obviously units already moved cannot be re-moved)

> an orders thread, or pre-turn discussion thead, where we can put orders (suggestions?) to the turnplayer for whatever needs doing

(I'd just open these threads, but don't want to foist my views on everyone without discussion - that's essentially how the CyCon and the Drones operated in the last game and it seemed to work really well)

G.

	27-06-2004 07:28									#2
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Agreed on both suggestions. We should also create "the Spartan Battle Manual" thread that Maniac was talking about on Aimoo, where we can gather in-depth analysis of gameplay as the Spartans.

	27-06-2004 07:34									#3
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I have authorised Kassi to post news. Does anyone else need to post news too?

I agree with both of those threads. We will be needing them.

	27-06-2004 07:36									#4
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I thought we are all authorized to post news? It read "You can post news" even when I hadn't been authorized.

	27-06-2004 07:44									#5
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I think he means "authorized to give out official faction news". Anyway, yes, I agree that we need those two threads, plus the "Spartan Battle Manual".

	27-06-2004 07:45									#6
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I took the liberty of commencing the recruitment thread (as a "Colonel's Log" startrek sort of thing).

I can edit it to empty if anyone else wants to do a more traditional recruitment thread

see: here

	27-06-2004 07:45									#7
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quote: Originally posted by GeneralTacticus I think he means "authorized to give out official faction news".

Ah, that does sound like my turf.

	27-06-2004 07:50									#8
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As a faction, do we have most Dieties and Emperors in our ranks?

(we should ask Kody to run a postcount for each faction)

	27-06-2004 07:53									#9
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And I've promoted myself from clerk to the Junta to Recording Officer of the Junta

	27-06-2004 07:55									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Googlie I took the liberty of commencing the recruitment thread (as a "Colonel's Log" startrek sort of thing). I can edit it to empty if anyone else wants to do a more traditional recruitment thread see: here

I'm more than happy with your write-up.

I was thinking of the Spartan newspaper myself. I'd like to run that one. We need a name, and I was thinking of something properly elegant and militarist. The Phalanx is my first suggestion, in honour of the battle-winning spearman formation of the ancient age and to remember those courageous soldiers who have defeated entire battleships with just spears and shields.

	27-06-2004 08:13									#11
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Rereading it, you are a newseditor, so apparently you can insert propaganda into news that other people post.

For the newspaper name, we could use the name of the Myrmidons. These are the elite bodyguards of Colonel Santiago in the book Centauri Dawn. They also sound suitably formidable.

	27-06-2004 08:14									#12
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Okay googlie, but at the moment there's not much to count in other factions.

Also I was wondering if I could sneak a spam peek at your offsite forum.

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	27-06-2004 08:39									#13
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sure - it's here. password is Morea

I'll also PM you the url and password of the Morgan one I set up before I switched factions - they set up another a few days ago and pretty much copied everything to it, and you prolly have that url, but it woulodn't harm to have both

G.

	27-06-2004 08:46									#14
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Thanks Googlie

	27-06-2004 09:24									#15
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Ah, The Myrmidones, "famous for their blind and remorseless loyalty to their leaders". Sounds like the perfect elite bodyguard. The propaganda leaflet paper name as such would probably be The Myrmidone, then, a singular suits a newspaper better.

	27-06-2004 09:30									#16
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LOL - while the OED does say the derivative is warlike Thessalian people who followed Achilles to Troy

current usage is:

myrmidon - hired ruffian, base servant

Still want to call our newspaper The Myrmidone?

	27-06-2004 09:35									#17
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That's why we have a thorough research process to make sure we don't have mishaps like that

It can't be too common a meaning though, considering neither you, I or Skanky (and Mr. Ely too, possibly) could come up with it off-hand. But that doesn't mean some Morganite besserwisser won't point it out.

	27-06-2004 10:19									#18
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How about The Jade Falcon

It would perhaps show a sentimental side to Santiago, naming a newsletter after the survivalist gang she joined as a pre-teen in Mexico City

(logo: a falcon - jade obviously - with a shredder rifle in its claws?)

G.

edit: maybe not. A google search reveals that Jade Falcon is a clan formed for mechwarrior II (owed its origin to the SMAC background history!!!)

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	27-06-2004 10:37									#19
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quote: edit: maybe not. A google search reveals that Jade Falcon is a clan formed for mechwarrior II (owed its origin to the SMAC background history!!!)

I don't see that as too huge a problem. The name would certainly fit perfectly, and we'd have a logo right there and ready waiting for realisation. I did some research on the Earth Sparta and came up with The Lacedaemonian.

	27-06-2004 11:06									#20
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Of course there already is a Sparta Newspaper

	27-06-2004 11:14									#21
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That's just because all those people founding all those cities in the US had a horrible lack of imagination. There are dozens of Cambridges and St. Petersburgs in the States too.

	27-06-2004 11:14									#22
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and this is the best site re: old and new Sparta that I could find

	27-06-2004 11:16									#23
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I've just used Wikipedia, but that's only because Everything2 has been giving me a 404.

	27-06-2004 12:53									#24
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	27-06-2004 14:15									#25
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quote: 3) Maybe a little introduction of the members we have now, at least the ones I know something about.This is where I'll need your help, if you particularly want something mentioned re: you.

If at least 3 people over all factions write introductions for members I could make a player description thread in the MODs forum. Then after the game is over people could read about some of the players.

*The patiently waiting narrator, whos letting people finish organising the gameplay allocations first.*

	27-06-2004 15:23									#26
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quote: Posted by Googlie on 04-03-2001 21:21: If you have built an energy park a little known or discussed fact is that you can double a bunker on your solar array, then put armor on your crawlers - they get both the armor bonus and the bunker bonus on defense. And, of course, if you build your crawlers at a base with a Command Center and a Bio Center, your crawlers will be Commando, with an additional 37.5% defense bonus You can make them pretty hard to take out. Now you can station an AAA or SAM unit there too, and just watch the AI knock their heads agaisnt your defenses.

I thought Bio Centers didn't work with non-combat units????

	27-06-2004 16:12									#27
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Sorry for the slight threadjack as the topic already seems to have moved elsewhere.

quote: Originally posted by Googlie Talking of which, do we agree that we need: > A turn reporting thread, where the turnplayer can post a pre-send .sav for final comments and adjustments (obviously units already moved cannot be re-moved) > an orders thread, or pre-turn discussion thead, where we can put orders (suggestions?) to the turnplayer for whatever needs doing

I see you've started a turn reports thread for turns 2101-2120. However what would you think of one turn reports thread for the entire game? Only the turnplayer would be allowed to post one turn report per year there, and no else would comment there. That way everyone could quickly get the turn and turn report they need without having to browse through other posts.

For comments about the turn, how about a seperate "Joint Chiefs of Staff - turnplay comments" thread for last-minute suggestions to the turnplayers or comments about the turn just played?

And then as you suggest an official orders thread and/or perhaps an official thread for each official (foreign affairs, covert ops, military affairs...) a bit like the Internal and External Affairs Office in CyCon?

	27-06-2004 18:08									#28
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Hrmm I waded through a couple of the new forums. I just want to say Googlie, it was a bad decision to have you as the CMN of the last game.

The last game would have been much more fun if you were a proper participant

	27-06-2004 18:13									#29
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I set it up for 20 years based on the reading of the faction threads in the last game. I'd see it covering a 10-year span as we get deeper into the game, and maybe even more frequently as time goes on (see below)

As not everyone has smax, not everyone can open a turn, so screenshots in the "turn reporting" thread quickly clog it up till it becomes a pain to open.

The drones in fact had a separate thread for ecah year, PEACE had one for 20-turn inccrements, which format I thought worked quite well.

If we go with one game-long thread then I agree, we need a separate thread for posting screenshots, comments on the completed turn (eg where turnplayer executed "battlefield" changes to orders - such as popped a mindworm and withdrew, or encountered an enemy unit and attacked, etc.)

But whatever - I'm not hung up on this style over any other. if it makes sense recording-wise to have a single, clean, thread with supplementary illustrative discoursive ones, let's do that.

G.

	27-06-2004 18:29									#30
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I was thinking to have a seperate Pictures of the Empire thread that only contained, well, pictures of our known territory without any commentry. These could then be linked to in the 20-year threads, of course, and comments on them would go there or perhaps a third thread. Any thoughts?