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Maniac
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Gent, Belgium
Jul 1999
time: 06:33
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Oh damnit.
Personally I would be against giving into the Hive demands. As Googlie says himself, most likely we'll be only safe for a few turns, before Yang comes to us with another set of extortions. So personally I don't see what's the big benefit in giving him our two best military technologies, making it harder to conquer him, and allowing the other factions to steal those techs from the Hive.
As I wasn't able anymore to get on the internet yesterday, meaning there would be little time left to play anymore when I could next get on the internet, I decided yesterday to gamble and play the turn assum-inge that a majority would be against giving in to Yang's demands. Because if we waited to the last minute with playing the rest of the turn, who knows there might arise other problems we didn't have the time anymore to discuss.
So below is the turn I played in the scenario of continuing the vendetta. In the turn report I've put the results of the probe action and the Pegasus journey between spoiler tags (the only actions that I think would be different under a no-war scenario), so don't look at them if we'll decide to give in to Yang's demands.
Unfortunately I won't be able to get on the internet anymore today, so if we need to replay, not going to war with Yang, someone else will have to do it. Sorry for the mess. 
This mess does show that I won't be able to function as turnplayer if we have to make many last-minute decisions before being able to continue playing the rest of the turn. I simply can't get on the internet often enough to see the latest reactions.
Anyway, for what it's worth, here's the MY 2155 battle report of the turn I played, with only a few things left doing (see especially Hermes and the suggested SC2 rec commons hurry or SC1 doctor appointment).
Midturn Battle Report MY 2155
Diplomacy
Yang declared war on us, after refusing to give Doctrine: Initiative.
Adaptive Economics sold for 25 credits. Then I asked for Monitoring Station, and got it for 244 credits. Renamed to Fort Superiority.
Zakharov's mood is now obstinate in the Spartan Intelligence Files (right side commlink menu).  I'm wondering, could he be bullied next year into giving us back our money? 
We now have 49 credits left in reserve, meaning we can no longer hurry everything suggested. So we need to make choices: anything we just have to hurry this turn?
Zakharov will now research IntInt MY 2177, and we MY 2174. That issue solved itself too I guess. 
Base foundations
Messena and Twonuts Strand founded. We now have 17 bases and 42 population. By comparison, Morgan has 18 bases and 45 population.
The addition of three new bases to our empire did create lots of b-drones though. All are relatively harmless, except for one: Gythium Harbour, population size 40000. There we now have a drone that isn't quelled anymore by the doctor. And we can't create a second doctor if we want to prevent starvation. At the moment I see two possibilities to solve the problem.
One: make the SC1 2-1-0 worker a doctor, and move its Ogre to GH. This would cause food shortage, but SC1 has 5 nuts in reserve and thus could hold out for five years.
Two: hurry the SC2 rec commons under production one year earlier than planned, for 40 credits (would mean no other hurrying possible this year). Again this allows us to move the Ogre to GH. If we don't hurry the rec commons this year, we'll have to hurry it next year, as then SC2 is about to grow to size 4 as well, and we need the Ogre currently stationed in SC2 to move to SC4, which will also grow to size 3 in two years. 
For a more permanent solution though, we'd need a rec commons in Gythium Harbour. Unfortunately we no longer have the credits to hurry one. We could of course crawler-hurry one next year with the crawler coming from Fort Buster, but that would of course mean we can't use that crawler anymore for hurrying a cruiser transport. Of course we could let Fort Buster another crawler and build the cruiser transport after all, only two years later. But that would entail we can't build a colony pod anymore to make use of the PTS. Priorities, priorities!
Worker relocations:
RG: moved 1-2-0 crater worker to the 1-2-2 river forest.
SC4: moved 2-2-1 worker to the 2-2-0 crater tile.
SC2: moved the 3-1-0 worker to the now free 2-2-1 tile. SC2 needs only one nut surplus to fill its nutrient tanks.
GH: moved the two 2-1-0 workers to the 3-1-0 farm and the completed 1-2-2 river forest.
Unit actions
spoiler(highlight to read):
SNC Pegasus dropped off a probe team near Fellowship City. The probe succesfully stole Polymporhpic Software, and returned to Minas Tirth, being succesfully upgraded from hardened to commando.
Polymorphic Software gives all probes +1 morale. Meaning we've got a few elite Crypteia now, with two MPs.
Pegasus sails further south. Massive Hive force discovered.
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Hermes moves back north next to the unity pod. Now the trannie has only 2 MP left though. So if an IoD pops up, Hermes is toast. Therefore this suggestion: would it be ok to wait until next year to pop the pod?
Artifact moving to Río Grande.
Rolling Thunder II moving to the Minas Tirith area.
CRV R-112 defeated the Hive scout patrol. Zeiter's troops didn't take a scratch.
SCC Invincible travelling back north to the unity pod.
New OA crawler now mining 4 minerals.
New FB crawler now harvesting one mineral en route to Gythium Harbour.
SC3 crawler moved east to terraforming there.
SNC Mercury docks at AU, picks up the Crypteia and sails off again, escorted by the SCC GeneralTacticus.
Two hoplites stay in AU. Rest moves to Fort Superiority and Castor Horsemen further east.
Probe team in Fort Liberty moves to Climactic Research to probe defend.
OA garrison is moving to Vladivostok. OA is training replacement garrison to prevent drone riots.
Unit and support shuffling
Hoplite moved into Twonuts Strand and rehomed.
Hoplite rehomed to Messena.
20% damaged impact rover rehomed from AU to Fort Liberty.
Tegean scout and impact rover on the monolith move to Fort Superiority to rehome there. The rover turns back to Fort Liberty.
End result: no Arcadian base has to spend minerals on support.
SC2 hoplite moves to GH and rehomes.
GH hoplite moves to SC2 as replacement.
Reason: With the aforementioned worker relocations executed, GH production was 3 mins. However every mineral above 2 we produce next year will be lost after we'd crawler-hurry the GH production next year. Therefore this temporary rehoming.
The SC3 hoplite in SC3 moves to SC4 and rehomes.
A SC4 hoplite goes into the other direction as garrison replacement.
Reason: Twonuts Strand being founded, a support mineral has been freed up in SC4. Time to fill up again in other words, and increase SC3's production.
Rehome the Rio Grande hoplite in Fort Buster to Fort Buster.
Reason: the destroyed former near MT has freed up a support slot in FB.
PS: Would it be ok to clean up the unit workshop a bit, so the list of items to build isn't so long?
 Attachment: acdg3-sparta-2155almostendturn.zip
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10-01-2005 20:57
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: I think we should make a separate thread "Build queue Fort Superiority". 
Lal still doesn't have PolySoft, OptComp, and DocIni.
Preferences were apparently set in the game to move all units fast, which mean they move almost faster than light when playing on a fast computer. (Will have to change those preferences next turn) I noticed the Peacekeeper colony pod moved three north, then the screen switched to the mindworm but I didn't really catch what it did before the screen turned black and asked for Gaia's password. I think it moved north, but I'm not sure. 
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