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of bribery.
May 2001
time: 06:15
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[Little side note]
After the rather depressing discovery of the humongous increase in science costs I had kind of a breakdown, just wanted to throw the damn thing out of the window (pc included  ). But after a few days of chilling down and some helpful words from here I saw the light .thx to all
[/little side note]
Let the beginning of a new era begin
The year is 1958 and the new Imperial government has decided to let go of the research development. All scientists get a conversion course to become highly trained taxmen. Only on the central Island the scientists are allowed to continue their research (providing almost 1000beakers/turn) and they are allowed enormous grants paid from trade money to complete their research item each and every year.
This redirection of resources created an annual tax income of >20.000G.
Time passes by and 2 years later the first great project is finished:
Los Angeles builds the "Apollo program" in which brave men  get launched into space with giant missiles. They even succeed in returning back to earth alive  and they bring photos of our entire planet.
Seeing how well all this went and seeing the joy in the eyes of scientists , astronauts  (this is how the survivors of the space trip where called,except by those ppl who kept calling them astronuts) taxmen and ordinary citizens  the Imperial government decided to embark on an even greater mission then the Apollo program:” We would build the first spaceship that would bring 40.000 colonists alive and well through the vastness of space to a neighbouring solar system called Alpha Centauri.
This was the year 1960AD
The year 1961AD was also a very glorious one.
The puny Indian civilization had send forth a transport ship (they managed to build through the never ending science support from our scientists(Indian scientists:  our scientists come to rescue:  Indian scientists afterward: ) and when their crew saw how advanced our civilization really was (and the huge amount of money we offered them  ) they swiftly decided to never return home and come to work in service of our glorious empire.
An other important event was the construction of our 200th city named Osmium (after the atom ). This was such an event that trade markets had the best day in the last 100 years and the trade caravan from Hamburg that arrived in Washington on exactly the same day supplying much needed oil gave a record trade bonus of 2091G.
It was a most beneficial day.
KABOEEEEM
This was the sound over 1.000.000 people heard on an early morning in April 1962 in and around the old Russian city of Smolensk. It was accompanied by a flash of light, bright as a thousand suns and when they looked out over the Russian sea the could see a mushroom cloud rising toward the sun as a phoenix, born out of the radioactive ashes of the first nuclear bomb ever made.
The Imperial Government had completed their second objective the "Manhattan project" was finished, and the most powerful and most dangerous weapon one could ever imagine was created. Many feared that if this weapon was ever used it would result in Armageddon, the end of time. Under the pressure of the global imperial population   the military announced never to use such a weapon. (But everybody suspects the military to have some of those horrific weapons in their weapons depots although it has never been proved yet.)
Despicable
In the year 1963 our foreign reputation improved to "Despicable"...the lies of our old (and now long gone) enemies still seem to carry weight...
Our statistics department did a new population count; this count revealed that there are now over 500.000.000 people living in this empire.
The Science Depression
The year 1964 will always be remembered as the year of the great science-depression. Suddenly, without any real reason the scientific progress took twice the efforts it needed before. The old scientists said it was just the younger scientists being too lazy to work. To counter this depressing feeling, which had the entire empire under its influence the imperial government, announced that the great space project would start as soon as possible: "The empire would build the first interstellar colonization ship." It would carry 40.000 souls to one of the planets orbiting Alpha Centauri, a nearby star. The first components of the ship where launched in December of that year.
The following 4 years more pieces where launched into space and the enormous ship was assembled in high orbit around the earth itself. On cloudless nights you could see it moving through the sky, shinning down as a bright star. In the year 1968 the last structural piece of the spaceship was added. It was finished...except for some minor details...people needed to live there and there were no chairs, tables or any other furniture. The internal decoration and computer systems still needed to be done...
Here ends an other decade.
Shade
Last edited by shade on 26-04-2002 at 14:27
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of bribery.
May 2001
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GP I'm at 212 cities...so I can still squeeze in ~40
The problem is the enormous amount of plains I need to convert...
(something the AI never did was getting terrain-improvements...roads over ~50% of it's tarrain in best case...)
I'll post a sav...next time I play(but have some patience...my exams start monday and go on till 26 june so it might be a while...but I'll post it)
About this Game itself my guess is that I might be able to pump in some 4000 points(minimum)...but I'm not going to start a mass-food-caravanscheme anymore(I have 4 smal islands doing this...wich is enough this time)...
Population is the most important thing now(+my 3tech/turn + spaceship) but to make it grow I need a lot more terrain-improvements...only some 20 cities left who are rushbuilding , ~80 building caravans and then rest is upgrading the army(I know this is usless for the game but sometimes I have the impression that building something makes a tradeobject back available-> that's what I need) and capitalizing.
4 major things I get to trade are : Dye,Hides,Gold,Salt
4 things NO-ONE wants : Dye,Hides,Gold,Salt
(and the cities that want Dye are just facked by the computer )
there will most probably be a next time,but before I start that one I will do some serious research (science-routes to take, an efficient rushbuild protocol,...)
Shade
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