We chatted with OH and I switched research from Steel to Replaceable Parts. Side effect: Our GNP jumped from 2268 to 2500+ (and from 4th position to 3rd position). Another reason why getting Corporation was in our position a nice deal. (Clarification: Corporation boosts the known tech bonus in this version of RBMod and more people know RP than Steel, 6 vs. 4). Currently we are getting 41 % known-tech bonus boost for RP as 6 opponents already know the tech. Without Corporation it would be "only" 27 %. That 41 % means for us this turn 762 extra beakers if we compare to situation where nobody knows the tech. Btw, in vanilla BTS the boost would be 16.4 % or 304 beakers.
I spent quite a while looking at BoP and Zanzibar and wondered whether we should be producing Frigates there... Did not change anything yet, but I think that's something we should monitor every turn.
We decided not to declare Ichabod just yet, maybe next turn...
It's questionablehow useful action it is here, if Ichabod wants revenge, he won't accept peace, but if he has peaceful intensions (who knows) and accepts, then things don't change too much. We still need to keep producing navy so that we are ready in 10 turns.. On the other hand my temptation to sink 2 of his caravels is quite big and I'm debating myself whether we should just go forward with a small preventive strike... I guess, this was also the reason why OH spent the whole day staring at Ichabod's coast 
So do we take a minor benefit that helps us in a very probable war or do we try to increase the minor chance that Ichabod will not attack us, which would be of course great..
One benefit in being the one who declares in this Ichabod conflict is that in the eyes of mackoti/dtay/others we might look like the one in command and not a weakling that needs to be piled on..
I spent quite a while looking at BoP and Zanzibar and wondered whether we should be producing Frigates there... Did not change anything yet, but I think that's something we should monitor every turn.
We decided not to declare Ichabod just yet, maybe next turn...
It's questionablehow useful action it is here, if Ichabod wants revenge, he won't accept peace, but if he has peaceful intensions (who knows) and accepts, then things don't change too much. We still need to keep producing navy so that we are ready in 10 turns.. On the other hand my temptation to sink 2 of his caravels is quite big and I'm debating myself whether we should just go forward with a small preventive strike... I guess, this was also the reason why OH spent the whole day staring at Ichabod's coast So do we take a minor benefit that helps us in a very probable war or do we try to increase the minor chance that Ichabod will not attack us, which would be of course great..One benefit in being the one who declares in this Ichabod conflict is that in the eyes of mackoti/dtay/others we might look like the one in command and not a weakling that needs to be piled on..