[spoilers] The 49ers: Sanctimony and Public Defecation

[Mjmd]

This game is very entertaining. Thank you

[Zed-F]

Now that you are back at peace (for the moment, assuming India accepts), can we get pics of your F1 screen and demos?

Why would you assume that because I make peace with India, I'd be at peace next turn? 

To be fair, I was thinking like for a turn or two while you reposition. But certainly you don't have all your army on the Indian border.

[Commodore]

Well, I don't know how to manage this, but I just jumped to top score, and I'm at a 10% break even science rate.

[Commodore]

Unfortunately, most of my units are on the Indian border, I just have to play hype man sometimes. Cornflakes also isn't the prettiest of targets now, thanks to his Machinery:


I'm somehow now top score. And losing money at 10%. This isn't stable, guys, I dunno what we're doing next but "peacefully teching" alas isn't in the cards.

As you note, I'm about to finish Machinery myself, so the F1 screen is about as prebuild-heavy as you'd expect. Samurai aren't the Killer App in this world, but hey, they aren't nuthin'.


Keen-eyed viewers note another little score-boosting thing in the queue. I think Cairo made a mistake letting me have this highly awesome island:


Fifteen cities now here in the new AD's. Spread over a wild swath of territories and biomes, primitive, savage.

How on Ref's brown earth am I supposed to move on from here? Do I just walk forward into catapults?

[Charriu]

The tooltip is the expected behavior according to XML. Krill never mentioned a change to Drill in the changelog, so I expect this to be a mistake and I will correct that for future versions, so that it will be only 1 first strike chance.

[Commodore]

The tooltip is the expected behavior according to XML. Krill never mentioned a change to Drill in the changelog, so I expect this to be a mistake and I will correct that for future versions, so that it will be only 1 first strike chance.

Wait, this is wrong? Bummer.

[El Grillo]

I'm confused as well. Drill II grants 1 extra first strike and 20% less collateral damage, and Drill III grants 2 extra first strike chances and an additional 20% less collateral damage. If this isn't the intended behavior, then what is it supposed to be?

[Charriu]

Ah wait. My mistake. Everything is correct as displayed and no changes required. A confusion on my part. I misread the selected promotion to be Drill III and thought there was a mismatch between civilopedia and tooltip.

[Commodore]

Primitive and slow and all, sure, but somehow I have the highest base strength unit available in the game right now.

[Zed-F]

Sounds like it's getting close to time for the pillage economy to get going again