Gavagai manages his personal GULAG

[Mardoc]

Yeah, no idea what's causing it, I can build lighthouses and galleys but not boats, so I'm guessing that the no-tech requirement is broken in some way. On the phone now, so can't run tests, but really don't want to run into this. I should note that I'm talking about construction in the second city, not the capital.

Is there seafood in the sandbox? You can't build a workboat on a sea with no food in it.

[Bacchus]

Alright, tovarisch, so you opened your first GULAG, congratulations! This new system of organising labour will bring great pleasures to your motherland and keep your people happysad on the way to greatness. Remember, we are 50 years behind, and if we don't catch up in 5, we will be crushed! Click here to build an Administrative Centre!

GULAG was founded in 1930 and was the central administrative apparatus responsible for several hundred "labour colonies" located throughout the Soviet Union. To date, there is no remotely precise count of the total number of prisoners who went through imprisonment in the GULAG system, albeit for most years of its existence, over a million individuals were incarcerated.

Great, you have reached GULAG manager level 2! Don't mind all that gloomy business, the enemies of the revolution must not just suffer, but contribute actively to the progress of humanity! In the degenerate tsarist system, you had opressive "prisons", the walls of which have been smashed by dynamite and workerman's fist. These labour-correctional colonies are a clear sign of how far we have come under the guidance of social scientific theories of Marx and Lenin.

Now, you have the GULAG, you must create actual colonies! Where would you put them? Look at the arrow on the screen!

[Bacchus]

Yeah, no idea what's causing it, I can build lighthouses and galleys but not boats, so I'm guessing that the no-tech requirement is broken in some way. On the phone now, so can't run tests, but really don't want to run into this. I should note that I'm talking about construction in the second city, not the capital.

Is there seafood in the sandbox? You can't build a workboat on a sea with no food in it.

I meant the unit.

[GermanJoey]

Another interesting question is why does the maintenance jump to -3 as soon as the second city is founded and go to -4 once population grows a bit. This is going to be really severe... Toroidal penalties to maintenance have been removed, right?

The sandbox might be set to standard world size, rather than huge as it is in the live setting. That was something we forgot to set until right before the game went live the first time, and the sandbox mirrors the main map's settings. You can fix that by opening up the sandbox WorldBuilder save in notepad, ctrl-f for "size" and changing "world size=WORLDSIZE_STANDARD" to "world size=WORLDSIZE_HUGE"

[Mardoc]

Yeah, no idea what's causing it, I can build lighthouses and galleys but not boats, so I'm guessing that the no-tech requirement is broken in some way. On the phone now, so can't run tests, but really don't want to run into this. I should note that I'm talking about construction in the second city, not the capital.

Is there seafood in the sandbox? You can't build a workboat on a sea with no food in it.

I meant the unit.

Yes, so did I. You can't build one for scouting unless it could theoretically make nets.

[Bacchus]

Yes, so did I. You can't build one for scouting unless it could theoretically make nets.

Well I never. Let's hope there's some food in the sea we got!

[GermanJoey]

Yeah, no idea what's causing it, I can build lighthouses and galleys but not boats, so I'm guessing that the no-tech requirement is broken in some way. On the phone now, so can't run tests, but really don't want to run into this. I should note that I'm talking about construction in the second city, not the capital.

Is there seafood in the sandbox? You can't build a workboat on a sea with no food in it.

I meant the unit.

Yes, so did I. You can't build one for scouting unless it could theoretically make nets.

Interesting, I didn't know that. I'll have to add a fish nearby to the dummy AI I put in the corner. Thanks Mardoc.

[Bacchus]

Everyone but us founded T0 so far, would love to read the reactions to us founding T2.

[Gavagai]

[Bacchus]

Oh noes we left the blue circle.