[SPOILERS]The Tyrant realizes that once the world burns it gets really boring....

[NobleHelium]

Pretty sure you still owe like 25 catapults and one cataphract to be named after me.

[spacetyrantxenu]

blah blah blah blah who gives a flying fublah blah blah blah.

All I heard was blah blah blah.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Pretty sure you still owe like 25 catapults and one cataphract to be named after me.

Oh, this is the Agent Smith regeneration thing again. I don't know if we're up to 25 or not but it's probably a few. In progress.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

First, sit through this travesty:



Then enjoy this:





You're welcome.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Done. One of the names didn't fit. It's supposed to be Noble's Rock Acceleration and Gravity Impact Apparatus.




And your cataphract:




I know our troop positioning leaves a lot to be desired down here, but there's a lot of space bar hitting these days. All I'm spending time doing is taking screen shots and microing cities for growth, since that part is still kinda fun. Waiting for more urine in my sand box any turn now.

[BRickAstley]

Video of the year.

[NobleHelium]

(@ the names)

[spacetyrantxenu]

Report?

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Report?

Not at war. End turn.

[spacetyrantxenu]

T210 - Retep started another golden age. I thought he'd save the next one for building factories, but he probably won't get there until toward the end of the golden age.




William picked up Scientific Method, no other visible changes. Suttree is probably researching Rifling at break even or a small deficit now since he's essentially out of cash. I wonder if he's two turns from finishing Rifling -- at the current cash burn rate that's how many turns he has left.

Kuro is still spending EPs on us and now he's running a scout through our territory. We're sure to be invaded now!

Northern map first:




Boldly, if you play next turn make sure to stop the Chicken Pizza build in the capital and start it at What We Have. Also, Tyler will reach size 15, which is probably large enough. I think we should stop the wealth build at Tyler and start a settler there to build the filler city to its west. There's no other way we're going to use those tiles and even if the city doesn't help us much it won't cost a lot and will add population we can burn later if needed. Like it matters...but mostly I just want that city there so we can use the spare Tyler tiles. Tyler should be adding several specialists once it hits 15, and can stop growth there.

Down south:




Four turns until we finish the Forbidden Palace in a city we planted not too long ago. That city is going to be monstrous eventually, too bad it's 100 turns too late to help us. We finished a bank in Turnip Greens (Buddhist shrine city), so that city is raking in cash for us now. Not much else to report.

As is visible in these screenshots I've turned on tech to 100% since we have enough cash to run max science through the rest of the tech now. I haven't counted our villages and towns to see how much PP will add to our economy but I'll bet it's significant, we have a lot of cottaged tiles in use. I assume we'll need to keep on pressing toward Rifling, never mind how long it will take to get there. I'd like caravels with Optics but I think we need rifles more now. Anyway, look what 100% science slider does to our GNP:




Well...it isn't horrid, but that's not going to get the job done. One third rival best (in GA yeah, yeah, but still)....

I'm hitting the road tonight, hopefully we won't have another turn until tomorrow, the earliest I'll be able to log in again would be some time tomorrow, probably around midday. So if you see the turn needs playing feel free to grab it. If you can't play and see the timer is low ask for a pause if you can. Kind of expected around the holidays I think. I'll post this bit in the tech thread as well.