For Science! - Sareln & Nicolae as the Consciousness

[Sareln]

Either Maniac or an AI Lal for a Western Neighbor. Should we announce ourselves?



The land is still pretty marginal out here...

[Sareln]

Point mooted as Maniac makes contact w/ his Rover.

He's on 100% Gold right now, probably b/c Data-Angels can cash-rush units. Cash rushing is 2 Gold for every 1 Hammer remaining.

[Sareln]

Unless More land becomes apparent in the other direction, odds are fairly good that we're going to be directly competing with Maniac for land. Also, due to his high EP generation (+75% Faction Wide) he's going to want to steal techs from us and have vision on our Demos & Bases in short order.

In short, if an opportunity arises (or we manufacture one) to take him out, we ought to make a show of it. That he is running 100% gold slider implies to me that he means to steal techs or rush units. To prevent this, a choke point which we can have vision over with our single probe team and a prevent-defense.

[Sareln]

Anyone notice the lack of settling agreement in there?

Think maniac will try to cash-rush pods? That'll be a bit on the expensive side. For our own part, we're definitely going to need to scout out the in-between and then rush our own pods in there.

[Sareln]

Alright, so he does want a settling agreement. My rovers might uncover something that changes this in the next couple of turns, but I think I need to ask for 2 sites.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

I want to post something like "If you want a T0 alliance, you need to demonstrate that, not by a deal that could be just be a ruse to expand into good land. Our land is crap. I refuse to be the junior partner in such a relationship. If you want a strong ally, we're going to need to the majority of the land between us."

But sorry, I wasn't that available yesterday. Sorry I couldn't bad cop for you

[Sareln]

I want to post something like "If you want a T0 alliance, you need to demonstrate that, not by a deal that could be just be a ruse to expand into good land. Our land is crap. I refuse to be the junior partner in such a relationship. If you want a strong ally, we're going to need to the majority of the land between us."

But sorry, I wasn't that available yesterday. Sorry I couldn't bad cop for you

That would've been handy, but don't worry about it.

All that city will be is a drain for him, there's no food! The city we get from it will be much, much better.

Oh, I thought about putting a mine down on the mineral bonus tile, but a windmill gave +4 energy to make it a 1/3/4 tile and I couldn't resist.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

A decent idea to get Aquaculture up soon, but we need growth. And that means we need to get our colony pods out quickly. Hence, if we have spare worker turns, put some into mining that tile, so we can switch it when we want to expand.

[Sareln]

A decent idea to get Aquaculture up soon, but we need growth. And that means we need to get our colony pods out quickly. Hence, if we have spare worker turns, put some into mining that tile, so we can switch it when we want to expand.

Mardoc landed Algaculture ahead of us, but that was expected. It's still necessary for us though. We actually have quite a bit of okay land bottled off from Maniac with our settling. It will take time to make it work though.

[Sareln]

I'll try my hand at dotmapping shortly, but I think we can get quite a few non-marginal cities in.

We have pods due in 5 & 7 turns.