[spoilers] Commodore: Worse than Toku, it's Giggles of Siam!

[Thoth]

looks like 4800 right now and enough gold for another 5k.

Best get started on the war toys Commodore. Fued, Guilds, then GP next for sure.

[Krill]

How much was Liberalism?

[Commodore]

looks like 4800 right now and enough gold for another 5k.

Best get started on the war toys Commodore. Fued, Guilds, then GP next for sure.

As you saw above, Fuedalism in 1t this turn, then Guilds. Then Gunpowder, unless the capital yields a 17% GE. Taj is a no-brainer then, otherwise Plako or Bigger will nail it. I did splurge just a little bit. What's the best ship in the world? Rego's ship!


The world at large is rapidly becoming a more savage place. Bigger is finally crushing the heart of Azzastan, while Plako just killed off the Arabs. Brick isn't long for the world either; so basically, the 4-5 galleys getting auto-upgraded into galleons here are my need wooden walls, which will be very much needed.


Of course, maybe we can Bless the Seas a bit with Azza's collapse as well...


Demos after exiting the golden age are still pretty spectacular, honestly, in the GNP department. Education, Liberalism, and Astronomy in four turns is almost 14,000 beakers (Lib is 4.2k-ish?), that won't be matched, but we'll get ourselves longbows, knights, and arquebusiers very quickly. Power ought to look better next turn as galleons roll out.


Okay, so, burn the pile to get to guns and Nationalism/Printing Press (GSci from capital most likely), then save up another pile; because almost ignored in the rush with fun fun Liberalism was Education. Oxford time! We need seven cities to get up universities, which won't be hard with OR/slavery. Capital actually has time to build Observatory and University first, then right on to Oxford. ~400bpt here sound nice?


Turn: 187
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[teleh]

Nice! Lakeside is buff - hedging your bets with the Engineer, or some kind of rounding craziness?

Question - if you have half a dozen builds set to complete the same turn as the upgrade tech is researched - is it free upgrades for all? ie - do you pay the lower hammer price and get the higher value unit?

[Qgqqqqq]

No.
You just get the hammers in the galley transferred to the galleon.

[teleh]

Soo-oo-oooo.. Say I have a galley building in a 5 hammers per turn city. It's at 48/50 hammers, due to complete next turn and so is Astronomy.

So I log in for the new turn, Astro is researched, and the galley build is now - 53/80 on a galleon build?

[Qgqqqqq]

Yes (IIUC)

[Commodore]

With the death of Good King Com Talrahmaching in 1264, the first golden age of the Kingdom of Generica came to a close. His pious first son having abdicated in favor of the second, King Com Gilgemashaking the Unready was crowned in the dead of winter, July 1264. The kingdom continued to prosper, but the dynamism of the dynasty seemed sapped; pacifism and caste systems were put aside in favor of the feudal lord's traditional slavery and organized religion. The kingdom's traditionalists exacted concessions from the weakened crown to formalize Feudalism, while in the cities and towns guilds began to grow in power and influence.

Idealistic and educated scientists, espousing a philosophy of liberalism, banded together in the year 1276 to petition the able Prince Montashawara for a land grant in the lightly-settled southeast. He astonished them by acceding to their request and throwing his full support behind them. In 1280, the Free City of Songbird Cross was founded along the cold coast, administering the whole region. The city, despite a harsh climate, would eventually grow some eleven cottage communities into towns in the district, and would be a great center of learning and science for the Generic people.


The kings were still very secure in the dynasty's power, but within the various duchies a large amount of competition took place. The most marked example of this was the region of Amazon Circle; the Dukes of Western Heights and of At Swallowdale successfully petitioned time and again to take dues and taxes from regions near Amazon Circle. By 1285, the duke of the city administered only a small sliver of land running north to south while the two larger cities administered lands within a few miles of the city's own walls.


Fleets of the kingdom ruled the Inner Sea from the docks of Amazon Circle up to even the waters near Maya. The restive council and court of the kingdom pushed for using the massive fleets of great ships against the Mayan Parliament's Inner Sea holdings, with perhaps an invasion of the core of Maya as well. However, the Maya maintained great garrisons near the cities; although the Army of the Kingdom could perhaps burn the cities, no territories could be profitably gained.


The warrior monk Laughing Two-Tone, born Gaius Severus, proposed a different path, however. More than a century before, the elders of the senior Garden School has prophesied the "Blessed Seas Promise", and Taoists throughout the kingdom truly believed that the Path to Glory lay in owning the seas. While efforts were beginning to colonize the sparsely inhabited lands of the Western Ocean, Two-Tone, who used to be a officer in the Caesar's navy, spoke at length about the backwardness of the Roman defenses of their own colonies to the west. Ripe for the taking, and vulnerable with the Dutch conquests of the central empire, the admirals of the king planned for a campaign against the Western Empire, although it would take decades to prepare.

Turn: 188
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[Ceiliazul]

Turn: 188
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Promises, promises...

[MindyMcCready]

Turn: 188
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Well about time!!!!

Still awesomely entertaining to read, but its dropped a notch on the epicness scale with all this 'pacificism' stuff.

Let's see Commodore's true colours!