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[Origami_Psycho]

We should get more since it's on our land, and a somewhat sizeable chunk will likely be going to a sky fortress that he may be a part of.
Speaking of which, maybe we could create a giant manarack powered heat ray?  Seeing as how we are a god of fire.  Or we could just make it generate great beams of fire, directed by an aiming mechanism that uses air.  Perhaps changing the O₂ content so as to effect its efficiency as well?

[gman8181]

Manarack is potentially a very powerful weapon, so yes, I would rather have a little less of it if it means that others don't have any.  It's not greed if anything it's more like paranoia.

Yes it's valuable because it is powerful and puts us at an advantage over other gods.  The advantage is lost if the other gods have it too, even if they are our allies.

By train I mean train.  It's been shown that mages (not people with boons) can be trained in new forms of magic so yes I want to train our mages in some earth magic.  You're right that they wouldn't be as powerful as an earth god but I do think they would help.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

60% is the worst possible scenario, having less, like 25% is much preferred, of cause. But, IMO, even giving more than half will benefit us.

Oh, and I see nothing wrong in making Urist more powerful, he is an enemy of orcs, and orcs are our enemy... and if he will have economical interest in our lands he will aid us in nearly all wars, including the ones with the order.

That's called politics, you can't be fully independent and care about  own power and nothing else.

And Urist has manarack already, so no advantage here

[Origami_Psycho]

Offering Urist some manarack will likely strengthen our relationship with him.  Thus ensuring who's side he's on in the coming war.  And depending on how powerful he is, he could be a more powerful ally than we coulda hoped for.  Maybe we could ask around about how powerful he is.  Or just ask the GM.

Hey GM, just how powerful is this Urist fella?

[gman8181]

I'm all for friendly helpful relations but I'd still rather keep the manarack to ourselves.  That said if you guys are going to be insistent on sharing it, at least start with a lower percentage like 10-20% not 60%.

[Origami_Psycho]

Once again, it's our land, our dominion, keep exports to him capped at 20%.  And also offer him an alliance at the same time.

[Gentlefish]

Hey guys. You know the most effective way to defend any palace, even flying? Build it like a "^"

The angle allows those at the center roof to fire over the lower rooftops, and so on down the line.

And have a fairly large ring around a center temple/group of temples for which to worship the various deities of our parthenon, which doubles as a last bastion of fortitude.

And the outer... Oh, say half, should be devoted to housing droptroops/civvies, and fortressworkers, probably about a thousand altogether. Use the meatmelons in the ring and keep a large supply of sap seeds about. Put the mega-life-boon guy up there too, to help speed growth. Have him also have a group of firejackets that carry him to and fro as needed. Or something of that nature.


Maybe a beanstalk when it's at rest in our domain. I like the idea of a giant beanstalk.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Not sure that we should have a formal alliance with him, there are no reasons to be allies, except some economic interests

We have enough enemies to not participate in his wars, and he will help us if mines will get threatened. Let's be a friendly neighbor and trade partners. That's enough. We have a for,al alliance with other god

I think that 10% is just too low for Urist to agree, He will be doing all the mine creating job and such a low percentage  make it to tempting to conquer and take it all, start with 20-25% be ready to give away more
The core idea is to spend zero mana or other resources and get steady supply of manarack for free. Such conditions imply pretty high percentage for the one who made mines. Look at  petroleum companies of the  real world, It's not like  British Petroleum  gives 90% of profits to the government of the country they drill in and yet governments invite it readily


And very importnt: Talk about all that, after he will make the fortress, not before

[Origami_Psycho]

Maybe, as a long term project, we should look to making a large floating bit of vegetation for more of these forts.

[GreatWyrmGold]

The only thing I would ever wish to have in terms of new creatures would be ants.
Moles that dig tunnels and collect ore is nice, but ants can dig entire cities!

They also come prefabricated with warriors, and workers, with a built in poison
Said poison could be modified into flamethrower, as they spray the acid

They also gather and stockpile food

Sounds good to me!

I disagree. Ants would be rather redundant, as we already have something to burrow with, and earth isn't really our domain anyways. They also sound a lot like firetrackers. Also I personally feel the moles themselves were unneeded and annoying, but there's personal preference for you.

The mole has already paid for itself twice over; you're overreacting.

Anyways...I like the Laputa idea. Also chat with Krait about the possibility of making floating plants.

[Xantalos]

Holy crap this grew fast!

[Ukrainian Ranger]

The mole has already paid for itself twice over;

Eee? When? If you mean this

As you watch it delve downwards towards the manarack deposits, morning comes and brings with it a rush of 324 Mana.

324 is our regular morning mana income

[javierpwn]

 But when he does dig down to the precious metal!
He will pay for himself!

We have plenty of mana to spare anyways!

ˇYo quiero Hormigas de Fuego!

[Ukrainian Ranger]

  But when he does dig down to the precious metal!
He will pay for himself!

Also he'll create a network of unstable and dangerous tunnels just under our land.
And I suspect that it will take a long time until it mine enough manarack. I very much prefer professionals working on this

And 150 mana is not something to be thrown away easily

[javierpwn]

But moles are professional diggers..... Then again so are ants.....I want fire ants.....