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[Mr. Strange]

Assuming anyone sent her. She acts and talks like nutcase acting alone, certain that humanity was doomed and Unity was planned to fail from the start. That doesn't sound anything like those seven "visionaries" who made the planetfall.

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The problem with that is that she knows the security protocols for the pod release, something only the elites amongst the 7 and Captain Garland should know. Even amongst their final council meeting many of them are oblivious to just how hopeless the Unity mission was, with only the smartest like Zhakarov and Yang working it out on their own. If she wasn't sent, she was talking to some people in the higher echelons.

[Loud Whispers]

Having finally completed my Morgan money bash I must say I am rather disappointed. So I started off as Morgan whilst I gave all the other factions the Morganite stats and agendas [so I was virtually fighting 6 Morganites but could actually tell the difference between friendly Morgans and hostile Morgans] and when I finally figured out how to not get steamrolled by fusion marines because I spent too much time building infrastructure I was disappointed in how there was very little in the way of economic warfare or diplomacy going on. Most of the factions refused to sign treaties for a long time because I was already 'too powerful,' refused to sign treaties with one another, and up until I had started conquering factions or signing treaties when their mood was at their happiest so little trade was going on that you could barely tell that commerce was a thing. This meant there was very little point in trying to build trade blocs or sabotage anyone else's economies as it all very quickly just turned into the equivalent of a 7 Zhakarov game as everyone just rushed for tech. Now, I might try a 7 Zhakarov game too just to see who can out research who, but I intended to have businesses ruthlessly bankrupting other businesses not scientists competing with scientists.
I suspect I would have to create a scenario where all the factions already have all the technologies before I can have the Morgan business brawl I intended to have. Maybe turn off all victories except cornering the global market.

[Loud Whispers]

I've been making charts for an LP of AC and am surprised to find out the economy actually exists as THE economy, and all this time I've been making arbitrary decisions of trade on the basis of more trade = always good and less like I'm going to crash their markets.

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Anyways, bloody neat stuff. I wonder if economic interdependence can help bring peace as the Hive never waged war on me, I was the one to declare on him and that was only when pressured by a non-trading partner. It'd also make sense as to why Morgan wages war on people who run planned economies, planned economies don't make as much energy so Morgan doesn't get as much commerce from their trade pact.