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[tntey]

Balloon Carrier

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Create a ship that can hold and deploy air balloons

Better Ballons

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Use the plastic as the ballon part of the balloon mixed with the original balloon fabric.

Plastic Factories

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Create factories that produce plastic goods. Such as toys.

[a1s]

Your army is out stripping the amount of supplies created.  Your soldiers are VERY unhappy.  See WW1, but much MUCH worse.

Also as a note, you cannot do number three.  To put it in perspective, the factories are EMPTY.  Entire villages empty.  In areas where people are concentrated most, the cities, people are starving.  They were starving, but this is a different kind of starving.  They literally have to eat rats to survive. 

What's the problem? Do we have a trade deficit? Is there an embargo? A blockade? Food isn't exactly a regulated commodity. 

[10ebbor10]

On a side note, when does this game occur?

Galleons are 16-18the century vessels. Those vessels just blown up are at least hundred years old.

Spoiler: Reasons for food shrtage (click to show/hide)

1) Encouraging Industry
2) Overzealous anti hoarding program results in starving farmers
3)Loss of people due to the eastern crusade
4) Mobilization

Basically, it appears the anti hoarding program has created a self reinforcing cycle where, as the amount of farmers drop, it becomes harder and harder to be a farmer.

[alamoes]

On a side note, when does this game occur?

Galleons are 16-18the century vessels. Those vessels just blown up are at least hundred years old.

Spoiler: Reasons for food shrtage (click to show/hide)

1) Encouraging Industry
2) Overzealous anti hoarding program results in starving farmers
3)Loss of people due to the eastern crusade
4) Mobilization

Basically, it appears the anti hoarding program has created a self reinforcing cycle where, as the amount of farmers drop, it becomes harder and harder to be a farmer.

Time to answer questions.  Yes.  You understand completely.  Good luck managing the mess you created, it is quite similar to the revolutions in Russia. 

Remember, the galleons are from a bunch of uncivilized Frenchmen.  They are galleons because they are what the French had.  They threw everything at your fleet, massive wooden ships, and that didn't really work.  Now, they'll get creative, what ever that means for the future. 

[a1s]

Good luck managing the mess you created, it is quite similar to the revolutions in Russia. 

I had a feeling that's the meme you were forcing. The reason there were shortages in 1916 Russia was due to the blockade by the German undersea fleet (on the Baltic side) and the closing of the Dardanelles (on the balck sea side). I can buy all the food in the world, because I'm not in a blockade and Poland, Nev and Sandinavia are the only countries even mobilized. That's entirely aside from me having about 2.5 people in the whole country. The factories are empty (yet there are people in the cities, presumably doing community theater to ease the hunger pains), the fields are empty and there's about 1 draft worth of people on the front. Where exactly is everyone? Dodging the draft out east?
(I have a feeling this all stems from one of us (probably me) not understanding how big Nev is. I assumed I was ruling over a country of 100 Million backwards peasants.)

(BTW, if you want to see a revolution- just tell me. I'll gladly steal a train cart of gold and play the part of a dictator in exile, while Ghazkull figures out how to keep a young Nevian democracy in power for more than 7 months)

[Ghazkull]

Who said anything about a Democracy? Also your situation might have something to do with me fucking up the country side and riling them up against you.

[10ebbor10]

Still, not really that logical to have galleons. Galleons are expensive, big and any they had would need to have been at least 100 years old.

[Ghazkull]

why would they had to be 100 years old? As far as i reckoned technology came to a standstill in this game and is only now advancing again. Machine Guns were invented far before 1900. Point being their Galleons are propably new because nobody used Ironclads before this last battle

[10ebbor10]

why would they had to be 100 years old? As far as i reckoned technology came to a standstill in this game and is only now advancing again. Machine Guns were invented far before 1900. Point being their Galleons are propably new because nobody used Ironclads before this last battle

Let us go back to the original question.

On a side note, when does this game occur?

So, either their shouldn't have been any galleons, or this isn't the 1900's.

I really doubt it is the latter actually, as we started with basic Ironclads, I have a dreadnought, and the technological gap between the 2 is about a hundred years. (Also, there's the ship of the line in between.)

[a1s]

The world is more or less deliberately anachronistic. The word "Galleon" is clearly used as as stand in for "a capital ship, 100 years behind yours in technology" (They are probably more like ships of the line, as big and powerful as a country devoid of cheap steal and steam engines can make them). Our world didn't really have those in 1900, but there was a decent amount of them in the Far East in the 1850s. So it's not that weird.

[alamoes]

Yeah, guess what!  I forgot to update the war in Poland.  Oh well.  I'll do it in pms.  As usual lot of people died, and a lot of territory changed hands, and none of you except Sweden and Nev know anything about it.  Also, I picked 1900 because then I'd have a nice even number to start with, rather than 1866 or 1870, or even 1890.  I know Maxims were invented earlier, but this isn't real Europe, this is fantasy Europe.  I wanted to give you guys the option to not make machine guns.  That would have been interesting. 

Turn will be up soon. 

[alamoes]

Good luck managing the mess you created, it is quite similar to the revolutions in Russia. 

I had a feeling that's the meme you were forcing. The reason there were shortages in 1916 Russia was due to the blockade by the German undersea fleet (on the Baltic side) and the closing of the Dardanelles (on the balck sea side). I can buy all the food in the world, because I'm not in a blockade and Poland, Nev and Sandinavia are the only countries even mobilized. That's entirely aside from me having about 2.5 people in the whole country. The factories are empty (yet there are people in the cities, presumably doing community theater to ease the hunger pains), the fields are empty and there's about 1 draft worth of people on the front. Where exactly is everyone? Dodging the draft out east?
(I have a feeling this all stems from one of us (probably me) not understanding how big Nev is. I assumed I was ruling over a country of 100 Million backwards peasants.)

(BTW, if you want to see a revolution- just tell me. I'll gladly steal a train cart of gold and play the part of a dictator in exile, while Ghazkull figures out how to keep a young Nevian democracy in power for more than 7 months)

Yeah, that was my half plan.  You'll see.  100 million is actually quite accurate.  BUT, 50 million live scattered across the Far East.  Leaves you with 30 million to use as conscripts/labor/whatever.  The other 20 million are still around, but yeah.  Imagine missing 3/5 of everybody from your town.  every 5 houses, two are not effected.  And we're not talking about the women.  I should add that many women went to the city for work while the men are away, because that is where the work is, but you don't know that.  A lot of cities are actually factory cities.  The only city that isn't really a factory city is the capitol.  But yeah, you'll play the dictator in exile unless you are executed or don't want to.  Then I'm not sure.  Turn will be in the next post. 

Edit:  Double Posting ends here. 
Waiting on:
Everyone but tntey. 

[a1s]

Peace within our lifetime
The war in Poland is over, and now most military units are demobilized. Farmers may go back to the plow, Workers to their factories. The more veteran/loyal units are offered an opportunity to continue to serve their country (there is an unending need to patrol the eastern reaches, which hopefully involves a lot less combat), the more disillusioned units are not, and after being carefully deprived of leftover weapons are sent back home. Martial law is relaxed, but not abolished.

Trans-Continental railroad
A large scale joint Nev-Scandinavian venture begins to construct a railroad connection Scandinavia to the Black sea. Maria Stahlmann personally departs for the Scandinavian capital to iron out the details of the agreement, and is scheduled to visit a number of friendly states afterwards to secure produce import contracts. Meanwhile, due to political instability in the homeland, Scandinavian rail workers will be permitted to take some of their military escorts into Nevian territory.

Seriously WTF is up with our farming?
Buy food. If there's no money- take a loan. If there are no banks willing to give loans- sell off state assets. If state assets end up sold and food supplies won't start coming in, ministers will start going out. In coffins. That is all.
(Also, Provide tax breaks for returning veteran farmers. Small ones. They did serve their county and all...)

[10ebbor10]

Ride of the Valkyries

Named after the famous Wagner Opera, this represents our second attempt to create a commercial airship transportation line. After all, the airships are, currently, the fastest way of transport  (100 km/h is slow for an aircraft, but none of those exist, making this the fastest mode of transportation). Aimed primarily at richer people, this line intends to connect various cities, including an international collection to Berlin

Cast Thunder

Development of advanced mettalurigical technologies to aid in the development of for example artillery. Test cases would be the creation of an improved 300 mm Cannon for our dreadnought, or other domestic improvements.

Assembly line

Use new technology to boost industrial output.

(On a side note, would be nice to have a concise list of assets)

[alamoes]

(On a side note, would be nice to have a concise list of assets)

(Yeah, but that takes effort, and I don't have effort.  You're lucky you get pictures sometimes.  A my spell checking, you don't know how many words are misspelled as other words.)

Okay, time to see if we're waiting on anyone. 

3/6 players

Update will be tomorrow.  Now to continue with my slow demise in Simutrans.