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2 days - anyone who dosen't post gets skipped?

2 days - anyone who dosen't post forages

3-4 days - anyone who dosen't post gets skipped

3-4 days - anyone who dosen't post forages

wait until everyone has posted

[Megggas]

Forage: Gather food, each ant gather's one food and then a percentage of your ants, determined by a d100 gather extra food. Ants only gather from spaces at most 2 squares from your colony and avoid hostile critters and ants, only one group of ants can forage at any given tile

Eh, I thought you would pm us our status.  How do we know if we discovered extra food or find a fertile tile?

[fillipk]

Well you have a map with everyone's resources and what you know of the world

[Happerry]

Well you have a map with everyone's resources and what you know of the world

It'd still be nice if you could PM us, or just make a group public post depending on how private the information should be, when we find something or such. Otherwise I can guarantee you we're going to miss stuff. Probably a lot of stuff. Like, all the stuff. Turn updates are important. If nothing else a public reminder of which season it is would always be useful and be a good way to announce that you're done updating all the maps and stuff.

Anyway.

TURN ORDERS
The 50 Ants mutated for Foraging Forage at the Fertile Tile two spaces south from my main colony.
The other 50 Ants are to Dig a Burrow Down at Depth 5

[Megggas]

Well you have a map with everyone's resources and what you know of the world

So how will I know if I found another player's ant colony? Every player is expanding and I would have to keep track of every player's moves for each turn even if I knew their start locations.  I also didn't see anything on the map you pmed that showed which tiles were fertile foraging spots.  And again, what about the extra foraging food determined by a 100 side dice roll?

EDIT: I just rechecked the map you originally pmed me.  Does that linked map get updated as we take actions?  It still looks the same as before and doesn't show me my Ant Colony's current status (like food for example).

Anyway, here are my Turn Orders assuming my Ants that foraged last turn did not find any extra food from either the d100 roll or a fertile tile.

Player 12 Action
25 Digger Ants Dig 1 Square North of Colony at Level 1 (Burrow)
25 Forager Ants Forage 1 Square South of Colony
40 Basic Ants Reproduce
10 Ants Evolve to Reproducers

EDIT: Action changed and provided in my next post.

[Xardalas]

Sorry sorry, need to drop out.

[Rolepgeek]

50 Foragers Forage
50 Ants Evolve Breeding

[fillipk]

@Xardalas: it's fine

@ everyone else: There is a key underneath the map on the left side along with everyone's stats, the idea was to have what everyone has be public knowledge but not their location.   So on a turn update I will say what season it is, what that season provides, and a status update for everyone.  I'm sorry this isn't super smooth, this is the first game I've run.

[Demonic Spoon]

Kay, dropping out of this.

[Criptfeind]

Can you have more then one level of a ability evolved into a ant, and if so, are the benefits or costs multiplicative? (IE, how much food would a forager II ant get, and how much would it eat.)

Also is storage and consumption an end of turn effect, or is it applied as soon as it's become a issue. An example might be, if you had 45 food, but you want to spend 50 evolving your ants, can you do that so long as you end the turn in positive numbers? Also if you had 60 food, and storage for 100, and you foraged 50, does ten of it go to waste as soon as you gather it, or do your ants eat it under the limit?

[fillipk]

Yes, it would be 4 ants, eat as 3, 5 ants, eat as 4 ect., no you can't evolve, if you don't have enough food, yes they would eat it under the limit.

[Kansa]

Fifty foragers forage
Twenty five ants evolve into breeders
Twenty five ants breed.

[Rolepgeek]

Yes, it would be 4 ants, eat as 3, 5 ants, eat as 4 ect., no you can't evolve, if you don't have enough food, yes they would eat it under the limit.

So no point whatsoever to evolving Foragers beyond the first level. Got it.

[Megggas]

Ok I checked the pmed map again and saw all the stats at the bottom left.  Sorry for my earlier pestering.  My only question now is do we discover fertile tiles by moving our ants to discover terrain or by actually foraging at tiles?

EDIT: I'm modifying my action for this turn to the following:

Player 12 Action
25 Digger Ants Dig 1 Square North of Colony at Level 1 (Burrow)
25 Forager Ants Forage 1 Square South of Colony
25 Basic Ants Forage 1 Square West of Colony
20 Ants Evolve to Breeders (Reproduce)
5 Ants Evolve to Scouts (Movement)

[fillipk]

By moving and exploring, every tile you discover has a 10% chance to be barren and a 1% chance to be fertile but you need to create an ant hill with storage by it to forage at it.

[Megggas]

By moving and exploring, every tile you discover has a 10% chance to be barren and a 1% chance to be fertile but you need to create an ant hill with storage by it to forage at it.

Do tiles ever change in status as the game goes on?  For example, can a regular tile become barren through over-foraging?  Do the Season changes ever make tiles barren or fertile?