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[Devastator]

Does that apply to anything else?  Our armor, after all is made of metal strips that are assembled elsewhere.  Or does the price need to be reduced to Cheap to affect those?

Also, do our researchers feel that slightly-stronger than steel but impressively light is the limit for the new material, or are further improvements in strength possible?

[NUKE9.13]

Sell the merchant War Pegasi: (1) NUKE9.13

[evictedSaint]

Your process for producing all your mundane metal is the same.  I'd let you overhaul the process to use the metal in a revision, if you want.

[Kashyyk]

Sell the merchant War Pegasi: (2) NUKE9.13, Kashyyk

Well, that's next turn's revision solved then.

[Devastator]

Yeah, although the question of next turn's design is important.  If we go for adamantium cloth, we'll probably want to save the expense chit (as warming our troops and providing various strength bonuses would really require the cloth to be cheap, and it would certainly be a new design.)  We might go for the school then, getting a bonus to the cloth design, making adamantium cheaper, and probably helping make the cloth cheaper in the following turn's design.  It might also be a bonus to revving metal adamantium to be stronger at a future date.

Or we could ignore mithril cloth and spend an expense chit on adamantium, and rev it to be all our metal with one go.  Then next turn's design is free for a new spell, or a new ballista or something.

Or something competely different.

[Devastator]

How does our naval commander feel about the new boat?

[Taricus]

Or we could spend it on the Sirroco and let Arstotzka weep at a whole lot of ships being cannon-resistant.

[Devastator]

Or we could spend it on the Sirroco and let Arstotzka weep at a whole lot of ships being cannon-resistant.

Yeah, that's an idea I could get behind.  We won't have it for the cloth then, so we'd probably better go with the design for a School of Theological Engineering.

The only question is if that would be overkill.  I'm not sure the new system would allow us to get more than one coastal section a turn, and I think we have gaining one about locked up without spending the expense chit.  If we could gain two, and chase them out of both side oceans, I would be very happy to spend it.

[Madman198237]

Just wait and see what develops. I think that developing mithril in a THREAD form (Specifically not cloth---threads can be turned into ropes as well as cloth) would be infinitely valuable. As in, catapults capable of flying unrealistic loads because they're made with mithril cables and arms with lead weights the size of trailer trucks.

[Devastator]

I'm thinking the biggest gain of being able to make mithril threads is the fixed temperature bit.  That would negate their cold magics, no matter how cold they make it.  Hence why I'm so concerned with making it cheap, so that we can have enough for everyone.  It would certainly be useful for ropes and sails, too.

Plus, I kinda want to have glowing capes with superheroism enchantments on them.

[Madman198237]

Lol for the capes.
Is adamantine more naturally enchantable than other metals? If it's not, I want to make it so.

[Devastator]

I'm not certain if that matters, as all enchantments can't be cheaper than Expensive as that's our limit on our ability to enchant anything.

That said, that may be an intent if we design Mithril, as it doesn't need the strength of the metal form for thread or cloth, but the enchantments should still apply to the wearer.

[NUKE9.13]

...pretty sure we don't have the expense credit yet?

[Devastator]

...Yeah, that's right.  Whoops.

[NUKE9.13]

Hmm. Thinking about it some more, I actually like the idea of making Mithril cloth. Reason being, having fireproof cloth would let us build the Alsamma Safina and not have it get destroyed by a single fireball, which I now realise was a major weakness of the initial design. With the 'balloon' made of Mithril, and the 'ship' coated in Adamantium, we'd have a formidable vessel capable of weathering anything the Arstotzkans can throw at it. Soldiers on board could easily shoot down their eagles with bows, and besides, the tiny little anti-magic gems they carry wouldn't be enough to disable the entire ship.