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[Roboson]

Cheaper Frost Tower: (2) 10ebbor10, Azzuro
Improved Steam Engine - Turbines: (5) 10ebbor10, Andres, Azzuro, Andrea, Roboson
Bigger STREAMLINED Fireball: (3) Andres, Andrea, Roboson
Angled Plate Armour: (0)
Gambeson:(1) : 10ebbor10

Just added in my votes, not sure if this is still correct.

[stabbymcstabstab]

You know that grass idea isn't bad. we could use magic to breed a type of grass that either poisionious to eat or sharp and point to kill and injure their horses in the plains and jungle.

[Azzuro]

Well, trigonometry was just the best way I could think of, as I thought all along that we did have actual real-life trigonometry. But we can do it via painstaking rounds and rounds of deflection tests, I suppose.

Cheaper Frost Tower: (1) 10ebbor10
Improved Steam Engine - Turbines: (5) 10ebbor10, Andres, Azzuro, Andrea, Roboson
Bigger STREAMLINED Fireball: (3) Andres, Andrea, Roboson
Angled Plate Armour: (0)
Gambeson: (2) 10ebbor10, Azzuro

Changing my vote to Gambeson as that seems more likely to succeed since we already have the Hide Armour.

Also, ebbor, considering everyone has stuck to the convention of having only two votes for the two revisions it's a bit impolite for you to have three. We could move to ranked preference voting, but eh.

[10ebbor10]

Improved Steam Engine - Turbines: (5) 10ebbor10, Andres, Azzuro, Andrea, Roboson
Bigger STREAMLINED Fireball: (3) Andres, Andrea, Roboson
Angled Plate Armour: (0)
Gambeson: (2) 10ebbor10, Azzuro

Eh fine.

Doesn't really matter though, would be identical to me doing some last minute vote switching.

[andrea]

considering that the steam turbine seems to be winning handily, I wonder if it would be possible to roll for that earlier, so we can base our second revision on the results of that. Although, it seems most other proposals are largely independent.

By the way, if all goes well with the turbine, next turn we can design a new ship most likely. Or revise a ship, design a cannon?

[Azzuro]

Hmm, I'm a little wary of spending both revisions on steam power considering that we've spend the design, and the design and revision of the previous turn, on it already. I'll support rolling for the turbine earlier, though, as none of our other revisions are super urgent.

And I think we should design the ship, then design a cannon if needed.

[andrea]

oh, you misunderstand. I was thinking more about deciding if any of our other proposals had better synergy.

Although, the real reason is that I like seeing rolls and results.

[evictedSaint]

I will go ahead and roll your first revision for steam turbines, unless someone objects in the next thirty minutes.

[andrea]

I pray the dice gods for a 6.

anything above a 3 would be mighty fine, even.

[VoidSlayer]

We should really be using the design phase for the steam engine and the revision phase for minor reworks of existing stuff right now, but okay.

Design: Falsecasting:  We get a large number of people we dress like wizards and teach them to mimic how mages act when casting spells.  We then present far more targets for the enemy staves then they have available, for a much cheaper price.

[andrea]

We did use the design on the steam engine, and we are using one of our 2 revisions to rework other existing things.

[VoidSlayer]

We did use the design on the steam engine, and we are using one of our 2 revisions to rework other existing things.

But we are reworking steam engines... I think it will take more to fix them.

[Roboson]

We did use the design on the steam engine, and we are using one of our 2 revisions to rework other existing things.

But we are reworking steam engines... I think it will take more to fix them.

We're in a revision phase right now. The design phase for this year has come and gone.

[evictedSaint]

Revision 1: Steam Turbines [4]

After some work at the chalkboard, we elect to discard the secondary container all together.  The steam valves were difficult to tune when the device is spinning, and having to rotate the entire secondary container all together is a waste of energy.  Taking inspiration from our mills, we fashion a small steel windmill to sit inside the pipe instead.  This proves to be a rather tricky thing to do, as the windmill gets really hot while sitting in the steam and can jam quite easily.  Furthermore, getting the right ratio between pipe diameter and steam output takes some testing to figure out, but after a while we find one that works.  More testing (and likely mathematics) would be required to find the most efficient variation, but this shift in design results in a slight increase in efficiency.  It still doesn't beat a full contingent of rowers, but the prototype putters around the port quite nicely on calm days.

A rope belt is still used to drive the paddle, and it still slips when the contraption gets too wet.  Salt residue tends to creep up the pipe and clog the turbine and pipes, requiring frequent maintainance to prevent explosions.  Output is still regulated by the tension in the belt.  The design can now move a ship at a very modest pace on calm waters, but won't be winning any races any time soon.

[Chiefwaffles]

Aren't we one advancement short of completely capturing the jungle? It really feels like it'd be more prudent to focus there first then shift our attention to the seas.