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[MaxTheFox]

(This is the first game that I GM, one of my friends taught me the ropes so I hopefully don't fail miserably...)



Four city-states have emerged on the planet... each one's resources are starting to run out, and they're eyeing up each other's lands. Science is progressing at an alarming rate.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Premise
Each player takes control of one city. Each city is identical at the start, but they might diverge technologically as the game goes on.

Buildings
Buildings are the things you see on the map. Only listed are those available and buildable at the start. New buildings created through research will be posted in a spoiler with the updates. The starting ones are:
Housing
Appears like a fairly wide and tall tower with alternating wide and thin windows. It houses 200 people at the start, which may be increased with technologies. Cost to build: 10 Iron, no tech required.
Research Lab
Appears like a thin tower with purple, thin windows. It produces 3 research points per turn, which may be increased with technologies. 70 people work there. Cost to build: 10 Iron, 10 Coal, no tech required.
Miner
Appears like a mining rig with a tube extending into the planet's crust. It mines 5 units of the resource of the player's choosing, which may be increased with technologies. 100 people work there. Cost to build: 10 Oil, 10 Iron, no tech required.
Farm
Appears like a dome with green plants in it. It produces 20 Food per turn, which may be increased with technologies. 30 people work there. Cost to build: 10 Coal, 10 Oil, 3 Iron, no tech required.
Airport
Appears as a platform with a hangar. It allows construction of Cargo Planes and Biplane Fighters. 50 people work there. Cost to build: 10 Oil, 12 Iron, requires Flight.

Resources
Oil
Used for units and some buildings and appears like a very dark brown ellipse. Can be found in the ground.
Coal
Used for some units and many buildings, including as maintenance for certain researched ones and appears like dark gray specks. Can be found in the ground.
Iron
Used for many buildings and any vehicle unit and appears like beige specks. Can be found in the ground.
Aluminum
Used for some buildings, tier 2 and 3 planes, and spaceships and appears as light gray lines in the ground. Can be found in the ground. Requires Aluminum Extraction to appear.
Food
Used for maintaining population, each person consumes 0.1 food per turn, rounded down. Produced in Farms.
People aka population
Used to operate buildings, when insufficient people work at a building, bad things may happen. Grows by 50 every turn when there's spare living room.
There may be more resources. Technologies need to be researched to find and mine them and new ones will appear in spoilers in updates. Note that resources are not infinite and you need a specific technology to know how many units of each are left. You start with 10 Coal, 10 Oil, and 10 Iron.

Units
None available at the start of the game. They have to be researched and new ones will appear in spoilers in updates.

Spoiler: Turn formatting (click to show/hide)

At the very start, choose a city: North, East, South, or West and select actions. Should be formatted like this:

Code: [Select]

City name here:
Resource(s) to mine with miner(s):
Technology to research (can be anything, but if you research something without adequate prerequisite technologies, bad things may happen):
Units to move (if any):
Buildings to build:
Anything else:

[The_Two_Eternities]

So... you're saying that we need a specific technology to know how many units of resources we have at the start?

[MaxTheFox]

So... you're saying that we need a specific technology to know how many units of resources we have at the start?

Yes, but you have more than enough to last a while, that I can assure you. You're in no real rush until a few turns in.

[TricMagic]

Code: [Select]

City name here: Aerie
Resource(s) to mine with miner(s): 5 Iron
Technology to research: Hydroponic Farming (3 Points spent)
Units to move (if any): N/A
Buildings to build: 1 Housing
Anything else:

[MaxTheFox]

Code: [Select]

City name here: Aerie
Resource(s) to mine with miner(s): 5 Coal
Technology to research: Hydroponic Farming (3 Points spent)
Units to move (if any):
Buildings to build:
Anything else:
Can we build anything right now?

Yes, let me amend the rules a bit. (You'll start in the north as you did not specify the direction.)

[KittyTac]

PTW.

[The_Two_Eternities]

Code: [Select]

City name here: Aspera (East)
Resource(s) to mine with miner(s): 5 Iron
Technology to research (can be anything, but if you research something without adequate prerequisite technologies, bad things may happen): Hydroponic Farming
Units to move (if any): N/A
Buildings to build: Housing (-10 Iron)
Anything else: N/A


[TricMagic]

Yeah.. Opps. North is what I would choose anyway. We are on Top.

[m1895]

Code: [Select]

City name here: Caelia (South)
Resource(s) to mine with miner(s): 5 iron
Technology to research (can be anything, but if you research something without adequate prerequisite technologies, bad things may happen): Hydroponic Farming
Units to move (if any): N/A
Buildings to build: Housing (-10 Iron)
Anything else: N/A


[TricMagic]

... Why is everyone researching the same thing..

Well, other than Mining. TTE, no mining this turn?

[The_Two_Eternities]

Because we need more workers, and for more workers we need more food.

I forgot. Like you forgot to build at first.

[TricMagic]

To be fair, I was wondering what we had.

[TheRedwolf]

Code: [Select]

City name here: New Kiev (North)
Resource(s) to mine with miner(s): 5 Iron
Technology to research: Flight
Units to move (if any): N/A
Buildings to build:
Anything else:

[RoseHeart]

Nice planet drawing. Good work!

[RulerOfNothing]

Posting to watch. Also, is it intentional that the farm produces 20 food, but its 30 workers consume 24 food?