I would like to point out that I'm now the most nominally powerful House by a wide margin.
We generally call that margin "The imperial fleet."
To demonstrate this point, I figured out screenshots, press "control-shift-tilda" to save a screenshot named "screen" into your game directory. However you will need to convert this from the archaic "pcx" format.
I did this with an demo application which was kind enough to paste it's url on the image:
I did it with a lame demo, then a found a
much better application.
So, what this image shows us:
1) Chi-Kao is NOT amused. Don't ask me why, she's always like that.
2) We can notice the two change elections by the dramatic shifts in score. On turn 20, Hawkwood and Li-Halan shoot up a bit from the garrison and eye while Decados shot way up due to control of the fleet. On turn 40, the offices cause another dramatic shift, however the value of offices mean less in relative terms, even though the absolute effects haven't changed much. It's possible to estimate the rough score value of the offices:
Fleet: 700 score points
Garrison 200 score points (at turn 40, turn 20 was too chaotic to estimate)
Imperial eye 200 score points
3) Some pivotal events show up:
-The al-Malik took a big score hit around the 3rd turn, which probably had something to do with them finding those cruisers soon after. But the economic fallout of this focus on warfare is long lasting, score doesn't return to the starting value for nearly 15 turns.
-The al-Malik attack on Li-Halan shows up in the first decline in Li-Halan score. That dip looks small compared to later scores, but is very large compared to the scores at that point
-This attack paid a very bizarre dividend a few turns later: Li Halan disbanded large amounts of artillery in outlying settlements of Kish which couldn't be defended. This resulted in a large metal surplus which allowed for the construction of tons of engineers. So bizarrely, the al-Malik attack ended up leaving Li-Halan stronger.
-Soon after that, a harsh defeat in space battle wipes out that score gain.
-Around 23 is the huge space battle above Malignatius. Both Li Halan and al-Malik scores take a sharp dip south but this time Li Halan got off lighter.
-Around turn 35, Hazzat (computer fool), pissed off the church and failed to expect the Inquisition. The churches harassment has practically stopped them in their tracks
-Soon after that comes the Decados betrayal at Istakhr and the Li Halan score takes yet another plunge. Decados score briefly levels off due to their minor losses.
4) Aqizzar's Hawkwood just had it's first turn of no growth since the beginning of the game. Does this forebode some diabolical plan of his?
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