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[mainiac]

Tommy boy for sure.  I'm surprised you waited this long to get him.

[Servant Corps]

Mainiac: That's the plan.  Corps: I dunno.  Boksi: Cool.

Everyone get in here!  I need a caucus vote on our next Congressman!  Your choices are:

Adam Smith: I can build Factories, third-tier buildings that turn 1 unit of input into 1.5 units of output.  Essentially, making more good stuff with less crap stuff, and doing it even faster.

Thomas Jefferson: Liberty Bell production increases by 50%, catapulting me down the path to Rebellion.

The other guys are all useless.  Who does New Various Nonsense most need?

What will having more Liberty Bells do? Oh well, loyalty's pretty useful, but I lean towards Adam Smith, the classical Elite Liberal. I'll switch my vote if somebody gives me a good reason why having excess Liberty Bells is a good idea.

When you declare independence, do you still get immigration due to those crosses? Or do those crosses become basically meaningless?

I haven't played the game for ages so I could be totally wrong, but I don't think you can go to your home port in europe anymore after independence (meaning, no way to pick up immigrants). You get offered mercenaries from other countries though.

Makes sense. The reason I asked was that in Civ4: Colonization, you could convert crosses either into Liberty Bells or into Tools, depending on your position towards religion ("Seperation of Church and State"/"Theocracy").

[Lear]

Jefferson.

I also second most of the names in the post above your last.


EDIT:


REASONS WHY LIBERTY BELLS IS GOOD

You get a production bonus for good govt. You get continental congress faster. You can rebel sooner. You get foreign intervention sooner.

[Servant Corps]

Foreign Intervention? We need Fran--

Wait a second. Why would anyone want to intervene on our behalf considering the fact we beaten all the other colonial powers up?

I just wondered that if we choose to Adam Smith, we could produce better weaponary to fight the Spainish Monarch, but I'll switch my vote over to Jefferson, if it is better in the long term.

[Creamcorn]

Thomas Jefferson.

DO  IT

[Boksi]

Tom Jeff.

[Karlito]

Good 'ole Jefferson, that's who.

[Twiggie]

adam smith...
need a decent ecomony to fight off the gov't... plus factories make it possible to have 3 blacksmiths and 3 gunsmiths and still come out with both tools and muskets...
does nobody else go for the size-15 100-food-a-turn fortressed shipyarded newspapered powerhouse with 5 factories in, producing 400 tons of top quality goods a turn?

yeah. skip jefferson, build printing presses and newspapers if you need more bells. economy rocks.

[Servant Corps]

Okay, swithing back to Adam Smith. Go Classical Elite Liberal Capitalism.

[Aqizzar]

In this update, I loot'n plunder like a Captain Planet villain.

Spoiler: Cities of Gold... (click to show/hide)

First, I'm gonna whomp on the French some more, because I can.  Turns out, this is a better idea than it seems.  I think every time the AI is "defeated" it gets a generous reset.  When I conquered Montreal, I seized about 200 pesos.  Martinique just netted me 5000, 5000 even pesos.  I'm debating whether this counts as cheating, because I can probably just farm new French reset-colonies for assloads of cash.

Anyway, I disbanded that town and put the Pioneer to work.



Quit making it hard for me to hate you!  I want to conquer your cities man.  And a couple turns later...





Fuck French Farming.  My financial concerns are over.



And so is any need to ever again hire people.  Wow.

New arrivals are: Ore Miner, Carpenter, Seasoned Scout, Statesman, Preacher, and three Indentured Servants.  As if this exercise wasn't Dwarven enough, I get a wave of nobles and soapmakers.

Forgot to take a couple screenshots over the last turn, but the tax rate was raised to 16%, I stalled the French again, and the Arawaks ate a Scout I was trying to shake up riches with.



Okay, this is getting silly.  I guess it's time I bought another Galleon.  Aaand done.



Idiots.  One less thing to worry about, unless the AI cheats it's way to another ship.



This is the Build Menu at Bay 12.  I can launch my own ships now.  Stupid long time to build though.



Something peculiar is happening on the English islands.

A few turns go by just juggling people and production around all my dispersed cities.  Much like Dwarf Fortress, I'm realizing that efficiency is more trouble than it's worth.



That's Stuyvesant peeking over Penn's shoulder.  You can't see it, but he has a peg-leg.  Next:

Francisco Coranado let's you see every other European settlement when he arrives.  Useless.
Arch-Capitalist Adam Smith builds Factories, which produce 50% greater output than input.
John Paul Jones has been outmoded by my ransacking of the Aztecs.
Jean de Brebeuf is as needless to me as ever.
Thomas Jefferson (finally) flatly increases all Liberty Bell production by 50%.

The impromptu caucus nominated Thomas Jefferson, so Tom it is.  He'll take a while to get here.

You'll notice there's quite a few less tan squares in the lower part of the world.

I've got chores and crap, so I'm calling this one done for now.  I've razed half the Aztec Empire and made about 60000 pesos in the process, though most of it's not home yet.  Peace out.

[Boksi]

Sweep southward from shore to shore, take both the big continents and kill all the filthy Indians, including that damn peace-mongering Gandhi, and then gleefully torment the poor island-dwelling non-spaniards!

[Duke 2.0]

Sweep southward from shore to shore, take both the big continents and kill all the filthy Indians, including that damn peace-mongering Gandhi, and then gleefully torment the poor island-dwelling non-spaniards!

Then head East and take Europe!

[WorkerDrone]

YOU CAN DO THAT?

[Aqizzar]

I DUNNO, BUT I'M GONNA FIND OUT!

[mainiac]

For that kind of money, I'm pretty sure that you can just buy europe.