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[Wimdit]

Because we definitely don't already have way too many of these. Settings are as follows:

Huge random map
30-50% Oceans
Strong erosive forces
Average native life activity
Dense cloud cover (which I think makes the place more rainy?)
Thinker difficulty (second highest, which means that this will probably not end well for me)
Iron Man (no savescumming)

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So, here we are. A tiny fraction of the ship's crew, lost in the middle of an unknown world with only the contents of two colony pods and a few guns to our name. Those few who followed me all insisted on calling our landing site 'The Mountainhome,' even though it's less of a mountain and more of a flat plain with a small hill in the distance. Why did I get the crazies? At least we have the ship's leading geneticist with us: he has already shown us a design for a set of 'recycling tanks.' He hasn't yet mentioned what they're supposed to recycle, however: we already recycle more or less everything. Regardless, we're too short on resources at the moment to build them.


Initial forays into the surrounding area revealed two Unity Rovers, as well as abundant supplies of an odd but highly nutritious plant. The rovers were immediately sent to explore our surroundings further.


Hostile alien life! And the fools laughed when I insisted we equip our scouting parties with flamethrowers...


The men were a lot quieter after that. Nothing like the fear of your brain being eaten in an unimaginably horrific way for instilling professionalism.




A data pod. Most of it was just a compilation of Morgan's ramblings about economic theory, but there was some useful stuff on it.


Such as a description of the process of making synthmetal, which could easily stop most conventional weapons.


...Can someone tell me how an old man managed to refit one of the colony pods, gather six followers, head off into the wilderness without ANYONE noticing, and proceed to found a completely independent new base?


And THEN build a colossal monument to his own success?


And after that, revolutionise the field of human psychology after only a year?


I don't even know what this is supposed to represent.


I feel like I should be invoking the name of a certain Aramaic-speaking carpenter right now.


In less mind-boggling news, we've discovered evidence of a lost civilization.


This is where we stand after ten years.

So, what now? I wanted to put Oldbeard Rock in a better location, but this was about the best I could do. Once I get formers, my next base will be at The Ruins (okay, I don't know it's The Ruins yet, but I will next turn).

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

Oldbeard: "I founded this place in the old, dwarfy way, and see how grand it is? I made the first step towards reclaiming our glory. With this new technology we're back on the road forward!"

[Jackrabbit]

Oldbeard seems to be everywhere these days.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

He's found a combined teleporter/time machine.

[Jackrabbit]

And he can switch dimensions. I'm just proud to have been the first to work with him.

[EuchreJack]

Never played this game, but I've wanted to for years.

Trade tech with the other civ?  Can we do that?

Build units out of the synthimetal, in case the other civ goes hostile?

Can we get tech out of the other civ if we capture their city?

What victory conditions need we meet?

For the Mountainhome!
Feel free to call your first military unit "The Exterminator", after my TFTD personas.

[zchris13]

EPIC

[Wimdit]

Never played this game, but I've wanted to for years.

Trade tech with the other civ?  Can we do that?

Build units out of the synthimetal, in case the other civ goes hostile?

Can we get tech out of the other civ if we capture their city?

What victory conditions need we meet?

For the Mountainhome!
Feel free to call your first military unit "The Exterminator", after my TFTD personas.

Yep, you can trade tech. There's an option to capture tech, but that's turned off for this game. Unit design is modular - the tech Industrial Base allows us to build units with level 2 armour.

Victory conditions are Conquest (eliminate all other factions or force them to capitulate), Diplomatic (get all the other factions to elect you as Supreme Leader), Economic (collect a TON of money - the amount you need is roughly the cost of taking over every base on the map with Probe Teams, which are spies), and Transcendence (clear the tech tree, then build two Wonders Secret Projects, the first of which enables everyone to build the second). I'm aiming for Transcendence, with Conquest as backup in case things get too boring (hah!).

EPIC

Thanks

[zchris13]

Needs more smashy smashy.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

We need to expand. What is the name of the next base?

[Pandarsenic]

Curse you and your color-having-game. :<

Also, regarding synthmetal: It is weak. We need Probability Sheaths at least.

And Shard Guns before we let up on the military research.

FIRST PRIORITY IS HUNTER-SEEKER ALGORITHM PL0X

Next base is "The Majesty of Colors" in honor of my attempt, please?

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

In the news today: Carp out compete native life! Yes, it's true, the carp added to the rivers near the bases have been able to purge the waters of aquatic mind worms, who have banded together in strange structures called "islands of the deep" to survive. Even then, they only survive because of the hard shell that can only be cracked with a really big gun.

[Rysith]

Clearly, once you get advanced terraforming, you need to build a mountain for the Mountainhomes to be on. It's the dwarfy way.

Second Pandarsenic's suggestion for rushing to the Hunter-Seeker Algorithm. Get The Virtual World on the way, if you can. Those two are like the "The University has no drawbacks" projects.

[Wimdit]

Curse you and your color-having-game. :<

Ahahahaha.

Also, regarding synthmetal: It is weak. We need Probability Sheaths at least.

And Shard Guns before we let up on the military research.

I don't have much experience on difficulties this high, but surely we can have a bit of a rest at Silksteel, or even Plasma Steel? And Missile Launcher Needlejets can fulfill our attack needs just fine for a little while, can't they?

FIRST PRIORITY IS HUNTER-SEEKER ALGORITHM PL0X

Hell yes.

Next base is "The Majesty of Colors" in honor of my attempt, please?

Yes. You get to sit in the middle of The Ruins. For those who haven't played, monoliths give a lot of resources per tile and The Ruins is a big circle of monoliths.

Clearly, once you get advanced terraforming, you need to build a mountain for the Mountainhomes to be on. It's the dwarfy way.

Second Pandarsenic's suggestion for rushing to the Hunter-Seeker Algorithm. Get The Virtual World on the way, if you can. Those two are like the "The University has no drawbacks" projects.

Hell yes and hell yes, respectively. If I can get the Weather Paradigm as well... Well, the only trouble is that all the land is east of the mountain, so building a big enough one will render most of my homeland a barren wasteland. But that matters not!

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

At least it will enhance Oldbeard rock.