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Total Members Voted: 5

[x2yzh9]

Alright, Um, I guess I"ll just save my Res-points. Build a new colony at I18 and send a garrison unit with them to ensure their safety.

[Nirur Torir]

Clarification: Units can only move one hex per turn per engine point, the fourth number. Garrisons cannot be moved without some sort of transport.

[Cheddarius]

You should make a Laser Transfer tech for 200, 300 research, and then you can use Colonists to build Laser Banks and Photovoltaic Banks (doesn't use up a colony slot). Then a planet with Laser Banks can beam all its energy to a planet with Photovoltaic Banks and the receiver planet will have the industry pooled (unrealistic, I know, but sounds fun).

[x2yzh9]

Alright, just send the colonists to I18 without garrison units, I guess.

[alfie275]

What does " <No garrison. Map is in error.>" mean?

[smjjames]

What does " <No garrison. Map is in error.>" mean?

It just means you don't have a garrison, besides you have the whole continent to yourself.

[Nirur Torir]

I did the balancing after making the map. I decided that you didn't need a starting unit, but didn't feel like correcting the already-uploaded map.

[alfie275]

Research level 3 land shields.

(I assume you can't use resources on the turn they are made?)

[Nirur Torir]

You can, for some odd reason that I don't feel like justifying. I didn't state it clearly, but shields require a 50 point tech before they can be researched. Space units require the 200 point tech. Everything else is researchable now.

[Wimdit]

Okay. Okay. I got it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Chinese-made Construction Vehicles - the ConVecs - were truly remarkable. They were called something else in Chinese, of course, but none of the colonists knew the language, so everyone called them ConVecs. They were equipped with incredibly compact arrays of robotic manipulator arms: a skilled operator could have a prefabricated dome up within hours. Pressurizing the domes took a bit longer, but all things considered, the setup had gone almost as smoothly as the trials on Earth. The prefab steel structures and solar panels were coming along as well, and if everything worked properly, they could have a nuclear power plant up in just a few weeks. It wouldn't be much help once their fuel stores were used up, but that would be some time in coming. The agridomes were being plowed: it had been decades since anything other than hydroponics had been used in agriculture.

They had named their colony Eden. This planet was cold, dry and nearly airless, but they saw possibilities.

It was just as well. As their dictator - Burke said he called himself that using its original meaning from the old Roman republic, to emphasise that autocracy was only a temporary measure - had said, extinction was not an option.

Wimdit's Turn

Research: Colony Limits 2, Industry 2
Production: Colonist (9/15)

Orders: Survey team at J7 to I8

Forces
I8 - Survey team - 1/1/0/1

Wimdit's Status
Remaining Research: 1
Remaining Industry: 0

Weapon Theory 1
 Land Weapons 1
 Air Weapons 1
 Sea Weapons 1
Armor Theory 1
 Land Armor 1
 Air Armor 1
 Sea Armor 1

Shield Theory 1
 Land Shielding 1
 Air Shielding 1
 Sea Shielding 1
Engine Theory 1
 Land Engines 1
 Air Engines 1
 Sea Engines 1

Size Limit Theory 1
 Land Size Limits 1
 Air Size Limits 1
 Sea Size Limits 1
Colony Limits 2*
Industry 2*

This bookkeeping may be unnecessary at present, but I'm determined to do it. Three points to anyone who can name the game I'm referencing.

[smjjames]

Outpost 2!

I liked that one, too bad you can't do random or custom maps in single player and I never played the campaign.

[Wimdit]

You should. It even comes with a pretty nice novella. I never finished the campaign, but that was because I was really bad at it. Come to think of it, I should have another go. Have to find my CD...

[Nirur Torir]

Fun game, but please try to avoid terraforming the planet. Thanks.

[alfie275]

Level 3 land weapons then.

[Cheddarius]

Never mind.