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[Sheb]

I think I just gained a level in lousy acronyms. :p

[EuchreJack]

Starbases:The two constructor will be used to build Influence Starbases, near the Krynn border. Both for pushing our sphere of influence and probiding range extension to our freighters.

I don't think we'll be able to steal influence from Krynn.  I'd suggest trying to steal Arcean's planets instead via influence.  Krynn will require "visits" from our new war fleet.

[Sheb]

It's mostly about securing our own planets, and open new trade route. However, I'll let the Diplomatic Comitee decide where to put the starbases, since they decide both trading and influence policy.

[EuchreJack]

Thanks, I was just confused a bit about the purpose of the constructors.  From what I've read of the Krynn, we may very well need to stop them from influencing our planets.

[shadenight123]

and increase our population in the process.
if we actually grab their planets, we increase our populations.
BEGIN RESEARCHING MASS WAR TECHS.
>.>
we *must* have the majority.
we cannot afford to give 50% influence bonus to somebody else, if the UP building gets proposed.

[Mr.Person]

Isn't the UP building influence bonus only on the one planet it gets built on? In any case, our Restraunt should help with influence from now on. If we need more, I can support researching down the influence tech tree. I have to say though, without the influence techs, influence starbases are pretty much useless. However, if we have any mining starbases, constructors can likely upgrade them now that we've got some modules researched, and if there's any unclaimed resource nodes around, all the better.

We don't need another asteroid miner, we need colony ships more than anything with maybe a few constructors to claim untaken resource nodes. Asteroids will defect just like a planet will, so even if another race starts mining our asteroids, we'll still get them. Plus we started with one already, and I think it's not mining any asteroids at the moment, so two are obviously going to be a waste of resources for now.

[Sirus]

Alright folks, I'll be playing the turn out later today, and the update will be tomorrow. I will also be changing the content of the updates somewhat, by adding information on the current planets at the end of the turn. Most likely, it'll just be what the planet is currently building, but if there's anything else you want to see let me know.

Despite the complete failure of the first spy, I do still have some money going into espionage. I plan to maintain a reserve of spies at home, while also gathering intel on whatever planets I can. Thank goodness the AI can't tell where spies are coming from!

@ Sheb: You forgot poor, hardworking Ymir . It's been cranking out Phoenixes (will soon produce NRDLs) every three weeks!
Also, since someone mentioned Heavy Cruisers, here's a rough guide on hull size -> class:
Tiny -> Fighter
Small -> Heavy Fighter
Medium -> Frigate
Large -> Cruiser
Huge -> Dreadnought
We only have small and tiny hulls right now.
Also, I keep getting requests for more IronyOwls, but no real idea of where to send them. I would like the Diplomatic Corps to figure that out when they finally get around to posting 

Since everyone is requesting intelligence on our enemies neighbors, I will devote most of next turn to figuring out what I can.

[Basque]

Alright folks, I'll be playing the turn out later today, and the update will be tomorrow. I will also be changing the content of the updates somewhat, by adding information on the current planets at the end of the turn. Most likely, it'll just be what the planet is currently building, but if there's anything else you want to see let me know.

Yay Sirus! You rock! I was going to ask for a screenshot of the current status of each colony at the end of the year but I thought it would be too much work for you. It would really be great to see!

I fully support Mr. Person's point about colony ships. Since you mentioned Ymir makes military ships at a rate of 1/3 weeks, and a year is 48 weeks, that's 16 ships a year just from that one planet. Colony ships should be made on all other planets, or multiple planets should be staggered military/colony/military/colony.

The Council of Colonial Affairs will set a goal of 16 new colony ships by the end of the year, as per Mr. Person's comment.

Also since Colonial Affairs is deeply intertwined with the economy I would like to remind All Councils that military ships have a maintenance cost, meaning the more we have the bigger drain it will be on our economy.

[Mr.Person]

I suggest using 4 colony ships max to go exploring. The other ships should go ahead and take any remaining planets above class 5 that nobody's taken for some reason. If none that good are left, go ahead and take the worse ones. Colony age is running down, so we're just going to have to accept some poorer worlds. Which is ok since they'll be useful, just not as useful.

[Sirus]

@ Basque: Keep in mind, the Phoenixes are much smaller and cheaper than colony ships, which is why they can be made so quickly on Ymir. Still, it compares favorably with Earth's production rating, which can produce a Basque every 5-6 weeks. Once Mars and Pithra V are brought up to speed, I can easily see the numbers that you're talking about.

No, I will not be uploading screenshots of each planet. The updates will be text-based, but I can give pretty much any info required.

Speaking of Mars, I recommend to Colonial Affairs that at least one of the soil enhanceable tiles be used for a Power Plant. We don't have the tech for them yet, but they are one-per-planet improvement that dramatically boosts production.

[Basque]

I'm glad you know what you're doing Sirus! I had no idea we had access to something like Power Plants. Considering that that and the Recruitment Center is there a one-a-planet upgrade for every different stat?

I'll edit the industrial plan to include Power Plants, if it's just a better version of a Factory there's no reason not to have one. Mr. Person, should we try to work something so that each planet has a Power Plant instead of a Factory (if Plants are better)? I assume a plant takes more to build so just making it first might not be effective, but if it was cost effective we could build a Factory and a Power Plant and decommission the former when we needed the space on Economic and Research Planets.

Spoiler: Documentation (click to show/hide)

Official Council Colors
War Council is Red
Central Intelligence Agency is Purple
Research and Development is Blue
Colonial Affairs is Green
Diplomacy Corps is Pink
S.H.E.B is still outstanding

Possible Colony Names
If anyone has any names or categories they want to add I'll keep an updated copy of this with the Documentation.

Colonies for Military Use
Asgard
Kratos
Virtus

Colonies of PQ 20+
New Eden
Arcadia
Elysium
Zion

Other Colonies
Erion
Asteria
Gwydion
Xenos
Boatmurdered - Ha! XD Didn't know how serious you were about this one, Mr. Person. - Used
Nist Akath

Active Council Decisions

Colonial Affairs

The Colonial Affairs Constitution - Revised
Article 1-Colony Ships:
1.1: Colony Ships are to be produced at such a rate that at least one is always available and ready to start a colony, barring extraneous events such as warfare or constructors being necessary to grab resource spots.
1.2: Colony Ship design is to focus on reaching planets as quickly as possible.
1.3: Colony Ships will try to explore an entire system before colonizing.
1.4: Colony ships will avoid going into another race's controlled space under the assumption all the good worlds in there will suck and/or defect away anyways.
Article 2-Colony Placement
2.1: Colonies are to be placed on every planet with a PQ of 9+, barring uninhabitable conditions.
2.2: Planets of PQ 8- will not be colonized unless otherwise directed or until all possible PQ 9+ Planets have been colonized.
Article 3-Colony Improvement
3.1: Colonies are to build a basic Factory as quickly as possible
3.2: The Council of Colonial Affairs will provide guidelines on how to proceed with each colony's improvement based on the specific conditions of that colony.
3.3: The Council of Colonial Affairs will decide whether to use special tiles that do not support a colony's specialization based on the specific conditions of that colony.
3.4: Once we have settled to the ends of our Colony Ships' range the Council of Colonial Affairs will look for a new planet to launch Colony Ships from at the end of that range.
Addendum: Article 3b-Colony Specialization
3b.1: Class 13+ Planets or planets with sufficient economic/morale/population bonuses will focus on Economy-after the initial Factory economic improvements, morale improvements and a single farm will be built unless otherwise noted
3b.2: Class 9-12 Planets or planets with sufficient industrial bonuses will focus on Industry-after the initial factory more factories will be built and a Starport once production can quickly produce ships unless otherwise noted
3b.3: Class 8- Planets or planets with sufficient Research bonuses will focus on Research-after the initial factory Research Labs will be built unless otherwise noted
3b.4: If a planet needs to serve another purpose (such as being militarily or diplomatically valuable, etc) it may be specialized differently or generalized depending on the situation
3b.5: Special tiles that support a colony's specialization will be utilized unless otherwise noted.
Article 4-Anomalies
4.1: Our Flagship will always pursue the closest possible anomaly with the exception of cases outlined in 4.2
4.2: If our Flagship can out-speed a foreign ship heading to investigate an anomaly it will do so.

Colonial Affairs Specialized Planet Development Plans

Note: All planets no matter what their specialization should start with a Factory on a Factory improvement square if available unless otherwise noted.
Economic:

• Build Approval improvements to reach 100% Approval. Use Approval Tiles if available.
• Build a Farm when Population reaches its cap. If population has not reached a cap build Economic buildings on unoccupied squares. Do not build if population is over 20 billion/do not build more than 3 farms.
• Build a Recruiting Center
• Build Economic buildings on unoccupied squares.
• Maintain Approval over %60. Build additional Approval improvements if necessary
• If nothing is being built, default to Research Focus unless otherwise noted.

Industrial

• Build a Factory on an Industrial Tile if available
• Build a Starport after the Second Factory
• Continue to build Factories on unoccupied squares
• build a Power Plant when it would add more Production than a Factory
• If nothing is being built, default to Research Focus unless otherwise noted.

Research

• Build a Research lab on a Research Tile if available
• Continue to build Research Labs on unoccupied squares
• If nothing is being built, default to Research Focus unless otherwise noted.

Central Intelligence Agency

The Revised Triforce Doctrine

Article 1: Definitions
A) "Minor" civilizations are to be defined as those that only inhabit one world, never expand, and can not be selected as playable at game start (same as ingame definition).
B) Both "minor" and "major" civilizations exist in the cosmos.  However, it has come to our attention that "minor" civilizations can not be swapped by our diplomats, and they tend to far badly in the tech race.
C) Therefore, the term "Opposing Factions" shall be reserved for the "major" civilizations.  Our agent shall not interfer with "minor" civilizations, leaving them instead for The Diplomatic Corps to parley.

Article 2: The Triforce Doctrine regarding "Major" civilizations aka "Opposing Factions"
A) For every "Opposing Faction", there shall be three spies only, so as to reduce costs.  Others can be called in for emergencies, but the idea number of spies shall be computed as three times the number of currently known Opposing Factions.
B) The first spy shall be The Defender.  This spy is charged with counter-intelligence.  Defenders are the reservour from which other spies can be drawn, if necessary.  If enemy spies invade our buildings, they clear them out.
C) The second spy shall be The Saboteur.  This spy is charged with hindering the Opposing Faction.  This spy shall be situated in the most powerful research or industrial building of the Opposing Faction.  If war is imminent, then the Saboteur shall be reserved until immediately before the war declaration, then placed to ensure maximum hinderance of the Opposing Faction's shipbuilding efforts.  If the Opposing Faction is out-teching us and war is not imminent, then the Saboteur shall be placed in the Opposing Faction's greatest laboratory.
D) The third spy shall be know as The Thief.  This spy is charged with gathering intelligence on the Opposing Faction's culture compared to our own, along with other duties.  The Thief shall work closely with The Diplomatic Corps and Colonial Affairs to infiltrate a planet of significant value, close to our borders, that can be convinced to join our faction via influence.  The building infiltrated shall be one that is unlikely to trigger Counter-Intelligence activity from the Opposing Faction.  The Thief shall be reused if possible.

Inter-Council Agreements
Unnamed Intelligence Agency/Diplomatic Corps/Colonial Affairs Pact - Incorporated into the Intelligence Agency's official position with the The Revised Triforce Doctrine.

The Sun-Tzu Pact (War Council/Colonial Affairs) - (Agreed):
The Council of Colonial Affairs will specifically design industrial planets with optimized production so as to produce a mighty armada for times of war and economic planets to support the maintenance cost for such as space fleet. In return, the War Council will agree to not use war tactics that will decrease a Planet's PQ so that upon capture those planets can be put to their fullest use. Furthermore, if the Central Intelligence Agency discovers a planet has a capturable Super Project or similar structure that we could get the benefit from, we will attempt to capture it rather than destroy it.

Unnamed Diplomacy Corps/Council of Colonial Affairs Pact - (Pending)
Through Diplomacy we may acquire another Races' Technology, Starbases, Ships, Planets and Trade Goods. Of all of these the Council of Colonial Affairs believes Planets are the most important. Unless pursing a specific technology or good, Planets will be given the highest priority for acquiesce in our interaction the other races. This agreement is pending approval from the Diplomatic Corpse for Peace and Collaboration and the better half of the Council of Colonial Affairs.

[Sirus]

Plants are not like factories. They do not provide production, they boost it. Sorta like those tiles that boost a single building, but applied planet-wide.

[Basque]

Sirus, ahah! That makes sense. In that case we should only produce buildings like that if the bonus they apply would be more effective than just building another Factory or such. If it's say, a 10% boost and each Factory generates 10 production, we should build a Power Plant after 11 Factories since that would be effectively +11 production. (Numbers just an example, but the concept should apply to anything)

Sirus, since you mentioned Mars when we improve yellow/orange/red tiles to Green they just become basic tiles right? There's no chance of them becoming special tiles, and a planet will never start with special tiles in one of those areas, right?

If those are true I would like to point out to Research and Development that although Habitat Improvement is important because it gives us Aphrodisiac if we do intend to go Neutral one of the bonuses is automatically being able to use any tile (assuming I understand everything correctly).

[Sirus]

Sirus, since you mentioned Mars when we improve yellow/orange/red tiles to Green they just become basic tiles right? There's no chance of them becoming special tiles, and a planet will never start with special tiles in one of those areas, right?

I don't know if that's a hard-and-fast rule, but I can't recall ever seeing a bonus applied to an "unlockable" tile. It sorta makes sense, as you wouldn't find say, extra-fertile land (farm bonuses) in an area that you had to chemically treat to just make usable.

[Sheb]

But you could find artifacts for exemple.

Ymir is to produce Basque non-stop. Colonization is a priority, and I'd rather have our military close to Earth. I'll edit my turn.