Everyone voting for one of the lower modifer options only - please also vote for recipes review. That way we actually at least react to advancements beyond our borders, and do not become China.
 
By the same token it also makes society much more unstable.
Not for centuries. You need to realize...gunpowder involves a lot of reagents which requires a functional industrial machine to produce significant quantities of, and even MORE industrial metallurgy to use it constructively.

Early gunpowder thus, made for amazing cultural displays of fireworks and is of more entertainment value than military for a very long time. It'd move power TOWARDS the elite who can secure the alchemists and suppliers of saltpeter, sulfur and high grade charcoal, before it moves it away from them.
 
Additional Tally! I believe if we can slowly keep pace with everyone and continue to leak and reabsorb tech and culture, we'll stay together
Adhoc vote count started by Motoko on Feb 17, 2018 at 1:33 PM, finished with 141410 posts and 49 votes.

Adhoc vote count started by Motoko on Feb 17, 2018 at 1:36 PM, finished with 100 posts and 53 votes.

Adhoc vote count started by Motoko on Feb 17, 2018 at 1:38 PM, finished with 101 posts and 54 votes.
 
I think he is providing a valuable service to the thread - in giving voice to the more indignant members of Ymaryn society. There is a reason the vote is weighted after all: AN wants to give a shot to options that he knows SV is unlikely to go for but which might be prevalent opinion among citizens of our nation.

If that is why he did it, I wouldn't call that vote to be trolling like I haven't with Korporati. But given how he has jumped back into the thread after spending most of a year not interacting with the thread to make a controversial vote with no reasoning and only a comment on how he likes the ability to screw over everyone else in a vote despite having a minority opinion.

So given how he hasn't responding to being called out in his actions, I am quite willing to call Gavoon a troll and state that the only reason that I haven't reported him for being a troll is because as far as I can tell, he is technically acting with the rules due to AN offering the option as vote.
 
It's not even Gunpowder but Blackpowder.
And it'll take a few centuries to get even a simple Arquebuise
 
[X] [GP] A review of recipes is in order (x2)
[X] [GP] SV attempts to build a sub-orbital rocket with early Medieval technology (x0.2)
 
Response to another figuring out gunpowder?
[] [GP] Barbarians know nothing of actual alchemy (x10)
[] [GP] A review of recipes is in order (x2)
[] [GP] Anything worth knowing is worth stealing (x1)
[] [GP] SV attempts to build a sub-orbital rocket with early Medieval technology (x0.2)
You had me at rocket.

[X] [GP] A review of recipes is in order (x2)
[X] [GP] Anything worth knowing is worth stealing (x1)
[X] [GP] SV attempts to build a sub-orbital rocket with early Medieval technology (x0.2)
 
If that is why he did it, I wouldn't call that vote to be trolling like I haven't with Korporati. But given how he has jumped back into the thread after spending most of a year not interacting with the thread to make a controversial vote with no reasoning and only a comment on how he likes the ability to screw over everyone else in a vote despite having a minority opinion.

So given how he hasn't responding to being called out in his actions, I am quite willing to call Gavoon a troll and state that the only reason that I haven't reported him for being a troll is because as far as I can tell, he is technically acting with the rules due to AN offering the option as vote.

You're making a lot of assumptions here, and you know what they say about that.

I haven't involved myself in this thread because what I want often goes against the bandwagon. No point in voting or talking if nothing you say is going to be listened to.
 
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