Xantalos
Turtle-Speed Writing
I just realized something while writing up part of the update (which I actually think I'll have written, if maybe not edited, before the end of the year!) - by having slann astral project to whatever location and spawn lizardmen there, it's technically possible to found cities basically anywhere you want without regard for proximity to other cities. This does take a rather large investment of slann if you don't have the node city upgrade that lets you just build the core of the city and have it autocomplete, since without it, the lizardmen you spawn have to manually mine all the materials they need to build the city (assuming a slann spawns a skink priest to operate an obsinite pit and a few kroxigors, a fairly decent quantity of obsinite can be generated out of pretty much anything) but once you do, you can basically just spam little auto-completing cities all over the map, only really limited by your slann capacity. Let's see here...
You could feasibly have a level 1 city autobuild in 2 turns pretty much anywhere on the planet (provided it's not attacked while being built) for the investment of about 3 fifth generation slann.
I'm gonna WOG that this is how the initial networks on Mallus were set up from across the continental gaps, made even easier by the mini-webway the Old Ones set up there.
Thinking further, it'd theoretically be possible to invest actions to store up the required materials and the like and then teleport them over to the planned site, massively speeding up the construction process. Kinda like a primitive version of how the WOTK Void Dragon does his base drops.
starting pop for a tier 1 city at mag 1 web is 5k saurus, 10k skinks, 500 kroxigor, which we'll say is the minimum to let it do its 1 action. Node Cities is basically just the core structures and maybe some defenses, which could really be built by some kroxigors and a skink or two to carve the initial spawning pools out pretty damn easily. 5th gen slann can spawn 100 kroxigors or 1500 skinks each, so let's say that three 5th gens spawn 275ish kroxigor and a few hundred skinks and spend the rest of their action to connect the initial bit to the geomantic network. The spawning pools would then be online and feed the population as the node city is built, which could then build the rest of the city the turn after.
You could feasibly have a level 1 city autobuild in 2 turns pretty much anywhere on the planet (provided it's not attacked while being built) for the investment of about 3 fifth generation slann.
I'm gonna WOG that this is how the initial networks on Mallus were set up from across the continental gaps, made even easier by the mini-webway the Old Ones set up there.
Thinking further, it'd theoretically be possible to invest actions to store up the required materials and the like and then teleport them over to the planned site, massively speeding up the construction process. Kinda like a primitive version of how the WOTK Void Dragon does his base drops.
