Spectrum
Tell me a secret~
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Some of the Offense policy options burn wealth. Because I'm not switching policies, I can't count on that.
Paths of Civilization
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Some of the Offense policy options burn wealth. Because I'm not switching policies, I can't count on that.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Law actually.Law. Also looking at the winning plan more, it'll actually only lose 3 expansion to overflow I'd pop explosion pays out without/before downgrading, which is actually good cause it'll keep sacred forest around. So count me in on he bandwagon when I wake up and have energy to copy paste
Honestly at this point our civilization is the only one accepting of outsiders, everyone else is extremely xenophobic.
The Khem are willing to join our games both because they have a heroic diplomat for a king who can see how good of an idea these games are and because they consider us to be a civilization of their equal. I have doubts that they would be willing to accept the HK though, a civilization that they would view as their lesser and being of little to no importance.
I have a feeling that for the first few generations the international games will only include Khem and Ymaryn contestants. I would even go so far as to say that for many of the smaller civilizations getting to join in the games might very well count as a diplomatic mega project, or atleast as an extended project.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
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- USoA
It worked for the Spartans.
@BungieONI Button Counter is still on 1. Might want to move it to 4, in light of nigh inevitable HK oblitiration next turn.
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- Philippines
[X] [Mega] Upgrade Best of the Best to Life of Arete
[X] [Main] International Games
[X] [Secondary] New Trails
[X] [Secondary] Change Policy - Megaproject Support
[X] [Guild] Plant Poppies
[X] [Main] International Games
[X] [Secondary] New Trails
[X] [Secondary] Change Policy - Megaproject Support
[X] [Guild] Plant Poppies
10ebbor10
DON'T PANIC
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Arete is just a name.
Fact of the matter is, The Elite value tree says this.
Pretty darn certain that element will remain.
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- Staring into the void
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It should be noted that we kinda need to burn EE anyways.
Right now, we are at 18 EE. We get +12 Econ Income, so -12 EE, but since Econ overflows we will have +2 EE from True City refunds. This means that even with all of our EE drain, we still have 8 EE before we do anything. Plant Poppies burns 3 EE but refunds 2 EE from Econ spending, so that brings us down to 7 EE. Trails will also refund 1 EE from econ spending, so 8 EE. Kinda low... except we are about to finish at least one aqueduct from Infrastructure Policy, and possibly two. That puts us at either 12 EE or 16 EE by the midturn, which is where we want to be anyways. If our provinces use their two unoccupied secondaries to do anything that spends econ, that is more EE yet.
I mean, it overflows into Diplomacy when it is full, so not like the drip can be wasted...
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Nah, we have a -1 wealth from our community centric law code.
Obviously arete can be abused to support aristocratic inherent superiority- but in this case, it's expanding beyond the military elite into something that reaches the breadth of society. Combine it with Swords and Plowshares and we're more likely to have a case of Roman Citizen soldiery than aristocratic superiority emerge from this.
Arete here plays into all our other values- a Lord must strive to be loyal to his vassals and be the best ruler he can be, a farmer must tend to the lands as best he can in times of peace and bear arms as best he can in times of war, an artisan must not simply make the finest works- but demonstrate the finest teaching and understanding of the mechanics inherent, a priest must always seek and create new knowledge with the knowledge of knowledge itself being the most sacred, etc..
Arete is ultimately personal excellence, of striving to uphold and amount to a personalized ideal of what each individual should be. And that's something I think will be fascinating to see integrated into our society. It's entirely possible that this personal dedication leads to a bit more stratification, but that's largely countered by the elective aspect of our oligarchy. By tying personal excellence into being picked amongst your peers, we can de-emphasize political connections in favor of actual competence.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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If that was the case then every 3 cities would give us 3 culture. 3 different rivalries.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
We leave our babies in the forest to be raised by trees.
Provinces can now do 3x Docks actions. With 7 provinces, they get 2 mains, and one is doubled by The Law.
NewAgeOfPower
Engineering Pornagrapher Extraordinaire
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- An Certain Hive of Scum & Villainy, known as NYC
At the minimum, what I described to @Citino; take the passes into our heartland, destroy their warmaking ability, execute a bunch of their nobles. Perhaps until their next batch of leaders are drooling idiots.
Preferably, I'd like to drive them into a death spiral/collapse and keep enough territory that our borders are convex again, rather than Concave, and 'gift' the most rebellious parts of the resulting failed state to the Khemetri.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Oh thanks for reminding me!
*scratches chin*
Yeah 4 is probably correct. I doubt we will kick, that's waaaaaaay overkill, but it is a vague possibility.
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Vassalization, then steady integration over a period of many centuries. We will need to influence them a bunch, and probably put down a few rebellions, but I believe it to be worth it overall to firmly remove their threat to the Txolla and to ourselves.
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- Staring into the void
Likely the war will be kicked, because the provinces will be building the Grand Docks on mega support.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
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- USoA
That Negaverse must be preparing it's brown pants right now.
....
I want off this ride.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Ehhhhhh. I really don't think it's necessary.
Though all this war talk is getting me thinking.
I'll be quite for a moment while I piece this thought together and type it up.
BungieONI
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