I just saying we may as well do something with DaedalOS since is kinda just sitting the corner and we pay it to keep exclusively ours instead of letting ENCOM assume control, may as well try to boost it's sales since is not doing so well in the market, iest very obscure since only some 900.000 users or something, and maybe our employers will start to use it instead of LEGACY thus giving less opportunities for MCP spy on our company.
maybe we'll get something worthwhile to do with it after the digital quest, but there's not really much to do with it with our current resources? seems like we'd be fighting an uphill battle just to be relevant, which I'm going to bet is a really inefficient use of actions. even if it makes funds/income, my general rule is that we'd be better served by something else that gives funds/income while also giving something new we can use/being less likely to be lost due to the actions of other kings (ENCOM can push back and we'd slowly lose our market share/income?)
of course, when it comes to opposing the MCP this is a different matter, i'm fully on board with that, it's just that trying to sell a failing/irrelevant product probably isn't the way to do it. maybe there'll be a research option to advance cybersecurity knowledge? though stuff like that is probably far more effective once we understand the digital realm, so should really wait for the time being.
Hm. For Gloomgold, we just need to give something for our other deal in my opinion. If we show some real progress on the dinosaur matter, then he'll likely leave the matter lay down for a while, which could give us time to push our vision of AI further.
seems like he's not doing the collaboration because of negaduck at the moment (earlier he sent us a letter that just said "negaduck" but it's hard to say what that means with certainty), though we don't know if he'll later change his mind due to us opposing him when it comes to AI. hopefully not? the dinosaur deal would still make him money, so it's hard to say what he'll decide on
shouldn't have to establish formal relations with him though, if he's for it he'll probably get back (so that action should probably only be picked on its own merit, albeit with the advantage of smoothing diplomacy)
Can global actions critfail?
my guess for how things work is that it would be that person's contribution that critfailed, though it could still do stuff like raise the DC (and probably irritate everyone working on it). the specifics of what a critfail does vary based on the situation after all
He, along with Shego, were noted for having spies in DEI and receiving information leaks back in September/October 2017. I think it'll be a good idea to do a security sweep.
that was thankfully long enough to have probably been impacted by the last security sweep, though it might be a good call soon yeah. IIRC the last/first time we did it there were absolutely tons of infiltrators found because we only just unlocked the action
it's the sort of thing that's generally useful (and pretty efficient for preventing negative things happening) but it's defensive so using it too often would be inefficient and slow us down. it might be a bad call, but maybe we can wait a bit more so it would be even more worthwhile when we use it?
I dislike checking the temperature. It might sooth Glomgold, but it also means surrendering the initiative. We'll all start lobbying at the same time. We also have a diplomacy bonus next turn if we don't take any violent martial actions. I fundamentally don't think we will find many allies. Olympia might help. But I can't see any other company being interested in fighting for AI rights. I can see plenty of companies being interested in fighting against them.
it provoking people to lobby against it is a concern, but it probably won't hurt more than actual lobbying, and if the initiative is an issue there's nothing stopping us using a corporate action on it this turn too?
as it stands, i'm predicting that we're liable to get stalemated in this even with 3 funds invested in it, and there's a chance multiple factions would invest more than we can.
there's probably at least one king we can sway here, and i see them being pretty important (enough to justify it over spending the diplomacy action lobbying, at least)
(there's some possible advantages like it making kings less inclined to oppose AI rights because they know we're committed to it, though that's a bit dubious. the important thing is that it would presumably give us *something* that would help us break a possible coalition of multiple kings, which would probably otherwise take constant diplomacy actions. might be better to pay the price now than halfway through with it where it would be dumb to do so?)
(also, thanks for clearing up the xanatos encom thing, definitely missed that but i guess it makes sense if it wasn't threadmarked)
That sleazy son of a bitch is trying to sneak back into our home turf.
it's a bit worrying, but probably not the end of the world? the previous time that rival action showed up it was also spelt with K's, which would be very early for Kat to be back
also, thankfully kat's no longer super scary since we're aware of the existence of kat nebulans and they can't infiltrate NOWCA and ruin everything in plain sight.
Edit: Say does in DVV base game GalFed also stop any attempts the inhabitants of Earth to leave the solar system, so is possible the Preserve does something against attempts to leave the planet?
hmm, they probably could, but i don't think they have a *strong* reason to?
at the very least if they do, thankfully it isn't our issue. should be possible to sneak by them too, maybe xanatos has a cloaking tech analogue? that's what would come in handy if we needed to sneak past any blockades ourself at least, but researching that probably isn't needed since going to space is a bit of an investment when there's other research capstones we can work on instead of chasing trends
