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DocMatoi said:
i appear to have misremembered. whoops.
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I mean, you misremembered in thinking that they had drainage systems, but didn't misremember in thinking that there was a way to shed water off to the sides. It's just that rather than being directed to particular places through a drain system (god I love our storm drains) it just drained away beneath the road through the gravel laid largely to facilitate that.

pbluekan said:
It isn't for construction and use, but the concrete is necessary for long term quality of the road. The layers of concrete prevent plant growth between the stones and also prevents water from undermining the road through erosion.

Roman roads wouldn't still be around to this day without those cemented layers.
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And this would not occur through simply using even more stones and gravel, into which the concrete was mixed?

I can imagine the lime killing plant roots. It's a bit hard to believe it lasted there so long but I guess it's harder to filter away through earth.
 
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ctulhuslp said:
Huh.
Dunno about foreigners, but this is probably something we do on piligrimages.
Like....this is so Ymaryn: traveling along the roads and seeing all the trees planted by others who walked it over centuries, one tree at a time, and doing your part. Just imagine the feeling of community and continuity.
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I'm feeling another Omake in the making. For now, though, bed.
 
notgreat said:
As long as we all agree to [Secondary] Enforce Justice next turn, I'm fine with this. Stability 0 is not dangerously low, but it's definitely risky. I think that's a much bigger deal than this turn's actions.
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If we do Trails, we cannot do enforce though.
But Stability 0 is indeed quite low.
If you want Stability, you can just directly vote for Festivals and not spend our Secondary next turn.
 
[X] [Alchemy] Full support (Main Study Alchemy, Stallions very pleased)
[X] [WC] Send many experts to work at the problem (-3 Art, -2 Centralization, +2 Wealth, +2 Wealth next turn)
[X] [React] Main New Trails
 
I quite like that we have a state sponsored Merc force which allows us to gain Martial and war experience and wealth while not overly draining us like a war would, this allows us to keep up with martial tech and doctrine without getting into costly wars like our competitors.
 
veekie said:
Reminder that everyone else on the sea is dealing with rough weather and finding it a little difficult to transport lots of dudes.

(Meanwhile longships are giving zero shits about weather, and neither are our outriggers)
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True, but if the trelli aren't effected as much by the climate directly in terms of landslides and farm destruction and standing water, which is my understanding from what i remember from your posts among others, then they'd likely have taken more boat/docks actions specifically to counter that issue; whether they have the same solutions, i think its likely they've got at least one or two innovations in since the climate issues started
 
veekie said:
If we want to shock the market again, go for the Opium. That'd probably be a doozy.
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I just want to be sure we work to prevent addiction if we do this. I move that if we expand the Poppy production we do Study Health both the turn we do it and the turn after in order to forestall any issues.

Malevolo said:
And bandits, trees close to roads breeds bandits...
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Ymaryn don't lead to bandits. At worst we lead to thugs.
 
Golden Eyed King said:
I quite like that we have a state sponsored Merc force which allows us to gain Martial and war experience and wealth while not overly draining us like a war would, this allows us to keep up with martial tech and doctrine without getting into costly wars like our competitors.
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The Red Banner was the best investment we've ever made. Not only have they kicked ass and taken names in literally every fight they've been involved in, they just inspired the HH to figure out a tactical innovation, which is amazing.
 
Citino said:
Cut that down to a 5 day journey, and you just reduced the logistical strain by 4 days worth of supply for a round trip. Which means less food is wasted, less wheels are needed for your carts, less horses have to be prepped for your messengers, and so forth.
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Alternatively, you use just as many carts, but can fit more payload on them.
 
pblur said:
Main Study Alchemy only takes 1 Mysticism and 1 Econ more than Secondary. I'm pretty sure Main is worth it.
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Unless you're worried about a competing Great Temple only hypothetically under our control.

[X] [Alchemy] Full support (Main Study Alchemy, Stallions very pleased)
[X] [WC] Send some artisans to help develop it (-2 Art, -1 Centralization, +3 Wealth next turn)
[X] [React] Main New Trails
 
notgreat said:
We have had WoG that all of our Centralization numbers are yellow... at least it was a turn or so ago, and it's silently changing on us.
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My understanding was that we have contributing factors in the Centralization function which are all nearly at their maximum.

Malevolo said:
*looks at neighbors*
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*looks at Blackbirds*

E: Or *looks at traders* if we're talking opium

Citino said:
The Red Banner was the best investment we've ever made. Not only have they kicked ass and taken names in literally every fight they've been involved in, they just inspired the HH to figure out a tactical innovation, which is amazing.
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*ignores Sacred Forest, Step Farms, helping people during that one drought, teaching the WC better farming*
 
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Oh, has anybody yet mentioned the fact that extra credits is doing the bronze age as part of its history series?

As a general ignoramus, it was neat learning about that shiz and comparing it to what's gone down in this quest.

I'll link to their youtube vids if anybody is interested
 
redzonejoe said:
Oh, has anybody yet mentioned the fact that extra credits is doing the bronze age as part of its history series?

As a general ignoramus, it was neat learning about that shiz and comparing it to what's gone down in this quest.

I'll link to their youtube vids if anybody is interested
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I don't feel like youtubing(reading takes less effort), can you explain your perspective?
 
Umi-san said:
My understanding was that we have contributing factors in the Centralization function which are all nearly at their maximum.
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Yeah, Cent 2-4 are the only guaranteed safe values right now. Cent 2 makes the clerks "a little nervous" which makes me think that 1 is "Screaming" and we know that 0 is "System failure".

We definitely need to get our Stability back up though, no matter what.
 
[X] [Alchemy] Full support (Main Study Alchemy, Stallions very pleased)
[X] [WC] Send many experts to work at the problem (-3 Art, -2 Centralization, +2 Wealth, +2 Wealth next turn)
[X] [React] Main New Trails

I wonder if we'll get some kind of bonus for all these... agreements.
 
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