Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
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- United States
Yea I know, that's why I said it can be useful, but in this case its just Humorous bs.
Paths of Civilization
- Thread starter Academia Nut
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Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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- ꙮ
so is mercury
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Hey, I am of the Treehugger faction. I speak for the trees that have no vote and leave all Elemental matters to the alchemists.
Better they blow up than I do.
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VoidZero
Passing Flan 布丁魔王
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- Anywhere but RL
I'm sure society would advance that much more quickly by disregarding all unsupported floating ideas. It's not like people would care to invest time and efforts to prove and disprove those obviously valueless thoughts.
Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
Not sure what you mean? Like at this point we can't really do that, but Snake bat Iron Obsidian dragon, is definitely one that we should reject without it having further evidence to prove its existence, but can't do that either really...I'm sure society would advance that much more quickly by disregarding all unsupported floating ideas. It's not like people would care to invest time and efforts to prove and disprove those obviously valueless thoughts.
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DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
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- within 2 hours of the White House
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- They/Them
Lovecraft was paranoid about a LOT of things, among them minorities and fish.
Also, lived entirely on baked beans and candy, so he may have suffered from malnutrition induced hallucinations.
The man was a mess.
Just for fun:
If we can build a governor's palace in each true city, and we completely build up each true city's infrastructure then we can have up to 11 true cities. In addition to this, we'd need 7 more storehouses to have 12 cities, or 16 more storehouses to have 13 cities
If we can build a governor's palace in each true city, and we completely build up each true city's infrastructure then we can have up to 11 true cities. In addition to this, we'd need 7 more storehouses to have 12 cities, or 16 more storehouses to have 13 cities
Each city can provide 6 to the econ expansion cap.
City 01: 20 +1 (storehouse) + 6 - 0 = 27
City 02: 27 + 6 - 04 = 29
City 03: 29 + 6 - 05 = 30
City 04: 30 + 6 - 06 = 30
City 05: 30 + 6 - 07 = 29
City 06: 29 + 6 - 08 = 27
City 07: 27 + 6 - 09 = 24
City 08: 24 + 6 - 10 = 20
City 09: 20 + 6 - 11 = 15
City 10: 15 + 6 - 12 = 09
City 11: 09 + 6 - 13 = 02
City 12: 02 + 6 - 14 = -6
City 13: 02 + 6 - 14 = -15
Aqueduct +1
Bath +1
Significant Walls +1
Massive Walls +1
Collossal Walls +1
Capital/Governor's Palace +1
= +6
Yes, a sum would have been better.
City 01: 20 +1 (storehouse) + 6 - 0 = 27
City 02: 27 + 6 - 04 = 29
City 03: 29 + 6 - 05 = 30
City 04: 30 + 6 - 06 = 30
City 05: 30 + 6 - 07 = 29
City 06: 29 + 6 - 08 = 27
City 07: 27 + 6 - 09 = 24
City 08: 24 + 6 - 10 = 20
City 09: 20 + 6 - 11 = 15
City 10: 15 + 6 - 12 = 09
City 11: 09 + 6 - 13 = 02
City 12: 02 + 6 - 14 = -6
City 13: 02 + 6 - 14 = -15
Aqueduct +1
Bath +1
Significant Walls +1
Massive Walls +1
Collossal Walls +1
Capital/Governor's Palace +1
= +6
Yes, a sum would have been better.
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- Location
- Hell
It is, but you keep implying that they made it up out of thin air(which is not true) as opposed from previously understood information as they know it.
Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
Well its half and half, they have a bunch of bones and they put it together to make a snake, bat, Obsidian, Iron, Vitriol spraying Dragon.
Edit: basically, it is infact made up, it may have been based somewhere in reality, but that doesn't suddenly make it all true
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- United States
If you saw the bones of giant bat wings and reptiles buried in stone deep within the Earth, when you have never seen a creature large enough to make bones anywhere near this size, what would you assume the bones to be from?
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- Hell
*shrug*
They got all that from preexisting information. If some of it is wrong, fine. But that is not inventing stuff up just to say I do not know. It is presenting a hypothesis based on what they know.
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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same w/ evolution, gravity, and p much everything except math
edit: tho math is like... 100% made up so I guess we can include it
everything is made up, based somewhere in reality, but isn't suddenly made all true
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Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
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- United States
That's a bad comparison, i'd just shrug and say IDK wtf it is
The thing is all they know is there are bones really. Everything else is speculation and belief
Hmmm, that's true, but we have a little more credibility with that at least, since its not based on JUST 99% belief and 1% physical bones
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Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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- ꙮ
it's based on 98% belief, 1% physical bones, 0.5% bean dna, 0.5% fly lives
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
Thanks for the math.
Do we know whether free cities pop? And whether they factor differently into the calculations?
ETA I think 6 True Cities plus 2-3 Free Cities would be a good target. That's enough to feed them all with one Main Expand Econ, not counting the possibilities of City Support policies, and the innovation levels would be excellent. What's nice is that the more cities we add, the more passive policies we get that help us build up tolerance for moar.
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Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
Exactly, were much better there!
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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- ꙮ
they just need to find another pile of bones and then they'll have 2% too.
Given the models of dinosaurs I grew up with as a child are all now considered laughably inaccurate, and I can recall when suggestions dinosaurs might have had feathers or evolved into birds was likely to see you deemed a crackpot without any supporting evidence, I am inclined to be charitable to the Ymaryn in the issue of dragons.
Given psychic crows and precognition, they may be more on the mark than those of us who are assuming these are 'just' dinosaur bones. It's not like we have enough evidence to support that idea either at this point in-story.
Given psychic crows and precognition, they may be more on the mark than those of us who are assuming these are 'just' dinosaur bones. It's not like we have enough evidence to support that idea either at this point in-story.
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Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
Well by that metric, ours is 100% bones, ya know with the amount of bones we've found
- Location
- United States
We're a Society that Values Wisdom, and we literally can't just say "I don't know" and shrug when faced with something we don't know.
When we find something, our Priests try to find out what it is, how it got where it was, what it does (if anything), and so on.
They don't just give up on something and declare that it is unknowable or whatever, they make an explanation based on their prior knowledge about other things they believe to be correct.
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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by weight, we've probably killed more flies
Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
We can't? How is that wisdom then? Step one is to admit that you don't know and THEN to discover what it is, but pretty sure our priest tried to do that to chuckle worthy results.
Well, uh, supposedly he wrote the short story "The Rats in the Wall" (a story about a man going insane after discovering that his ancestors farmed other humans who they treated like pigs and ate.) because he discovered one of his great great grandmothers was Welsh.
So... yeah.... he might have been a bit paranoid about the Welsh?
Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
The Welsh are just biding their time until they can summon Satan, and Ragnorak together for a blood and human corpse orgy to doom the world... Obviously.