Yeah, I was rereading the quest and saw the name Fthgoya, and thought, wait a minute that sounds familiar, when she also oversaw the beginning of the fight against the blight it clicked.
Paths of Civilization
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Yeah, I was rereading the quest and saw the name Fthgoya, and thought, wait a minute that sounds familiar, when she also oversaw the beginning of the fight against the blight it clicked.
Pretty much, yeah.
It's still a lot of fun though.
pbluekan
Somethin's Fucky ...
- Location
- Trumpistan
Yeah but genius got 89 votes and nearly all of which wanted to specify. Which specification doesn't matter, as there are two tiers of vote here and you can consider No Specification as a specification of its own.
- Tier 1: Genius or No Genius
- Tier 2: Specify
- Admin
- Culture
- Diplo
- No Specification
- Tier 1: Genius or No Genius. 89 to 13
- Tier 2: Specify
- Admin 44
- Culture 14
- Diplo 25
- No Specification 6
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Ancient Scholar
Amateur Editor/Beta
- Location
- United States
Just remembered, what do you guys think of also colonizing Australia?
- Location
- Illinois
It makes sense when you think about it. I mean, let's assume that people were really split on the options, but generally wanted to specify. Neither side gets half, but one choice eventually wins. So we get:
100 total votes:
100 Votes Genius
-49 Votes Admin
-48 Votes Diplo
-3 Votes Random
If it was required that a single subvote needed 50% otherwise it would default to random, that would mean that in the above scenario, Random would somehow win despite only getting 3 total votes.
I can already imagine the salt in that case.
- Location
- United States
So, not sure if anyone has noticed yet, since I only did just now, but this Golden Age is getting us +5 Wealth a turn from True Cities alone.
Golden Age: Converting +1 EE to Econ a turn, True Cities produce +1 Wealth/turn, special innovations
Wealth 14 [+(3+1+4+5)-3]
We also now have a net increase of 10 Wealth a turn so long as the Golden Age continues, which is almost as crazy a stat increase as the Population Explosion was.
Golden Age: Converting +1 EE to Econ a turn, True Cities produce +1 Wealth/turn, special innovations
Wealth 14 [+(3+1+4+5)-3]
We also now have a net increase of 10 Wealth a turn so long as the Golden Age continues, which is almost as crazy a stat increase as the Population Explosion was.
- Location
- Canada
As long as we work peacefully with the natives instead of killing them to steal their land. Trade could be interesting.
Colonialism was bad on too many levels to describe in a reasonable essay let alone a comment on a quest forum.
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I figure 51 people wouldn't mind, since diplo didn't win but with random they could still get diplo
- Location
- Illinois
In which case those 49 people would be pissed. And since the general sentiment was 'We want to specify', the diplo voters would come across as sore losers trying to snatch a victory out of their defeat through a technicality.
Trust me, such a thing would not be good for the health of a thread.
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- Illinois
Think of it this way, someone earlier mentioned that there were 2 tiers of voting, but in reality you are voting for 3 tiers.
Tier 1: Vote for Genius
Tier 2: Vote to Specify
Tier 3: Vote which is specified
If the first two have more than half, then the third is just a simple majority of tier 2.
Specify is just as important as the Genius part, after all, since it has an added cost.
The third part? Not as important as all costs for it are equal.
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maximillian
Civilised Sheep
- Location
- Ranch
VoidZero
Passing Flan 布丁魔王
- Location
- Anywhere but RL
Well, theories are that dinosaurs might have been feathered instead, or maybe it's SOME dinosaurs.
...we need to petrify some feathers for science
Stained glass feathers?
Really even with modern science the study of fossils is a VERY large extent educated guesses because too much data had been lost in the process of fossilization
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
we're gonna be mad spoiled once we have neither
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario(occasionally)
If I had any idea where to start, I would make her the One True Goddess, Monotheism 4 teh win
I'm going to have to disagree, monotheism has more trouble accepting political and philosophical subsects and foreign religions as things that exist but are not of critical importance to either resist or support. Where in polytheism people can accept that those who disagree with their religious views follow a different valid divine figure.
Christian style monotheism got so big because it's setup first capitalized on flaws in the 'gods as larger than life human figures' religions that dominated europe and the mediterranean area to seem more convincing. ie. Getting their foot in the door through Jesus being a relatable demigod like figure that fit preconceptions but was nicer, Then when it got to discussions of the god/s behind the respective religions being able to say theirs was better and more powerful.
Then piggybacking on later European economic and imperial success to take over the world.
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- Illinois
The FC choice is a pretty good example of what AN usually does. You only need to be in the top two slots to get in.
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- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Thinking about this, I guess it does depends on the context of the conquest. If they attack us and we take their lands as part of the peace, we wouldn't be stealing them as we would have gotten them fairly and legally as part of a peace deal. Assuming that the peace deal was fair of course and we didn't force them into attacking us in the first place.
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
- Location
- ꙮ
include magic and then write a Kate Daniels novel where the Americas was populated by various empires with superior magic, superior gods, and a great desire for blood, books, and gold who committed viking-esque raiding parties against the impoverish Europeans until they got hit with a meteor and collapsed.
- Location
- Hell
I am pretty sure our priests have petrified all the things for science already
- Location
- United States
Conquest is a combination of theft and murder, in that it involves killing a group of people and then stealing their land.
I guess it's technically not theft if you don't consider taking the belongings of dead people to be theft, but even then their things should go to their next of kin, not their murderer.
Sorry, let me clarify: more than two options, but only one possible victor.
- Location
- Illinois
Technically, the Spanish conquests of the Americas was actually more akin to a coup than theft. I mean, the spanish just usually replaced the various empire's leadership caste with their own people, so for a lot of people the changes were fairly small for quite a long time (besides the whole 'smallpox wiping out vast portions of the population' thing).
Theft is a personal thing, in which an individual's possessions are removed from them. By that definition, the Spanish never stole anything.
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