Crazy7s1
Excellent
Otter panzerfäuste from the great war.
Penguin Marines in the Bovinedy landing.
Seal officer cruelly assaulting penguin civilians in occupied West Antarctica.
What am I looking at...
Paths of Civilization
- Thread starter Academia Nut
- Start date
- Original
What am I looking at...
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
- Location
- ꙮ
war re-enactors or hand-recolored photographs
- Location
- Canada
Thats clearly a gang of penguins about to do unspeakable things to that poor lost seal!Otter panzerfäuste from the great war.
Penguin Marines in the Bovinedy landing.
Seal officer cruelly assaulting penguin civilians in occupied West Antarctica.
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
- Location
- ꙮ
you're right, it's a challenge to
- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
Actually, I think Ymaryn culture is set up to handle that pretty well. We've had same-sex marriage since Gywgotha, so I'm pretty sure the Queen would just marry the Khemetri princess, and if the princess got pregnant the Queen would legally be considered their father.
At least, that's how I understood that way-long-ago update. Things may have changed since then.
- Location
- indeterminate, possibly non-existent
- Pronouns
- Any
A while back, it was only considered socially acceptable for shamans to be gay, and things might have gotten worse since then.
- Location
- Staring into the void
Waiting music.
- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
Bummer. I liked that particular quirk.
- Location
- indeterminate, possibly non-existent
- Pronouns
- Any
That title is an experience.
maximillian
Civilised Sheep
- Location
- Ranch
A rare picture of Chancellor Joseph Foch of the Republic of Bison prior to his execution by the seal occupation forces.
The next Chancellor, Francois Jofre, would be executed by the alliance later in the war for crimes of collaboration with the seal enemy.
The next Chancellor, Francois Jofre, would be executed by the alliance later in the war for crimes of collaboration with the seal enemy.
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ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
Probably, but is Khemetri culture?
- Location
- The Deep Blue Sea
DOUBLE MAIN EXPAND SNAILS CONFIRMED
That's a prairie dog you ignorant serf
- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
Listen, our monarch marries their princess. It's simple. I don't see why they insist on overcomplicating this sort of thing
maximillian
Civilised Sheep
- Location
- Ranch
DOUBLE MAIN EXPAND SNAILS CONFIRMED
That's a prairie dog you ignorant serf
The Otter sultanate does not segregate its armed forces nor does it recognise the various sub species claim to difference, all are otters and all are slaves to the sultan.
Any other sentiment is treated as nationalist agitation and met with swift execution.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
How insensitive; what if he'd rather marry their princes?Listen, our monarch marries their princess. It's simple. I don't see why they insist on overcomplicating this sort of thing
Nianque
Verified Dragon
@Academia Nut Any chance we can domesticate animals? I'm aware if it being a very long term thing, but there are so many benefits to them. Like using Otters in naval combat.
- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
How insensitive; what if he'd rather marry their princes?
Well, I hope he kept the receipt.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
Don't we already have domesticated horses, aurochs, sheep, etc?
Actually, if you are using charcoal instead of tinder, the emissions are pretty good for anything of it's era, mostly because much of the problematic volatiles and particulates are already driven off in a sealed environment during charcoal production
The main problem is the logistics overhead of preparing that much charcoal, but we have the whole thing set up because we never found coal.
Not at all.
Climate, rather than weather, is entirely cyclic.
Others already listed the rest, but the Chinese have a giant chart based on elemental and astrological rotation that claims to predict the events...and it works because while on the yearly or even 10 year cycles the weather is rather unpredictable, on the 30 to 100 year cycle it grows more and more predictable as overall trends.
Since the 'movement' of the stars is mostly the movement of the Earth in it's orbit, that means that the observed movement of the stars directly corresponds to the amount of sunlight a given part of the world receives, which is what determines the majority of climate effects.
Correlation is not causation, but in this case the movement of the Earth causes both effects, therefore you can study one effect to predict the other.
Smoky positive. Remember our class divisions and elitism?
Industrialization is the single biggest step to improving the quality of life of the lowest tier without major changes to the highest tier.
Where the real life industrialization struck hardest was the inability of administration and regulation to catch up to the new pace of social changes, and the transition of rural communities into urban, where their skills and income are invalidated and they move from the rural middle class to the urban lower class...which is already happening.
Actually our social model is more or less built FOR an industrial society...
Not quite.
-Supporting their core is reassuring. It means we help the top dogs of our allies.
-Supporting their slaves is disturbing. It means we may intervene negatively for religious reasons, which makes us unpredictable(except we have had a century of close interaction and intermarriages, so they got a fairly good barometer). This is like the Spirit Talkers, you know they're nuts, but you also know how to trigger or not trigger them.
-Attacking their core makes us threatening. It means that we are willing to take advantage of our allies in a backstab the moment they show weakness. This is the same behavior we wanted to burn the HK for.
Ah, there lies the difference. I think the Romans and Greeks would agree.
Slaves are a lower class of people you send to do dangerous, menial or exhaustive work instead of your 'in group' people, which is normal in the era.
Chattel slavery is unpersoning them, they are livestock in human form.
Remember a previous update, Rulwyna I commented that the smiths and smelters all know to keep their kilns scrupulously clean because if you don't it can explode if something wet gets in.
True foresight!
This will become a lot worse as we industrialize, so he's getting started early!
Nothing like the Age of Sail causing the European Deforestation.
They're just there for looting rather than conquest then.
Manpower is mostly for distance. Alluvial soil is really easy to work with, but the problem is the masonry and brickwork needed to keep it intact, plus the dredging to keep it clear...probably more work than the Triangle Canal.
Just a fun idea, all the wall tiers stack, so we could put Significant -> Massive -> Colossal
This is largely the same origin as the Ymaryn not making much use of mushrooms. Insects are linked to a cultural decay aversion, much like mushrooms, so the revulsion is common. More common even, most people don't see fungi growing on rot, the end product looks pretty clean. But everyone knows that worms means that the food had gone bad and you should go beat up the guy who sold it.
They're a penis metaphor!What's with the Unicron hate?
They're adorable!
According to AN from long before, overflow into Econ is from our neighbors hearing about the massive abundance and migrating because they want some of that. It's basically a refugee influx, except that refugees tend to pull from the lower classes while massive abundance pulls from basically everyone
Probably the culture gap triggering time based decay.
We did support them via Hero Admin action.
The Loyalty drop is just that everyone who was alive when the meteor hit is dead now. They aren't quite as fanatical because it's now second hand
Probably crime and whatnot.
The martial tolerance is amazing, we've had to keep our Martial 5 points below cap because Econ will randomly pump it up.
Building 5 Gyms lets us maintain a Martial(after adding the games) of 10 points above where we should normally be, and keep high Econ without worries!
But I expect one of the things with transitioning to the classical era is that a lot of actions no longer generate raw stat points while passive income sources and refunds grow, as we've observed, we're getting enough Mysticism refunds that the actual cost doesn't matter anymore, only your 'standing' Mysticism level.
Pretty big, tech investment means we should be hitting paved roads soon! They need actual skilled labor to maintain and build!And we've finally upgraded New Trails to new Roads...though considering it massively increased the cost, not sure how much of an upgrade it is... Still, it increased our connectivity limit (was 2 + 2*provinces, is now 2 + 3*provinces + Governor's Palaces), and i'm sure the narrative boost is bigger. Also note that by now we have 13/26, not 11, because this was before the main turn. So if centralization tolerance is just 1 per 3 connectivity, then we might have +4 to that now as well
Note that the Study Stars streak counter is still there. Should be something good.Study stars went from giving 3 mysticism to costing 3 mysticism, so its now pretty expensive
Might be a mistake? @Academia Nut should the Baths cost Mysticism and do they grant any additional benefits if so?
Hmm, since we have the infrastructure, I expect it SHOULD be an upgrade to build a World Fair.
Look at our past decisions. Whenever we had a vote for Hero Kings, it's always unanimous for a "nobody Hero becomes King" and always much more conflicted for "Hero child of King becomes King".Huh... so apparently we've set things up that its actually easier for genius nobodies to get to be king early than it is for genius nobles?
My reading of it was that he realized that people would consider him a threat to gaining the Kingship, so he might as well do it on his own terms rather than being assassinated, manipulated or sabotaged.
Hertytyn sounded like he had a non-zero Mysticism, which might explain it?Interesting... admin genius does not mean "good with math" it seems
They burned a Dipomacy Hero on it. It basically gives them a soft kingmaker power....I am distressed by the fact that the king "has" to marry a Khemetri princess
In terms of sheer utility I'd say Silver mine, but it might also be generating a more exotic mine like Platinum, which like Mercury would give us basically uncontested Dominance with just the one
Or the cost increases with the number of slots you currently have?
Abby Normal
High Clerk of the Ymaryn
- Pronouns
- He/Him
We already had 3 spiritual slots the first time around though?
Total slots? I think we picked up a Social and Honor one in between.
Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
Ya know instead of getting bent out of shape trying to do things the hard but environmentally friendly way... we could just do it the easy way and then get off to Nuclear or Green energy soon as possible if Climate change is that worrying in this quest.
- Location
- Australia
I don't think so. We supported them with a Hero Admin action, but that was two generations ago. They were still at yellow Dependency last turn but our Genius Admin didn't help them at all. I think it might've just been Lord's Loyalty's con triggering due to not helping as much as we should have.
The problem is our foundational trait, the VERY first and single most upgraded social trait that defines us as a people will throw a riot.
Which is why we're spamming enough trees to run an Industrial economy long enough to breakthrough to electricity, and tech racing everyone. Like with Iron, you can take the environmentally friendly route if you're literally centuries ahead of your rivals.