Paths of Civilization
- Thread starter Academia Nut
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Unless we go with the Imperial Guard strategy and use all the free corpses as construction material.
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- USA
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- He/Him
tbh I pronounce it 'Yimarin'
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Free Cities are a special type of True Cities with special administration freedoms.
Currently we have 8 True Cities, 7 of which are actually online. Of those 7, 3 of them are the Free Cities you see.
When we did the census a couple centuries ago our core population was 3 million. When we asked AN what our population was when you included our subordinates to that he said "north of five million". Right now the Ymaryn are probably hovering around 4 million considering the plague.
If each True City has 100000 in it then 17.5% of our population is urban.
Legion0047
Retired Shadowrunner.
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- Austria
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- God Emperor
@Academia Nut
-If vassals implode from this plague psn doesn't trigger right?
-Once the plague is over it would be a good point to debloat the system.
Even fits narrativly, with most of the administration and population dead.
-If vassals implode from this plague psn doesn't trigger right?
-Once the plague is over it would be a good point to debloat the system.
Even fits narrativly, with most of the administration and population dead.
This is not killing most of the population... and proportionally even less of the administration.
Legion0047
Retired Shadowrunner.
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- God Emperor
oversaw the WoAN.
still a good place to do it.
This is how I've been pronouncing it as well. I was worried I was the only one reading through how everyone else says it
Considering Greenshore and Western Wall's low loyalty before the plague hit, they seem quite likely to break away if they survive. WW's capital is possibly a True City and I think Greenshore's might be the same. Tinriver might have retreated back to the initial trade post or outright collapsed. Heaven's Hawk finished an aqueduct last turn so they might manage to stay intact and they are closest to the core, so probably unlikely to break away.
Our vassals are a bit difficult to pin down. They all have high loyalty, but we saw during the Second Sons that doesn't always mean what it appears to. Txolla might pull through better than the Thunder Twins, but all three are likely to be hit hard. Txolla is more likely to stay with us due to shared culture and they're more influenced by us. The Thunder Twins will depend on how hard the plague hit them and what the nomads are doing.
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Wait how else are you supposed to pronounce 'yn' aside from 'in'. "Een"??
No that's me too. Or, more precisely,
yih-MAHR-ihn
'S okay! If you're gonna put effort into a response lemme go grab a link to a more refined thing I posted later.
E: here-
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BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Among others. "Yin" is also valid I think.
LoserThree
Finds writing poorly easy
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I've been pronouncing it they-should-build-the-dam-and-attain-greatness.
So why did people go for the war with a heroic Admin instead of building megaprojects like the dam?
Just caught up with this thread (interesting timing) and that whole sequence of events rather confused me.
Just caught up with this thread (interesting timing) and that whole sequence of events rather confused me.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
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- They/Them
A combination of morality (chattel slavery pls go) and hope for a chance at grabbing the straits and holding the strategic advantage
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Because helping slaves and grabbing the straits co-mingled.
E: ooo Blackbird.
That's a real mouthful. Have you considered there more concise pronounciation of Ymaryn as "damless"?
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Hmmm...
So after we build the dam, you'd pronounce it "damned"?
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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- ꙮ
What other people said.
And also we only realized/veekie proposed that the canal was a good option like pretty much at the very end, after nearly all of the votes had been cast. & AN only confirmed this after (or something, vague recall >.>).
Also, tbh, sometimes doing megaprojects & etc. just gets boring. They're not very cinematographic.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
I just go with something along the lines of Ümarün or Ümarin.
Since Ü is roughly how Y is pronounced in Danish, that's usually how I end up pronouncing fantasy names that include it.
Since Ü is roughly how Y is pronounced in Danish, that's usually how I end up pronouncing fantasy names that include it.
Five things:
1) We didn't actually know he had Awful Martial until after the war started. And at that point, backing off would've been even worse.
2) Some people really wanted to help the slaves, and some people really wanted to kick Trelli due to them growing too powerful (We were estimating over 50 martial in mercs at some points)
3) We had a magically predicted age of peace. We wanted to test that prediction.
4) We were unaware of the 'naval' stat that meant that Trelli was effectively unbeatable. We had the Grand Docks and assumed that it meant we could fight them at a reasonably even playing field.
5) We would've won quickly anyway if they didn't have unexpected aid from the Khemetri. Literally none of us thought that the Khemetri would actually care.
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- The Deep Blue Sea
They COULD be though. It just takes lots of effusive praise and grand, sweeping descriptions that wax eloquent about how awesome we are for building them
The biggest failing was that we simply didn't debate any of these things.
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- Australia
@Academia Nut, the Academy can't turn non-Heroics into Heroics, but can it turn Heroics into Geniuses?
Probably too OP given that our Academy is also a hero generator, which means heroes are going to be more frequent for the Ymaryn.
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Abby Normal
High Clerk of the Ymaryn
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"Heroic" and "Genius" are kind of outside the normal stat system, honestly. The difference between genius admin and heroic admin seems to be much greater than that of the difference between heroic admin and exceptional admin, which in turn is much much greater than the difference between exceptional admin and good admin (or good vs above average, or above average vs average, etc).
What it can do, however, is make it so that heroes and geniuses are less likely to be one trick ponies. That heroic admin king with awful martial (worst stat aside from "non existent", 3 steps below average) would instead have had mediocre martial )only 1 step below average) instead, since i think that was before Philosopher kings as well as before the academy. Geniuses might not benefit as much, since they're likely to fall under the "hereditary illness/disorder" bit, but even then the more stable geniuses would likely be helped by it.