Alpha Centauri 2 Forum Community Succession Game

[Mart]

Ok, I can play next round.

[Buster's Uncle]

Dreadfully sorry
i would like to skip this time, if that is OK with you
Faction switch scares and confuses me. Once, a wise man said that if the enemy has more tech, bigger army, more energy and is coming right at you - it is better to throw in the towel. We have made Deirde the best, how can we beat her?..

This is an OCC thing - it's about 15 years old, and the AI is bad enough that some good players have switched factions multiple times and still worked each faction to the top before they moved on.  Honest.

[Mart]

Morgan can sell to Hive Social Psych for 100 EC.
My guess is, that Lal will give him [Yang] that tech, but it is not certain.

Anyway, worth buying or not?

[binTravkin]

I think not.
Only really good techs are now worth our credits.
The likes of IA, SFF, D:AP.
The rest we will get from probing.
We don't even need socpsych anyway.

[Mart]

Yes, I got Police and Cadets already. Military Academies are being built as we speak...

[Mart]

2256
Traded Intelectual Integrity from Santiago for 100EC
Well, well, well... Zakharov was ruthlesly attacked by Miriam!

2257
Deirdre takes the only remaining Morganic base near Unity Wreckage.

2258
... +60EC from planetpearls. This is abuse, it should not be in the game with such large energy bonus.

2259
Gaian foil (4)-3-4 spoted. Deirdre has some considerable military spending...
Interesting, Morgan would sign Pact, but only if we [Yang] join vendetta against Deirdre.
Not really worth it that way, having truce with Gaians makes our approach to Gaia's Landing so much easier.
Zakharov returns two our probe tems to HQ base.

2260
I tried to infiltrate Morgan Collections, but the area is strong with Gaian Probe teams.
That's luck! Our hardened probe team survives an attack by commando Gaian probe team, near Morgan Interstellar. They are returned to Sea Collective a moment later though.

[Mart]

It is possible to approach Gaia's Landing from south. Unfortunatelly, only 2 probe teams would have a shot at freeing Lal.

Upon mission completion, I would propose:
1) give all techs to Lal, as he is going to give all his to Yang.
2) switch to PK the very same turn.

[binTravkin]

Looking at the map now it seems that the foil containing 2 probes should be redirected West as the East approach is very long.

[Mart]

Is our game too intense? We seem to be loosing momentum.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'd guess a lot of it is summer in the northern hemisphere issues.  AC2 shouldn't be as busy as it is in July...

[binTravkin]

Yea, it's the summer.

But we should not worry and move on.
Kirov is next, if he wants to skip, I can do it, as Bodissey and Geo may be skipping too.
Or maybe Vishniac wants to come back now that we've got much less MM to do each turn.

[Geo]

Desktop is patched again. Only need to install the game and patch it with Yitzi's 3.6.

I'll wait until Kirov pops in to see who's next.
So, what drone rules did we use again? 0 or 8?

[Mart]

... patch it with Yitzi's 3.6.

Already?

So, what drone rules did we use again? 0 or 8?

We seem to agreed on using rule 0.

[binTravkin]

Should we all move to 3.6 then?
I was playing it with 3.4.
Could it cause problems?

[Mart]

Should we all move to 3.6 then?
I was playing it with 3.4.
Could it cause problems?

Current Yitzi patch is 3.4