Law&Faith - TTT

[Mart]

This is turn tracking thread for Law&Faith pbem game. Head-to-head of Misotu and Kirov. Setup thread:
Link

Factions:
PK - Misotu
Believers - Kirov

AI:
Gaians
Morganites
University
Drones
Data Angels

Yitzi patch 3.4
Also, the game uses "standard SMAX" alphax.txt, attached.

Large map, everything average, but additionally designed
4 victory conditions, except cooperative.
Blind research
No spoils of war
No random events.

AI get some scenario settings to help their defensive abilities.
Additional units, so human players start with 3 colony pods, 3 scouts, 2 formers.
AI get more units.
Start civ4-style, units are scattered on the landing site.
The Cloudbase Academy is set to destroyed.

Standard mp rules, unless agreed on changes by all sides.

Good luck!

[Misotu]

I see I go first but I'm just finishing a bottle of cava in the sun over here so possibly not at my sharpest    Will play tomorrow, for sure.

Really looking forward to playing from the very first turn in an MP game, heh.

Thanks very much for setting this up for us Mart.   

[Misotu]

So the Peacekeepers under the just and noble Sister Misotu have made Planetfall. The turn passes to the (hopefully) peaceful and contemplative Brother Kirov of the Believers.

(You will get a "reload" message, but it's false. In my haste to get started I completely forgot to get the password from my PMs and for some reason I can't switch to windows when the game is running. So had to close SMAX, but I didn't load the game itself, never got further than the "enter password" screen. Apologies, won't happen again. I didn't recall that doing this would produce a reload message or I would have checked the password using my Kindle!)

[Kirov]

Sister Misotu, good luck with all your endeavours and don't you worry about my peacefulness - as you long as you're not naughty, we're gold.

Mart, many thanks again and can you fast forward a few turns to make sure that I don't get any tech within 10 turns? I have a progress bar and I'm not sure how this Miriam penalty displays in-game.

Misotu, please put the Mission Year at the end of our saves, this will make the game count them automatically.

Have fun! 

[Misotu]

Peace in Our Time!  The Peacekeepers and Believers will share the benefits of Planet equally in Perpetuity 

(Naming convention implemented too).

[Mart]

The progress bar on F2 should stay like that till 2109, On 2110, you should see the first allocation to research.

[Kirov]

Sorry, I expected thread notification, I didn't know it's not automatic to follow a thread.

[Kirov]

Peace in Our Time!  The Peacekeepers and Believers will share the benefits of Planet equally in Perpetuity 

Amen, of course! Amen, indeed.

[Misotu]

I've downloaded the game a couple of times now but each time I'm getting an "error reading file" message. Could you upload it again Kirov? I don't seem to be able to get a good file download from the current attachment ...

[Misotu]

The rain has stopped and suddenly the file downloaded fine 

Peacekeeper efforts have suffered a serious blow as precious pods close to our bases yield only hideous wriggly native life forms and not the extra resources for which we had hoped. Our pointy sticks perform poorly against these attackers and morale is at an all-time low since the fabled "monolith" of which we have heard remains just that. A fable.

[Kirov]

I assure you, monoliths are real, I'm sitting on one myself. But now I too found only a can of worms, so there is that. Someone must have sabotaged supply pods while onboard Unity and we'll need to find out who.

[Misotu]

Our informers are whispering that the Believers somehow had a hand in sabotaging our pods, using the Power of Prayer. But we trust our new BFF Believer mates and won't heed the rumours. One wriggly thing died a horrible death. But it doesn't make up for the lack of a monolith.

[Kirov]

If only I was there to pop some pods, we'd soon find a nice monolith for you.

[Misotu]

I know you will take it in the correct spirit when I say that we are very, very glad indeed that you are not here to pop our pods for us. We're rather hoping that you're on the other side of Planet.   

[Kirov]

You're just being shy, no need for that.

I'm going out so no hurry!