Waterworld!

[Kirov]

Alternatively, if you all want commentary I can do more (while still avoiding secrets).

It will be very interesting if you make notes with today's dates, but I'd rather not hear anything at all that wasn't warranted. Even shreds of info may be priceless when combined with other shreds, power graph readings, etc. For example:

land formers? already?

I bet 50 EC it's Kata.  Not the in-game EC, the one you have in your profile. Any takers? And Kata, please go back to the water like decent folk.

As for SP - traditionally, only the completion is announced. If you want to know about the start, in my book you're supposed to remember to click F5. If you didn't bother, your problem. I do it in almost any turn I open, unless I'm in hurry.

[Kataphraktoi]

Ill take that bet.

Im not opposed to the rule in general ete, but we have so many many rules already!

[Vishniac]

It had not passed unnoticed to the Hive that someone had started an SP. That doesn't worry us.
Chairman Yang laughs "IMPROVING YOUR TERRAFORMING WILL DO YOU MUCH GOOD WHEN THE BREE WILL HAVE DESTROYED ALL YOUR FORMERS, MUAHAHAHAHA!!!" 
*unless the concerned faction started in the center of the round atoll and feels protected...* 

For me, no announcement required at a SP start.

To the Technos

[Kirov]

Onwards to the guy who doesn't have land formers. Nossir.

[Kataphraktoi]

@atlantis

[ete]

Okay, two for no announce at start, one not really care. I'll remove the rule.

Not bad turn rate so far .

@Kirov: My thoughts are that even if you guess something correctly, so long as only very vague info is revealed.. you're not going to be able to do anything with information at this stage, and by the time you are in a position to possibly exploit it it will be massively outdated and more importantly you'll all want to have infiltrated anyone you're thinking of attacking. If I said something like "a player is preparing to attack" that'd be actionable (action=increase resources on infiltrating, getting vision, and improving defenses). If I say someone has land formers early.. in what way could that improve your decision making, even if you knew who it was? If players are comfortable with it, I'd maybe make the odd post with non-actionable information, though pretty soon I won't have access to AC at all for seven months so.. yea.

[Geo]

Atlantis flushed the Submariner sealock...

[Vishniac]

To the Technos

[Vishniac]

ALL victory types allowed

That means Cooperative Victory too.
Wouldn't the game soon turn to a 2 vs 2?

Otherwise: I won't be able to play until 1AM CET tonight.

[ete]

Technically, yes, the game could end like that. But I imagine most of you would prefer a win on your own than a shared win, and this allows temporary alliances to have a chance at becoming permanent.

And I need some votes on the extra rule proposed before.
Either:
1. No attacking Bree Sea Colony Pods/Escape Pods at sea with units that have the Marine Detachment ability.
Or:
2. Any Sea Colony Pods/Escape Pods captured from the Bree must be immediately disbanded.

This prevents humans from taking advantage of killing a large Bree base in order to steal 2-4 Colony Pods with Marine Detachment, and will reduce micromanagement of lots of small bases later on for everyone.

[Kataphraktoi]

I wont participate in a permanent alliance, just putting that out there. I would hope the others feel the same way

I vote against making a new rule


Ete, no access for 7 months? Are you taking a vacation on the mars colony? 

[ete]

Traveling around asia. I'll have internet sometimes, but only on a chromebook which can't run programs in general other than chrome, which includes Alpha Centauri. So I can comment/read , but not actually check up on the game.

[Kirov]

 

[Kataphraktoi]

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[Geo]

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