Hegemony

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[The Dark Lord]

Fail.

[Grim_]

Actually no.... that should have cost~ 500 billion because

1 billion per kilotonne

 

1 kilotonne kills up to 20,000 troops

150 kilotonnes to blow up a city.

500 kilotonnes to wipe out a wonder.

15 megatonnes to turn 1 pixal into water.

5 megatonnes for to widen the range by 1 pixal in all directions. Can only be done once.

[The Dark Lord]

I guess that's where Retech kept his Green Revolution wonder.

 

Grim's psychic!

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Yeah, thats true. Ok. Will change the figures.

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Anywho, Palin gives a speech condemning the French use of Atom Bombs....In five different states...at the same time.

[paul191600]

Russia offers to annex the glorious Cuban empire.

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Already assumed you did.

 

Also I am thinking of bringing in a fairly simple 'Score keeping' system for Research. Loosely based on Dungeoneering, and on Space Empires.

In simple terms, rather than 'Ultra laser' your research into space(I would prefer to leave ground combat informal, but if people want to do it then so be it) technology, contributes towards a score.

It wouldn't be tech tree based, and would leave all the control of what you want to research in your hands, it would just be a method for me to keep track.

 

I think that is basically it, any research would be assigned to catagories I choose, and then those scores are taken to help simulate battle/colonisation and other things as well.

Anyway, I will add a poll, since this one seems to have reached 18 already.

[The_Mather1]

Wow, Archi, you've been on here all night?

 

Japan offers France and the Commonwealth use of it's teritorry as a way of organizing troops and weapons of mass destruction near the frontier. Though I'd prefer if you kept the nukes outside cities.

[a_bert]

Argentina guarantees the safety of Palin, and echoes her calls for an American continent for American people for American government.

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Palin thanks Argentina for its support.

[Bier]

How did I lose Guinea-Bissau? I know trol made some claims to African territory, but not Guinea-Bissau. (Guinea-Bissau is pretty much the southernmost city in trols African territory)

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Happy now?

[Bier]

yep

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For the Lulz, email from the International Politics Department that made me grin.

 

[hide]The Returning Officer for this constituency has announced the outcome of the Department of International Politics shadow General Election.

 

 

 

Turn out: 144 votes cast

 

 

 

The Department has made an historic contribution to Northern Irish politics. A single vote proved to be decisive in our imagined Ulster community. Admittedly, it was the only vote cast, but it went to the Social Democratic and Labour Party so John Hume will be smiling down on us from the Stormont in the Sky. No votes for Sinn Fein, DUP, Alliance Party, Ulster Conservative and Unionist New Force or Traditional Unionist Voice. Ulster is now effectively a one-party state which is pretty much a return to how things were in 1969.

 

 

 

Scotland is to the Department as Canada was to Lyndon Johnson (I dont even know what street its on). No votes for the Scottish Nationalist Party nor for the Scottish Socialist Party.

 

 

 

A number of parties garnered a single vote: the Monster Raving Loony Party, UKIP, and something called the Ben Childs for Prime Minister Facebook Movement (I have no idea what that is).

 

 

 

At the extremes of the political spectrum, the British National Party gained 2 votes, but this is neatly counter-balanced by the 2 votes won by the Communist Party of Great Britain. They can have a bundle in the North room and settle their differences in the good old fashioned Cable Street manner.

 

 

 

Respect: 3 votes.

 

 

 

Trade Union and Socialist Coalition: 5 votes.

 

 

 

Rather mirroring the vote in the real world of Ceredigion, Plaid Cymru had a disappointing night. 8 votes only. I blame the students. Or the TV debates. Or the volcano. Or the London media. Or something

 

 

 

It all ended up being something of a 4-horse race. The Green Party were going nowhere until the tree and dolphin-huggers in the PhD community got their vote out and they leapt up to 21 votes and ended up in a creditable 4th place.

 

 

 

Third, with 25 votes, its everyones favourite Labour Party.

 

 

 

Second, with 29 votes, the Nasty Conservative Party.

 

 

 

Which means that Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats, with 46 votes, should in theory be our democratically elected Head of Department.

 

 

 

However, given the extraordinarily complicated nature of the Departments electoral college system, and due to the fact that one sycophantic individual actually cast their vote on behalf of the Director of Undergraduate Studies, I have succeeded in forming a coalition with the Labour and Green Parties thereby garnering 47 votes and achieving a governing majority. Expect cuts. Work harder and faster for less

 

 

 

Many thanks for your participation,

 

 

 

The Supreme Leader

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[Retech]

That's not how Sarah Palin talks! Didn't you see my flow chart as to how Sarah Palin would respond to a debate? :D

 

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Oh, and use the word "whom" in places where it's not relevant or correct. :thumbsup:

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I adapted the idea...Pm me for the details.

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Ok, tiny rule update.

Reverse Engineering...It takes 5 years, will never be 100% successful in stealing technology, and has a 66% chance of failure(destroying the thing you are trying to reverse engineer).

The chance of failure will be increased by research into anti-reverse engineering technology, which the race/country you are stealing from has developed.

 

You can steal whole ships or individual components. If you steal a whole ship then you get all the tech on the ship, but you are only able to reproduce it...you can't improve it or modify it.

Researching the individual component furthers your understand in the field, and allows you to improve or modify the design based on your tech.

 

Simply put...

If a ship has Laser 21B, and your reverse engineer the ship, then you gain Laser 21B and whatever else is onboard the ship.

If a ship has Laser 21B, and your reverse engineer Laser 21B, then you gain Laser 21B, along with research into lasers, and the ability to modify the lasers to make use of your technology as well...

So you could turn Laser 21B into Pulsed Laser Cannon 21C(Or whatever you creatively call your weapons), if you have technology to do it.

 

 

 

If we adopted my proposed system this might mean that...

France steals America's Laser Cannon 50C and reverse engineers it. Succeeding.

France would then gain some points in Laser Cannon research, which it could then use to develop its own Laser Cannons.

France may be totally rubbish at lasers, but might be an expert on turrets, and so by stealing those points France would build Laser Turrets which were more powerful than turrets alone.

 

It probably sounds a little confused, but thats only because of the openness of it, you can do anything or nothing with the technology. It is your choice, I just provide a system to keep things fair.

[Grim_]

Seems pretty interesting (and now to find out exactly what sarah palin is) Also on a completely unrelated note here is a mildly interesting site: http://www.behindthename.com/

(Here is an example of what it does)

CHARLES

 

Gender: Masculine

 

Usage: English, French

 

Pronounced: CHAHR-əlz (English), SHARL (French) [key]

From the Germanic name Karl, which was derived from a Germanic word which meant "man". However, an alternative theory states that it is derived from the common Germanic element hari meaning "army, warrior".

 

The popularity of the name in continental Europe was due to the fame of Charles the Great (742-814), commonly known as Charlemagne, a king of the Franks who came to rule over most of Europe. It was subsequently borne by several Holy Roman Emperors, as well as kings of France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Hungary. The name did not become common in Britain until the 17th century when it was carried by the Stuart king Charles I. It had been introduced into the Stuart royal family by Mary Queen of Scots, who had been raised in France.

 

Famous bearers of the name include naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) who revolutionized biology with his theory of evolution, novelist Charles [bleep]ens (1812-1870) who wrote such works as 'Great Expectations' and 'A Tale of Two Cities', French statesman Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), and American cartoonist Charles Schulz (1922-2000), the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip.

[The Dark Lord]

novelist Charles [bleep]ens

 

Lol.

 

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JOHN

 

Gender: Masculine

 

Usage: English, Biblical

 

Pronounced: JAHN (English) [key]

English form of Iohannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Ιωαννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "YAHWEH is gracious". This name owes its popularity to two New Testament characters, both highly revered saints. The first was John the Baptist, a Jewish ascetic who was considered the forerunner of Jesus Christ. The second was the apostle John, who was also traditionally regarded as the author of the fourth Gospel and Revelation.

 

This name was initially more common among Eastern Christians in the Byzantine Empire, but it flourished in Western Europe after the First Crusade. In England it became extremely popular: during the later Middle Ages it was given to approximately a fifth of all English boys.

 

The name (in various spellings) has been borne by 21 popes and eight Byzantine emperors, as well as rulers of England, France, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Russia and Hungary. It was also borne by the poet John Milton (1608-1674), philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), American founding father and president John Adams (1735-1826), and poet John Keats (1795-1821). Famous bearers of the 20th century include author John Steinbeck (1902-1968), assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), and musician John Lennon (1940-1980).

 

:)

[Icuownage]

I freakin LOL'd at the Sarah Palin stuff

 

 

I think Archi's research idea is good, I just fear something, but it is irrelevant.

 

Anyway

 

 

1 Space elevator = 5/55 50

2 Cold Fusion = 13/80 25

 

5 Better AA guns = 5/8 5

6 SAM and SAS upgrades = 5/8 5

7 Better Tanks = 5/8 5

8 Better Infantry weaponry = 5/8 5

9 Liquid Troop armor = 5/8 5

10 Merchant Square 11/17 50

12 Robotics = 5/24 20

15 Stronger EMPS = 4/12 10

 

17 Biodomes = 6/16 15

18 Refining Thrusters = 4/26 20

19 Geodomes = Complete

20 Colony engines = 4/8 10

21 Ships able to withstand tougher enviroments and probe and land on them 4/16 20

22 Room temperature superconductors = 4/24

23 Medgel = 4/8 0.8

24 Potato Cactus = Complete and sent to Sere

25 Cold pill = 4/10 0.1

[Seraphi]

Archi, what is the chance of being able to reverse engineer the Crisis suit at the moment? I've said that tamperproofing has been done on it, so I assume you'll just use some arbitary 80% or something?

 

Also, Iran thinks that France should stop expanding. It is already rich enough.

[Icuownage]

Yeah, but soon corruption takes over, fast expansion = people in your country being [wagon].

 

You see, when you expand and take over colonies and such, they don't want to always be under your rule, so they will be at a high crime rate generally. Though this game doesn't have this system, I feel the way Grim has been expanding some of his colonies would be like GTFO France.

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Well the Crysis suit could be reversed engineered...But it seems pretty unlikely that, if it is a good as you say, it would remain intact beyond the death of the wearer.

[Seraphi]

Speaking of which, I need to send you some information about them.

 

But yeah, I mean, if they do manage to get hold of an empty one, opening it up fries the circuitry and such.