Scout orders

Maniac · June 13, 2003, 10:28

Several of our scout patrols have come to a point where they can move into different directions. Therefore I thought a poll was fitting. The scout patrols are:

Two northern scouts
One eastern scout
One southern scout

For one northern scout patrol I have created the options:

Move into red direction
Escort colony pods and act as temporary garrison
Write-in

For the second northern scout patrol I have created the options:

Move into dark blue direction
Move into light blue direction
Escort colony pods and act as temporary garrison
Write-in

For the eastern scout I have created the options:

Move into yellow direction
Move into green direction
Move into brown direction
Move into purple direction
Write-in

For the southern scout I have created the options:

Move into puke direction
Move into orange direction
Move into white direction
Write-in

Three days poll.

Cedayon · June 13, 2003, 10:44

Let his logical eminence the Prime Function ~~do all the work~~ decide

Maniac · June 15, 2003, 16:21

Hmmm... Poll results are even except for the southern scout. Is there a kind soul around who would like to act as a seventh voter?

Drogue · June 15, 2003, 17:41

Actually, the let the prime function got two votes, from people who may also have voted for one of the others (in case it didn't win). As I didn't vote, feeling it to be inappropriate, I suppose I get to break the tie, also as the director in question.

Therefore, the scout 1 moves in red direction, while the other scout will help CPs. The eastern scout will pop the pod and then move along the purple.

As the new turn shows, we have either the Mainfold Nexus or the Unity Wreck to the south, as there is debris

Cedayon · June 15, 2003, 18:34

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Originally posted by Drogue
As the new turn shows, we have either the Mainfold Nexus or the Unity Wreck to the south, as there is debris

Ooooooo *rubs virtual hands together*

Corellion · June 16, 2003, 02:20

Oooooo indeed! What benefits a unity chopper, or a unity core, or the +1 planet could yield would certainly help us very much.

DeathByTheSword · June 16, 2003, 16:39

personelly I always hope for the unity wreckage...it would mean knowing the starting posisition of each group which give us a tactical advantage

Maniac · June 16, 2003, 17:53

Unfortunately it's the Manifold Nexus. The terrain information tells us so. (I hope that doesn't mean the Progenitors will first land near us.

) Now that the scout movements have been more or less decided, Drogue, please don't forget to adapt the route of the first northern scout. That scout is currently moving to Pi Square instead of following the red coastal route.

Googlie · June 16, 2003, 19:12

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Originally posted by Maniac
(I hope that doesn't mean the Progenitors will first land near us.

)

Progs aren't in the game - the AI is the Angels and Believers

My "View from the Top" thread fiction is just so that a cloaked scoutship can get into orbit and then I can comment on some macro information as a sort of "Narrator" role

And you don't think I'd put the Angels in as an AI faction woithout giving them the wreckage and the landing co-ordinates to beeline their probes to, do you?

G

GLIE

Corellion · June 16, 2003, 22:29

You wouldn't be that cruel... would you?

Corellion · June 16, 2003, 22:42

I just certainly hope you haven't placed the Hive near the Monsoon Jungle, nor the Drones near the Uranium Flats.

Googlie · June 17, 2003, 00:32

PS -------- but you did get the fossil field and the edible seaweed patch to balance out ............... or was that an alternate universe ...........

Drogue · June 17, 2003, 06:21

Maniac: Is there a need to hit the coast above Pi Square? With 2 votes for letting PF decide, and it only being equal, without an option to follow red but via Pi Square, it coule be argued the other way. Besides, I think people would vote for red to explore the bit below AP, rather than the coastal bit there, especially without a Pi Square option. Is there a use in going via the coast and taking 5 2/3 turns rather than 2 2/3 turns to get to Pi Square, just to see a couple of sea squares? I don't think so, but I will go by what people want.

Maniac · June 17, 2003, 12:08

*shrugs* It's not that important to me, though I have a slight preference for following the long route. What are the others' opinion?

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With 2 votes for letting PF decide, and it only being equal,

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Actually, the let the prime function got two votes, from people who may also have voted for one of the others (in case it didn't win).

I don't agree with your logic. Six people have voted in the poll. Of those two voted for the "Let the Prime Function decide"-option. There are exactly four votes for each scout order. The most likely thing here is that none of the "Prime Function"-voters voted for concrete scout orders. Anything else would have to be really coincidental.

Drogue · June 17, 2003, 12:22

Good point, forgot it shows number of voters

Why a preferance for the long route? It doesn't matter so much, but is there a reason to?

Maniac · June 18, 2003, 11:25

Well, simply to explore those two tiles. Not much reason I know, but there isn't that much else to do for the scout patrol right now. We have scouts exploring in all available directions. It would take ages for the scout to reach new unexplored areas. Also, right now there aren't any new bases to garrison or CPs to escort, so a three-turn deyour doesn't matter right now.
Or we could just follow your plan and let a foil explore the tiles in some future.

Drogue · June 18, 2003, 15:13

Have sent them to explore the extra two squares. The other northern scout is headed towards the CP about to be built in AP.