The Tree Hugger - SMACX AI Growth mod version 1.52

[bvanevery]

Details more to build

more to build

MY 2315.  If we can build it, we will.  We could make Locusts too, but, they don't move any faster than Sealurks.

Details psyched

psyched

We don't really need the massive amount of money we're making, so we give another dividend to the people.  We don't really need the research either, but being scientists, we have trouble helping ourselves.  Also, we prefer to elevate happiness incrementally, to see how happy people really need to be to be fully productive.

[bvanevery]

Details probably shelled the Free Drones

probably shelled the Free Drones

MY 2316.  I didn't see the actual attack.  Maybe it was done mistakenly.  Usually an ally will terminate a Pact before just outright attacking.

Details you can't just attack

you can't just attack

Mainly because, Pacts exist to prevent beautiful backstabbings.

Details the nerve!

the nerve!

This goat has had the cheek to go Capitalist when we weren't looking!  As though they're the only ones upset about an ideological schism!

Details I am RO BOT

I am RO BOT

We take the base we wanted that completes our coastal rail.  It doesn't calm Cha Dawn down.  He had so much mindworm and spore launcher spam in that base that it's committed a lot of our offensive forces.  Fortunately he has plenty of other weak points to get his attention with.  Thing is, we don't actually want any of them.

[bvanevery]

Details major spam

major spam

All of our Amphibious Empath Missile Hovertanks are spoken for, slaughtering numerous Clean Transports in this 1 base.  The Caretakers really went crazy on that.  I must admit, it has a certain defensive logic.  Nothing but sheer piles of defenders to get through.

Details one step on the road

one step on the road

We take a Cultist base that's connected to our rail line, because it is poorly defended.  We commit the old Gatling Infantry to the task.  We still hold mindworms and scouts in reserve.

Details bow boy

bow boy

This is the Cha Dawn we known and love.  Of course he could just attack us again next year.  I get him to knock off his war with the Free Drones, which will at least prevent any further crossfire surprises.  He won't sign a Treaty though.

Details air cover

air cover

As a precaution against 'surprise' attack, we protect our large and badly wounded "door force" with a Gatling Interceptor.  It doesn't look like he has anything in the region to attack us with, but you never know.

[bvanevery]

Details tiny help

tiny help

In addition to all our supply crawlers, we spend 70 credits to complete the Cyborg Factory.

Details global weapon

global weapon

We have 3 Aerospace Complexes, 2 of which are out of range of any targets.  They are producing the new Drop planes, which will help with cleaning up the Caretakers.  The 3rd base has a target in range, so it is producing conventional planes.  All will be bioenhanced.

[bvanevery]

Details excessive sealift

excessive sealift

MY 2317.  We must have sunk at least 20 Clean Transports in just that 1 base this year.  At such a rate, it may take us 3 more years to finally conquer the base.

Details gurgle and die

gurgle and die

The rest of the Caretaker water holdings are beginning to collapse.  The Sealurks have arrived.

[bvanevery]

Details should I be surprised

should I be surprised

MY 2318.  Cha Dawn still had a few mindworms wandering around in our recently conquered territory.  It is not surprising that he tried some kind of vengeance with them.

Details thousand blasts

thousand blasts

The spammy Caretaker sea base finally succumbs.

[bvanevery]

Details don't fear the mindworms

don't fear the mindworms

After many supply crawlers, we spend 66 credits to complete the Neural Amplifier.

Details monumental architecture

monumental architecture

We now lack a secret project to absorb our supply crawler economy.  We begin cashing our saved and captured artifacts.

Details got one

got one

We don't need anything.  Except for the Caretakers to die.

[bvanevery]

Details ours

ours

We take a Cultish base because it's contiguous and poorly defended.  It doesn't shut Cha Dawn up.

Details inland

inland

We take another base to get a Truce out of him.  We offer a Treaty and of course he declines.  We don't bother to ask him to stop fighting anyone else.  He's only going to offend again.

[bvanevery]

Details not surprised

not surprised

MY 2319.  Here we go again.  In retaliation we knock off 2 cities, which doesn't result in compliance.

[bvanevery]

Details like a fungus

like a fungus

MY 2320.  We pay 58 credits to complete the Pholus Mutagen.

Details death from above

death from above

The first Drop Missile Needlejet enters service.  Who should I destroy?  Logic says the Caretakers, but emotion says Cha Dawn.  I have conventional planes nearly in range of Cultist territory, so logic wins.  The Amphibious Empath Missile Hovertanks got diverted to fighting Cha Dawn, because his cities are no longer connected by rail and my Formers are all busy with more important matters.  The Sealurks are mostly completing the original mission of liquidating the Caretaker sea bases, but Drop Needlejets can hurry that up.

Details milk run

milk run

We suffer fatigue after an orbital insertion, so absent real combat pressure, it's best to announce ourselves by preying upon the weak.

[bvanevery]

Details fungus lover

fungus lover

MY 2322.  With supply crawlers we complete the Manifold Harmonics.  We are Planet friendly enough to extract maximum benefit from it.

Details learned

learned

We have many more supply crawlers in progress, so we cash more artifacts to gain another secret project to work on.

Details dull but buildable

dull but buildable

This counts, but like everything else we learn, we just don't need it.

Details bribe them

bribe them

We are reminded that some of our conquered Morganites are still unhappy.  We pare down our research budget and increase social spending.

Details barely happy

barely happy

A Tree Farm is the limit of what we'll build for the far flung provinces.  There's too much corruption and waste for it to be worth giving them anything more expensive.

[bvanevery]

Details enormous energy

enormous energy

MY 2323.  We prefer to build only 1 secret project per city.  That's in case any ever get nuked.  Although realistically, that is never going to happen as we're the only faction with Planet Buster technology.  We still haven't built one because we're prototyping Probability Sheath armor.  We're waiting for our preferred secret project city to finish a supply crawler.  In the interim, 9 of our supply crawlers call Gaia's Landing home, and provide abundant energy for it.  This is our only primary research center, where all available laboratory facilities were built.

[bvanevery]

Details super probe

super probe

MY 2324.  After supply crawlers, we spend 136 credits to complete the Nethack Terminus.

Details meaningless support

meaningless support

After cashing 2 artifacts, we begin the Living Refinery.

[bvanevery]

Details a most excellent project

a most excellent project

MY 2325.  This is perhaps the end of history.  Although we once thought a low population was essential to planetary preservation, now we believe that we are so in tune with Planet, that it does not matter.

Details mostly happy

mostly happy

We reduce our research to the minimum rational amount, so that we are not completely wasting our extant facilities.  We still have 5 artifacts we can cash to make technological progress.

[bvanevery]

Details holdouts

holdouts

MY 2326.  We expect these 4 remote land bases to be the final gasp of the Caretaker empire.

Details orbital garrisons

orbital garrisons

Bases that have little growth potential, that we might otherwise be inclined to build supply crawlers with and not Habitation Domes, we switch to drop garrison production.

Details lava rocks

lava rocks

This turns out to be only 1 base, Alpha Prime, atop Mount Planet.  Hard to grow trees there.