The Tree Hugger - SMACX AI Growth mod version 1.52

[bvanevery]

Details what a nail biter

what a nail biter

MY 2327.  Cha Dawn calls an election.  Gosh I wonder who's gonna win?

[bvanevery]

Details you gonna make something of it

you gonna make something of it

MY 2328.  Aki gets chatty in the ocean.  She doesn't sign my offered Treaty.  Now I find it's because she wants a license to do whatever.  Well unless she learned Algorithmic Enhancement she's not going to get very far with that.  And even if she did, she still won't.  Not like there's much left of her.

[bvanevery]

Details they fight

they fight

MY 2330.  The Cult of Planet has made a surprisingly stiff offense against our border city with them.  It's connected by rail to them, and not to us.  Since our Formers have been disposed to more important tasks, we haven't sought to rectify that.  We merely dump an excess of various units in this general direction, and Cha Dawn chews them up.  We have quite a bit of apathy for this fighting as the only decisive battle is with the Caretakers.

Details die

die

We stick to plan and perform our 1st drop on the remotest of Caretaker cities.

Details die die

die die

The 2nd remote city also goes down, being poorly defended.

[bvanevery]

Details die die die

die die die

MY 2331.  The 3rd Caretaker land city goes down.  Maybe the 4th won't be the last holdout of their empire after all.

[bvanevery]

Details glub

glub

MY 2332.  1 of 2 remaining Caretaker sea bases succumbs.

[bvanevery]

Details connecting the front

connecting the front

We finally admit that the Cult is causing us problems.  Rather than make all manner of expensive and time consuming Drop units, it is more cost effective to make more Formers and link our front by rail.  We have plenty of troops, they're just not where they're needed.

[bvanevery]

Details air destruction

air destruction

MY 2333.  The cyborgs decided to attack and threw all manner of planes at us.  They lost many, but sheer numbers caused us some damage.  We do have some old interceptors here and there, but they're very far from the fronts.

Details diplomatic offensive

diplomatic offensive

We stick to plan and take over the last Caretaker land base.

Details rail it

rail it

We complete part of our link to the Cultish front.

Details far flung

far flung

We switch our Sealurks around, leaving a sea base undefended that we think will be hard for the cyborgs to reach.  Marines will provide garrison cover next year, freeing some Sealurks for sea operations.

[bvanevery]

Details the end of the Caretakers

the end of the Caretakers

MY 2334.  The last Caretaker sea base is vanquished.

Details alien menace terminated

alien menace terminated

Now we can finally get on with telling all of humanity how great I am!

Details showing strength

showing strength

For sake of form, we fight off the Cult with our new rail, and put a substantial obstacle on the route to stop them bothering our base.

Details the state of production

the state of production

Although we could have completed the Cloning Vats by now, we haven't.  Instead we've proceeded with developing our entire empire, for the day when they are complete.

[bvanevery]

Details contemplation of our supremacy

contemplation of our supremacy

How long did this take?  Domai capitulated in Mission Year 2308.  That might mark the beginning of the end of the Caretakers, although I think we were sailing Sealurks in their direction before then.  At any rate, at least 26 years.  We could probably have done it much faster, if we had adopted a more militant and less civilian outlook on our development.  A powerless sideshow, hardly seemed the thing to trouble ourselves with.

Details well of course you would say no

well of course you would say no

Aki and Cha Dawn were both friends once.  But they hated each other, and that was toxic.

Details I say I am the best girl

I say I am the best girl

I will commence erecting statues in my honor, empathing my requirements to the local governors, generally singing all my own praises!  Brr, whhzz, grr, click.

Details yes I am the fantastic one

yes I am the fantastic one

Democracy schmemocracy.  Long as it's Green.

Details thorny rose

thorny rose

I love flying ceremonial flags in the stratosphere.  Granted the material requirements are not exactly conservation.

[bvanevery]

Details well foofy on you

well foofy on you

The game thinks I suck.  I don't play for score, but it's pretty annoying when I make a decent empire, and the game just says, naaah, you suck.  They must be capitalists.

Details not even noteworthy

not even noteworthy

I had the infrastructure for massively more population than I ever actually grew.  I could have, but I minced about Eudaimonic's POLICE penalty.  I also never signed a Global Trade Pact because I worried that it would interfere with my Supreme Leader vote.  I didn't have a realistic sense of how long it would take to defeat the Caretakers using only peons.

My use of Formers this game was pretty minimalist.  Anything with a rail touching it, dies, and I just didn't bother with the Cult until the end.  I never built a single Soil Enricher.  In my mod they're expensive now, so really only good if you've got lots of Formers and not that many cities.

I don't think the AI knows how to use the cheap Drop Needlejets and Drop Interceptors I made for it.  Never saw anything that looked like dropping.  Probably better to just make them plain Laser Needlejets and Laser Interceptors, so that the AI makes a cheap unit that can destroy Formers.  Maybe mindworms too, if anyone makes it to Empath ability.

I need to redo the cost of Hypnotic Trance.  The AI is not making all the various Trance garrisons I designed for it.  It probably thinks they're too expensive.

[Hierophant]

This was probably my favourite AAR on this forum so far. You really got into it!

[bvanevery]

Heh!  Well being an Eco Nazi about how I work the land, was definitely different.