The Thinkers Guild - Page 2

Panag · June 17, 2002, 21:17

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Originally posted by SwitchMoO
I think we should get out a post explaining what this Guild is all about: the advancement of Egyptian science above all else. When there is a poll in which something that could effect science is concerned, we vote for the option which most benfits science.

We should also get someone in the guild to act as a science writer for either of the Apolytonian Democracy game newsletters. He/she would both update the populace on current scientific achievments in our nation (what was it called, by the way?), and voice our opinions on science related decisions, such as sacrificing research for the wartime effort, or building the Pyramids over the Great Library.

We must reinforce the populace's view of science! If we can't have a Timocracy, we should at least have a science oriented Democracy.

By the way, how does one use the Justify formatting?

hi ,

building the great library would be a very intelligent thing to do , ...
buiding both wonders could also be a smart way .
the faster the research the smarter , ...the other nations are not sitting and doing nothing , ...

have a nice day

beno · June 18, 2002, 06:16

After a 20 hour day spent hacking at jungle with a small knife and protecting my people's bananas from hordes of disease ridden monkeys - there's nothing I like better than sitting down for a nice long think. I think about the poisonous mysteries around me, about my girl back home in Apolytonia and about how good it would be to have a bow and arrow. that'd show those damn apes who was boss.

MrWhereItsAt · June 18, 2002, 06:46

Those DAMN DIRTY APES!!!

Sorry - am having flashbacks... to the jungle...

Panag · June 18, 2002, 08:47

hi ,

we have to watch out , .....

maybe we ought to offer some of those monkey's to the gods , ...

have a nice day

Solver · June 18, 2002, 11:18

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Originally posted by panag

hi ,

they have been here a long time , a long time , ..

ask Solver , he is the one who has to get them , .....

there should be a think-tank , that is for sure , ...

have a nice day

LOL, what can you do if I have talked to them?

Solver · June 18, 2002, 11:20

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Originally posted by panag

hi ,

they have been here a long time , a long time , ..

ask Solver , he is the one who has to get them , .....

there should be a think-tank , that is for sure , ...

have a nice day

LOL, what can you do if I talked to them?

Moral Hazard · June 18, 2002, 13:30

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Um please don't start another paper. If you want to be editor the Apolytonian Times (that's right we were working on a merger of sorts) might need another daily editor. And quite frankly we will publish anything in our dailies.

Thanks.

Panag · June 18, 2002, 14:06

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Originally posted by Solver

LOL, what can you do if I talked to them?

hi ,

"ahem" , from one smoker to an other , "smoke them out" , .....

, hide them in the basement of the pentagon , ...
like you do with other things and people , ......

huh , you understand , ....right , ....

have a nice day

Solver · June 18, 2002, 14:41

My people are monitoring them day and night, they won't escape. I don't want you people knowing about their existence

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Panag · June 18, 2002, 14:55

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Originally posted by Solver
My people are monitoring them day and night, they won't escape. I don't want you people knowing about their existence

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hi ,

, ..

have a nice day

johncmcleod · June 18, 2002, 15:09

count me in

furbster · June 18, 2002, 16:10

I just want to say as leader of the Hawk Party we are not enemys of the Thinkers Guild. We believe Science and Military gurentees the freedom of a nation. But when it comes to science over military we will pick the latter. Thank You

Switch · June 18, 2002, 17:13

As long as that said question doesn't come into effect any time soon, I think we might have nice little relationship....

Switch · June 19, 2002, 18:14

Ok, I think I might start work on a Thinker's Guild flag. It has a 2:1 width to height ratio (I'm using 600x300 for the template), three columns equally sized, coloured grey white grey, with a pi made of bananas in the center. Above that is the number pi fading to the right, fit within the center white column. On the left column is the posible algabraeic equation for culture flipping, including a variable legend, and on the right column is a right-angle triangle, labelled sides and angles, and a chart listing the trigonometric ratios: sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, cotangent.

I'm not an artist, by any stretch of the imagination, so I'm not sure how well it will turn out.

By the way, does anyone know of good single banana pictures I could use for the flag?

Panag · June 19, 2002, 18:19

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Originally posted by SwitchMoO
Ok, I think I might start work on a Thinker's Guild flag. It has a 2:1 width to height ratio (I'm using 600x300 for the template), three columns equally sized, coloured grey white grey, with a pi made of bananas in the center. Above that is the number pi fading to the right, fit within the center white column. On the left column is the posible algabraeic equation for culture flipping, including a variable legend, and on the right column is a right-angle triangle, labelled sides and angles, and a chart listing the trigonometric ratios: sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, cotangent.

I'm not an artist, by any stretch of the imagination, so I'm not sure how well it will turn out.

By the way, does anyone know of good single banana pictures I could use for the flag?

hi ,

it should be red - white - blue , with a banana in the middle , with 50 stars , and thirteen stripes , ....

, can you make one for the president to , he needs a seal , of the president of the united banana state's , ....

and of course the other government post's need one to , ...

have a nice day

Switch · June 19, 2002, 18:28

Quote:

Admiral from Star Wars: Episode 6
You ask the impossible.

And as to that whole suggestion for our flag, if anything I would make it red and white, with a maple leaf in the center. But since this is for the international in real life, and Apolytonian in in-game life, I shall include no blatent patriatism, excpet of course to bananas.

ThePlagueRat · June 19, 2002, 20:12

Yeah, make a flag... I't should involve something scientific, that's right. A matrix perhaps? With small flag-variables inside?

Well, just make up something spicy!

Panag · June 20, 2002, 00:17

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Originally posted by SwitchMoO

And as to that whole suggestion for our flag, if anything I would make it red and white, with a maple leaf in the center. But since this is for the international in real life, and Apolytonian in in-game life, I shall include no blatent patriatism, excpet of course to bananas.

hi ,

red , white and blue , the colours of apolyton , ....

and of about 25 other nations and important organisations , ....

have a nice day

Switch · June 21, 2002, 00:27

Ok, though I have yet to get started on the flag, I did get a save from Trip. I have now compiled what I believe would be the best route for research. An asteriks represents a possible tech that could be added in if people so greatly desire.

-Alphabet
-Writing
-The Wheel *
-Pottery
-Map Making
-Literature (The Great Library, I believe)
-Iron Working *
-Mathematics
-Currency

Bronze Wroking should be finished in 9 turns, and Alphabet 27 after that. We should thus be able to start on Writing in 36 turns. This, of course, is going with the current research rate of 100% and current income, and discluding any possible trade deals with Joan d'Arc or Goody Huts.

As well, despite population increase, roads, and a new city, the possible capital gain is lost due to science research being at 100%, so the net income is still 0, however gross is at a high of 8.

Here are the two relevant screens:

Darn, can't get it to work!

[Edit]Added picture[/Edit]
[Edit]Started hating Angelfire[/Edit]
[Edit]Finally figured out Angelfire[/Edit]

Switch · June 21, 2002, 01:21

And here is my suggested research path. Solid lines are the path, dashed lines are the possible techs:

notyoueither · June 21, 2002, 02:11

Selling ads for Angelfire SwitchMoO?

Switch · June 21, 2002, 02:14

Arrgh! Stupid Angelfire, with its stupid bandwidth limit.

Does anyone know of a good, free server I could use?

MrWhereItsAt · June 23, 2002, 09:18

Bugger again. I thought this was more of a group of wandering philosophers, not necessarily arguing for more science, but wandering around and provoking debates on many issues, on all sides involved. It looks more like a Pro-Science party now.

Glad there's no member lis or I'd have to take my name off it.

ThePlagueRat · July 5, 2002, 21:51

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Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Bugger again. I thought this was more of a group of wandering philosophers, not necessarily arguing for more science, but wandering around and provoking debates on many issues, on all sides involved. It looks more like a Pro-Science party now.

Glad there's no member lis or I'd have to take my name off it.

Of course we are wandering philospophers! Also drunk, sometimes. I just came out of the dense Notylopian rainforest a week ago, after some intense thinking about a Malaria Cure. I had found that chinin was the best thing to use, after some 12 glasses of gin & tonic... containing this wonderful substance.
So we can survive a stroll though Notylopia drunken and merry, I guess? Well, so much for science. Cheers mate!

ThePlagueRat · July 7, 2002, 21:35

Attention all Thinkers:

I think we are moving into dangerous tides. A war for expansion seems inevitable... There are some questionable strategic planning in the palace nowadays. Some good points, though.
We know of a Plan Eagle. - Enemy unknown!

I just can't sit in my study reading the advanced bananic philosophy, knowing there's fishy business going on with the americans. We should have to aide the government by turning our sceptical minds into their planning.

There is too much at stake... Maybe we'll never get that darn library, but instead we'll be working on American corn-plantations?
(maybe gaining our freedom in some 400 years)
Someone has to stop them, and that can only be done by our fearsome troops! Well, but how?
In the recent plans for the invasion of America, our govt. provides little means for defending the the assault force...
Which can be fatal!

I urge my fellow Thinkers to meditate upon this, and state your suggestions to the press, our elected leaders, and the populace. I'm well aware that you do not like the thought of this bloodshed, but it's the destiny... and our survival!

Thank you for the time!

MrWhereItsAt · July 8, 2002, 00:55

The REAL question is how we can maintain a ready supply of alcohol in the upcoming times of rationing that the war will bring....

Otherwise we will be Thinkers without alcohol.

ThePlagueRat · July 9, 2002, 07:58

Execution squads gets double rations. (to ease the pain)
Why don't you join one?

NB: In the deep caverns beneath the Guild complex, there is a secret whiskey brewery... You'll find me there during the siege of Apolytonia.

Chandragupta · July 9, 2002, 22:41

Wow, i've been gone for a while... So we're going to war are we? Seems like a perfectly logical idea, since the point of civ 3 is to win, and we arent about to do that while sitting around in the middle of a jungle without any real power base. Everything in life involves some kind of risk, and running a nation is no different. So why not?

I say go for it. Though I may yet eat my words and wind up in the brewery along side plaguerat.

ThePlagueRat · July 10, 2002, 10:36

I'm afraid that could be the end of it all, Chandragupta.
However, a merry end would it be...

Maybe all citizens of Apolyton will find their way down here when the end is near? Then we should prepare a mass whiskeysuicide ritual...

Another alternative is to grab firmly to our principals of common sense, system critisism, and worship of
The Free Thought.

I suggest you read the plans for invasion of America! (Plan Eagle, aka. Case Blue) And of course reading it with enlightened eyes, searching for weaknesses in the proposed plans. (I found some on buildup matters.)

Also we do know little about other military forces, except for them being stronger than ours at the moment...

kring · July 10, 2002, 12:15

They also don't seem to factor in Military Alliance possibilities last time I looked, either.