I like how people are confused on what exactly happened with the deal. Desperately hoping krill's getting involved in a two front war, and getting even more scared that he's winning anyway.
Krill Wrote:3 hammers turned into gold that will likely never ever get spent (I mean, I need to have less than 3 gold in the bank to have definitively spent this gold). Whatever.
You know, that's how I should conceptualise it. I've always known there are non-upsides to stockpiling gold, as it can quite possibly set you behind in turns. Unless you can turn that gold into beakers, it's worthless for the purposes of putting you in a stronger position. And unless you can turn those beakers into something useful, you won't be in a stronger position.
Nicolae Carpathia Wrote:You know, that's how I should conceptualise it. I've always known there are non-upsides to stockpiling gold, as it can quite possibly set you behind in turns. Unless you can turn that gold into beakers, it's worthless for the purposes of putting you in a stronger position. And unless you can turn those beakers into something useful, you won't be in a stronger position.
I think it's freaking stupid. You can convert that gold into beakers on ANY turn. The question is why are you concurrently producing more gold to replace it? And expecting every single point of commerce to be the threshold to the next tech is crazy. That doesn't mean they're all useless.
Well, hammers tied up in markets that are never going to complete aren't very useful, but neither is gold tied up in your account. But I guess the latter is more liquid and hence more useful.
Nicolae Carpathia Wrote:Well, hammers tied up in markets that are never going to complete aren't very useful, but neither is gold tied up in your account. But I guess the latter is more liquid and hence more useful.
It's not just more liquid, it's as liquid as every point of commerce you ever produce. Unless you've literally saved more gold than you can spend at 100% slider. I mean you can't get more liquid than small amounts of stored gold.
I'm also wondering why Krill is bothering to grow GNAP onto Coast and delay working the mines. Each coast is only something like +$1 due to maintenance, and delaying the mines slows down the bolus of military you want to push out.
If Pindicator and Regorarrar concede to Krill without at least sparring with him, I will be very dissapointed. I am not of the seemingly prevalent mindset that Krill is unbeatable at this point. Of course, I would still be surprised if he does not win, but I'd only give him about an 85% chance, Scooty about a 14.5% chance, and Nakor and Yuri a combined .5% chance.
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I don't know. Starting an offensive war against Krill seems like a mutual suicide for Pindicator®oarrarr, probably with Krill coming up ahead hammer-wise.
I have the impression that scooty are/will be in a very strong position if they start colinizing all those islands and Krill start yet another war to kill his economy. And there's the matter Krill has been antagonizing all his neighbors while scooty remain to be that far away stranger.
