Hooray! The 2065 turn has now ended and I will be emailing out your final turn results over the next few days. You may now make your updates to the Facility_List file as needed.
The automated conversion of our main website to the new Google mandated format went about as well as could be expected, so it will be a while before the mess is sorted out and we can begin the new turn. In the meantime, do not make any updates to the original site. We will assume that all attempted deals for uplift capacity with NPCs were successful, I do not think there was any competition for uplift.
The rules we will be using for the new turn will be a cleaned up version of what is in the Rules_Proposal file. See section 11.1 for a summary of all of the changes. I am pleased to note that this list of changes continues to decline in number, and while I expect small balancing tweaks to be a game feature I do think we are finally closing in on a time when the game will not have significant changes each turn. Of course, the biggest change is not in the Rules_Proposal, it is the elimination of Brigade sized units for non-Spaceship, that is likely to be a requirement by the 2075 Turn
Remember the contest that I mentioned earlier! * Ask your friends, post notices to your gaming groups, etc., we need more players!! This game is a lot more fun when your opponents are actual players, I and Liam try but there is just so much else for us to do that there is no way we can give newly NPC nations the kind of intense, creative focus that a nation really needs to be a worthy adversary. We need more players!!
* From now until the next turn, the player who brings in the most new players will receive 3 Response PApoints next turn per new player. A new player only counts if that new player stays around long enough to at least submit valid orders for the new turn. The player who brings in the second highest number of new players gets 2 Response PApoints per new player. If you play only one nation, being willing to take on 1 more nation also counts as having recruited a new player. We need new players!