Approaching the end of Cycle 4, which is annoyingly going to fall at around 1:30AM for me.
Diplomatic
- Relations good with Gilgamesz, alliance holding strong. I just sent Terraforming 3 to him.
- Interested to see what Anita does now that Denizen and Gilgamesz have blocked them in. Gilgamesz believes Anita is a loyal ally, I'm not sure. Not enough information to assess.
- Inerz is at war with Darrow. This is a good outcome as they're both strong powers, currently the third and fourth in the game by stars. I'll keep an eye on this.
- Denizen hasn't replied to me asking what his intent was on tick 64. Do I interpret this that he has correctly put me and Gilgamesz together and is focusing on trying to thwart us? If I was him, how would I do it? I'd probably turn Anita against Gilgamesz.
Strategic
- It's never ideal when a cycle ends overnight but I'm going to make the most of it with a big economy & carrier update next cycle which is less time-critical. I think I can get away with this in my current position. The cycle after I'll go big on Infra & Science.
- I'm very happy with how the war with Ktoc is going. In the Tactical update to follow you'll see that he's pressing to re-take a few stars. This doesn't really matter. I'm not yet trying to take and hold stars yet. What I'm doing is degrading his economy and capability and restricting, both directly through holding stars and through threatening stars so much he can't safely build infrastructure on them, meaning he has to build it elsewhere at a cost. I'm happy to be temporarily pushed back to Visya/Kreete and then I will launch the second set of attacks tomorrow night.
- The best way of thinking about how the war has gone so far is what would have happened if I hadn't attacked when I did. Well, I'd have the same stars I do now, slightly more ships. However Ktoc would very likely hold 1-2 of Darrows territory and be pressing into it and I suspect his Pathfinder was going to capture some of Dusts stars. He would be substantially stronger than he is now. It's not a fight that would have got easier. As it is, I'm stronger, Ktoc has stagnated.
Tactical
- Summary with comments below. General Bison continues to hold the Visya wormhole.
- Ktoc is going to feel like he's making some progress over next 10 hours, re-taking stars I took.
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