Since good news usually come in large numbers (or do only bad news usually work that way???), not much after Don Deity had built an academy and the Great Library in London, more good news poured in:
Hinduism, the only religion spread so far on our continent, has spread to Canterbury in the year 550 BC, so the English were happily invited to join Alex and Ash in the Hinduism club. There even was a big banquet, where Don Deity received his golden member card
Don Deity really deemed it a very good omen, not only because he really was proud of his shiny member card, but also because of the fact that still no other religion was starting to spread on our apparently quite small continent.
After the people in London now seemed to have some experience gathered in building monumental buildings, it wasnt long and they had also finished the National Epic in 535 BC. Although a quite ugly monument, it still would help, to attract even more Great People. Don Deity basically didnt like them, but well, they seemed to be quite useful for the English nation.
In parallel, Hastings had finished equipping the last settler they were ordered to produce. Since the last unoccupied spot within the English empire in-between Hastings and London was quite strong in production and Don Deity had gathered up to now more the 1.000 gold pieces thanks to tech-trading (in fact, he could now really be considered as the main tech dealer on this continent
Mansa himself would be proud of him
), the city of Coventry was founded right when the settler arrived on the final spot. Another reason for this was that it would be one of very few cities with high production in the English empire and Don Deity wanted to grow it immediately.
As you can also see, the western border hasnt changed much since some centuries
Whyshouldwegother-Land was still without any permanent settlements. Not even Bren or the barbarians themselves wanted to live permanently there
thats why the citizens of York and Hastings nowadays refer to the small tribes coming from there (or better, running out of Whyshouldwegother-Land) from time to time as Whyshouldwestaythereians
Then, in 520 BC, the second Great Scientist, named Socrates, arrived in London. He was immediately ordered by Don Deity to find out something about a strange concept named Philosophy but he came back after two days only and babbled something about Meditation. It took Don Deity scientists about 15 years to find out what he meant, and finally, in 505 BC, Socrates started to work on Philosophy
and came again back after two days:
Umh
like I said before, Don Deity
there isnt much to say about Philosophy
you basically sit around a chat about this and that and thats it
So we are doing Philosophy right now?
Not exactly
we need to shift our thoughts to a more essential and more scientific sphere of being and we need a scientific theory we could base our palaver upon
You have a funny way of talking
so you mean something like why we are here and what are we supposed to do here?
this kind of talk?
Yes, exactly, so why ARE we here?
Well, I know why Im here and I dont care why you are here
But it doesnt work that way, we must start a long discussion now about that and we also should invite some other people to discuss with
Some minutes later:
Where do you want me to put Socrates statue, Don Deity?
I dont want him either, just throw him in the harbour basin tonight like you have done with this Euclid idiot before.
After philosophy was finally discovered by Socrates (who seemed to have mysteriously disappeared directly thereafter), the people all over England praised his good work and prepared for a revolution to pacifism. And Don Deity really liked the concept of pacifism
combined with a tiny little bit of burn, pillage, plunder here and there, the vision of all the nations living peacefully together really was something to long for
so Don Deity decided to bring pacifism to the known world
Only thing delaying the revolution of the English was the stupid fact, that London, which seemingly has turned into a very attractive city for Great Persons (very likely they would stay away from London, if they would know, where they were supposed to end up) still had no religion. And pacifism apparently seemed to work best when combined with a religion. So Canterbury, the only English city that had adopted the Hinduism so far was ordered to build a monastery immediately, to educate some missionaries who then should teach Hinduism in London.
Not much later some more money had to be spent on a new housing project, which resulted in the city of Warwick. After having forced the settlers to camp on the final spot for more then 250 years, Don Deity supposed that they were quite happy, when Ash arrived in 430 BC with a settler of his own and they were finally allowed to build a permanent settlement
As you can also see in this picture, the horses near Canterbury had finally been connected to the English empire and Warwick
well, Warwick was mainly there (Don Deity didnt deem it important enough to spare any workers for Warwick)
The English research was really gathering speed around that time and in 430 BC, the new technology of Compass was added to the English tech-list. This quite obviously seemed a detour towards Civil Service, but Don Deity reminded himself, that after having built a harbour in London and York, the trade benefit those nice harbours would supply surely would make up for the turns lost in a reasonable amount of time. And, furthermore, another very good reason for this little detour was the fact that none of their neighbours had researched compass so far and Don Deity estimated the trade value of this technology therefore quite high. Not much after those two harbours had been finished, most of the bigger English cities were set to build barracks, to be able to spread the concept of pacifism to their neighbours a little MORE efficient
Only some years later, it turned out, that Compass really was good for some decent trades, because Don Deity managed to trade it for Currency and 160 gold pieces with Alex. The only downside of this trade was that the Greek insisted that the English invested at least on turn of research in Currency, before letting go of this technology. But after this minor setback, Compass was successfully traded for Calendar and 90 gold pieces with Bren and last but not least, sold for 560 gold pieces to Ash. Something very positive that evolved out of the many tech-trades and tech-sales the English were doing these days, was the fact that most of their trading partners, which basically meant ALL their neighbours, really started to like the English. Backed by the fact, that the English also were in the Hinduism club since some time now, it wasnt long, before their Hinduism buddies Ash and Alex adopted a quite friendly mood. Don Deity supposed, that they even would be friendlier, would they knew about his secret little plans to bring pacifism to ALL of them soon
Since Ash already had researched Civil Service around the time the English could start with it, Don Deity decided to take another detour and researched Metal Casting, so he would have enough trading technologies to buy it from Ash (Philosophy and Metal Casting), only to find out, that stupid Ash had chosen the same research path AGAIN and had discovered Metal Casting the same year then the English
so the English had to invest another 3 turns of research of their own into Civil Service, before Ash was willing to trade them Civil Service for Philosophy alone.
With the discovery of Civil Service, the first big revolution swept through the English nation, and they changed their civics from Barbarism and Paganism to Bureaucracy and Pacifism. In parallel, Canterbury had been working and chopping on a monastery, and in 295 BC, the first missionaries arrived in London, converting the whole city within a little less then 6 minute to Hinduism
And, not long after Pacifism was finally coming to full effect, the next Great Scientists, Enrico Fermi, happily joined the others in the harbour basin of London (after having explained the secrets of paper to Don Deity, off course
). Although this lightbulbing gained the English only 8 turns of research, Don Deity still deemed it worth, because pretty soon, every turn would count
Horseback Riding was discovered not much later, and Don Deity was considering hard, if he should order his English to build stables all over England, so they would be able to send out horseback missionaries to better spread the word of pacifism all over the land
but then, he decided to ask his friend about this and skipped the decision for the time being.
Some more tech-trades were done, Construction and 360 gold pieces were sold to Alex for Philosophy, and Civil Service together with Metal Casting were sold for Feudalism and 210 gold pieces to Bren. As you can see, Don Deity had started now to always ad up some gold for all his trades, because the peaceful spreading of pacifism could require some money here and there rather sooner then later. All cities that had finished their barracks would soon start working either on stables for horse missionaries, or directly on pedestrian missionaries.
When looking at his growing nation now, Don Deity was finally feeling more confident
there was no danger of being invaded any more, his neighbours were all his friends (except the Whyshouldwestaythereians, but they seemed to be so desperate to leave Whyshouldwegothere Land, that they would attack most likely anybody and anything that opposed their way) and even better, the first missionaries would be equipped pretty soon. His English really seemed to have made it though the ancient age. Only thing he had to really remind himself was, to tell the settlers still camping in-between Hastings and Nottingham to stop painting those stupid white circles all over the place
Ash and Alex considered him even as friend (which, when you consider this from a more neutral point of view, could be considered a little bit hasty
) and therefore they were willing to do some more friendship tech-deals. Only Bren was only pleased with him, maybe because he wasnt allowed into Hinduism club so far
In parallel, the English had cancelled some resource deals and had started to trade resources for money. Altogether about 25 gold pieces per turn were coming in that way and the money situation had stabilized even more. Don Deity had another short look at his little empire and smiled
soon the hiding would be over, since his preparations on sending out some "peaceful missionaries" were running at full speed now.
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Im happy for any feedback, suggestions, tips and hints concerning this game...
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you want to play along or ahead feel free to pick any save you like. Only thing you REALLY should do is to use spoiler tags for anything AHEAD of the actual story.
mrchadt will provide the saves for this game from now on (my DB-space is gone
), thanks in advance.
@ mrchadt: Please post 265 BC save, thanks
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See you Soon
Snaaty
... ...maybe this explains things a little
for submitting this game.
