Ojevind i'm not cabert, but i'd say go ahead and vote if you're decided. if he says "we don't want his votes" then fb can just not include them, right?
pigswill: my thinking on the military question. i knew that i couldn't boost my power enough to be worth squat in the time given. was not going to happen, period.
my thoughts are directly applicable only to my game obviously. my risk/benefit analysis was:
- bismarck is busy
- gus likes me. thank goodness, since his power is so great that if he DoWs me i get obliterated instantly, whether manhattan project is built or not. there's no way i can fight him, why try.
- wang doesn't like me. he lives by roosevelt, who i have a DP with. so, i'll hope that wang looks at roos's power and wisely goes "oh yeah, i won't attack her cuz i'd get my korean butt kicked"
- cyrus is friendly and has been forever
- brennus can't declare war. then when he became a non-vassal he was pleased and occupied.
production/research-wise: i knew for certain that even if i went 100% military, my best efforts would not bump me up significantly on the power chart. not even close. if i tried, i
could do enough to make a difference defending my cities if a war happened; but i could
not do anything prep-wise to prevent a war. defending my cities but not having researched the techs/built the infrastructure in the meantime to build the spaceship would mean game-over in any case.
so, i didn't do the military thing. i signed the DP with roos as insurance (hopefully) against wang, and headed on the space track. the DP seemed safe to me in because nobody is going to DoW roos. he's not anybody worst enemy and he is far and above Wang in power; wang's the one i consider most likely to attack me. i don't think i'll have to be the Defender in the Pact at all, and hope i won't have to use it to call in my Defender but if i do, it's a warm fuzzy.
note: you didn't focus on military to the extreme of ignoring space, you did a nice mix. i was just explaining the workings of my brain if you or anybody was curious.
i am once again surprised at all you heathens
. not really, i can see the reasons for going either way. just another instance of cam and i sharing the same brainwaves, the only ones still jewish, we both felt we needed those diplomatic points with our neighbors. i had plenty of happiness options, and making nicey-nice was worth losing 10% science IMO.
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! so that means he can't show up on F8 i think. roos wouldn't show up yet since he hasn't built any actual parts.
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but rest assured, i'm still and always will be permanoob. got the major gauntlet done this month, it was a monarch cultural victory game and on my second try i got it handily. first try gandhi built the UN and passed emancipation, took away my caste, launched 4 turns before my 3rd would have hit legendary. my second try i played as gandhi and that solved that! 
gain but it could well be a strategic loss. While my intention was never to prove to the roster that I actually was able to make trades, I think that I've been far more opportunistic than my P666-01 and P666-04 submissions given our game victory condition, generally weak military position, and need for allies. I'm not saying that being miserly with tech' is necessarily the way to go in Domination / Diplomation / Conquest games, but I acknowledge that it's the way I tend to play. Perhaps if we had taken over Germany in the early game in P666-05 and our self-research capacity was better, then maybe I might have fallen back to more of a 'Scrooge'-like playstyle! 
. i think you forgot last time too. it's been stuck at size 9 all this timei, dang.
