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Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 41. Type species: Ptychohyla adipoventris Taylor, 1944 (= Hyla leonhardschultzei Ahl, 1934), by original designation.
Mountain Stream Frogs (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 26; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 21).
Stream Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).
Moderate elevations of southern Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca) southeastward in Central America to western Panama.
Genus redefined by Campbell and Smith, 1992, Herpetologica, 48: 153-167. Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1000-1026, provided a cladogram and accounts for the species. McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 311-324, provided accounts for the species of Honduras. In the Hylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 98. Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25, regarded Ptychohyla as part of their larger Hyla.
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Is it wrong to say that an author might have too much to say?
In 2005, Millet published the undeniably beautiful and thoughtful Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, a novel that placed the physicists behind the Manhattan Project in the present day to see what their work had wrought. She follows that with the slightly pared-down How the Dead Dream, about a supremely gifted day trader and real-estate developer in California named T. Throughout boyhood, adolescence, college and his young career, he knows nothing but the cool, antiseptic taste of financial success. But the edges of his storybook tale begin to fray when his unbalanced mother moves into his apartment. His father has discovered he's gay and has left her to craft a new persona. T.'s girlfriend dies unexpectedly, and suddenly that cool success is replaced with the dry burn of grief.
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Hillary Clinton cropped
Hasidic newspaper Di Tzeitung removed Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason from an iconic photo of the Situation Room, prompting intense outrage that resulted in the paper's editor apologizing for the editing. "It is disgraceful that they were cut out of this photo," said Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld at FrumForum. Furthermore, "manipulation" like this, said Brad Hirschfield in The Washington Post, is against White House rules and "suggests some real problems with the paper and it's readership which presumably supports such manipulation." And it changes the way we record history, pointed out Rebecca Price at The Huffington Post. We should all "strive to present and teach an accurate depiction of historical moments, despite our personal beliefs." The New Yorker's Amy Davidson said it's time for the paper to get real: "Di Tzeitung is based in Brooklyn. Women are pretty visible there, like it or not."
Kushner gets his prize
City University of New York trustees on Monday reversed a decision and decided to grant an honorary degree for Tony Kushner. Kushner had previously had the honor taken away after concerns emerged over the playwright's views on Israel. "It's hard to argue the episode has been anything other than a public-relations defeat for the right-wing pro-Israel crowd," said Justin Elliott at Salon. But some say this was the wrong decision. Would we "apply the same procedures to racists, homophobes, misogynists and all other bigots"? asked Isi Leibler in the Jerusalem Post. Let's hope in the future, said a Jewish Week editorial, that Zionism's advocates will "shed more light than heat in making their case." But does Kushner really need another award anyway? joked Vanity Fair's James Wolcott: "I mean, it's not as if Tony Kushner has gone un-awarded in his career, a victim of cold neglect. The last thing we should be doing is giving him an opportunity to make another speech."
Eying the 2012 election
Jewish Republicans are turning a cold shoulder to Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, according to the JTA. The topic of Israel remains a central campaigning issue, and it came up in last week's first GOP debate. With Newt Gingrich's entry into campaign waters on Wednesday, some expect the former Hosue Speaker to appeal to Jewish swing voters, reported The Jewish Week. Who will get the Jewish vote this season?
Discussing bin Laden
Religious leaders took to the pulpit last weekend to address their worshipers with peaceful prospects in the wake of bin Laden's death. Jews around the world voiced these lessons. "The demise of no single man solves the problem of terrorism or of intolerant and radical Islamic fundamentalism," said Shoshana Bryen at the Jewish Tribune. "In the final analysis, the greatest struggles humanity faces are not among nations, peoples or religions, but between the fanatic and the tolerant, said Rob Eshman in the Jewish Journal. "Those two types cross all borders and religions." Israel still has enemies of its own to deal with, said Gary Rosenblatt in The Jewish Week, and we have to re-evaluate our approach now. "Dialogue and diplomacy are in order when there is a basis for compromise. But as Hamas has made brutally clear, that is not possible in this case —unless the issue is Israel's national suicide."
JDate goes to the movies
The dating site is sponsoring a Jewish Film-of-the-Month Club that will offer a Jewish-themed feature film pick to subscribers. "A shidduch, however, is probably not guaranteed with a Jewish Film of the Month Club subscription," joked Michael Kaminer at The Jewish Daily Forward. This is "great news" for those who "enjoy the convenience and ease of Netflix but are disappointed by its undefined religious affiliation! said Amos Barshad at New York.
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A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Bin Laden's death
The big news around the world this week has been the death of the al Qaeda mastermind, and Jewish and Israeli leaders welcomed the news, according to reports. "It seems reasonable to view Osama bin Laden as a manifestation of Amalek and I am among those relieved and glad his soul has been sent for cosmic cleansing and rerouting," said Rabbi Goldie Milgram in The Philadelphia Jewish Voice. But our tradition warns that we shouldn't celebrate others' demise, warned Rabbi Michael Lerner at The Huffington Post. "Our cup of joy cannot be full if our own liberation requires the death of those who were part of the oppressor society." I also struggle with the American reaction to this announcement, said Peter Gabel at AlterNet. Celebration like we witnessed on Sunday night shows disrespect for human life, and even "undermines the moral character and worthiness of those responsible for the death itself."
Hamas deal
Some wonder about the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation struck last week and what that means for the potential for peace in the Middle East, reported JTA. This deal was "really stupid and damaging," said Larry Derfner in The Jewish Journal. "It set back the cause of Palestinian independence, it made the occupation that much harder to dislodge, and the only people who'll benefit from it are the rejectionists on both sides." But this could actually work, too, said a New Zealand Herald editorial. If Hamas can temper its reputation, "a real chance exists for progress. Palestinian unity should be regarded an an opportunity, not an obstacle."
Huckabee's Holocaust gaffe
Both Mike Huckabee and Michele Bachmann recently used Nazi analogies to convey the severity of the mounting debt crisis, prompting an ADL response. This wasn't Huckabee's first run-in with the ADL's criticism. Some of "the Republicans' best and brightest continue to trivialize the Holocaust in the name of partisan politics," said Avenging Angel at Daily Kos. While Huckabee does have Jewish support, said Michelle Goldberg in The Daily Beast, nobody should have "license to insinuate that higher marginal tax rates and tighter gun control are sort of like the Shoah." And if he wants to maintain his good standing, he and others need to cut out these references, said M.J. Rosenberg at Talking Points Memo. "Will someone tell these right-wingers that professing their 'love' for Israel will not get them off the hook for trivializing the murder of 6,000,000 Jewish men, women and children in Europe?"
Pope beatified
Pope John Paul II, who has dedicated himself to Catholic-Jewish relations among other things, was beatified at the Vatican on Sunday. We should praise him for his "historic revision and self-criticism of the Catholic Church's past" that has allowed for "reconciliation between Christians and Jews after two millennia of hostility," said Daniel Shoer Roth in the Miami Herald. "To the Jews, he is a saint." Rabbi Jack Bemporad, writing at The Huffington Post, was impressed when he had the chance to meet him. "What one was left with after meeting with Pope John Paul was his complete dedication to the next step in dialogue wherein one must be true to one's own faith without being false to the faith of the other—and how serious and difficult this task is."
Yaroslavsky: Next L.A. mayor?
When current Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vacates his position in 2013, it's anyone's guess who will take his seat. But now some experts are saying it will be L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, according to LA Weekly. For decades, he "has been mentioned as mayoral material, and for almost as long has been uninterested in the job," but if he changes his mind Yaroslavsky "is clearly the man to beat." So what's holding him back? ""It's largely a personal decision about what I want to do for the rest of my life," Yaroslavsky said in February, quoted in The Jewish Daily Forward. For now, he's focused on the work at hand.
April 28, 2011 | 6:47 am
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A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Is a Palestinian state coming?
"Will a Palestinian state be born this fall," asked a headline on CNN.com on Wednesday. Whatever happens, Obama has to act, said The Jewish Daily Forward in an editorial, because, as it stands, the situation is "unsustainable, especially now when the region is engulfed with democratic fervor." But it may not be fixable, warned A.B. Yehoshua in Haaretz. Not only don't we know how large either of these sides are, this is "a fundamental conflict that constantly creates primal and profound mistrust between the two peoples, preventing a possible solution."
Helen Thomas bows out
Thomas backed out of her appearance at a pro-Palestinian conference called "Move Over AIPAC" to take place from May 21 to 24, according to JTA. "I understand why pro-Israel groups wanted to lash out at Thomas when she was still a major figure in journalism. But isn't there a point when it simply pays to say, 'look, she's an old lady, nobody's paying attention to her, let it rest?'" asked James Besser at The Jewish Week. This is about something bigger, though, said James Abourezk at Counterpunch. It's an effort "to make the Helen Thomases of the world disappear, along with their views opposing what Israel is doing to those under its occupation."
Death at Joseph's tomb
Palestinian Authority officials are investigating the fatal shooting of Ben Yosef Livnat, 24, who was killed on Sunday after Palestinian police opened fire on their vehicle after he and others snuck in to pray at Joseph's Tomb, according to reports. "By repeatedly and blatantly violating this so-called peace agreement, Palestinians have shot themselves in the foot—big-time," said Peggy Shapiro at American Thinker. This also might indicate that "we are not on the cusp of a new era of Middle East peace," said Jennifer Rubin in The Washington Post. "Could it be that building mother-in-law apartments in East Jerusalem isn't the root of the problem?"
Black Panthers' rally
The New Black Panthers' held a "National Day of Action and Unity" last Saturday in over 60 cities worldwide, which turned out to be "a fantastic dud," said James M. Simpson at BigGovernment. In the days leading up to the rally, the ADL denounced the group, which "feeds directly into the media-hungry hands of NBPP leaders that are organizing the events," said Ryan Dube at TopSecretWriters.com. "As they say – any publicity is good publicity." Still, there is a lesson here: Instead of focusing on the Tea Party's language and message, said Raven Clabough at The New American, worry about the "prevalent among the New Black Panthers, an indisputably violent, racist, and anti-Semitic group."
The poorest place
A higher proportion of people are living in poverty in Kiryas Joel, N.Y., than in any other community in the country, according to The New York Times. "Those in the community are, unsurprisingly, not very interested in talking about their finances," said Garth Johnston at Gothamist. But there's something fascinating about these people, said Matthew Continetti at The Washington Post. "As you read stories like these, you begin to wonder whether poverty is more a spiritual than economic condition. And if that's the case, the residents of Kiryas Joel are as rich as Croesus."
April 21, 2011 | 6:59 am
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A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Is Palestinian statehood possible?
Pressure is mounting from prominent Israelis in support of a Palestinian plan to seek United Nations support for statehood, according to reports. They hope to seek the U.N.'s endorsement in September for an independent Palestinian state, which prompted Hillary Clinton to propose a resuming of peace talks. Granting statehood "damages the sanctity of international legal foundations that give Israel the confidence to take risks for peace" and "also promises to radicalize Palestinian politics," said Meyrav Wurmser in The Jewish Daily Forward."Palestinian leaders cannot possibly believe such action will create the state they say is their top goal," said a Jewish Week editorial. This is just an effort "to ratchet up the pressure on Israel."
Obama's Passover message
President Obama hosted his third consecutive seder at the White House, an event that was met with controversy after Glenn Beck and others took issue with Obama's message that this year's Mideast revolts echo those of the Biblical exodus from Egypt. "Well, way to go, President Obama. Or should I say 'Pharaoh Obama?'" joked Jon Bershad at Mediaite. While I think Beck "is reading too much into the message Obama released," said one blogger, "how can i criticize him when he is speaking up for Israel??!!"
Free Jonathan Pollard?
A top Israeli rabbi called on Barack Obama to free Jonathan Pollard if he wants Jews to back him in his re-election bid, reported the AFP. Others, including President Shimon Peres and Pollard's wife, Esther, have asked Obama to let Pollard go in the spirit of the Passover holiday. Well, "the rabbi is wrong," said Martin Peretz at The New Republic. "If five percent of American Jews vote against the president in 2012 because he fails to free Pollard, that would be a lot. Anyway, most of them (maybe all of them) already voted against Obama in 2008." This isn't really an issue that American Jews will vote on.
Burqa ban
Last week, France made its controversial burqa ban a full-fledged law in the country. "I'm not entirely sure that the ban is the way to go, and it's looking like the ban is doomed to failure, buttressing Islamic fundamentalism, and placing Muslim women in some very difficult predicaments," said Elana Maryles Sztokman at The Jewish Daily Forward. Years ago, the country banned all religious clothing in public schools, including Jewish skullcaps, "The law is rooted in the long-standing French policy of cultural integration and the pursuit of a uniform French identity," pointed out Bonita Meyersfeld in the Mail and Guardian. Yet, some believe it was necessary: "France is brave and right to ban the burqa. There is no reason for a modern Western country to honor what is, essentially, a political statement and an ethnic and misogynistic custom," said Phyllis Chesler at Fox News.
Get the Yid out
The Kick It Out organization wants to put a stop to the use of the offensive term "Yid" that some soccer fans have chanted at Tottenham Hotspur games. Players, appearing in a viral video, are joining the campaign against casual use of the slur. "I never really give a moment`s thought to this being anything racist or offensive coming from a Tottenham fans mouth, but the fact I have always sung the song with pride and affection, perhaps doesn`t make it right, wondered OxfordSpur at VitalFootball, "or are we again going too far in the political correctness bandwagon?" This "practice is unutterably vile and should be stamped on without delay," said Natalie Wood at Technorati. Still, the term has been used this way for years without protest so "I must argue, if 'the Yids' themselves are not offended by the term, why should anyone else?"
April 14, 2011 | 8:16 am
Posted by Danny Groner
A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Government shutdown averted: Now what?
President Obama was able to strike a deal with Republicans at the deadline last weekend that kept the federal government open and operating. "But there was something deeply disturbing about the process that led the nation to the brink of a shutdown," said a Jewish Week editorial. "Deficit reduction is essential, and it will require sacrifices from all of us." And, with so much still in flux, James Besser worried about Jewish groups that "don't like to dip their toes in the treacherous partisan waters of budget and taxation debates." Where does civility get you? wondered Leonard Fein in The Jewish Daily Forward. For instance, "How in the world can a serious person not experience indignation in the face of the clownish behavior of Israel's Knesset or the U.S. House of Representatives?" Let you your passion and outrage show.
WikiLeaks: Israel edition
A batch of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables shared with Haaretz by WikiLeaks recently came to light, according to reports. The cables, among other things, revealed that Israeli officials expect Hezbollah to fire about 500 missiles a day at Israel from Lebanon, and it could mean war. They also show evidence that Israel weighed an attack on Iran back in 2005, but "these revelations by themselves are not particularly newsworthy," said Christopher A. Preble at The National Interest. It's been know that Israel "lacked the firepower to definitively demolish the Iranian nuclear program."
Bombing suspect caught
The man charged in connection with an explosion last Thursday at a Chabad House in Santa Monica, California, is heading back to California to stand trial, according to reports. Hirsch had fled to Ohio, where he had been welcomed by the Jewish community with open arms, reported the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. But one rabbi grew suspicious and reported Hirsch to police. "In a small community, someone would be noticed because everybody knows everybody," said one community member.
Dutch slaughter ban
The Netherlands may soon pass a law banning Jewish and Muslim traditions on the ritual slaughter of animals, reported the Associated Press. Animal rights activists and the xenophobic Freedom Party have joined together to push for the ban on "methods that critics say inflict unacceptable suffering on animals." This is an effort to "suppress the ancient and essentially humane methods of slaughtering animals that Jews have used for millennia," said Brice Walker at the New American. They want to "abolish religious practices of Christians and Jews by imposing, in place of God's law, man's law." This is an "unjust" law, said Abraham H. Foxman in a JTA editorial. "Members of today's Dutch parliament should be guided by their founding fathers' championing of religious freedom."
Bieber and Bibi
A meeting between the improbable pair was called off suddenly, and each side has a different story. Prime Minister Netanyahu said that Bieber backed out after refusing to meet with children affecting by terror, while the singer cited "logistical" problems for the cancellation. The Israeli leader tried "to turn a photo op with a teen idol into a propaganda stunt for the war on Gaza," said an Economist blogger. Now it sounds like "he won't agree to be the boyfriend of EITHER Israel or Palestine," joked Jack Stuef at Wonkette. Let's just hope the "Israeli media will back off, and that the country's leadership gets a little savvier about how to greet high-profile visitors with millions of fans," said Nathan Burstein at The Jewish Daily Forward.
April 7, 2011 | 7:37 am
Posted by Danny Groner
A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Goldstone's regret
"We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document," said Richard Goldstone in a Washington Post op-ed last weekend. But Goldstone fell short of wishing the U.N. to nullify his report entirely. How'd the media react to this news? "A blood libel travels faster and can get even farther, and even a heartfelt mea culpa cannot call it back," said Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe. The good news it that this revelation "restores some measure of moral equilibrium to Israel," said David N. Myers in the Jewish Journal. And while it's step in the right direction, "Goldstone's belated change of heart does not absolve Israel of the need" to "be publicly transparent" and remain honorable in the eyes of the rest of the world, said a Jewish Daily Forward editorial.
Obama begins 2012 campaign - he'll need the Jewish vote
As Republicans Mitt Romney and John Thune met with the Republican Jewish Coalition, Obama kicked off his re-election campaign on Monday with a video that featured, among others, someone with a mezuzah necklace. "While having little impact in terms of numerical votes, American Jews' continued monetary support of Obama makes explaining the irrationality of that voting bloc extremely difficult," said Lauri B. Regan at the American Thinker. Everyone is after the Jewish vote, though. "Israel is a powerful symbol among the white voters the Republicans must bring out to the polls if they want any chance of victory in '12," said Ira Chernus at The Huffington Post. Let's just keep the discussion civil, said The Jewish Week in an editorial. "Debate about Middle East policy is healthy, but maybe this would be a good year to dial down the rhetoric and to work especially hard to keep U.S. support for Israel from getting sucked into the maws of hyper-partisan political campaigns."
Facebook sued over Palestinian intifada page
Last week, Facebook wiped the "Third Palestinian Intifada" page from its site because it made direct calls for violence, according to reports. But that didn't apparently end the saga - Political activist Larry Klayman filed a billion-dollar, class-action lawsuit, claiming that the page put his life - and the lives of other Jews - in danger. Klayman's made charges like this before, warned Amar Toor at Switched. "Accusing Mark Zuckerberg of profiting from an Intifada is very much within his strike zone." Get used to these types of suits, said David Zax at Fast Company. This is "a madhouse glimpse into what might be a real future of legal and legislative wrangling." Some, though, wonder if there's something there: "Based on my non-professional legal opinion, I'd say the case has merit," said Mike Pechar at The Jawa Report.
Wasserman Schultz, DNC chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida was appointed the next chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. Among other things, Wasserman Schultz, who is Jewish, gives the president some much-needed lift in the Jewish community thanks to her "strong ties with Jewish groups," reported The New York Times. The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC)'s chair and president said in a joint statement that "Few people are better positioned to understand the interests of the American Jewish community-and to continue ensuring that they are reflected in all of the work of the Democratic Party They added: "We wish her a hearty mazel tov on her selection."
Is Gadhafi Jewish?
Some have wondered if the Libyan leader is secretly Jewish, according to reports. NBC reported last week that "one in five rebels was fighting Gadhafi because he believes the leader is Jewish." The rumors stem from a belief that Gadhafi's mother was Jewish. Yeah, but "the same 'fact' surfaces from time to time about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," said Roger Kaplan at The American Spectator, and it "is significant only if it is taken seriously." Don't believe everything you hear.
March 31, 2011 | 9:00 am
Posted by Danny Groner
A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Facebook removes uprising page
On Tuesday, Facebook took down a page that had 340,000 fans that called on Palestinians to take up arms against Israel, following cries from pro-Israel users. The page that promoted a "Third Palestinian Intifada" was protested by some major Israeli and American Jewish leaders. This should be a lesson to anyone who believes that "social networking sites are powers only for facilitating democratic uprisings and other good ends," said a New York Daily News editorial. "They remind, too, that fanatics looking to find like-minded villains" can find a community online. "We applaud Facebook's ability to acknowledge when a line has been crossed; we'd support the same action for a page inciting violence against Palestinians, or anyone," said the Jewish Chronicle. But similar sites are already popping up, warned Emil Protalinski at ZDNet. "It looks to me like it has chopped off the snake's head, although the body is still writhing."
J Street's agenda in Israel
The topic of whether J Street is anti-Israel came up at the Knesset last week, amid protests from outside organizations. "Actions will always speak louder than words," said Matthew RJ Brodsky and Samara Greenberg at American Thinker, and J Street repeatedly shows its support for Israeli's antagonists. "Now is not the time for Israel to push away its friends and family," said J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami in Hill editorial. We stand for "values and policies that we believe are critical to the long-term security and vibrancy of Israel and the Jewish people." Maybe they have done served one purpose, though. "Agree or disagree with J Street. But it seems hard to argue that it hasn't injected some vigor into the discussion in America over Israeli policy," said Jacob Heilbrunn at The National Interest. After all, added The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, "those American Jews, who believe that J Street, and the spirit it represents, are fleeting phenomena have absolutely no idea what is happening in the Jewish world."
Palin's Israel trip fallout
Even after Sarah Palin's visit to Israel ended, the commentary carried on. What was her mission? many wondered. Like everything else she does, said Jonathan S. Tobin at Commentary, this was considered an early step toward a presidential run. Admittedly, she made a blunder when she called the debate over settlements a "zoning issue" - "it is an existential question that goes to the very heart of whether or not there ought to be a Jewish state no matter where its borders might be drawn," said Tobin. But attacks were "a bit overblown." She showed some courage, too, because she is "the only politician, in either party, who has been prepared to speak up for the right of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria," said a New York Sun editorial. Not only is she a "remarkable friend of Israel," she is also "a political matriarch here at home." Well, that wasn't her objective for this trip, said Sarah Posner at Religious Dispatches. Palin is "far more comfortable with an evangelical approach" and "like many of her co-religionists, the Jews are adorable pawns in God's plan." That's more in keeping with her own faith.
Hispanic-Jewish conference
In Texas, a two-day event titled "Bridges & Pathways" brought together local and national leaders from both Jewish and Hispanic groups to discuss the topics of immigration, education, the state of Israel, and more, according to the San Antonio Express-News. "It underscored what has been a longtime reality of deep friendship and collaboration in San Antonio," said the story's writer. How was the conference received? "One thing is clear: with Latinos poised to play a powerful role in American politics and culture, every other group — including the Jewish community — is looking for Latino partners," said James Besser at The Jewish Week. Moreover, this points to the "ongoing importance of the community relations agenda for a tiny Jewish community," said a Jewish Week editorial. These "alliances around domestic issues" will foster good will to help "the cause of protecting the critical U.S.-Israel relationship" down the line.
Jimmy Carter in Cuba
President Jimmy Carter left Cuba after a three-day stint without American Alan Gross, the contractor who's been jailed there on charges of spying. Carter's visit was noteworthy - he's only the second president to visit Cuba since 1928 - and served the purpose of promoting improved relations between the countries. Even a six-hour meeting with President Raul Castro couldn't bring Gross home. "By meeting with Raul and possibly Fidel, Carter will help re-legitimate the leaders whose repression of the Cuban people continues unabated," warned Ray Walser at The Heritage Foundation. But with an American in prison there, that takes a backseat. "I hope Gross gets out, by whatever means," said Jay Nordlinger at National Review.
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Terror returns to Jerusalem
A bomb exploded at a bus stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a woman and wounding dozens of others, according to reports. Prime Minister Netanuahu vowed to react "aggressively, responsibly and wisely" to the recent wave of Palestinian violence. These types of attacks are less common than they were a couple years ago, says a Jewish Daily Forward editorial, and the "Middle East has changed dramatically during those three years." Nonviolent uprisings can succeed; violence still "does not work." But the terrorists' goal isn't to get its own recognized, free nation, argues Jonathan S. Tobin at Commentary. "It is merely the latest installment in a decades-long war whose goal is not the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel but the destruction of the Jewish state."
How's the war in Libya affect Israel?
Obama has been attacked from all sides this week after deciding to sign off on a short mission to invade Libya. With the region already on shaky ground, this latest escalation has many wondering about Israel's ability to stand its ground. "Israel, wisely, has largely kept quiet about the international military intervention in Libya," says Herb Keinon in the Jerusalem Post. But that doesn't mean Israel's in the clear just yet. There's a growing concern that America could decide to deal Israel a similar blow. "I'm a connoisseur of conspiracy theories, but this one has left me speechless, and strikes me as dangerous hyperbole," says James Besser in The Jewish Week. "It's amazing" that anyone outside the "fringe" would believe this to be true.
Palin visits Israel
The former Alaska governor visited holy sites and met with Israeli leaders this week, what some are calling a sign she's contemplating a presidential run in 2012. During her trip, Palin said that Israel should stop apologizing for itself, a statement that "seems to have implicitly criticized the Obama posture on Israel," says Chris Good at The Atlantic. Palin stirred controversy not only for her words, but also for what she chose to wear during her stay. "Why the hell is she wearing a Star of David necklace? asks Ilana Angel in the Jewish Journal. "The necklace is a weak and pathetic attempt at being one of the tribe."
Moshe Katzav sentenced
Former president Moshe Katzav was sentenced to seven years in prison for rape, what he called "a mistake" of the courts, according to reports. Katzav has his defenders: "We are certain that Moshe Katsav was convicted by the media. It is a disgrace that the state of Israel is sending its president to jail," said one Israeli resident. These claims stem from the belief that Katzav engaged only in consensual sex, and the plaintiff was heavily influenced by outside organizations to go after the ex-president. The dissenting judge in the decision called it a "kangaroo court" and Katzav's "verdict was handed down long before the court did so."
Reform movement's new leader
Looking to revive itself and boosts its numbers, the Reform movement announced this week that Rabbi Richard Jacobs, who has been senior rabbi at the Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y., will become the president in 2012 of the Union for Reform Judaism, reports The New York Times. Jacobs will succeed Rabbi Eric Yoffie as president, pending board approval at a meeting this June. The Conservative movement got a new leader just two years ago, and with some many Jews "alienated by the cost or by the very idea of belonging somewhere," says a Jewish Daily Forward editorial, "it is important for these two movements" to restore their "function and purpose." It seems the Reform chose the right man for the job. "The most telling sign that Rabbi Jacobs was an excellent choice," says The Jewish Week in an editorial, "is the fact that so many of his colleagues are describing him as having the vision, energy, passion and commitment to take on the challenges he surely will face."
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For those interested in the lore/story the first of the faction short stories is up. This one is for the Shado Pan.
For those interested in the lore/story the first of the faction short stories is up. This one is for the Shado Pan.
Enjoy reading these. I hate reading them on blizzards site tho. Something about the color I think.
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"Humility defeats pride, Master Yang has preached. Pride defeats man"
Very nice story. Liked it a lot better then the rather lame ones involving Lili from the introduction of Mists.
That was pretty great. But I can't find any context clues indicating what exactly he stole at the very end, and it's driving me bonkers.
was surprisingly dark. i liked it though. maybe he'll replace lao softfoot.
I very much enjoyed it.
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Screenshot could help a bit A save would be better, but probably a bad idea
Hi All,
I have a bit of a problem. I'm playing Morgan in the SMANiaC Mod in a PBEM. He has -2 support off the bat, meanting no minerals when he builds a base and only supports 1 unit for free.
This is causing problems, as you may guess. Right now I'm building defenders and then colony pods. Building a terraformer takes forever and when it's done my industry is crippled (3 goes to 2, or 2 to 1 mins).
Right now I have 6 bases and one terraformer and it is 2144. I feel crippled by the lack of terraforming improvements, but the base where I build the terraformer (Morgan Industries) is having difficulty building anything.
Fortunately I haven't met anyone else yet or I'd be REALLY toast. I'm colonizing Pholus Ridge and Uranium Flats (lots of energy!), but my industry really sucks. SMAniaC's Morgan is a real bear.
Pods vs formers? Build formers when I grow vertically? I could post a screenshot if that would help.
Screenshot could help a bit A save would be better, but probably a bad idea
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I trust MasterBuilder, my PBEM opponent. This is, after all, my 16th PBEM with MB!
My turn is attached, and my password is Money (kind of obvious for Morgan, I guess).
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If it was me, I would build one of those cheap AI formers in each city and start formatting the terrain - planting forrest (if you can) and connect the cities with roads. Your lack of roads are a bit of a problem - your colony pods are on the road to their sites too long taking up min support, no possibility for quick responses in case of "emergencies".
Build recycling tanks or rather, hurry them - you have tons of energy.
Oh, and get that scout back to the rioting city - you have an extra in the nearby town that can take over.
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The cheap AI formers (that cost 1 row of minerals) are Not Allowed. The human players can only build the normal formers. I should have obsoleted them but was lazy.
None of the cities are rioting, but they will at size 3. Note that in SMAniaC my scouts get me no police benefit so leaving is irrelevent wrt rioting.
The scout you see is to help the colony pod go through the fungus - if the CP stirs up a MW it is toast. The other scouts are to kill a spoor launcher that has been pasting my city and poor scout for 6 turns.
So if I understand you, I should abort building more CPs and build formers instead. I'll also need to rush the rec commons at Morgan Industries before riots start at size 3. Then a recycling tank seems to be in order.
Anyway, thanks for the advice. I kind of knew I'd have to bite the bullet and build formers. -2 support is a bear. (insert wheepy violin music here)
I checked your save. I have to leave now for several hours, but have a few remarks that would need more writing. If during that time you advance to a new turn, maybe post it.
Ok, "not allowed" was the catch - I knew there was something fishy about you not building them
Guess that my setup isn't the rigth - the city just below the CP cools down if I move the scout back.
I don't see how you can get anywhere without formers - all that fungus prevents your movement and is probably filled with surprises.
About what to build first, I would build recycling before RC's. It's just a gut thing, but I think it's more effective - without terraforming I think it's better to get what a CT gives than what a worker on a raw tile can give.
Edit : forget those damn fiddles, play some real music and prepare for fight
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Are you loading with SMAniaC Mod? In regular SMAC the bases will riot at size 2 w/o a garrison, but in SMAniaC frontier SE gets you one free talent and garrisons have no effect due to reduced frontier police settings.
Any advice is appreciated. I played several of the SMAniaC factions and many of the SMAC 7 in SMAniaC and Morgan is definately the hardest. This means I'm missing something, or that Morgan has been pruned a bit too much. Now, he can pop boom in SMAniaC. How is that weighed against -2 support to start? Hard to say.
Ok, I'm back online. I think that many strategies from regular smax are still valid.
About number of bases and their population:
You can increase number of bases till you reach bureaucracy limit. Police should not be needed then and only defending units. Since, there is a talent in Frontier setting, I would spread bases as long as they can grow to size 2 without rioting. It gives you production centers, research points and energy for hurrying.
Keep population at size 2 no more, that until you have more energy in bases to assign some for psych and this way control the drones.
Here is something about making a colony pod in a base of size2. When you accumulate 2 rows of nutrients (out of needed 3 for population 3) and you build colony pod next turn, base looses -1 pop but then gets immediately pop +1 exhausting only 2 rows of food. You can build colony pods in such a base maintaining base pop at 2 all the time. It is the cheapest: 3 mineral rows + 2 nutrient rows (before any pop boom is possible). Note, that any nutrients above 2 rows are lost. In practice hurrying minerals is often needed not to loose additional nutrients.
So for example Morgan Ind. might build colony pod instead of Rec commons that you do not need if you keep population 2.
By the way, is retool strictiness in SMAniaC at 0? always free?
So if you switch to colony pod in Morgan Ind, you can hurry it in 2145 for 28 EC, loosing only 6 nutrients (26 accumulated).
York III has 18 nutriets. Wait till 2146 when it's 20 and then hurry colony pod. In 2147 you get colony pod and York has still population 2 and will be accumulating new nutrients - gives time before the problem of population 3.
Definitely needed like 2-4 per base. Forests should be first, they give you needed minerals. A base with 2 forests and recycling tank has 6 minerals. even with 2 units above limit you have 4 minerals.
Building roads is good for faster units relocation when needed. Also colony pods travel faster, you gain minerals for not upkeeping them. when having more formers you can remove even fungus from crucial tiles, that obstruct possible road between bases. with -1 planet sensors may be useful --> more formers.
Solar collectors:
Use mostly rolling, rainy tiles - elevation 1000-2000 meters. You get 2-1-2 when building only solar colector. energy is crucial not only for research but also hurrying where you get those needed additional minerals by paying for them. Hurrying is a good investment.
Recycling - yes get them asap everywhere. hurry only for 2 EC/mineral, after first (10?) minerals accumulated.
then increase number of formers. meanwhile build colony pods where needed keeping population 2.
I've been exploiting the size 2 base and CPs already. So far that is my strategy - expand as fast as possible by throwing everything into CPs. For Morgan with +1 energy at my home base sector this means more energy (and all the good things that come with it). In SMAniaC frontier gives you +1 efficiency, so if my math is correct I can have 11 bases before B-drones hit 1. Therefore, my number of target bases is 11. Over that and the native talents will be overwhelmed at size 2 since I get one angry drone at size 2, which is counteracted by the talent (with no police possible). So far Ive rushed all my CPs, typically when theyre half or 2/3 done. Note that I do NOT want to go to size 3 until I have a rec commons up, which is an incentive to keep producing CPs.
Switching production is free in SMAniaC. This makes reallocation of resources easy.
As to formers, if I build 2-4 per base then I would have no production at all since my bases require support for each unit after the first (one of the joys of -2 support). This is why Ive been so reticent about building formers. A starting base has 2 industry, and of that I get 1 free scout but the next unit (CP or former) takes support moving my industry down to a horrible 1, which will only get bigger when I grow my base to size 2. I built a former at Morgan Industries right away and was punished for it with 1 production for quite a while.
My typical strategy is to rush a former on the turn after I build the base using my 10 free mins when you establish a base and 25 energy. Morgan gets NO free mineral when he establishes a base due to -2 support so I cant rush anything I have to wait for about 5 turns to get 10 mins. Then I have the nasty choice of building a scout (this is worm ridden territory having no defense is bad) or rushing a former and having no defense for 4 or 5 more turns. An exposed base for ~10 turns is not a happy situation, so Ive reluctantly opted for the scout. Then I have the choice of a former or a CP I chose the CP to get more bases. As I said, a nasty choice. Both a CP and former offer different sorts of Turn Advantages (to use Vels lingo).
That said, not having terraforming is starting to cripple me in other ways and Ill have to take the hit and build them. It hurts less for size 2 bases. What may make sense is to have the interior bases make formers and keep the exterior bases on CPs grow from the outside (to reduce transit time of CPs to their home) and build from the inside.
I completely agree on recycling tanks. I just got the tech for recycling tanks in 2145. Before that all I could build were recreation commons, which are pretty useless for size two cities. Having Morgan Industries switch to tanks probably does make sense rather than a rec commons, but unfortunately Ive already committed in my submitted turn. Thats OK though Morgan Industries is growing to size 3 soon and Ill need the drone control. Next in the queue is a tank, which will be easier to build with more resources. The plan is have Industries grow vertically, and the rest grow horizontally.
For terraforming, not having roads and nasty fungus blocking the way is the worst penalty. Im fortunate in that I have rainy sectors for all my bases, so farms are largely irrelevant since nutrient restrictions havent been lifted. A good many of my sectors have rivers, which reduces the critical need for solar collectors (and Id only get 1 more energy if I build SCs due to energy restrictions, so they are lower on the priority list). Also, with bases in the Pholus Ridge and Uranium Flats I reach the energy cap pretty darn quickly. Forests at 1-2-2 are pretty darn good in Pholus and Flats. Ive built some in the hopes that theyll spread into the fungus. Ripping out fungus takes 10 turns in SMAniaC, so right now Id rather plant a few forests or road/farm/solar instead.
In the end, I guess Im having a hard time adapting my typical strategies to the SMAniaC Morgan. Perhaps that is the best reason to play him.
Well, I agree, no free 10 minerals is hurting. Setting "former pumps" in the inner territory bases seems the way to go. also scout patrols may be built faster in bases already well established and sending them with colony pods. New base would have a defender right from the start.
No roads is not that bad when you have rivers. Maybe put some bases more closely, like in ICS.
You play with blind research, but you have formers now, I think 1 and then 2 per base is good for start, but you need additional minerals. And forests are the best source.
I'm not sure growing Morgan Ind vertical is good at this time. you have only few tiles average cause there is a lot of fungus stil around:
3 times 2-1-1 on rivers, one 2-1-0, some ocean 1 nut and rock 1 mineral. that's all. it would support 1 specialist, but at size 5. not a fast upgrade. I would have another idea:
I attach a screenie. The red cross, 3 tiles NE shows proposed location of a new base. Consider the following:
- rehome former to Swakopmund, you have +1 mineral free in MI - I think HQ needs upgrade faster.
- switch rec commons to colony pod, this is to give no support for those workers for little extra than 2 nutrients they will eat from 2-1-1 tiles.
- free the forest W and SW from MI, so MI (Morgan Ind) can work it. you will have +4 minerals at this point!
- hurry colony pod for those 25 EC in 2146? you submitted 2145 already ? pay in full, so next turn in 2147 you have already accumulated 4 minerals.
- in 2147 give "hold" order to colony pod. st production to scout you have 4 + 3 (cause cp takes 1 now) so to 10 you need only 3 more. how much to pay? i think the following:
6+4+4 = 14 EC. Cause it below 10 minerals, the cost is doubled. it would be in full:
3+2+2+2+2+2, but doubled:
6+4+4+4+4+4, though you can pay those 3 expensive only. If you want to spend more for security, like mindworm entering forest, these 12 EC to ful payment of 26 EC may be worth it.
- anyway in 2148 you get cp and scout ready to go to that red cross. they may if lucky reach it using river in the same turn, if not in 2150 you establish a new base, that due to that nutrient in the ocean will grow fast. rehome new scout there and start former.
- in 2148 in MI start former. you get initially +2 minerals only, but in 2150 it is +4 again!
- in 2151 you should have more than 10 mins in MI to hurry former there. pay in full, so you start the second one or recycling tanks with 4 mins accumulated already.
- make forests in those 3 river tiles 2-1-1 now, but then 1-2-2, note MI working such forests with 2 pop will not grow, but you have 8 energy in that base and 5 or 6 minerals with recycling tanks, supporting 2 formers its 3 to 4. those 2 formers will make a difference. build roads or forest to grow over fungus, etc.
- that red cross base can be a colony pods pump due to nutrient bonus, when with another river forest and recyc tanks minerals will be 4 minus 1 or 2 when supporting 2-3 units. you will hurry cp's mostly. a second forest there may improve it a lot, when that ocean nutrient doeas not need to be worked
So if you keep MI at 2 population, "pump" formers only from there. rehome them in new bases to free resources, they will soon build more forests and support themselves.
Red cross base would "pump" colony pods
You're playing Morgan. All you need minerals for is to get to 10 minerals. After that you just hurry everything with your abundant energy.
Anyway, you've played much more SMAniaC than me by now, so you're probably a better judge of the balance of the factions. However to offer the idea I had in mind when making that change: the -1 minerals from Support is more than offset with the energy boni from running Plutocrat and/or Private property economies. Personally I think the main problem for Morgan here is that you're playing Blind Research and thus can't b-line to these social engineering choices. I always played with Blind Research off and haven't given one second of thought of how the factions would play under Blind Research. Picking your research strategy is a large part of the fun of the game for me.
I still have passwords for Smaniac Prime pbem. It is 5 player, and game reached 2115. do you think it might be revived?
You mean with me in it?
yes, you were playing Atlanteans.
but in my experience, rarely such old abandoned games continue. better to start a new one
Sir Maniac,
I've always like blind research, but it is frustrating. Right now I'm set at Build tech, but what you get is a lotto. A while ago I was Build-Explore so I could have a better shot at formers (which took 3 tries). For SE, Plutocrat is a LONG way away, but Private/Protectionist (with its glorious +2 energy) could be my next tech. I've been hoping for that one for quite a while now - 40 years, as the game is now in 2148 (MB and I get several turns a day on weekends, which is good for a PBEM). Priv/Prot will likely kill me with its -1 talent, -1 support (-3 support! Ack!), and -1 industry, but I don't think there are better options. I suspect that size 2 bases will immediately go into revolt since my free Talent from frontier Unitary Demo will be nullified. I wonder if the extra energy will be offset by more drones/less tiles worked, the need to build rec commons, industry penalty (direct and via -3 support). If the penalty is too severe I'll have to wait with Priv/Prot until after I'm at 11 bases, then start building infrastructure.
Mart Im on 2148 and the rec commons has been built. I like the idea of your nearby base at the red X. I have to admit I hadnt given the sea nutrient much thought. Moreover, there is so much fungus I really dont know what is behind the Red Vail. My scout exploring there was killed long ago when it attacked a worm and failed (!!!).
So heres the revised plan. Get a CP to the Red X (using the scout from MI to make sure it doesnt stir up a worm), create a former and terraform one of the river squares and one of the non-river tiles (in your screeni, the rainy tile to the NW of MI), build Tanks, and then a few more formers. York will finish a former in the coming turn, which will move north to create a road and a forest. Hopefully the forests will sprread, and York still has 2 rainy tiles so growth wont be hampered. The other rainy tile will get a solar collector, then the former moves SE toward Cairnes. Uranium Flats has HUGE potential since it has a few rainy tiles due to the river (rare most of the time the Flats is rather arid). Loderitz will continue pumping CPs due to its high minerals and nutrient special. Ill continue my colonization push north along the Pholus Ridge another real good terrain feature for anyone, especially Morgan.
In the meantime I know my opponent is extorting energy (~200 to date) and tech from Briens and will shortly go on a war of conquest. Maybe I should post the dialog MB and I are doing for this PBEM? Im leading in population, so that gives me some hope I just need to expand very quickly to catch up.
By the way, your screenie looks real good. How do you do that? Whenever I do a screenshot it comes out grainy. What I do is:
Screenshot, Alt-Tab out, paste to Paint. The image comes out inverted
Exit AC, paste again to Paint
Export to ImageShack. Cut link and paste.
There is a problem with color palette as far as i remember. What solves it is turning off some DirectDraw option underOriginally posted by Hydro
By the way, your screenie looks real good. How do you do that? Whenever I do a screenshot it comes out grainy. What I do is:
Screenshot, Alt-Tab out, paste to Paint. The image comes out inverted
Exit AC, paste again to Paint
Export to ImageShack. Cut link and paste.
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add this line:
it also changes screen rescaling, from readme txt:
Settings this to 0 disables DirectDraw. This disables the automatic window
resolution resizing during program launch.
however some people reported this did not work very well for them. let's hope you can use it alright.
On monitors with resolutions like 1920x1200 this makes map visible with a lot of tiles, but if the size of pixel on a monitor is very small, this is very strenuous for eyes. I zoom sometimes few times from standard zoom (shift+z) using "z". On a laptop with pixel below 0.2 mm this looks ok.
another thing, i can paste screenshot without closing AC, on XP or vista you can open start menu, then alt+tab to new aplication, maybe this DirectDraw must be enabled, I'm not sure now.
I use Irfanview. save as bmp. then open in Paint, make drawings, open in Irfanview again and save as jpg this time, where i can choose quality. it has good algorithm, cause imageshack apparently does not do a good job.
about switching between applications. I think the setting:
maybe required for this.
The replacement of color palette is something that influences work of other apps, so disabling palette replacement seems necessary.
Last edited by Mart; March 9, 2008 at 16:42.
Quick update.
It is 5152 and I've regained the population lead on Chiron. Yeh! Pop is king, especially before crawlers come around.
I still have 6 bases, but will set up #7 (where Mart suggested) in the coming turn. Another CP is trudging its way through the fungus to the north on Pholus Ridge. It has a scout escort. Chiron is a dangerous place - a few more scouts have gotten munched by worms since my last post. boo...hisss. Im sorry, but the fungus just has to go. Formers are a priority.
I also found a nutrient special by a river system in wet/rainy area of the Uranium Flats. **gasp!** FOOD! BUKU ENERGY! I almost creamed myself. The nearest base that has 10 mins gets a CP rushed!!!
I also got Industrial Base, which removes mineral restrictions (!!!), allows mine to be constructed, and allows Private/Protectionist (-1 support, +3 eco, +1 research, -1 industry, -1 talent). I played with my SE to see what would happen. My support went to -3, so every unit required support. The -1 talent meant that all my bases rioted except Morgan Industries. Keeping the drones under control and the -3 support penalty completely crashed my industry into the negative. Conclusion: I have to have rec commons up or Priv/Prot simply will not work. But gee...my science rate went from 9 turns to 5!! And my energy went through the roof with an eco of +4. The only small determent is that Pholus Ridge and Uranium Flats (which give +1 energy/sector) are less valuable once I get +2 eco since energy caps are still in place. Ah, well.
My (blind) research stays on Build and I'll add Discover. I want energy restrictions removed when I get Zero Point Energy (D4). I just hope no Bad Guys show up or Im toast.
So - the plan is to get to 11 bases (all CPs are either on the way or in production), have bases build a former, then build Rec Commons - then go Priv/Prot ASAP.
Bad news. In 2156 the Templars (being run by MasterBuilder) have conquered the Republic, have gotten all their tech and energy, and have demanded their largest base.
I just lost my second former in two turns to worms, so now I have one former left. This is tough since formers are so expensive for Morgan to build. I've lost about 6 scouts to worms in the last few decades, so units are being destroyed faster than they can be built with my very modest industrial ability. The worm that destroyed my latest former is now at the doorstep of Morgan Industries and I can't do anything about it. Another worm will advance such that at least I'll get to attack it first (although I've lost a few of the times I've attacked, much to my sorrow). Pretty grim overall.
I also made an error in calculating the number of bases since with the establishment of my 9th base (instead of 12th) I got an efficiency warning. I must have the wrong world size. So, no more bases for me and one size 2 base is in riot.
There's not much I can do but stick to plan: build rec commons, switch to Private/Protectionist, suffer industrial collapse and population loss in my cities that do not have rec commons, and do my best to pull through. Clearly I will not have any significant minerals in most of my bases so I'll have to rely in energy.
Looks like MB is going to run away with PBEM16. I've run Morgan in our PBEMs before, and all I have to say is that the SMANiaC Morgan runs VERY differently than what I'm used to.
P.S. - one of the techs I got a while back was Doct:Flex. Maybe I should build a 1-1-5 sea foil to try to find the other factions? Morgan thrives on commerce and a few trade deals and exchanged techs might make the investment worthwhile.
where do you play the pbem? apolyton or some other site, who is MasterBuilder?
MB is a good friend I've had for 25 years (since high school). We've been doing PBEMs since 2001 or so. We just e-mail the turns to each other. Never saw much need to use the Multiplayer forum since it is just the two of us.
We also exchange dialog with each turn. I used to post the dialog in the Fiction Forum but have been lazy, I guess. The PBEM stories are great fun (the real reason we do the PBEM) and usually run hundreds of pages. Perhaps I should post our current dialog? As of Turn 58 of PBEM 16 we are on page 92 in Word.
It is now 2163. I migrated to Private/Protectionist (-1 talent, +2 eco, -1 support, -1 industry). This has crippled my industry (-3 support means my small bases produce between zero and 2 and maybe 3 mins a turn) and riot at size 2, but my breakthrough rate is 6 years (very good for this early in the game). Rec commons and recycling tanks are a must, to be sure.
The good news is that I took a chance and launched a foil and almost immediately met the Ghosts, exchanged some tech, bought the comm. channels for Yang and my opponent the Templar. Both the Ghosts and Yang gave me a friendship treaty that high commerce rating (Morgan and +3 eco) will get me lots of energy! Or so I hope.
In the meantime, the Templars are going to take out the Hive, which has 2 bases. It may not be much of a fight since the Templars are huge now (10+ or so base)
My strategy is to goose energy/tech rate, drive to additional energy SE (Private/Free Trade and Plutocrat), go Green, and see what happens. Maybe an all economy/energy and Go Native strategy will work? The Templars seem to be pretty good against Native, but with an energy focus I cant see going toe to toe with my (non-existent) military. Plus, natives in fungus are support free (a huge problem for me), get PlanetPearls, find new (free!) friends to join the cause, and in SMAniaC mindworms are VERY cheap to build.
There is an irony here Morgan going Green and All Native!
I sure hope I get the tech to try it out before the Templars come knocking with their Junta-goosed infantry.
LOL that's indeed original. Before you have Fungal Gin Breweries it's probably too hard to popboom (with Anthropocentric) anyway.
Btw, do you think it would be an improvement if the Fungal Gin Brewery (renamed to something else Virtual World related) was moved to Optical Computers? The explore techs already have more than enough builder benefits I guess.
Sorry, but Morgan still can't pop boom (easily) since he can't run Planned. Of course, if I manage to get GA+creche+antro I could get +6 growth, but the chance of that is pretty small. I certainly won't get there using energy-intensive SE (private/protectionist or private/free trade) due to the -1 talent that comes with them. Nasty drones! You should LOVE ME when I exploit you!
Now there are no hab limits for SMAniaC Morgan, so my bases can grow to above size 4. Of course, that is assuming I can get above size 2 or 3 to get to 4...
Not sure about about VW. It is such a powerful SP that it is better to leave it to early or mid mid game. Optical Computers in SMAniaC is a D5 tech (as I recall it is more of a D3 in SMAC/X), which is pretty far down the pike. So it is a Discover, and the flavor seems to be more Discover than anything else. Of course, with a name like Fungal Gin Factory it belongs in Explore!
Oh, and for those that are interested my 2163 turn is attached. My secret codes is 'money'.
Move the foil north and you'll find the Ghosts. I managed to get a treaty, Info Networks, and Yang's comm frequency from the Ghosts and a treaty and Silvara's (MasterBuilder) from Yang. Frankly, I was thrilled they didn't declare war on me...
I mean renaming the Fungal Gin Brewery to something else, and move it to Optical Computers.Originally posted by Hydro
Not sure about about VW. It is such a powerful SP that it is better to leave it to early or mid mid game. Optical Computers in SMAniaC is a D5 tech (as I recall it is more of a D3 in SMAC/X), which is pretty far down the pike. So it is a Discover, and the flavor seems to be more Discover than anything else. Of course, with a name like Fungal Gin Factory it belongs in Explore!
I saw the save. How did you managed to get all those things from Ghosts? You are good in AI diplomacy.Originally posted by Hydro
... I managed to get a treaty, Info Networks, and Yang's comm frequency from the Ghosts and a treaty and Silvara's (MasterBuilder) from Yang. Frankly, I was thrilled they didn't declare war on me...
No idea. The Ghosts were slightly hostile when I first contacted them, but then immediately asked to trade Centauri Ecology (as I recall) for Info Networks (sure!!). That bumped his attitude to neutral, but he wouldn't trade any more tech. He wanted a gift tech, which I declined. I asked and got a friendship treaty. I suspect the fact he's at war with the Hive and Templars and I'm #2 or 3 on the power chart gave me a few points in my favor. Then I bought the Hive's comm frequency for 25 megacredits. That was VERY fortunate since I asked for a couple of other faction's frequency, which he didn't have. At any time he could have told me he had no more time and cut me off. In past SManiaC games the Ghosts have gone hostile very quickly.
The Hive wouldn't trade tech (to keep the Command Nexus out of my hands), but did sell me Silvara's frequency. He wanted me to declare war on the Ghosts, which I declined. He did agree to a friendship treaty. The Templars will be erradicating the Hive, so it won't profit me much.
I haven't seen any Commerse energy from the treaties but perhaps it will kick in next turn. A careful inspection will allow me to determine the number of Ghost and Hive cities, and get a general idea of relative size/economic power.
Overall I was pretty lucky. But the Ghosts are very aggressive, and if I'm not careful I'll set them off. I'm getting my foil out of his territory ASAP.


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The preliminary numbers are in and Microsoft will soon be the proud new owner of a devices and services business unit.Microsoft's Mobile Ambitions Just Keep Looking Better
New data from Gartner suggests the IT giant is positioned well for its pending entry into the mobile device market.