Post making contest 5.0

Hey look another ruleset for which we have never passed rule 3.

Passes 4, 5.

Or rules 1 and 2 for that matter.

Passes 5.

Well, technically we only need one of them.

Unless there's some weird trickery going on and we actually can only pass five rules if we pass all of them at once. I wouldn't put it past Reyweld to do something like that.

Passes 5

This is episode #14.

• Trott: "where are your cities Rythian?" Rythian: "they are in the... right... south of you" UH HUH UH HUH I THINK THOSE PAUSES BETRAY NOT A LACK OF GEOGRAPHICAL ACUMEN BUT AN ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE
  
• (although I guess strictly speaking if you went right enough you'd get there eventually)
  
• A straight minute and a half of Rythian explaining the tourism mechanic to everyone. This is the stuff that keeps me going.
  
• Sjin: "What is everyone's culture right now? What's the plus pink number?"
  
• Smiffy: 14 / Tom: 18 / Trott: 22 / Sjin: 118 / Rythian: 282
  
• NONE OF THOSE FIRST THREE NUMBERS ARE ACCEPTABLE
  
• Trott: "What's... I guess it's cannons, right? What's the siege weapon of the modern era?" ARTILLERY
  
• There's an ideology notification down the side which I reckon is Sjin's but nobody wants to hover over slash mention these things.
  
• Sjin is making one heck of a fuss because he had no oil.
  
• SJIN HAS SPOTTED SOME OIL IN JERUSALEM SO HAS MOVED HIS GREAT GENERAL KHAN DOWN TO CITADEL IT
  
• BUT HE HASN'T REALISED HE'S AT WAR WITH JERUSALEM SO DIDN'T ESCORT IT
  
• RIP KHAN
  
• Smiffy: "I think one of my roads got interrupted when I built a citadel on it" ...firstly, why did you plop the citadel there at all. Secondly, THAT IS NOT A THING THAT CAN HAPPEN
  
• Smiffy's road network bloody hell
  
• Tom: "Jerusalem's at war with us?" YES SJIN IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER THIS
  
• Trott is asking Tom and Smiffy about the best way to promote his units. Neither Tom nor Smiffy know what any of the promotions are called.
  
• Sjin has gone incredibly quiet. I can't help but wonder...
  
• So in Tom's view there is no Khan on the tile and no citadel in the vicinity either. WELL DONE SJIN.
  
• TILE IMPROVEMENTS TOM OUARZAZATE HAS STOPPED GROWING AT ELEVEN POP DESPITE BEING SURROUNDED BY CATTLE, SHEEP AND WHEAT
  
• I think Tom is going to invade Trott? Surely not...
  
• The view cuts back to Sjin just in time to watch him automate a worker and cause everyone to start complaining about how shit the game is because the turn timer has "randomly" reset again.
  
• Tom is sending a Great General with his navy.
  
• ...do you think he realises Great Admirals exist?
  
• TROTT IS LOOKING AT THE IDEOLOGY SCREEN PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MINDS BLOWN
  
• RYTHIAN: FREEDOM / SJIN: ORDER - both entirely expected and sensible picks
  
• SMIFFY: AUTOCRACY
  
• THE GUY WHO COULDN'T EVEN CONQUER A CITY STATE HAS TAKEN THE WARMONGER IDEOLOGY
  
• AND IS SUFFERING MASSIVE HAPPINESS PENALTIES AS A RESULT OF RYTHIAN'S INFLUENCE OVER HIP RIP SMIFFY
  
• seriously Sjin is the only player who can get away with taking an ideology that isn't Freedom, and even then he might be forced to switch later on
  
• ...does anyone here even know that they can switch ideologies?
  
• Smiffy: "why is everyone so fucking sad?"
  
• CUE RYTHIAN EXPLAINING THE IDEOLOGICAL PRESSURE MECHANIC FOR A FULL MINUTE
  
• Sjin: "Me and Rythian are arguably too good to be here" DAMN RIGHT
  
• Sjin completing the World's Fair would actually throw a spanner in the works of Rythian's culture victory... the victory he wasn't even intending to go for...
  
• TROTT IS COMPLAINING ABOUT HAVING TO DO MATHS - AS IN, ADDING UP FOUR AND FIVE
  
• RYTHIAN'S LAUGHTER WHEN SMIFFY STOPPED THE WORLD'S FAIR
  
• HE KNOWS HOW MUCH THEY FUCKED UP
  
• SJIN THOUGHT IT WAS THE TOURISM PROJECT
  
• Tom... you can't walk to Morocco. You just can't. You absolutely cannot do that.
  
• THE FIRST PERSON TO REALISE THAT THE WORLD IS ROUND WILL GET MY UNDYING RESPECT
  
• SJIN AND TOM ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT A BLOCKADE IS
  
• Trott: "I discovered how to navigate!" I just love how proud they sound about technological advancements that are centuries behind Rythian
  
• COAL FOR SILVER IS NOT A BALANCED TRADE

tl;dr - Rythian's patience is utterly phenomenal.

End of message.

Passes 4.

"You have caused 1,385 explosions in this play session alone."

Passes 4, 5, 6.

presto pageo*

(for those using 25/page default)

Passes 4, 5.

Civ victories:

Diplomatic: Kill a few civs to lower the delegate limit
Cultural: Kill the few civs that are producing more culture than your tourism
Spaceship: Kill the civ that's ahead of you in science and is almost done with their spaceship
Conquest: Don't kill the civs, just take their capitals

Passes 4, 5.

Civ victories:

Diplomatic: Kill a few civs to lower the delegate limit
Cultural: Kill the few civs that are producing more culture than your tourism
Spaceship: Kill the civ that's ahead of you in science and is almost done with their spaceship
Conquest: Don't kill the civs, just take their capitals

I am a civ expert and I can verify that all of the above statements are true. But also:

Time: Kill a few civs to kill time.

Passes no rules.

HERE IS A DEFINITIVE LIST OF NUMBERS:

000, 001, chr, jul, 002, 006, 010, 011, 043, ixt, 051, mlp, 076, 100, 103, kol, 104, chm, ott, 128, sbl, 157, 185, 192, ptl, 218, 232, zwo, 241, 245, 258, v12, 277, 291, mnt, 304, 314, 316, 317, 355, 378, hpl, oxt, 399, 404, rcr, 411, btn, 442, wrt, 452, 461, brk, 462, fma, 472, 523, 529, 541, 550, 551, 552, kar, 553, 555, 580, 596, 601, 613, 614, glx, 628, 642, 666, 672, 690, 712, 728, 731, awy, lcr, 747, 757, 770, 777, 800, 806, cat, 815, 837, 859, 875, 888, 902, 917, 923, 947, 966, wiq, 987, 992

Passes 5, 6.

HERE IS ANOTHER DEFINITIVE LIST OF NUMBERS:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 32, flf, universe

Passes 5.

HERE IS ONE LAST SPECIAL DEFINITIVE LIST OF NUMBERS:

334, 226, 274, 476, 823, 847, 683, 768

Passes 5.

{all the numbers; had to cut it out to make character limit}

Passes 5. This post is the closest any has gotten to rule 3, but isn't *close*, just closer.

A52 DISCOVERS 948 NEW NUMBERS

Passes no rules.