Post making contest 5.0

This is update #232.

YEAR THREE COMMENTARY

• Once again, I failed the quest in the far-flung location that I have yet to discover. Go figure.
  
• Can I get away with founding a city in a desert? Let's find out! Good luck, Scorch!
  
• The locals want me to fuck up some more monsters. I can do this. I can do this. I can...
  
• If I put everyone in Hurricos onto production, I can crack out the Industrial Megapole in ten turns. I am very tempted to do this, just because I love its name.
  
• Note to self: empire plan influence costs go up every time so that 180 I needed turned out to be 240. Fortunately I had 376 banked but still.
  
• At this point, I stopped for dinner, during which something of great importance occurred to me: I don't know what the win conditions are.
  
• ...so it looks like I've been aiming for a time score victory then...
  
• I auto-resolved the monster battle. Does that make me the true monster?
  
• I made peace with the dark green people. That was my first interaction with them this entire game.
  
• Turns out you can get... hints? when you hover over quest objectives. My new mainline quest requires me to defeat three armies with a hero and the tooltip hint is "Armies can be defeated by pounding their heads in."
  
• AND I IMMEDIATELY GET INTO A BATTLE WITH A ROAMING ARMY
  
• Orange, red and lime green have closed their borders to me. Huh. That means I can't get out east any more. Ah well.
  
• I just beat the lime green people to settling Inelle Toasty by a turn. They are going to be so pissed.
  
• okay so overexpansion penalties exist that's good to know, by which I mean oops
  
• I did not get the Industrial Megapole. I got a refund instead. Now that's pretty cool.
  
• I ran into another roaming army and could only resolve the fight in a draw, so I ran towards Colossus and got reinforcements for the next turn in the form of the city garrison. That is also pretty cool.
  
• The luxury resources revealed from entering the third era include "blood crystals", "moonleaf" and "titan bones". Um.
  
• oh goodness I have a lot of adamantian and palladian
  
• ROADS ARE SO COOL
  
• dark green have decided we shouldn't have a peace treaty any more UMMMMMM
  
• You are quite distant so I'm not worried about you invading me and all but why aren't you content with just being friends? Was it something I said?
  
• ...I closed my borders to my red necrophage neighbours and they really didn't like that...
  
• I finally remembered to unlock the marketplace. I get the feeling I should have got round to this much earlier...
  
• And the yeti mice finally close their borders to me. At least they had the decency to dress it up like a good idea...
  
• Huzzah! I finally managed a to rack up a legendary deed! 2000 influence accumulated just like that! I do not understand my reward but I don't mind that! It's the feeling of having achieved something that I was aiming for...
  
• I've started an empire-wide campaign of watchtower construction in an attempt to make me feel safer. I don't know how this will help; I'm hoping it's the thought that'll count...
  
• That was definitely the longest winter yet...

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