Re: Lack of Gold and Desertion
Yes, that's right, each Polypal Queen must issue the order to summon the Gibodai for free. The water in the game map is one of those 'winding river' kind of deals that nearly all the hand-drawn maps have, rather than the 'big pond' you get from random maps. So maintaining positive dominion is difficult for water nations, especially when nearly all the land nations seen to have their capitol on the coast. I managed it with quite a few early Polypal Queens. But they are H2, so preaching doesn't do anything once you get to dom5, so I thought, hey, free Gibodai!
Everything was going swimmingly because I've got order-growth-luck scales and tons and tons of cash. Or at least I did until TC cast AN, which I thought was not a nice thing to do, so I invaded him, being his closest neighbor. I made pretty good progress against him, and also got some help from Sauromatia teleporting in, and Hinnom too a bit later. And that's when the armageddons started, and when they were finished I no longer had my precious gold income any more.
The Gibodai are free to summon, but of course still cost upkeep, though it's halved since they are sacred. But 30 forts and 10 Polypal Mothers per fort=300 Gibodai per turn. Oops.
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