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I settled on the name Sortis from the latin because you don't play every turn in the game instead you skip ahead and calculate what happened at the point you want to make a genuine change to what's going on. Its a way of having the mechanics of the computer adding 1 wheat each turn without you having to manually add 1 wheat each turn. The literal translation is "of the lot/ of fate/ of oracle". Its etymology stretches back to a series, chain or row; which is equally relevant to this game. I'd...
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