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SysNES 1: A Murky Pool of Light
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SysNES 1: A Murky Pool of Light
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Rules - General
Hi there, welcome to SysNES. I'm Dis, the Game Moderator and this is a shared roleplaying game-world where players control different socitities in a post-apolcaplytic Space-Opera setting! With pixel art! Its suffixed with 'Never Ending Story' for immaterial ancestral reasons - what games of this type have been traditionally called on CivFanatics.com.
At its most basic this game, but like many table-top games, is about interacting sets of numbers mediated by random number generators. In this case these numbers pertain to the statistics of your socitiety (population, productivity, etc), and the capabilities of your space ships and armies (speed, weapons, etc). I, as the all-knowing GM keep the majority of these numbers hidden in my Fortress of Doom, but I release sets of them periodically in updates representing a years worth of time having occured in the gameworld, and augment them with pretty maps, graphics, and a substantial chunk of prose detailing what has happened to the factions of the gameworld in my idiosyncratic writing style for the enjoyment of player and reader (see the update 0 lower down on this page for an example). The players job is to provide orders in between each update for how the numbers should change, reflecting their view of what the society in the game world would or should have done within the set game mechanics. An encouraged but not required player function is to provide their own prose or graphics to give more flavour to their society in the gameworld as it navigates the perils of the grim future in which it finds itself.
The rest of these posts here on the first page feature an exhaustive look at the game mechanics, and how players can interact with them, and the handy spreadsheet tools I've developed to help make this job quick and managable.
Order structure:
In your orders I'd like:
-What your spending e on
-What your spending s on
-Where you want ships and troops to move
-New ship designs
-Other stuff
-why you want to do that.
-cunning plans
Turn structure:
The order in which game mechanic events happen, each phase occurs at the same time for all players.
Research and Development Phase: S is spent, techs and ships discovered or created.
Build Phase: All habitats, facilities, ships and troops are generated. Starving population dies.
Pre-move Combat Phase: Newly built ships or on-going battles have their engagements to determine control of orbital space. Newly built ships do not have to engage in this if they don't want to.
Move Phase: Ships with IP drives can move to any world in the same system, Ships with IS drives can move between systems. Troops and population can move between worlds according to the rules below. e traded between players.
Main Combat Phase: Most ship engagements and ground warfare occur.
Fleeing Phase: Ships escaping loosing combats do so.
Activity Phase: Ships and facilities with special abilities do those activities: Bombing, ship repair, alpha hab construction, weapons station bombardment of orbiting ships etc.
End Phase: Population growth occurs, outstanding issues dealt with.
Hi there, welcome to SysNES. I'm Dis, the Game Moderator and this is a shared roleplaying game-world where players control different socitities in a post-apolcaplytic Space-Opera setting! With pixel art! Its suffixed with 'Never Ending Story' for immaterial ancestral reasons - what games of this type have been traditionally called on CivFanatics.com.
At its most basic this game, but like many table-top games, is about interacting sets of numbers mediated by random number generators. In this case these numbers pertain to the statistics of your socitiety (population, productivity, etc), and the capabilities of your space ships and armies (speed, weapons, etc). I, as the all-knowing GM keep the majority of these numbers hidden in my Fortress of Doom, but I release sets of them periodically in updates representing a years worth of time having occured in the gameworld, and augment them with pretty maps, graphics, and a substantial chunk of prose detailing what has happened to the factions of the gameworld in my idiosyncratic writing style for the enjoyment of player and reader (see the update 0 lower down on this page for an example). The players job is to provide orders in between each update for how the numbers should change, reflecting their view of what the society in the game world would or should have done within the set game mechanics. An encouraged but not required player function is to provide their own prose or graphics to give more flavour to their society in the gameworld as it navigates the perils of the grim future in which it finds itself.
The rest of these posts here on the first page feature an exhaustive look at the game mechanics, and how players can interact with them, and the handy spreadsheet tools I've developed to help make this job quick and managable.
Spoiler Basic Introduction :
Order structure:
In your orders I'd like:
-What your spending e on
-What your spending s on
-Where you want ships and troops to move
-New ship designs
-Other stuff
-why you want to do that.
-cunning plans
Turn structure:
The order in which game mechanic events happen, each phase occurs at the same time for all players.
Research and Development Phase: S is spent, techs and ships discovered or created.
Build Phase: All habitats, facilities, ships and troops are generated. Starving population dies.
Pre-move Combat Phase: Newly built ships or on-going battles have their engagements to determine control of orbital space. Newly built ships do not have to engage in this if they don't want to.
Move Phase: Ships with IP drives can move to any world in the same system, Ships with IS drives can move between systems. Troops and population can move between worlds according to the rules below. e traded between players.
Main Combat Phase: Most ship engagements and ground warfare occur.
Fleeing Phase: Ships escaping loosing combats do so.
Activity Phase: Ships and facilities with special abilities do those activities: Bombing, ship repair, alpha hab construction, weapons station bombardment of orbiting ships etc.
End Phase: Population growth occurs, outstanding issues dealt with.
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Rules and Stats - Technology
The image contains the current tech levels (update 6) and s left to accumulate in each field plus the currently known tech fields. The left hand side is the societies current levels, whilst on the right is the s required to reach the next level. In the tech fields section Ship Components are in blue, Facilities are in black, changes to existing things are in green and new capabilities are in red.
Technology
You increase your knowledge and abilities by researching new technologies, which takes s alone.
Rather than a tree, I have for a levels system with 9 different fields, though nearly every advance or new capability will require levels in at least two or more fields. The new advance is only revealed when a player reaches all the tech levels required for it - being the technology leader is a foray into the unknown!
Trading technology requires the giver to invest a certain amount of s (showing the processing of the information for trade - translation, annotation etc) relative to the technology cost, and the receiver to invest a certain amount of both s and e (showing the adaptation of their technological base to the new information) relative to the technology cost. Thus trading can often be less worthwhile than researching it yourself and saving the e. Different technological fields require different investments to trade relative to their cost to research.
Also note you do not necessarily need to trade to get the benefit of others technology, as factions are allowed to terraform and build facilities in other factions habitats if they also have a base in the system (for costs you work out among yourselves of course). Plus you can exchange ships wholesale.
Tech Trading Modifiers
When you trade technology the gifting player must pay [Tech Level Cost]*[Modifier] in s, whilst the recieving player must pay [Tech Level Cost]*[Modifier] in both s and e before they can use the tech, though they do not need to do that right away.
Biotech - 0.7
Computation - 0.3
Construction - 0.5
Energy - 0.5
Materials - 0.5
Math - 0.2
Social - 0.8
Propulsion -0.5
Weapons - 0.3
Note the paranoid Soulons have to add 0.1 to all trade modifiers, and the 'Al cannot tech trade at all. If you have an affinity for a field you can take 0.2 from the modifiers, Cyborganised take 0.1 from Computation, and Homo Superior take 0.1 from Math and Social.
Example: The Ablahs wish to get computation 3 from the Bbats, rather than paying the 45 s to research it normally. The Bbats must invest 14s to prepare the information, then transfer it to the Ablahs. Now, whenever they get round to implementing this knowledge the Ablahs have to pay 14s and 14e before they can use it.
The image contains the current tech levels (update 6) and s left to accumulate in each field plus the currently known tech fields. The left hand side is the societies current levels, whilst on the right is the s required to reach the next level. In the tech fields section Ship Components are in blue, Facilities are in black, changes to existing things are in green and new capabilities are in red.
Spoiler Current Tech Stat and Levels :
Technology
You increase your knowledge and abilities by researching new technologies, which takes s alone.
Rather than a tree, I have for a levels system with 9 different fields, though nearly every advance or new capability will require levels in at least two or more fields. The new advance is only revealed when a player reaches all the tech levels required for it - being the technology leader is a foray into the unknown!
Trading technology requires the giver to invest a certain amount of s (showing the processing of the information for trade - translation, annotation etc) relative to the technology cost, and the receiver to invest a certain amount of both s and e (showing the adaptation of their technological base to the new information) relative to the technology cost. Thus trading can often be less worthwhile than researching it yourself and saving the e. Different technological fields require different investments to trade relative to their cost to research.
Also note you do not necessarily need to trade to get the benefit of others technology, as factions are allowed to terraform and build facilities in other factions habitats if they also have a base in the system (for costs you work out among yourselves of course). Plus you can exchange ships wholesale.
Spoiler 9 Technology Field Descriptions :
Tech Trading Modifiers
When you trade technology the gifting player must pay [Tech Level Cost]*[Modifier] in s, whilst the recieving player must pay [Tech Level Cost]*[Modifier] in both s and e before they can use the tech, though they do not need to do that right away.
Biotech - 0.7
Computation - 0.3
Construction - 0.5
Energy - 0.5
Materials - 0.5
Math - 0.2
Social - 0.8
Propulsion -0.5
Weapons - 0.3
Note the paranoid Soulons have to add 0.1 to all trade modifiers, and the 'Al cannot tech trade at all. If you have an affinity for a field you can take 0.2 from the modifiers, Cyborganised take 0.1 from Computation, and Homo Superior take 0.1 from Math and Social.
Example: The Ablahs wish to get computation 3 from the Bbats, rather than paying the 45 s to research it normally. The Bbats must invest 14s to prepare the information, then transfer it to the Ablahs. Now, whenever they get round to implementing this knowledge the Ablahs have to pay 14s and 14e before they can use it.
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Rules and stats - Worlds, Economy and Facilities
The spoilered image contains each factions economic statistics as of update 0.
Things to spend e on:
Habitats
The base of the society, building habitats costs different amounts depending on the features of the world.
Moving population around: You can move 1 pop to any habitat in a system you control for 2e. You may move 1 pop to any habitat connected to its current system by interstellar trade routes you control or are allowed to use for 6e.
Moving Ground troops around: You can move 1 ground troop to any habitat in a system you control for 1e. You may move 1 ground to any habitat connected by interstellar trade routes for 4e.
Making ground troops: You may build a division of ground troops at the cost of 2e in any habitat with 2 or more pop. You may also spend 1 pop per habitat with 2 or more pop to build a division, but this will produce unrest (less if your natural warriors). Ground troops cost
round( (N - 4 + D)/2 ) upkeep where N is the number of divisions in each region. (D is the danger - Unless your adapted to the conditions the traits Hot, Cold, Storms, Toxic, Poisonious each add 1 each to D). I.e. for a hot rocky world (D=1) 1-4 troops cost no upkeep, 5 costs 1e per turn, 6-8 cost 2e etc.
Facilities (7 out of 15 shown)
You build facilities in your habitats for their cost in e, with one of each type allowed per habitat similar to buildings in Civilisation.
Adaptation:
To be revealed.
Ships:
Ships have a certain cost in e, and can be built around any world with a shipyard, see the next section for details.
Trading
You can give e to other players in the same system whenever you like.
Tech Trading
See the tech section, adapting anothers technology to your society has an economic cost.
Trade Routes
You build a trade route between two systems you control shipyards in by 'sacrificing' X IS ships with cargo bays, where X is twice the number of turns seperating the two systems. This is representing those ships doing a continious shuttle service between the two, and allows you to send population and share e (at low efficency) between the two systems. This will also allow you to take advantage of economic valubles like heavy metals or exotic gases in another system.
Raiding
You may raid another players e if either you have a fleet with an intrusion unit, troops and a Cargo Bay in orbit with an undefended spaceport, space based hab or some other space infrastructure OR if you have ground troops near a undefended planetary Hab, and another hab in the same system or a fleet with a cargo bay in orbit. You can raid till your Cargo bays are full of e, or until the opponent is out of stored e.
System Wide Economy boosts
Having both a volatiles mine (i.e. on an icy, cool Jovian, gas giant, or an atmosphere+biosphere world) and a metals mine (on a rocky world) will give you +25% to the e produced by your population, but not to the e produced directly from mines.
World Traits
Here are the various traits the different planets and moons that make up the game space can have.
The economically or scientifically valuable traits a planet can possess.
The spoilered image contains each factions economic statistics as of update 0.
Spoiler :
Things to spend e on:
Habitats
The base of the society, building habitats costs different amounts depending on the features of the world.
Spoiler Habitat Types and Costs :
Moving population around: You can move 1 pop to any habitat in a system you control for 2e. You may move 1 pop to any habitat connected to its current system by interstellar trade routes you control or are allowed to use for 6e.
Moving Ground troops around: You can move 1 ground troop to any habitat in a system you control for 1e. You may move 1 ground to any habitat connected by interstellar trade routes for 4e.
Making ground troops: You may build a division of ground troops at the cost of 2e in any habitat with 2 or more pop. You may also spend 1 pop per habitat with 2 or more pop to build a division, but this will produce unrest (less if your natural warriors). Ground troops cost
round( (N - 4 + D)/2 ) upkeep where N is the number of divisions in each region. (D is the danger - Unless your adapted to the conditions the traits Hot, Cold, Storms, Toxic, Poisonious each add 1 each to D). I.e. for a hot rocky world (D=1) 1-4 troops cost no upkeep, 5 costs 1e per turn, 6-8 cost 2e etc.
Facilities (7 out of 15 shown)
You build facilities in your habitats for their cost in e, with one of each type allowed per habitat similar to buildings in Civilisation.
Spoiler Facilities :
Adaptation:
To be revealed.
Ships:
Ships have a certain cost in e, and can be built around any world with a shipyard, see the next section for details.
Trading
You can give e to other players in the same system whenever you like.
Tech Trading
See the tech section, adapting anothers technology to your society has an economic cost.
Trade Routes
You build a trade route between two systems you control shipyards in by 'sacrificing' X IS ships with cargo bays, where X is twice the number of turns seperating the two systems. This is representing those ships doing a continious shuttle service between the two, and allows you to send population and share e (at low efficency) between the two systems. This will also allow you to take advantage of economic valubles like heavy metals or exotic gases in another system.
Raiding
You may raid another players e if either you have a fleet with an intrusion unit, troops and a Cargo Bay in orbit with an undefended spaceport, space based hab or some other space infrastructure OR if you have ground troops near a undefended planetary Hab, and another hab in the same system or a fleet with a cargo bay in orbit. You can raid till your Cargo bays are full of e, or until the opponent is out of stored e.
System Wide Economy boosts
Having both a volatiles mine (i.e. on an icy, cool Jovian, gas giant, or an atmosphere+biosphere world) and a metals mine (on a rocky world) will give you +25% to the e produced by your population, but not to the e produced directly from mines.
World Traits
Here are the various traits the different planets and moons that make up the game space can have.
Spoiler World Traits :
The economically or scientifically valuable traits a planet can possess.
Spoiler Bonus Traits :
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Rules and stats - Combat and Ships
Player Fleets and Armies
This stats image shows a list of each players ships and divisions (as of update 6), where they are and if they are damaged or not.
Ground Combat
Ground combat between divisions works quite simply, and similar to the board game risk. A player will order a certain number of troops into an enemy held region, if the opposing player has also ordered an attack combat will first occur between the regions, then the survivors of that will invade their target region. Each division rolls a D8, adds their modifiers (see below), and then lines those scores up against the opponent, highest score wins in each pairing and the opposing division is killed, with the defending player winning ties (for example A invades B with 4 divisions, B defends with 3. A rolls ( 5 4 4 1 ) B rolls ( 7 6 3 ) A's 5 is beaten by B's 7, A's first 4 by B's 6, whilst A's second 4 beats B's 3, and A's 1 is unpaired. A thus loses 2 divisions and B loses 1. A's 2 remaining divisions can now attack again unless the retreat threshold is reached). After a round of combat the aggressor will attack agains unless it has recieved unacceptable losses. The defender can also retreat to another hab, empty region, or orbiting cargo ship if a certain loss threshold is reached.
The only orders you issue are the number attacking and at what threshold of lost men you want to retreat. Default orders have armies retreating when 75% of their starting divisions are lost. This is pretty simple and results will be calculated by the mod.
If all of a planets regions are occupied by troops and you want to invade, you must first bomb open a free slot. You cannot station troops on Gas Giants or Jovians.
When you conquer another players hab, the industrial Hab facilties are retained (mines, farms etc), but the intellectual and cultural ones are lost. If the conquered population can flee to another habitat they will, if not some will survive the conquest and remain as a conquered, angry and unproductive population.
Ships and Fleets
Ships will hopefully be one of the cool things about this NES, and there will be a good bit of focus on them. You make ships by selecting components to include which gives a vessel certain features. This calculation is automated for you in the Ship Designer, which will have updated versions with each turns update.
Here is a current list of ship components (update 0), the ship designer also has a components details list. Number of components is a ships size (though several components take more than 1 size, you can construct a ship of up to size 4+(Construction Level*3) for normal price in e, and ships of up to size 5+(Construction Level*4) for 50% additional cost (applied to all components).
Note these are not 'x-wing fighters' or anything stupid like that, even the smallest ship is bigger than the space shuttle.
Ship design concepts
-IP speed (Interplanetary speed) determines a ships movement in real space. It does not show the speed ships move between planets (as this would be neligable compared to a turn, and ships can move from any world to any other in a system in a turn. Instead it relates to a ships ability to intercept or flee from other ships at the start of combat. Ships with IP Speed of 0 cannot move between the worlds of a system.
-IS Capable (Interstellar travel) - if 'yes' this ship can jump between systems at the speed of light. All ships travel the same speed, and move to different systems via the distance chart in the first post. The various types of drive effect the required ship design rather than act of transcending real space itself. When travelling between systems ships appear randomly on the 'gravity rim' of the system (you cannot transcend in strongly curved space-time), several hundred AUs out. It is pointless to interdict a ship out there, so all combat occurs in the locale of worlds. If a ship with no IP speed (like the scout probe) translates between systems it hangs in the dark void beyond the outermost world. There are four types, each working with a different field (plus maths), and each having a different bonus at high tech levels.
-Power is produced by certain IP drives and power cores, and represents energy demands above and beyond normal. Some components require a certain level of power to be installed, and some components get boosts from having surplus power after the first type of components have taken their essential requirement (see the extra damage from microwave lasers).
-Inititive is the cleverness and reaction speed of the ship and modifies escape/enagement odds and missile to hit chance, also helps with or against unexpected attacks.
The three ship-to-ship damage types...
-Missiles are reaction-drive accelerated projectiles that rely on more than kinetic energy to do damage. They hit hard but are easy to avoid, and thus are primarily combated by dodge. Missiles can also be used to bomb worlds, but not as effectively as dedicated devices.
-EM (electromagnetic) is the use of coherent photons to damage another craft. They do little damage unless provided with sufficent power, but are hard to avoid. Thus they are primarily resisted by armour.
-Particle damage is accelerated mass (slugs or streams of atoms/protons/electrons). They hit hard and are difficult to avoid, but can be easily deflected by charged fields or energy forms. Thus they are mainly stopped by shields.
...are resisted by the three defence types:
-Dodge is a combination of acceleration potential, chaff and noise countermeasures and active defence systems. Ships are fighting at tremendious distances, so one of the surest defences is just zigzag faster than the enemies weapons (which have to cross real space) can respond. Small ships have an inherent bonus to dodge, as they can maintain sharper acceleration profiles, and their emmission readings stand in less contrast to a noisy background. Ships without an IP drive have a -3 dodge bonus. Dodge works as a percentile chance roll.
-Armour is material cladding the ship, it stops EM quite well, Particle quite poorly, and is neligable in the face of missiles (as if the missiles managed to connect you're pretty much dead). Armour works as a absorbative effect (a ship with 2 points of armour and hit by 3 points of EM damage would take 1 point of damage)
-Shields are some sort of energy or charged particle field protecting the ship, and thus deflect Particle damage very well, and is moderately effective against EM, and is is neligable in the face of missiles. Shields works as a absorbative effect (a ship with 2 points of shields and hit by 3 points of Particle damage would take 1 point of damage)
-Coupling allows you to stick weapons together into bigger versions, i.e. you could have 3 slots of independent Microwave lasers each with a seperate chance to hit and 1 damage, or you could have 1 Laser that occupies 3 slots, has 1 chance to hit and deals 3 damage when it connects. You thus want lots of small guns against an opponent with high dodge, and one big gun against an opponent with high armour. Note the ship designer does not have sections for coupling, you have to add how your sorting your guns when you submit the design form. EM and Particle components is shown in the form AxB, where A is the number of that size gun and B is how many guns have been coupled.
-Bombing is what ships can do to Habitats of worlds there near. Each bomb slot in a fleet is a percentage chance of destroying 1 pop point or facility per year you're bombing an enemy Habitat. Spaceborn Habitats and Facilities get -75% defense against bombs, whilst Thin, Standard, and Dense/Gas Giant/Jovian Atmospheres give +25, +50, and +75 percent defence respectively. Rugged Designers get (+10% bomb resistance). Bombs will destroy population or most facilities chosen at random, though later bomb components will allow player control. Shipyards and Space Elevators being partially in space and partially on the ground can only be destoryed by bombs, but they can be preferentially targetted with low technology bombs as well.
How Ship Combat Works
Outside of combat ships are 'fine', damaged' or 'dead'. Ships within combat have hitpoints equal to their size, a damaged ship starts combat with half hitpoints.
How it will be Organised in the Update Structure
There will be three types of fleet combat events:
-Automatic: I'll quickly run through these with an automatic program.
-Player vs Player: before the updates done I'll post ship lists for PvP engagements, you then go off and sort out a game between you with the above rule structure, and then both get back to me with an agreement on who won. I recommend http://www.randomresult.com/ for checkable random number generation. If you don't get back to me within a certain time I'll automatically generate the results. PvPs will only happen where both players have at least a large hab or a Command Deck component in the vacinity of combat.
-Moderated: for epic, story critical, or game changing engagements I'll try to arrange to meet with the two (or more) players in IM or via PM, and I'll do the die rolls whilst you make the decisions.
Ships can only get into one combat per phase of the update.
Current Ship Designs
There is only one default ship design - the microwave laser IP fighter. Since the designing ships is hopefully a major part of this NESes 'cool' I thought I'd force freedom on you.
You have to destroy all the old ships of a class before you can open up a new slot, and you only have 7 design slots total.
A new ship design requires its [cost in e] + 5 in s invested in prototype costs. Your first IS ship with a particular drive type costs an extra 25 s prototype costs (this is the main advantage of the 'starts with drive' trait, as their prototyping for one drive type is already paid, they also get to design IS ships with that drive for 0.66*[cost in e]^0.95 + 5, a substantial discount).
What the ship designer looks like:
Player Fleets and Armies
This stats image shows a list of each players ships and divisions (as of update 6), where they are and if they are damaged or not.
Spoiler Update 6 Fleets :
Ground Combat
Ground combat between divisions works quite simply, and similar to the board game risk. A player will order a certain number of troops into an enemy held region, if the opposing player has also ordered an attack combat will first occur between the regions, then the survivors of that will invade their target region. Each division rolls a D8, adds their modifiers (see below), and then lines those scores up against the opponent, highest score wins in each pairing and the opposing division is killed, with the defending player winning ties (for example A invades B with 4 divisions, B defends with 3. A rolls ( 5 4 4 1 ) B rolls ( 7 6 3 ) A's 5 is beaten by B's 7, A's first 4 by B's 6, whilst A's second 4 beats B's 3, and A's 1 is unpaired. A thus loses 2 divisions and B loses 1. A's 2 remaining divisions can now attack again unless the retreat threshold is reached). After a round of combat the aggressor will attack agains unless it has recieved unacceptable losses. The defender can also retreat to another hab, empty region, or orbiting cargo ship if a certain loss threshold is reached.
The only orders you issue are the number attacking and at what threshold of lost men you want to retreat. Default orders have armies retreating when 75% of their starting divisions are lost. This is pretty simple and results will be calculated by the mod.
If all of a planets regions are occupied by troops and you want to invade, you must first bomb open a free slot. You cannot station troops on Gas Giants or Jovians.
Spoiler Ground Combat Modifiers :
When you conquer another players hab, the industrial Hab facilties are retained (mines, farms etc), but the intellectual and cultural ones are lost. If the conquered population can flee to another habitat they will, if not some will survive the conquest and remain as a conquered, angry and unproductive population.
Ships and Fleets
Ships will hopefully be one of the cool things about this NES, and there will be a good bit of focus on them. You make ships by selecting components to include which gives a vessel certain features. This calculation is automated for you in the Ship Designer, which will have updated versions with each turns update.
Here is a current list of ship components (update 0), the ship designer also has a components details list. Number of components is a ships size (though several components take more than 1 size, you can construct a ship of up to size 4+(Construction Level*3) for normal price in e, and ships of up to size 5+(Construction Level*4) for 50% additional cost (applied to all components).
Note these are not 'x-wing fighters' or anything stupid like that, even the smallest ship is bigger than the space shuttle.
Spoiler Ship Components :
Ship design concepts
-IP speed (Interplanetary speed) determines a ships movement in real space. It does not show the speed ships move between planets (as this would be neligable compared to a turn, and ships can move from any world to any other in a system in a turn. Instead it relates to a ships ability to intercept or flee from other ships at the start of combat. Ships with IP Speed of 0 cannot move between the worlds of a system.
-IS Capable (Interstellar travel) - if 'yes' this ship can jump between systems at the speed of light. All ships travel the same speed, and move to different systems via the distance chart in the first post. The various types of drive effect the required ship design rather than act of transcending real space itself. When travelling between systems ships appear randomly on the 'gravity rim' of the system (you cannot transcend in strongly curved space-time), several hundred AUs out. It is pointless to interdict a ship out there, so all combat occurs in the locale of worlds. If a ship with no IP speed (like the scout probe) translates between systems it hangs in the dark void beyond the outermost world. There are four types, each working with a different field (plus maths), and each having a different bonus at high tech levels.
Spoiler Known types of IS drive: :
-Power is produced by certain IP drives and power cores, and represents energy demands above and beyond normal. Some components require a certain level of power to be installed, and some components get boosts from having surplus power after the first type of components have taken their essential requirement (see the extra damage from microwave lasers).
-Inititive is the cleverness and reaction speed of the ship and modifies escape/enagement odds and missile to hit chance, also helps with or against unexpected attacks.
The three ship-to-ship damage types...
-Missiles are reaction-drive accelerated projectiles that rely on more than kinetic energy to do damage. They hit hard but are easy to avoid, and thus are primarily combated by dodge. Missiles can also be used to bomb worlds, but not as effectively as dedicated devices.
-EM (electromagnetic) is the use of coherent photons to damage another craft. They do little damage unless provided with sufficent power, but are hard to avoid. Thus they are primarily resisted by armour.
-Particle damage is accelerated mass (slugs or streams of atoms/protons/electrons). They hit hard and are difficult to avoid, but can be easily deflected by charged fields or energy forms. Thus they are mainly stopped by shields.
...are resisted by the three defence types:
-Dodge is a combination of acceleration potential, chaff and noise countermeasures and active defence systems. Ships are fighting at tremendious distances, so one of the surest defences is just zigzag faster than the enemies weapons (which have to cross real space) can respond. Small ships have an inherent bonus to dodge, as they can maintain sharper acceleration profiles, and their emmission readings stand in less contrast to a noisy background. Ships without an IP drive have a -3 dodge bonus. Dodge works as a percentile chance roll.
-Armour is material cladding the ship, it stops EM quite well, Particle quite poorly, and is neligable in the face of missiles (as if the missiles managed to connect you're pretty much dead). Armour works as a absorbative effect (a ship with 2 points of armour and hit by 3 points of EM damage would take 1 point of damage)
-Shields are some sort of energy or charged particle field protecting the ship, and thus deflect Particle damage very well, and is moderately effective against EM, and is is neligable in the face of missiles. Shields works as a absorbative effect (a ship with 2 points of shields and hit by 3 points of Particle damage would take 1 point of damage)
-Coupling allows you to stick weapons together into bigger versions, i.e. you could have 3 slots of independent Microwave lasers each with a seperate chance to hit and 1 damage, or you could have 1 Laser that occupies 3 slots, has 1 chance to hit and deals 3 damage when it connects. You thus want lots of small guns against an opponent with high dodge, and one big gun against an opponent with high armour. Note the ship designer does not have sections for coupling, you have to add how your sorting your guns when you submit the design form. EM and Particle components is shown in the form AxB, where A is the number of that size gun and B is how many guns have been coupled.
-Bombing is what ships can do to Habitats of worlds there near. Each bomb slot in a fleet is a percentage chance of destroying 1 pop point or facility per year you're bombing an enemy Habitat. Spaceborn Habitats and Facilities get -75% defense against bombs, whilst Thin, Standard, and Dense/Gas Giant/Jovian Atmospheres give +25, +50, and +75 percent defence respectively. Rugged Designers get (+10% bomb resistance). Bombs will destroy population or most facilities chosen at random, though later bomb components will allow player control. Shipyards and Space Elevators being partially in space and partially on the ground can only be destoryed by bombs, but they can be preferentially targetted with low technology bombs as well.
How Ship Combat Works
Outside of combat ships are 'fine', damaged' or 'dead'. Ships within combat have hitpoints equal to their size, a damaged ship starts combat with half hitpoints.
Spoiler Round Structure of Ship Combat :
How it will be Organised in the Update Structure
There will be three types of fleet combat events:
-Automatic: I'll quickly run through these with an automatic program.
-Player vs Player: before the updates done I'll post ship lists for PvP engagements, you then go off and sort out a game between you with the above rule structure, and then both get back to me with an agreement on who won. I recommend http://www.randomresult.com/ for checkable random number generation. If you don't get back to me within a certain time I'll automatically generate the results. PvPs will only happen where both players have at least a large hab or a Command Deck component in the vacinity of combat.
-Moderated: for epic, story critical, or game changing engagements I'll try to arrange to meet with the two (or more) players in IM or via PM, and I'll do the die rolls whilst you make the decisions.
Ships can only get into one combat per phase of the update.
Current Ship Designs
There is only one default ship design - the microwave laser IP fighter. Since the designing ships is hopefully a major part of this NESes 'cool' I thought I'd force freedom on you.
You have to destroy all the old ships of a class before you can open up a new slot, and you only have 7 design slots total.
A new ship design requires its [cost in e] + 5 in s invested in prototype costs. Your first IS ship with a particular drive type costs an extra 25 s prototype costs (this is the main advantage of the 'starts with drive' trait, as their prototyping for one drive type is already paid, they also get to design IS ships with that drive for 0.66*[cost in e]^0.95 + 5, a substantial discount).
Spoiler SHIP DESIGNS :
What the ship designer looks like:
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Societies
(note these are a copy-paste of your submitted forms, update based background has canonical superiority over them).
If and when NPCs occur, their motivations will show up here.
List of Society mechanic bonuses and negatives:
(note these are a copy-paste of your submitted forms, update based background has canonical superiority over them).
If and when NPCs occur, their motivations will show up here.
Spoiler Descriptions :
List of Society mechanic bonuses and negatives:
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Spoiler Race Physical Descriptions :
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Where to begin? Omniscience is barely adequate, much less the pinprick of linear symbols, but in the end all things become necessary...
In the dawning of the fourth age of mankind, community was broken and empire shattered, and brother spake not to brother. Remnants and survivors did scurry near and far, rats looking for holes and sustenance. One unremarkable group of stars, termed the Hydra Tuft by the name generator table of some astronomer millennia dead, was the hiding place of a handful of such vermin.
The first system of note is the hot yellow sun of Errai with a vast array of planets. Smouldering rocks and a Venusian furnace hug the star close before you come to the fierce deserts and dust of Errai IV. Beyond that lies a small but violent child of Errai, speckled with volcanoes and sweltering fogs. Despite this Errai V teams with life from the bottom of its world wrapping seas to the tops of its bellowing mountains, and species of giant gastropods dominate its endless swamps with their screams. Further yet line the cold and shrouded world of Errai VI and VII, VI's thick air a mystery due to its small size, whilst the storming winds of VII stalk the limitless iron-red deserts of that large world. The colossal king of circum-Errai is the superjovian VIII, which floods its retinue of battered moons with radiation. Far far beyond VIII the distant ninth planet is a dim gas giant with a large moon drowning in toxic hydrocarbons. The tenth and final world is a dark giant with storms of frozen ammonia and small moons of ice and rock. When the Tumult came members of the Ik, a clade based on linguistic identity and a lineage reaching back to ancient Urth by way of the Centuari Volume, were studying the violent biosphere of Errai V and were able to bale out when their world-ships core went critical. After a few decades having a grand old time living in the swamps and eating gastropod meat (the 'Snail Sultan' folk hero dates from this period), the Ik were able to rebuild a space infrastructure and return to orbit. Finding the world ship less damaged than first appearances, they repaired it to the state of orbiting habitat, and unsurprisingly most of the population elected to move back to orbit. Meanwhile in the depths of space, a cargo fleet piloted by the secretive 'Al was blasted out of the transcend by the Tumult, and they had to flee in real space to outermost moon of the outermost world of Errai. This fragile outpost lacked resources to sustain the 'Al, and so they migrated to the seventh world of Errai, where a a surviving polity of Merixan huddled around their borehole mines. The Merixans welcomed the refugees technical skill and neural learning interfaces, but Ik records have all communications controlled by the minority 'Al within the decade, and visitors from V have been strongly discouraged. A recent storm has destroyed the farming zones of the capital and the population is dropping.
The dim red dwarf of Gemstar illuminates a mere three rocky world with the sparkling flares that gave the star its name. A dry dusty planet circles close to the sun, and a sooty carbonaceous rock lurks on the edge of the system, but the world lying between the two is far more interesting. This world features seas, air, and a robust biosphere, but that biosphere is nothing like anything seen on earth. With a biochemistry based on sulphur-copper rings, and syncytial macromolecular shells, huge bright yellow reefs cloak the land, lifting the black dots of their selenium based photosynthesis fibres to the skies. The largest motile life is barely big enough to be visible, but fogs the air and water with their microscopic (and highly toxic to earth-life) bodies. When the third age ended in storms, a small mining project was being conducted on the innermost planet to extract its rare earth concentrations. Calling themselves 'Lantians', they, much like sixty percent of human clades are descended from the early Geashial völkerwanderung under the declining Solar Federation. Unlike most however, they both claim and pride themselves on a near unpolluted genetic heritage and direct lineage all the way back to the Ningbao launching centre. It will be interesting to see if their genetic and cultural homogeneity will help or hinder their future, and how they deal with their barren system.
The bright and gleaming Heze illuminates a system of shadowy giants. Two rocks orbit in the middle distances, scoured of atmosphere and life by the white sun. Beyond them rolls a medium sized gas giant in Heze III, close enough to be warmed by the hot suns rays. This heat sustains a swirling mass of airborne photosynthesisers, their macro forms alien and disturbing, whilst their microstructured DNA and oxidising chemistry make them very distant cousins of earth life. In orbit of the gassy orb stained green with life lies a bonanza of five large moons; the innermost torn and tortured by the pull of its gravitational master, the other four calm ice. The third moon is of note for its thin atmosphere of nitrogen, and the fifth for its near perfect albedo and featureless perfection. The next giant is an orange ball animated by tremendous storms rather than life, with a dark and metallic moon in tow. On the furtherest extremes of the system lie two more giants; a grey sphere with an interesting atmosphere and no interesting moons, and a supercooled blue planet with a glowingly beautiful ring and a crew of almost cryogenic moons. Of the three moons of Heze VI, the second has an active environment, its bizarre cyrovolcanos spewing odd forms of ice from their metastable hearts. The third is dull geologically, but on a vast plain of fused rock vast filigree structures of sooty diamond extend a hundred kilometers into the starry sky – obviously the work of some lost intelligence. A lost people, the Esani, huddle on the third moon, hiding from the storm, their grandiose ideals about the nature of humanity dormant for the moment, but not quite forgotten.
The system of the star Kaus is rather more heavily populated, with survivors spread across its six rocky worlds and singular gas giant. Closest to the sun a lifeless Venusian world boils beneath its clouds of acid, but both Kaus II and III sport functional if fragile biospheres composed of earth life and native lichen. On Kaus II the problem is heat, with the equatorial regions a blasted desert bereft of life above bacteria, but a lack of axial tilt keeps the poles much cooler, and those latitudes support plains and gentle forests and even some large lakes. The risk of burning desert winds wafting north means even the most idyllic scene in polar Kaus II is temporary. A large number of birds have been released to flavour Kaus II's sky's, though only certain mammals like gazelles and hyenas have survived. The smaller Kaus III is in many ways the opposite, with biting cold trapping the polar regions under and ice cap, and only the glades of the equatorial regions supporting thick boreal-class forests. The cold and low gravity has warped the introduced earth life as it competes with the native gossamer bushes and scythe tigers, with colossal direbears rising to the top of the food chain. Two unremarkable airless and rocky worlds lie beyond Kaus III, and beyond them lines the sinister globe of Kaus VI. Big enough and far enough from the sun to retain its birth clouds of molecular hydrogen, its surface of slushy ammonia and carbons is dark against the night. Winding silver cables, broken pillars, and enigmatic iridescent orbs hint at the traces of some lost race millions of years ago, preserved by the tranquil atmosphere. A chilly blue gas giant lurks even further from the sun, with a super cooled moon spewing volcano of liquid nitrogen. When the Hydra tuft was beginning to be explored those scant pre-tumult decades ago, a consortium of stellar empires, the Iskandrian Republics among them, constructed a vast trading station orbiting in Kaus II's Lagrange point to channel further exploration. Iskandrians taking the lead in developing Kaus II as a food producer. Over time the members of a Iskandrian sect known as the Gardeners came to dominate the middle of the Kaus II hierarchy. When the Tumult came the orbiting Iskandrian cities were obliterated and the Gardeners quickly took control of the planetary mob with their persuasive ideology – declaring a new era of peace and harmony in the fourth age. However when six month later the lifeboats of the trading centre managed to achieve orbit around Kaus II, the Gardeners turned them away, not wishing to see disruptive thoughts or masses of refugees straining their potential utopia. The Gardeners perhaps thought the refugees would perish in the night as they scattered to the outer worlds (Kaus III being shrouded in a debris storm), but instead they endured and quickly managed to reclaim some of their lost technology from the ruins of the station. Eventually the warlords of the dark Kaus VI managed to unite the paranoid and fearful tribes of refugees with a combination of force and anti-Gardener paranoid diplomacy into the Soulon League. Peace has reigned over Kaus thus far, but the Gardeners and the Soulon are generating friction over Kaus III – the league is nearing the limits of its food supply and wants to set up III as a farm world or volatiles mine, which the Gardeners respectively dislike and abhor, seeking to spread their poetry of life to another prospective world.
Our final system is Zavi, most coreward and spinward of the Hydra worlds. Like Kaus this orange sun warms a handful of rocky worlds and a solitary gas giant. The closest world is mainly a dry desert, but its polar regions contain a sulphur-copper biosphere akin to that of Gemstar II (perhaps the result of some panspermia similar to the one that spread carbon-RNA life across so many worlds). A thousand salty lakes, kept from evaporation by the complex excretions of its inhabitants, are ringed with yellow rings of tree coral, and poisoning at atmosphere that was already uncomfortably hot for humans. Zavi II is a vast terrestrial world, perhaps a gas giant core that migrated inward, and its high gravity guards a treasure trove of rare metal atoms like some ancient dragon. A trio of boring rocks lead up to a Gas Giant eerie in its blemish free perfection, with its single moon wearing a gleaming mantle of ice, though an ammonia laced ocean of water lurks deep under the crust. Two societies of machine augmented humans dwell in this system, both originating from the transhumanist Diamond Network of craftworlds in the late Third age, but both diametrically different in attitude and ideology. The Kations, arrogant individualists who incorporate their environmental armour into their very bodies, were a small science team sampling the buried ocean of Zavi VIa when the Tumult hit, and were forced to take up residence in a rush. The Vazan mining colony on Zavi II barely even noticed the tumult until the lack of the scheduled version update from homeworld broke them out of their shared cybernetic dream, and the citizen-drones had to begin directing their own future.
Where to begin? Omniscience is barely adequate, much less the pinprick of linear symbols, but in the end all things become necessary...
In the dawning of the fourth age of mankind, community was broken and empire shattered, and brother spake not to brother. Remnants and survivors did scurry near and far, rats looking for holes and sustenance. One unremarkable group of stars, termed the Hydra Tuft by the name generator table of some astronomer millennia dead, was the hiding place of a handful of such vermin.
The first system of note is the hot yellow sun of Errai with a vast array of planets. Smouldering rocks and a Venusian furnace hug the star close before you come to the fierce deserts and dust of Errai IV. Beyond that lies a small but violent child of Errai, speckled with volcanoes and sweltering fogs. Despite this Errai V teams with life from the bottom of its world wrapping seas to the tops of its bellowing mountains, and species of giant gastropods dominate its endless swamps with their screams. Further yet line the cold and shrouded world of Errai VI and VII, VI's thick air a mystery due to its small size, whilst the storming winds of VII stalk the limitless iron-red deserts of that large world. The colossal king of circum-Errai is the superjovian VIII, which floods its retinue of battered moons with radiation. Far far beyond VIII the distant ninth planet is a dim gas giant with a large moon drowning in toxic hydrocarbons. The tenth and final world is a dark giant with storms of frozen ammonia and small moons of ice and rock. When the Tumult came members of the Ik, a clade based on linguistic identity and a lineage reaching back to ancient Urth by way of the Centuari Volume, were studying the violent biosphere of Errai V and were able to bale out when their world-ships core went critical. After a few decades having a grand old time living in the swamps and eating gastropod meat (the 'Snail Sultan' folk hero dates from this period), the Ik were able to rebuild a space infrastructure and return to orbit. Finding the world ship less damaged than first appearances, they repaired it to the state of orbiting habitat, and unsurprisingly most of the population elected to move back to orbit. Meanwhile in the depths of space, a cargo fleet piloted by the secretive 'Al was blasted out of the transcend by the Tumult, and they had to flee in real space to outermost moon of the outermost world of Errai. This fragile outpost lacked resources to sustain the 'Al, and so they migrated to the seventh world of Errai, where a a surviving polity of Merixan huddled around their borehole mines. The Merixans welcomed the refugees technical skill and neural learning interfaces, but Ik records have all communications controlled by the minority 'Al within the decade, and visitors from V have been strongly discouraged. A recent storm has destroyed the farming zones of the capital and the population is dropping.
The dim red dwarf of Gemstar illuminates a mere three rocky world with the sparkling flares that gave the star its name. A dry dusty planet circles close to the sun, and a sooty carbonaceous rock lurks on the edge of the system, but the world lying between the two is far more interesting. This world features seas, air, and a robust biosphere, but that biosphere is nothing like anything seen on earth. With a biochemistry based on sulphur-copper rings, and syncytial macromolecular shells, huge bright yellow reefs cloak the land, lifting the black dots of their selenium based photosynthesis fibres to the skies. The largest motile life is barely big enough to be visible, but fogs the air and water with their microscopic (and highly toxic to earth-life) bodies. When the third age ended in storms, a small mining project was being conducted on the innermost planet to extract its rare earth concentrations. Calling themselves 'Lantians', they, much like sixty percent of human clades are descended from the early Geashial völkerwanderung under the declining Solar Federation. Unlike most however, they both claim and pride themselves on a near unpolluted genetic heritage and direct lineage all the way back to the Ningbao launching centre. It will be interesting to see if their genetic and cultural homogeneity will help or hinder their future, and how they deal with their barren system.
The bright and gleaming Heze illuminates a system of shadowy giants. Two rocks orbit in the middle distances, scoured of atmosphere and life by the white sun. Beyond them rolls a medium sized gas giant in Heze III, close enough to be warmed by the hot suns rays. This heat sustains a swirling mass of airborne photosynthesisers, their macro forms alien and disturbing, whilst their microstructured DNA and oxidising chemistry make them very distant cousins of earth life. In orbit of the gassy orb stained green with life lies a bonanza of five large moons; the innermost torn and tortured by the pull of its gravitational master, the other four calm ice. The third moon is of note for its thin atmosphere of nitrogen, and the fifth for its near perfect albedo and featureless perfection. The next giant is an orange ball animated by tremendous storms rather than life, with a dark and metallic moon in tow. On the furtherest extremes of the system lie two more giants; a grey sphere with an interesting atmosphere and no interesting moons, and a supercooled blue planet with a glowingly beautiful ring and a crew of almost cryogenic moons. Of the three moons of Heze VI, the second has an active environment, its bizarre cyrovolcanos spewing odd forms of ice from their metastable hearts. The third is dull geologically, but on a vast plain of fused rock vast filigree structures of sooty diamond extend a hundred kilometers into the starry sky – obviously the work of some lost intelligence. A lost people, the Esani, huddle on the third moon, hiding from the storm, their grandiose ideals about the nature of humanity dormant for the moment, but not quite forgotten.
The system of the star Kaus is rather more heavily populated, with survivors spread across its six rocky worlds and singular gas giant. Closest to the sun a lifeless Venusian world boils beneath its clouds of acid, but both Kaus II and III sport functional if fragile biospheres composed of earth life and native lichen. On Kaus II the problem is heat, with the equatorial regions a blasted desert bereft of life above bacteria, but a lack of axial tilt keeps the poles much cooler, and those latitudes support plains and gentle forests and even some large lakes. The risk of burning desert winds wafting north means even the most idyllic scene in polar Kaus II is temporary. A large number of birds have been released to flavour Kaus II's sky's, though only certain mammals like gazelles and hyenas have survived. The smaller Kaus III is in many ways the opposite, with biting cold trapping the polar regions under and ice cap, and only the glades of the equatorial regions supporting thick boreal-class forests. The cold and low gravity has warped the introduced earth life as it competes with the native gossamer bushes and scythe tigers, with colossal direbears rising to the top of the food chain. Two unremarkable airless and rocky worlds lie beyond Kaus III, and beyond them lines the sinister globe of Kaus VI. Big enough and far enough from the sun to retain its birth clouds of molecular hydrogen, its surface of slushy ammonia and carbons is dark against the night. Winding silver cables, broken pillars, and enigmatic iridescent orbs hint at the traces of some lost race millions of years ago, preserved by the tranquil atmosphere. A chilly blue gas giant lurks even further from the sun, with a super cooled moon spewing volcano of liquid nitrogen. When the Hydra tuft was beginning to be explored those scant pre-tumult decades ago, a consortium of stellar empires, the Iskandrian Republics among them, constructed a vast trading station orbiting in Kaus II's Lagrange point to channel further exploration. Iskandrians taking the lead in developing Kaus II as a food producer. Over time the members of a Iskandrian sect known as the Gardeners came to dominate the middle of the Kaus II hierarchy. When the Tumult came the orbiting Iskandrian cities were obliterated and the Gardeners quickly took control of the planetary mob with their persuasive ideology – declaring a new era of peace and harmony in the fourth age. However when six month later the lifeboats of the trading centre managed to achieve orbit around Kaus II, the Gardeners turned them away, not wishing to see disruptive thoughts or masses of refugees straining their potential utopia. The Gardeners perhaps thought the refugees would perish in the night as they scattered to the outer worlds (Kaus III being shrouded in a debris storm), but instead they endured and quickly managed to reclaim some of their lost technology from the ruins of the station. Eventually the warlords of the dark Kaus VI managed to unite the paranoid and fearful tribes of refugees with a combination of force and anti-Gardener paranoid diplomacy into the Soulon League. Peace has reigned over Kaus thus far, but the Gardeners and the Soulon are generating friction over Kaus III – the league is nearing the limits of its food supply and wants to set up III as a farm world or volatiles mine, which the Gardeners respectively dislike and abhor, seeking to spread their poetry of life to another prospective world.
Our final system is Zavi, most coreward and spinward of the Hydra worlds. Like Kaus this orange sun warms a handful of rocky worlds and a solitary gas giant. The closest world is mainly a dry desert, but its polar regions contain a sulphur-copper biosphere akin to that of Gemstar II (perhaps the result of some panspermia similar to the one that spread carbon-RNA life across so many worlds). A thousand salty lakes, kept from evaporation by the complex excretions of its inhabitants, are ringed with yellow rings of tree coral, and poisoning at atmosphere that was already uncomfortably hot for humans. Zavi II is a vast terrestrial world, perhaps a gas giant core that migrated inward, and its high gravity guards a treasure trove of rare metal atoms like some ancient dragon. A trio of boring rocks lead up to a Gas Giant eerie in its blemish free perfection, with its single moon wearing a gleaming mantle of ice, though an ammonia laced ocean of water lurks deep under the crust. Two societies of machine augmented humans dwell in this system, both originating from the transhumanist Diamond Network of craftworlds in the late Third age, but both diametrically different in attitude and ideology. The Kations, arrogant individualists who incorporate their environmental armour into their very bodies, were a small science team sampling the buried ocean of Zavi VIa when the Tumult hit, and were forced to take up residence in a rush. The Vazan mining colony on Zavi II barely even noticed the tumult until the lack of the scheduled version update from homeworld broke them out of their shared cybernetic dream, and the citizen-drones had to begin directing their own future.
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Hit with a negative event on turn ZERO... way to get things moving Dis... looks very promising. I hope you are a little bit patient with questions regarding the rules. Its a bit complicated but relatively clear.... we'll see how smoothly i get it.
Anyway, looks good... very excited to be aboard with the main group of NESsers in a very exciting system.
Anyway, looks good... very excited to be aboard with the main group of NESsers in a very exciting system.
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Hey I wanted everyone to have something interesting to deal with turn 1.
Unfortunately due to unforseen time demands and imagshack being poopy, the ship and combat section will not be done until this evening. If you like the Habitat Calculator, there is an even cooler one coming for ship designing.
Unfortunately due to unforseen time demands and imagshack being poopy, the ship and combat section will not be done until this evening. If you like the Habitat Calculator, there is an even cooler one coming for ship designing.
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Spreadsheets rule, also I've noticed two errors already:
-The Kations should be producing 6 f rather than 4 from their farm.
-The Vazan should have a farm in their Gamma Habitat.
Will be altered when I get home.
-The Kations should be producing 6 f rather than 4 from their farm.
-The Vazan should have a farm in their Gamma Habitat.
Will be altered when I get home.
Ok two quick questions;
One on habitat building; just confirming this. I already have a habitat in my system so that's a base 4 times the price of the habitat. And building on a rocky low G world would then cost me 20 e?
I also have a volatiles mine on Zavi IV moon, shouldn't this up my farm production to 6 and thus give me a nice small surplus? EDIT: 10 minute pore over rules Crosspost :/
One on habitat building; just confirming this. I already have a habitat in my system so that's a base 4 times the price of the habitat. And building on a rocky low G world would then cost me 20 e?
I also have a volatiles mine on Zavi IV moon, shouldn't this up my farm production to 6 and thus give me a nice small surplus? EDIT: 10 minute pore over rules Crosspost :/
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@Kal'Thzar, yes and yes (I deleted my old spreedsheet model as it was crap and made a new one last night, and only got to the Kations (last on the map) at 2am, so I may have forgotten to check the odd trait). I also forgot to include your tiny base on Kaus V in the stats (not that it gives any bonus 
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Thats the 10% general e bonus for being cyborganised kicking in, max size for Beta habs is 5, so your max is 3. Since the top part of the economy stats are automatically generated they're not going to be wrong - its just the individual habitat data I add manually and can make errors on.
Uhmmm, can you write out the bonuses for all the traits?
Cyborganised (+4): Your survivors featured a high percentage of augmented personnel, and their legacy continues to influence your culture. -1 Habitat size, +25% Combat, University, reduced costs for implementing Cyborg technologies.
Is what I was using, and that doesn't mention +10% e
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Yeah I mixed up a few blatently under/over costed society traits so that they better represent the points expended. A full list of rebalanced traits will be up later - its one of the things still pending.
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