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I still fail to die for the earth. Our boarding lust has not gone well. The aliens are, I think, dark sorcerers if what I hear of this crazy moon crystal is true. I fear the Gate of Karesh has been opened and our moon sapphires are at grave risk from the ravening dark wizards from beyond our galaxy, just as Al Gore warned us.
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Neruz posted:What the poo poo have those aliens been doing on the moon, this 'Tesseractite' makes no goddamn sense. No bloody way this stuff formed naturally but why the hell was it hidden on the moon? Think '2001'. Could be a deliberate plant or ruins from before us.
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Aug 26, 2014 08:12
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To be fair, the idea was we'd have more than 1 boarding ship. Because it looks like we'll need 5 or 6 to take a light cruiser. Shields and armour I mean, we've got boarding shuttles, what more do we need? Besides, you know, better boarding weapons. Rookies and Rifles aren't that effective, it turns out.
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Aug 26, 2014 08:32
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Veloxyll posted:To be fair, the idea was we'd have more than 1 boarding ship. Impossible! The rookie-rifle synergy has won every war we have ever faced with the alien. It is the perfect unification of two worthless things to form a pearl of great price, a force that destroys all before it. Wait. Do you mean BALLISTIC rifles. Not laser rifles? If we are sending men to assault large alien vessels with ballistics we are doomed. DOOOOOMED.
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Scintilla posted:So basically what I'm understanding here is that we've discovered Tiberium on the moon. Elerium-115.
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It has been shown that the enemy can easily outproduce us when it come to a war of attrition, so the only viable plan for long term survival is ensure that our guns are large enough to destroy enough enemy ships to cause an impact before blowing up like the horrible tinderboxes that they are. While on this train of though, do you think that loading our ships with large amounts of explosive materials and ramming into the heart of the enemy armada would work?
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Anticheese posted:Elerium-115. Tesseractite. That is actually a really great name for a scifi magic material. Surprised no-one has thought of it before.
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occipitallobe posted:Nick "Havoc" Parker takes Arnold Rimmer's place as engineer. He spends a lot of his time punching the reactor. Hitting things with a fist is pretty much the same as wrench, right? Scintilla posted:So basically what I'm understanding here is that we've discovered Tiberium on the moon. So that's where Kane has been hiding. Hopefully no one minds if I take a week vacation on the moon to Anyway, get better shields and armour for the boarding pods.
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Aug 26, 2014 08:55
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Let our outposts be our shields and our fleets our giant gently caress off ray guns. All weapons, all the time.
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Aug 26, 2014 09:24
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occipitallobe posted:
 ... Can I reverse my decision on Peruvian voodoo robots post-mortem? And in light of this terrible, terrible tragedy, I vote More Armor.
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Aug 26, 2014 09:58
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More armor and shields so we can better survive ramming the enemy. 
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Aug 26, 2014 10:26
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Bigger cruisers. We can't build ships that are more advanced than the aliens, so we need to build ships that are bigger than theirs. They have light cruisers. So we must have heavy cruisers.
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Aug 26, 2014 11:14
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Shields and armor! Shields mean being able to fire on the enemy for longer before blowing up! It is the perfect strategy!
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Aug 26, 2014 11:49
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Me and Sam starfall are both in agreement that we want Shields and armor For the record. I stole my crews wallets before I escaped. That way part of them will survive with me.
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Aug 26, 2014 14:42
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Captain Turd Ferguson agrees with choosing shields and armor.
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Aug 26, 2014 16:37
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Shields and armor also I am surprised I was not thrown into the first boarding crew...perhaps my luck has turned around?
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Aug 26, 2014 17:12
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ALL WEAPONS ALL THE TIME. NO STOPPING UNTIL OUR WEAPONS ARE BIGGER THAN THEIR SHIPS.
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Aug 26, 2014 17:20
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Volunteering as "Grizz" Ursus, a very angry cyborg bear. Hopefully I can make major before dying gloriously. What? We've already got zombies and a squid guy.
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Aug 26, 2014 17:39
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Can I get signed up as a Russian "Wasily "Red Star" Zhukovovsky". Preferably in a position to  the xenos
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 Greetings fellow hue-mens It is I your Kapp-tan Al Lein, The first one of you who brings me the brain stem of the an enemy leader shall receive 4 time units in the breeding pod with the female known as Rex Manstrong
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Aug 26, 2014 21:25
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Well this looks like an awful lot of fun! Sign me up as Thomas "BwenGun" Cochrane, preferably a Brit with a penchant for Naval genius and daring do!
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Aug 26, 2014 21:34
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BY THE EMPEROR, WHEN WILL I FINALLY BE PROMOTED? GUNS AND SHIELDS SHALL BRING THE WRATH OF MANKIND UPON THE ALIEN.
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This looks like a pretty cool idea for a game. On the other hand, we've seen a couple of pretty big bugs that dissuade me from picking it up. I'll be keeping a close eye. ...Especially to see if more chumps get offed. Can I request a Groundsider with decent Engineering skill to be renamed Cale Thomas? Any nickname and nationality will do.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:49
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Shield and Armor, our current weapons will hold for now, so let's try and get our ships a bit sturdier.
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Aug 27, 2014 03:17
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 The greatest victory is the battle not fought. Research Anomalous Materials.
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ARMOR BUT gently caress SHIELDS We need to be beefy as possible, max weapons are nice for defensive battles where you fire the first shot, but armor will be important for the first offensive battle we fight. SECONDLY I VOTE WE SCRAP ALL CORVETTES AND FIGHTERS They are a meat grinder wasting our leadership. THIRDLY I request I not be given a command at this time! FOURTHLY Mind if I design some ships with our given technology?
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Aug 27, 2014 18:23
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More armor and shields Building anything is a long and expensive process, if we spend all our time and production replacing our losses we will only fall further behind the enemy.
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Aug 27, 2014 22:39
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Nice looking game, I love the concept. Are the tactical battles as awkward and annoying to play as they look though? I'd like to report for any available command.
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Aug 27, 2014 23:02
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Signup: Ken "Rawhide" Kobayashi (Japanese) seeks to give the aliens a lesson in good ol' fashioned American justice and derring-do.
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McFetusBurger posted:Nice looking game, I love the concept. Are the tactical battles as awkward and annoying to play as they look though? Big battles are misery, but Auto does an alright job when they get that big. With an exception.
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Neruz posted:What the poo poo have those aliens been doing on the moon, this 'Tesseractite' makes no goddamn sense. No bloody way this stuff formed naturally but why the hell was it hidden on the moon? The moon was formed when an unknown mass hit the molten earth and calved off a chunk. Perhaps we've finally found that ancient cosmic seed.
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To start with it wasn't an 'unknown mass' it was another protoplanet and if the protoplanet was made out of Tesseractite then we'd have found some of it down here too, to end with if that were the case then we would have found the Tesseractite in the Moon's core or scattered throughout its structure. Instead we found it in a vault. I've seen the pictures of the vault too and that is not a natural formation. Someone carved that and put the drat stuff in there on purpose. That's why I reckon we just raided one of the aliens forward supply dumps: I don't think they expected us to be space capable when they initiated this invasion and a supply cache of rare manufactured materials on the Moon would logically be perfectly safe and an excellent staging point for surface operations.
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Why, if we know that there is life other than us out there, is it so implausible to believe there might be life even further removed from them that has since died out or gone?
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Neruz posted:That's why I reckon we just raided one of the aliens forward supply dumps: I don't think they expected us to be space capable when they initiated this invasion and a supply cache of rare manufactured materials on the Moon would logically be perfectly safe and an excellent staging point for surface operations. "Gleebzorb, we have reconned the alien planet, and can confirm the humans are both squishy, and delicious. I recommend we build a base on the moon for further study." "Better plan, Klinktek, let's just build a big vault, stick some metal in it, seal it up, and then leave." "Uhh... just metal? You don't want to, maybe, put some actual weapons in there? Ships? Guards?" "No, just the metal. Chop chop, we need to be back on Pluto in two weeks."
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Well considering we don't actually know what this Tesseractite stuff is good for yet (apart from disco balls, though if you stare at the patterns for too long things start getting wierd...) it's probably a bit early to call it. But its definitely gotta be some kind of manufactured substance and it could well be some form of fuel source in which case a fuel dump on the moon would make plenty of sense. I mean, you still gotta cart all this mass through space and even with the alien's grav drive it still costs fuel to do so. If they have decent automated manufacturing capabilities it would actually be more efficient to ship raw materials around and manufacture things on-site where possible. Given that the Tesseractite violates a couple of what we thought were pretty ironclad physical laws I expect it requires substantially more energy and some very advanced tools to produce, tools probably too advanced to just cart around wherever you feel like. Neruz fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Oh, by the way - I, Paolo Cavaliere, hero of Italy, would like to sign up for war amongst the stars! Preferably a position that allows...lucrative opportunities with the exciting new technologies being spread! (If there's any kind of corruption trait, get me on that poo poo ASAP. Otherwise, though, simply being Italian is fine!)
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8 votes for Weapons 13 votes for Armor/Shields 1 vote for Anomalous Materials, 1 for Armor but gently caress Shields (which are practically opposite votes for different kinds of defense). - - - - - Since I do recruitment stuff prior to running an update, I figure I'll also dole out promotions then. There are quite a few, so I'll only be noting interesting ones - promotions to captain or above, really. With that in mind Matsumoto Gato has earned a promotion to Vice Admiral, making him the second-best admiral in the entire fleet behind Zapp Brannigan. Imagine that. Second best to Zapp Brannigan. What a place to be. Delta Green is now a Lieutenant Commander. Only two steps away from Captain. (Putting that one in 'cause he asked) Furthermore, I really missed out on a few recruitment posts. My apologies. Ratoslov posted:Take your worst Russian and name him Ratoslov 'Deathwish' Ratoslovich I. Then stick a bottle of vodka in his hand and put him on the ship most likely to die. We shall choke the guns of our enemies with the bodies of our dead!  I took a bad Russian and promoted him twice to make him even worse. You're welcome. reignonyourparade posted:Can I get the worst available Brazilian of ship-captaining rank as Reinaldo "BR?" Paredes? Unfortunately, I have no Brazilians of ship-captaining rank. Fortunately, I can make one - promoting people before their time tanks their Leaderships score, so by asking for the worst captain available I can simply take an average Ensign and immediately promote him to Captain days out of the Academy. He now has a Leadership of zero. He is only slightly better than having no captain at all.  Bruceski posted:Sign me up as Bruce Skiovsky from Russia or eastern Europe somewhere. I'd rather be on a support ship than on the  Supersonic Shine posted:My name is Lucio "Sonic" Boone, and I say take full control of the moon. Can't have X-rays snooping around our backyard.  Rockopolis posted:Maximum Colonialism!  BwenGun posted:Well this looks like an awful lot of fun!  Grizzwold posted:Volunteering as "Grizz" Ursus, a very angry cyborg bear. Hopefully I can make major before dying gloriously.  Mon dieu! I have awoken as a cyborg bear! This will wreak havoc on the menage a trois I am planning! Prav posted:Signup: Ken "Rawhide" Kobayashi (Japanese) seeks to give the aliens a lesson in good ol' fashioned American justice and derring-do.  Mightypeon posted:Can I get signed up as a Russian "Wasily "Red Star" Zhukovovsky".  Tomn posted:Oh, by the way - I, Paolo Cavaliere, hero of Italy, would like to sign up for war amongst the stars! Preferably a position that allows...lucrative opportunities with the exciting new technologies being spread! There are only non-Italian corrupt people. As always, Italy remains the centre of model government compared to the seethingly corrupt and inefficient Germans. Would you prefer a corruption trait, or Italian nationality? Lastly, Pladdicus, if you'd like I can just upload the savefile somewhere (my current one is only around 500 kB) and you can design ships using it and just post screenshots of your designs. Also, I'm pretty sure the aliens will focus their attacks on the Moon (which only has a Defensive Battery), and our fighters/corvettes don't cost any upkeep. More importantly, they grant people experience just by existing.)
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occipitallobe posted:There are only non-Italian corrupt people. As always, Italy remains the centre of model government compared to the seethingly corrupt and inefficient Germans. Would you prefer a corruption trait, or Italian nationality? So I had to change my passport a few times to escape the long arm of the incorruptible Italian law, what of it? I, Paolo Cavaliere, care not so long as I can make a fortune!
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