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Defiance Industries posted:The WoB figured them out enough to get Terra's Caspar system working again. Yeah though they never really managed to get it quite up to its old Star League glory, from what I understand. And then it only really ended up coming into play near the end of the Jihad. Basically yes, stuff like that has/does exist in Battletech, but only for brief periods, not as something available that you can generally assume access to during any of the game eras, is what I mean.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 07:39 |
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Well, the society seems like one of the few groups that could probably make something like that happen. And since they're the ones with friend computer, it might work!
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 07:46 |
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Olothreutes posted:This is a thing we've done in real life, to great effect. Recently a company designed a combat aircraft AI, ALPHA, that has a perfect dogfighting record against actual USAF expert pilots. They took input from said pilot expert during the initial design phase and then generated a lot of copies of the AI with subtly different settings and had them all fight one another over and over. Using that data they took the most successful of the copies, merged them together to get the best traits from them, and then created a bunch of "children" from the new improved AI. Repeat a bunch of times and you come out with an AI at the end that is way more capable than the starting AI with no human input on tactics. And it was all done on a $500 desktop, not some fancy supercomputing cluster. That whole subject is incredibly interesting. There's another popular one where they used such a system to let a model self-learn how to walk and run, which offers a pretty neat visualisation of the concept by comparing the generations against each other: https://youtu.be/pgaEE27nsQw?t=55s
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 08:04 |
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I'm gonna throw another vote on the C pile, gotta murder some Trashborn.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 08:08 |
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Current tally: A: 2 B: 15 C: 40 D: 29 E: 13 F: 47
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 11:29 |
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If you're not First, you're last
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:25 |
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Vote C.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:37 |
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Throwing in a vote for A because I feel bad for the lil guys!
Mezzanon fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Sep 19, 2016 |
# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:40 |
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Voting for F: got my letters mixed up for a moment.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:51 |
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I'm feeling D tonight.
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 02:54 |
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That makes a cool 150 votes!
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 02:56 |
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As tempting as mystery box is, I want to see what F leads into
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 08:38 |
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Retrotech is the best tech - F
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 15:33 |
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voting F for crazy mad max shenanigans.
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:17 |
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Excited to see the Max Max option, and I'm also happy that the Demon Hawks' new free agent pickups won't be totally massacred (hopefully)
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:28 |
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F also PTN, here's my entry for the secret "what's at the end of the painbow" contest. I present the BOLO mk V in LAC and LMG versions. code:
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 18:58 |
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You're missing a ton of nuclear missiles, particle cannons and drones.
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 20:05 |
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terrenblade posted:also PTN, here's my entry for the secret "what's at the end of the painbow" contest. I'm sure PTN would like to encourage more quality fiction from the creator of the Gray Death Legion.
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 20:30 |
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The Merry Marauder posted:I'm sure PTN would like to encourage more quality fiction from the creator of the Gray Death Legion. Say what now?
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 21:29 |
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William H. Keith writes (among lots of other stuff) Bolo stories.
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 21:35 |
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terrenblade posted:F Should have made one of the 10,000+ ton Bolos as a mobile structure. :V
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 21:44 |
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MJ12 posted:Should have made one of the 10,000+ ton Bolos as a mobile structure. :V I think I may have already done that. Not intended as a Bolo, but it'd probably fit decently. Surface to orbital weaponry and all.
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 22:05 |
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Vote's not over yet (mostly because I'm relaxing and recharging this week), but since there's a clear frontrunner I'm not being completely idle.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:25 |
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Corrosive, extremely bad for your health, moderately chemically unstable. Well, at least it's not flammable.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:29 |
Yikes, just what do they use to power those chemical lasers?
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:36 |
Bloody Pom posted:Yikes, just what do they use to power those chemical lasers? My guess is FOOF.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:45 |
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Quillar fertilizer is my guess.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:47 |
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Bloody Pom posted:Yikes, just what do they use to power those chemical lasers? Hazardous chemicals, Virtucon's #1 product!
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:47 |
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Bloody Pom posted:Yikes, just what do they use to power those chemical lasers? Given that they're chemical lasers, I would guess they power them with chemicals.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:55 |
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And that's probably going to be one of the heaviest vehicles in the scenario, a whopping 723 BV.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:56 |
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Bloody Pom posted:Yikes, just what do they use to power those chemical lasers? The CapCon variant, like all things Capellan, are powered by orphans. ... who have been bathed in chemicals from the Axis Chemical Factory, like the Joker. Truly there is nothing more precious than the laughter of a child (being weaponized).
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:57 |
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Is the ammo for those lasers like super explosive?
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 03:58 |
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wiegieman posted:And that's probably going to be one of the heaviest vehicles in the scenario, a whopping 723 BV. Depending on whether or not PTN actually calculated the weapon's BV manually and did it up like that, the BV might not be accurate. Heavy Chemical Lasers are not a canon weapon, I'm interested to see what they do.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 04:00 |
Shoeless posted:Depending on whether or not PTN actually calculated the weapon's BV manually and did it up like that, the BV might not be accurate. Heavy Chemical Lasers are not a canon weapon, I'm interested to see what they do. They are canon, they're just exclusively Clan technology in the original fluff. They're essentially ammo-based lasers that use canisters of volatile chemicals in lieu of a fusion reactor for power, to allow ICE/fuel cell equipped vehicles to mount lasers without the bulky capacitors.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 04:01 |
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Pattonesque posted:Is the ammo for those lasers like super explosive? Not super explosive, no. But you wouldn't want it getting shot. Or wet. Or a hole in the case, because that poo poo is toxic as hell apparently.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 04:03 |
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Bloody Pom posted:They are canon, they're just exclusively Clan technology in the original fluff. Chemical lasers exist in canon, however, Heavy chemical lasers are a new thing.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 04:04 |
Picard Day posted:Chemical lasers exist in canon, however, Heavy chemical lasers are a new thing. Ah, you're right. I was confusing Heavy and Large.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 04:06 |
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It is a bit late, but I will vote for edit: its been an hour, i don't think my vote has been tabulated. I'm leaving the old one in for posterity just in case. TheParadigm fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Sep 20, 2016 |
# ? Sep 20, 2016 04:15 |
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TheParadigm posted:I dont think number of votes for losers do anything They do.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 04:46 |
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really now? Well, hmn.
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 05:24 |