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Here's an updated list of all goons who are participating in the operation, and their place within the command hierarchy. In Klondike-Kagayan:
In Sol:
bgreman fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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Sep 22, 2016 21:04
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Not going to lie: naming Beef's group "Medea" is just asking for trouble. I mean, Beef has betrayed drat near everyone at this point. But still.
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Sep 22, 2016 21:11
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Dr. Snark posted:Not going to lie: naming Beef's group "Medea" is just asking for trouble. On the other hand, Belnar is clearly a robo-witch with powers of enchantment over other automatons, so...
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Sep 22, 2016 21:40
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The most fitting code name.
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Sep 22, 2016 22:18
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Saros posted:Yeah, i'm not sure if Jimmy is still around but if so we really need a new academy or two, we are desperately short of officers. Did somebody say....Infrastructure investments!!! And yes I'm still here, I'm always watching from my beige throne made of GSA forms and RFPs packets.
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Sep 22, 2016 22:44
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Saros posted:Yeah, i'm not sure if Jimmy is still around but if so we really need a new academy or two, we are desperately short of officers. How do we join? Disclaimer: I have no idea what's happening
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Sep 23, 2016 01:24
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tatankatonk posted:How do we join? Disclaimer: I have no idea what's happening Like this. Hey BG can you put me on the waiting list for a naval officer? Edit: Huh, seems that I already put my name in like forever ago. Still, the example stands. Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Sep 23, 2016 |
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Sep 23, 2016 02:02
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Hey BG could you put me on the waiting list as a naval officer? Thanks.
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Sep 23, 2016 03:08
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It's probably good to get in now before the nice long list of potential casualties above starts to cycle through 
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Sep 23, 2016 10:06
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Saros posted:It's probably good to get in now before the nice long list of potential casualties above starts to cycle through
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Sep 23, 2016 11:33
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tatankatonk posted:Hey BG could you put me on the waiting list as a naval officer? Thanks. Same for me. This thing looks awesome. And I can't wait to fill some dead goon's shoes.
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Sep 23, 2016 13:08
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One day ATHENIAN will shine.
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Sep 23, 2016 13:20
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BG, can you throw my name into the hat as a Naval Officer? This is getting intense, I hope I don't get called up too soon.
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Sep 23, 2016 14:50
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I have not done any creative writing in the character of Captain Beef in a long time and I just got home, its gonna take me a bit to work myself up to the task. Action stations, stand by for contact.
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Sep 23, 2016 20:47
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To: All Those Poor Dead Goons From: UNIN Re: Beef We're detecting increased brain activity from Raw_Beef, chances of imminent betrayal are estimated to have increased 10000%, ensure crews at full readiness.
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Sep 23, 2016 21:36
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Gnooble posted:To: All Those Poor Dead Goons Initiating Automatic Letter of Death Generator Dear Sir/Madam (delete as necessary), we at the UNIN regret to inform you that due to the traitorous actions of [NAME EXPUNGED] during [CLASSIFIED OPERATION] your (insert status here), (insert name here) died. Rest assured that despite the actions of the traitor [NAME EXPUNGED] he/she was exemplary in his/her duties for the UN. (insert name here) was a shining star in the UNIN and will truly be missed. Condolences, UNIN *This letter generated by the UNFI Letter of Death Generator for rapid death notifications. Have a nice day!
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Sep 23, 2016 22:36
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Raw_Beef posted:I have not done any creative writing in the character of Captain Beef in a long time and I just got home, its gonna take me a bit to work myself up to the task. Action stations, stand by for contact. Thank god I didn't waste the approximately 14.3 billion Euro (in 2020 euro adjusted for inflation) on psychological studies of Cpt Raw Beef and Premier TilDeath. Men and women of the UNIN, I can confidently say that we have no working psychological models of the captain after his subsumation but overridingly he cannot be trusted.
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Sep 23, 2016 23:52
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tatankatonk posted:Hey BG could you put me on the waiting list as a naval officer? Thanks. frankenfreak posted:That and me finally being in a place to know roughly what is going on currently encourages me to dive in and request to add me to the naval officers list. Bacarruda posted:Same for me. This thing looks awesome. Another Otter posted:BG, can you throw my name into the hat as a Naval Officer? Before I add anyone to the list, are there particular traits you want to hold out for? It's a quicker wait if you take the first generated officer, but you're more likely to get a crap command, compared to officers with high Crew Training Rating or a specialty skill.
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Sep 24, 2016 00:44
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You forgot CMDR Sky Shadowing in K2, on board the 'millions of slides'.
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Sep 24, 2016 00:49
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I'd prefer someone with a decent Crew Training Rating or an Operations Bonus, but I won't insist on anything.
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Sep 24, 2016 00:54
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Sky Shadowing posted:You forgot CMDR Sky Shadowing in K2, on board the 'millions of slides'. Well if it turns out you've been converted into a robot or something we'll welcome you back with open arms! After quarantine, analysis, dissection, psych testing... Okay, "open arms" might have been a bit too generous in this case.
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Sep 24, 2016 01:45
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I don't need to hold out for any traits, no.
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Sep 24, 2016 01:59
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I'm on the edge of my space-seat! Good luck beef!
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Sep 24, 2016 14:25
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Could I be reserved for a naval officer with a crew training bonus if at all possible?
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Sep 24, 2016 16:51
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Heh. Looks like it's getting interesting. Glad I'm nowhere near this one.
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Sep 24, 2016 18:08
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Uh, just curious, what happened to all the pictures? I just started reading this and it seemed a bit weird since it seemed there would be something there.
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Oct 4, 2016 00:05
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Koorisch posted:Uh, just curious, what happened to all the pictures? Pictures? HA! We haven't had PICTURES here since 1982! Seriously, though, it's all about imagination plus the fact that really who wants pictures anyways - once you've seen what looks like a radar screen from Wargames you've pretty much seen all the graphics the game has to offer. The only images that really show up are informational in nature - spreadsheets and the odd tactical/strategic view of ship positioning when it's relevant (though if you're starting from the beginning you may well run across some of the universe building things that Jimmy did a while ago that feature various art). Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Oct 4, 2016 00:24
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which pictures are you referring to? I thought we might have a hosting problem after however many years around or whatever but I randomly went back to page 20 and everything seems to be working fine.
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Oct 4, 2016 06:28
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Yes, the game does literally look like a series of lines and dots. You're not missing anything.
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Oct 4, 2016 10:52
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Well except the screenshots often contain valuable information that BG doesn't spell out in the text. But anyway, I can see the images just fine. Perhaps is was just a temporary problem?
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Oct 4, 2016 12:16
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I assumed he'd got confused that the pictures didn't contain anything as compellingly glorious as our accompanying narrative and thought that he was missing something.
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Oct 4, 2016 12:24
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True wonder is to be found in spreadsheets!
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Oct 4, 2016 12:34
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markus_cz posted:Well except the screenshots often contain valuable information that BG doesn't spell out in the text. Yeah, it's showing now, apparently it was just temporary.
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Oct 4, 2016 15:30
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UNS Mackinac: K2-Sol Jump Gate, 27th September 2037, 17:41 UNT Fourteen minutes after Order and Plenty originally detected MINOTAUR's active sensor emissions, the fleet scout UNS Delphi sends a message to Mackinac, indicating that the powerful "Providence" active search sensor has detected and locked on to the hostile formation. The automaton ships have not deviated from their course, heading directly for THESEUS. While the Gibraltar-class monitors have a weapon director capable of controlling missiles out to nearly 85m kilometers, the max range of their heavy SSM-13A "Harrier" missiles is only 21.7m kilometers. The fire controls on the UN's Cape Town-L-class destroyers are matched more closely to the 21.8m kilometer range of their SSM-11B "Eagle-B" anti-ship missiles. MEDEA is heading for an intercept with MINOTAUR at 20 million kilometers from the K2-Sol jump gate, enabling UN ships to open fire immediately if something goes wrong. MINOTAUR is still about two hours away from the intercept.  Forty-eight minutes later, MEDEA reports that their passive sensors have detected the strength-1250 thermal emissions of the approaching Hoplites. MINOTAUR is just over 41m kilometers away from MEDEA at this point. Intercept will be in about 72 minutes.  UNS Mackinac: K2-Sol Jump Gate, 27th September 2037, 19:22 UNT  "Sir, MEDEA is in place," reports UNS Mackinac's communications technician. "Intercept in nineteen minutes." "Very good, Ms. Ruiz," replies RADM Huriness, watching the time tick down on his sensor display. He opens a command channel to the rest of the ships of THESEUS. "All elements of THESEUS ACTUAL and THESEUS TWO are to make ready weapons and prepare firing solutions. Even coverage across all four targets, pattern beta. Wait to fire for my command." A chorus of acknowledgements answers him and he cuts the channel, returning his attention to the sensor display.  Thread Updates I intended to run this longer, but I had to restart the update twice due to messing up the plan, and may have to restart it again to properly handle the Hoplite behavior. bgreman fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Oct 17, 2016 |
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Oct 15, 2016 22:19
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Yesssssssssss
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Oct 15, 2016 22:34
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So what's actually the fire plan? Each full salvo from the fleet may be enough to cripple one of the Hoplites because the heavies have 3 levels of armor penetration and there are loads of them. Fire one salvo at each target then wait for impact (assuming that we actually have to shoot them at all.) The current writeup looks like its splitting fire evenly which means shots may be wasted if we have missiles in-flight and one ship is knocked out.
Saros fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Oct 16, 2016 |
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Oct 16, 2016 00:09
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Saros posted:So what's actually the fire plan? If Gnooble wants to clarify, that's fine. The plan as I envisioned it was to generally divide the four hostiles evenly among all firing ships, firing one salvo. That'd be one Gibraltar and two Cape Towns per target, with the other two monitors either holding fire or doubling fire on two targets.
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Oct 16, 2016 03:00
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I would probably divide the fleet in half - 3 Gibs + 4 Capes per target, fire a single salvo, switch to the untargeted ships, and fire a salvo. So everyone gets blasted by half the fleet once. With the extra Fed fire that should be more than enough. If anything lives, fire additional Gibs as necessary.
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Oct 16, 2016 23:59
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Gnooble posted:that should be more than enough. If anything lives, fire additional Gibs as necessary. And lo, did the thread learn a harsh lesson from the RNG that day...
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Oct 17, 2016 14:41
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I'm running into more issues than I expected with the Hoplite behavior, so I may need another plan of attack for that. I'll try not to prolong the suspense too long.
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Oct 17, 2016 23:35
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