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MagicBoots
Mar 29, 2010

How about we pump the atmosphere full of methane?
You put me on Cargo handling optimization?! I am the premier defense specialist in the entirety of the UN!
Don't you dare pull my funding!
You can't cut back on funding!
You will regret this!

Ms Adequate posted:

I want a 4x that genuinely offers AC levels of unit customization. Or even Gran Turismo, lemme tweak the stiffness of every last spring in my mech's arms or something. You really do need to either go big or go home, either will piss some people off but trying to split the difference usually pisses everyone off.

I remember when I was just getting started in Aurora 4X and realized that to design a missile I was first going to need to design an engine for the missile, and then carefully balance range, yield, speed and size. Then I would need to research the launcher that fired it, also I couldn't make a fire-control system because I hadn't designed an active sensor system yet. To design the active sensors system you needed to balance sensor resolution, range, size. So you can either detect big things at long ranges but not small things, or small things at short ranges, or both but the sensor is going to be enormous. Also more powerful active sensors were easier to detect via passive EM sensors, which were also something I needed to design.

Eventually I designed a ship. It took 1 in game year to build but died in about 5 minutes of combat because my AMMs were not fast enough to get good hit rates against my opponents ASMs.

Also it looks like this:




There was a great community let's play done by bgreman a while back:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3474164&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

edit: O god that was 8 years ago.

MagicBoots fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Sep 7, 2020

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