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#126 CheesEv

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 04:42 AM

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Originally posted by Sargatanus:
How about light blue and grey? There's already a two color gov.

Sorry, can only do one color in this respect.

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#127 Pallas Athene

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 07:36 AM

I temporarily got a little nervous when I saw that the presence of the colony ship was announced on the front page and the INN, but I happened to be in Tangier at the time, so I got its stats:

UNSET Colony Ship's Information
Independent (0)
Insystem Status: In Flight
Credits: 1,000,000
Piloting Skill: 15
Remaining Jumps: 75
Weapons:
10X Neutron Blaster
10X Laser Turret
5X Torpedo Launcher +50

I was originally considering a dark green for our color... [goes and tests colors].
#336633 would work nicely - it a sort of olive-like color.

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#128 Patrick

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 07:56 AM

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UNSET Colony Ship's Information
Independent (0)
Insystem Status: In Flight
Credits: 1,000,000
Piloting Skill: 15
Remaining Jumps: 75
Weapons:
10X Neutron Blaster
10X Laser Turret
5X Torpedo Launcher +50

niiicee

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#129 Pallas Athene

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 09:00 AM

It's already defeated combat monkey.

Watch this space ---> [url="http://"http://www.stonefire.net/news.php?type=today"]Updates[/url]

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#130 Limax

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 11:41 AM

OH my GOD! That thing's invincible!

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#131 Pallas Athene

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 11:46 AM

Theoretically, it isn't.

In practice...

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#132 Limax

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 11:47 AM

Did you guys have to pay extra to put weapons on it?

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#133 Pallas Athene

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 12:16 PM

Nope, just the million.

Then again, if you do the math, we're paying 1 million credits for that ship to help us for a single day. If you were to treat it like an escort, that would put the ship's real value at 20 million. And that sounds like a fair price.

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#134 Avatara

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 12:20 PM

Does the combat skill on the colony ship increase as it destroys people?

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#135 Dan-D-Man

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 12:50 PM

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Originally posted by Limax:
OH my GOD! That thing's invincible!

Almost invincible...
I noticed that it doesn't have any AM Snipers. I worry what a quick missle strike would do...Also, I thought we were going to hire some escorts for it. Well, I guess it doesn't need them now. I thought it was going to just sit there helplessly Posted Image

. But I worry too much.

Finally, now that it's defeated someone, it has gained cash. Will we get a small "return" on our investment? (ie. do we get the extra cash back?)

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#136 Sargatanus

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 01:27 PM

Of all the rotten luck/bad maneuvers. If anyone if near C-002 could you drop by and spare some fuel? Or at least recomend some way to get some more?

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#137 Pallas Athene

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 01:35 PM

And I just lost my Raptor, so I'm back to an Explorer. I'm not really sure what I'll do from here - I have cash, but I may want to wait for the government to be created.

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#138 Limax

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by Sargatanus:
Of all the rotten luck/bad maneuvers. If anyone if near C-002 could you drop by and spare some fuel? Or at least recomend some way to get some more?

Email the admins

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#139 Dan-D-Man

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 02:28 PM

Yeah, sar, I had that problem before. Just ask Beef or CheesEv nicely and they'll give you 4 jumps worth.

I think we've all agreed on the color green, right? Speak now, or forever hold your peace.

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#140 Avatara

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 02:42 PM

Green is good. And I'm holding off on using my turn until after we get our planet (or at least some decent government missions).

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#141 CheesEv

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by Avatara:
Green is good. And I'm holding off on using my turn until after we get our planet (or at least some decent government missions).

The green looks good, a definate improvement over the gray in my opinion. Once your gov is created, I assume that most of you will join it. Please send me (CheesEv, I can get messages even though I don't have a character) messages with your passwords (to verify) that tell me that you want to switch.

[whoops, didn't mean to quote. I'll talk about it anyway]

The new gov wont be created until tonight, possibly late, so you might miss out on doing normal missions if you wait.

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[This message has been edited by CheesEv (edited 09-29-2002).]

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#142 k¡llme

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by Sargatanus:
Of all the rotten luck/bad maneuvers. If anyone if near C-002 could you drop by and spare some fuel? Or at least recomend some way to get some more?

Okay Sarg, you have some more fuel now..
(beef)

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#143 Mag Steelglass

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 07:39 PM

I see. So the Jaeger idea wasn't as good as it had seemed. Ah well. I'll probably switch over to a cruiser once we get a government.

I was thinking. As a sort of anti-piracy thing, we could keep a list going of who has pirated members of our government and how many times, so that we can know who to smack when we get the opportunity, as well as how many times to smack them. Posting something on the hideout boards about this should hopefully deter pirates from attacking us and also make it easier for us to deal with our enemies.

A ship I could see being very useful against pirates would be an anti-capship capship, as it'd be strong enough to take fighters down just by being a capship and would be able to fry other capships left and right. Something with neutron blasters, heavy rockets, and torpedoes. Also perhaps a pair of laser turrets to handle fighters.

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#144 Pallas Athene

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 08:17 PM

Oh, you mean an HVD.

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#145 Mag Steelglass

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 08:43 PM

Eh, sorta. I was thinking of it as more protected and less maneuverable than an HVD. More like a carrier that replaces the fighter bay with hvd guns. (Also, hvd guns work well against any sort of ship, not just capships.)

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#146 Sargatanus

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 08:47 PM

I think that would be a battleship (battlecruiser?), mag.

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#147 Dan-D-Man

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 09:56 PM

Ouch. Pallas and Pat both lost their ships on the same turn.
In other news...
Our colony ship has reached the Tralf system and will be setting down shortly.
/me colapses in fit of excitement.

EDIT: Oh, any volunteers for designing/choosing the pic for our new vessle?

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#148 Limax

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 11:08 PM

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Originally posted by Sargatanus:
I think that would be a battleship (battlecruiser?), mag.

Battleship.
Battlecruisers are the same but have much less armor and crew (but are faster)

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#149 Dan-D-Man

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Posted 29 September 2002 - 11:45 PM

Ah, sweet success!

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Today's News:
The colony ship entered orbit of the green planet today. With the colonization comes the formation of a new government, the UNS Expeditionary Taskforce.
If you would like to join this government, send an in-hideout message to CheesEv with the request, name, and password.

Everything in the interface is so...GREEN!! And our Government is listed in the Gameplay Guide! And we show up as green in the Universal Scan!! And we STILL HAVE THE COLONY SHIP!!!!!

<colapses in extacy>

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#150 CheesEv

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Posted 30 September 2002 - 12:00 AM

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Originally posted by Dan-D-Man:
And we STILL HAVE THE COLONY SHIP!!!!!

Err, you don't get to keep it, I just haven't removed it yet.

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