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#26 User is offline   Pallas Athene 

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 08:11 AM

I just made the top of the credit list, and tomorrow I'm going to have more than 600Kcr - that's a *bad* thing, even if you don't consider that I'm going to end up only 2 jumps away from Narsil.

Since I'll probably lose the credits before I can do any good with them, I'd like to make the contribution as soon as possible. Tomorrow morning, I'll be able to contribute 500K, and everyone else would only have to contribute 125K. Does this sound good? If so, I'll email CheesEv when I have the credits.

I'm counting on:
500K - me
125K - Patrick, Avatara (Trojen), Jager, Sargatanus

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 10:18 AM

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Originally posted by Pallas Athene:
I just made the top of the credit list, and tomorrow I'm going to have more than 600Kcr - that's a *bad* thing, even if you don't consider that I'm going to end up only 2 jumps away from Narsil.

Since I'll probably lose the credits before I can do any good with them, I'd like to make the contribution as soon as possible. Tomorrow morning, I'll be able to contribute 500K, and everyone else would only have to contribute 125K. Does this sound good? If so, I'll email CheesEv when I have the credits.

I'm counting on:
500K - me
125K - Patrick, Avatara (Trojen), Jager, Sargatanus

Yea or Nay?


Sounds good Posted Image Lets get the Tralf system up in the North first.You sure Jager is with us? I think he might have signed up with the EV B&B guys. If you don't know I'll contribute his 125k as well.

about new ships:

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(first, I plan on making the other missions more profitable so more will to em)
All planets will generate some income for either your new gov or for the existing gov that annexes them. If you start your own little gov with your new planet, you can make some nifty new ships. The first one's free and the following ones (this applies to all govs, including existing ones) will cost some semi-large amount from the gov treasury like 500,000.




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Posted 08 September 2002 - 10:43 AM

So, then, we need to decide upon our first ship. I'd vote for something modeled on the Human Gunship:

Class: Gunship
Speed: 380 AU/h
Def. Shield: 30u
Charge: 0.5u/sec
Armor: 60u
Guns: 4 max
Turrets: 3 max

Space: 30 tons [Modified from 20T]
Cargo: 20 tons
Fuel: 500 (5)
Length: 20m
Mass: 110 tons
Crew: 8
Cost: 1,200,000 cr

Accel: 320
Turn: 120°/sec
Weapons:
-2 Neutron Cannons
-2 Laser Turrets

Designed for short-range fighting. Neutrons (Magnetos) against larger ships, Laser Turrets against smaller - just like its Ares counterpart. After getting more money, I'd buy the Carrier/Fighter at the same time, and then the HVD. Other ships aren't all that essential to the fleet.

[edit]Actually, I shouldn't have the 600K in the morning - colony ships are sent manually, so if I got it in the morning, I'd be a sitting duck all day. I'll probably do it around 6, so my vulnerability is more limited.

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 03:13 PM

I can only do 100Kcr, as I haven't made 1 credit yet.

And just a suggestion, give our gunship at least 30 for weapon space.

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 03:52 PM

Ship edited to 30T - although I think it would probably be better to reduce it to 0 space and add an extra Neutron Blaster (which is 30T). That way, escorts will have their full potential used, rather than having a useless 30T. If we want to use the space for something else, it's easy to sell off the blaster.

Now that Patrick is on the Most Wealth spot, we might want to accelerate the Colony Ship to today - 300K from me, 400K from Patrick, 100K each from Sarg, Avatara, and Jager.

Now awaiting confirmation from Patrick, Avatara, and Jager.

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 04:03 PM

I signed up, but my account's not up yet.

Oh, and I think the Ishiman ships have more of a classic Ares feel than the human ones.

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 06:50 PM

Er, I have had most of my money disappear as well as all 4 escorts. down to 160k! :/

Scanning Info for Vistula:

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Dash Rantic's Information New Alliance (2)
Ship: Secure Transport Insystem Status: Docked
Credits: 205,340 Piloting Skill: 2 Remaining Jumps: 6
Weapons: 2X Light Rocket Launcher, AM Sniper, 300X Light Rocket, 2X Laser Blaster
Escorts: 2X Explorer

Patrick's Information Independent (6)
Ship: Explorer Insystem Status: Docked
Credits: 164,417 Piloting Skill: 0 Remaining Jumps: 4
Weapons: (none)
Escorts: (none)

Volkov's Information Independent (-14)
Ship: Goliath Insystem Status: Docked
Credits: 301,409 Piloting Skill: 5 Remaining Jumps: 4
Weapons: 2X Proton Cannon, 2X Heavy Rocket Launcher, 8X Heavy Rocket
Escorts: 2X Jaeger

****. I believe Volkov has pirated me. Obviously my single armed escort(a Shrike) wasn't enough.

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 06:55 PM

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Captain, the following is a Battle Report...
Ship Destroyed by an Attacker
Battle in the Vistula system: Volkov Destroys Patrick


Volkov's Statistics:

* Cruising around the Vistula system.
* Weapons Fired by Volkov:
* 2 Guided Missiles
* Escort Casualties:
* No Escorts Lost
* 0 misses by range weapons.
* Gained 1 skill point for blowing Patrick's ship to shiny bits.
* Legal Status decreased by 3 for destroying the ship of a Trader.

Patrick's Statistics:

* Patrick's escape pod took him to the nearest port in the Vistula system.
* Weapons Fired by Patrick:
* No range weapons launched
* Escort Casualties:
* All of Patrick's escorts dispersed upon his defeat.
* 0 misses by range weapons.
* Lost 2 skill points for getting his ship fragged.
* Legal Status unchanged.

Booty:

* 328,833 credits were taken out of Patrick's vault.
A Silver lining for Patrick?

* Patrick was furnished with a shiny new Explorer by his insurance company.


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Posted 08 September 2002 - 07:28 PM

Yes, I can donate 100k if you give me advance warning by a day on when to do it and tell me how to. I'm still trying to work out the system.

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 07:39 PM

You give nothing but your consent - CheesEv will go manually into your account and deduct the required 100K. And judging by Patrick's condition, I think he's only going to be contributing 100K as well. So, another paying-plan revision:

Tomorrow Night (~6pm EST?)
+ 500K, from me
? 100K, from Patrick - is that too much right now?
+ 100K, from Avatara
+ 100K, from Sargatanus
+ 100K, from Jager (since he did say he'd be willing to help out)
? 100K, from Mag, since CheesEv will also be activating accounts around that time.

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 07:49 PM

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Originally posted by Pallas Athene:
Now that Patrick is on the Most Wealth spot, we might want to accelerate the Colony Ship to today - 300K from me, 400K from Patrick, 100K each from Sarg, Avatara, and Jager.


How do you find the information for that?

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by Pallas Athene:

? 100K, from Patrick - is that too much right now?

Think I should *just* be able to afford it. However it will entail running missions to Narsil...( Posted Image ) hopefully no pirates will be hanging around! I'll make my move for cash at about 3:15 PM.

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Posted 08 September 2002 - 07:53 PM

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How do you find the information for that?



It's on the front page of [url="http://"http://www.stonefire.net"]www.stonefire.net[/url] Posted Image

BTW, I think an IRC channel would be useful for this endeavor... #ares on irc.ambrosia.com perhaps?

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 09:45 AM

Everyone with an account should have received a copy of the message I just sent to CheesEv - check your messages.

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 03:07 PM

Hey All
I just signed up as an independent. I wonder if our little government will be added to the list you can sign up for on the registration page. Speaking of which, did we get the colony ship yet? If not, I'd be happy to contribute 100k, as I believe you start with 300k so I can spare some Posted Image .

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 04:22 PM

Got your message Pallas. I have 150k and a new Scout(with laser cannons this time Posted Image ) with runabout escort now. Hopefully none of the pirates will decide to attack our ship...lol.

I suggest moving our strategic planning to #ares. This webboard isn't secure enough. I'll be at #ares all night, see some of you there!

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 04:33 PM

I got hit, down to 47k and out of it for 24 hours.

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 05:14 PM

Tyrael has been pirated- this poses a problem!

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by Pallas Athene:
-Northstar Confederacy - I think that may have been influenced by StarLance


Isn't that one of those EVN plugins in the works?

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 07:33 PM

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Isn't that one of those EVN plugins in the works?



We prefer to think of it as an Ares plugin in the works for EVN.

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 07:33 PM

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Isn't that one of those EVN plugins in the works?



StarLance was an Ares plugin. See [url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com"]www.slugsoft.f2s.com[/url]

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Posted 09 September 2002 - 10:13 PM

Hey folks, I just wanted to let you know that we really arent 100% ready to get new governments started.. We have a number of problems to deal with regarding "excessive pirating" (as you can tell here), it may be clear that the LN is not as "secure" as we would LIKE it to be.. And in the case that your new government WERE created, it would be in extreme danger from these pirate attacks until we have implemented our further security fleets for the new players in the LN zone, and perhaps expanded the universe [allowing more places to hide, plus people won't always be 1 to 2 turns away, easy to kill].
As much as I am a fan of multiplayer games, a few players have taken extreme advantage of this and therefore it is unlikely that the game can be fun for others.. So .... the game just started a week ago and we are making a lot of new updates but both me and CheesEv have started school so we are fairly busy..... but hang on.. hopefully soon the game will be a little more safer and we will also encounter less bugs and therefore have more time to implement new stuff.. like colonization =)

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Posted 10 September 2002 - 06:06 AM

Well, the "LN isn't safe" revelation is partially thanks to *my* being pirated. However, CheesEv said he deducted 500K from our accounts - meaning we'll be significantly safer while we're waiting.

According to CheesEv, the new governments won't be possible before the weekend.

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Posted 10 September 2002 - 11:43 AM

Umm, this looks nice but what exactly is it? And how does it work?

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Posted 10 September 2002 - 03:21 PM

I was thinking that we could maybe adopt one of our old planetarion tactics for this game, i.e. everyone donates a portion of their money to one player until they can get themselves established (buy a decent ship, hire escorts for bulk missions.trading, etc.) This, in theory at least, should raise the bar for everyone faster than if we all had to make it on our own.

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