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Offline Marski

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #375 on: September 05, 2012, 03:14:26 AM »
If I remember correctly there is a bit of a problem with factions declaring war on each other and nuking terra into oblivion on a regular basis.  I guess the NPR never had a check to see if nuking the planet would also nuke themselves.
I think that's fairly realistic actually.
Even at the end of the Cold War the planned strategy for both Eastern Block and NATO was basically nukes, nukes everywhere should the enemy go further than 50km throught their lines.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #376 on: September 05, 2012, 07:27:41 AM »
Well, sort of realistic.  It doesn't make for a very productive NPR controlled faction though.  Even during the cold war all factions had reservations about pushing any one side too far due to the threat of MAD.

I REALLY want to start my own multi-faction endeavor but I am loathe to start it until 5.7 and it's improved multi-faction controls are available.

For the purposes of building a useful game it would probably be best to guide the multi-faction through infancy and then relinquish control of the other factions to the computer once substantial off-world colonies and available should they decide diplomacy via fission of fusion is the way to go.  (can that be successfully done: give control back to the computer and have it be productive in deploying your ships and resources that were set up as a managed empire initially?)
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #377 on: September 05, 2012, 08:41:40 AM »
[SNIP] (can that be successfully done: give control back to the computer [SNIP]?)

No.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #378 on: September 05, 2012, 12:49:30 PM »
What, it's not possible to set up their relations status to friendly towards you?
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #379 on: September 05, 2012, 07:02:26 PM »
It's not possible to turn a player-operated race into a computer-operated one.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #380 on: September 05, 2012, 07:15:13 PM »
It's not possible to turn a player-operated race into a computer-operated one.

That's incorrect. There is an option someplace to do so. Don't recall where though. Once you do, you cannot change back to a human controlled race.

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #381 on: September 05, 2012, 08:01:46 PM »
That would be an interesting option, a'la splinter factions or rebelling colonies that decide to go alone.  Obviously, one could just RP that and control the whole thing themselves but I kind of like not knowing what they might do without you at the helm.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #382 on: September 06, 2012, 02:46:01 PM »
Just found a near perfect colonisation prospect: . 95 G, 70% N, 28. 8% O, 1. 2% Argon atmosphere at 0. 77 atmospheric pressure.  Sure, it's tidally locked and it has no hydrosphere, but that has no mechanical effect on the planet whatsoever.  Unfortunately, there is a reason why it's only near perfect.

The planetary temperature is balmy -132 degrees centigrade.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #383 on: September 06, 2012, 03:59:31 PM »
Ehh, just put on your thermal undershorts and you'll be fine.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #384 on: September 15, 2012, 08:33:08 AM »
While uncovering the massive abandoned installations on Mars ( Abandoned intact cities - 2700 instalations ) I got . . .  mining production from 20 tones to 60 tones in 4 months.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #385 on: September 15, 2012, 10:39:24 AM »
While uncovering the massive abandoned installations on Mars ( Abandoned intact cities - 2700 instalations ) I got . . .  mining production from 20 tones to 60 tones in 4 months.

I've scaled that back a little for v6.00 :)

Steve
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #386 on: September 15, 2012, 10:54:06 AM »
Damn , no more strip-mining Earth in 3 years :)
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #387 on: September 20, 2012, 04:39:49 AM »
My 20 years + ally , the Orion Khanate decided to test his new missiles on my mars colony - with 30 + of his cargo ships in sol and about 25 military ships , most close range.

After about 3500 missiles and a lot of railgun shots I cleared the system. He must have thought having only 5 retrofitted destroyers (6kt) and 2 fleet fast auxiliaries ( 18kt , 4k magazines ) would not stop him. He was at ion drives - I finished magcon couple of years ago.

Oh how I wish for a better AI hint hint :D
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #388 on: September 20, 2012, 04:38:37 PM »
Oh how I wish for a better AI hint hint :D

Be careful what you wish for :)

Steve
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #389 on: September 21, 2012, 02:28:11 AM »
Be careful what you wish for :)

Steve

Sometime in the future we look to this day as happy times when we weren't having aliens come knocking at the gates of Sol within 30 ingame years from starting the game and having the whole system swept clear by what is considered a recon group by the other civilization's standards.