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Posted by: Maharava
« on: March 17, 2013, 04:45:50 AM »

Aye, but it has to be dorfy enough to let you toss over-officious officers out the airlocks! (Or strap them to the business-end of the antimatter engines, or use them as railgun ammo, etc, etc)

Drop them on Venus?
Posted by: Karmag
« on: March 17, 2013, 04:01:52 AM »

Aye, but it has to be dorfy enough to let you toss over-officious officers out the airlocks! (Or strap them to the business-end of the antimatter engines, or use them as railgun ammo, etc, etc)
Posted by: swarm_sadist
« on: September 08, 2012, 05:53:19 PM »

I support this idea. It will allow me to grow and harvest swarm derelicts and eggs.
Posted by: LoSboccacc
« on: September 06, 2012, 07:56:58 AM »

The railgun slug strikes the command module trough the armor, piercing the left upper navigation console and breaking the Capt. Urist left false rib.
The railgun slug has firmly logged in the armor!
Posted by: dgibso29
« on: August 27, 2012, 06:30:30 PM »

But what happens when you dig... too deep?

My initial reaction skipped right past DF and ended up in the Mines of Moria. I am okay with this, however.
Posted by: jseah
« on: August 27, 2012, 05:22:55 PM »

But what happens when you dig... too deep?
That was what I meant with the ship poking the wormhole.  Spoilers come out.  Lots of them. 

The system length PAC is the analogy to the DF magma cannon.  Ridiculously huge and impractical megaconstruction. 
Don't stand in front of it. 
Posted by: Redshirt
« on: August 27, 2012, 03:56:14 PM »

But what happens when you dig... too deep?
The spoilers show up. You abandon the game shortly thereafter, as the framerate/turn delay becomes completely intolerable.
Posted by: Zook
« on: August 27, 2012, 03:27:28 PM »

Black Hole Accelerator MK IX - Test Firing Round 2
The multi-Billion tons of ships have painstakingly mined and moved entire star systems (and their stars).

But what happens when you dig... too deep?
Posted by: dgibso29
« on: August 27, 2012, 01:56:11 AM »

Marksi, I happen to be married. Oh, never mind. Slightly different from girlfriend.

Girlfriend here... She learned early on that whenever I start playing "Excel in Space," she is more than welcome to fulfill whatever internet whims she happens to have at the time on her laptop. It works out pretty well :)

The rest of this topic makes me laugh...and somewhat fearful of this alternate reality.
Posted by: jseah
« on: August 26, 2012, 09:50:16 PM »

Black Hole Accelerator MK IX - Test Firing Round 2
The multi-Billion tons of ships have painstakingly mined and moved entire star systems (and their stars).  A continuous accelerator ring through multiple jump points shows a particle accelerator cannon spanning Multiple Systems in length, the product of sheer coincidence, a "you must be crazy!" design and half of book worth of mathematical calculations. 

At the 'business' end is a single jumpship about to prod the Invader wormhole and let loose the unstoppable menace.  Or so it has been said to be unstoppable.  Many an unwary player has been swallowed whole by the massive horde. 
The ship moves a little closer, each 1 hour increment taking 30minutes to process. 

It reaches the wormhole and in a terrible silence, the Invader horde appears as a single red dot... and a stack of contacts too high to be read. 

The Black Hole Accelerator coughs.  Once. 
And the dot disappears.  So does the nearby star and most of the business end of the Accelerator itself.  Only too late was it realized that being an observation ship was not going to be healthy, but eh, friendly fire is an unheard of term. 

So is, apparently, overkill. 


EDIT:
A few hours IG time later, the player enters the star system with a scout ship.  It seems to be mostly harmless.  Except for... another red dot. 
Ah, crap. 
Posted by: Redshirt
« on: August 26, 2012, 05:11:56 PM »

Marksi, I happen to be married. Oh, never mind. Slightly different from girlfriend.
Posted by: Marski
« on: August 26, 2012, 03:29:51 AM »

Those made my day. . .  and had my girlfriend calling me insane. . .  Oh well :D

Pffffft "girlfriend", you wouldn't be here if you had one. Silly virgin, do you know where you are?
Posted by: Turmoil
« on: August 25, 2012, 07:20:15 PM »

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  Alpha Corvi    4th Destroyer Squadron is throwing a tantrum!
 
 The elves are horrified by your mining complexes on Mars.
  The elven trade fleet has left.

  Refill Beverage Tanks at Colony
  Unload whatever is left of Beverages to Colony
  Load Brewery
  Unload Brewery

Those made my day. . .  and had my girlfriend calling me insane. . .  Oh well :D
Posted by: Marski
« on: August 25, 2012, 12:58:28 PM »

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Alpha Centauri    [neutronium railgun slug] strikes the USS Enterprise in the body, tearing the ceramic composite armour and tearing the
XXmagneto-plasma drive E8.1XX through the *Epsilon R300/15 Shields*

amidoinitrite?

Nonono, Depleted Uranium or Tungsten slugs.
Posted by: Canek
« on: August 25, 2012, 12:17:51 PM »

Hilarious. . .  and yeah, I want them to create the ultimate game togheter 0. 0