Post by: IanD on June 03, 2010, 10:30:46 AM
All mineral concentrations are as found except for Mars which harks back to the first iteration.
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Post by: welchbloke on June 03, 2010, 12:15:35 PM
Post by: IanD on June 03, 2010, 12:43:49 PM
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The Indian and Iranian FACs have MFCs that are significantly shorter ranged than their missiles. Any tactical reason for this or is it just driven by technology?
It was intended to represent obsolete FAC but modern missiles, the ships being the more expensive items with the Islamic block being strapped for cash while the Indian Confederation was beginning the construction of its new cloaked Gomati class Missile Boat class.
Hope you find the first instalment interesting, didn't reduce the population by as much as intended, it appears one missile kills one million population even if its got a 10 point warhead. :(
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Post by: welchbloke on June 03, 2010, 12:57:53 PM
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6 Billion is a lot of people to kill; I suspect the fallout and change in environment will kill more off.....Quote from: "welchbloke"The Indian and Iranian FACs have MFCs that are significantly shorter ranged than their missiles. Any tactical reason for this or is it just driven by technology?
It was intended to represent obsolete FAC but modern missiles, the ships being the more expensive items with the Islamic block being strapped for cash while the Indian Confederation was beginning the construction of its new cloaked Gomati class Missile Boat class.
Hope you find the first instalment interesting, didn't reduce the population by as much as intended, it appears one missile kills one million population even if its got a 10 point warhead. :)
Anyone out there know how to transfer fighter squadrons from one population to another? I wish there was an SM merge population button. :(
Regards
Post by: Sotak246 on June 03, 2010, 10:27:01 PM
Mark
Post by: SteveAlt on June 05, 2010, 11:40:16 PM
Steve
Post by: IanD on June 07, 2010, 11:16:54 AM
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A very gripping start to your story, definately got me wanting more. Keep up the good work.
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Great start to the story - looking forward to reading the next installament!
Thank you both for your kind words. The next instalment may take a little time; although with the elimination of the extra solar threat things will hopefully become a little easier. Still not decided whether to do a “Steve” and evacuate the population of Earth to Mars.
Regards
Post by: procyon on June 08, 2010, 03:49:02 AM
Can't wait to see where it goes from here.
Post by: IanD on June 08, 2010, 12:24:45 PM
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Quite the story. I was definitely concerned for a bit that the first installment and the last would be the same. Hopefully the follow up to the first group will be a looonnng time in showing up.
Can't wait to see where it goes from here.
While it was my first real use of fighters I hoped they would act like Fast Attack Craft, and they did an adequate job, although in a couple of iterations when I messed up the PDC attacks it was touch and go whether I could rearm the fighters in time.
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[spoiler:26v0r4s2]There is no worry about that particular race returning as it was a race created especially for the purpose and only had those four ships.[/spoiler:26v0r4s2]
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Post by: symon on June 08, 2010, 03:15:18 PM
Post by: Beersatron on June 08, 2010, 10:32:54 PM
Post by: IanD on June 17, 2010, 12:11:50 PM
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Seems to be a very bad time to be human at present!The effects of a nuclear war are not pretty! The internet provided most of the detail.
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I am liking it! Very bare bones :cry: .
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Post by: backstab on June 30, 2010, 02:58:55 AM
Great write up ... look foward to more !
Post by: IanD on July 01, 2010, 02:49:34 PM
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Great write up ... look foward to more !
Thank you for your kind words. There will be a hiatus as I seem to have messed up the database, not irretrievably but in a very irritating way
. I have sent Steve the database in the hope he can reassign the World Free States administrators back to their classification, they are lost in a black hole at the moment! Some would say that is the best place for administrators, but they cause an Error in GetCommanderFullName Error94 some 26 times, then Aurora tends to crash!Regards
Post by: backstab on July 02, 2010, 02:32:11 AM
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Quote from: "backstab"Great write up ... look foward to more !
Thank you for your kind words. There will be a hiatus as I seem to have messed up the database, not irretrievably but in a very irritating way :cry: . I have sent Steve the database in the hope he can reassign the World Free States administrators back to their classification, they are lost in a black hole at the moment! Some would say that is the best place for administrators, but they cause an Error in GetCommanderFullName Error94 some 26 times, then Aurora tends to crash!
Regards
Know that feeling ... I spent weeks writing up a background and setting a game up ant had a computer HD failure which whiped everything after a few game months ... not happy.
Post by: Steve Walmsley on July 03, 2010, 09:03:47 PM
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DB sent back - let me know if the problem is fixed. Enjoying the writeups!Quote from: "backstab"Great write up ... look foward to more !
Thank you for your kind words. There will be a hiatus as I seem to have messed up the database, not irretrievably but in a very irritating way
Regards
Steve
Post by: IanD on July 05, 2010, 05:28:19 PM
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DB sent back - let me know if the problem is fixed. Enjoying the writeups!
Steve
Many Many Thanks Steve.
Things have not moved on as I am on leave at the moment, which means doing holiday things with the family, not necessarily things I want to do
.Regards
Post by: Sotak246 on July 29, 2010, 01:04:38 PM
Post by: Beersatron on July 29, 2010, 01:54:10 PM
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Glad you are back to posting writeups, really enjoy the little stories about the engineers. LOVE the comet names. LOL
^ this :)
Post by: symon on July 30, 2010, 06:53:21 AM
Post by: Andrew on July 30, 2010, 07:17:49 AM
Post by: IanD on August 02, 2010, 11:14:26 AM
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Glad you are back to posting writeups, really enjoy the little stories about the engineers. LOVE the comet names. LOL
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^ this :D
Caught a few spelling mistakes in recent posts, think its back to primary school for me! :oops: This is the result of a half remembered post about CIWS on PDC, I vaguely recalled that someone had mounted them on a PDC, but not the rest of the post, and thought that was a good idea. Guess the Mk II will make a rapid appearance! Thanks for the catch.
Regards
Post by: backstab on August 04, 2010, 06:07:43 PM
Post by: IanD on August 09, 2010, 10:46:05 AM
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This is awesome ... great work !
Thank you for your kind words.
In the consolidation phase years are processing faster!
Regards
Post by: Vanigo on September 06, 2010, 02:45:33 PM
Post by: IanD on September 06, 2010, 04:58:05 PM
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What exactly is the Islamic Bloc's strategy, here? The FACs in Earth orbit could mess up the EDA pretty good, but they'd destroy themselves in the process with the ecological damage and radiation, and unlike the EDA they've got nowhere to evacuate to. They're not much good as a deterrent, either, since the meson cannons on the EDA's PDCs could off them in job lots at that range.
The Islamic Block has the problem that in comparison to the EDA they haven't even got out of the blocks as far as technology is concerned and they suffered the most under the Intruder bombing. The aim is to deter the EDA by a building lots of cheap units, so that some will survive long enough to launch, and thus could hurt the EDA and the planet, coupled with a substantial ground force (they currently have eight brigades and in ground unit strength are not too far off the EDA). If the EDA start using meson beams to take out the FACs they have their own bases to take out the EDA PDCs. If the EDA meson bases take out the Islamic meson bases there is time for the missile bases and FAC to launch. Their great Achilles heel is their forces are all green and therefore slow to react and they are running out of cash. But they know the EDA is concerned not to raise the radiation level or to induce another ice age, so they hope to persuade the EDA not to attack.
The joker is they have a "Supreme Leader" who can be totally unpredictable and unreasonable. As long as no one survives that would suit the Supreme Leader as the Hidden Imam will then return to earth to save the world.
The current change of strategy is because the earth is running out of TN minerals, the Islamic Block has a commercial shipyard nearing completion. If it can persuade the EDA they can now project power effectively they can eventually set up a Luna mining colony. By allying themselves with Africa and the Middle East they hope to make the EDA think they are not worth the effort to "absorb". Will it work? May be yes, may be no.
Post by: ShadoCat on October 22, 2010, 08:51:32 PM
Post by: IanD on October 24, 2010, 03:35:16 PM
The EDA finally jumps!
It’s only taken them 24 years, didn't think that was too bad! :D However, I failed to appreciably reduce the human population ???.
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Post by: backstab on October 24, 2010, 04:44:00 PM
It’s only taken them 24 years, didn't think that was too bad! :D However, I failed to appreciably reduce the human population ???.Another nuclear war would always do it or how about some run away bio war experiment ?
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Post by: ShadoCat on October 25, 2010, 02:15:13 PM
It’s only taken them 24 years, didn't think that was too bad! :D
Well, they've been sitting on the tech/clues for so long. This must be what happens when the EU runs the world. ;D
However, I failed to appreciably reduce the human population ???.
As has been mentioned, a bio war can help (some loony who doesn't realize/care that their side lost already. The Supreme Leader seems just the sort to set something like that up.
Post by: Vanigo on October 25, 2010, 08:13:13 PM
Well, they've been sitting on the tech/clues for so long. This must be what happens when the EU runs the world. ;DHow would you model that, though?
As has been mentioned, a bio war can help (some loony who doesn't realize/care that their side lost already. The Supreme Leader seems just the sort to set something like that up.
Post by: IanD on October 27, 2010, 08:29:39 AM
Well, they've been sitting on the tech/clues for so long. This must be what happens when the EU runs the world. ;DI wanted to have the situation were the techs were completely unknown and it would take a paradigm shift to get them going. That was a reason for the ruins in the first place, I just didn't know how large they would be :). At the moment going on the names the high command and Governors seem to be mostly Russian and Chinese ::).
As has been mentioned, a bio war can help (some loony who doesn't realize/care that their side lost already. The Supreme Leader seems just the sort to set something like that up.The Supreme Leader's main problem was the empire was just too small. I did try the nuclear war option. There should have been a further 36 missiles hitting the EDA, I set up the interceptions using the combat screen, but that should not have had any effect as they were TN missiles, but five seconds later and they had been destroyed. probably my misunderstanding of how things work again. :(
Regards
Post by: ShadoCat on October 27, 2010, 08:33:33 PM
How would you model that, though?The easy way would be to decide how many people would die and use the SM Mod screen to decrease the population.
Since Ian has a target population number in mind, he can just pick that.
Post by: ardem on November 19, 2010, 12:19:50 AM
Post by: schroeam on November 22, 2010, 02:46:41 PM
Adam.
Post by: Beersatron on November 22, 2010, 04:40:08 PM
Post by: IanD on November 23, 2010, 04:40:15 PM
I am enjoying your reports, the EDA seems like a very switch on unit.
You have to remember the EDA was inoculated by the initial alien incursion into Sol.
Regards
Post by: IanD on November 23, 2010, 04:43:38 PM
You should implement policy to shuffle fighter jocks off to a desk somewhere so you don't loose so much brass! :)
This is what comes of forgetting to change the default minimum officer requirement ::). I think I have set it so that fighters can have no officer higher than a Commander.
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Post by: ShadoCat on May 03, 2011, 07:27:23 PM
Post by: IanD on May 04, 2011, 02:30:36 AM
At this point, I think the EDA misses having moderate ranged energy weapons. Put a few of those on 11,000 speed ships and you can have a long range battle with the Invaders.
I agree with you, that was the requirement the Sword class were designed to meet, unfortunately Earth effectively ran out of Gallicite before more than five could be built. Just hoping the 50 second increments disappear, but its been doing this since mid March and the game has progressed eight days! :(
Regards
Post by: Beersatron on May 04, 2011, 11:43:24 AM
Post by: IanD on May 06, 2011, 02:20:22 AM
If you have designer mode you could go look and maybe make the offending ships have an 'accident'?
I have access to the database but cannot find the table I need to modify. I fear I would need an idiots guide to where to look. If you can provide that then I may be back in business.
While you are waiting would you be interested in AARs from the 5.42 game I have running currently?
Regards
Post by: Beersatron on May 06, 2011, 12:11:32 PM
I have access to the database but cannot find the table I need to modify. I fear I would need an idiots guide to where to look. If you can provide that then I may be back in business.
While you are waiting would you be interested in AARs from the 5.42 game I have running currently?
Regards
Designer Mode is better as it will handle any cascade-deletes that a straight removal from the database may not account for. I have used it before when the Invaders got too big for their boots. Send Steve a PM for the password, I can't forward it on.
If you get it, then choose the Invaders as your default race and ONLY open the Ships screen - do not open anything else or you will get errors (which do not damage the game though). This makes it harder to figure out what could be the issue but you can start to delete some of the ships which should help par them down a bit.
I am definitely up for reading some more AAR's :)
Post by: Jakalo on May 09, 2011, 02:54:13 PM
I would too appreciate more stuff.
Post by: IanD on May 11, 2011, 07:42:04 AM
Designer Mode is better as it will handle any cascade-deletes that a straight removal from the database may not account for. I have used it before when the Invaders got too big for their boots. Send Steve a PM for the password, I can't forward it on.Thanks, emailed Steve for password.
Awesome AAR, tore through it in like 2 days with moderately grievous consequences to my university schedyle, but was totally worth it ;D
Thanks for those kind words
I am definitely up for reading some more AAR's :)
I would too appreciate more stuff.
I will see what I can do, I was mulling over the idea of a sort of common start conditions that would be retained through any future versions of Aurora, starting tech from where the previous one left off, having Mars terraformed with similar mineral etc. It could mean invoking a reshuffling of jump points quite frequently, as though these are not stable structures and liable to change (as often as Steve updates Aurora ;D ). It would mean keeping a note of colonies and their population and trying to shoehorn them into the new Galaxy.
Post by: Garfunkel on February 17, 2012, 08:43:28 AM
Post by: Brian Neumann on February 17, 2012, 10:51:18 AM
Brian