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Community Games => 7 Dictators => Topic started by: Nightstar on April 10, 2013, 09:39:03 AM

Title: Six Stars
Post by: Nightstar on April 10, 2013, 09:39:03 AM
Earth. Our home. Birthplace of humanity. Suddenly destroyed in the first trans-newtonian war. Remnants fled to the surrounding systems, and built up their capabilities. Now the colonies are reaching back to the stars. Will it be a new golden age? Or another war?
Blah Blah. :) Six factions around a dead earth. Earth is irradiated and useless, but Sol is still wealthy.

The goal of the game is power. Either through war, or total diplomatic control. War is probably easier. Skirmishes, backstabbing, and total war encouraged.

The stars are pretty much even, though not identical. Don't worry too much, just pick the one with the name you like best.

Setup details:

No NPRs. No SS. Manually controlled precursors. The precursors will get some of my more fun designs, bwahaha. Precursors will be guarding caches of useful stuff, to say nothing of the potential tech gains. On the other hand, you might not be able to win. Pick your fights wisely.

Planets are 1 billion pop, normal stuff. You have a ten year supply of duranium to mine, other minerals are somewhat randomized. Shipyards look like so: (http://i.imgur.com/S4dju9Y.png)

Six factions, six stars, with luck, twelve players.

Stars:
Alpha Centauri. (Panopticon)
Barnards Star. (sublight)
Lalande. (coco146, second icecoldblood)
Proxima Centauri. (kks)
Sirius. (Gidoran, second admiral666)
Wolf. (3_14159, second Cripes almighty)

Signed up players without an assignment:
- oldark

Signups are still open by the way.

To claim a star, post here. Two to a star is fine! But whoever picks first is in charge.

Stars claimed! Need seconds! Team up with whoever you like.
Title: Re: Six Sectors
Post by: coco146 on April 10, 2013, 10:12:54 AM
Can you explain what you mean by including 40kRP of designs?
Title: Re: Six Sectors
Post by: dgibso29 on April 10, 2013, 10:22:26 AM
Small point - I'm with Gidoran!
Title: Re: Six Sectors
Post by: Nightstar on April 10, 2013, 12:20:52 PM
By 40k RP, I mean like you'd use in instants to start your game.

I wish to give you all a trans-newtonian start with a decent amount of RP. I'd rather not assign it myself. Random gives sort of ridiculous stuff frequently. Giving you each separate research would unbalance things off the bat, because you'd trade it all. So, each star gets to choose 40k RP. Racial tech, armor, construction rate, engines, whatever. As an amusing bonus, this simulates a government pretty well. :p

Since we haven't assigned people to stars yet, and I need this before we go forward, the first people to give me a list of tech to put in get priority control of a star.


Never mind. Stupid idea. Forget it. Anyone who wants in, just post here and pick a star. Remember that two people to a star is fine. :)
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Panopticon on April 10, 2013, 12:51:40 PM
I'll snag Alpha Centauri.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on April 10, 2013, 01:07:51 PM
I'll have Lalande.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: sublight on April 10, 2013, 01:12:32 PM
If first name gets in I'll take Barnards.

Edit: Since fleet actions appear to be at least partially conducted in chat I'd like to recruit an Admiral who lives in a different time zone from me (not GMT -4) to maximize Barnards Star's ability to coordinate defenses against any act of aggression against us.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: kks on April 10, 2013, 01:34:04 PM
I'll take Proxima Centauri then.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Nightstar on April 10, 2013, 02:13:25 PM
So everything's claimed. For simplicity, I'm giving whoever picked first control. However, I suggest that the less experienced person on a team defer to the other. It's really more fun for everyone. Thanks.  :)
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Cripes Amighty on April 10, 2013, 03:07:51 PM
I'll team up with 3_14159 at Wolf if he'll have me again.

EDIT:
By 40k RP, I mean like you'd use in instants to start your game.

I wish to give you all a trans-newtonian start with a decent amount of RP. I'd rather not assign it myself. Random gives sort of ridiculous stuff frequently. Giving you each separate research would unbalance things off the bat, because you'd trade it all. So, each star gets to choose 40k RP. Racial tech, armor, construction rate, engines, whatever. As an amusing bonus, this simulates a government pretty well. :p

Since we haven't assigned people to stars yet, and I need this before we go forward, the first people to give me a list of tech to put in get priority control of a star.


Never mind. Stupid idea. Forget it. Anyone who wants in, just post here and pick a star. Remember that two people to a star is fine. :)


Are we still going to get some RP to instant some components? 40k would be a bit much, but we could probably get by with 15k after all the random (or nonrandom) starting tech has been given out.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on April 10, 2013, 06:08:56 PM
Anybody want to be my second?
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Gidoran on April 10, 2013, 06:29:05 PM
Just wanna take the opportunity to mention that #7Dictators on irc.rizon.net is still there, and as it isn't being used for 7 Dictators, might as well extend the offer to use it for this. Kepler, Nightstar, and I hang out there with a couple others like kks and Admiral666 popping in from time to time. The rest of you mooks should join in, you don't want us to be lonely do you?
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: icecoldblood on April 10, 2013, 06:39:15 PM
Anyone need a second?
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on April 10, 2013, 06:41:08 PM
I do.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: 3_14159 on April 11, 2013, 04:31:55 AM
I'll team up with 3_14159 at Wolf if he'll have me again.
Gladly! Drop by in the chat if you've got time and want to.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Nightstar on April 11, 2013, 10:37:05 AM
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rw5av3vbkyu7fas/Stevefire6Sstartnopasswords.mdb

Unpassworded game. Check that out, see if there's any obvious problems, prepare orders.

Anyone that hasn't given me their dropbox email, please PM me. I'll need it very soon.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on April 11, 2013, 10:55:29 AM
Seems good.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Nightstar on April 11, 2013, 11:36:46 AM
To clarify the dropbox email bit: You'll need a dropbox account to play this game. It's how we'll be sharing the database.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on April 11, 2013, 12:35:15 PM
Ok, I think thats it, I made it using the same Email that I PMed you, that ok?
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: 3_14159 on April 11, 2013, 03:30:51 PM
So, for setting up a test game I happened to write myself the research areas down. If you need it, feel free to copy them:

Biology:
-

Construction/Production:
- Construction Rate 12BP
- Jump Gate Construction Module 180
- Sorium Harvester

Defensive Systems:
- Beta Shields
- Composite Armor
- Shield Regen 1.5

Energy Weapons:
- Particle Beam Range 150kkm
- Particle Beam Strength 3
- Turret Tracking Speed 2kkm/s

Logistics/Ground Combat:
- Boat Bay
- Fuel Storages Large, Tiny and Very Large
- Improved Cargo Handling Systems
- Troop Transport Bay

Missiles/Kinetics
- Gauss Cannon Launch Velocity 3
- Gauss Cannon ROF 3
- Levitated Pit Implosion Warhed, 4xMSP
- Mag Ejection System, 85% Chance
- Mag Feed Efficiency: 80%
- Agility: 48 per MSP
- Reload Rate 3
- Reduced Size Launchers 0.5/5x reload

Power/Propulsion:
- Capacitor Recharge Rate 4
- Fuel Consumption: 0.8litre/engine power hour
- Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor
- Ion Drive
- Jump Drive efficiency 6
- JP Theory
- Max Squadron Size 3
- Max Squadron Jump Radius 50k
- Max engine power mod 1.75
- Minimum Jump Engine size 12

Sensors:
- Active Grav Sensor 21
- BFC range 32kkm
- EM Sensitivity 6
- Fire Control Rating 5kkm/s
- Grav Survey
- Thermal Sensor Sensitivity 6

Have Fun!
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Nightstar on April 11, 2013, 03:43:26 PM
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n4a1zf9i5nexzls/StevefireTesting.mdb

Copy with SM password removed for testing. Minerals inaccurate. JPs between sol and oclonies should have JPs.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on April 11, 2013, 04:20:13 PM
Are you playing with a pack of extra images for planets?  Because whenever I try to open the system view it results in a crash.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: icecoldblood on April 12, 2013, 12:10:38 AM
I'm joining coco146 at Lalalande.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Nightstar on April 12, 2013, 01:30:03 AM
Are you playing with a pack of extra images for planets?  Because whenever I try to open the system view it results in a crash.
I don't think so? I think it has the planets Steve's added since 5.56, but you should have those too.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: oldark on April 12, 2013, 11:03:07 AM
Are you playing with a pack of extra images for planets?  Because whenever I try to open the system view it results in a crash.

There was an optional(?) image pack included with the install for 6.2 that you may have chosen to not add. Was a separate download.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on April 12, 2013, 12:14:47 PM
Could you point me to that, having trouble finding it.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: kks on April 12, 2013, 04:16:12 PM
It's here: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,5650.0.html
Did you do the second step, which tells to copy the pictures in the planets subfolder?
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on April 12, 2013, 05:13:00 PM
Yes I did, still causing problems though.  In a worse case scenario I can ask my second to get important stuff from the that screen.
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: coco146 on May 01, 2013, 12:37:09 PM
Sorry about the double post, but my self and icecoldblood will both have exams in the next couple of weeks to month, is there anybody willing to come aboard as a third member to take over while we are doing that?
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Ektoras on May 10, 2013, 05:55:46 AM
Anyone needs a second hand to help managing your planet and space fleet?
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Mel Vixen on May 10, 2013, 02:01:13 PM
And where can we leave reader-comments?
Title: Re: Six Stars
Post by: Nightstar on May 12, 2013, 03:13:34 PM
Blah. So, I figure I owe a few explanations at this point. To simplify greatly, Aurora has been downgraded from my obsession to my hobby, and I no longer have half the free time I did. This is still going, but it's now on a 'when I get to it' basis. I make no promises on the frequency of my turns, though I hope for at least once a week on average.   :(

As mentioned, Ektoras is looking for a position. If any of you want a backup/someone to share plans with, here's your chance.

Comments can go here. If they get overwhelming, I'll petition to split them off the topic.