The Great Crusade - Discussion

[Steve Walmsley]

It's not a game breaking bug, it's a war between mirror universes!

(I kid. Sorry you had to restart, but better to catch it now than later I guess!)

You know a few times I have considered a campaign where all jump points lead to different versions of Sol

[Father Tim (OP)]

You know a few times I have considered a campaign where all jump points lead to different versions of Sol

Nebula Sol is best Sol!

[Father Tim (OP)]

Also, why does the (new) Terran Imperium have a Manufacturing Efficiency Modifier of 72.1%?  That seems like the number it had with the demand for 100 million Spaceport workers (277.4 million total) overloading the available 200 million workers (aka 72.098%).

[Steve Walmsley]

Also, why does the (new) Terran Imperium have a Manufacturing Efficiency Modifier of 72.1%?  That seems like the number it had with the demand for 100 million Spaceport workers (277.4 million total) overloading the available 200 million workers (aka 72.098%).

I probably removed the spaceports and redid the screenshot without running a construction phase, which is when the efficiency is calculated.

It will replaced by the new campaign screenshot. I generated the campaign last night and did not roll well on naval shipyards - 7000 tons, 5000 tons and 2000 tons, so I will be redoing the ship designs as well.

[The Forbidden]

Let's call it an extra early game challenge (the shipyards, not the restart).

Also are you planning to do some ground combat during this game ?

[Steve Walmsley]

Let's call it an extra early game challenge (the shipyards, not the restart).

Also are you planning to do some ground combat during this game ?

The NPRs, Precursors and Swarm all have ground forces so assuming I run into them, there should be some ground combat.

[The Forbidden]

Nice.  I didn't even knew the swarms had soldiers to begin with so that's a nice thing to know.  Good luck then and have a nice game !

[Steve Walmsley]

Screenshots redone. The Cerberus class ships are jump tenders that have a second role as tankers.

[Steve Walmsley]

Screenshots redone. The Cerberus class ships are jump tenders that have a second role as tankers.

And redone again

A couple more bugs, plus endless red dwarf stars, plus I think I may be bitten by the restart bug. Anyway, this restart had good shipyards, reasonable scientists and OK minerals so I decided to allocate tech differently and go beam-first with no missile tech as yet. Updates to follow (assuming I don't restart again).

[King-Salomon]

narf.. feeling with you 

Question about your "Tempest Jump Frigate":

the exact size is slightly heavier than 6000t (120.03 HS = 6001,5t - will the jump drive use the 6000t shown or the 6001t the ship is really using as the ship speed is doing?

EDIT: OK, seems it should be using the exact size as you got an error message for the design because of it... maybe the 6000t shown should be rounded up to 6002 so the player does not have to check ton-size and exact size parallel if it is nearing the limit... 

[Steve Walmsley]

narf.. feeling with you 

Question about your "Tempest Jump Frigate":

the exact size is slightly heavier than 6000t (120.03 HS = 6001,5t - will the jump drive use the 6000t shown or the 6001t the ship is really using as the ship speed is doing?

EDIT: OK, seems it should be using the exact size as you got an error message for the design because of it... maybe the 6000t shown should be rounded up to 6002 so the player does not have to check ton-size and exact size parallel if it is nearing the limit... 

lol it was fine before the screenshot. It seems that if I set the deployment time it is dead on 120. Then if I click somewhere else and then click back, it changes to 120.03. I'll class that as a bug

[MarcAFK]

This is why test campaigns exist, so steve can save us from the frustrating new game restartitus bugs. :p
I'm liking the setting so far, but the low range of those secondary firecontrols (64k) compared to the lasers (90k) ( irks me :p
Though I see theres another turret called Twin GL10-NU with a 64k range so it makes sense to reuse the firecons of slightly less capable ships rather than waste RP for small gains at this stage.
Weird though they both have the same name but different ranges. An artifact of the restart?

[dag0net]

And there was me thinking they were just for my reading pleasure.   

It means that closing to 90000km a tg still has some point defence capability without having to manually configure anything and/or delve into other pd mechanisms.  In vb6 you'd be almost guaranteed to get hit by any missiles launched that close.

[Kurt]

It's not a game breaking bug, it's a war between mirror universes!

(I kid. Sorry you had to restart, but better to catch it now than later I guess!)

You know a few times I have considered a campaign where all jump points lead to different versions of Sol

OMG!  A campaign where the jumps lead to all of the home worlds from all of your campaigns.  Instant all out war, the strongest survive!

Kurt

[King-Salomon]

I was thinking about the starting installations again...

the player got 1 Spaceport and 1 Cargo Shuttle Station, 1 Refuelling Station, 1 Ordnance Transfer Station

As the Spaceport has the same capacities (and more, I got it now ) as the stations AND they don't stack - wouldn't it be better to just give him a spaceport?

If I am not wrong, the 3 stations at gamestart would be only good for "kickstart a colony" when colonizing and moving them to the new colony or am I missing something again?