Month 217, Day 1, Alliance controlled Revolver system
An Aurarii CD arrived early in the day with a message for the Alliance representatives.  The message stated that the Aurarii would not be able to make the agreed upon meeting in twenty-four hours, but explained that the Aurarii government had recently undergone a rather dramatic upheaval.  The new leaders of the government pledged to meet with the Alliance representatives in no less than five days. 

With little choice other than restarting the war, Warleader Grogan and Cho-sho Banzan agreed to the new meeting date. 

Month 217, Day 5, Alliance controlled Revolver system
The new representatives for the Aurarii government introduced themselves as the Lady Senator Celes and, most astonishingly, the Emperor himself.  This, more than anything else, convinced the Alliance representatives that the Aurarii were serious about wanting to end the conflict.  And so it proved.  In essence, the Aurarii agreed to every term the Alliance representatives had put forward.  The Aurarii would pay reparations to the Doraz Contingency, and the Aurarii fleet would withdraw into their own inner system.  Further, the Aurarii agreed to end their occupation of the Norn home world, once the Alliance pledged to station warships in the system to prevent the Norn from taking revenge on the Aurarii once the occupation ended.  And, finally, the Aurarii agreed to join the Alliance as an associate member, and to support the Norn in joining as well.  The Doraz dropped their demand for a technology transfer, but that was due to an Alliance promise to turn over one of the three monitors they had captured from the Aurarii. 

The war here was over.  The Alliance would be unable to shift ships from this front to the Lothari front for some time, but further reinforcements could now safely be sent to Liawak instead of to Doraz territory. 

Quote from: Pedroig on November 24, 2022, 06:20:14 PM

The 24th checks in... 

Well, I didn't say the 12th of which month.

This is the way. 

The 24th checks in... 

Well, I didn't say the 12th of which month.

Those would be great improvements, as well as being able to return formations to the GFCC queue for upgrade/replacements. The formation has a template, it just needs to compare what's currently in the formation vs the template, calculate the missing BP and once those are spent, the formation is back up to speed.

One of my biggest slowdowns post invasion is that I have to manually do those checks - what is every formation missing, which I need to total so I can create a temporary reinforcements formation that half the time I then need to manually parcel out to the individual units because the reinforcements check doesn't work correctly.

While I love this game I'm generally not thrilled over the new combat mechanics as it on some levels are too detailed for the overall impact it has. The decisions should basically be about strategic movement and deplaoyment of troops.

My main issues is that combat which generally should be measured in months and years in general is concluded in days or weeks... this make troop deployment nearly pointless in most respect outside role-play... unfortunately.

We need a more simple ground simulation so it is not so computationally heavy or that it create such a massive log for larger conflicts that can slow the game down in a way I think it should not.

I do like the construction and detal of units in theory but less in practice becasue it have rather little impact in the end due to the randomness of unit engagements. It also can become very player intensive to interact with the mechanic for rather little overall impact in real terms as a result.

We need ground conflicts to last longer for it to have a much more important strategic impact, those are the decisions we should be concerned with. Where and how large forces to deploy where and how to conduct counter offensives in a strategic or operationally sense.