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- Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Sustainable Systems and Nuclear Energy
- Replies: 134
- Views: 64599
Re: Sustainable Systems and Nuclear Energy
I could but my solution involves the sun and had a far longer safety period <_<
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:58 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35957
Re: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread
Scarcity: is the minimisation or lack of something. Posts are what we do to forums. If you insist on our making posts almost empty, then there is very little content which makes understanding the point of view of others is difficult at best. YES i make walls of text, and explain my point of view cle...
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:10 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35957
Re: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread
*sighs* You are the ones trying to complicate this. Everything that I wanted are basic three resources ... and now I think that two is better then three. :roll: Really? The fact is that with a two major resource system such as energy and Bulk materials one is needed to boost the other, and then the...
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:54 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Distraction thread
- Replies: 175
- Views: 95129
Re: Distraction thread
Who doesn't like typing random things? And that is half the purpose of this thread. ____________________________________ One of these days i am going to go into the discussion of what I was meaning regarding my post in the 'confused gender' thread... Actually maybe I should do it now... basically my...
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:42 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Reflections on the Hypothetical [fanfic] (DISCO INFERNO)
- Replies: 195
- Views: 14258
Re: A Reflection on the Hypothetical [fanfic] [FREE ALCOHOL]
DOUBLEPOST... apparently. From the Sealed archives: A story telling the Loroi side of the battle of *Classified* Damn these bugs, damn them to the cold dark emptiness of space <Commodore?> Making a quick decision the Commodore of the Loroi ship *Classified* <Keep on our current path, the main Umiak ...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:05 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Distraction thread
- Replies: 175
- Views: 95129
Re: Distraction thread
From my reading, the south could do much the same with their opening volley, except they would rather use said guns to annihalate bridges and similar infastraucture, and thanks to their use of modern artillery plus a highly skilled army, are more likely to hit a target that isn't many kilometers acr...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:12 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35957
Re: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread
I was more thinking of you entering a star system, visiting the asteroid field and identifying the average composition was 10,000 units of raws and a few hundred rares while having say 7,000 units of energy. Then splitting say 40 more rares off into research because you wanted to improve your techno...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:49 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Distraction thread
- Replies: 175
- Views: 95129
Re: Distraction thread
And space superiority requires high levels of accuracy to hit ground based targets AND needs independent resupply if you intend to try glassing the planet. If say North Korea decided to start chucking rocks at earth, they could devastate the entire world, but exactly where would they live? Destroyin...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:05 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35957
Re: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread
The benefit behind Rare materials being something specific, rather than a product comes down to the fact that if you can produce it with bulk plus energy, then you can easily harness that in game as is, by charging a heap of those two, making the resource worthless! Rare materials are KEY resources,...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:45 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Reflections on the Hypothetical [fanfic] (DISCO INFERNO)
- Replies: 195
- Views: 14258
Re: A Reflection on the Hypothetical [fanfic] [FREE ALCOHOL]
I should warn you I have had this idea ever since the thread 'What Humans can offer to the war' thread or similar... which was about 2 years ago. It was the positive reactions they had to your posts which drew me to try to write my ideas into something more cohesive and better developed, called para...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:16 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Distraction thread
- Replies: 175
- Views: 95129
Re: Distraction thread
We also turned a minor potato blight disease that caused minor food shortages from time to time... and almost destroyed Ireland. There is something to be said for mixing and matching your harvests a little. And syphilis is nothing compared to the damage real pathogens, like smallpox can do to a huma...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:31 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35957
Re: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread
If you need three limiting factors for your empire... Make them Bulk materials, Energy sources, and Rare resources. Bulk materials could be either such things as common earth metals (iron, copper, magnesium, calcium and similar), or if you want to base your industry and starships on being built from...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:06 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Distraction thread
- Replies: 175
- Views: 95129
Re: Distraction thread
One of the reason that a Wave Loom being a suitable 'independent' weapon is linked back to our one known example of Loroi combat tactics. It isn't about having a one more really big weapon to deploy every time in every situation... Rather it is yet another possible 'Panic button' weapon to be deploy...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:37 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Distraction thread
- Replies: 175
- Views: 95129
Re: Distraction thread
If the opponent has sufficent EM coverage, it can also be considered a fact that you won't be able to maintain radio contact with people on the ground... in fact with ENOUGH EM going around even cable links are interfered with. If you are facing an opponent with that: then you need to disable that t...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:18 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider Character and Concept Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14308
Re: Outsider Character and Concept Discussion
i always looked at that shot as 'Good greif, there you were floating in the dead of space, almost out of air, and you were picking to rant at some unseen attacker and personally swear to get vengance WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO DIE ANYWAY? Humanity is even more idiotic than i thought.' The 'I don't even b...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:10 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Distraction thread
- Replies: 175
- Views: 95129
Re: Distraction thread
Discord my Rebuttal: I'M FIRING MY LASER Specifically laser based communications exist and are almost totally uninterceptable, they can be confused, momentarially at least, but generally are impervious. Besides: the main environment for these is modern Guerrilla warfare, if you start giving off stro...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:16 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Reflections on the Hypothetical [fanfic] (DISCO INFERNO)
- Replies: 195
- Views: 14258
Re: A Reflection on the Hypothetical [fanfic] [FREE ALCOHOL]
I insist that I utilise whatever means nessasary to acheive my goals.... i.e. I have no fear whatsoever of using whichever form of censoring as needed to avoid the fact i don't want to name starsystems, nor pick dates because I'll almost certainly get them wrong :P *Excerpt from the Non-Fiction Nove...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:23 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Distraction thread
- Replies: 175
- Views: 95129
Re: Distraction thread
First: What i was proposing was a testing of systems, not a combat operation. Second: notice i mentioned it would be good to have missiles and accuracy of dispensing them through civilian windows... i'm not 100% sure how armoured the windows on a carrier actually are, and besides, they'll be more th...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:59 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35957
Re: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread
in contrast, a family member of mine has done DnD with a number of people... their GM has a tendency to like big dangerous creatures, and to throw only one or two at them at a time. There is a reason heros find defeating large hoards appropreate rather than dragonslaying... When Dragonslaying if you...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:42 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 35957
Re: The War In Heaven: The Epic Role Play , the ideas thread
I admit I like RP in general But Dislike Politics. Also: VERY HARD scenarios typically imply 'mess up one move and the entire mission was for naught' scenarios. I'd pass as well. Also: the issue with STL vrs FTL If said society defeats you you have a very slow ship on a very predictable course which...