Retech

(Do we have any powers, or just the natural ability to use a weapon) Jen begins climbing up one of the pillars to see examine the roof.

I don't think a sword is an option.

Name: Jen Weapon: Dagger (If we don't have any clothes, are we naked? Or is it just that we assume we have clothes, but of no specific kind?)

Is there a format you can give us to create a character?

Doom, could you possibly send me the stats of your standard battleship and their old PP cost? I'm going to substitute in my own weapons and armor (Coilguns and Iridium Monopole Plating) to reflect the differences in our ships. I'm just horrible at taking a stab at things (I either make it that a missle could blow up a planet or a bullet couldn't shoot through a mushroom(

I'm sending my stats tomorrow. I have to go for the night. ---------------- Also, my ships are still based on the PP system. I thought that was simplest. Can you give me a baseline for a battleship so I can work from there?

I'm adverse to the money concept. If you have tons of money and a mob of people, there's still a limit as to how much that mob of people can do.

He did it before about the virus argument. :thumbsup:

Archi, I believe I've sent you fleet specs a while ago. I'll update them sometime soon.

When I made the large coilgun, the purpose was a powerful weapon to bust a powerful ship's armor. It's not a planet destroyer, and it fires at the speed of normal projectiles. It would be more accurate though, as the longer the barrel, the more accurate a weapon gets.

Ok, so what is your ship production rate? PP is necessary in some way because you need at least a PP equivilant for the power of your ships.

Frankly monetary does not work. If we're going that way, then I COULD just say that since I have no money system and my people work for free, then all my ships are free. Going with that line of thought, I have billions of people, so I should be able to build millions of ships. Then we end up with a problem. So to reiterate, money does not work, because you can just make more of it or disregard it.

Nooooo Grim, don't go the Rocco way! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Can you explain what a point defence laser is? I'm ignorant on these subjects. Oh Archi, instead of writing Dihydrogen, you could simply state deuterium.

Well they're easy to keep and maintain because they're eggs. Then they're hatched and loaded on a ships to travel to a system. This takes a week in RL, since my egg storage facility is a week away. So during those seven years, they're trained and they arrive battle ready. No need to feed them; they come with a small store of food, since they're expected to die within a year anyways. ----- Remember Archi's laser-prism thing? Now imagine if he had a hundred of those ships. Yeeeeeeeeeep ----- My new strategy to limit the cost is to have a small standing army. It's probaly around a billion. A bit high for a small standing army, but they perform police work (there are also detectives) such as guarding things and... killing murderers.

It would be solid. It requires such a large volume and mass because lasers can easily burn through small material, so I require a mega projectile which can't be intercepted, though it can be dodged.

My offer is the capacity of training and equipping 100 billion troops within a week for use by your armies in war-time.

So what weight do you think would make sense for a weapon of that size?

Radius: The width of a standard truck Projectile Weight: A truck Best way I can describe it. [hide=Today's Progress] [hide=Capiahs] System: Capiah Population: 1,200,000,000 Moons: None About it: Capiah is the most established colony besides that of Japan on Earth. With a quickly expanding population and abundant species of kelp, the settlers are thriving. The relatively large amount of land is still mostly unused, aside from defences, but future uses could be found. [/hide] [hide=Erikio] System: Recea Decimus Population: 60,000,000,000 Moons: None Erikio is the seat of the Lichtes government and homeworld to most of its people. Skyscrapers exist that are taller than almost any structure on Earth, mainly because the buoyancy that the water provides. It is covered by 99% water, with the land harnessed to grow luxury food crops, meat, and defensive installations. [/hide] [hide=Meoxo] System: Meoxo Population: 24,00,000,000 Moons: None -- New Erikio has quickly been upgraded into a full scale military base. Massive underground tunnels snake through the continental shelf and deeper into the sea crust. The majority of Lichtes citizens live here, sheltered from infectious viruses and invading aliens by the limitless fortifications and defences. This is a major Iridium monopole mining base. Deep within the tunnels, the worst of society (over 200 million) trudge down into the mines to get as much Iridium ion as they can. The ones that give above average get a comfortable bed for the night, while those below average can either go back to their homes or go down to get more Iridium to get a bed. [/hide] [hide=Tycus III A] System: Tycus Population: 6,000,000,000 [hide=Technology in progress] Name: Improved Coilguns Completion Date: Ongoing Effects: Uses monopoles to power a gun which has little to no recoil Name: Scram Cannon Completion Date: Christmas! Effects: Uses Kinetic energy and supersonic combustion to launch a projectile as far as other weapons without the complexity. Name: EM shield blocker technology Completion Date: January 1st Effects: Blocks "teleportation" Name: [/hide] [hide=Constructions] Name: Sector E battlestation Completion Date: December 7th Effects: Helps defend Japan from space attacks Name: Earth to Space Artillery Batteries Completion Date: December 7th Effects: Massive Artillery and Flak installations are built on land and flotation devices on sea. The ones on land often have a tunnel that goes down into the main tunnels, but these are sealed except during peacetime. Though the projectiles cannot aim straight (due to the winds), the massive amounts of artillery flying through the air and the expanse of their fleet makes it easy to hit. If the enemy begins to land, then it will be far easier to hit them. Name: Sector VI battlestations Completion Date: December 1st Effects: Colonizes Capiah VI Name: Sector VII battlestations Completion Date: December 1st Effects: Colonized Capiah VII Name: Sector Capital battlestation Completion Date: December 1st Effects: Protects Erikio Name: Royal Engineering school of Erikio Competion Date: December 1st Effects: Increase production of engineers, speeds up spacefleet construction and design Name: Lichtes Embassy in Kyoto, Japan Completion Date: December 1st Effects: None, just housing for royal officials Name: Sector O Bunker Completion Date: December 1st Effects: Hides up to 50 million people in a defensive location with filtration and food Name: Advanced tunnel fortifications and life support Completion Date: First Phase, December 1st (Ongoing) Effects: Increases time Japan can withstand siege, increases defence bonus slightly Name: Advanced Tunnel fortification and life support systems Completion Date: December 1st Effects: Provides housing, food, and supplies in the event of a virus attack Name: LDS Ocean Trench Completion Date: December 1st Effects: Super battleship Name: LDS Manta Ray Completion Date: December 1st Effects: Super battleship Name: Sector T Battlestation Completion Date: Ongoing Effects: Colonizes Ekedou 4 [/hide] [hide=Standing Army] Regulars: ~200,000,000 (Possible 1 billion+ availible to be conscripted) Whale Class Ultra Battleship (Elite): 2 SeaCow Class Ultra Battleship: 7 Manta Ray Class Super Battleship: 5 Kelp Class Heavy Battleship: 0 Wave Class Battleship: 0 Plankton Class Fighters: 0 Sea Bottom Class Artillery Battleship: 4 Transports: 800 PP: 22,000 per turn Capiah 1: 500 Capiah 2: 500 Capiah 6: 500 Capiah 7: 500 Erikio: 500 New Erikio: 12,000 (10 land production stations, 75 space) Other planet (Strange material shared with Dusty): 500 Arctic Planet: (In Mather's system): 500 Ekedou 1: 500 Ekedou 2: 500 Ekedou 3: 500 Ekedou 4: 500 Mather's 2 home systems where he let me colonize the sea: 1,000 PP remaining: Built over 1 turns: -10 space production stations [/hide] [hide=Egg Capacity] Egg Count: 10 Billion [/hide] [/hide]

What special case?

Rocco, how much do you spend on each station and how much does each of your stations produce? Remember the trade off is the more you put in stations, the less you put into your fleet. ------ My fighters cost 5 and are worth 10. I thought that was how we were doing it.

Yep, sounds fair. On the other subject, the whole point for the massive coilgun was to fire big projectiles for long distances without massive heat.

So essentially Rocco you have a PP value of 20,000, if your fighters are the same as the rest of ours.

The Sa Matra is 100,000 PP fight value atm, so all ships can be at the max 20,000 PP. Unless the old Sa Matra is retired or destroyed of course.

Or fire a large projectile at the speel of sound. :)