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Hex, there won't be another Hegemony while the Empire thread is active. We don't have enough players to split like that. You aren't exactly a regular hegemony player.

This is what I don't like about Empire: Any other info is for you to tell people about your race/culture and do the general roleplaying element, you don't have to fill this in to play. However the other three are requirements. Population is 1,000,000,000 or lower. You start with 10,000,000 population. You may chose any planet that does not currently have another race on. Thats that done.[/hide] [hide=Getting Setup] It is probably a good idea to check your ships now. You will only have Battleships researched at this stage, so your will have a 5 by 5 Tetris Grid to fill up with Modules. Modules are things that boost your ship, making it more or less powerful in different ways. There are 5 default modules that you can build from the start, but many more can be researched. (See Ship Types) (See Modules) (See Stats) Finally you will need to check your army. You can decide how many of your population you want to turn into soliders and how much training they need. There are 6 types of training you can give soliders. (See Training) Thats that done.[/hide] [hide=Keeping Together] It is a lot easier to work these things out once a week and then forget about them. Redesigning ships, planets and setting training targets for squads can happen once a week and then be forgotten about. You may want to update them whenever you research new technology, but thats about it otherwise. (See Upgrading)[/hide] [hide=Buildings] The default buildings are: Missile Defence Tower- This can destroy 1 Battleship per year and takes up 1 slot. Limited to 100 per planet. It costs 3,000 Metal Ore, 500 Uranium and 500 Chemicals. Training Academy- This can train 1 Squad per year and takes up 2 slots. It costs 10,000 Metal Ore, 4,000 Medicine and 500 Equiptment. Command Center- This is your colonial hub, if it is destroyed you cannot train new units or build new buildings until it has been repaired. It takes up 4 slots. It costs 50,000 Metal Ore, 10,000 Medicine and 2,000 Uranium. Research Insitute- This generates 1 research point per week and takes up 2 slots. It costs 5,000 Metal Ore, 30,000 Uranium, 80,000 Organics and 5,000 Chemicals. Medical Center- This converts organics and chemicals into medicine. It costs 8,000 Metal Ore, 5,000 Uranium and 500 Organics. Manufacturing Center- This converts metals and uranium into equiptment. It costs 30,000 Metal Ore, 10,000 Uranium and 2,000 Chemicals. (See Resources) Some Buildings have Tiers, which can be researched though Research Points. (See Research Points)[/hide] [hide=Ships] There are 10 types of ship: The Battleship- It has a 5 by 5 Tetris Grid and comes with 5,5,5,5 Stats. As well as 50,000 population. It costs 100,000 metal ore, 75,000 uranium, 50,000 chemicals, and 25,000 equipment. The Heavy Battleship- It has an 8 by 8 Tetris Grid and comes with 8,8,8,8 Stats. As well as 60,000 population. It costs 600,000 metal ore, 300,000 uranium, 250,000 chemicals, and 125,000 equipment. The Super Heavy Battleship- It has a 12 by 12 Tetris Grid and comes with 12,12,12,12 Stats. As well as 80,000 population. It costs 1,000,000 metal ore, 500,000 uranium, 600,000 chemicals, and 300,000 equipment. The Cruiser- It has an 20 by 20 Tetris Grid and comes with 20,20,20,20 Stats. As well as 60,000 population. It costs 1,500,000 metal ore, 750,000 uranium, 900,000 chemicals, and 400,000 equipment. The Heavy Cruiser- It has a 24 by 24 Tetris Grid and comes with 24,24,24,24 Stats. As well as 100,000 population. It costs 1,800,000 metal ore, 900,000 urainium, 1,000,000 chemicals, and 450,000 equipment. The Super Heavy Cruiser- It has a 28 by 28 Tetris Grid and comes with 28,28,28,28 Stats. As well as 120,000 population. It costs 2,000,000 metal ore, 1,100,00 uranium, 1,100,000 chemicals, and 600,000 equipment. The Dreadnought- It has a 40 by 40 Tetris Grid and comes with 40,40,40,40 Stats. As well as 100,000 population. It costs 2,500,000 metal ore, 1,900,000 uranium, 1,400,000 chemicals, and 750,000 equipment. The Heavy Dreadnought- It has a 45 by 45 Tetris Grid and comes with 45,45,45,45 Stats. As well as 140,000 population. It costs 2,900,000 metal ore, 2,200,000 uranium, 1,500,000 chemicals, and 800,000 equipment. The Super Heavy Dreadnought- It has a 50 by 50 Tetris Grid and comes with 50,50,50,50 Stats. As well as 160,000 population. It costs 3,500,000 metal ore, 2,800,00 uranium, 1,900,000 chemicals, and 900,000 equipment. The Pinacle- It has a 0 by 0 Tetris Grid and comes with 1000,1000,1000,1000 Stats. As well as 1,000,000 population. It costs 10,000,000 metal ore, 5,000,000 uranium, 4,000,000 chemicals, and 20,000,000 equpiment. (See Stats) (See Resources)[/hide] [hide=Modules] The 5 default modules are: Attack- This gives the ship +3 to the attack stat, but -1 to the defence stat. It takes up 4 Slots. It costs 5,000 Metal Ore, 5,000 Uranium and 1,000 Equipment. Defence- This gives the ship +3 to the defence stat, but -1 to the attack stat. It takes up 4 Slots. It costs 10,000 Metal Ore, 500 Uranium and 500 Equitment. Speed- This gives the ship + 3 to the speed stat, but - 1 to the teamwork stat. It takes up 4 Slots. It costs 1,000 Metal Ore, 5,000 Uranium and 5,000 Equiptment. Teamwork- This gives the ship +3 to the teamwork stat, but - 1 to the speed stat. It takes up 4 Slots. It costs 11,000 Organics. Colony Module- This lets you deploy a new colony on a new planet. Troops can also be carried in the module. It takes up 25 Slots. It costs 50,000 Metal Ore, 50,000 Chemicals, 25,000 Organics and 25,000 population. (See Stats) (See Resources) (See Colonisation) All modules have Tiers, which can be researched with Research Points. (See Research Points) Modules must be able to fit into the ships they are being input into. (See Ship Types)[/hide] [hide=Stats] Space: Stats are how good your ship is at a task and can be written like this 5,5,5,5. The first number is the ship's attack stat, the second is the defence stat, the third is the speed stat and the forth is the teamwork stat. Stats are used in working out combat. (See Space Combat) Land: Stats are how well trained your squads are and can be written like this 5,5,5,5. The first number is the squad's Bravery, the second is the squad's Fortitude, the third is the squad's Courage and the fourth is the squad's Leadership. Stats are used in working out combat. (See Land Combat)[/hide] [hide=Training] A Squad costs 10 Population and 1 Equipment. There are 6 types of training: Basic- +4 Bravery, +4 Fortitude, +4 Courage, +4 Leadership It costs 10,000 Organics and 10,000 Medicine. You can only train this once. Bravery- +3 Bravery, -1 Fortitude It costs 20,000 Organics and 20,000 Medicine. You may train this 5 times. Fortitude- +4 Fortitude, -1 Bravery It costs 20,000 Organics and 20,000 Chemicals. You may train this 5 times. Courage- +3 Courage, -1 Leadership It costs 20,000 Organics and 20,000 Metal Ore. You may train this 5 times. Leadership- +3 Leadership, -1 Courage It costs 20,000 Organics and 20,000 Medicine. You may train this 5 times. Advanced Training- This allows your squad to learn another path, in addition to their current path. It costs 25,000 Organics the first time you train it, 125,000 Organics the second time you train it and 625,000 Organics the third time you train it. You may train this 3 times. Your Soliders will start out at 1,1,1,1. They will stay like this until you train them up. Basic training will bring them up to 5,5,5,5. After you must choose a path for them to develop down. If you choose to give them Advanced training then you may train them in another path as well, and another and another.[/hide] [hide=Upkeep] Just about everything you send off planet will cost your something in upkeep. For ships this will be: The Battleship- 10,000 metal ore and 1,000 uranium per year. The Heavy Battleship- 20,000 metal ore and 2,000 uranium per year. The Super Heavy Battleship- 30,000 metal ore and 2,000 uranium per year. The Cruiser- 50,000 metal ore and 4,000 uranium per year. The Heavy Cruiser- 60,000 metal ore and 5,000 uranium per year. The Super Heavy Cruiser- 7,000 metal ore and 5,000 uranium per year. The Dreadnought- 10,000 metal ore and 6,000 uranium per year. The Heavy Dreadnought- 12,000 metal ore and 7,000 uranium per year. The Super Heavy Dreadnought- 14,000 metal ore and 8,000 uranium per year. The Pinacle- 100,000 metal ore and 100,000 uranium per year.[/hide] [hide=Research] Research points allow you to upgrade pre-existing technologies to their next level. They cannot research new technologies though. Not all technologies can be upgraded like this, but many can and will increase the effect of the module or building. This effect can be bad as well as good, since negative numbers are also increased. Research is conducted automatically by your people. You can research up to 5 different projects, which can be on any subject you like. You cannot always leap into a research subject though, most of the time you will need to have some background knowladge gathered by your scientists. There are two types of research; Pure Research and Applied Research. Pure Research will rarely discover a new module or building but may open up new branches of applied research which you can then research. Applied research will almost always discover a new module or building as well as occationally opening up new branches of research. When you launch a research project the moderator will tell you how long it will take and what the likely results are. Research may sometimes fail to achieve results and may sometimes run over-budget. Over-budget research is research which is taking longer than expected but will probably still yield results. However you may also get breakthroughs, which means you discover the technology earlier than you were expecting.[/hide] [hide=Resources] All resources require at least 1 population to produce per year. While most resources can be harvested there are two resources which must be produced via buildings. Resources can also be scavanged from space battlefields, but without specialist equipment the payout will be low. There are 6 types of resource. Metal Ore - which can be harvested. Uranium - which can be harvested. Chemicals - which can be harvested or produced. Medicine - Which can be produced Organics - Which can be harvested or produced. Equipment - Which can be produced. (See Planets)[/hide] [hide=Planets] Almost all planets are the same. Your homeworlds or Starting Planets, are different in that they have less resources. Starting planets have 750,000 of each resource, Metal Ore, Uranium, Chemicals and Organics, and will replenish 125,000 per year. This means that if you mine a planet to nothing each year you will recieve 125,000 new resources, as long as you have that many people assigned to collect them. If you do not collect them then they are left lying around. All other planets start with 1,000,000 of each resource, Metal Ore, Uranium, Chemicals and Organics, and will replenishes by 250,000 each year. This happens even when the planet isn't being harvested. Planets can support a maximum of 1,000,000,000 population each. Planets that have more than one person on will generate resources in proportion to the land you control. All planets regenerate at the end of each year, so attempts to destroy them will fail (See Other Combats-Endgaming)[/hide] [hide=Colonisation] Colonisation must be done with a colony module and will deploy 25,000 population to the new planet. You can send multiple colony modules, so this is not a limit on how many people you can place on a planet to start with. When a colony module is deployed your new population will set about building a command center, which will take 1 year to complete. This is when your colony is most vunerable from attack, so keeping a fleet in orbit and troops on the ground is a good idea. Your population will increase by 10% per year until it reaches 1,000,000,000.[/hide] [hide=Colonial rule] Unlike your Starting Planet you will probably have less people than you know what to do with and so rather than producing the maximum per year, you will produce some propotion of that. Metal Ore, Uranium, Chemicals and Organics will all be harvested at a rate of 1 resource per person. Medicine requires a building and 1 worker, 1 Chemical and 1 Organic per resource created. Equipment requires a build and 1 worker, 1 Metal Ore and 1 Uranium per resource created. Also soliders cannot work.[/hide] [hide=Combat] Space Combat will begin whenever two fleets are in a system and the two players are actively at war.[/b] The attacker and defender chose tactics before the attack begins, and if there is a level of destruction which would result in the fleet retreating to a safe planet or system. There are three types of attack, Blitz Attack, Mass Attack and Hit and Run. Blitz means your strengh is your attack stat times two. Mass Attack takes your attack and times it by your teamwork. Hit and run takes your attack and times it by your speed. Generally it is a good idea to take your highest two skills and attack with those two times together. There are three types of defence, Elastic Defence, Defence Tactics, Hold the Line. Elastic Defence is your Speed times by your Defence. Defence Tactics is your Defence times two. Hold the Line is your Defence times your Teamwork. With defence it is normally good idea to pick the opposite defence to that of your opponates attack. If your stats arn't built for that type of defence you should go with your strongest defence type. A Green line means the Attacker doubles their stats. A Blue Line means the stats stay the same. A Red Line means the Defender doubles their stats. You can choose your tactics by PM otherwise the moderator will roll on it. Once all this has been done, the moderator will work out who wins and tell you the ships destroyed or captured. Land Combat Land Combat will begin whenever two soliders are in the same area and there is not a peace treaty between them. The attacker and defender chose tactics before the attack begins. Attempting to retreat is not an option. There are three types of attack, Blitz Attack, Mass Attack and Hit and Run. Blitz means your strengh is your Bravery stat times two. Mass Attack takes your Bravery and times it by your Leadership. Hit and run takes your Bravery and times it by your Courage. Generally it is a good idea to take your highest two skills and attack with those two times together. There are three types of defence, Elastic Defence, Defence Tactics, Hold the Line. Elastic Defence is your Courage times by your Fortitude. Defence Tactics is your Fortitude times two. Hold the Line is your Fortitude times your Leadership. With defence it is normally good idea to pick the opposite defence to that of your opponates attack. If your stats arn't built for that type of defence you should go with your strongest defence type. A Green line means the Attacker doubles their stats. A Blue Line means the stats stay the same. A Red Line means the Defender doubles their stats. You can choose your tactics by PM otherwise the moderator will roll on it. Once this has been calculated by the moderator, they will reveal who wins and which squads have been destroyed.[/hide] [hide=Other Combats] These combats are different from normal combats in one way or another. Orbital Bombardment: Orbital Bombardment can be conducted with any ship, but the damage to populations is negligable without Orbital Bombardment Modules, which have to be researched. Virus Bombing: There are 4 types of Virus, all of which must be researched and all of which have 1 vaccine which can only be researched after the Virus has been researched, even if you have been Virus Bombed. Virus Bombing requires a Virus Missile Module and the Missiles can be intercepted, shot down or stopped by ships, planetary shields and missiles, repectively. As well as some researchable technology. Propaganda Bombing: This is only avaliable if you are on part of the planet and another race is on another part of the planet and you wish to take control of that part of the planet. Propaganda is very weak, but you may choose to employ it. You may research other methods of delievering propaganda which may be more or less successful. Endgaming: Blowing up planets is not possible. However Planet Busters can be researched(after a very long research campaign), which destroy everything on a planet, as well as all the resources currently there. However the next year the resources will replenish at their normal rate. The Planet Buster is a missile and so can be stopped by conventional means. Another method to destroy all the buildings and resources on a planet is to build a Self-Destruct Building(This must be researched). This has the same effect as the Planet Buster, but cannot be intercepted, however the building must be built on the planet, and so cannot be used unless you already control part of the planet. Planet-Ship Combat: A planet can launch an attack on ships, as long as it is protected from their retaliation by a fleet of its own. If a planet is unprotected its ability to attack, along with all the buildings neccessary to do this, are destroyed instantly. Planets may also build planetary shields, which protect the planet from attack by ships, but prevent the planet from attacking as well. A shield can be broken but takes a lot of firepower to do so. Planet-Planet Combat: Planets which attack each other must be in the same system. Also Planet-Planet attacks are unlikely to succeed. However a pre-existing colony can easily destroy a newfounded colony, so long as there is no fleet to protect it. Cyborgs, Drones, Androids and Aliens: They are allowed, but their training must be researched. There only real difference is their starting Stats and their resource requirements. Naval and Tank Combat: 1 Naval Ship or 1 Tank costs 10 equipment and 10 population to build, start with 2,2,2,2 and cannot be trained beyond this. Marine Squads can be researched. Nuclear and other WMDs: Are included in normal weapons. If new WMDs are researched then the moderator will deal with them as and when.[/hide] This post may be amended at any time!

[bleep] the moon.

Earth

You say that like it is a bad thing...I would have thought making everyone weaker without making yourself weaker was a brilliant way to lead a country... What this game needs is a Cultural Victory mode! But yeah, something like that, probably...its why I wanted to hold off Hegemony for a few months, so we could all move on as individuals and be new opponants... None of it is bad stuff, except for Hex's. Those are just everyone's play styles that they've used every game.

My predictions for the new game: Rocco will do a bunch of stupid asinine things, and then backstab people thinking he's being all sneaky Retech will concentrate all his effort on NPCs then get all flustered when he gets into a conflict with another player Arch will try to screw up everything everyone else is doing but never actually go to war Doom will concentrate on being a nation 'ahead of its time', being extremely isolationist and not caring about anything else going on Sere will try to build a utopia for his people, and attempt to be the diplomat and mediator between conflicts Dungeonal will mess around with his GM abilities for the lulz Hex will do bat[cabbage] [developmentally delayed]ed stuff with his people, get everyone mad at him, post some random garbage, and then eventually get kicked from the thread If Paul joins, he'll go around and conquer stuff, just because Ross will build a myraid of defensive structures around his planet and never really leave it to do anything, instead devoting all of his resources to building more defensive structures, because 'somebody might attack me!' edit: Right, forgot about Grim Grim will smash stuff. Because he's Grim. There need not be any sort of plan behind his actions, or any sort of goal other then to just destroy stuff. And Mather will try to make alliances with everyone and make sure everything he builds is based off of Stargate. He will also make several references to how great Norway is throughout the thread.

Well, maybe if you picked a different country other then Brazil every time it would be a lot less boring. edit: Don't you guys get bored the [bleep] with choosing the exact same nation setup every time? I mean...c'mon. New thread, there's the Nigerian Space Empire, Brazilian Empire, Mechos, Terran Federation, and Lichten. *sigh*

I have an awesome idea for my grand empire. Hehehe.

My vote goes to Kaliningrad.

No. Really? Please elaborate. Never ONCE did he imply that he believed that he was racially superior. Likewise, I'm assuming that you believe that he believes that he is superior because he is American. For your information, 'American' is not a race, nor is it even an ethnicity. Therefore, he is not racist; you misused the term. Please learn what a race is, it has nothing to do with genetic similarities. Example: Many Lebanese and Syrian people are extremely genetically similar, two distinct races. Race is a social construct that has an ideology, cultural pattern or common descent as its core. For Americans their core is an ideology consisting of "Americaness", the American Dream, land of opportunity idea, etc. Although I would say the "American race" core has diminished since after WW2, things like the Social Register defined the finest of the American race, but with the infusion of more non-Anglo-Saxon races, the mesh of American culture is different and the idea of Social Darwinism has almost vanished (I like how American textbooks normally forget to mention Hitler's declarations of what was superior were often similar to America's and if you know of the Battle of Dunkirk you would know Hitler wanted to compromise with the other Anglo-Saxons. Again, Americans censor war to romanticize their heroism or lack thereof) I sort of agree with that, but I feel like the term "racist" is used too broadly. I could make a gay slur, and someone, somewhere would call me a racist. As for the Americanism, I view it more as the creation of an autonomous cultural identity and thus forsaking one's native identity (Anglo-Saxon culture became "less English" after the American Revolution, especially with the diffusion of Germans and Irishmen throughout American society. However, most groups have basically given up their true cultures and adopted the "American way of life". However, many people strongly correlate ethnicity with race. For example, I'm Anglo-Saxon. Some people would like to refer to this ethnic group as belonging to the great Germanic Race. However, many more people will claim that there is a "White Race", which includes all Indo-European peoples. However, there are people who only view Slavics, Celts, and Germanic peoples as members of the "White Race" while others include Iranians and some Indians (from the Aryan invasion of India). Race is too subjective and hotly debated. Personally, I think it's more accurate to categorize someone by their ethnic identity, but there are far too many ethnic groups for any sort of efficiency. Likewise, many people, especially Anglo-Saxons have a mixed ethnicity. Most Anglo-Saxons have Celtic blood due either in part with the interbreeding of Celts and Anglos following the Germanic invasion of Britain or Celtic immigration to these regions (including colonies such as America, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand). But at least everyone is in unanimous agreement when they say [bleep] the French!

Oo another AAR weee http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=469774

Political discussion on the internet are always so much fun.

Just pointing out that it's more like 1 or 2 Taliban fighters and 10 civilians.

Erm. Considering it was a video that whistleblowers got from the Pentagon's records, is the footage from inside an attack helicopter, details a story that has been reported by numerous news sources, and is...yes, completely real. Um. Also, there's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGRS Which gives you this (since Iraq is mostly 38S): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.313692+44.512055+%28UTM:+38S++454580m+E++3686170m+N%29&ie=UTF8&ll=33.313692,44.512053&spn=0.012714,0.015771&t=h&z=16 Looks pretty similar to me.

BECAUSE DEY TOOK OUR JERRRBS!

I thought it was blessed are the cheesemakers.

Likely because something was going on down the street. Cameras generally need to be pointed at the location you want to record for them to record properly. Just sayin'. There has to be some sort of [bleep]-up here with the soldiers not knowing exactly what their ROE is. And justification for shooting the first group can be brought up, but not for shooting the van. That's like shooting a bloody medic. Lol.

Ignorant statement. The guy with the 'RPG' was actually a Reuters journalist with a camera.

This is an article in 2007 detailing what happened: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html?_r=3&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Mod edit - This is actual footage of civilians being shot at, watch at your own risk. (pff pansy) This is the video: (The two kind of conflict as to what actually happened) Watch it while you can. Idk how many people here have been following the [cabbage]e storm wiki threw up when it said it had the video, but it's out now.

Yep...

No. They're terrible books. If you want some decent fiction books, try these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower#Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_%28fictional_character%29#The_Sharpe_novels_and_short_stories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_%28series%29#Chronological_order Obviously, read the LoTR books as well.

No it's because the US is too interventionist in affairs that don't really directly affect them, but intervene because mmmmmmmurika! [bleep] yeah! I suppose someone with more time and patience on their hands could give a litany of reasons as to why the USA is a less than ideal country to live in, because I certainly can't be arsed to.

And while we're on the subject, what the [bleep] is up with scientists always having to act all sciency? I mean, WHERE DO THEY GET OFF TALKING ABOUT SCIENCE LIKE THEY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT IT. The nerve of some people, sheesh. derp de derp, etc, etc. What a stupid premise for a thread. OP should be shot.

Our fleets were the same size, but I had the capacity to produce 10,000x as many ships as you did. If we did that, the Earth would be part of the Terran Federation. Virtually everything would be part of the Terran Federation (unless you're playing as an alien race). No objections from me. :razz: If you want control of the planet, you have to fight on land. If you just want to annihilate all life on the planet...you orbitally bombard it.

Mather, sometimes your stupidity truly amazes me. I was not talking to you.