Hegemony Argument Thread

[The Dark Lord]

We're not arguing, we're parlaying.

 

Anyway, if we're playing something based on the real world, Ron Paul should be president of the United States.

With your permission I am sigging this

 

Sure.

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Mock Intro Post:

(Explains why Dusty and I arn't playing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H91qZSfYLoU&feature=related

 

The Year was 2105. Humanity prepared its first fleet, and took off skywards. Ten colony ships marked the first wave of expansion, we thought we were fufilling our destiny...instead fate played a cruel trick. The engines of one of our colony ships drew the attentions of a merciless race, the Dovans. Our ship hailed them as they approached, discussing this and that with them...then they were slaughtered. The Dovan set their course for Earth...and by 2136...it was no more. All that remained from our once great race was nine colony ships, scattered in to the vacuum of space....

We were first aware when Earth stopped transmitting, that was five years later, our communications were only light speed. We held out hope, but we knew that the message we craved would never come. As the years past, our ships flying onwards, not knowing if each other still existed, or if we were the last humans alive in the universe. We reckon it was 2125 by the time we made planetfall, another ten years while we built up society before we turned our attentions to communication...we broadcast our message, loud and clear, with plans of our faster than light communicators. But, alas, the Dovan heard us, like they hear us now. We send out this warning to all humans, everywhere, do not cry out in pain, but in Vengance! Build your fleets and wield your swords, avenge Earth, avenge the first colony ship, and now avenge us...the first, and last, colony to be destroyed by the monsters!

 

[End Transmission]

 

The Dovan are a powerful race of Alien beings, far greater than anything the small colony worlds you start off with could deal with. But will only come when a player calls to them, or when the expansion of planets has become too great to go unnoticed(basically, until you go off the map)

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Cloning has been discovered and is implemented on all worlds(currently) so your population will swell to full capacity within about 20 years, which, by coincidence, is when industry will be completed too. If you want to change things you can though.(This is to jump start the colonies into proper homeworlds and mean that fast, dirty, expansion to the nearby area is a must... don't worry though, replicative fading will make cloning invalid after about a month(end of April))

 

Ok with everyone to start on Saturday the 3rd? If anyone feels strongly against this then please speak up before then and I will cancel the launch until people are happy(this excludes people that arn't playing and people that haven't posted in the Tavern before)

A 'Starter' Tech Tree will be posted soon.

Also I want people to use the wiki Dungeonal created. I will post research that has been conducted(Except Secret Research), and ship designs using the modules system (My designs will use the latest tech you have avalible, but no secret tech.) . If people want to create their own specific ship designs then they can use modules to create new layouts.(You must post these on the wiki, or pm them to me if they have secret research on)

Fleet sizes should be updated daily on the Wiki.

All conversations(about this), images and such, sent to and from me, will be put into a RAR Archive which will be password protected(Which I will assign when creating them) The archives will be avalible for download at any time, and I will keep them up to date(Since the University makes it easier to do with an easier to access section for downloadable files). If anyone has a problem with .RAR files please let me know and I will see what I can do. Please note that this is not unlimited space, I only have 2 Gigabytes and part of that is for my university stuff...So sending me Bitmaps is just going to annoy me...PNG or JPG.

The map will also be updated regularly due to the ease of access I have(open, edit, save, done)

 

If there is anything else anyone can think of please tell me.

[The Dark Lord]

I should warn everyone that WinRar is a royal pain in the [wagon] to uninstall once you use it. Here's a tip: don't make it your default .zip extractor!

 

Well, you can easily remove WinRar, but it is still annoying because it doesn't come with an uninstall option...You have to manually do it though add/remove programs (which has a different name in Windows Vista).

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Another tip, don't uninstall it. It is far better than WinZip, and its not like it takes up masses of space.

[The Dark Lord]

Another tip, don't uninstall it. It is far better than WinZip, and its not like it takes up masses of space.

 

It's a little annoying to use all of the time except for archiving purposes, but if you're opening up regular .zip files, just use WinZip so it is a lot like simply accessing your documents folder (or any similar folder for that matter). WinRar has a very different interface, so it might be a little less easy to use just for simple things such as downloading an email attachment and moving a few pictures and other documents from it directly into your My Documents folder by copy/pasting them.

 

WinRar is a good thing to have so long as it isn't your default (just use it for opening .rar files or creating them), but I deleted WinRar from my computer after getting pissed off at Halo.

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Thats odd, after I rebooted by computer I installed Winzip to open Halo, the deleted both and went back to using WinRar, for the same reason....Winzip makes it nightmarish to try to open files from an archive without extracting the whole thing, where as WinRar lets you do it with ease...almost like navigating with Windows Explorer.

And I can create or update archives in 2 clicks(And typing the password in) so its darned quick...Opening it takes 1 click(and password)

[The Dark Lord]

Thats odd, after I rebooted by computer I installed Winzip to open Halo, the deleted both and went back to using WinRar, for the same reason....Winzip makes it nightmarish to try to open files from an archive without extracting the whole thing, where as WinRar lets you do it with ease...almost like navigating with Windows Explorer.

And I can create or update archives in 2 clicks(And typing the password in) so its darned quick...Opening it takes 1 click(and password)

 

I'm not sure if it's WinZip (assuming it is because I don't have WinRar), it looks a lot like accessing My Documents where you see the files in a grid. I don't have to extract the whole thing; I can just copy and paste documents to other folders as if the .zip was just a normal folder (although with a little zipper attached to it).

 

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Am I the only one here who feels stupid for having just 7zip?

[The Dark Lord]

Holy crap! I forgot that I had Adobe Premiere on my computer! *facepalm*

 

...I've been using Movie Maker recently. It probably wouldn't hurt to learn how to use Premiere.

 

(Sorry, I just noticed that I had it when looking at my screenshot. Does anyone know how to use Premiere?)

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Nah, you have the windows own brand of zip extractors...As opposed to winzip, which treats you like you are installing something every time you want to open a file...WinRar is just the same as the zip extractor, just with the ability to open just about anything.

 

I like 7zip, I just prefer WinRar.

 

And no idea how to use any Adobe Programs...with the exception of Acrobat.

 

 

Anyway, make sure you check out my mock intro:

http://forum.tip.it/topic/251910-hegemony-argument-thread/page__view__findpost__p__4190650

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Mock Tech Tree:

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Ballistic Weapons:

Gauss Driver

Sniper Cannon

Mass Driver

-Quantum Conductors

 

Culture, Commerce, Communication(C3):

FTL Communications

FTL Broadband

Battle Computers

 

Energy Weapons:

Red Lasers

Green Lasers

Ultraviolet Lasers

Particle Beam

 

Torpedo Weapons:

Plasma Cannon

 

Shield Technology:

Deflectors

 

Warhead Technology:

Nuclear Warhead

Nuclear Mines

DF Racks

-Shaped Nuclear Warhead

 

 

Engine:

Fission

-Recombinant Fissionables

 

Drone:

Cybernetics

Advanced Robotics

Predictive Gunnery

Expert Systems

Combat Drones

 

Biological:

Cloning

Gene Modification

 

Industry:

WALDO Units

 

 

FTL- Faster than Light

DF- Dumb Fire

WALDO- We All Like Distance Operators

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There are 10 classes, but you can invent more...This is just my, or rather Sword of Stars, recommendations.

Dashes indicate a higher 'tier', so there is no point researching it by itself. I will try to make a graphic(since the SoS system is Psudo-3D...so copying that is more difficult.

 

If anyone wants to add technology then feel free to do so.

But remember...this is a guideline for low level research. Not high level stuff and is not 'The Tech Tree', now and forever. Its an example, so you can still create your own technology later on, as long as you have my approval for the tech, to prevent it being too powerful or taking too short a time, ect, ect.

 

I am going to flesh out some modules and basic ship designs, later, but I need some sleep, so good will to all and to all a good night.

[The_Mather1]

Lol, Grim's Entei!

 

BTW: I've been using WinRAR for a long time now, when it asks you to buy it just close that one window and proceed as usual.

[Retech]

Gigantic space artillery and shaped (regular) explosives? Basically for the first one, one of the guns from world war 2 but spacified, and bigger.

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Space Artillary is pretty much covered by the Dumfire Missiles. The only diffferece is that a missile doesn't produce recoil for the ship, so requires less power to fire. I can still add them if you like.

Shaped Regular Explosives can be added.

[The_Mather1]

Shaped charges, eh? Using molten metal "knives" as ammo should be quite effective against most ships.

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They would be...if only space wasn't a vacuum at minus -200 degrees celcius....So thats gonna be a no.

[Seraphi]

I'd like for their to be some variety to the hostile alien attacks, not just one race, but aside from that, I'd be fine.

 

Also, the tech tree will allow customisation, right?

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Customisation in what sense? You can create new technologies and I create the modules to go into your ships, if you want a different sort of module then you discuss it with me and we come to an agreement, the module can then be slotted into your ship by me or by you.

[Seraphi]

Yeah, that's what I meant. Also, you need to make sure that the mod(s) are the only ones allowed to create the module shapes, or people will just make the simplest shapes possible.

[Nero]

No, those are my terms, if I am going to mod and not play then I want Dusty out of it from the beginning. I am not having people rally round him for being a....stubborn old mule....time and time for standing up to me for not allowing someone to activate god mode.

For not allowing the moderator to create a god-mode nation with god-mode tech. Yes, completely unreasonable.

 

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And fine, I will play the 'alien invaders', but I retain full control over them and set my own objectives.

 

Actually wait, if Arch isn't playing then no, I won't play the stupid NPC aliens. If Arch plays, perhaps. Then I can just constantly attack Arch for being such a [bleep].

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Yes indeed, why should he moderator get the advantage that is afforded to the exaulted Dusty, surely only the great master of Hegemony himself can play in God Mode...

[Seraphi]

Dusty, we get it. You hate Archi for something he did in the original hegemony which you have exaggurated to the point of stupidity.

[Nero]

Dusty, we get it. You hate Archi for something he did in the original hegemony which you have exaggurated to the point of stupidity.

I don't hate Arch. I just think Arch is over-controlling and very petty in moderation against people that don't drop to their knees and grovel. (See: Arch destroying V3 because he got mad at Retech).

 

Yes indeed, why should he moderator get the advantage that is afforded to the exaulted Dusty, surely only the great master of Hegemony himself can play in God Mode...

The difference was that I built up an empire that was pretty much untouchable over the course of 150 something odd years. You just came in and said 'I'm the moderator so I get invincible ships and my people are untouchable, and since I'm the war mod all your attacks fail miserably and I kill your entire invasion force by throwing out a banana peal that they slip and fall and die on".

[Nexaduro]

I'd like for their to be some variety to the hostile alien attacks, not just one race, but aside from that, I'd be fine.

 

Also, the tech tree will allow customisation, right?

NO SCATHE. SCATHE BAD. ME DIVIDE SCATHE BY ZERO.

[Seraphi]

I'd like for their to be some variety to the hostile alien attacks, not just one race, but aside from that, I'd be fine.

 

Also, the tech tree will allow customisation, right?

NO SCATHE. SCATHE BAD. ME DIVIDE SCATHE BY ZERO.

They're kind of based off of The Flood from Halo. Heh.