STGOD 2K5 OOC Thread

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-01-03 12:07am

Fold drive speeds are way down since there's so much crap left over in terms of spatial anomolies and whatnot from the war that one has to be careful when folding and take your time doing it. Warp and B5-hyperspace are slow if useful; SW hyperdrive has the aformentioned problem with good hyperlanes being few and far between.

A not inconsiderable part of the SKS's military and militia is dedicated to guarding the trade lanes between her three segments and selected other routes (that is, to the UTR and Kzinti; the CorpSec and TSC being serviced through the UTR)

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-01-03 12:14am

Also, a large part of the CorpSec Defense Force is devoted to escorting shipments. We tend to do bulk shipments with huge haulers, and the escorts are nothing to sneeze at.

Plus the haulers themselves are armed. It lowers the insurance premiums anyway

By the way, I'm thinking about putting some trade routes on the map. Any suggestions?

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-01-03 12:19am

Aside from the obvious huge junction of tradelanes centered on BFE-007 *ducks*

nothing, don't have enough experience with the universe to say.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2005-01-03 12:21am

By the way, I'm thinking about putting some trade routes on the map. Any suggestions?

Just get a couple good ones near Federation SPace.... though, we dont use SW hyperdrive...

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2005-01-03 12:26am

A noteable one would be the new Commonwealth lanes going from the Commonwealth to Ambrosia to the Azegart Empire, ending at Corneria- the line from the Eastern Rim to the UTR and the Commonwealth.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-03 12:26am

Why does the resolution on the map suck so bad? I can barely read the labels; some are totally illegible.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-01-03 12:31am

ACIN's Location
Map little corner in the galaxy, hope there are no objections.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2005-01-03 12:33am

Rogue 9 wrote:Why does the resolution on the map suck so bad? I can barely read the labels; some are totally illegible.

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It's fine. I can read all of it.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-03 12:35am

Pablo Sanchez wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:Why does the resolution on the map suck so bad? I can barely read the labels; some are totally illegible.
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It's fine. I can read all of it.

I blame AOHell. I can't wait to get back to school.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-01-03 01:23am

InnocentBystander wrote:ACIN's Location
Map little corner in the galaxy, hope there are no objections.

That location used to be (before the Fall or whatever) a part of the UTR and before that the SCEF. It's been settled by humans for quite a long time (< 20,000 years or so) so you may want to amend your backstory a little bit.

Also, that was right in the path of the Halite invasion, so that area's pretty torn up although not as bad as the nearby Perseus and Cygnus Arms.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-01-03 01:31am

Amend it how? They are all humans...

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-01-03 01:57am

*shrugs* I meant more as in the backstory, since that hasn't been empty space forever. In other words, your families can probably trace their roots to the UTR if they go back enough.

Anyway, here's my updated map. As for resolution, I scaled it down less (original size is 1600x1600). Mind you, that means it's nearly 200k...

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-01-03 03:24am

I'll just leave it at this, it's a war torn piece of space, history and things have been lost to time. And not that it's any big deal, but isn't that a rather small chunk of space for a major power?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-01-03 04:00am

InnocentBystander wrote:I'll just leave it at this, it's a war torn piece of space, history and things have been lost to time. And not that it's any big deal, but isn't that a rather small chunk of space for a major power?

Well.... as a benchmark, you've got 36 major worlds and I don't know how many colonies/mining worlds. Your space as it is on the map now is about 3,000 LY across, so you have quite a lot of space (I think I was actually a little too generous with space before...but that was fine back when everybody had huge powers). Look at it this way, you're not much smaller than the nearby Corporate Sector (with ~50 major worlds and a buttload of mining stations).

If it's still too small, I can always enlarge it.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-01-03 04:10am

Mind you, the comparison I'm using is, well... other nations. I'm seeing a lot of regional powers with bigger circles on the map and going "now how can that be?" Not that having a small chunk of space is a bad thing, but as for game mechanics, shouldn't I have to defend more space than smaller powers (this, of course, being the down side to a major power).

A note - I just occured to me that I might have too few major worlds?
Another note - I can't make out the difference between a Major and Minor hyperspace lane...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-03 04:10am

Rather across the galaxy from what I had in mind, but at least I don't have to deal with everything being an absolute wreck around me. *Shrug*

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-01-03 04:22am

Hrm... If nobody minds, I think I'm going to try and trim the major and minor powers down proportionally to how many planets they've declared. Things are a bit absurdly large...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-03 04:28am

Though I do think that my position is a tad unlikely given the stellar geography of the Republic; I'm in an open star cluster. It'd be in a denser region of stars in all likelihood. And hell, I could be in the Waste; I've had half my core worlds, including two of my three major military planets, destroyed through unspecified means and my people have been oppressed by unspecified foreign imperial occupiers up until the end of either the ASVS STGOD or STGOD2, whichever one wrecked the major imperialist grand powers in the region. So, I'd like to repeat my earlier request to be located in the denser stellar region of the Norma Arm, northwest of the Knights Templar and south of HAB.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2005-01-03 05:32am

But one isn't forced to use "hyperlanes"? Especially when using a fold drive system that seems absurd.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-01-03 05:57am

Rogue: you've been moved. And shrunken a little bit to make things more proportional.

Dahak: You aren't forced to use hyperlanes unless you use a more or less linear FTL system like hyperspace, warp, etc. Nonlinear drive speed is probably still affected by all the disturbances, supernovae, black holes, and other assorted junk left over from the wars so it's not terribly great either.

Updated map, version 3

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2005-01-03 06:06am

Crayz9000 wrote:Rogue: you've been moved. And shrunken a little bit to make things more proportional.

Dahak: You aren't forced to use hyperlanes unless you use a more or less linear FTL system like hyperspace, warp, etc. Nonlinear drive speed is probably still affected by all the disturbances, supernovae, black holes, and other assorted junk left over from the wars so it's not terribly great either.

Updated map, version 3

Dude... you moved the wrong nation... Rogue is the Republic of Nashtar

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2005-01-03 06:16am

As it just crossed my mind: how do we handle interdiction?
Just like in the last one?

Shark Bait · Post by **Shark Bait** » 2005-01-03 07:14am

Alyrium Denryle wrote:um... here is roughtly where I want to be, forgive my suckiness with PAINT
Bob Dole

heh i just finally mannage to get my oob hammered out and back up sorry the holidays have been weird anyway as i said in the oob i'd like to be put just out past alyrium's F of T

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-01-03 08:10am

Crayz9000 wrote:*shrugs* I meant more as in the backstory, since that hasn't been empty space forever. In other words, your families can probably trace their roots to the UTR if they go back enough.

Anyway, here's my updated map. As for resolution, I scaled it down less (original size is 1600x1600). Mind you, that means it's nearly 200k...

Can you upload the original full size or send it to someone here? Some of us have a us for 1600X1600(downsized abit) picture, i'm missing a wallpaper.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2005-01-03 09:47am

Edited my ORBAT, now have absolutely no batleships, used three points to increase fixed fighter defenses, and 1 addtional expendable fighter supercarrier.

Switched the superpowered nuisance points into specops, I think 100 escort and 4 cruiser points should produce some sort of noticeable improvement.