Karmic Knight wrote:Alright, 10 for $550mil, when can you get these out?
Pretty soon, I think I could have them done in a few months, so introduce them at your leisure.
PeZook: When is Svetlana Savitskaya going "up there"? Because right now she looks to be the only one who could beat Nadine as the first woman in space.
Ok, I am sorry for leaving you guys for the month but I was doing Nanowrimo (50K words in one month) and I have been ill, piled in by coursework etc. I hope everything is going ok for all of you and I would ask for a summary for what is hhappening but I guess is that Its best just to read a few pages back.
Beowulf wrote:$12 million each (+ spares cost). Call it $200 million total. For rights to the design, $50 mil or $1 mil/aircraft, whichever is greater, payable to LTVR.
$50 mil in royalties to build 15 A-7Fs.
Well, unless you have a decent number of airframes to build, you're probably better off buying from the original manufacturer. With only 15 aircraft, you're probably going to be at the hand built aircraft point, where each will have it's own idiosyncrasies due to the construction.
"preemptive killing of cops might not be such a bad idea from a personal saftey[sic] standpoint..." --Keevan Colton
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan
Bluewolf wrote:Ok, I am sorry for leaving you guys for the month but I was doing Nanowrimo (50K words in one month) and I have been ill, piled in by coursework etc. I hope everything is going ok for all of you and I would ask for a summary for what is hhappening but I guess is that Its best just to read a few pages back.
I don't even know who you are.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
Beowulf wrote:Well, unless you have a decent number of airframes to build, you're probably better off buying from the original manufacturer. With only 15 aircraft, you're probably going to be at the hand built aircraft point, where each will have it's own idiosyncrasies due to the construction.
Yeah, it is more economical to go with the 15 from you. Now, how long does construction take?
Bluewolf wrote:Ok, I am sorry for leaving you guys for the month but I was doing Nanowrimo (50K words in one month) and I have been ill, piled in by coursework etc. I hope everything is going ok for all of you and I would ask for a summary for what is hhappening but I guess is that Its best just to read a few pages back.
Your nation was occupied.
I'm so sorry.
This is an empty country and I am it's king, and I should not be allowed to touch anything.
Beowulf wrote:Well, unless you have a decent number of airframes to build, you're probably better off buying from the original manufacturer. With only 15 aircraft, you're probably going to be at the hand built aircraft point, where each will have it's own idiosyncrasies due to the construction.
Yeah, it is more economical to go with the 15 from you. Now, how long does construction take?
Depends on whether you want new or used. Used means former TXAF airframes, about 15 years old at this point, with about 4000 hours on the airframes. Probably end up cutting the price in half. New means pulling them off the A-7G line, and backconverting them to the F configuration. Used means you get them as soon as you can send them to Tian Xia to go to school. New takes a bit longer, but not significantly so.
Either way, it's going to be a couple in game months, simply because the Department of Foreign Affairs and Department of Peace aren't going to let them go without being trained first. However, training of the initial class will be free, as a courtesy from the Huang Di. Be bad if your pilots crashed one in the first couple months you had them, eh?
"preemptive killing of cops might not be such a bad idea from a personal saftey[sic] standpoint..." --Keevan Colton
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan
Beowulf wrote:Depends on whether you want new or used. Used means former TXAF airframes, about 15 years old at this point, with about 4000 hours on the airframes. Probably end up cutting the price in half. New means pulling them off the A-7G line, and backconverting them to the F configuration. Used means you get them as soon as you can send them to Tian Xia to go to school. New takes a bit longer, but not significantly so.
Either way, it's going to be a couple in game months, simply because the Department of Foreign Affairs and Department of Peace aren't going to let them go without being trained first. However, training of the initial class will be free, as a courtesy from the Huang Di. Be bad if your pilots crashed one in the first couple months you had them, eh?
Very bad, so, I'll take new then.
This is an empty country and I am it's king, and I should not be allowed to touch anything.
Siege, if you're launching one month from now, there's no way FASTA can get a woman up there.
Not that it matters much from an engineering standpoint: it's just an excercise in designing a different waste removal tube
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
Coiler wrote:Well, all this talk of flags finally motivated me to make one for Coilerburg. The full size one can be seen in the Building Your Country thread.
I too finally got a flag but unlike all ya'll HoI folks I've never played and I didn't feel like snapping out the program for it so nyah. Anyway flag is in my sig and in the Building Your Country thread (now with WAY more information than anyone could hope to want).
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SDNet World Nation: Wilkonia
Armourer of the WARWOLVES
ASVS Vet's Association (Class of 2000)
Former C.S. Strowbridge Gold Ego Award Winner MEMBER of the Anti-PETA Anti-Facist LEAGUE
"I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. "
-Kingdom of Heaven
CmdrWilkens wrote:I too finally got a flag but unlike all ya'll HoI folks I've never played and I didn't feel like snapping out the prgram for it so nyah. Anyway flag is in my sig and in the Building Your Country thread (now with WAY more information than anyone could hope to want).
Now to Learn about Wilkonia.
This is an empty country and I am it's king, and I should not be allowed to touch anything.
Let me just say that if you actually manage to read through all of that info then you deserve a medal because I wouldn't and I wrote it all.
Total aside but if anyone is curious the flag is a bastardized version of the Maryland and DC flags. The Maryland flag already utilizes the gold/black pattern with a red/white design for the other 2 quarters but the MD design uses a stylized cross so I substituted the DC flag only I changed it to 4 stars in each box (8 stars total) representing the 16 non-Capitol Provinces of the Empire with the 4 bars representing the 4 pillars of the county (The King, The Government, The People and The Law).
As an aside within an aside the DC Flag was rated best amongst 150 city flags and Maryland ranks 3rd amongst US State Flags according to the North American Vexilology Association.
*Edit* Flag info now included in the main Wilkonia post.
SDNet World Nation: Wilkonia
Armourer of the WARWOLVES
ASVS Vet's Association (Class of 2000)
Former C.S. Strowbridge Gold Ego Award Winner MEMBER of the Anti-PETA Anti-Facist LEAGUE
"I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. "
-Kingdom of Heaven
Bleh, arms deals are passing through my fingers...
Lì ci sono chiese, macerie, moschee e questure, lì frontiere, prezzi inaccessibile e freddure
Lì paludi, minacce, cecchini coi fucili, documenti, file notturne e clandestini
Qui incontri, lotte, passi sincronizzati, colori, capannelli non autorizzati,
Uccelli migratori, reti, informazioni, piazze di Tutti i like pazze di passioni...
...La tranquillità è importante ma la libertà è tutto!
SiegeTank wrote:
That's a very... plastic way of putting it . Anyway: yay first woman astronaut!
Well, the thing's made of plastic all right...
On Svetlana, she goes up on Soyuz 1 or 2, I haven't decided yet: which means at least four more months.
And no, we're not rushing it. So far, all unmanned Soyuz flights have failed, so yeah...
EDIT: sorry, it will be Soyuz III or IV. Two unmanned flights first.
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
That new disposal system must result in Miranda contracting urinary tract infection.
EDIT:
I wonder what reception Shroompard got, if Byzantine's Nick dude got celebrations. Man, it must've been like a Mardri Gras and a Carnivale combined in Farbanti!
EDIT 2:
HEY LOINSTAR! CAN SHROOMANIA HAVE A BIT PART IN THE MESS EXERCISES THAT ARE HAPPENING OFF CANISSIA SINCE CANISSIA IS RLY NEAR SHROOMANIA?!
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN! Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
Shroom Man 777 wrote:
I wonder what reception Shroompard got, if Byzantine's Nick dude got celebrations. Man, it must've been like a Mardri Gras and a Carnivale combined in Farbanti!
Whatever you thought appropriate. Though in Shroomania, "appropriate" probably has a meaning somewhat different than usual, I'd wager
I can imagine pink business suits and playboy bunny outfits for (male) secretary staff at MacMillan HQ
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
Shroom Man 777 wrote:
HEY LOINSTAR! CAN SHROOMANIA HAVE A BIT PART IN THE MESS EXERCISES THAT ARE HAPPENING OFF CANISSIA SINCE CANISSIA IS RLY NEAR SHROOMANIA?!
No.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
Shroom Man 777 wrote:
HEY LOINSTAR! CAN SHROOMANIA HAVE A BIT PART IN THE MESS EXERCISES THAT ARE HAPPENING OFF CANISSIA SINCE CANISSIA IS RLY NEAR SHROOMANIA?!
No.
Now now, Lonestar. We could always welcome them to our exercise...as live-fire targets.
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
They can provide "entertainment" for our drunken sailors.
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
Shroom Man 777 wrote:
HEY LOINSTAR! CAN SHROOMANIA HAVE A BIT PART IN THE MESS EXERCISES THAT ARE HAPPENING OFF CANISSIA SINCE CANISSIA IS RLY NEAR SHROOMANIA?!
No.
Now now, Lonestar. We could always welcome them to our exercise...as live-fire targets.
Always with the anti-Shroomanian sentiment.
By the way, you've yet to get back to me on the price of that JFK-class carrier.
I ship Eino Ilmari Juutilainen x Lydia V. Litvyak.
Phantasee: Don't be a dick.
Stofsk: What are you, his mother?
The Yosemite Bear: Obviously, which means that he's grounded, and that she needs to go back to sucking Mr. Coffee's cock.
"d-did... did this thread just turn into Thanas/PeZook slash fiction?" - Ilya Muromets[/size]
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN! Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
It's the time of year. Lots of people are cramming for college finals, working extra hours for the holiday season, spending time with family, etc.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
Yeah...I really don't like the fact I'm not able to make story posts beyond the occasional FASTA update, especially since I have some cool espionage/intrigue ideas involving the RIS and various local factions in PeZookia.
I'd also love to flesh out the space program a bit more, describe some of the key characters, make a post or two about every significant astronaut, etc.
But I just don't have the time right now.
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
. Anyway: yay first woman astronaut!
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
