STGOD 4 OOC Thread

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-05-02 04:34am

Bugsby, my ship the same damn size. No sell

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-05-02 04:46am

Rogue 9 wrote:The Republic's "geography" (for lack of a better word) is such that you would likely run through a star trying to jump straight into the cluster to the capital.

That seems very unlikely considering vastness of space; however, it matters not!

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-05-02 04:51am

Dense star cluster and nebulae. The clear spacelanes have major military bases at the entrances.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-05-02 04:52am

Am I supposed to be headed for pinnacle or the capital?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-05-02 04:53am

Pinnacle is one of the aforementioned military bases. You're supposed to be headed for the capital; Pinnacle's the transition point.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-05-02 04:56am

Ah; good then.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-05-02 05:02am

You've caught me at a bad time; the President, Minister of State, and chief ambassador-at-large are all away from the capital at the moment.

*Goes to think up a name for the Vice President.*

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-05-02 05:06am

Not important, it takes time to set up an embassy, you might even meet the head Baeloaren diplomat at the Grand Ball.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2004-05-02 12:32pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Dense star cluster and nebulae. The clear spacelanes have major military bases at the entrances.

Umm... such an arrangement of stellar conditions is infinitely improbable. Even the entrances would be dozens of lightyears across.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-02 12:41pm

yeah, rogue9, you really can't have a chokepoint in SPACE for fuck's sake.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-05-02 02:21pm

I'm just taking a tally.. How many governments have utterly failed to notice the large fleet of unmarked vessels sitting at Alpha Prime watching everyone?

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-02 02:25pm

We sure as livid fuck haven't. We just don't care.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-05-02 02:28pm

SirNitram wrote:I'm just taking a tally.. How many governments have utterly failed to notice the large fleet of unmarked vessels sitting at Alpha Prime watching everyone?

I have!

Because I ain't going there!

lazerus · Post by **lazerus** » 2004-05-02 02:43pm

Thirdfain wrote:We sure as livid fuck haven't. We just don't care.

I'm silently hoping you attack and kill the arcane delegate.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-05-02 02:46pm

lazerus wrote:I'm silently hoping you attack and kill the arcane delegate.

They would be expecting you to kill the Arcane delegate. In fact, if anyone dies the blame is likely to fall on your shoulders, you don't want the entire galaxy against you; do you?

lazerus · Post by **lazerus** » 2004-05-02 02:47pm

InnocentBystander wrote:
lazerus wrote:I'm silently hoping you attack and kill the arcane delegate.
They would be expecting you to kill the Arcane delegate. In fact, if anyone dies the blame is likely to fall on your shoulders, you don't want the entire galaxy against you; do you?

YOu mean the entire galaxy isn't ALLREADY against me?

Score!

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-02 02:48pm

Yeah, Laz, that's EXACTLY what I'm gonna do. Assasinate a delegate at a diplomatic conference, gaining absolutly NOTHING and throwing myself, ally-less into a war with the game's biggest power broker. Sure.

No fucking wonder you keep driving your empires into the ground.

lazerus · Post by **lazerus** » 2004-05-02 02:54pm

Thirdfain wrote:Yeah, Laz, that's EXACTLY what I'm gonna do. Assasinate a delegate at a diplomatic conference, gaining absolutly NOTHING and throwing myself, ally-less into a war with the game's biggest power broker. Sure.

No fucking wonder you keep driving your empires into the ground.

uh..........whut?

I was talking 'bout teh unmarked fleet. And there is a difference between hoping and expecting.

Bugsby · Post by **Bugsby** » 2004-05-02 03:36pm

frigidmagi wrote:Bugsby, my ship the same damn size. No sell

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

If you are talking about the Aegis, ok. your ships might be the same size. Point is, km measurements are more or less irrelevant. This is my flagship, the only one that I have of this size. Combined with the fact that I only gave myself half as many cap ships as everyone else, I feel justified in saying that my cap ships are all twice as badass. I didn't say that it was THE biggest, merely one of the biggest and the most heavily armed.

Bugsby · Post by **Bugsby** » 2004-05-02 03:41pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Dense star cluster and nebulae. The clear spacelanes have major military bases at the entrances.

The point is, space is pretty damn big. Are you trying to say that all of your systems are located within what amounts to the Kessel Black Hole Cluster?

Just think for one second about how big our solar system is. Now imagine a huge-ass sphere that encomases all of it, as far out as the oort cloud. That would be a sphere about 3 lightyears in diameter. Now are you saying that the entire surface area of that sphere is covered with gravity distortions and the like that would make it impassible? Expand this to the fact that you have more than 1 system (I believe). So the distortions would have to cover an even BIGGER area, to account for the distance between stars. And even then, there is this impenetrable sphere? Uh... right.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-05-02 03:46pm

Ok, just for power levels, the Uber-jaffa/cyborgs are about, individually, 50x stronger, faster, etc, than the Master Chief. Of course, even making 100 had a huge drain on naquida production, so these guys will likely be either lone commandos sent on the most important missions, or something similiar.
Also, I need some badass name suggestions.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-05-02 03:47pm

No, its entirely possible to get in other ways. Just good luck finding a straight shot in if you don't start out with line of sight. And ships that come in over the capital without prior clearance from the outer systems tend to be forcibly boarded and searched. Didn't want to have to do that to him.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-02 03:50pm

Tycho, if you expect these guys to survive being hit with heavy weapons like anti-tank rounds or hellthrowers- well, don't. There's a reason lone supertroopers aren't considered useful today.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-05-02 03:52pm

Captain tycho wrote:Ok, just for power levels, the Uber-jaffa/cyborgs are about, individually, 50x stronger, faster, etc, than the Master Chief. Of course, even making 100 had a huge drain on naquida production, so these guys will likely be either lone commandos sent on the most important missions, or something similiar.
Also, I need some badass name suggestions.

'Fodder For Deathstrike Tanks'.

Foolish Organic: Do not make expensive soldiers, make your tanks smaller!

Bugsby · Post by **Bugsby** » 2004-05-02 03:52pm

Rogue 9 wrote:No, its entirely possible to get in other ways. Just good luck finding a straight shot in if you don't start out with line of sight. And ships that come in over the capital without prior clearance from the outer systems tend to be forcibly boarded and searched. Didn't want to have to do that to him.

I think it should be fairly easy to find your way through the stellar mine field. But I will accept your idea that anyone not approaching through a choke point is regarded as hostile. This means that guys can show up right at your captial to attack, but in any other case (espionage, what have you) it would be incredibly difficult seeing as how even an "unmarker freighter" or something like that would be shot on sight.