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[Ghazkull]

just so that i understand that right...

if i want to add more fuel (leading to mroe thrust, i need another stage? Or do i need to research a two-stage design?

[10ebbor10]

There are multiple options:
You can research more efficient engines or upgrade the existing ones to provide more thrust( Hint: do this, the current ones have a 50% explosion chance)
You can create larger fuel tanks and engines
You can design a multiple stages system
You can research more efficient fuel
You can try to reduce the components weight

These are just the things I can think of right now. The most efficient one right now would be to upgrade your engines, as they are nowhere near perfect and have a way to high spontanous combustion chance.

[Kashyyk]

Can we put more thrusters on a rocket to counter that?

[10ebbor10]

Can we put more thrusters on a rocket to counter that?

To counter what?
Putting more thrusters on a rocket would increase the spontanous combustion chance, not lower it.( Failures are rolled for each thruster).

You can research things like thruster coupling and synchronisation though, which will allow to place more thrusters parallel to each other. This means that on one meter you can place multiple thrusters.

Also:I'm currently doubting wherether or not I should make a game thread.

[10ebbor10]

Mispost. Meant to modify instead.

[Kashyyk]

To counter what?
Putting more thrusters on a rocket would increase the spontanous combustion chance, not lower it.( Failures are rolled for each thruster).

You can research things like thruster coupling and synchronisation though, which will allow to place more thrusters parallel to each other. This means that on one meter you can place multiple thrusters.

Ahh, My bad. I thought it was just the thrusters failing to work, not setting themselves on fire.

[10ebbor10]

Depending on how bad they fail, they either just stop working or spontanously combust.( Resulting in a nice explosion.)

[Toaster]

If you have two thrusters and one goes blooie, your whole rocket is probably toast.


Also, I research mass drivers to get away from the whole inefficient rocket technology.   

[10ebbor10]

Also, I research mass drivers to get away from the whole inefficient rocket technology.   

Mid/Late game tech. I  mean, seeing as a 10 meter high launch platform already cost 5000, what would a 120 km long mass driver cost?

[Ghazkull]

when will we start i doubt that anybody else will join XP

[10ebbor10]

when will we start i doubt that anybody else will join XP

It won't. Game needs at least 6 players to function Well ,other players can always join druring the game, can they.

Well, I think  it'll start it within an hour or two. Still wondering wherether or not to make a game thread.
Also, rule edit. Science now cost 1000 instead of 5000. However, the price will increase later.( The price was static previously.)

[Toaster]

You could always DM one of the Big Two.

[10ebbor10]

You could always DM one of the Big Two.

Nah, that's not fun.  Though you won't be the only space organisations. Also, people joining mid-game will get start bonusses.

[10ebbor10]

Turn0:

1 January 1946:

It's a historical day today, as four organisations have voiced their intentions to conquer Space. The traditional superpowers, Sovjet-Russia and the U.S., have made no progress on their rocketry efforts. Many suspect that their rivalry has led them to sabotage each other. So, it is no suprise that other countries are trying to claim space. What might be a suprise is the rise of the Chinese Space organisation, since China has long been considered a sleeping giant, but it seems that Japans conquest has shook them awake. The other countries are no suprise, as Spain, Scotland and West-germany have traditionally been important industrial nations.

Spoiler: Turn layout(Note, just the suggested layout, not obligatory) (click to show/hide)

Fluff
Research:
-Name researched component plus explanation on what it does

Things you are designing:
Name rocket + design(See previous posts)

Building things(If you want to)
Buildings

Other things

Total expenses:

Players:

Player name: Xin Su
Archetype: Lobbyist Political Commissar
Funds: 10.000(+1000)
Prestige:0
Organisation Name: Chinese Assembly for Space Exploration (CHASE)
      -Motto: Ensuring China's dominance of the Solar System.
      -Nation: People's Republic of China

       

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

             Fuel[ Storage
             - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)

             Propulsion
             - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg, Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)

             Chassis
             - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
       

       

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

        None
       

       

Spoiler: Assets (click to show/hide)

- Small labs (1 research/year for $1000)
- Small launchpad (Max rocket height of 10m)
- Small Mission Control (1 launch/year)
- Small manufacturing and design factory: (Can build rockets, can design new rockets ($2000 + cost))

Spoiler: Special People (click to show/hide)

A German engineer (+25 to designing)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Brief recent national history: China was hit hard by both the Japanese and their own civil war. Perhaps in another reality, they would still be fighting. Here, the Nationalists refused to cooperate with the Communists (Despite their attempts for a temporary truce) against the invading Japanese. The Japanese used this for a propaganda campaign, and would ultimately make more gains in China than they otherwise might have. This had little real impact on the grand scale, but people were outraged at the Nationalists, who were quickly beaten back to Taiwan. Thanks to extensive Russian aid, China's economy is rapidly recovering.

Xin Su worked for one of Mao's underlings. His organizational talents were helpful during the war. When the news of German rocketry teams being spread reached him, he managed to get an audience with Mao. After weeks of negotiation, Mao was finally convinced to invest in a space program lead by Xin Su. He would both prove that a Communist space program could beat (or at the very least, rival) the likely Capitalist space programs, and extract extraterrestrial resources for a growing China if he valued his life.

The site is surrounded by mountains, and located in the Anhui province, in the south-east of China. The primary access is by rail. The labs, factory, and mission control building are clustered together on the outskirts of Shijie Town, while the launchpad is in a field a mile away.

Player Name:  Urist McLowe
Archetype: Engineer
Funds: 10,000(+2000)
Prestige:0
Organisation Name: DeWard Aeronautical Research Foundation [DWARF]
      Motto: Strike the moon!
      Nation: Scotland
     

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

             Fuel[ Storage
             - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)

             Propulsion
             - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg, Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)

             Chassis
             - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
       

       

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

             -None at the moment

       

Spoiler: Assets (click to show/hide)

             -Small labs(1 research action per year, researching cost 1000 money)
             -Small launchpad(Can launch rockets of up to 10 meters)
             -Small Mission Control (Can monitor exactly 1 launch a year)
             -Small manufacturing and design factory:( Can build rockets, can design new rockets( 2000+Price rocket))

       

Spoiler: Special people (click to show/hide)

             -None yet

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Scotland's fate was necessarily tied to that of the whole UK during WWII.  After coming off its prewar economic crisis, the future looked bleak... until the founding of the DeWard Astronomy Research Foundation by Hugh DeWard.  DeWard saw a future of Scotland as a haven for high technology and what it could do for the world.  His famed "Reach for the Skies" speech secured his governmental funding and attracted many brilliant minds from the whole of Europe, including some German expatriates.  His sudden death on December 12th, 1945 was a blow to the Foundation's aims, but it is believed that his right hand man, Urist McLowe, will be able to live up to the ideals of its founder.

Player name: Friedrich von Hohenzollern
Archetype: Astronaut
Funds: 10.000(+1000)
Organisation Name: W.A.T. (West-German Aeronautical Technologies)
      -Motto: Inveniam viam aut faciam ( either i'll find a way, or I'll make one)
      -Nation: Western Germany

     

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

             Fuel[ Storage
             - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)

             Propulsion
             - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg, Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)

             Chassis
             - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
       

Spoiler:  Designs (click to show/hide)

 -None at the moment

           

Spoiler:  Assets and personnel (click to show/hide)

      -Assets
             -Small labs(1 research action per year, researching cost 1000 money)
             -Small launchpad(Can launch rockets of up to 10 meters)
             -Small Mission Control (Can monitor exactly 1 launch a year)
             -Small manufacturing and design factory:( Can build rockets, can design new rockets( 2000+Price rocket))

      -Special people
            - German Secret Weapons Scientist (+40 bonus on Weaponized Research)   

Player name: Alexis Solsona
Archetype: Engineer
Funds: 10.000
Organisation Name: Science, Technology And Research in Space (STARS)
      -Motto:  Vamos a infinito y más allá!
      -Nation: Spain
     

Spoiler: Researched Components (click to show/hide)

             Fuel[ Storage
             - Small fuel tank  ( 125 liters of liquid fuel per meter height)

             Propulsion
             - Small thrusters   Weight 100 kg, Failure chance 50%, 1meter high, Can carry 2kg of weight to LEO per liter fuel, Max fuel use: 1000)

             Chassis
             - Single stage hull(75 kg weight per meters high, max 10 meters)
       

       

Spoiler: -Designs (click to show/hide)

             -None at the moment

       

Spoiler: -Assets (click to show/hide)

             -Small labs(1 research action per year, researching cost 1000 money)
             -Small launchpad(Can launch rockets of up to 10 meters)
             -Small Mission Control (Can monitor exactly 1 launch a year)
             -Small manufacturing and design factory:( Can build rockets, can design new rockets( 2000+Price rocket))

       

Spoiler: -Personnel (click to show/hide)

             -Eckbert Faust - German Thruster Scientist (+40 to assigned Thruster Research)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spain had owed a fair bit to Germany, as they had provided military and financial support to General Franco during his Coup in 1936. Spain as a whole was quite happy to stop paying Germany back in Money and Volunteer soldiers once the tides had turned. Freed of the debt, Alexis Solsona saw the opportunity to hack a piece out of the German dismembered missile programme. On gaining an audience with the Generalissimo, she persuaded him to put a small amount of the resources that would have gone to the German's into a Spanish Space Programme, in order to keep up with the other major powers.

Alexis had inherited her fathers company 'Ciencia, Tecnología y Investigación' and, on seeing other successful programmes, remodelled the Company, taking an English name (Easier for those American's to get their heads around) and highlighting it's new focus, the STARS.

The facilities themselves are nestled into the Pyrenees, with the Launchpad a five minute ride to the south. It is fairly remote, but easily accessible.

[10ebbor10]

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