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[Flying Dice]

The joke? Are referring to this guy by any chance?

No glomp image because the only ones google can find are pretty damned creepy.

I guess what I usually do is change the name of the character while completely ignoring the gender field, so that's probably where the confusion arose.

That's what I had assumed as well. Not that you can really tell when you're playing with the Arthurian name theme.

[Sirus]

Eh, I'm perfectly fine with the cookie anyway

[EuchreJack]

I actually liked my character better before I got the joke.   
I think I'll go by "Euchre" from now on...

[hostergaard]

Haven't read this thread yet, but sign me up for something cool, I want to be a part of it. 

[Flying Dice]

I actually liked my character better before I got the joke.   
I think I'll go by "Euchre" from now on...

Can do. 

Haven't read this thread yet, but sign me up for something cool, I want to be a part of it. 

If you don't tell me what you want to be dorfed as, you'll end up commanding a survey ship. To me, survey ships are early-warning tripwires against xenos incursions. 

[RedKing]

I actually liked my character better before I got the joke.   
I think I'll go by "Euchre" from now on...

Can do. 

Haven't read this thread yet, but sign me up for something cool, I want to be a part of it. 

If you don't tell me what you want to be dorfed as, you'll end up commanding a survey ship. To me, survey ships are early-warning tripwires against xenos incursions. 

Considering that it's actually the act of exploring and generating new systems that generates most NPRs, it's less a tripwire and more of a detonator.

Also, you have inspired me to name my next class of scouts the Redshirt Express-class.

[Flying Dice]

I actually liked my character better before I got the joke.   
I think I'll go by "Euchre" from now on...

Can do. 

Haven't read this thread yet, but sign me up for something cool, I want to be a part of it. 

If you don't tell me what you want to be dorfed as, you'll end up commanding a survey ship. To me, survey ships are early-warning tripwires against xenos incursions. 

Considering that it's actually the act of exploring and generating new systems that generates most NPRs, it's less a tripwire and more of a detonator.

Also, you have inspired me to name my next class of scouts the Redshirt Express-class.

I've also got that 1000% difficulty NPR that had a 30 year head start somewhere out there. And Swarm. I'm actually rather hoping to run into freshly generated NPRs; they're easier to conquer and will give us the population we need. But in any case we won't have a working JD until the mid to late 30s.

[hostergaard]

If you don't tell me what you want to be dorfed as, you'll end up commanding a survey ship. To me, survey ships are early-warning tripwires against xenos incursions. 

Uh, is that fun of the FUN kind of variety? I don't mind as long I can be re-dworfed. Name my character Hostergaard I and if he dies the next one II and so on and so forth, as if there is a family sending one member after another to their untimely death. 

Hmm, I volunteer my hapless space dworf for any first excursion out into interstellar space. Of course, this also mean I would like command over a space ship, preferably as big and hulking one as possible. 

Read the thread, good stuff, keep it coming!

[Flying Dice]

We won't be doing 'big and hulking' so much as 'tiny and fragile'. I may actually shut down research for a while just to have a chance to build up the shipyards with full efficiency instead of the 25% or so we're operating on now.

[EuchreJack]

No reason to do that until we have viable jump engines.

[Flying Dice]

We have jump engines about 3 years into the next update. We also have a single 1000 ton military slipway.

[EuchreJack]

Do we have a civilian shipyard?

[Flying Dice]

We have one of each; the commercial one is at 2 slipways and ~34,000 tons; the military one is a single 1000 ton slipway on the path to 3000 tons. Incidentally, we also got the small JGC module tech from ruins, so we can build them fairly early. In any case, I'm predicting the first jump before the end of the decade, and likely the first warship and fuel harvesting base as well.

[EuchreJack]

Yay, let's add more people to our kingdom!

[Flying Dice]

Update is all but ready, just feeling too tired to deal with the screenshot and design ctrl-c -> ctrl-v tonight. This morning. We didn't quite make it in terms of extrasystem exploration, but the initial jumpship design is being laid down. We also don't have small enough JDs for independent survey ships yet. On the other hand, we have obscenely advanced tech in a few areas thanks to all the ruins. Mining production tech is maxed, construction is fairly high, most of the others are better. We've got 120-day JGC modules before I've even designed one. Our main problems in military terms are shitty sensors and shitty FC; we're only getting 80k range with the 4x range enhancement on our EW. Already at ECM-2 and nearly at ECCM-1 just from taking crap apart. Delta shields with 3.5 regen as well, which are good enough that I slapped a few onto our initial designs.


It'll be up tomorrow. Uh, today.