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[tryrar]

So yeah, these recent design games are so fun I'm making my own! I'm shamelessly stealing borrowing all most of the mechanics for this one from UR's earlier spacecraft designer game

Spoiler: sizes (click to show/hide)

Drone - 10-100m³
Fighter - 100-1000m³
Corvette - 1000-10 000m³
Frigate - 10 000-100 000m³
Cruiser - 100 000-1 000 000m³
Battleship - 1 000 000-10 000 000m³
Battlestar - 10 000 000+m³

Spoiler: Project Template (click to show/hide)

Name
Desired volume
Team Who will work at the project. In order of preference (First one will be the head designer, the second is his assistant and so on. Note that only head designer will get full copyright rights and that you are the only one who will not get huge penalties in most rolls )
Estimated time How much you plan to spend on designing. That will affect quality of the finished design. Standard design time is 1 month*size category (drone month, fighter two and so on). You can work faster or slower and no one forces to rush anything in production if you dislike finished design. Bad rolls may ruin all time plans. Typical turns are month long
General description of the idea Most important part. Ship will be based on that.
Priorities You have 5 priority points that you may spend. That's may be anything you want, broad or narrow. Examples: AI, maneuverability, point defense laser, power consumption, complexity, $cost, IC cost.  Note that you can't directly say - improve maneuverability in expense for armor, that's what general description for. Priorities work in another way, team will look for possibilities to improve desired characteristic but that that will create disadvantages (possibly hidden) in other, semirandom areas. Priority can be negative. Example:  Neglect armor. Armor will be worse. But you will get some random bonus(es) in other semi-random area.
And the last thing: Every engineer can work in two projects without penalties, so it's a nice idea to have more than one R&D project on-line

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Maxwell Mord
Specialties in missile tech, energy shielding, and unmanned craft
Assistants:

It is the year 2xxx, and you've just graduated from The Institute of Star-craft Design, the most prestigious spaceship engineering school in the Republic. You still can't believe it! All the hours of studying for your tests, the lectures, the design classes, and now you can finally start working on all those grand ideas you had for spacecraft travelling the stars! You unroll your diploma to look at it once more-hang on, it looks like they might have accidentally printed a few errors on it! You're pretty sure your name isn't Joe Shmoe, it is.....

Alright, I need a name, age, gender, and 3 specialties in descending order from most important to least.


Example:
Name:Laura Kroft
Gender:Female
Age:23
Specialties:Armor, engines, sensors

[Unholy_Pariah]

in for curiousness

Name: Rand McNally
Gender:male
Age:21
Specialties: Energy Shielding, Stealth Technology, Advanced Antimatter Generators.

((what specialties would defensive technologies such as energy shielding and cloaking devices etc come under?))

[Scelly9]

Name:Gerdan Jermroth
Gender:Male
Age:59
Specialties: Fusion Engines, Laser Weaponry, Mining Tools

[tryrar]

....hhmmm, I should say you should be more specific with your specialties(sorry, bad example from me). Like for instance: Composite armor, fusion engines, railguns

Edit: Also, I'd say cloaking and energy shielding should be mutually exclusive

[Brood]

Name : Jared Mastif
Gender : Male
Age : 27
Specialities : Custom advanced Ion engines, Mastif kenetic weaponry, Advanced AI systems.

(( Before the game begins, the kinetic weaponry system is a system that accelerates projectiles to as close to the speed of light as is possible resulting in projectiles delivering massive force onto tiny areas for maximum penetration. ))

[Unholy_Pariah]

so id just take cloaking devices and energy shields then...
damn, i knew shields and cloaks would be mutually exclusive but i was hoping to be able to grab something like "energy sciences" and get a hybrid diploma of shielding and power generation

[kj1225]

Name:  Kyle Johnson
Gender:  Male
Age:  17
Specialeties:
Full electric engines
Solar plating
Sensors

[Brood]

Are we companies or employees for one company?

[RangerCado]

Name: Marks
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Specialities: Advanced Storage, Small Drones, Rapid Repair Technology

Repair Drones galore!

[mesor]

Name : Maxwell Mord
Gender : Male
Age : 19
Specialties : Energy armor, Advanced missiles, Nano mechanics ( Nanites for everything from instant repairs to devouring enemy ships. )

[tryrar]

Ok guys you're all gonna need to vote one one person here, otherwise I'll just take the one I find the most amusing

[mesor]

Oh if this is another suggestion game nvm, it's just gonna result in arguements again I thought it was going to be a group of players each with a character.

[Unholy_Pariah]

please tell me we didn't all just sign up for a suggestion game thinking it was another game like "you all design spaceships"

[mesor]

Looks like we did.
Tryrar your generally meant to put suggestion game in the title or the initial post of a suggestion game.

[tryrar]

sorry