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[Tomcost]

How would we get the power to them?

This. There are two options: rechargable batteries, or wires. I don't think that we have the resources for both.

I'm on favor of buying the map, and buying greyum, silicon and cristals.

[GreatWyrmGold]

How would we get the power to them?

This. There are two options: rechargable batteries, or wires. I don't think that we have the resources for both.

I'm not sure we have the resources for either...

I'm on favor of buying the map, and buying greyum, silicon and cristals.

No objections here.

[Tomcost]

How would we get the power to them?

This. There are two options: rechargable batteries, or wires. I don't think that we have the resources for both.

I'm not sure we have the resources for either...

I meant to say that. Damn me and my language abilities

[10ebbor10]

We can do it otherwise. We sell them materials, and they can come pick it up, and get free energy for the trip home. (Provided they use energy )

[Tomcost]

We can do it otherwise. We sell them materials, and they can come pick it up, and get free energy for the trip home. (Provided they use energy )

I like the idea. Maybe we can even pay this guy with energy.

[GreatWyrmGold]

We can do it otherwise. We sell them materials, and they can come pick it up, and get free energy for the trip home. (Provided they use energy )

I like the idea. Maybe we can even pay this guy with energy.

Talk the idea over with him. If we can, great!

[Aseaheru]

Well, it depends on what his truck runs on. If we can power it for him on his trip hope I suggest we do it for free, afterall, it pays to be nice and we are likely to do lots of more business with this guy.

[InZane]

PTW

[10ebbor10]

Anyway, considering the long turnaround time, I vote for my previous order. It contains everything we need for a long time.

[Evil Lincoln]

"I'd like to buy 25 Greyum, 10 Hexium, 15 Relux ore, 5 crystals and 20 silicon off you, as well as the map."


"ALRIGHT. I'LL LOAD UP THE TRUCK AND SEND IT OVER. YOU CAN PAY THEN, OR I'LL SHOOT YOU."


"Don't worry I have the money. I look forward to doing more business with you Mr Rod."


"YOU TOO PAL."

You cease transmitting and wait for the map info to arrive.

Spoiler: Author Notes: (click to show/hide)

Just so you know the reason the power thing made it into the last post was because someone suggested it before.  I didn't quite think things through when I set the numbers up for solar panels so I doubt anyone has any trouble powering their base. You might be able to set yourself up as a sort of truck-stop though.

I used Ebbor's order since it was the only one suggested. I decreased the amount of Relux though since I don't think you'll be needing that much for a while.
On metals: I'm trying to avoid a situation where there are different 'tiers' of metals since it'll clutter up the inventory/population thing if I have to specify what metals your robots/guns/tools are made out of. So greymetal is more or less the all round metal and Relux is for heavy armour plating on large vehicles or buildings.

I would have done a full update on top of this but I have a pretty bad headache. This whole conversation thing worked out for me since I had some serious stuff that needed doing but I could still do a quick update.

We should return to regular updates from now on though (the map will show up sooner or later, as long as I remember).

[Aseaheru]

Right. Well, lets go and get some time passing then.

[3man75]

what are the chances of building solar power plants and capacitors? we could use the extra power to sell to our neighbors.

[Tomcost]

what are the chances of building solar power plants and capacitors? we could use the extra power to sell to our neighbors.

I didn't quite think things through when I set the numbers up for solar panels so I doubt anyone has any trouble powering their base. You might be able to set yourself up as a sort of truck-stop though.

Action: begin to reverse-engineer laser rifles.

And basically that, because our robots can't do anything besides collecting stuff.

[Evil Lincoln]

Turn 4
The Colony: (you might want to just follow this link instead since it's a big image: http://i.imgur.com/9ayua0V.png )

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Power: 50/50(+20/-2)
You have two of the bots pull back to a safe distance so they can safely provide cover fire in case the animals attack. You have the other two forge on ahead with the purpose of getting to that distress signal. The animals make a kind of gargling sound as the robots pass and the standing one appears to get into a kind of sprinting position but the bots appear to have passed by them without major incident.

You'd like to reverse engineer a laser rifle but all the rifles are with the fire-teams. You compromise and start reverse engineering the laser pistol to refresh your memory. It's a pretty simple design, about what you expected for something so cheap. You should have it figured out and blueprints written up in about a turn.

The clones finish their research. You now have the designs for a small pump (blueprint added).

Apparently the bulb brought to the clones will eventually mature and produce an edible fruit! The more you know. Apart from that the bulb has a few other traits: It reproduces asexually either from seeds produced by it's fruit or through the expansion of it's root systems (which will eventually develop into more bulbs) and the roots are poisonous. It is likely the poisonous roots are to stop animals eating the entire bulb and not just the fruit.

The Mining Rig hits a patch of rocks and the Oil Rig hits the water-table at about 15 meters down. You could have it pump up water, dig down deeper or turn it off for a while.

(EDIT) You see that the map information came through from ROD. You doubt this is all of his information but at least it was nice of him to mark down his location, what appears to be a native village and some 'nasties' whatever those are.

Research:

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Laser Pistol (1 turn left)

Resources/Food:

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15x Clone chow (delicious chicken flavor)
1x Bulb
1x Small Tree
6x Rock

Tools:

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1x Vegetation Gatherer
1x Handheld Mining equipment
1x Concrete applicator

Weapons:

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3x Laser Rifles
1x Laser Pistol
1x Emag Rifle
1x Emag Pistol
1x Machete

30x Emag Rounds

Robots/Clones:

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5x Standard Robots
1x Oil Rig
1x Mining Rig

2x Science clones (hired)

Your Modules/Equipment:

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Smelter
Oil Refiner
Loomery
Fabrication Workshop
Large Manufactury
Grinder

Medium Capacitor
2x Solar Panels
Fuel Burning Generator

Small Prefab
Research Computer bank
Communications Array

Hero(s):

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Hank Rearden(1): 1/100xp

• Is capable of weapons research.

Glossary Posts

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[10ebbor10]

((Can we get a spoiler with what facilities we have installed. I keep forgetting it.))

The mining vehicle can continue digging it's perimeter, likewise for the drilling rig.
The 2 free robots*
One of the researchers looks at how long it would take to develop AI algorithms, the other analyses that tree, or whatever else the vegetation gatherer comes up with

* Currently holding the guns, take the rocks and throw them into the cement generating machine. One of them also gathers the unmined rocks with the mining tools.