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[GreatWyrmGold]

Can we make glass? Or electronics? Or, for that matter, do we have the infrastructure to assemble the robots once we get all the components?

A concrete wall is going to be faster, and you can't disable it with an EMP or clever exploitation of the AI. It's a wall--if you can't get through it, you're stuck. It's enough until we can get infrastructure up.

[10ebbor10]

Once we have  the blueprints, the 3d printer should be able to do it yes. On a side note, we do have the robot blueprints. They cost 6 metal, and 2 electronics.

And his plan isn't to use a robot defensive force. He's saying that it might be more efficient to use our robots now to develop additional infrastructure to build more robots, so that we might build the wall faster later. Which would actually be quite soon. Though we need to reverse engineer some tools before we could truly increase production

So, combined action plan

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Researcher 1: Develop AI
Researcher 2: Create electronics blueprint
Us: Laser Rifle
Robot 1: Continue refining ores
Robot 2: Create 2 wires and a pipe. (Actually, making 3/4 wires would be better, as that means we can charge the bots too)
Robot 3: Aid with the above, otherwise, continue making concrete.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Oh. I misunderstood his plan.

It would depend on the relative speed of wall-building and robot-making.

[10ebbor10]

Best guess is about 3 turns.

Turn 1: Research electronics
Turn 2: Build electronics
Turn 3: Build robot

Meanwhile, we've been digging this ditch since the start of the game, and we're only 1/4 done.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Why do you think that each would take only 1 turn? And aren't the ores unsmelted at the moment?

...And how many robots do we have that could do each task?
And for that matter, why couldn't the clones oversee the design and creation of new robots, while the old ones continue work on fortifications?

[Aseaheru]

I think the ores are smelting. As for the ditch, later we should use the ditch as the foundations for a compound wall. Until then it will just be an earthen berm.

[10ebbor10]

Why do you think that each would take only 1 turn? And aren't the ores unsmelted at the moment?

...And how many robots do we have that could do each task?
And for that matter, why couldn't the clones oversee the design and creation of new robots, while the old ones continue work on fortifications?

Because that's generally how much turns each comparable action took?

The ores are smelting, see the little cubes, those are already processed ores.

We need one for smelting, 1 to operate the mass fabricator, and we have plenty of other tasks that need doing. Like wiring up our digging and drilling robots, and creating the pipeline infrastructure.

[Evil Lincoln]

Turn 10
The Colony: (you might want to just follow this link instead since it's a big image: http://i.imgur.com/X7jlz1K.png)

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You finish reverse engineering the laser rifle- (blueprint added)
-just in time to see one of your robots suffer a structural failure. Apparently these cheap frames can't handle much, you suppose this is what you get when you buy old office equipment. The damage doesn't look to serious so you can probably just re-attach the arm at the workshop.

You have Bailey start doing up blueprints for electronics.

One of the bots operates the manufacture module and hooks the Oil rig up. It should pump oil straight into the refiners tanks form now on.

It occurs to you that reloading the E-mag weapons will be a pain without spare magazines, it also occurs to you that these robots don't have anywhere to put spare magazines.

1467 Credits | Power: 50/50(+20/-3.2)
Off-site parties:

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2x bots heading to the distress beacon (1 turns)

Research:

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AI (7 turns)
Electronics Blueprint (1 turn)

Resources/Food:

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15x Clone chow (delicious chicken flavor)
1x Bulb
1x Small Tree (brown)
1x Small Tree (maroon)
12x Rock


19x Greyum (-2)
10x Hexium
13x Relux ore (-2)

5x Grey Metal (+2/-1)
2x Relux (+2)
3x Plastic
12x Concrete
5x crystals
20x silicon

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(es):

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Hank Rearden(1): 31/100xp

• Is capable of weapons research.

Glossary Posts

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What do you mean retcon??

I rethought all the stuff on robots and their software upgrades. Now each type of bot has a number of slots for software. Your current ones have two but have weak frames, being initially designed for an office environment (Just so you know I would have broken that arm without this retcon anyway).

This is mainly to give you a reason to not install every kind of software onto every bot, as well as give you another thing to think about when it comes to designing new ones.

The internal debate about whether or not I should bother with magazines is also over. I decided yes.

[Gamerlord]

Is there a place where all the properties of the different metals and stuff are?

[Evil Lincoln]

Is there a place where all the properties of the different metals and stuff are?

I was just about to put something in the glossary posts

EDIT: There you go. Those are probably all the raw metals. Alloys may show up later.

I also added a bunch of stuff on the technology of the setting. It should give you an idea of what you might run into/what you can eventually research.

[Gamerlord]

Can't find the glossary posts. 

[Tomcost]

Repair cheap robot

Do not care about magazines. Laser rifles use spare energy and don't require them.

[Evil Lincoln]

Can't find the glossary posts. 

There is a link right above the author notes in every update

Repair cheap robot

Do not care about magazines. Laser rifles use spare energy and don't require them.

Laser rifles need some source of energy to recharge. If you have small energy cells you basically end up with a magazine system.

[Gamerlord]

GODDAMNIT. 

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Get bulbs