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[escaped lurker]

Pretty much what ebbor said - one point of interest thou;

Do the robots need just to remain static for recharge, or is shut-down required? Might need to let them recharge in shifts, lest we want to enter rambo-mode with hank... (which actually sounds not all-that-bad on paper, but quickly might turn bad in action)

[Evil Lincoln]

Do the robots need just to remain static for recharge, or is shut-down required?

Let's say, If they are static it's just a 5 turn recharge time. If you use a cord they need to shutdown for 2 turns, for software maintenance. And it will take them another 5 turns to fully charge since they will be on in that time. Netting 7 turns of charging at -0.1 power a turn.

How about Nightvision moduls for our Drones? What would it need to researche/build them?

Let's say 2 man-turns. You can make a module with 1 electronics either when you are manufacturing the robot or to retrofit to an existing robot. If you do it when you make the robot I'll count the bot + the module as just one item made instead of two.

[Der Metzger]

Researchers:
     - Research lanterns
     - Examine the corpse
Oil rig: Resume production
Mining rig: Resume digging
Robot 1: Create 6 extension cords. That should allow us to use all our robots  and the mining rig without need for downtime for recharging.
Robot 2: Drag the corpse inside and butcher it.
Robot 3: Create 6 lanterns
Us : Reverse engineer another weapon, I suppose

+ make Electronics
+ retrofit 2 Drones with Nightvison

[10ebbor10]

We don't have the time to do that. Really, we don't have the time to research it, yet alone install it.

[The Froggy Ninja]

Research a laser machine gun

[Tomcost]

Research a laser machine gun

We should start by reverse-engineering some stuff first.

Like, the Emag Rifles.

[10ebbor10]

Besides, a laser machine gun is pretty useless. I mean, the point of a laser is to fire a single continues beam. Hard to improve the fire rate on that.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Have one or two bots fill in the mining rig's ditch thing behind it. That thing just looks ugly.

No, why would you do that. It's completely counterproductive, and a waste of robotpower.

Researchers: Resume research
Oil rig: Resume production
Mining rig: Resume digging
Robot 1: Create 6 extension cords. That should allow us to use all our robots  and the mining rig without need for downtime for recharging.
Robot 2: Drag the corpse inside or burn it. This is going to attract predators
Robot 3: Fabricate some containers to put the concrete in. We don't want it to be ruined by the morning dew.

+1 to all.
Especially the part where we ask Gamerlord to explain his curious action.

Research a laser machine gun

We should start by reverse-engineering some stuff first.

Like, the Emag Rifles.

That is the more sensible option.
_{Laser machine gun. Seriously?}

[Aseaheru]

Agreeing with Wyrm.
Lasers with recoil or shooting like a MG make no sense in realworld applications as far as I can tell...

Once we get the Emag rifles and everything else researched lets research night vision, so that way we can have NV scopes and chips to let drones see at night.

Heck, its probably just a case of software telling whatever it is how to understand the images.

[Evil Lincoln]

Turn 13
The Colony: (you might want to just follow this link instead since it's a big image: http://i.imgur.com/Qv5SSZg.png)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You start up the wheels of industry again. You have one bot begin manufacturing patrol cords and containers, one bot refining the  materials needed to manufacture the items. The last bot you tell to shave the fur from the dead bullwart and loominate it. The bot only manages to drag the corpse over to the loomery though.

You start reverse engineering the e-mag rifle. It should only take another turn.

You consider designing a laser weapon with a higher rate of fire then the rifles you have access to. The current rifles are only air-cooled so a considerable amount of time has to be left between shots in order to allow the heat to dissipate.  By designing a better system of cooling you could create an almost 'machine gun' type effect.

The clones finish devising an electric lantern design.

The sky fills with orange light as the sun sets.
You receive a transmission from what you believe is a materials wholesaler operating out of an orbiting station.

Name:	Cost:	Description:
Helitite	5	Helitite isn't really good for anything but it's yellow and shiny.
Grey-Metal	4	Grey-Metal is used for almost everything
Relux	6	Typically Relux is saved for the armour plating of large machinery due to it's massive weight.
Latvium	6	Latvium is as strong as grey-metal but has half the weight making it ideal for aircraft and atmosphere capable spacecraft design.
Linconium	35	Linconium is used in the creation of advanced sensors and electronics.
Resonance Crystals	25	A catch-all term for crystalline rocks that can be used for high-tech machinery, most notably laser weapons, energy shields and anti-grav.
Silicon	12	Silicon is a key component in electronics.
Glass	5	Glass is glass.
Wood	2	Wood is wood.
Plastic	3	Plastic is plastic.
Electronics	22	Electronics are used in computery things.
Advanced Electronics	55	Electronics are used in very computery things.

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

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2x bots returning in an ex-unicorp dropship (1 turns left)
  -Returning with: Damaged Antigrav System
                        5x Flight Computer Components
                        2x Armour Plating,
                        5x Combat Rations

Research:

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AI (6 turns)
E-mag rifle (1 turn) 1x assigned
Night vision Module (1 turns) 1x assigned
Electric Lantern (done) 1x assigned

Resources/Food:

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

30x Bullwart Corpse (that's 30 units of corpse, not like, 30 corpses.)

17x Greyum
10x Hexium
12x Relux ore

5x Grey Metal (-2)
4x Relux
7x Plastic (-2/+3)
12x Concrete
5x crystals
20x silicon

Tools:

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

3x Patrol cords

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): 81/100xp

• Is capable of weapons research.

Glossary Posts

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

[10ebbor10]

Researchers:
     - Research night vision (Not that it is going to be extremely useful)
     - Examine the corpse / Research AI
Oil rig: Continue production
Mining rig: Continue digging
Robot 1: Create 3 more extension cords.
Robot 2: Process the corpse
Robot 3: Create 3 lanterns
Us : Reverse engineer another weapon, I suppose

How often do we need to sleep anyway.

[Der Metzger]

Researchers:
     - Research night vision (Not that it is going to be extremely useful extremely useful for Drones on the outskirts of the Colony)
     - Examine the corpse / Research AI
Oil rig: Continue production
Mining rig: Continue digging
Robot 1: Create 3 more extension cords.
Robot 2: Process the corpse
Robot 3: Create 3 lanterns
Us : Reverse engineer another weapon, I suppose

How often do we need to sleep anyway.

+1 and fixed it

[10ebbor10]

Not really. 7 out of 12 night turns our robots will not be leaving the camp. The other 5 turns they probably won't be leaving either.

Edit: OOh, update edit.

Edit 2: Question, what is the difference between a resonance crystal and a crystal.
Edit: 2.1 : Ow, there is none. In that case...

Edit 3: Let's hail the material dealer. We have some opportunities here.

Spoiler:  Rod's prices. For comparison (click to show/hide)

Name:	Cost:	Description:
Hexium	3	Hexium can be smelted into either Grey-metal or Helitite. Grey-metal is an alright general purpose material but isn't the best around. Helitite isn't really good for anything but it's yellow and shiny.
Greium	2	Greium is the natural ore of Grey-Metal.
Relux Ore	4	An ore of a very tough metal. Typically Relux is saved for the armour plating of large machinery due to it's massive weight.
Resonance Crystals	20	A catch-all term for crystalline rocks that can be used for high-tech machinery, most notably laser weapons, energy shields and anti-grav.
Silicon	8	Silicon is a key component in electronics.

Researchers:
     - Research night vision (Not that it is going to be extremely useful)
     - Examine the corpse / Research AI
Oil rig: Continue production
Mining rig: Continue digging
Robot 1: Create 3 more extension cords.
Robot 2: Process the corpse
Robot 3: Process resources
Us : Hail the orbital mineral depot. Buy 20 units of glass from the depot. Everything else is mostly useless.

Really, creating lanterns using resonance crystals is a huge waste. We should order some glass. Ordering resources from the depot is mostly a waste of credits. For example, we can create the electronics for a bit less than 4 credits ourselves*, even if we were buying the resources from the depot.

*Though we can't let the drones do it for us, sadly. Either us or the science clones.

[Evil Lincoln]

For example, we can create the electronics for a bit less than 4 credits ourselves*, even if we were buying the resources from the depot.

*Though we can't let the drones do it for us, sadly. Either us or the science clones.

The robots can make electronics at the manufactury now that you have the blueprint. The problem before was that you didn't have a blueprint for electronics so they had to be made by hand at the workshop, something the robots don't know how to do.

[10ebbor10]

Even better. Well, anyway. Scratch any complaints about the night vision then. At 4 credits a piece they'll be very useful.

Anyway, we should contemplate the construction of additional robots. We have the materials, we have the blueprints, and we have the fabricator.