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[Doubloon-Seven]

Edited my revision.
Also, armor seems useful, so I'll try to take that into consideration next turn.

[frostgiant]

Honestly, I would almost say we should cancel the ARR and try again. we haven't invested any resources into it, and its rolled very poorly on both progress and efficiency. we would have to invest both dice into revision it and dice into speeding it up or else it won't be finished for 8 jumps, way past when we probably should upgrade again.
If we cancel a project do we gain access to the dice in the next design phase? say we cancel a 3 dice project and get 2 dice back does that mean we would have 12 dice total next design phase?

EDIT, if we get 2 or 3 dice back from canceling it, it means we would be able to do 3 projects and the resource system.
Canceling it now means the only thing we would lose is between 0-2 dice and the one progress that the project would make.

[Iris]

We can't bank dice from our three super-turns.

[frostgiant]

Pm'ed chief, he's thinking about it because of balance considerations, no verdict yet.

[Iris]

In the meantime:

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (2): Doubloon-Seven, Iridium

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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (3) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (0)
The Space Communists: (1) helmacon
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Wait: (5) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik, FallacyofUrist

[Doubloon-Seven]

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (2): Doubloon-Seven, Iridium

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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (3) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (1) DoubloonSeven
The Space Communists: (1) helmacon
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Wait: (4) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, Thanik, FallacyofUrist

I'll be honest, we should probably use a few dice on jump two or such to advance projects.

[frostgiant]

Saker "Revolver" capacitor  system :
The Saker is a precision weapon as of now, with its low rate of fire and pinpoint damage lending itself to dealing with more important systems that may or may not be armor in the future. The may issue with its rate of fire can be laid solely on one component, the capacitors. As of right now, our capacitors are holding the Saker back from its full potential.
The Revolver capacitor system is meant to help mitigate this rate of fire issue in a very simple matter, adding more capacitor banks to the Saker for a total of four separate banks. While one capacitor bank is used to fire the Saker, the other three are either waiting at full charge or in the process of charging. If all goes well this should increase the rate of fire of the Saker as well as giving a four "round" alpha strike attack that can be used, emptying all the capacitors firing as quickly as possible instead of spacing firing cycles to ensure one Capacitor bank is always ready to fire.

I'm putting this up in case we can cancel the ARR, in which case I vote we do that and increase the Saker ROF. If not, revision into the resource systems.
Also, I have no idea if there is a better way to do this than adding more capacitors, i'm not very well verse in techy stuff. I'm very open to anyone who can make a better capacitor revision for the Saker.

[helmacon]

Revision: Automated Drone Hierarchies

The potential for massive and efficient resource mining is present in our drone swarms, but their lack of organization makes this difficult. The obvious solution would be to make the drones smarter, but the obvious solution is rarely the best one. Instead, we will make a majority of the drones far less intelligent, with only a few that are made much more intelligent. These smarter drones work as control centers, directing the actions of the "Dumb" drones. Each one acts as a foreman in charge of a group of about a dozen smaller drones. The "dumb" drones transmit positioning and receive orders. Other than that, the only things they can do is move and mine. The larger drones identify suitable objects for mining and direct the smaller drones to these areas. They monitor weight loads, coordinate movement paths, and generally do all the intellectual heavy lifting. This simple network for mining drone coordination will hopefully lay the groundwork for much bigger things such as coordinating smart munitions and firing paths as well as advanced mechanized infantry.

This should not increase the cost, since we are essentially just centralizing the processing power of the drones already built.

[helmacon]

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (2): Doubloon-Seven, Iridium

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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (4) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist, helmacon
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (1) DoubloonSeven
The Space Communists: (0)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Space Republics (USSSR):Helmacon
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Wait: (4) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, Thanik, FallacyofUrist

[Jilladilla]

A tentative vote that may be changed when I wake up tomorrow, but it made me laugh.

Also note, that naming must be finalized now, baring 'special circumstances'. Best to assume it's now or never.

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (2): Doubloon-Seven, Iridium

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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (4) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist, helmacon
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (1) DoubloonSeven
The Space Communists: (0)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Space Republics (USSSR): (2) Helmacon, Jilladilla
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Wait: (4) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, Thanik, FallacyofUrist

[Doubloon-Seven]

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (2): Doubloon-Seven, Iridium
Automated Drone Hierarchies (1): helmacon
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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (4) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist, helmacon
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (0)
The Space Communists: (0)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Space Republics (USSSR): (3) Helmacon, Jilladilla, DoubloonSeven
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Wait: (4) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, Thanik, FallacyofUrist

[Blood_Librarian]

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (2): Doubloon-Seven, Iridium
Automated Drone Hierarchies (2): helmacon, Blood_librarian
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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (4) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist, helmacon
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (0)
The Space Communists: (0)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Space Republics (USSSR): (3) Helmacon, Jilladilla, DoubloonSeven
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Wait: (4) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, Thanik, FallacyofUrist

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[Doubloon-Seven]

I reread the results more carefully, and it seems the issue is less with resource identification and more with proper organization. Identification is still a problem, but that can be worked on later, I guess.

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (1): Iridium
Automated Drone Hierarchies (3): helmacon, Blood_librarian, DoubloonSeven
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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (4) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist, helmacon
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (0)
The Space Communists: (0)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Space Republics (USSSR): (3) Helmacon, Jilladilla, DoubloonSeven
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Wait: (4) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, Thanik, FallacyofUrist

[Cnidaros]

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (1): Iridium
Automated Drone Hierarchies (4): helmacon, Blood_librarian, DoubloonSeven, Cnidaros
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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (4) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist, helmacon
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
BARK: (1) Cnidaros
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (0)
The Space Communists: (0)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Space Republics (USSSR): (4) Helmacon, Jilladilla, DoubloonSeven, Cnidaros
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Wait: (4) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, Thanik, FallacyofUrist

I think Ark 2 is a bad name, but B-ARK (BARK for short) seems like a much better variant of that.

[Thanik]

Revisions for Jump 0:

Chemovisual Resource Identification System (1): Iridium
Automated Drone Hierarchies (4): helmacon, Blood_librarian, DoubloonSeven, Cnidaros
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Ship Names

Havoc: (0)
Anvil: (4) Jilladilla, Frostgiant, FallacyofUrist, helmacon
Osprey: (3) Iridium, DoubloonSeven, Thanik
Catalyst: (0)
BARK: (1) Cnidaros
Wait: (1) Blood_Librarian
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Group Names

Eternal Freemen: (0)
The Space Communists: (0)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Space Republics (USSSR): (4) Helmacon, Jilladilla, DoubloonSeven, Cnidaros
Vulcan Technocrats (1) Frostgiant
Tokari (1): Thanik
Wait: (3) Blood_Librarian, Iridium, FallacyofUrist

We need info on the dice-related question before going for hierarchies.

Why Tokari? On phone, explained to Doubloon.