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[Tarran]

Well, this game took me ~100 systems, my first took a few, so its basically random, if you really want to find one set generation to 100%, just remember that its likely precursors/ruins are going to generate instead.

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[Journier]

hmm?

I run into NPR's after a few systems generally....

In my longest running game (100years) I probably ran into like 8 by the time i was that expanded out.

[Eduren]

I'm guessing that having Difficulty 85 might have something to do with this?

[Tarran]

No, that's how much population+stuff they have on generation, so 85% means they will have 85% of the norm population+stuff (it can go from >0% to *insert random gigantic number here*), its 'NPR Generation chance' that affects it.

[Eduren]

Didn't fiddle with that.

Well, looks like I have more scouting to do.

[Tarran]

You can edit in-game, on the main window's 'game' tab, inside the 'game info' selection.

[Greiger]

I've gone farther than that and never encountered a real NPR a few times.  I also found the other starting NPR 2 jumps away from my home system before too, so it can vary alot.

Hell, you could have generated an NPR in a system but never saw them too.  If your survey ships have only basic sensors (or none at all) you could come within a few hundred thousand kilometers of another ship and never see it.

P.S And if an NPR managed to get generated on a planet orbiting one of those extreme outer suns I can imagine them never being seen for a very long time.  I wouldn't be surprised if an NPR would be unable to cope with a homeworld in that position, as well as never being seen unless you actively go search it.

[Eduren]

Well a lot of those systems have been revealed using the "Enter/Explore" button in the F9 Menu(Is that a cheat of some sort?) and so I haven't actually put ships in a lot of them.

[ThtblovesDF]

Well since the response before was good, I made some fighter designs, just to compare...

Stand alone version, /w sensor
Speed: 125 000 km/s
Damage max: 18 Missiles x 24 Damage warhead = 432 Damage from 4m km away.
Tonage: 180 tons

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Morning Star class Fighter    180 tons     19 Crew     148.5 BP      TCS 3.6  TH 450  EM 0
125000 km/s     Armour 1-2     Shields 0-0     Sensors 7/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 1
Annual Failure Rate: 36%    IFR: 0.5%    Maint Capacity 0 MSP    Max Repair 75 MSP    Est Time: 0 Years
Magazine 18   

FTR Photonic Drive E200 (1)    Power 450    Fuel Use 2000%    Signature 450    Armour 0    Exp 175%
Fuel Capacity 10,000 Litres    Range 5.0 billion km   (11 hours at full power)

Size 1 Missile Launcher (1)    Missile Size 1    Rate of Fire 5
Missile Fire Control FC4-R1 (1)     Range 4.1m km    Resolution 1
Size 1 MP AM AS Deep Spike (18)  Speed: 99,000 km/s   End: 0.6m    Range: 3.6m km   WH: 24    Size: 1    TH: 330 / 198 / 99

Thermal Sensor TH0.1-7 (10%) (1)     Sensitivity 7     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  7m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a fighter for production and combat purposes

I'd ditch the magazine, launchers and missiles and put a meson cannon on it. I'm not sure about its potential effect on weight and therefore speed, but with that kind of agility, equipping the spacecraft with very finite ordnance seems like a waste.

Done. I personally think thats not as effectiv, anyway here is the figher with a menson


Needs Sensor support
Speed: 76923 km/s
Damage max: Unlimited, given enough time... lower dmg output in the start though and only 175,000km range.
Needed to add engy. station, otherwise the fail rate would be to high.
Tonage: 292.5 tons

The menson cannon makes up over 50% of the ship and yeah... honestly I can't see this being much better.

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Montgisard class Drakar    292.5 tons     47 Crew     1780 BP      TCS 5.85  TH 4.5  EM 0
76923 km/s     Armour 1-3     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 3
Annual Failure Rate: 2%    IFR: 0%    Maint Capacity 951 MSP    Max Repair 1230 MSP    Est Time: 7.03 Years

FTR Photonic Drive E200 (1)    Power 450    Fuel Use 2000%    Signature 4.5    Armour 0    Exp 175%    Hyper Capable
Fuel Capacity 10,000 Litres    Range 3.1 billion km   (11 hours at full power)

R18/C25 Meson Cannon (1)    Range 175,000km     TS: 76923 km/s     Power 3-25     RM 18    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Fire Control S00.6 87.5-31250 H10 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 175,000 km   TS: 125000 km/s     94 89 83 77 71 66 60 54 49 43
Vacuum Energy Power Plant Technology PB-1.25 AR-0 (1)     Total Power Output 25    Armour 0    Exp 20%

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a fighter for production and combat purposes

And my personal fav:

Fighter bomber

50x30Dmg=1 500 Damage in a single blow... sure its kinda slow and helpless, but Daaaaaaam. I figure I could build a light variation with 750 dmg and twice the speed, but damm thats a fine piece!

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Montgisard class Fighter-bomber    457.5 tons     12 Crew     575 BP      TCS 9.15  TH 4.5  EM 0
49180 km/s     Armour 1-5     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 7.5
Annual Failure Rate: 6%    IFR: 0.1%    Maint Capacity 196 MSP    Max Repair 450 MSP    Est Time: 3.13 Years
Magazine 50   

FTR Photonic Drive E200 (1)    Power 450    Fuel Use 2000%    Signature 4.5    Armour 0    Exp 175%    Hyper Capable
Fuel Capacity 10,000 Litres    Range 2.0 billion km   (11 hours at full power)

Size 1 Box Launcher (50)    Missile Size 1    Hangar Reload 7.5 minutes    MF Reload 1.2 hours
Size 1 BOMB-OMB (50)  Speed: 0 km/s   End: 0m    Range: 0m km   WH: 30    Size: 1    TH: 0 / 0 / 0

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a fighter for production and combat purposes

[Tarran]

Favorite colony, now, that was the second time I asked everyone, this is the third, I WANT TO KNOW THE SILLY COLONY SITES.

Just ignore one half of curious self, whats everyone's favorite ship class? mine is the 'Alaska' because it just works so well in groups.

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Alaska IV class Destroyer    6400 tons     707 Crew     2090.4 BP      TCS 128  TH 294  EM 720
6562 km/s     Armour 4-30     Shields 24-480     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 12     PPV 24
Annual Failure Rate: 163%    IFR: 2.3%    Maint Capacity 408 MSP    Max Repair 189 MSP    Est Time: 1.16 Years

Internal Confinement Fusion Drive E7 (v-fast) (7)    Power 120    Fuel Use 70%    Signature 42    Armour 0    Exp 16%
Fuel Capacity 900,000 Litres    Range 361.6 billion km   (637 days at full power)
Theta R480/28 Shields (6)   Total Fuel Cost  168 Litres per day

20cm C4 Ultraviolet Laser (4)    Range 320,000km     TS: 6562 km/s     Power 10-4     RM 4    ROF 15        10 10 10 10 8 6 5 5 4 4
Fire Control S06 160-6000 H70 (1)    Max Range: 320,000 km   TS: 6000 km/s     97 94 91 88 84 81 78 75 72 69
Tokamak Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 AR-0 (5)     Total Power Output 40    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR44-R59 (1)     GPS 7434     Range 44.6m km    Resolution 59
Active Search Sensor MR22-R20 (1)     GPS 3780     Range 22.7m km    Resolution 20

Compact ECCM-1 (1)         ECM 20

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes


bit old, but it still is constantly updated to be awesome.

[Greiger]

Well a lot of those systems have been revealed using the "Enter/Explore" button in the F9 Menu(Is that a cheat of some sort?) and so I haven't actually put ships in a lot of them.

Not entirely sure if it's a cheat(I'm guessing it is) but if you only used that it is entirely possible for an NPR to be in one of those systems.  I think Enter/Explore only generates the system early (as opposed to waiting til a ship enters it to generate it)  It dosn't actually explore or survey the system.  So there could very well be an NPR inhabiting one of those systems.

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I never really had a favorite colony I suppose.  Closest I guess would be Vanheim, which is the name I give my homeworld in my custom games.  I never even name my colonies, they just keep the System name- planet number they have by default.

[Tarran]

No love for the poor colones.

just name them... uhhh... 'Taco' I guess.

[Eduren]

Next one is Burrito. I'm sticking with the theme.

[Tarran]

Next you will start calling them 'Chorizo'.

[Micro102]

I give recognizable names to my ships, freighter is Mule, colony ship is Tavern, grav survey is Sight, geo survey is Flower, And I usually name ships based on medieval weapons depending on their weapons, for instance laser is spear, missiles are archers, etc.