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[Bremen]

They work after a fashion, but require a huge investment in RP and do very little damage.

Could still be worth it if you're fighting an enemy with very good beam PD, though.

[kyle902]

Destroyed the river class but the imperium is proving a tough nut to crack. 10 salvos of 30x strength 1 PD missiles should destroy it

You forgot one:

Thou shall not use extremely slow missiles.

Kind of hard to make really fast size 3 missiles with only Ion Missile engine tech.

[Tarran]

Kind of hard to make really fast size 3 missiles with only Ion Missile engine tech.

I wasn't complaining about yours, I just saw FD posting some rules and I decided, what the hell, I'll add one.

And besides, your missiles aren't that slow. They certainly could go slower.

[Flying Dice]

You forgot one:

Thou shall not use extremely slow missiles.

Kind of hard to make really fast size 3 missiles with only Ion Missile engine tech.

Code: [Select]

Missile Size: 4 MSP  (0.2 HS)     Warhead: 4    Armour: 0     Manoeuvre Rating: 15
Speed: 19800 km/s    Endurance: 67 minutes   Range: 80.1m km
Thermal Sensor Strength: 0.0005    Detect Sig Strength 1000:  500 km
Cost Per Missile: 2.4435
Chance to Hit: 1k km/s 297%   3k km/s 90%   5k km/s 59.4%   10k km/s 29.7%
Materials Required:    1x Tritanium   0.0005x Uridium   1.6178x Gallicite   Fuel x3555.5

Development Cost for Project: 244RP

WH multiplier: x5
Engine multiplier: x3 (Ion Missile Drive)
Agility multiplier: x48
Fuel Efficiency multiplier: x.08

That's about your ideal low-tech ASM.


Ed: Ah, yes, my current game. I'd almost forgotten about it in my efforts to work on an LP that nobody cares about. :3



Those are the nasty Precursors with abnormally advanced tech that managed to soak up 32 WH-9 missiles without serious damage. FriRon 1 is attempting to delay them long enough for my fighters to rearm; I don't honestly expect my WH-4 ASMs to succeed where my fighter missiles failed, but I think I can take down one of them if I flush all my XO racks as well and concentrate fire.

Ed: Yep, with 80 missiles, I managed to take down a damaged ship. These things are going to make for absolutely beautiful salvage, and I relish the thought of the systems I was avoiding because the Precursor numbers were in the double digits. 

[kyle902]

About 400 of the 1200 or so I launched at the Imperium hit it. The rest self destructed after the ship blew up. Seems like a waste but those missiles are cheap as hell.

[LostCosmonaut]

I'd almost forgotten about it in my efforts to work on an LP that nobody cares about. :3

I'm reading it. I just tend not to reply much.

[Flying Dice]

I'd almost forgotten about it in my efforts to work on an LP that nobody cares about. :3

I'm reading it. I just tend not to reply much.

Fair enough. 


Yeeeess... yummy salvage! /)^3^(\

[Deadmeat1471]

Everytime I f2 on aurora now, i get a instalshield trying to install AutoCAD and no economics screen. What the hell. Should I reinstall? anyone else have this ever?

[LoSboccacc]

never heard of that. maybe it is a file mime type conflict?


look into the list of file associations to see if anything is associated to an autocad installer and nuke it.

it's a windows that looks like this on xp, there is one on vista and 7 too:

[BishopX]

Regarding the laws of missile design. I have an issue with the salvo rule. In my experiance the optimum missile configuration is a large number of small salvos fired simultaneously. This is better because it increases the chance of defensive overkill. Point defense and CIWS will target one salvo per increment. That means that 6 salvos of 2 missiles each arriving at the same time will get through the point defense more effectively than 1 salvo of twelve missiles.

[Flying Dice]

I'm not disagreeing with that. What I'm saying is that launching a salvo of 32 missiles is better than launching salvos of 6 missiles every 20 seconds for 2 minutes.

[LuckyNinja]

I haven't played this game in ages, so I need some help with  a few things again:

1. Is there a log of sorts that tells you why the time increment was cut short/general going-ons?

2. How do you get geology teams to do their thing? do you just drop them off on a plant you wish to survey and let them be for a while. Once you've got them surveying, how do you track their progress?

[RedKing]

I haven't played this game in ages, so I need some help with  a few things again:

1. Is there a log of sorts that tells you why the time increment was cut short/general going-ons?

Only if it's stuff your empire would have known about. NPRs fighting NPRs, you'll just get a lot of 5-second increments and then it'll go away.

2. How do you get geology teams to do their thing? do you just drop them off on a plant you wish to survey and let them be for a while.

Yup.

Once you've got them surveying, how do you track their progress?

You don't. It's not progress in the conventional sense, it's more like the MTTH system that Paradox uses for events. The higher the team's skill score, the faster they should finish.

But a bigger determinant is what they're surveying. Planets turn up results quickly, moons take a bit longer, asteroids take forever. I think the formula is based on diameter. Rule of thumb is start your teams out on decent sized moons (even ones with no minerals in the initial surveys) to boost their skills, then move on to the planets (because low skill teams are also more likely to "finish" their research, which caps off your total potential mineral gain).

[LuckyNinja]

Many thanks Redking, but how do I see the log? Does that also tell you when a survey team has finished surveying or do you access that from the officers/teams screen?


Edit #1: In relation to this, how do you keep track of teams, especially if they're not currently on an inhabited planet? Noticed that the body they were on now appeared in the planetary bodies list thingie, so they appear now. They don't appear to be doing terribly much surveying :/

Edit #2: Medals, how do they work? I've created one, but it doesn't show up in the awards list, and upon clicking "make award" I'm prompted to "select a medal to award first". So I need to have a medal be able to make a medal, but the medal I just made isn't a medal? o_O

Edit #3: They are definitely not surveying. This is getting quite annoying :/

[Metalax]

The way to check if a geosurvey team is at the right place, is to go to the teams tab in the colony view and select the colony on the body being surveyed from the list on the left. If the team is there it will show up in the lower box. Surveys can sometimes take a very long time if you are unlucky, I've had one team that was stuck on Luna for ten years before they made their first discovery.

Once a team finishes it's survey it will give a message no further deposits can be found, and this message will be repeated each time you advance time while the team remains on the surveyed body.