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[MarcAFK]

Er, I'm still running out of cash, doh :|
Maybe i should stop researching the increased research and increased construction/mineral output technologies while grinding Factories and Automines for the first 10 years like i always do.

[Flying Dice]

Or conquer a few billion aliens. In other news, I've got fully operational plasma torps and am busy burning through the tech. Got a few points for absorption shields, but I turned Invaders off for a while as they were causing mass slowdown with all the fights they were getting into.

Personally, I always have a researcher grinding for increased research output techs. The only thing that beats research is more research.

[Metalax]

If you research the improved construction/mining/research/etc techs then make sure to research the 'expand civilian economy' tech alongside them, otherwise you are going to very easily run out of money. It is also worth setting up colonies on any reasonably hospitable (colony cost 6 or under) world even if they have no minerals in order to boost your taxpaying population.

[RedKing]

Or conquer a few billion aliens. In other news, I've got fully operational plasma torps and am busy burning through the tech. Got a few points for absorption shields, but I turned Invaders off for a while as they were causing mass slowdown with all the fights they were getting into.

And then Flying Dice was the Invaders.

It'd be nice if there was some way to research and utilize their wormhole tech. Maybe a device that would allow you to create a wormhole to a random new system, and over time the wormhole becomes more unstable.

[EuchreJack]

Or conquer a few billion aliens. In other news, I've got fully operational plasma torps and am busy burning through the tech. Got a few points for absorption shields, but I turned Invaders off for a while as they were causing mass slowdown with all the fights they were getting into.

And then Flying Dice was the Invaders.

It'd be nice if there was some way to research and utilize their wormhole tech. Maybe a device that would allow you to create a wormhole to a random new system, and over time the wormhole becomes more unstable.

And to add to the comparison between Flying Dice and the Invaders, remember that Flying Dice still has that hidden jumppoint into the opposing NPRs core, which only Flying Dice and not the opposing NPR knows about.  One-directional invasion, sounds kind of familiar, eh?

[Flying Dice]

Or conquer a few billion aliens. In other news, I've got fully operational plasma torps and am busy burning through the tech. Got a few points for absorption shields, but I turned Invaders off for a while as they were causing mass slowdown with all the fights they were getting into.

And then Flying Dice was the Invaders.

It'd be nice if there was some way to research and utilize their wormhole tech. Maybe a device that would allow you to create a wormhole to a random new system, and over time the wormhole becomes more unstable.

And to add to the comparison between Flying Dice and the Invaders, remember that Flying Dice still has that hidden jumppoint into the opposing NPRs core, which only Flying Dice and not the opposing NPR knows about.  One-directional invasion, sounds kind of familiar, eh?

Bwahahaha--*hem*

But even if I didn't make a regular habit of xenocide and enslavement, they've been feeding hundreds of ships to the Swarm in another system. That alone merits a few dozen missiles to their population centers.

[darkrider2]

Stargates Jumpgates into star swarm systems should really have some signs posted reading "please don't feed the star swarm".

[EuchreJack]

Stargates Jumpgates into star swarm systems should really have some signs posted reading "please don't feed the star swarm".

That can be summarized as "Do Not Enter". 

[Flying Dice]

Close to a decade of constant 1-day interrupts because of intercept checks on civilian vessels in NPR space. FUCK YOU, CIVVIES. YOUR ASSES ARE GETTING REPOSSESSED.

[Lord Shonus]

How much smaller is a Size 1 missle than a Size 6? More precisely, how much does the range for detection change?

[Metalax]

It doesn't. The smallest size for detection purposes is missile size 6, if your missile is smaller than this it will be counted as size 6 for detection. Note that it appears the game actually uses 0.33 HS to be missile size 6 instead of the 0.3 you would expect.

[Lord Shonus]

Huh. I'd heard the reverse in other places.

[darkrider2]

Well since missiles travel in 5 second increments (and most missile travel faster than 20k km/s) you may not detect the missile on the edge of that detection range but somewhere below it.

And I've seen precursor missiles travel 45k km/s before, which is 225k km/5s, so for a missile detection sensor to be effective its size 6 detection range would have to be at least that, and more if you want tracking bonuses (you want tracking bonuses).

[Metalax]

Huh. I'd heard the reverse in other places.

Detection did use to go down to missile size 1 but that was changed a while back, around version 5.1 or so.

[Lord Shonus]

Good advice, thanks. I've not actually gotten into combat yet. I just scrapped a game because I couldn't find anyone, and I'd made too many ignorant errors (8000 ton ships with 40000-ton capable jump drives, for example.)