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[alexwazer]

Nice map! It's good to know there's a few other alliance members nearby.

I'm planning to start my third colony tomorrow or saturday. I'll probably head west, or whatever 'left' is in space  , depending on what my probes find over there. I'm hoping to find a nice orbit 3 planet. Every one I found so far are either inhabited or rather uninteresting (or both).

[Rex_Nex]

We just lost contact with our probe in the Iotch Pissee system. Just before it went dark, our probe transmitted an image of an incoming ship. We've determined it was a Detonator sent by ventilado. We must assume the probe has been destroyed.

I think it's time I invest in some defense systems now.

I think you are ok. He blew up mine too, I don't think it is an act of aggression as much as a show of how he doesn't like being spied upon.

[Bluerobin]

There are 5 ships coming to the embassy HQ. They're supposed to get here in 2 days. I think they're from Diablotin, who I've heard are just an annoyance, but there's literally zero defense there. I can build up SAW batteries on my colony where I've got some spare conductive resources, but I don't know how strong the incoming ships are. Does anyone know what I need to be able to see what ships are coming and who's sending them?

Edit: Hmm so apparently you just need a sufficiently high-level starport, but it only works if you have it before they're incoming. It looks like they send thuds and placebos, so there's a chance that all 5 of those ships are just placebos that will scuttle themselves when they get to me. Oh and here's a link to the wiki page about the Diablotin: http://community.lacunaexpanse.com/wiki/diablotin. They're kind of cute sounding.

[Duelmaster409]

Well, my advice would be to start producing drones en masse just to be safe. The SAWs will help, but they can only really fire once before they need to cool down. If you can, build fighters, too.

[Bluerobin]

Yeah drones are up next. Fighters are a couple four university levels away, still.

[Fikes]

I am awaiting an invite when you get a chance blue. Planet Express.

Any advice on using the SRC ship for a local star  that is MEH vs waiting a bit longer for a regular colony ship and a decent orbit 3 planet?

[Rex_Nex]

Well, using a SRC ship will take 8 hours just to go from neighboring planets, while a colony ship takes a little over one hour to go to another star.

Then again, colony ships take 30k of every resource and about 18 hours of build time.

[Bluerobin]

I am awaiting an invite when you get a chance blue. Planet Express.

Any advice on using the SRC ship for a local star  that is MEH vs waiting a bit longer for a regular colony ship and a decent orbit 3 planet?

Withdrew the invite to an inactive House Harkonnen and sent it to you. I'm currently upgrading my university so two more invites should be going one within a day (which will, I think, go to House Jameira and Empire of Moenwor, catching me up again).

The description of how ship speed affects travel time is actually in the wiki article for Space Ports:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Speed

The speed value of a given ship is given in hundredths of a unit travelled per hour.  That is, if your ship has a speed rating of 1130, it can travel 11.3 units (on the star map) in an hour.

So, for example, for your ship with 1130 speed to travel from (0,0) to (3,4), that's a distance of 5 units, and it will take a little less than half an hour, or about 26 minutes and 32 seconds.

[Fikes]

I just realized I needed to build my embassy. It will be done in a couple of hours.

I think I'll wait to colonize my second planet until I can build a real colony ship. The orbit 3 one here is pretty lame. Also, I want to make sure I have some defenses before I lose my newb status.

[Duelmaster409]

I have more than enough happiness to obtain my second colony but I don't think I'm ready to build a long-range colonizer just yet.

Edit: it appears that a single ship is headed for me in about 15 minutes. I'll keep you guys posted.

[Rex_Nex]

Well, I am being scowed and maybe attacked in 20 mins. Its Ventilado. I dont doubt he will try and take my new colony.

[Duelmaster409]

I can confirm that Ventilado is inserting spies into my main colony. I am already taking countermeasures and assigning spies to counter-espionage duties.

We need more defenses pretty soon.

[Bluerobin]

Embassy upgrading, finished in a little over 10 hours. I'll send out two invites tomorrow then I'm going to spend a day or two boosting my economy again.

[Rex_Nex]

Heh, xfiles helped me out with Ventilado.

[umiman]

Err... what does that even mean?