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[Caellath]

I think I am dumb and your systems are very complicated. Either that or I am just dumb. I am lazy enough not to do any math, so here is a simple calculation.
Death+Ships+Big Explosions+Not boring = Anglerfish fighting a sea cucumber.

[Sirus]

Naw, your shield idea was perfect. I was so busy trying to figure out how to make shields work in conjunction with armor that I missed the most obvious and logical answer

[10ebbor10]

    Yes, that's the only way to realistically create artificial gravity. It also allows people to protect reactors and other important things by stacking them on Deck 1
Actually, you can't create gravity that way. You have to either spin the ship round and round, or have a ship that has as much mass as a small moon.
>.>

Yes you can, you totally can. Exact same principle as the whole-ship spin method, but the concentric deck method usually only applies the spin (and thus the artificial gravity) to the areas where people are likely to go. The non-spinning portion of the ship, the central hub that all the decks are arranged around, would probably contain mostly mechanical systems.

But that of course brings the next marvelous point...

Jump-drives but no artificial gravity?

Edit: Ninja'd into partial irrelevance.

The reason there are jumpdrives is that waiting thousands of years to get to next star is boring, while being flung out of your ship due opening an airlock at the wrong moment is FUN. Also this game has momentum, which is seldomly seen in space games.

Sorry 10ebbor10, but your system is just a little complicated for my Arena RTD

I do like the idea of multiple players in a single ship though. Try that!

You think so.
And I might try it, but I'm going to rebalance/simplify/ finish the system first. Good luck with your game though. Maybe you should include internal damage.(If the enemies attack roll is double your armor roll, he breaches your armor and damages some internal part.)

Engines (Depending on the state a certain minus to dodge rolls)
Power generator(Minus to either weapons, dodge or shieldregenation(if appliable))
Weapons(Minus to attack)
Shield generator(Minus to regen)
Crew (Some crew dies. Maybe these should help in repairs)
Command (Minus to command action)
Nothing(Nothing special)

Edit: I just read you intended to do that.

[Sirus]

Way ahead of ya

The damage roll includes things like crew damage (remember, if the entire crew dies you lose the battle), engine damage, bridge damage (lose Command skill), power generator (actually added after Caellath's suggestion, the shields won't regenerate next turn), shield generator (minus maximum shield power), even some effects that don't directly lower stats, such as a shaken officer (no special commands may be given next turn), stunned crew (the ship may take no actions), and the dreaded warp core breach (1d6 additional damage rolls, if an additional warp core breach is rolled, this ship is destroyed instantly).

[Caellath]

@Sirus: Please reserve a spot for me. I would like to try a spaceship RP for once.

[ExKirby]

Now, you could use that overly complex system orrr you could do something a lot simpler combatwise!

Assign each ship a number of Hull Points and Shield Dice (I am assuming that these shields regenerate...)-A small fighter may only have 20Hp and 1SD, but a Fuckhuge Battleship may have 500Hp and 15SD. Give every valid weapon a number of Weapon Dice-a little laser on that fighter may only be 1WD, but a Fuckhuge Ion Cannon may get 10WD.

To have a spacefight, basically, take all of the weapon dice from all of the weapons on your ship, roll them, take a total. This is your Weapon Total. Then roll the Shield Dice and get a total from that to get a Shield Total. Subtract your Shield Total from your foe's Weapon Total and subtract the resulting number from your HP.

If a fleet vs fleet battle happens, things get a bit more interesting. All involved ships get to pool their Weapon Dice and Shield Dice, meaning that theoretically, a large swarm of fighters could take on a Battleship. When it comes to assigning damage, you just apply as much as you can onto one ship until it explodes, then pile any leftover damage onto another ship etc. until you run out of damage or ships to explode.

...Not bad for a brainfart.

[Sirus]

While that's a fine idea, I want to avert Critical Existence Failure as much as possible. An OMG-Huge battlecruiser would logically be blasted to a state of scrap long before it exploded, with various parts failing as more damage is sustained. It wouldn't simply be firing all guns in one moment, only to take a single missile and blow up the next.

[10ebbor10]

While that's a fine idea, I want to avert Critical Existence Failure as much as possible. An OMG-Huge battlecruiser would logically be blasted to a state of scrap long before it exploded, with various parts failing as more damage is sustained. It wouldn't simply be firing all guns in one moment, only to take a single missile and blow up the next.

Unless you happened to hit the wrapcore, of course.

[Sirus]

While that's a fine idea, I want to avert Critical Existence Failure as much as possible. An OMG-Huge battlecruiser would logically be blasted to a state of scrap long before it exploded, with various parts failing as more damage is sustained. It wouldn't simply be firing all guns in one moment, only to take a single missile and blow up the next.

Unless you happened to hit the wrapcore, of course.

Touche

[Gatleos]

I must cross-post from the IRC this idea, for the sole purpose of enshrining it forever in the Roller's Block thread:

A RtD where the players are cats, and the players' actions must be submitted in the form of a lolcat image macro. The turn text would also be written in lolspeak.


That is all.

[Dermonster]

[Caellath]

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[monk12]

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lolcat dice by alzrius_utsuro, on Flickr

Gat what have you dooooone

[SeriousConcentrate]

Yeah, I'd have to watch that thread. :3

[Sirus]

Agreed. I'd watch and/or participate in that.