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[rarborman]

Start new empire, get eaten by flying animals, remember why I quit last time.

[Exerosp]

There's a fair ammount of large players on SoH that strolls on the bay12forums...

[The Scout]

There's a fair ammount of large players on SoH that strolls on the bay12forums...

I bet most of us would love to be in an alliance. Plus, I don't think they're going to go out their way to kill a player who just started.

[Kaje]

Start new empire, get eaten by flying animals, remember why I quit last time.

Pretty much. Just stopped playing for that reason.

*sigh* Boredom is setting in.

[Exerosp]

There's a fair ammount of large players on SoH that strolls on the bay12forums...

I bet most of us would love to be in an alliance. Plus, I don't think they're going to go out their way to kill a player who just started.

Aye. But there's some occasional jerks that have come and griefed me every now and then.

[kg333]

Once you've made a capitol, you're already visible on the Galaxy Finder, so your location is no longer hidden.  Posting here is a little easier if someone wanted to find you, but it's not revealing any secrets.

KG

[Sirian]

I started a new empire, i just hope that the game is a bit more playable than last time i tried. Although it was more the maintenance aspect that drove me off. And also the fact that the game is begging for a free camera top down view to manage things, but for some reason you have to control a character, which tends to make planetary exploration/construction and going to your other planets/systems very tiresome.

[majikero]

My Empire "Gruss" has reached basic space age! It has basic starships with wormhole capabilities. If anyone wants to join, the empire will provide you with ships and the Prefect title to start your own city and 20k starting money.

I'm not really sure how government works but I need citizens to figure it out.

[Shadowlord]

Once you've made a capitol, you're already visible on the Galaxy Finder, so your location is no longer hidden.  Posting here is a little easier if someone wanted to find you, but it's not revealing any secrets.

KG

Once you've made your first city, long before you declare your capital, your solar system has a name on nav consoles and fly directly to system orders for anyone in the same or adjacent sectors. So not making a capital is no protection either. Nor is the fact that your city won't actually show up on sensors or the like before you declare or build an airport - it can still be located and captured.

If someone wants to take out newbies spawning near them before they can reach space, there's nothing stopping them from doing it (unless they're insufficiently attentive).

[Funk]

well for some reason i cant login.

[Nirur Torir]

The Entirely True Chronicles of Viscount Kreejn, first viscount of the Kobold Duchy

Volume 1: Revolution

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

     "Where did it all go wrong?" The Viscount pondered as his seven-kobold flagship floated through space. "Was it yesterday?"

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     It was a warm day. Kreejn liked the warmth. "Mayor!" He shouts, "Raise the taxes! These experimental TL32 surface-to-orbit terawatt lasers we bought are great, but we need ore mines!"

     "But Viscount," the mayor replies, "We cannot raise taxes any more."

     "Then confiscate money from the banks! We'll all be killed if we don't have better metal!"

     "Viscount, the people won't stand for it!"

     "You have your orders."

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     "Probably," the viscount continued his pondering. "I should have fired him that mayor the first time he made them revolt. Yet I still stand by my choice of letting him hand-pick the troops. I hate talking to the troops."

     "Viscount, sir!" The navigator interrupted his pointlessly rambling thoughts, "We have a visual on the planet they exiled us to! It's not completely frozen! This is good, as we don't have the things to rebuild on iceberg, and lack warp drives. Please take the controls, you're the only one who was allowed into flight school."

     "Stop exposting about things I know! .. And why is this landing site surrounded by oil deposits," the viscount complained to his chatty subordinates.

    "Sir, we're being hailed! Baron Gruuchik escaped to the moon on a fighter!" The navigator cheered.

     "Viscount, we have no plastic! Get some and then I can retake the city with three o' me finest kobolds," the baron requested.

     "You're insane," Kreejn pointed out the obvious. "Now I have work to do. No further communications until you're sane."

     "Air! We don't have the ability to --" The baron was cut off before he could make more absurd demands.

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     "Why are we flying back to the rebels in the only ship they haven't captured," the viscount queried his navigator the next day.

     "Well, you see sir, we need to test the empire's first and only remaining vessel's infiltration capabilities and OH LOOK THEY'RE FIRING THIS IS COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED." the navigator noticed as terrawatt laser bolts ripped through the bulkhead and killed him.

     "No! I needed him for expositing!" Kreejn lamented his fate. "Now I will keep flying at the planet because I need to get closer! .. No! My ship is destroyed! I should have used an emergency escape bike while I had the chance. Now I'm flying into the system's primary star because I wasn't pointed at the planet."

     The next day, the viscount remembered he had a teleportation device.

I think confiscating wealth affects more than just the planet you're on. Remember not to over-confiscate, or you'll end up writing bad kobold fanfic told mostly through dialog about while waiting for the workers to finish their jobs.

[kg333]

"Absurd demands"?  I was trying to reconquer the capitol single-handedly.   I'm only a little insane, really.   XD   Sorry about the sudden drop, though, sister showed up in town.


On another tack, I was thinking about starting back up with an empire concept that I've tried once before: The New Order of the Hammer, the spacebound arm of the Hammerite Order of the Thief universe.  For those of you not familiar with Thief, the Hammerites are a group of zealots in service of the Great Builder, dedicated to machinery, opposed to nature, and hating heretics above all else.  The New Order of the Hammer would likely involve lots of building (naturally), cities all over magma planets (forges!), lots of "thees" and "thous", protecting of newbie empires (whose constructions are pleasing to the Builder), and quite possibly smacking of heretics (who threaten said pleasing buildings).

Would anyone else be interested in signing on as a space Hammerite?

KG

[Matz05]

Uh oh. Was this the revolt you put down while I was trying to join, or do we need a new planet?

[kg333]

Uh oh. Was this the revolt you put down while I was trying to join, or do we need a new planet?

Kobold Duchy currently has a moonbase, and a small city on an outer planet; the capitol is hostile and has 3 TL32 laser bases.  I'm wishing I hadn't brought that much tech in...

KG

[Shadowlord]

Sounds like a good way for you to get familiar with how war - done well - actually works in Hazeron. You already learned that ships vs laser bases = dead ships.