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[Sirus]

I've seen noticeable improvements, though some others have complained of lag and I had a bad patch of it for a few minutes earlier today. It seems to vary based on which servers are overloaded and which ones have capacity to spare.

[Moogie]

So I remember trying this awhile ago and whilst the idea seemed nice enough, the unbelievable lag caused by what seemed to be a poorly optimised network code put me completely off it.

Has that been fixed at all?

I occasionally pop my head back in to check up on that very situation, as well as asking the general opinion from people here and on the official forums.

The general consensus seems to be split into two camps. "Yes it's still awful", and "What lag? I've never had any lag."

So... I guess the only real way to know is to log in and see for yourself. But I'll warn you, there seems to be no confusion on the topic of space ships and character getting stuck in the void, from which the only escape is to contact an admin. That shit still apparently happens.

[Sirus]

It does not, however, happen all of the time. Last I played (which was still when just about everyone had bad lag, mind, before the server upgrade) I rarely got limboed. It seems to happen most often to high TL players and systems, or at least they're the most vocal about it.

[kg333]

I did some exploring, and it looks like Kobold Duchy is only two hops away from Randal13, #26 on the rankings.  We're also only 3 hops away from one of their fully populated ringworlds.  We might be in trouble.

KG

[Shadowlord]

Considering that you can conquer a city with nothing but TL1 space transports, glue guns (or high TL rifles and bullets), and enough people or troops to occupy all the flags on city at once, and need only a ship or ships to carry the troop transports or to build a colony in their system to make the troop transports, you're in less trouble than you think. In fact, if you feel like being aggressive, they could be in considerable trouble themselves, if a lot of you are playing in the Kobold Duchy. (Or use alts, or bring troops)

[kg333]

Considering that you can conquer a city with nothing but TL1 space transports, glue guns (or high TL rifles and bullets), and enough people or troops to occupy all the flags on city at once, and need only a ship or ships to carry the troop transports or to build a colony in their system to make the troop transports, you're in less trouble than you think. In fact, if you feel like being aggressive, they could be in considerable trouble themselves, if a lot of you are playing in the Kobold Duchy. (Or use alts, or bring troops)

Will fighters and transports landed on top of a ship still make the jump with it, or did those get patched out with the superships?

KG

[Sirian]

If you're in trouble you can always call other B12ers for help... there's a lot of us in that game.

[Shadowlord]

Will fighters and transports landed on top of a ship still make the jump with it, or did those get patched out with the superships?

KG

Not sure. You'll have to test it to find out.

[jocan2003]

I remember making a invasion ship specialized in groud deployement.... TL32 ship, HUGE amount of shields, anything else was just enough to allow some travel, and max amount of turrets pointing downward...

I get on the planet first with a troup transport, get in close to take out laser tower on the town perimeter, as i close in i loose some soldier, im wounded, there is 5 tower, i disable 3. Call the ship in, take a few hit, shield goes down, PLANETFALL!!! turrets shooting everwhere while the ship was under fire... man that was awesome, i did manage to capture the town, the ship was damaged but... the fun.... the pew pew.... priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdkCpnGMyGw

Minus fighter and lots more pew pew...

[Akura]

Question: Can you still repair ships by hand using TL1 materials and tools?

That makes ship repairs fairly simple as you can just quickly build a city, build a smelter, then mine ore/smelt everything by hand and get at least the hull fixed up with stone hammers, then abandon the city.

Unless you have to load up on materials of the same-or-higher TL as the ship.

[Moogie]

So hey guys, um... Don't take this the wrong way, please, but I was wondering if there were any sort of 'tips' or 'tricks' concerning character creation - specifically, ways to perhaps build a creature outside of the normal limitations? In a totally legit way, of course.

I don't mean like "I WANT TO MAKE A SUPER INSECT WITH 99999 HP AND A MILLION FEET TALL WITH FIVE HUNDRED LEGS."

I just want to make something that looks a little less derpy. I love this game, but I haaaaaaate the derpy characters. I made these really cute little midget owl things with no legs, once. They were almost Tribbles. But due to the game's limitations, I couldn't completely get rid of their legs, nor get them low enough to the ground to pretend they didn't have legs, and the game wouldn't accept such an unorthodox body anyway. I don't care how it would butcher its stats, I just want a race of Tribbles, damnit!

[Sirus]

Dwarvenkind had it's first interspecies meeting today! Dwarf and some very tall green lizard with butterfly wings. The two empires exchanged gifts: the dwarves received a finely-crafted ring. The lizard people got some dwarven cheese. It's pretty much the best thing a barely-TL2 empire could offer a race that had already hit double-digit tech levels

[Matz05]

Oh, you have good milk on your planet? We should call it New Switzerland! Milk chocolate and cheese for everyone!

[Eagle_eye]

Dwarvenkind had it's first interspecies meeting today! Dwarf and some very tall green lizard with butterfly wings. The two empires exchanged gifts: the dwarves received a finely-crafted ring. The lizard people got some dwarven cheese. It's pretty much the best thing a barely-TL2 empire could offer a race that had already hit double-digit tech levels

Did they happen to be the Rik Tan Hegemony? I met a similar looking character earlier. They're pretty nice, and offered to take me under their protection.

[Sirus]

No, not that empire. Something near my own.