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[DemonOfWrath]

In future updates can the summary info include monthly income if possible (and currently what's mine?)?
What jump drive research did China do, I'm assuming jump radius?
Also how long will it take the part of my production on labs to produce one (roughly)?
And to what level of jump drive tech are we sharing? I've just had a look through the thread and found nothing, hell it was hard just finding where we'd agreed to share the stuff (we didn't have anyone summarise it after we'd all agreed so it was in bits and pieces everywhere).

Orders:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Production orders: Once the smaller naval shipyard is done upgrading capacity I want to add another slipway
Build another 2 Mirais, I'm feeling rather undergunned at the moment, and if I'm not bleeding wealth badly with that another freighter

Research orders: Once jump drive efficiency 3 is done I want to put those labs on eff 4 (I ran through survey ship designs using eff 3 and it was... rather disappointing, not to mention it'd require a jump engine that'd take about 2700 research points)

[Sheb]

Here is the First Draft of the EU orders. Thranx, feel free to edit them or ask me questions.
Japan, we have business to do.We need something more catchy than Asteroid 81 as a name for our Mining Outpost. I suggest Dejima, named after the island were European and Japanese traders met during the Edo period.

China, would you be interested in trading technologies? We can give you better lasers and production for engines and reactors.

Also, Thranx, should we keep the Gallileo as a Space Museum?

Spoiler: EU Orders (click to show/hide)

Space Orders:
--Gallileo is to finish the Asteroids belts, then come back to Earth for mothballing.
--All automated mine are to be shipped to Deimos by civilians. Don't forget to send a mass driver as well.
--Once the Infrastructure is done, ship it to Mercury using our own Freighters.
--Once we have enough people on Mercuy to maintain ships, send the 1st Mercurian Squadron there (12 Broadswords, 1 Magazine)
Production Orders:
-Shipyards:
--Stop expansion of our large shipyard and retool for construction of OSR-232 as soon as possible.
--Start producing two OSR-232
--Retool the gunboat building shipyard to Poleaxe and add a fourth slipway. Set production of 4 more Poleaxes.
--The new naval shipyard will be used for all non-Poleaxe craft. Retool it to produce Magazine and produce two mores.
--Expand our Warlock Shipyard to 10,000 tons.
-Factories:
--Set 30% of our industry to build construction factories, 30% convert mines to automated and 50% to:
--Construct a naval shipyard
--Construct 200 Infrastructures
--Construct 4 mass drivers
--Construct 25 Fuel Refinery
--Construct Research Labs

-Ground Forces:
--Train a total of 4 Brigade HQ, one Division HQ, 4 Replacement Battaillon and 12 Heavy Assault Battaillon. Organize them in 4 Brigade of 3 Heavy Assault Battaillon and 1 Replacement Battaillon. Name the Division the 1st Assault Division

Research Orders:
--Split our research labs:
---6 under our best EW specialist will finish researching Max Jump Squadron size 3 and send it to everybody. They will then research better lasers. As soon as we have all the techs for the Jump Drive, they will research a Commercial Drive able to transport a 10,000 tons ship, stoping their current research.
---6 will research mining rate 12 followed by research and construction rates.
---Once the Jump Drive is ready design the Newton Science Vessel. It should use commercial engines, weigh 10,000 tons, have both Grav and Geo sensors, the Commercial Jump Drive and have at least 2 years of autonomy, both in fuel and spare part. Use any remaining space between some weapons, armor and more fuel/parts.

Other Orders:
--If another Spy team can be formed, do it and send it to Japan.

[DemonOfWrath]

I suppose if you want to rename it we can, I don't really care that much (I can't name for crap anyway).

More potential spies... 
What's the highest rated spy team I can assemble?

[Knave]

Hmmm, Chinese automines don't seem to be moving off-world to the colonies, Or were those numbers not updated?

EDIT: Also, did you get rid of the post on the first page with all the ships of each nation? I can't seem to find them.

[Bremen]

In future updates can the summary info include monthly income if possible (and currently what's mine?)?
What jump drive research did China do, I'm assuming jump radius?
Also how long will it take the part of my production on labs to produce one (roughly)?
And to what level of jump drive tech are we sharing? I've just had a look through the thread and found nothing, hell it was hard just finding where we'd agreed to share the stuff (we didn't have anyone summarise it after we'd all agreed so it was in bits and pieces everywhere).

Orders:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Production orders: Once the smaller naval shipyard is done upgrading capacity I want to add another slipway
Build another 2 Mirais, I'm feeling rather undergunned at the moment, and if I'm not bleeding wealth badly with that another freighter

Research orders: Once jump drive efficiency 3 is done I want to put those labs on eff 4 (I ran through survey ship designs using eff 3 and it was... rather disappointing, not to mention it'd require a jump engine that'd take about 2700 research points)

If you mean whether you're running a deficit or not, I could but it's not very useful (it fluctuates a lot). It would be better to compare your total wealth to the previous statement's.
Yeah, jump radius.
Using 50% of your current production, it takes 1.3 years to make a lab. The first is currently 25% done.
I assumed just the first level of each jump tech.

Here is the First Draft of the EU orders. Thranx, feel free to edit them or ask me questions.
Japan, we have business to do.We need something more catchy than Asteroid 81 as a name for our Mining Outpost. I suggest Dejima, named after the island were European and Japanese traders met during the Edo period.

China, would you be interested in trading technologies? We can give you better lasers and production for engines and reactors.

Spoiler: EU Orders (click to show/hide)

Space Orders:
--Gallileo is to finish the Asteroids belts.
--All automated mine are to be shipped to Deimos by civilians. Don't forget to send a mass driver as well.
--Once the Infrastructure is done, ship it to Mercury using our own Freighters.
--Once we have enough people on Mercuy to maintain ships, send the 1st Mercurian Squadron there (12 Broadswords, 1 Magazine)
Production Orders:
-Shipyards:
--Stop expansion of our large shipyard and retool for construction of OSR-232 as soon as possible.
--Start producing two OSR-232
--Retool the gunboat building shipyard to Poleaxe and add a fourth slipway. Set production of 4 more Poleaxes.
--The new naval shipyard will be used for all non-Poleaxe craft. Retool it to produce Magazine and produce two mores.
--Expand our Warlock Shipyard to 10,000 tons.
-Factories:
--Set 30% of our industry to build construction factories, 30% convert mines to automated and 50% to:
--Construct a naval shipyard
--Construct 200 Infrastructures
--Construct 4 mass drivers
--Construct 25 Fuel Refinery
--Construct Research Labs

-Ground Forces:
--Continue training the First Assault Division (Don't forget that each Brigade is to have a Replacement Battaillon in it.)

Research Orders:
--Split our research labs:
---6 under our best EW specialist will finish researching Max Jump Squadron size 3 and send it to everybody. They will then research better lasers. As soon as we have all the techs for the Jump Drive, they will research a Commercial Drive able to transport a 10,000 tons ship, stoping their current research.
---6 will research mining rate 12 followed by research and construction rates.
---Once the Jump Drive is ready design the Newton Science Vessel. It should use commercial engines, weigh 10,000 tons, have both Grav and Geo sensors, the Commercial Jump Drive and have at least 2 years of autonomy, both in fuel and spare part. Use any remaining space between some weapons, armor and more fuel/parts.

Other Orders:
--If another Spy team can be formed, do it and send it to Japan.

Europe doesn't have any production tech currently? And please give full orders, not just "continue x", as the point of a template is so I only have one post to look at.

I'm pretty sure you can't put a civilian jump drive on a military vessel, though admittedly I never tried.

I suppose if you want to rename it we can, I don't really care that much (I can't name for crap anyway).

More potential spies... 
What's the highest rated spy team I can assemble?

120 skill.

Hmmm, Chinese automines don't seem to be moving off-world to the colonies, Or were those numbers not updated?

EDIT: Also, did you get rid of the post on the first page with all the ships of each nation? I can't seem to find them.

I did, and they have. You only have 2 slow freighters, though, and your mines are really far away. I believe it was 4/4/2/2 last year.

And yeah, I replaced the ship summary (which was badly outdated) with the status of the human race listing.

[Sheb]

Sorry, I edited my orders. It was really only a way to say "Keep producing more Heavy Assault/Brigade HQ."

As for thetechs, we do not have production technology YET. But we're researching them, the same way that the PRC is still researching engines.

As for Jump Drive, it depends of the engine, not if the ship is commercial or not. Civilian Jump Drive can only let pass civilian engines, military drive can jump with any engine.

[Sheb]

Also, would the PRC want us to do some transporting for them? We can do it for you if only you can provide some fuel.

[Knave]

Hmmm, Chinese automines don't seem to be moving off-world to the colonies, Or were those numbers not updated?

EDIT: Also, did you get rid of the post on the first page with all the ships of each nation? I can't seem to find them.

I did, and they have. You only have 2 slow freighters, though, and your mines are really far away. I believe it was 4/4/2/2 last year.

And yeah, I replaced the ship summary (which was badly outdated) with the status of the human race listing.

Oh! Okay I see that now. I'll have to add the civvie freighters to lend a hand!

Hopefully we can get an updated Jane's 202X at some point?

Sorry, I edited my orders. It was really only a way to say "Keep producing more Heavy Assault/Brigade HQ."

As for thetechs, we do not have production technology YET. But we're researching them, the same way that the PRC is still researching engines.

As for Jump Drive, it depends of the engine, not if the ship is commercial or not. Civilian Jump Drive can only let pass civilian engines, military drive can jump with any engine.

Also, would the PRC want us to do some transporting for them? We can do it for you if only you can provide some fuel.

We actually just finished our engine tech 
As for contracting, I don't think it'll be necessary right just yet, we'll see how adding the civ fleet to the hauling helps this year.

EDIT: Orders for the PRC!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Orders:
- Move automines to mining colonies.
- Contract civilian freighters to transport automines as well.

Production Orders:
- When the naval yard has been upgraded to 5000t, please upgrade to 7000.
- Have ordinance factories stockpile Sunfire Missile if thy're not doing so already.
- Production queue mix for the year: 1 Research Lab, 1 New Naval Yard. Any extra should go into another research lab.


Research Orders:
- After upgrading Mesons, focus on upgrading Production Ability

Other Orders:
- Develop a new escort in the 3000t dual slipway yard. It should be fast and take advantage of our new AMM launchers and pulse engines.

[Sirus]

My impression was that only the first level of jump tech would be shared. Continued improvements in engines should be up to the individual nations.

Orders for the US!

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Space Orders: Create a colony on an asteroid with a good supply of mercassium and/or vendarite. Send a mass driver and add it to the queue for auto mines.

Production Orders:
- Shipyards: NO MORE CARRIERS. Eight is quite enough for now, each one has two escorts. Upgrade each of the new navel shipyards by 2,000 tons. The unassigned commercial shipyard can probably remain as is for now.
- Construction: New orders in red.
50% 61 convert mines to automated - This one is edited, since I'd rather make more auto mines than waste time converting my perfectly good ones.
50% military academy (queued)
50% 200 infrastructure
50% 50 construction factories (queued)
50% 10 research labs
-- I'm not sure what is being worked on currently, but something like this would be fine.

Research Orders: Finish sorium harvesting and then move on to terraforming. After that, focus on research rate, mining rate, and shipyard rate.

Other orders: Move espionage team to the PRC. Clearly the FBI is incompetent, so the CIA gets it's funding.

@ The EU: Are we good on the harvesting tech/harvesting ship trade? If so, I'll edit my orders.

@ Bremen: Could we get some confirmation on the "military ships can use commercial jump tenders" thing?

[Bremen]

I've done some research on espionage, and given it some thought. I don't want to remove it, since it's helpful, but its not possible to defend against and the chances of it backfiring are comparatively tiny.

Right now I'm thinking I'll allow it, but with a limitation of one espionage team by each nation.

@ Bremen: Could we get some confirmation on the "military ships can use commercial jump tenders" thing?

Honestly, I have no idea, but it seems reasonable.

[Sheb]

Well, Military ships can use civilian tender only if they use civilian engines. And yeah, we're good there. We sorely need sorium.

[Sirus]

So my military ships with military engines would not be able to do so...crap 

Second question: I know that the lowest-level jump drive only allows three ships through. If the jump ship were to stay at the point but not jump, would that allow three other ships the go through the point? ((My gut instinct says no, but I could be wrong.))
Would a ten thousand-ton jump tender be enough for a carrier to jump? Or can it be smaller?

NEW ORDERS! (edits in red)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Orders: Create a colony on an asteroid with a good supply of mercassium and/or vendarite. Send a mass driver and add it to the queue for auto mines.

Production Orders:
- Shipyards: NO MORE CARRIERS. Eight is quite enough for now, each one has two escorts. Upgrade each of the new navel shipyards by 5,000 tons. The unassigned commercial shipyard can probably remain as is for now.
- Construction: New orders in red.
50% 61 convert mines to automated - This one is edited, since I'd rather make more auto mines than waste time converting my perfectly good ones.
50% military academy (queued)
50% 200 infrastructure
50% 50 construction factories (queued)
50% 10 research labs
-- I'm not sure what is being worked on currently, but something like this would be fine.

Research Orders: Finish sorium harvesting and then move on to terraforming. After that, focus on research rate, mining rate, and shipyard rate.

Other orders: Move espionage team to the PRC. Clearly the FBI is incompetent, so the CIA gets it's funding.
In addition, transfer the sorium harvesting tech to the EU once it is finished.

[Sheb]

Well, AFAIK as long as the Jumpship stay on the JP any number of ships can cross. However, in the only situation where it matter (JP assault) you'll want your jumpships to join in so as to be able to do squadron jumps.

As for your carrier, the max size of a ship that can transit with a jumpship is either the jump drive rating or the jump ship size, whichever is smaller.

And no, you won't be able to use my jump drive for your carrier. You'll have to design a military JD.

[Sirus]

I know I have to design my own 

Hmm...I need to figure out which exploration path I should take. My current options are

A) Design a carrier-sized jump tender, so that I can use my existing Raptors.
B) Design both a new geosurvey ship and an appropriately-sized tender.
C) Design a jump-capable geosurvey ship.

What to do, what to do...

[Sheb]

I'd go for A). For one thing, it'll be quick. For another, you'll be able to use those tenders for your whole navy, and won't need to uild new ones. Having warships around also mean you're much less likely to loose vessels to the odd NPR.

Finally, and most important, I really like that each nation has largely different ship design. The US is using Figther for anything save cargo. The EU is using Gunboat as warship, but cling to large, Enterprise-style exploration vessels. China and Japan have less distinctive style, but I paid less attention to their ships so maybe I missed something.