More like a serious downside for something which basically makes you invincible to all sorts of missiles and such. And anyway, Major's explanation for it being invincible just because it was a "field tech" was rather senseless...
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**If it can't be destroyed, that means invincibility. Revoked, unless you can show me a downside.
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I was going to let you figure it out for youselves, but...
The electromagnet can be set to positive or negitive, but not both at once. A ship/ missile with the other charge can easily break through, even if I change right then from one polarity to the other, because the ship/missile can change as well. Also it has no effect on lasers. A weapon made of wood or something not metal will also go through it.
Thank you very much. Now my enemies know exactly how to get through my techs.
When I said field tech, I meant it was a field. And it was a tech. A field tech is a sort of thick shell.
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"Thank you very much. Now my enemies know exactly how to get through my techs.
You have to explain things my enemies know all these messages I am sending to different governments and the location of my fleet so I don't complain
your ships fire solid objects hhmmm
"Gordontron, my ship's name is the Hyperion not the Hyperiod "
sorry that is what I meant I will change that when I get around to it.
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Military R&D;:
Modified Cruiser designs, Voinian Interceptor Cruiser (VICruiser),
This cruiser has the same design as a classic Cruiser but has smaller Interceptor bays which gives room for a few more weapons and a mild shielding increase.
stats:
(Res-edit stats/10 for shields, armor or damage)
Shield:
25
Armor:
550
Speed:
135
Accel:
160
Crew:
800
Weapons:
4 carried Interceptors
1 Rocket Launcher
6 Rockets
6 Neutron Cannons
6 Neutron Turrets
Time to design and prototype completion:
4 RTDs
Cruiser Shield rerouting:
Upgrades the shields of a Voinian ship by cutting the amount of wire down and lowering the amount of Insulation to increase electrical conductivity only for capital ships.
Shield Increase:
20
Time to design completion: 3 RTDs
Time to outfitting completion: 5 RTDs
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Gordontron, aside from the fact that the Voinian Cruiser only has 5 gun/turret slots, and the fact that Neutron turrets have a max of 5 per ship (and seriously, where are you going to fit six Neutron turrets so that they don't bang into each other while turning around and are still securely attatched to the ship?), there aren't enough gun/turret slots on any EVO ship for six cannons and six turrets. And four RTDs to do all that? Zeroth Law, remember.
Though I'm not a story mod, I suggest that design be revoked.
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ESPilot
Take a line from any Star Wars movie. Replace certain words with 'spank':
"The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Spank."
"Queen Amidala is young and naive; you will find spanking her not too difficult." "And what of the Jedi?" "She should never have brought them into this. Spank them immediately."
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Originally posted by ESPilot:
**Gordontron................
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wrong person that is paranoid.
major: Ok do that if want I am not moderating around here plus it could give a boost to your otherwise rather weak race (no offense meant).
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No one uses wooden weaponry. The Emalgha fire explosive metal shellsthink mass drivers.
Another bit: I still don't see how your field deflects objects. Voinian rockets, or any ammunition, for that matterthat I can recall, feel free to correct me any time here, peopleare nowhere stated to be polar objects. So how does that field repel them?
Maybe I'm being too nitpicky, but I do want to see some plausibility in the scientific description of the tech. Of course, I could just be missing it entirely... :D.
Another point. Gordontron, are you in my systems? Are we supposed to negotiate?
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(This message has been edited by Solel (edited 04-05-2003).)
Y'all are doing a good job, but a question or two:
Gordontron, how did you travel all that distance in one post?
Solel and Major, y'all should find a story mod and ask him if the tech is okay... unless you are a mod. Then forget I asked either of you that question.
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(This message has been edited by grunadulater (edited 04-05-2003).)
ESPIlot:
I just re-checked Res-edit and found that the Voinian Cruiser has 6 turret slots and 6 cannon slots. Also you seem to forget that while EVO is 2 dimensional, our Webstory is to take place in a universe that is 3 dimensional. So turrets can be placed on the top or bottom of a ship, as well as the sides. The Voinian Cruiser is one of the largest ships in the game and most likely could hold 10-12 turrets but I am following the information given to me by the game. If you wonder about free mass than the Interceptor bay is half the size of the Heavy Fighter bay. Why? Simply because Interceptors are half the size of Heavy Fighters. I could replace 3 turrets and 2 cannons with 4 more Interceptors if that would make you happy.
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sigh
I guess really that with your refit of the Cruiser you're putting us on the road to a webstory with huge battles between fleets of uber-ships, which is about the last thing I want to see. But if Solel and Kauthor say it's alright, I suppose there's nothing I can do about it. :
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ESPilot
Take a line from any Star Wars movie. Replace certain words with 'spank':
"The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Spank."
"Queen Amidala is young and naive; you will find spanking her not too difficult." "And what of the Jedi?" "She should never have brought them into this. Spank them immediately."
ESPilot; You can über-ship him back, of course. 
So far, all his projects have been reasonable. I see no problem with it.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Gordontron, how did you travel all that distance in one post?"
If you read the post I did the math. I sent out the ships the first day of the game, and for the following four days "4 Jumps per RTD: Azdgari, Zidigar.". so that comes out to be 16 jumps which is enough to get to where my ships were exploring. I thought I explianed it but I guess I didn't. Here is what I wrote to my self at least:
My Raigner Azdara scouting party (5 ships that are taken from that planets defense)
have traveled south from the 30-31-1-2 at four systems per RTD through: Dewe-Orarn-Garren-Timidor (refuel) then Kitrak-Kirrim(refuel)-DSN-1469-DSN-8209 then through Kelmaon-Emalghion-(stopping to refuel and tell Major about the Azdgari, finds out through them and goes into vionian space)-DSN-4743-Kraali
Romit-Chens-Voinia
hired miranu party traveled from same location at 3 systems per RTD, Dewe-Orarn-garren, Timidor-Kitrak-Turfet, Zanat-Piriat-Smott, DSN-8619-DSN-9608-DSN-4044 (they are searching not going to a specific place so they missed outpost theta)
what I wrote:
"1-Send out 2 miranu scoutships to report back when they have found a race that we do not know about"
"3-Send a message to Apert and Raigar telling them to send out Azdara's outfitted with fuel scops to explore the galaxy"
I hope that clears things up
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Long live the Azdgari!
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:mutters. What is all this? :SIGHS. Right now, I am in Toronto with snow and ice and freezing rain. I will be glad to go back to San Diego. I am the story moderator. Solel is the research moderator, and Redchigh helps me occasionally, but on his own, he is battle moderator. I just figured out where I stands. I just hopes that I can fly back to San Diego. Snowing in April in Rochester and Toronto? What is going on?!
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ESPilot, it only took you two days to research the cruiser designs?
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I knew this was going to happen with researching stuff...
Just make any ship the size of a Voinian Cruiser or Igazra take a long while to research, or yes, you will have massive battles between massive fleets of massive uber ships.
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Originally posted by Solel:
**ESPilot, it only took you two days to research the cruiser designs?
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Well, two RTDs is 12-14 game days, right? And Anna Balashova is retired, so I would assume she doesn't have to work, thus having 144-168 game hours to work on the designs, and the ship won't even be in production until I get the Dospect armor reverse-engineered.
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ESPilot
Take a line from any Star Wars movie. Replace certain words with 'spank':
"The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Spank."
"Queen Amidala is young and naive; you will find spanking her not too difficult." "And what of the Jedi?" "She should never have brought them into this. Spank them immediately."
And that'll be a while from now, I take it?
Gordontron; I need you to answer this question. Are you or are you not in my space? I am Akrayhek.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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(This message has been edited by Solel (edited 04-05-2003).)
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Originally posted by Solel:
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Gordontron; I need you to answer this question. Are you or are you not in my space? I am Akrayhek.
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since the renegades did nothing I just assumed that my miranu party down there died in a firefight. My Azdaras went through your space and hit the bottom of U.E. space and left a message for them. I will leave a message for you in my next post. Hang on I am reading Xenocide (the book) at the moment.
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