I'm using Conrad's die as the one to counterbalance the loss to CHA. I think the deal expires at the end of this year but I'm not sure so I just assumed it was still going. If it does expire at the end of the year then we'll get 80d10+65 instead of 70d10+55 after the blackbox.Madfish said:
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Cool and since we're flush with funds at the moment (if I'm reading the sheets right) it might be an idea to start up Lab 3 and some more Factories to support it.
Sitting on funds isn't doing us any good, beyond having an emergency slush fund, after all.
What are the cost of facilities because I can't find them for love or toffee?
Sitting on funds isn't doing us any good, beyond having an emergency slush fund, after all.
What are the cost of facilities because I can't find them for love or toffee?
They are in the closing the deal update;Madfish said:
We already have:
- Admin Building
- Barracks
- Lab I
- Lab II
- Factory I
- Factory II
Now if I understand correctly while we can build any number of factories on a given planet we are limited to one of each type of lab per planet.
Yeah, it's just common sense that chainsaw katanas would be really ineffective.Kelenas said:
That was my understanding too.UberJJK said:
I wonder if we can leverage our IIA into improved production in our factories too as they must be largely automated.
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Probably not. The tasks the VI perform is likely a series of not very complex tasks, and there really isn't much room for improvement..Madfish said:
I just figured out the static discharge problem!
The main problem with it is the fact that even if they could use the energy in some way, the heat using it would cause is also bad for them, because space sucks for getting rid of heat.
So we use a nice physics breaking repulsor: There would be some heat build up, but it lets us turn the static build up almost entirely into ship thrust.
So it might be a attachment to be completed in a shipyard, and all of the ships we build won't have the problem.
Given that we can finish a 400 pt tech next turn, or have 50% progress on a blackboxing upgrade, I'd have to say we go to blackboxing. I want it before finishing the other 400 point techs.
Question: Is medium armor just a larger Suit? Is the Mecha tree piloted, or robots?
We're getting those this turn. That's where we put the 100pts research points from the two omakes and the 50pts from guessing our cousin's name.Carrnage said:
Wrong kind of armor.Alanek2002 said:
Note how that particular tree includes hovertanks, mammoth tanks, and BOLOs.
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And there is nothing wrong with that.Kelenas said:
There will be an official announcement in the next updateMadfish said:
The production cost of a Dreadnaught is 1,000 billion credits. If you give Lindsey a Factory III, she'll bring in 30.6 billion credits per year, so it would take her 33 years to make enough money for a single dreadnaught.Madfish said:
1) When they say "charge" I am going to read "electrons."Van Ropen said:
2) It shouldn't really be that difficult to build a system that throws these into space, which as you know is pretty big so it shouldn't be a problem. Like dumping radioactive waste in the sea. Couldn't possibly go wrong. Note, this is pretty much what they're doing now, but with planets taking the role of empty space. Using planets is more efficient since they have places for the electrons to go.
3) The electrons appear when the drive core is used to lower the mass of the ship and make it superluminal. It would be reasonable that they could be made to go away (or annihilate with positrons) if the drive core was run in reverse. This would dramatically increase the mass of the ship and could thus only be done when it's not trying to fly anywhere, and doing it near things you care about might mess things up due to changing the gravitational landscape. Plus, uncontrolled matter-antimatter reactions are things to be careful with. On the plus side, they make for very nice big guns.
4) tl;dr: Yes, you can get around this problem. But it requires either dumping stuff in interstellar space, which I'm guessing there are treaties against, or finding a research hero who knows their drive cores.
This was sorta answered by other posters, but let me give it a clear 'no.' You're not locked into anything, I don't run RPs like that. Obviously, the world will react if you spin on a dime, but you're free to do so.cokerpilot said:
You don't have the ability to make the Mk 1.5 re-entry capable without redesigning it more or less from scratch. However, you can make a very-much one use ablative re-entry shield. This'd be a Research 50 item.UberJJK said:
The CHA deal will be done after your next research allocation, so you still need to take it into account.Kelenas said:
This is correct. You'll want to start giving thought to where you want to go next, and who you want to lead that department.UberJJK said:
No, that's not the direction your VI research has been going in. That's not to say that a specialized VI couldn't be a great help in your production facilities, but you'd need new tech to do so. VI (or even IA) research heroes could be helpful.Madfish said:
Like Kelenas said, Armor means tank. Mechas need pilots. To make them (or your suits) robots, you can include a VI (AI) to run them, but you don't have any that are trained for that in your research tree, so they wouldn't be very good.Alanek2002 said:
Madfish said:
There are several good examples of AIs out there, my personal favorite is Princess Celestia.Tabron89 said:
EDIT: Oh, almost forgot. The voting seems to be pretty even, so let's put a lock on it relatively soon. Tonight at 8 CET, that is in 5 hours.
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Hmm, keeping within the current theme would be good...Van Ropen said:
Mochinator
Protect the weak against the evil strong.
So since our deal with CHA will be winding up soon lets look at what sort of tech they'll be (theoretically) getting:
Arc Reactors
This is the core of our deal. As standard each fighter is going to have one Arc Reactor powering it. This will let it carry more energy hungry gear and it would likely lower it's mass significantly and possibility the size as well.
Advanced Materials
Stronger hull for a lower mass. Material physics is not my thing but presumably different materials have different rates at which they radiate heat so it's the fighter will have improved heat management thanks to it's hull having a higher radiative rate.
Repulsors
This thing will be a nightmare in a dogfight. The Repuslors are tiny for the amount of thrust they provide so the improved Scimitar should have a crazy high acceleration on top of unlimited fuel. The only operation limitation would be life-support.
Basic Neural Interfaces
In an ultra-high speed dogfight the ability to control the Scimitar with just your mind will be valuable as hell. Not to mention that mental control will likely be less tiring, physically anyway, which should extend operation times.
Arc Reactors
This is the core of our deal. As standard each fighter is going to have one Arc Reactor powering it. This will let it carry more energy hungry gear and it would likely lower it's mass significantly and possibility the size as well.
Advanced Materials
Stronger hull for a lower mass. Material physics is not my thing but presumably different materials have different rates at which they radiate heat so it's the fighter will have improved heat management thanks to it's hull having a higher radiative rate.
Repulsors
This thing will be a nightmare in a dogfight. The Repuslors are tiny for the amount of thrust they provide so the improved Scimitar should have a crazy high acceleration on top of unlimited fuel. The only operation limitation would be life-support.
Basic Neural Interfaces
In an ultra-high speed dogfight the ability to control the Scimitar with just your mind will be valuable as hell. Not to mention that mental control will likely be less tiring, physically anyway, which should extend operation times.
The improved Scimitar simply retrofits its existing power generator with our Arc Reactor(s). What we're working on with CHA is a completely new type of fighter, which was originally declined because it didn't have enough improvement(s) over the existing fighter-design.UberJJK said:
From what I understand as long as the tech is done within the one year window it should get included.Van Ropen said:
That really depends upon how you look at it. Basic Neural Interface seems to be all about controlling stuff with your mind. My bet is that Advanced Neural Interface allows feedback.Van Ropen said:
So with a basic neural interface you could control your prosthetic limb just like you would a normal one but an advanced interface would make it feel like a real limb with stuff like giving you a sense of touch.
Because really designing a system that can read your brain and control stuff is relatively simple, the tech (buggy as it is) exists today, the challenge is a system that can write stuff to your brain.
Yeah your right. We'd be working on the F-2000 Version 2.Kelenas said:
that will be an Assault power armor rather the Jack of all trades we're selling now.Carrnage said:nah the 1.5 we sell to the alliance probably looks closer to this.
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Celestia yes, CelestAI I'm not so sure, didn't she forcibly upload people with destructive brain uploads?Esbilon said:
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So we should finish basic genes next turn and then start on Blackboxing, So we can nab perfect human the following turn? Because there is no real reason to leave it half finished, if it doesn't affect when blackboxing is done.
And then we can turn our attentions away from all this bio-tech, unless we get a chance to help the quarians.
And then we can turn our attentions away from all this bio-tech, unless we get a chance to help the quarians.