I always feel like I am trying to get people to do the delayed gratification thing with stories. If you eat your vegetables (terrible shameful failure!) now then you can have ice cream later! (sweet glorious success). You can imagine how well that goes over.
If you eat your vegetables (terrible shameful failure!) now then you can have ice cream later! (sweet glorious success). You can imagine how well that goes over.
Ah, right, the tabbed format. I'd love to do something like that. Unfortunately, the syntax for tabs is forum-specific (you have to buy a specific XenForo plugin to get the format that's used on SV), which means I can't generate generic output that will always work on different sites (even three closely-related sites like SV/SB/QQ). Same reason that I still use dashes to break up task sections, instead of a hard rule <hr> tag.
I could think of all sorts of cool things Revy could be doing but I am sure that the minute I start talk about them someone will get scared and attack me.
Erm, so you two want to build star fighters but not arm them? Because @UberJJK's plan doesn't allocate any production for missiles yet. Without those the Gladius is just a smaller, less-capable, less-powerful version of the Tiger, albeit with an FTL-quality core and costing 24-33 times the price.
Since the only product I'm considering releasing until the Cabira will use industrial infrared lasers with a focal length of a few hundred meters max, I don't see the problem.
Yeah, and if there was an emergency we could use one of those. I actually like @UberJJK's idea of just running off a quartet of Gladius-Cs if we really need to get anywhere in a hurry; short of a multi-core eezo drive-equipped starship that's going to be the fastest possible way to get anywhere. Turns out we didn't have to because nothing was pressing enough to stir us from Mindoir in the past 9 months; all we need to do is get to the end of 2174-Q2 and we'll have our Mark I Space Yacht and, incidentally, a Captain Joker to drive it.
Oh dear. See, I know the exact kind of stick necessary to force us to leave Mindoir that doesn't involve blowing up the planet, but I kind of don't want to bring it up for fear that you might actually do it...
Simply put, I don't want to research gigawatt lasers before finishing blackboxing, even though we would only have the infra-red industrial ones you mentioned produced.
I'll admit I am a little annoyed that my plan is getting skipped over without comment, but what really bothers me is how so many people are content to vote for a plan that builds five dozen completely unarmed starfighters, and then don't bother to explain why they're content to spend 13 billion credits on glorified skeet.
Why? I mean, both failure and success have to be logical and justified and make sense. Failing because we have to fail is no better, at all (actually, is worse) than succeeding by author flat.
Eh, I disagree with this, streniously (one of the reasons I don't participate in or really read Gromweld's alchemical quest).
I added the costs in the post listing the options. I'm skeptical about including them in the mini-vote because that would make amendments and fixing arithmetic errors a real pain: Everyone would have to update their votes or they would have to be manually unified during counting. As long as the options are listed in one convenient place not listing them in every vote doesn't make assessing the costs of anyone's overall vote THAT much more difficult.
My apologies, then. I admit I was a bit out of line there, but your one-line post came literally two posts after I bring up exactly why Uber's plan is, currently, incomplete and likely to cause problems, and just before @GulibleLeprecon does the same thing, so it read like you were deliberately trolling me.
There are (sort of) three, right now:
Well Blackboxing isn't going to complete this quarter regardless; we have 2438 RP to go and we only generate ~1800 per quarter. The soonest we can get that done is 2174-Q2, and we should do so because, in addition to letting us keep our unpatentable ideas safe, it ought to give us an even more substantial bonus against hacking attempts, which will be important now that we're getting further into drone warfare.
I am for it.
I'll admit I am a little annoyed that my plan is getting skipped over without comment, but what really bothers me is how so many people are content to vote for a plan that builds five dozen completely unarmed starfighters, and then don't bother to explain why they're content to spend 13 billion credits on glorified skeet.
