So I have to ask again do you guys intend to use those rare metals you keep accumulating for something? It just feels odd to be dedicating narrative space to their acquisition just to have them sorted onto the front page and forgotten.
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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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egoo
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A very fair point, actually.
Off the bat, I can only think up Thinaun among these, as one has both immediate uses, or perspective ones in projects.
I think...
that we have been playing in the same "semi-artificial scarcity"-field we were before we got a kingdom's financial support for a while now - grabbing everything we can, thinking along the lines "it won't be avaliable later".
Yet, we use (or trade) only a very small part of what we buy :/
I'd like to stop trading this way completely, and probably convert some/most of the stuff we have back into money.
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I for one intended to use the metals on a large scale. Right now it's a matter of experimentation to figure out where they can be used and how, but once that legwork is done we'll be dipping into the stockpiles.
egoo
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Like, seriously.
I made a mistake in putting all those "shiny" materials on search to begin with
I made a mistake in putting all those "shiny" materials on search to begin with
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Stockpiles of arcane metals are not useless. If we start having money problems, which we won't (we are nowhere close to a treasury crisis), then we'll consider selling off some of them.Like, seriously.
I made a mistake in putting all those "shiny" materials on search to begin with
Like, seriously.
I made a mistake in putting all those "shiny" materials on search to begin with
It's not a mistake, there is plenty of interesting storytelling to be hand there, it's just that you guys need to remember them and actually use them. @Duesal's idea of experimenting is perfectly reasonable but it needs to actually be planed for.
So brainstorming, addressed to everyone what would you like to use them for?
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Off the top of my head, incorporating Living Iron into warforged would be great.
Goldfish
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We might not have a use for most of them, yet, but that cohld change at some point in the future. There is no telling what they might become one day.
I'm hoping for more Horacalum, for sure. It can make neat armor, but that's the least possible uses for metal that mucks with the flow of time.
I'm hoping for more Horacalum, for sure. It can make neat armor, but that's the least possible uses for metal that mucks with the flow of time.
Sadly it's all a limitation of research actions and crafting time and people. Seriously we haven't event gotten on those Blue Ice Coolers yet. Weve had 300 pounds of it for ages and we never even made a evercool mug using a couple flecks layered on the bottom of a cup.
Spider Chitin? Cheap pod grown body armor. The original organic weaponry project. Aszite steel? Shadow magic focuses for shadow spells like our slotless everflame lantern ring. Dream stone? Same but for Abjuration spells and Dremland related stuff. Mostly for our baby mages.
Cold Iron? Original last ditch weapons for our Captain level legion units for magic creature encounters. Rendered obsolete with mass Valyrian Steel production. Noqual? Better magic insulation like the lead shielding we have on all government buildings or the lead boxes we keep putting cursed stuff in.
Thinaun soul capture daggers. Companion only. Singing steel and Sun silver? Eh, equipment for Bards.
Elysium Bronze is armor and stuff for Waymar and the Time metal stuff is for some Time Research and eventual nick nacks and dodads that do some weird timey wimey stuff for fun.
All on the back burner due to action limitations and hard crafting time limits.
Personally I'd vote for the chitin as the one to focus on because with Living Iron research going on I kinda want to see if we can mass grow it in equipment form instead of smiting it later. Combined to give the DR bonus as well as the regeneration of course.
Living Brass everyone knows already. I miss anything?
Spider Chitin? Cheap pod grown body armor. The original organic weaponry project. Aszite steel? Shadow magic focuses for shadow spells like our slotless everflame lantern ring. Dream stone? Same but for Abjuration spells and Dremland related stuff. Mostly for our baby mages.
Cold Iron? Original last ditch weapons for our Captain level legion units for magic creature encounters. Rendered obsolete with mass Valyrian Steel production. Noqual? Better magic insulation like the lead shielding we have on all government buildings or the lead boxes we keep putting cursed stuff in.
Thinaun soul capture daggers. Companion only. Singing steel and Sun silver? Eh, equipment for Bards.
Elysium Bronze is armor and stuff for Waymar and the Time metal stuff is for some Time Research and eventual nick nacks and dodads that do some weird timey wimey stuff for fun.
All on the back burner due to action limitations and hard crafting time limits.
Personally I'd vote for the chitin as the one to focus on because with Living Iron research going on I kinda want to see if we can mass grow it in equipment form instead of smiting it later. Combined to give the DR bonus as well as the regeneration of course.
Living Brass everyone knows already. I miss anything?
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Thank you for finally saying it out loud.
That would grant them minor regeneration
All good ideas though you guys should keep in mind that you can fabricate anything in an instant. It's enchanting that takes crafter time.
Also what's the action economy feasibility of making a dozen or two more of the Alchemical Substancss factories? Because I wanna invest atleast 1 or 2 percent of the at raids profits into ramping up Alchemical production for every alchemical good we know from Abjuration Salt to Vermin Repelent and everything in between.
Stuff like the Abjuration salt to a Inquisitor Standard Equipment level of production. The Vermin Repellent to a just household good level.
Sun rod, smokestack and tangle foot bags for every soldier. Along with healing salves and a handy bottle of that Male birth control.
Stuff like the Abjuration salt to a Inquisitor Standard Equipment level of production. The Vermin Repellent to a just household good level.
Sun rod, smokestack and tangle foot bags for every soldier. Along with healing salves and a handy bottle of that Male birth control.
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Which is fairly powerful. @DragonParadox, how much do we need to incorporate into a Warforged to get them that regeneration? Does the Warforged need to be fully comprised of the Living Iron, or can we mesh a few pounds into each one and use different arcane metals as the base?
Crake
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Living iron would have to be the only arcane metal to get true regeneration, if you mixed something else in you could get burst healing, like a Cure Light Wounds SLA once per day
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That's still fantastic. I want Living Iron for every Warforged now.
Like I said Alchemical Revolution! Mo Crafters for hire? Fine we will use our nearly 1000 Hedge Mages to flood the world in nifty potions!Industrialization doesn't happen in a day.
Also mele specked Living Iron Warforged. Heh, metal trolls with Warrior Levels.
Those were the original ideas. Especially for the stuff we got way earlier. People just got distracted by the newer and newer shines and this stuff never got put into the background votes of what we do in the month crafting and infrastructure wise.
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Keep in mind I said minor regen, that means 1/round compared to a troll's 5/round.
Goldfish
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It costs 30,000 IM to start a new production line, one month to set up the line and train workers, and another month to begin receiving the products of that line.
We're at 16 production lines now, with 13 through 16 just coming online this month. We'll be producing a huge quantity of Explosive Packs this month.
We can vote to add more lines this month, but won't actually receive anything from them until the 12th month.
If you follow the Imperial Infrastructure link in my signature, there is a full write-up for how our industrial alchemy system works.
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We can work with that. They have proven workable and safe right? Cheap and profitable too at our current reserve level and their output.
10 new ones is 300k, a 100 is 3 mil. Id say 50 more which is 1.5 mil about what we spent in one shopping trip now. Or less than 1% of current reserves. Anyone wanna put a list of Alchemical products you want a literal ton of?
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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For battlefield scale, that's essentially invulnerability against attrition tactics.
In a one-on-one CR equivalent fight it's nothing, but masses of soldiers are better off walling them off with the corpses of their comrades.
Heh, Necron battle tactics.
Seriously mix it with that chitins DR reduction for a Warforged battalion and you've got an army more unkillable than an Undead one.
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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They could actually put themselves back together again if hacked apart but still alive, yes.
Goldfish
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There is a bottleneck on suitable project managers. Our industrial Alchemy requires a manager for each facility to have at least 8 ranks in Craft(Alchemy). We barely have enough Hedge Mages for the 16 production lines, with a couple more filling in for those who are taking time off. We're actually running with fewer than Hedge Mages than would be ideal, but it's workable.
Before we can add more lines, we will need to see if more Hedge Mages reach 5th level next month.