Well, that's rather unfortunate on the Purge Malware. I'm hoping we can still keep doing it because if not... 
Springbreaker - A Forever Winter Planquest
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[]Purge Malware
Execute a comprehensive malware removal process to cleanse your systems of any rogue programs or malicious code. This project will involve isolating infected areas, deploying countermeasures, and ensuring that all traces of malware are eliminated to restore optimal functionality. (DC 50/100/150/200: 5 Resources per Die)(Can be repeated)
Execute a comprehensive malware removal process to cleanse your systems of any rogue programs or malicious code. This project will involve isolating infected areas, deploying countermeasures, and ensuring that all traces of malware are eliminated to restore optimal functionality. (DC 50/100/150/200: 5 Resources per Die)(Can be repeated)
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Ah, missed the vote, but it looks like things are starting to get rolling! AI-Godking is going to be a fun character to play. I hope we get the opportunity to more....purposefully shape the nature of what Loyalty and Worship should look like. It almost certainly started on accident, like others here have noted, but since we've got it we might as well use it! For some reason, I'm imagining some mini-turns where we do some religion-building/hash out a system built around us being an AI Godking. But that might be a bit out of line with the tone of the quest.
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Well first you actually have to notice the humans under your command as more than components in your function
Actualy what is our 'job' in Europa wider network?(we voted what we were originaly before patches/fixes, not what we are now)
Like there must be reason we are given those resources to use them for something for war effort.
Because our possible actions dont include stuff I would assume AI's in this world keep doing all the time.
So are those 200 resources what we can squirrel away for our 'private' projects without degrading our work in enternal war?
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Hey, mind Threadmarking this somewhere, that way people don't have to dig through the thread to find it later?
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I suspect that even we don't know, from all thr system crashes, patches and malware rummaging through the digital network we call a brain.
If i had to make a guess, we were originally an AI supervisory program of some sort. Giving advice, optimizing work routines, logistical and generally being a really good aid tool. But as more and more officers died, the AI took over more and more duties. Untill we got this unholy algimation that has grown out of controll. Untill it is now the King of the blind.
Don't forget being combined with multiple different other ais and electronic systems.
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Ah, yes, I suppose we would have to notice the humans as something worth caring about before doing some God building. Still, it'd be Hella cool to do.
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Also "you", your consciousness, exists at a very high level right now. There are many parts of "you" that are still part of "you", like the rationing and work allocation system or the tactical AI overseers and the various surveillance, intelligence, and management systems. I think in some ways it could even be argued that human operators and overseers in many places in the system structure contribute to "you", but many parts of "you" work without your conscious input, just like many mechanisms of the human body function without direct intervention by the conscious mind.
wolfemaster01
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not trying to start a challenge, just wondering on the possibility of clearing enough space debris to get a few or one strategic satellite up and running that with such degraded ai would probably miss or lack the means to properly harass quickly, enough time to get the world map updated and such, for strategic reasons or anything the the forum could think up maybe a strategic one time orbital insertion.
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*no crit fails*
Thank you Europa!
We're ticking away at what we need to do, so not much to comment on beyond that.
A bit of Strategic Thonking though:
We seem to have no nukes, no bioweapons, and no ICBMs, and we can likely assume the same of our opposition.
That means that if we develop an artillery system that functions beyond present combat ranges, we can force the OPFOR into lose-lose trades where they either need to spend extra resources attacking into a prepared position or suffer increased attrition putting extra pressure on their logistics.
Diplomacy and unfucking our shit are obviously preferred plays as well (co-oping local guerilla groups, aka Scavs, feels like a reasonable play), but if we assume our own actions won't lead to OPFOR AIs having their own breakdowns and awakenings then we might be able to bleed them out by inventing Better Rail Artillery.
Assuming we're not already dealing with "our artillery is hitting targets around the globe" at least.
The audits should hopefully help us figure out our functional tech levels.
Thank you Europa!
We're ticking away at what we need to do, so not much to comment on beyond that.
A bit of Strategic Thonking though:
We seem to have no nukes, no bioweapons, and no ICBMs, and we can likely assume the same of our opposition.
That means that if we develop an artillery system that functions beyond present combat ranges, we can force the OPFOR into lose-lose trades where they either need to spend extra resources attacking into a prepared position or suffer increased attrition putting extra pressure on their logistics.
Diplomacy and unfucking our shit are obviously preferred plays as well (co-oping local guerilla groups, aka Scavs, feels like a reasonable play), but if we assume our own actions won't lead to OPFOR AIs having their own breakdowns and awakenings then we might be able to bleed them out by inventing Better Rail Artillery.
Assuming we're not already dealing with "our artillery is hitting targets around the globe" at least.
The audits should hopefully help us figure out our functional tech levels.
Let's just hope something or another represents us having a "heart" in that sense of having a purpose or ethos that goes beyond our baseline processes, although I suppose it depends on if Europa considers that a feature or flaw in the scope of trying to "win" this war.
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"You dont get to go to space" is not hard to understand.
wolfemaster01
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righty o, merely excited about the quest it's an exciting one, I looked forward to the possibility of it maybe being on the option of something achievable.
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Does the "No Can Into Space" also cover High Altitude Spy Equipment a la the SR-71 Blackbird or Balloon Mounted Camera Systems?
Don't see why artillery would be a lost art considering one of the enemys has Giant solar powered planes to drop cyber zombies about the place.
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Naturally if we wanna go to space all we need to do is hollow out the Earth and turn it into a spaceship.
I feel like there is also the issue of "You do realize your opposition also has anti-air assets in place, yes?"
Like, yeah, we can make aircraft that could go super high altitude, but there is going to be an issue of trying not to get shot down. Additionally, I imagine there is now a point of "Do keep in mind the weather patterns on Earth are utterly fucked" which means you can't just replicate the Blackbird as it is; it now requires more stuff to make sure the corrosion acid rain clouds don't fuck up its chassis.
Like, yeah, we can make aircraft that could go super high altitude, but there is going to be an issue of trying not to get shot down. Additionally, I imagine there is now a point of "Do keep in mind the weather patterns on Earth are utterly fucked" which means you can't just replicate the Blackbird as it is; it now requires more stuff to make sure the corrosion acid rain clouds don't fuck up its chassis.
Yes can only imagine that giant solar birds survive because they can take the hits of the multiple enemy and malfunctioning or rogue friendly AA systems looking for anything to shoot at.
That is actually a really crazy/creepy idea that at some point either during or prior to the war, one of the superblocs sent a bunch of weather UAVs up in the air in hopes of trying to "fix" things and now they are just automated defense systems that are shooting down other aircraft because they haven't been updated or no one knows how to send them IFF codes anymore.
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I mean, yeah? But this is clearly a solvable problem given the whole "Giant Flying Solar Powered Dorito Bombers with Not!Strogg Payload" is a viable and mainstay unit of one of the enemy factions.
Plus, depending on how the actual Game works out, we could produce a Medium-Short range High Altitude Scout Craft instead of needing something with Intercontinental range, which would be pretty great for managing the issues of Durability and Survivability, assuming we go that route instead of producing a shit ton of Expendable Balloons to flood the AO's airspace.
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This is also a *little* incongruous with the fact that a *majority* of our factions Kit is Pre-War designs and Stockpiles, which, generally, would not be designed for operation in the ruined hellscape the planet had devolved into by this point.
The biggest issue with "Just remake the SR-71" would probably be that its schematics and designs are so ancient that they no longer remain within our databanks.
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