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Once you make the blueprint for a type of tech, your guys can work with it just fine. For example, they designed the teleport relay sats mostly on their own.
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@Trondason us acquiring the materials would have.
[X] Build something new
-[X] Sleep Learner
[X] Isaac Asimov (famous scifi author, and we have scifi tech)
[X] Von Braun (gundam reference and a homage to the most famous rocket scientist)
Also, we don't need Factory-Joes. Can't our MULEs build stuff, @I just write ? It's been a while since I last played the game. Otherwise we could make some kind of...Joe SCV hybrid.
[X] Build something new
-[X] Sleep Learner
[X] Isaac Asimov (famous scifi author, and we have scifi tech)
[X] Von Braun (gundam reference and a homage to the most famous rocket scientist)
Also, we don't need Factory-Joes. Can't our MULEs build stuff, @I just write ? It's been a while since I last played the game. Otherwise we could make some kind of...Joe SCV hybrid.
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Dunno if they could in game, the version you've got is just a super-digger though.
Apparently they can't build, but they can repair things? I assume ours can't.
I think we should go for SCVs @Trondason since they're specialized for it. We can always make unmanned versions like our MULEs.
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I will say this about the scripted event: It involves what you gave the Joes for AI, and isn't technically a rebellion.
One of them wants to marry one of your human soldiers, and is requesting appropriate upgrades, namely a civilian mode.
One of them wants to marry one of your human soldiers, and is requesting appropriate upgrades, namely a civilian mode.
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We acquired our own materials. With our tech. We might have needed some materials to start out with, but it was a small amount that is easily hidden away. Then we had our own Mule (or something similar) that mined up more material for us, without having to buy anything from anyone.
Well yeah, but I meant taking a design that was already there (the Joe Series) and altering it for something new (a Factory Joe. meant to do what the Engineers do, but since it's a robot, do it better. Also probably won't need the super-metal-armor, since it's not made for combat). I was wondering if we could have them do that by themselves, or if it's complicated enough that we have to spend our own time doing it.
A Factory Joe isn't meant to build buildings, it's meant to build things like the Engineers. Like laser guns, or more Joes. A SCV is not made to do stuff like that.
I'm honestly curious how a SCV builds ANYTHING. It has a Drill, and a clamp claw. Neither are really tools for building stuff.
What, they want pay or something?
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[x] Plan Iron
Ok, since we have 6 months to work things out before the aliens come down like the fist of a angry god. I feel like now would be one of the better times to shore up some of our weaknesses and get things started to help increase both income and help get the other nations of this world ready.
So with that in mind, I thinking grabbing a new alloy that could take over use of one of our other main metals or become a worthy alloy to give to others here, could allow use to start selling whole the weaker material without to much of a risk of a bad blow back, that would also net us a lot of good press and points with the other nations.
Which with a the new PR core/Diplomats can use in turn to help further increase the weight of our words on the world stage and get us some more trust here. So hopefully we can avoid to many attempts of people fucking with us while we try to do our job here.
[X] Build something new
-[x] A new Alloy Ceratanium
[X] Name for your first pocket warship?
-[x] Make it base vote and let them pick the name of the new ship series.
[X] Name for the moonbase
-[x] Left the Base Commander pick the name, as a way to help increase morale.
[X] Look into recruiting a 1st grade captain for your moonbase.
-[x] Though look through your own ranks first to see if anyone is up to taking up the new ranks.
[X] Look into setting up and recruiting a PR office/Diplomacy core, to run interference between you and the public.
-[x] As you need real experts to handle the hearts and minds of the public, before you mindless flaying screws something up.
[X] Sit down with your leadership and set up a charter/Codex, operation goals, and establish a rank system.
-[x] As so far your group has only been holding together by inertia and reflex, that needs to change. As you group, your Xcom, needs to work as a well oiled and maintained machine, an that requires people to know what the fuck they are doing and why.
-[x] A new Alloy Ceratanium
[X] Name for your first pocket warship?
-[x] Make it base vote and let them pick the name of the new ship series.
[X] Name for the moonbase
-[x] Left the Base Commander pick the name, as a way to help increase morale.
[X] Look into recruiting a 1st grade captain for your moonbase.
-[x] Though look through your own ranks first to see if anyone is up to taking up the new ranks.
[X] Look into setting up and recruiting a PR office/Diplomacy core, to run interference between you and the public.
-[x] As you need real experts to handle the hearts and minds of the public, before you mindless flaying screws something up.
[X] Sit down with your leadership and set up a charter/Codex, operation goals, and establish a rank system.
-[x] As so far your group has only been holding together by inertia and reflex, that needs to change. As you group, your Xcom, needs to work as a well oiled and maintained machine, an that requires people to know what the fuck they are doing and why.
Ok, since we have 6 months to work things out before the aliens come down like the fist of a angry god. I feel like now would be one of the better times to shore up some of our weaknesses and get things started to help increase both income and help get the other nations of this world ready.
So with that in mind, I thinking grabbing a new alloy that could take over use of one of our other main metals or become a worthy alloy to give to others here, could allow use to start selling whole the weaker material without to much of a risk of a bad blow back, that would also net us a lot of good press and points with the other nations.
Which with a the new PR core/Diplomats can use in turn to help further increase the weight of our words on the world stage and get us some more trust here. So hopefully we can avoid to many attempts of people fucking with us while we try to do our job here.
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This is why I only wanted drones who could use military tactics and take verbal orders. If they're just drones, they can be expendable without any qualms.
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You're thinking of the C-14. The C-10 is a stupidly overpowered anti-materiel rifle that can crush someone's shoulder through a suit of Titan Armor if they aren't careful.
I'm pretty sure we can't do both.
And I have just been assuming that Ceratanium isn't much better than the super-metals we already got, but might as well make sure. @I just write is Ceratanium any better than the other super metals we got?
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Eh, it's somewhere between Cydonium and Neosteel in terms of physical characteristics, though it's a bit lighter than Neosteel.
So would it be a good lesser general material to give out to the rest of the world?
Or would that alloy be to hard to make with their tech level to matter even with a 6 month start?
Do we have blueprints for C-14s here that we could give for pubic us then? Or will that be something we need to research?
As while Xcom will always be the tip of the spear, the rest of the world does need weapons good enough to at least hold the line.
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Yeah, that'd work.
The C-10 is Gauss, and needs Neosteel and Superconductors.
Cool.
Could we design a bastardize version that didn't need such and was less effective, but could still be useful against the aliens?
I see that addition. They moved rather fast, he hasn't been alive for even 2 weeks yet, and they are already marrying.
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Also, this particular one self-identifies as female.
So we made sapient robots, instead of sentient ones?
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There's no major need for the Sleep Learner yet, as our subordinates seem competent enough in their chosen fields and we aren't secure enough in our control to hire new personnel, so it can be done next turn (or the one after that). The new metal meanwhile can have far-reaching changes for the whole industry and will make the advantages of being allied with us immediately obvious.
There's no major need for the Sleep Learner yet, as our subordinates seem competent enough in their chosen fields and we aren't secure enough in our control to hire new personnel, so it can be done next turn (or the one after that). The new metal meanwhile can have far-reaching changes for the whole industry and will make the advantages of being allied with us immediately obvious.
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Why are we missing the opportunity to name our new ship "The Murderbrick"?
But the sooner we get it, the sooner people can start getting EVEN BETTER. The learning rate with the Sleep Learner is just insane after all. It's never to soon to start learning everything. Even if someone has absolutley no more room for improvement in their field, they can cross specialize, so they are now a master at two things. Just in the week till our next Tech Option they could either learn another language (that first one would allow subsequent ones to go much faster) or pick up 3 new skills, like better first aid, or martial arts, or computer stuff.
If we want to give them a metal, I don't see why Ceratanium. Why not just Neosteel? They are all about equally effective, Ceratanium's main thing is it's lighter. And we wouldn't have to spend a research option on it.
I'm not arguing that it isn't terribly useful, I just think that having a new useful material to share with the world is more important right now.
According to WoG, Neosteel is 'stupidly difficult to make', requiring us to 'get the nanostructures just right'. Not exactly something that can be mass-produced by Earth's industries in any reasonable timeframe unless we share a lot of our technology with them.
It felt like you were saying it wasn't very useful, with " so it can be done next turn (or the one after that)" making it seem like something we can just put off till we got nothing else to do.
I believe the difficulty is just reverse engineering. We got the how down pat, and if we sell that, we are good. @I just write is this so?
Personally, I don't want to give them any of our Super-metals, we can give them some other stuff we got, some weapons maybe, but if we are I don't see the need to go out of our way to invent another
Edit: Also something we could give them that would get them on our side, Cold Fusion.
Also, @I just write while I'm asking questions, how high a Soldier Rank would classify as a Normal Skill? And would a Colonel count as a AWESOME Skill, or is AWESOME even more awesome than Colonel?
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A thingy no-one seems to have noticed: During the interview, Lovall explicitly said you shouldn't be able to pronounce the Sectoid language at all due to vastly different vocal chords. You did it anyway without even really thinking about it. Savants are bullshit.
Totally noticed. Just it ain't as Bull as some of the other things we pull off.
Yeah, compared to the rest of the stuff we pulled this was barely a bump on the road.