To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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There is no room for another border zone between the Klingon and Seyek Border Zone (Seyek-Cardassian Border) so i expect it to cover all space between those two.
It is described as:
- Declare a Rimward Border Zone (Dawiar border, some Caitian colonies, some Themis), 20pp
I expect it to cover Trill as well as there are no other logical zones it could be a part of and then adding Ruby eyes folly is only a small expansion.
If we are allowed to choose the size of our border zones i would vote for including Trill and Ruby eyes folly as then we can use the four ships of the patrol zone as the base of the new border zone fleet.
Another option for a border zone would be start at Risa going rimwards and include the Trill and ruby eyes folly and keep the rest in the Ferasa sector as the Dawair border has become inactive in the recent years.
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And for later, there were ideas how a space installation could be expanded ...
Enerael
We Shall Wake to Sanity
No academy expansions? We can only take those once a year, and have no other way to increase our crew income outside of gaining new members (affiliates and allies give some crew too, but very litle I think?). Sooner or later, its going to be a bottleneck.
Also, we should buy Nashes EC expansion every year I believe. She will not be around forever, and the bonus is great.
We really, really do. If we could build a single starbase only, it would be this one, no question about it.
Check the map.
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I'd also like to include an academy (& maybe EC) expansion if one is available this year.
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Thors_Alumni
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@Briefvoice If we get the bonuses this year can we plan on using them for the Academy Expansion options? I really do think we should buy more expansions to prevent a crew bottleneck. Nash isn't going to be at the Academy for much longer and her bonus goes with her and I don't want to miss out on buying it when its available.
Someone want to update this to the wiki?Map posts!
Note, does not include:
Haruka system
Aeneid III mining colony (somewhere in Sol sector, nobody knows where)
Akley Consortium.
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How much will we really need the additional EC throughput, though? We're already planning on crewing the Ambassador wave without much issue...
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We're crewing most of it - five ships out of six - and we had to pull an Excelsior from Explorer Corps duties to manage it. Assuming the End of Year Report is accurate, we still don't have enough EC-rated academy graduates to launch a new Ambassador on a Five Year Mission annually.
*Looks at Wiki* Damn, @Raw90's been busy today!
The Ambys, yes. The Ambys, standard Starfleet ships, and the Federalized ships? That is a resounding "We're not sure."
We should buy any and every Academy Expansion every year they're available.
Speaking of our upcoming crew-crunch, This budget Excelsior-B just became very attractive in that context.
+1C, +2S, +2H, +3L, +4D, and reduces crew from 6/5/5 to 4/5/4.
The Ambys, yes. The Ambys, standard Starfleet ships, and the Federalized ships? That is a resounding "We're not sure."
We should buy any and every Academy Expansion every year they're available.
Speaking of our upcoming crew-crunch, This budget Excelsior-B just became very attractive in that context.
+1C, +2S, +2H, +3L, +4D, and reduces crew from 6/5/5 to 4/5/4.
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This looks interesting. What exactly are the downsides to the refit?
It's a 8/8/6/9/6/10 design, which has very poor presence considering presence are the narratively more important events for a garrison ship. No increases in presence means we don't keep up with high-level event difficulty. 85/65
The comparable more expensive design is something like 8/8/6/10/8/9, so much better in event response and slightly better in suitability (D9 or even D8 vs D10 is basically a nothing difference). 80/85
I would like the crew-light design much better if it was something like S7 P7 D8, for example.
Also, have to remember that while we are in refit waves we typically grow a very large crew surplus. Using crew in refits will rarely hurt our stockpile timing-wise, it only matters over the longest term.
Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
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We literally just had a discussion about trimming logs because we're going to have lots more EC ships. And now we need more EC crew?
We literally just had a discussion about trimming logs because we're going to have lots more EC ships. And now we need more EC crew?
Ambys have like 20 crew apiece man.
It's mostly normal Starfleet crew we're going to be short on but people want Nash's EC Annex as well as normal Academy Expansions because it's a limited-time shiney.
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Decided to get some (very) basic character pages up for our captains, so that they can be expanded later.
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Five Year Missions are our best way to locate potential allies to help contain the Ashalla Pact. So yes, I want more of them.We literally just had a discussion about trimming logs because we're going to have lots more EC ships. And now we need more EC crew?
Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
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Nothing wrong with normal Academy Expansion but EC is gilding the lily. We already have enough EC crew coming up for 15-20 ships as fast as we can build them and even the GMs are sideyeing the increased workload.
As noted, we're already going to have a bunch of EC ships and the GMs are concerned about the workload. Our income is close to an Amby a year, and will be basically there by the time the Laio ratify.
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The stat comparison is actually a little further against my low crew refit than that; as my crew light refit is for 2327 rather than 2325, a higher crew refit with the same tech level could have 9/9/6/10/8/9 (your own proposal from a month ago).
Still, if a higher P low crew variant is desirable, I've started on a couple of alternatives. 7/8/6/9/7/10 and 7/7/6/9/8/10 are both manageable without increasing the crew or going over the 2.4mt external weight limit to fit in 2mt berths. 80 BR 75 SR refit costs for either at the moment, although back up to 180 SR rather than 170 SR new build cost. These are still somewhat rough; further tweaking might get those costs marginally lower. (Design links added on the wiki.)
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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Yes, but the GM's are already worried about event overload, and we're still trying to figure out the best solution for that. Increasing our planned EC launches is not helping.
Hmm. OOC QM exhaustion is an issue. IC, we desperately need more ships.
I'd rather keep ramping up our crew IC while we're discussing OOC ways to optimize the quest loading. Until we come up with ideas that the QMs like, best to play the ball where it lays, I think.
fasquardon
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The only thing that will 'help' is cutting the Federation in half and burning it down; since we voted no on going to war recently, I don't expect anything like that to happen.
I may have spoken too soon...
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Ah, so that's what that ominous hum is.