Ok, sorry, forgot to post my galaxy. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Anyway, I'm NS-ZupiCo at Alpha Ain (-40/-31).
me ALONG with blaqwolf are in Alpha Gorgonea Quarta (36/-42)
im at planets 4 and soon to be 2 when the damn comony ship arrives <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> well me n blaq have a good battle strat outlined to eliminate one user and Force the other to join our alliance, <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--dr.d+Sep 30 2003, 03:50 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (dr.d @ Sep 30 2003, 03:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> dr.d at Alpha Adib (43/16), I'm surrounded by filthy competetion. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> lol me and blaq have got a nice quiet galaxy with 2 afkers lmao. so far no competition, only alliances <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
i am NS-SiberianDingo @ Alpha Gnosia Stella Coronae (32,43)
this is the first time for me to play a game like this. it always feels good to grow, expand ,and concor. just like a virus <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> .
[EDIT] and why is my system's name so long?? "Alpha Gnosia Stella Coronae" thats 4 greek words compared to the 2 word systems.[/EDIT]
Seems this has become more of a success Marine01. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I have two people in my system who's population hasn't changed, I can only assume they signed up and forgot about it or something. Oh well, more planets for me <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
NS_Legion Alpha Tegmine (42/21) I'm on planet 12, there's another muh on planet 4, but I'm one population level ahead of him. I'm going to get a colony ship going, then Start up with a cruiser and a transport or so and drop him like a sack of potatos.
<!--QuoteBegin--Nil_IQ+Sep 30 2003, 09:23 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nil_IQ @ Sep 30 2003, 09:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Don't forget to add NS_ before your names so we can see you more easily!
I'm NS_Roadkill, on Alpha Achird, -39/-12 (so i'm right on the edge. From the look of the populations of the galaxy, the game has barely begun, yay!
I do agree that it takes too long to start up. You should start with a big load of PPs, i'm thinking 100ish. This would speed the game up in the early stages no end. Plus it wouldn't be unbalanced; someone COULD spend all their starting PP's on destroyers, but then they couldnt take your planet because they have no transports, and no PP's left to build one! I should be a dev for a game <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I love the sheer simplicity! If this game had like 10 types of ship, one of them would be bound to be hugely overpowered and a few would be severely underpowered. I like it as it is, 3 attack units, 5 building types. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Nil_IQ there is something called experience and Supply Units that you havent factored. When you kill a military unit of someone else (be it starbase or combat ship) you get experience points. If you get enough, you go up an experience level. That gives you a Supply Unit. Supply units can either be sold for Astrodollars, or used to take one building up one level. Now at the start of the game, a SU quickly acquired can be sold for around 80000 Astrodollars, and given that PP cost around 105 astrodollars each, you get a whopping 800 production points to spend at you home planet. The market has dropped out of the supply units now, and they only sell for around 35000 Astrodollars.
You only have to kill one guys starbase or kill one ship (must be a combat ship, not transport or colony ship) and you go up a level and get a supply unit. If you got a lot of pp to start off with, it would always be instant combat the moment you start off, and if one guy manages to kill a starbase or two, he gets an instant massive production point bonus, and you can get things like Battleships in a SS within 14hrs of startup. Not cool.
Diablus if you and blaq have two afkers, you have been given a gift <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. One of you kill one starbase, the other kill the other. That way, you will have seiged 2 planets, got yourselves a Supply Unit each, and pretty much secured your starsystem. It takes about 3 destroyers minimum to take a lvl2 starbase - I sent four destroyers to my afk and lost 2.
Dr.d if they are really serious, then you could be sodded <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->.... Population wont save you, it just means that if they seige your homeplanet it will draw it out for a while. Get the masses of population, but build a few galactic subnets, and then try and colonise a nearby planet. And if you want to warn them off, or you get a message saying they have launched at your planet, pump all your pp into a starbase. For max efficiency tho, I find having robos/hydros in a 1:1 ratio works brilliantly.
Ah it just seemed like their was no interest at the start because its really hard to motivate NS people to do anything but NS. A few would have signed up, the rest would have waited to see what they thought. When the post count here started to rise, more ppl gave it a go and liked it. The real difficulty is the original motivating.
They don't seem to be that serious of a threat, one of them has started to idle, and I have the largest population of the system already, there are about 8 free planets, so I will focus entirely on expansion and colonization for now.
That way if one of the sods decides to attack me I'll have multiple fronts to fight from.
Yeah good idea, mass expansion is a great idea at the start, that and improving your planets. But its a lot easier in a friendly star system because you dont have to look over your shoulder every 30 seconds...
I got two peeps who have never logged on and a guy slightly more powerful than me..
I'm going the eco boom aproach... researching the stuff that quickens production point accumulation and then researching it again... "hydropanic farm" and the stuff that increases population.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->My windows based machine is broken and I have to use my mac which is why it isn't working I think. Someone can have my account on Astrowars cause it doesn't work.
ElectricSheep Mjolnir
PS: thats not my forum pass. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Super, I've got two afkers in my system, and one of them is ElectricSheep <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> . There's another guy in my sector, and he's one population point behind... Should I try and eliminate him, make peace, or just hope he never attacks me?
Name - NS_YourNameHere System - Alpha Rescha (30/-42)
<!--QuoteBegin--Marine01+Sep 30 2003, 07:21 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marine01 @ Sep 30 2003, 07:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Yeah good idea, mass expansion is a great idea at the start, that and improving your planets. But its a lot easier in a friendly star system because you dont have to look over your shoulder every 30 seconds... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> yea me n balq are worried about after splitting our solar system and moving on, while were attacking another system well get invaded, and since it takes freakin 2 days (literally 2 days) to get you ships to get to another PLANET at level 2 energy imagine how long it would take to get from another SOLAR system , well my first colony ship was luanched ealier today, its gonna land on oct 2nd.. sigh... taking so long.. but the good thingis im racking in 9 pps per hr <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
aww... i didn't put the NS_ part... oh well. i'm doing okay. pretty peacefull over here in our galaxy. workin on getting another planet. hope to meet up with you guys sometime.
yea it will be a reunion, then after were all happy and say hi, well join allainces and become the most feared allaince in all of space! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--Diablus+Oct 1 2003, 02:05 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Diablus @ Oct 1 2003, 02:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yea it will be a reunion, then after were all happy and say hi, well join allainces and become the most feared allaince in all of space! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> until the kharaa invade... O_O
Have a quick question...when you colonize planets, and they start producing production points, are those pp's pooled into your whole PP stash, or are they only for use at that planet?
Uhhh Necro heads up man - my ally and me have just finished conqering (sp) our solar system and my ally is eyeing off your system. Its full of AFK's, your self included. He's swedish so I am going to do what I can to warn him off your planet and two others near it, but I cant make any promises. Start building asap, get four robos and four hydros, then build 3 destroyers and if Branboom is still afk take his starbase. As I speak my colony ship is winging its way towards planet 12 in your starsystem.
If my ally agrees to my plan, I get planets 9,10,11 and 12, he gets 5,6,7 and 8 and you get 1,2,3 and 4.
EDIT okay my ally agreed. Plan as above.
Yeah each planet has its separate pp pool, however when you advance in experience you get an option to cash all pp - turn em into astrodollars. Then, at your best planet you are allowed to turn astrodollars back into pp - so you can pretty much dump all your pp on the one planet and build a fleet there, but that comes later. At the moment its every planet for itself.
EDIT Just a small tip legion, I'd recommend making friends rather then fighting with him. That way you two can split you ss between yourselves, instead of infighting until someone else comes along and cleans you up. Same for you YourNameHere, try and make peace with the big guy and hash out a plan to split the rest of the SS.
Me and TuBel are well on the way to taking over our star system, we have 2 AFKs there, so i think my two destroyers should be able to handle them. We have divided the planets between us, and everything is looking good
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Anyway, I'm NS-ZupiCo at Alpha Ain (-40/-31).
im at planets 4 and soon to be 2 when the damn comony ship arrives <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> well me n blaq have a good battle strat outlined to eliminate one user and Force the other to join our alliance, <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
lol me and blaq have got a nice quiet galaxy with 2 afkers lmao. so far no competition, only alliances <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
this is the first time for me to play a game like this. it always feels good to grow, expand ,and concor. just like a virus <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> .
[EDIT] and why is my system's name so long?? "Alpha Gnosia Stella Coronae" thats 4 greek words compared to the 2 word systems.[/EDIT]
25/41
Seems this has become more of a success Marine01. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
wish me luck
NS_Legion
Alpha Tegmine (42/21)
I'm on planet 12, there's another muh on planet 4, but I'm one population level ahead of him. I'm going to get a colony ship going, then Start up with a cruiser and a transport or so and drop him like a sack of potatos.
I'm NS_Roadkill, on Alpha Achird, -39/-12 (so i'm right on the edge. From the look of the populations of the galaxy, the game has barely begun, yay!
I do agree that it takes too long to start up. You should start with a big load of PPs, i'm thinking 100ish. This would speed the game up in the early stages no end. Plus it wouldn't be unbalanced; someone COULD spend all their starting PP's on destroyers, but then they couldnt take your planet because they have no transports, and no PP's left to build one! I should be a dev for a game <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I love the sheer simplicity! If this game had like 10 types of ship, one of them would be bound to be hugely overpowered and a few would be severely underpowered. I like it as it is, 3 attack units, 5 building types. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Nil_IQ there is something called experience and Supply Units that you havent factored. When you kill a military unit of someone else (be it starbase or combat ship) you get experience points. If you get enough, you go up an experience level. That gives you a Supply Unit. Supply units can either be sold for Astrodollars, or used to take one building up one level. Now at the start of the game, a SU quickly acquired can be sold for around 80000 Astrodollars, and given that PP cost around 105 astrodollars each, you get a whopping 800 production points to spend at you home planet. The market has dropped out of the supply units now, and they only sell for around 35000 Astrodollars.
You only have to kill one guys starbase or kill one ship (must be a combat ship, not transport or colony ship) and you go up a level and get a supply unit. If you got a lot of pp to start off with, it would always be instant combat the moment you start off, and if one guy manages to kill a starbase or two, he gets an instant massive production point bonus, and you can get things like Battleships in a SS within 14hrs of startup. Not cool.
Diablus if you and blaq have two afkers, you have been given a gift <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. One of you kill one starbase, the other kill the other. That way, you will have seiged 2 planets, got yourselves a Supply Unit each, and pretty much secured your starsystem. It takes about 3 destroyers minimum to take a lvl2 starbase - I sent four destroyers to my afk and lost 2.
Dr.d if they are really serious, then you could be sodded <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->.... Population wont save you, it just means that if they seige your homeplanet it will draw it out for a while. Get the masses of population, but build a few galactic subnets, and then try and colonise a nearby planet. And if you want to warn them off, or you get a message saying they have launched at your planet, pump all your pp into a starbase. For max efficiency tho, I find having robos/hydros in a 1:1 ratio works brilliantly.
Ah it just seemed like their was no interest at the start because its really hard to motivate NS people to do anything but NS. A few would have signed up, the rest would have waited to see what they thought. When the post count here started to rise, more ppl gave it a go and liked it. The real difficulty is the original motivating.
That way if one of the sods decides to attack me I'll have multiple fronts to fight from.
I got two peeps who have never logged on and a guy slightly more powerful than me..
I'm going the eco boom aproach... researching the stuff that quickens production point accumulation and then researching it again... "hydropanic farm" and the stuff that increases population.
ElectricSheep
Mjolnir
PS: thats not my forum pass.
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Super, I've got two afkers in my system, and one of them is ElectricSheep <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> .
There's another guy in my sector, and he's one population point behind... Should I try and eliminate him, make peace, or just hope he never attacks me?
Name - NS_YourNameHere
System - Alpha Rescha (30/-42)
yea me n balq are worried about after splitting our solar system and moving on, while were attacking another system well get invaded, and since it takes freakin 2 days (literally 2 days) to get you ships to get to another PLANET at level 2 energy imagine how long it would take to get from another SOLAR system
, well my first colony ship was luanched ealier today, its gonna land on oct 2nd.. sigh... taking so long.. but the good thingis im racking in 9 pps per hr <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
until the kharaa invade... O_O
Account = Sirus
If my ally agrees to my plan, I get planets 9,10,11 and 12, he gets 5,6,7 and 8 and you get 1,2,3 and 4.
EDIT okay my ally agreed. Plan as above.
Yeah each planet has its separate pp pool, however when you advance in experience you get an option to cash all pp - turn em into astrodollars. Then, at your best planet you are allowed to turn astrodollars back into pp - so you can pretty much dump all your pp on the one planet and build a fleet there, but that comes later. At the moment its every planet for itself.
EDIT Just a small tip legion, I'd recommend making friends rather then fighting with him. That way you two can split you ss between yourselves, instead of infighting until someone else comes along and cleans you up. Same for you YourNameHere, try and make peace with the big guy and hash out a plan to split the rest of the SS.