New PBW game: Ancient

Rollo · #1 July 28th, 2001, 10:53 PM

Yes, my "shipset" is also just a flag and new portraits and missels. But I think it's much more fun that way. Once dogscoff gets his Space Viking ships finshed, I'll use those instead of the generic. I like the generic, though.

Starting position okay, everyone? Boy, at least we have 2m resources of each on our homeworld.

Rollo

Dragonlord · #2 July 29th, 2001, 04:04 AM

Is there a certain time of day (EST) that all players are at their PC's? I'd like to blaze through the first 6 turns or so within an hour or two.

I am usually available between 2 PM and 2 AM Eastern time (this monday only: 6PM to 1 AM).

Quikngruvn · #3 July 29th, 2001, 07:57 AM

The best time for me is usually 11p to 2a. 'Course, while I continue my Quest for Gainful Employment, I've got quite a but of free time....

Starting position is OK, except for the small issue that my home star is unstable and could collapse at any moment!

Quikngruvn

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Ponder this: Scientists already knew that matter is 98% empty space. After they figured out the structure of protons, they determined the remaining 2% is mostly made up of... well, nothing. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

Phoenix-D · #4 July 29th, 2001, 05:00 PM

Which doesn't actually DO anything, as far as I can tell.

Phoenix-D

Quikngruvn · #5 July 30th, 2001, 03:28 AM

No, not in the text description of the star, but in a bullet point under the star description in big white letters. Hopefully I can get a massive system shield, 'cos a ringworld is still probably fifty years away!

Quikngruvn the nervous

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Ponder this: Scientists already knew that matter is 98% empty space. After they figured out the structure of protons, they determined the remaining 2% is mostly made up of... well, nothing. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

capnq · #6 July 30th, 2001, 07:21 AM

I had the impression (could easily be wrong) that the bullet point message was an indicator that this star was a candidate for the Star Explodes random event. If the game has events turned off or set at less than Catastrophic, it shouldn't ever actually blow up.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Quikngruvn · #7 July 31st, 2001, 04:32 AM

Duh! You're right, Cap'n, and unless Rollo missed that setting, I'm in the clear. I forgot that little detail in my panic.

Rollo, please tell me you really did set Event Severity to High....

Quikngruvn the still trembling

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Ponder this: Scientists already knew that matter is 98% empty space. After they figured out the structure of protons, they determined the remaining 2% is mostly made up of... well, nothing. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?