(N)GC4 - Game Story Thread

[AMF]

looks like soemthing is amiss...it's waiting for input to run the turn...

[Roanon]

Ruatha had to put it to manual so that the Version could be changed, as far as I have understood. Now we have to wait for his children to wake him up ...

[Ruatha]

I'm awake.
Friday Last night so they could stay up a little longer... means sleepin morning for me aswell!

[Randallw]

Broma stood at attention, wearing Diplomatic uniform. Around him stood the crew of the vessel on which he had been transported here. Mostly comprising Auxiliaries they also wore their dress uniforms, besides him the captain stood waiting along with the other members of the States diplomatic contingent. Slowly the doors leading into the conference room opened and a junior officer ushered in the delegates from the neighbouring empire. Broma made an effort not to react to their alien appearance. Bedecked in their own Versions of uniform, or at least Broma assumed, they filed into the room and stood opposite the desk that filled the center of the room. Broma strode forward, aware of the fact that cameras in the room were filming the events for the records. Reaching to one side he picked up the old fashioned pen lying on the desk, and with a flourish he affixed his newly created signature to the official documents on the desk. Normally documents would be signed with an electronic print, but so little was known of the aliens that old fashioned means were required. Turning the documents he pushed them over to the Alien envoy, accepting in return a copy of the documents newly signed by the Alien. Again the envoys signed the copies before an aide from each side reached over and took the newly signed trade treaties. Reaching across the desk Broma held out his hand. The Alien envoy stared at the presented limb before reaching forward with its own alien limb and grasping Broma's. Broma was surprised how warm the hand felt, and he began to smile.

[Roanon]

First Speaker Roanon was studying the reports on his desk with grief. Explorer reports, explorers sent to scout new worlds for his race to colonize on. But planets to settle on were scarce, despite of the predictions of his astronomers that told otherwise. Not only that the large mineral-rich asteroid fields were missing that his experts had predicted to exist in this galaxy. But there also seemed to be no planets of large size, similar to his homeworld, in the whole galaxy! While, as predicted, small and tiny planets did not have the gravitation to hold the gaseous atmospheres in which his species lived, this left his race with a very slim range of planets to settle on. Huge planets were very scarce, also, and apart from many other things, on top of this, even the latest reports did not find a single huge breathable planet. While The Big Creator seemed to have distributed atmosphere sizes equally among the smaller planets, he not only had left out large planets on creation, but probably also had forgotten to include his atmosphere in the distribution on huge gas planets.
Roanon sighed. Fate had played against his race. Most certainly, they would have no future in this galaxy. Should he order the building of warships and try some suicidal conquests, as some of his ministers already had suggested? No, this really would not solve these problems. This galaxy just had too few planets for his race to live on.
What was this crazy scientist writing? He could build devices for destroying planets and creating them anew? Maybe this was the only way to survive for his race in this galaxy...

[Ruatha]

I checked Tescos map that is being used in the game:

You have 170 planets that fit your atmosphere and planet type, most medium and some large and some huge.
I haven't counted the asteroid fields but they are counted in hundreds.

If you instead had gone for rock with same atmosphere you'd had 252 breathable planets, some huge, some large. Alot less medium and many more small and tiny.

I'd say you have approximatly the same amount of facility space, you just gotta find them.

It's the same in all maps, there are fewer gas planets than rock and ice but the facility space is roughly equal.

[ March 01, 2004, 07:13: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Roanon]

[quote]Originally posted by Ruatha:
You have 170 planets that fit your atmosphere and planet type, most medium and some large and some huge.
I have explored my share of this galaxy, and there are NO large planets apart from the home planets. Numbers do not tell much, there are a lot of planets in this galaxy - 170 is less than one breathable planet per system.
I haven't counted the asteroid fields but they are counted in hundreds.
Sure, but there are hundreds of systems too. FQMs specialty is, though, a ring containing about 10 - 20 asteroids in nearly every system. In NGC3, set up with FQM, there were thousands, not hundreds of asteroids.
If you instead had gone for rock with same atmosphere you'd had 252 breathable planets, some huge, some large. Alot less medium and many more small and tiny.
Yes I know, rock/huge/my atmosphere is extremly rare also... and, again, only homeworlds appear to be large. I have expected to be able to settle on less, but larger planets. Huge planets only without my atmosphere may be bad luck, but removing all large planets from the game alters it a lot for gas races. Probably adding some mediums does not compensate in any way and dramatically changes the overall structure (needed colony ships, number of population and facilities possible).

I'd say you have approximatly the same amount of facility space, you just gotta find them.
I doubt, but I will try to retain hope. Up to now, all aspects of planets have been distributed very evenly, and I have doubted that the lack of huge/my atmosphere will change in other systems. But, a home system with fewer warp lanes than usual, nebula adjacent, and even a directly adjacent black hole, does not promote exploring very much...

It's the same in all maps, there are fewer gas planets than rock and ice but the facility space is roughly equal.
I expected that, and planned for that: fewer but bigger planets. But I did not expect NO large planets at all. Having only medium planets to live on is a bit depressing for a Gas Planet race.

/rant off
... and I even didn't want to rant. Just vent a bit maybe - and explain why I might turn less attention to this game than I could do. No, I didn't hand over the empire to ministers - yet...

Let me conclude this with the statement, that I *do* like the map and the effort Tesco has put into it, but next time a galaxy is created with one planet type missing and Non-Asteroid FQM a hint would be appreciated very much.

[David E. Gervais]

FYI: The Huge Gas Planet situation in my neck of the woods is I have found 6 so far, 3 Carbon Dioxide, 2 Methane and one Oxygen. There are a few large Gas planets too, and I didn't scan for medium, normal, small or tiny.

note I have visited some 14 systems so far, so I would have to agree that Huge Gas planets seem to be scarce. Especially if your atmosphere type is Oxygen and your planet type is Gas, your Home bases will be stretched thinly all accross the galaxy.

just my 2 cents, Cheers!

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Roanon:
Means not even conquering the whole galaxy will improve my situation... although less competition might help then ..

This is your chance Roanon!
Rise to the challenge, fight against the unsurmountable odds and win against this hostile galaxy!
Show thy true mastership of the art of war!

[Narrew]

Gas giants? bah, this Last turn I met my first 3 races, all in one turn, and they are all Deeply Religous, I am soo dead! *sobs*