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[SeamanStains]

[QUOTE=X6ZioN6X;42093805]One of the things I severely hate about this game is that people are dicks. How can you see fun in conquering empires who have no way to fight back? I have to pack up and leave my home system to avoid some asshole waving a TL31 ship around my TL2 face[/QUOTE]

Which empire is giving you trouble? There are very few TL32 empires, so it's possible you have spawned in their space. If worst comes to worst we can give you a warp ship, tech and supplies to make it easier on you.

[S31-Syntax]

Okay, annoyed now. I told the officer to take the con.

Aye, I have the con

I sign off, HE STOPS HIS MISSIONS AND HOLDS POSITION.

[I]WHY.[/I] I'M GONNA THROW YOU OUT A TRANSPORTER YOU [I]FUCK.[/I]

[Jad Hinto]

[QUOTE=X6ZioN6X;42094164]We're making our way out to you, we might go out a bit further though.[/QUOTE]Done and done. I also started sending tribute to your friend as well.

If there's anything else I can do, just let me know.

Hell, I might even transfer some funds to an alt and place a bounty on the guy if worse comes to worst.

[Tureis.]

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[KamikazeZombie]

[QUOTE=SeamanStains;42094435]Which empire is giving you trouble? There are very few TL32 empires, so it's possible you have spawned in their space. If worst comes to worst we can give you a warp ship, tech and supplies to make it easier on you.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the offer. I'm trying to see how this plays out first. He never actually said he would invade, it's just the way he said it sounded kind of... ominous. So I'm moving out for a few days or so as a precaution, see what happens.

[Cakebatyr]

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42094485]Okay, annoyed now. I told the officer to take the con.

Aye, I have the con

I sign off, HE STOPS HIS MISSIONS AND HOLDS POSITION.

[I]WHY.[/I] I'M GONNA THROW YOU OUT A TRANSPORTER YOU [I]FUCK.[/I][/QUOTE]

Did you tell him to man a station?

[S31-Syntax]

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;42094843]Did you tell him to man a station?[/QUOTE]

He's in the chair, his status is "in command of adfadfadsfasdf", and he gives orders when i'm signed in.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

I just signed in again, as soon as I sighed off before he stopped doing everything. I honestly don't know what his deal is.

[Topzombie]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42085526]Oh man, imagine finding the hulk of a massive starship crashed on a planet.
It'd be equally awesome if ships didn't just go boom, but could fall apart from damage. There was one space game in the same vein as Corneroids and Starmade that was implementing something like that, being able to cut ships in half if one wanted to.[/QUOTE]

Blockade runner? I wish they'd finaly release an update

[Takkenrakker]

We can easily take 3th place on the rankings, just got to have 5 more sectors!

After that we are just under syndicate and french empire woo

[Tureis.]

[QUOTE=uitham;42095166]We can easily take 3th place on the rankings, just got to have 5 more sectors!

After that we are just under syndicate and french empire woo[/QUOTE]

Ranking is meaningless. We could be number 3, but then we also aren't nearly developed enough to keep that position.

[Col. Buggernuts]

I've now only just realised wormholes are named after the first person to travel through them, so perhaps i'm not in immediate danger of being curbstomped.
Found a rather interesting system consisting of an enormous red giant and a whole bunch of planets in the inferno zone. Might just have found my future source of magmex, assuming the quality on any of them is good.

[Takkenrakker]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42096666]I've now only just realised wormholes are named after the first person to travel through them, so perhaps i'm not in immediate danger of being curbstomped.
Found a rather interesting system consisting of an enormous red giant and a whole bunch of planets in the inferno zone. Might just have found my future source of magmex, assuming the quality on any of them is good.[/QUOTE]

Yeah I especially like how there is a number after those wormholes giving you hints to what route to take to get to that guys capital

[Col. Buggernuts]

[QUOTE=uitham;42097204]Yeah I especially like how there is a number after those wormholes giving you hints to what route to take to get to that guys capital[/QUOTE]Ooh, wonder if I could find some abandoned tech.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

I think I might need to make a dedicated scout ship with a massive sensor range; this current ship is rather slow and myopic.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

I seem to be in Russian space; there's a lot of wormholes with Cyrillic lettering.

[Merv]

I still need to ally my empire to NeoCAS.

[Col. Buggernuts]

Is a sensor range of 3.1 million sufficient to scan a solar system in one go?

[Takkenrakker]

Apparently, when I was making a subsidizes tl15 ship with employ citizen for 4 hours something went wrong when it was done with making it, and another one was made 5 seconds later. This second ship is TL32, with 540k hp.

Now to find someone who sells warp drives!

[S31-Syntax]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42097748]Is a sensor range of 3.1 million sufficient to scan a solar system in one go?[/QUOTE]

Most systems you will be able to scan in one go. You may have issues with binary and trinary systems though. I aim for 4.5 mil for sensors on most of my ships. Situational awareness is many times a more powerful weapon than even the most dedicated weapons bay.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=uitham;42097204]Yeah I especially like how there is a number after those wormholes giving you hints to what route to take to get to that guys capital[/QUOTE]

Which is why, upon getting a warp ship I never built another wormhole ship ever again. My sector has zero explored wormholes.

[Col. Buggernuts]

Encountered my first foreign empire (prosvetlenie). A Russian empire with 145 players, but only one solar system and ranked a couple hundred places below mine. Is it safe to say that is a dead empire? They've got a T10 ship lying about on a planet, and I don't want to go fiddling with other people's stuff if it's still in use.

[Merv]

Check if they have any cities, and with 145 players and only one solar system, they're probably all alts or bots.

[S31-Syntax]

They could potentially be a piracy proxy empire.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

Worst case, tell staines, if syndicate stomps them instead of you then all that'll happen is the diplo thread will end with "sieg syndicate I guess"

[Col. Buggernuts]

How does one capture a ship?

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

Successfully captured the ship, but had to kill the crew. Now i'm manually flying a rat-infested ship through wormholes (whose engineer console is 4 decks below the bridge)

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

They've got one city with 800 citizens. The ship is full of rats, so i'm guessing it hasn't been touched in a while.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

And succeeded in landing it on my moon base. Sure as hell didn't want to risk a landing in atmosphere with such a difficult-to-control ship.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

Turns out it's a T19 ship, it was the spaceport that was T10. That should mean the planet has some lovely tech loot.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

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[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42098689]They could potentially be a piracy proxy empire.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

Worst case, tell staines, if syndicate stomps them instead of you then all that'll happen is the diplo thread will end with "sieg syndicate I guess"[/QUOTE]Piracy proxy?

[Dvohoritch]

Russians making alt empires to exploit the game anonymously.

Just post their names here. We will notice it.

[Col. Buggernuts]

Well this is their player list from the empire ranking:
[url]http://www.hazeron.com/software/players22449.html[/url]

[S31-Syntax]

Threat of that kind of attack is why people either password their immigration or go invite only and keep the circle small.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

That is a lot of players for a single city. with 804 civvies though they have probably been on in the last ~2 weeks or less.

[Col. Buggernuts]

Oh dear :v:
Here I was thinking I was plundering a lost empire. What should I do now regarding it?

[S31-Syntax]

Up to you. IIRC, if you cap that city, they won't be able to spawn there and it will scatter the citizens into random, open immigration empires.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

Also, for clarification, I make note of the population because that means its a single, well developed city on a large, probably habitable planet with a zone cap of ~800. Because the number hasn't gone down from decay/suicide, they've been on recently enough to remove abandonment penalties.

If their city is perfect, then they may have been gone for up to a month. In which case that is plenty of time to count for an inactive empire and the diplo-boards won't really give a shit if you cap em.

[Col. Buggernuts]

Then the plan of attack is set. I've already messed up by attacking a potentially active empire (though their emperor was last online on August 17th), so I might as well completely neutralise any potential threat.

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

Huh, it's one of those old-style cities.
Also got my ship annihilated by an unseen laser defence base :/

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

Oh, level 32 laser defence bases, that explains it :v:

[editline]6th September 2013[/editline]

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[Tureis.]

Send in fighters when invading places, they're not targeted directly.

[Col. Buggernuts]

Just got the shit kicked out of me by a clipping stack of troops. Seems i'm not going to be able to try again until I build another ship.
EDIT: And also realised I need to station a troop at each base after clearing out the garrison so it stays captured while I take the town centre flag. This is going to require a ship that can carry a space transport.

[Merv]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42100220]Just got the shit kicked out of me by a clipping stack of troops. Seems i'm not going to be able to try again until I build another ship.
EDIT: And also realised I need to station a troop at each base after clearing out the garrison so it stays captured while I take the town centre flag. This is going to require a ship that can carry a space transport.[/QUOTE]

Wait, are you the guy that is way out in the western part of the galaxy?