Space Voyager Posted July 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 At the upper edge of the free cluster we find a Human independent colony.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0002-74.jpgWe're going beamy! For the moment at least. Phasers are really good and a better optionfor medium turrets than UV beamers. I think.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0006-51.jpgZuul find us somewhat... edible. However honourable their intention surely are, I'm gladthe military build-up at the colony has begun a few turns back.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0009-47.jpgFirst sign of our second neighbour. Hivers. Well, too bad for this system, it would makea nice star haven. Also it lies in between the free cluster and (obviously) Hiver cluster.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0011-42.jpgLet's make the vastness of space a bit easier to grasp. Next turn bugs surprise us with a decent enough proposal. Hivers can make a great ally, weshould not forget that. But ceasefire is enough for now, I wouldn't want to see our empireswamped with their gates before we know each other a bit better.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0015-29.jpgOur intel tells us that the Zuul invading force is made up of mainly destroyers. Soror'salert status goes down to orange and some of the built ships are sent to strip the onlyremaining derelict. The other, as you can see in lower right corner, has already been takenby Zuul. The icon stays on until we check the system.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0017-24.jpgQueen is removed. No, this is not a revolution, but a head rolled anyway.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0020-21.jpgPhaser PD is available (if) in AM era, so for now I got fed up with micromanaging beamersto take down incoming ordinance.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0023-31.jpgNext time Zuul will not be as friendly, I'm sure.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0024-21.jpgAnother cluster, another Zuul. At first I actually though this was an independent colony(I think Zuul independents are not possible) but it turned out it is a Zuul empire with whiteas empire colour.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0030-7.jpgResearch is directed towards section-gaining waters.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0033-9.jpgHrmpf... Third cluster, third Zuul! I'm enclosed among the Zuul! Hm, well, this can be good,too. At least I'm not at war with races we can get friendly with... Meh, still not good.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0037-8.jpgA random encounter hit one of our worlds.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0038-5.jpgThe Herald foretells the coming of a Suul'ka. Not sure which one, but probably the one whocreated the Zuul. The Herald is a ship with clearly Zuul origin. And it lowers the morale of the colony. Finally. But AM won't be enough to protect this colony for long.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0043-5.jpgLast of weapons research for the time being. Next is Advanced CnC, as commanding biggernumbers of ships is becoming a nuisance. After that we go for some Xeno research. First tierZuul bark first - just enough to tell them to f... off. And get a pretty good War section.Then probably Hiver, to tell them a story or two.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0045-4.jpgA mining trap obliterated our fleet. Six rather expensive ships...https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0047-1.jpgI need to start the mining research to prevent such losses. Research in this case isa refinery ship sent to a system marked for mining. Then the refining is turned on fora turn to check for the trap. If it finds one... Better one refinery than a whole miningfleet.Ahhh, the fun of Zuul neighbours. The darker green colony above blue Zuul is Hivers, therest are Zuul.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0048-3.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 As promised, research takes us into communication.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0015-30.jpgSoror is facing two waves of Zuul attacks. As speed and manoeuvrability will not savethe day this time, we design a new cruiser class. "Branilec pesmi" (Defender of Song)is here to stand its ground and destroy everything that comes in range of its Lancers.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0001-87.jpgA surprise! One of the Zuul has dreads! I'm not too worried, if this empire pushed forDNs, it must have thrown everything at it. Which means that the rest is severely behind.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0007-53.jpgHeh, half of Zuul fleets gets eaten by VNs. Our scout could survive, but curiositykilled the dolphin.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0008-49.jpgI find a "Silvaril" system. This system is special because it is named after a Kerberosforum member who... I don't remember what he did, but he was rewarded by gettinga system named after his nick!https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0016-30.jpgA "Space Voyager" system... That would be silly.At turn 102 our mining fleets start bringing the goods at last.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0013-33.jpghttps://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0039-6.jpgThis turn was full of happening. At a system where our Zuul expedition stopped forrefuelling (I was trembling in fear, having just had a mining fleet obliterated) VN attackedand as this was not our colony, we destroyed the mothership. Bonus is nice, but we leg itnevertheless. I wouldn't want to meet a VN Berserker just yet.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0020-22.jpgFirst wave hits Soror. Poor colony... It would be ok if I didn't let three of the slavedisks get away and enter the atmosphere. The results are horrifying. At least none of theslave disks was able to deliver our brothers to Zuul worlds. Death is far better.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0011-43.jpghttps://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0018-26.jpgTo add to the disaster, Zuul left a surprise gift. Their spawn is devastating our colonyeven after the fleet is destroyed. Another Zuul fleet is on its way. As a small consolation,the colony was able to repair the defenders.Zuul infection drags like Monday. And when the second Zuul wave splashes over Soror in 105...https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0021-25.jpg...colony just barely made it. One slave disk would be enough to destroy it, our beams tookcare that none survived. Sometimes accuracy is vital. Colony took only passing shots yetonly half a million imperial citizens survived. Finally, Zuul infestation was cleared in 108.The colony is far from up on its feet, it has almost zero production capability.Empire free sector is being cleansed of Swarm.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0028-14.jpgThis is a nice proposition, but not just yet. Let's get to know each other a bit better first.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0031-9.jpgWe feed most of the money into research. Now for empire technologies. We'll probably visitHiver Xenotechs some more later, but now it is a race for money.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0038-6.jpgThe true reason for Hivers offering us NAP. Their gate fleet was already en-route to our newcolony. They didn't heed our warnings - which we did send - and the conflict ended the onlyway possible.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0053-2.jpgMoney money money.(=research'n'ships)https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0047-2.jpgAnd onward to dreads! Our first salvaged project is started, too.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0056-3.jpgSoror has not even recovered by now. Incoming fleet is twice the size of defenders.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0060-2.jpgBest defence is offence, but when Zuul are incoming, that is hard to put into action... Ourfleet, which dealt with VN Mothership, is already at the size 9 colony with AM. It is beingaugmented with assault shuttle carrying destroyers of "Potapljač" (Diver) class. And on the wayto relieve Soror. Being on the way is not the same as being there though so Soror will have toweather it out for now. This Zuul fleet is much faster than former two, meaning that they leftnode drilling ships behind.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0063-1.jpgThis went pretty well, considering. There is optimism in our song.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0065-1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted July 17, 2012 Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 We shall cut through their dissonance. Your chant grows stronger and sorrow, we know, you'll let not grow longer. :: For it is clear and true and the unjust it shall subdue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted July 17, 2012 Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 We shall cut through their dissonance. Your chant grows stronger and sorrow, we know, you'll let not grow longer. :: For it is clear and true and the unjust it shall subdue. You should be killing aliens, not singing poetry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 You should be killing aliens, not singing poetry. Ah, but these are Liir. They see universe as a Song, its true form, and disturbances as disharmony. They value other beings as high as themselves as we're all just cords in the greater harmony. Even killing aliens is only done to prevent the Song from falling silent. Adopting a more... poetic approach to the game is very Liir-like. I just hope not to disappoint Thor too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted July 17, 2012 Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 I had something different in mind - but never mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 I edited the post with the Herald. You can see the vid now.Second turn seals the fate of Zuul attack at Soror.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0002-76.jpgGrowing the Swarm may not be an option, but destroying it remains a source of income.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0003-74.jpg Hivers start an expansion into our waters from Star Haven.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0005-63.jpgBlue Zuul start fielding cruiser sized space hurting ships. These just happen to have a Node Canonattached to their behind, and our beam equipped destroyers prove to be an inexpensive way to getrid of it, before bigger ships close in and finish the job.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0009-48.jpgFirst the Herald, now this! Another new encounter which I have never seen before... Think of itwhat you may, but this game is just full of content, much entirely dependent on chance. Love it.What you see is Peacekeeper. It seems to have taken a direct route to our second sector.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0014-41.jpgImproving our ships.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0022-18.jpgA Zuul attack on our colony, guarded by Asteroid Monitor, ends very badly. For Zuul.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0025-18.jpgThough it has become evident that AM alone would not be enough, it needs support.Hivers... What to do about them? Frankly I'd rather see them as allies than enemies. We'll sendthem some friendly messages.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0030-8.jpgAs beams in general are not best at destroying colonies, Zuul get to meet our assault shuttles.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0033-10.jpgResearch into income, lowering cost, and increasing the numbers on the battlefield.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0038-7.jpgFirst dreadnought is planned and production is started. A "Metronom" class ship. It will givethe beat to battles.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0047-3.jpgWhy do we need it? Well, Hivers can tell. They are paying us a visit with their own.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0042-3.jpgWhat we know of.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0045-5.jpgIn turn 129 Peacekeeper reaches its destination. Apparently it has something to say!https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0053-3.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted July 20, 2012 Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 Seldom does form meet function, in such a complete, harmonious junction, as when you are this atuned to creation, SV. :: Now sing, brother, an introduction, of your finest vessel production - lest our neighbours want conversation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted July 20, 2012 Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 I wonder who will notice the reference of Space Odyssey of Arthur C. Clarke at the end of the message (on a side note a brilliant story even in current times) Enforcer is actually the easiest Grand Menace though it forbids expansion it makes sure your worlds are safe. Wonder what I will get And I thought you will record all Herald speech. Though he speaks about one Suul'ka in lore there are 7 or 8 of them and you can summon one of them in SotS2 while playing Zuul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 This looks quite good. It seems I'm doing something right here.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0001-88.jpgOh look!https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0002-77.jpgPeacekeeper is here to help us against the Zuul scourge. Finally, somebody else that sawa need to sing in tune.Right? Wrong.Sorry for the really confusing vid, I was trying to coordinate the action and get good anglesat the same time. I failed utterly at both. Results...https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0007-54.jpgObviously Peacekeeper Enforcer (PE) was not amused by our vacation at a Zuul colony. As itonly wants to stop all fighting, it is allied to the owner of the colony, who is clearly notan aggressor. This was our bigger Zuul destroying fleet, and only two ships survived. "Korala"(Coral) class repair and salvage cruisers are expensive enough to be worth saving, even if itmeans I'll need to build a refinery to haul them back.Our advance against the blue Zuul empire is seriously thwarted. And this was the only Zuulempire we had a nice shot against, both of us not having dreadnoughts yet. For the time being,we retreat the second fleet to our colony to think things over. Right now, PE seems more ofa problem than a blessing, even though its goal is a noble one.Research is thrown into even more ships on the battlefield. Not that we have them built. Anymore.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0005-64.jpgWe're scouting Morrigi cluster. Obviously Morrigi and Humans have at least a non-aggressionpact. A fact worth remembering.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0008-50.jpgOur song will be heard.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0010-42.jpgThis was though through...https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0012-40.jpgEither we throw a great deal of money into fighting our potential ally, or we let them be.Taken into consideration that our propaganda cruiser is on the way to Hiver empire, we accept.Oh COME ON!https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0014-42.jpgSo PE decided that the Swarm needs looking after? You know, more than perhapshttps://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0015-31.jpgthis world?! Same turn, naturally. Tully survived with heavy death toll among the planet swimmers,only one cruiser lost. Zuul fleet remains. BTW, it turned out that PE is always ready topeacefully resolve the fight. After all the swarmers were eliminated the Swarm decided it wantsto fight no more, so after I noticed that both Swarm and PE have the little dove icon in thelower left corner (check in the vids) I went for it, too, and the battle ended before the wholefleet was obliterated. Good to know.Yeah yeah ok, I don't even know where you guys are. But if we meet, I'd rather not fight.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0016-31.jpgOn turn 132 our colony Ymar is hit by a massive Zuul fleet. Ymar has an AM, but getting PE to helpis even better!https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0020-23.jpgZuul are caught between a rock and a hard place, so I should have the time to steady the cameraand do a slightly better job than last time. Ah, that was a sight.Frankly the reality was slightly worse but the movie was utterly ruined by flickering, so I had toreload and film it anew. What you saw was a perfect harmony between defenders and PE, reality wasweirder. For some reason PE and AM got into a fight in the last minute and it seemed as though AMwas going to be destroyed. PE didn't use its most powerful weaponry (like the disintegration ray)on it, so I only lost the defending fleet and a satellite or two. Anyway, real results:https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0021-26.jpgStill, the colony was defended and the damage to AM was not worth crying about.Then, a turn later, PE finally notices Tully, which by some miracle survived two turns. Miracle wasscientifically explained with Zuul' lack of a CnC ship, so dreadnought was not present in thesecond battle.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0023-32.jpgOur colony is saved! PE is forgiven. Being enclosed between all these Zuul empires, please stickaround.We dive into risky waters. That is why we send everything we have into research to get through themas quickly as possible. Even though we have all kinds of nice options open after researching AIwithout an incident, we dare not jump there. We go for more Xenotechs and I finally remember thatTrade Creole gives us a boost in that direction.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0018-27.jpgWe know more, but still not enough.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0030-9.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 SV I am shocked that you didn't know that PE halts any attack plans for time being... or did you do it on purpose ? He also kills defenders if they have enough ships that don't fit PE point of view. Space Voyager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 SV I am shocked that you didn't know that PE halts any attack plans for time being... or did you do it on purpose ? He also kills defenders if they have enough ships that don't fit PE point of view.He he he, I did know what its purpose was and thought this would happen. I wasn't sure though, as I have never met it before. But not provoking it would give little material for a vid. I didn't know about the defenders. Are you sure about that? As far as I know, it is supposed to attack if you build too many warships. EDIT; But I REALLY didn't think it would defend the Swarm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 If defenders have something more of a 2 Dreadnought worth command points remaining he "adjust" the defending side to appropriate number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Propaganda cruiser "Poet" is parked at Hivers' doorstep. That should at least prevent a dropin our relationship.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0001-89.jpgAfter researching Trade Creole, we take initiative with Morrigi.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0004-69.jpgA quick addition of two support techs.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0005-65.jpgAllows us to build "Slepi videc" (Blind Seer) destroyers at all our colonies.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0013-34.jpgHmmm, it seems we'll all sing Kumbaya after we get rid of Zuul. Or this is just the effect ofa grand menace (PE) present. Relations may explode later on.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0007-55.jpgWe're doing quite well money-wise and trade is bringing almost half our income!https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0016-32.jpgLet's finish at least one Xeno research tree.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0014-43.jpgZuul disregard the PE and attack.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0019-26.jpgWe find a Tarka cluster and start an exploration wave.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0021-27.jpgYup, nice to have the big guy around for now.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0022-19.jpghttps://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0023-33.jpghttps://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0024-22.jpghttps://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0026-15.jpgThis world in my first cluster gives me a wish to revisit the biotech tree. With some inputit could become a really good colony.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0025-19.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 You forgot about 2 last techs with Hivers. And you just barely caught up with turn time, so I will wait for your next update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 You do know there surely are Sectoids lurking inside that PE thing, don't you? :: Hah! They can't fool us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 You forgot about 2 last techs with Hivers. And you just barely caught up with turn time, so I will wait for your next update Those two are not my goal at the moment, I need their population. As next update will show, I was lucky enough to get the upper part of the research. You do know there surely are Sectoids lurking inside that PE thing, don't you? :: Hah! They can't fool us! Absolutely, it couldn't be anyone else than the greys! Thank you both for all your support and input, it really does make a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Well one of them makes you make much better trade deal with Hivers and lowers their production capability. A very nice scheming tactics if I may say so. Space Voyager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Well one of them makes you make much better trade deal with Hivers and lowers their production capability. A very nice scheming tactics if I may say so.True... Not that scheming is Liir-do, but this is hard AI after all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 First free systems in the Tarka cluster are explored. Our scouts navigate very carefully not tovisit their existing colonies - ceasefire means staying away from their worlds, but our fleetscan meet in space or at systems without a colony. That would belong to either of us.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0004-70.jpgParvati II is a very low climate hazard world by our standards. Ch at 264 is a paradise waitingto be settled and one of the three remaining biome cruisers is used to achieve that. A freesystem with next to ideal CH means that Tarka CH is far from ours or they would have taken itthemselves. But that their CH is very far from ours was already established when we met the firstindependent colony. Consequentially most of their leftovers might be peachy colonies for us, butI don't wish to invest too much into this cluster just yet. One colony to slowly build a fleet(if it is not destroyed beforehand) or just to keep contact with them is enough for now.Colonization efforts are continued wherever possible. Hiver gates should not bother us, we plana bright future for all living creatures anyway. Hivers especially as they can now be settled onall our worlds. And their empire's gates can aid us a lot with defence. Or stab us in the back,naturally. Anyway, Zoroaster is visited by our biomes. Song is getting louder.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0006-52.jpgAs explained, Hivers can live among us. As none of their worlds was previously visited, we nowget first information on their preferred climate hazard. Surprisingly, it is almost identical toours. This means that their populations should grow almost as fast as our own, so this may reallybe the perfect time to try and get rid of overpopulation. Slowly.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0007-56.jpgAll worlds where our population has not exceeded the overpopulation limit are open to Hivers upto the number where they don't limit our own. Where overpopulation was in full bloom, only smallportion of our populations will be moved to give Hivers some breathing space. When their numberswill go into millions, we'll remove the overpopulation and save resources for future generations.Let's try and get that size 9 system into our empire. Elemental nanites do cheapen the processof terraforming, but they do not influence our range of planets where we can start pouring waterat all.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0001-90.jpgGravitational adaptation does influence the range though. Our biomes start doing what they dobest.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0010-43.jpgJudging from two turns worth of Hiver settlement, they are glad to be here.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0012-41.jpgI completely forgot that 15 million dried fish coins gives our colonies a +3 morale boost! I'mnot even sure I ever knew, but our empire was rarely that stinking rich. Which is a result ofPeacekeeper, so others must have some savings as well...https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0017-25.jpgResearch is put into more communication, this time Tarka. We'll only research up to IncorporateTarka, which will persuade that independent colony to join our empire.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0009-49.jpgI'm sorry to say but we'll probably have to waterform the planet considerably to allow ourpopulation to grow. If Tarka would be closer to out CH it wouldn't be a problem and all of theexisting population would be able to stay, but as it is the terraforming slider will most likelycut into their living space.If you're asking yourselves why would I need my population to grow fast at all - since the planetis already full of productive Tarka - it would be best to explain that whatever planet of otherrace you take over is a draw on your income. A planet full of hard working lizards will cost usmoney until we get enough imperial population on it.We'll end this session with a beautiful, starry night. And a premise of war.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0013-35.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veki Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 We'll end this session with a beautiful, starry night. And a premise of war. https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0013-35.jpgWhat a beautiful sight! Can't wait to see it in flames! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Worry not, the intensive warship build-up began immediately. There will be fire. According to Liir loving peace, we'll focus on Zuul only. We'll try to befriend the rest. Not that I really believe we can persuade all of them, but we must try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 More coffee or Red Bull = more turns please https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0007-56.jpg So if you had another nations appropriate tech that would add 700 million civilians of that race? So the sum of civilians would be 900 + 700 + 700 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 More coffee or Red Bull = more turns please It's midnight already and I just came from a friend of mine, newly moved to an apartment, so I'll need that RD even without playing. Further. So if you had another nations appropriate tech that would add 700 million civilians of that race? So the sum of civilians would be 900 + 700 + 700 ? Nope, twice your population (without Arcology, which is 800 + 800 in this example) is maximum number of individuals on the planet. You can max your own and divide the rest among the races that can live there or go for another combination, but you can not go over the number that you can reach with overpopulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted July 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 No time to lose. What we have ready is employed immediately, the rest is being built on the fly.Liir dreadnoughts see first action.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0004-71.jpgOrange Zuul are among the fist to test our ships and their DN blows before I manage to pause thegame to take a nice sparkly picture. We're left with a nice fiery picture. To remind you; orangeZuul were the first ones that I know of to have built DNs. Their effort to rush for size - and thecost of supply for DNs - must have left their coffers dry as they seem to have more or lessstagnated since then.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0021-28.jpgBlack Swimmers are celebrating. They will be riding much tougher ships from now.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0002-78.jpgNaturally we jumped for the new tech immediately. A lot of projected ships in the build queue canbe replaced with superiour models and more of our fellows will get to fight another battle. Heara nicer song.And straight back to understanding Tarka. Our negotiations party (a standard planetary defenceforce) is en-route and it would be awkward if they arrived with nothing to say. There were nohiccups during research - and couldn't have been, as our research budget is a high multiplier ofthe demands of this research topic, so even with it going overbudget it would still be finished ina single turn. Our ships arrive, armed with all demanded knowledge.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0017-26.jpgPrediction was sadly correct. Not all Tarka will be able to stay. As an act of good will,waterforming will only be performed to Hiver ideal CH. A few more Tarka will be able to stick around.Operations are not limited to orange, we opened three war zones at the same time. Zuul flock to defendtheir spawn.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0010-44.jpgAccidentally a joint venture is formed with Hivers.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0009-50.jpgHmmmmmmmmmm...https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0019-27.jpgI thought they were acting kinda funny, laughing their exoskeleton arses off while blasting at poorSwarmers. BTW, I'm still in grief over the fate of the Swarm.White Zuul were a kind of an enigma but their tech level is revealed.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0023-34.jpgAM engines, torpedoes etc., pretty good for a Zuul. More of a Liirian approach to research really.Without further due, we introduced them to dreadnoughts. I hope they have invested all they haveinto toys and that we won't see their DNs any time soon.Blue Zuul hold no surprises, except numbers. They were the only ones to destroy our DN. Our shipsperformed beautifully and their exceptional manoeuvrability makes them highly efficient kil...singers, still a high number of tone-deaf members of the choir of life can ruin the tune any time.Zuul went for Harmonija CnC DN first, which cost them their lives as Metronom lead the beat in itsplace.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0024-23.jpgLet's take another look at the formerly independent Tarka colony.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0027-20.jpgTarka numbers are falling but Hivers already started to move in. It is still too toxic for swimmers.That reminds me, there was another independent colony at the top of our second cluster. Where didthat one go?https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0026-16.jpgOh... I... don't think they made it. A ship was dispatched to check if any of the Humans are stillalive, and biomes are built. If Hivers don't get a move on, we'll move in, Humans or no Humans.Heading for Power.https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/SotS%20TAR/screen0016-33.jpgThings are becoming quite hectic in a map this huge, I'll try to do another vid update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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