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Well, of course guns can be dangerous. So can knives, cars, even pillows. That's why you treat them carefully and not as toys.

My uncle, who owns a few guns and is the source of my firearms experience (limited as it is) taught me to be careful. He was in charge of reloads. Once a gun was loaded, it was to be kept pointed downrange at all times. When the gun is empty, or it misfires, you put it down (again, keeping it pointed away from all people) and back away from it until he can inspect it. You are not to check your targets until everyone has their guns down and safe. And for the love of Armok, don't try to fire rapidly or do fancy tricks.

Properly paranoid? I dunno about that, but I haven't seen an accident yet.

I want a single-player Shores of Hazeron. Build cities and colonies, explore procedurally-generated planets and star systems, design every facet of your starships...it'd be awesome, and no worrying about crippling lag or starting smack-dab in the middle of a larger empire that only lets you live at it's whim.

While that's a fine idea, I want to avert Critical Existence Failure as much as possible. An OMG-Huge battlecruiser would logically be blasted to a state of scrap long before it exploded, with various parts failing as more damage is sustained. It wouldn't simply be firing all guns in one moment, only to take a single missile and blow up the next.

Oh, I see. I was thinking of GalCiv, where you need research in order to talk to aliens

In that case, I guess we could do the biotech, though I think propulsion should be first. It looks like we wouldn't get to level 2 farms for at least one more project (unless bionics are the next farm level, which would be weird), so a solid speed boost might be a wiser investment right now.

Go ahead and keep the "for reals" section, it should help clear up confusion with people who've never played this before (aka, me )

I think I'd be more interested if it were a full colony builder instead of "just" a flight simulator. Why do so few games have decent colonization mechanics?

Looks really pretty though.

Way ahead of ya

The damage roll includes things like crew damage (remember, if the entire crew dies you lose the battle), engine damage, bridge damage (lose Command skill), power generator (actually added after Caellath's suggestion, the shields won't regenerate next turn), shield generator (minus maximum shield power), even some effects that don't directly lower stats, such as a shaken officer (no special commands may be given next turn), stunned crew (the ship may take no actions), and the dreaded warp core breach (1d6 additional damage rolls, if an additional warp core breach is rolled, this ship is destroyed instantly).

Naw, your shield idea was perfect. I was so busy trying to figure out how to make shields work in conjunction with armor that I missed the most obvious and logical answer