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[NUKE9.13]

Side Two is clearly twice as good as Side One.

[Madman198237]

A question came up in Side 2 about unrealistic materials/phlebotinum-type stuff that lets you do things you can't normally do. I'm going to allow some of that, though note that that is generally going to be accompanied by some difficulty and cost penalties, in exchange for allowing you to do things normally not physically possible.

Such things would be created in a design, generally one that also makes a practical piece of tech (for instance, some fancy new material in a fancy new gun), and would have some defined characteristics you can use to bend physics in your desired fashion.

Obviously I'd review any given instance to tell you whether it's possible or not, and until the first battle report I'll be happy to give you a rough idea of the difficulty of a given concept.

[The_Two_Eternities]

Joining Side One.

[Jerick]

I shall join side one

[TricMagic]

Side 2.

[Madman198237]

Some more clarifications regarding lore, faction names, designs, difficulty, and all that sort of stuff:

There will be a lore contest coming up, wherein you guys try to outdo each other with the most interesting and well-made backstory for your faction. Each faction should probably try to decide in this first turn on a name and a rough idea of what you are, then start writing a story about it. The best (best, not necessarily longest) story will win a Research Credit (roll 3d4 on a design, take highest two rolls).

I won't REQUIRE you to have a faction name decided by the end of this turn, but it'd probably make it pretty hard to comprehensively describe your faction in time if you, y'know, haven't made any decisions.

As for backstories, as I ended up telling Team 1 on Discord, you can write almost whatever you want. You want to be aliens, sure! We can retcon the colony ships travelling together, I don't care. You want to be robots? Absolutely. Just note that no matter what you pick, you will gain no advantages from it, nor will you gain disadvantages. Yes, that means your robots will require spacesuits, and that your methane-breathing aliens will be just as happy on that earthlike central planet as the opposing team's humans breathing oxygen.

The GM takes no responsibility for any confusion that may ensue.


As for when the first design is going to happen, it's going to happen whenever you guys figure out what you want to do. So yeah, get planning, get voting, and let's get to the part where I get to cackle incessantly as I describe your failures. That is a thing GMs get to do, right?

[flabort]

I count 8 posts siding with side 1, and 7 for side 2.
I may be miscounting.
But nonetheless, side 2.

[Carefulrogue]

Side ONE

Edit, changed team, based on player balance.

[VoidSlayer]

Side 2

Obviously the better side.

[Madman198237]

Both sides need to settle voting on their second design, and both could definitely use a more decisive vote for their team name.

Once the design votes are pretty well set I'll move on with the first designs, if names take a little longer to hammer out I have no problem waiting for that vote to be finished.

I'd expect that the earliest possible designs will be tomorrow morning, just to ensure that everybody is properly happy and/or unhappy with the direction their team is going to start out with.

[Madman198237]

First design results are up! Now moving into the first revision phase, you have two revisions. Don't screw up.

[Questorhank]

Is this still joinable?
If so, Side 1.

[Doomblade187]

Is this still joinable?
If so, Side 1.

Should be. Come on over.

[Madman198237]

Absolutely. You can join this game until it's over, and I suppose you can join it after that, too, though why you'd want to is beyond me.

[Madman198237]

Would you look at that it's almost like an UPDATE.

It's now Turn 0. Start getting the meat of your lore put together, would ya? I want to know your histories, your different groups in your culture, and more.