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[Hanzoku]

Why? It's fine to play the old version. There's people with campaigns they still play from, like, 5.0 and such.

Because there's a raft of new features and bug fixes in the next release that would make my next campaign far easier to play (and I wouldn't have to micromanage my officers to remove all the super-pilots before they hit Grand Admiral of the Universe due to crazy-bonus bug.)

[Edmus]

*eye twitch*

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[Flying Dice]

*eye twitch*

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Hah. Unlucky you; I've gotten Samuel Jackson as an officer before.

[Iceblaster]

Teehee

[RedKing]

So I've restarted a mass exodus across the stars/BSG 12 colonies type game.
These things never last long but it's always fun to design the ships. This time around I've gone for 12 motherships, each named after one of the zodiacal constellations, 787,000 tons with a few extra tech levels of engine research(otherwise the fuel requirements would be absurd), each ship varying slightly from this basic design:

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% Titan class Mothership    787,000 tons     2742 Crew     51500.6 BP      TCS 15740  TH 3120  EM 0
3303 km/s    JR 2-25(C)     Armour 2-759     Shields 0-0     Sensors 6/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
MSP 41    Max Repair 1824 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 60 months    Spare Berths 0   
Cargo 375000    Cryogenic Berths 500200    Cargo Handling Multiplier 140    Tractor Beam     
Fuel Harvester: 10 modules producing 200000 litres per annum

JC787K Commercial Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 787500 tons    Distance 25k km     Squadron Size 2
800 EP Commercial Inertial Fusion Drive (65)    Power 800    Fuel Use 2.21%    Signature 48    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 4,000,000 Litres    Range 41.4 billion km   (145 days at full power)

Thermal Sensor TH1-6 (1)     Sensitivity 6     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  6m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes

The fuel harvesters give some flexability, each ship can collect enough sorium in one year to allow 2 billion kilometers of travel. Full refuelling however would take 20 years, there will however be other logistical ships to help out. The variances will include one ship modified with recreational facilities, one with an orbital habitat(which is basically useless but it's for rp reasons) one with troop transports and construction brigades, and one with extra engines to haul a shipyard, I'll also cart around a research center divided amongst 2 ships, which should require the million population those ships can carry, plus 500,000 of the 750,000 tons cargo capacity, and also half the 200 infrastructure needed to put those million onto a cost 2 world.
The basic idea here will be to start the fleet in a random system which has a single jump point and nothing useful, but at least one asteroid for logistical reasons, the goal will be to find sol (i don't know if it will ever be randomly generated, since i deleted it at the start of the game, but at some point i may merely SM it in, perhaps after all the local systems have been found).
The rest of the fleet will contain a pair of 100,000 ton carriers, and a few much smaller military and commercial support craft. there will also be a shipyard being towed by one of the Titans.

Impressively large. Biggest civilian ships in my BSG game was 178,000 tons (and the Artemis itself was just a hair over 100,000 but it was designed as something of a "light" battlestar).

[Edmus]

How do civilian mining colonies work? do they need a population to operate?

[Flying Dice]

How do civilian mining colonies work? do they need a population to operate?

Nope. They'll be founded independently of what you do, and consist entirely of automines and mass drivers. If you just leave them alone (WHY!?) you'll get wealth income, or you can buy the mineral output and use the mass driver to shoot it somewhere useful.

[MarcAFK]

Hmm, I'm thinking that when my colony finally settles down somewhere Civilian mining colonies will actually give a massive boost to income and mining capabilities.

[Bouchart]

How do civilian mining colonies work? do they need a population to operate?

Nope. They'll be founded independently of what you do, and consist entirely of automines and mass drivers. If you just leave them alone (WHY!?) you'll get wealth income, or you can buy the mineral output and use the mass driver to shoot it somewhere useful.

They also come with a free Deep Space Tracking Facility and a garrison you can move around and do with what you like.

[Felius]

If you just leave them alone (WHY!?)

Well, sometimes, specially when the colony is on it's last dredges, it's producing a single mineral that you already have loads of at something like .2-.1 availability. At that point you might as well just sell the minerals, specially if you are not literally swimming in enough cash to buy a few empires thrice over.

[woose1]

So I just started playing this game and I accidentally nuked the moon.

EDIT: Ugh, every time I think I'm getting the handle of one aspect of this game there's a new tutorial right around the corner ready to fuck me over. Plus, all this nuclear fallout is making me depressed. I'm going to take a break from this thing.

[Bouchart]

If you just leave them alone (WHY!?)

Well, sometimes, specially when the colony is on it's last dredges, it's producing a single mineral that you already have loads of at something like .2-.1 availability. At that point you might as well just sell the minerals, specially if you are not literally swimming in enough cash to buy a few empires thrice over.

If you are swimming in cash, you don't have enough research labs.

[Edmus]

Right!
I think it's time to replace the glorified space tugs guarding Earth at the moment.

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Skirmisher class Frigate    8,450 tons     190 Crew     1769.3 BP      TCS 169  TH 375  EM 0
2218 km/s     Armour 5-36     Shields 0-0     Sensors 25/32/0/0     Damage Control Rating 14     PPV 6
Maint Life 1.92 Years     MSP 523    AFR 142%    IFR 2%    1YR 184    5YR 2765    Max Repair 616 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 23 months    Spare Berths 3   
Magazine 81   

75 EP Ion Drive (5)    Power 75    Fuel Use 165.96%    Signature 75    Exp 12%
Fuel Capacity 1,500,000 Litres    Range 19.2 billion km   (100 days at full power)

Fire Spitter CIWS (2x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 5000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Size 3 Missile Launcher (2)    Missile Size 3    Rate of Fire 25
Jupiter Class Missile Fire Control (1)     Range 554.4m km    Resolution 100
Jupiter Missile Fire Control (1)     Range 1,045.4m km    Resolution 50
Jupiter Missile (27)  Speed: 3,900 km/s   End: 3d    Range: 1000m km   WH: 4    Size: 2.9144    TH: 19 / 11 / 5

Thermal Sensor TH5-25 (1)     Sensitivity 25     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  25m km
EM Sensor (100 Ton) (1)     Sensitivity 32     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  32m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

A light missile frigate designed to have a number and range advantage. I hope I haven't missed anything glaringly obvious other than the low rate of fire (working on).
This is my first proper military ship, what have I screwed up?

[RulerOfNothing]

Firstly, the Jupiter Class Missile Fire Control can be safely removed, as it is inferior to the Jupiter Missile Fire Control. Secondly, you should probably look into getting faster missiles, since the Jupiter missile has only a 25.7% chance of hitting a Skirmisher class, and would have even lower to-hit probabilities against faster ships.

[HARD]

i designed my first missilies, where can i produce them?