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Rogue 9 wrote: ↑2020-10-12 11:59am I will go with what the majority of players decide. You're right about maturity (and a different player base; it's looking like I'm going to be the only player left from that era), of course. But if we do freeform, my long form ship class descriptions are going to outline in detail what I would have shorthanded with points, and I'm going to treat them accordingly.

Polaris class escort destroyer (15 points total), 30 in service
5+5D+5C3
The Polaris class is an escort ship. Designed to screen for heavier warships as well as escort commercial traffic, the Polaris and her sisters are the workhorses of the fleet.

Bandit class frigate (15 points total), 25 in service
5+5O+5C3
The Bandit class is designed as a shipping raider. They may operate either independently or as part of a fleet, providing a powerful punch in a small package.

Polaris class escort destroyer

The Polaris class is an escort ship. Designed to screen for heavier warships as well as escort commercial traffic, the Polaris and her sisters are the workhorses of the fleet. The destroyers mount both a formidable active defense array and advanced sensor package.

Bandit class frigate

The Bandit class is designed as a shipping raider and interdiction vessel. They may operate either independently or as part of a fleet, providing a powerful punch in a small package. Though on a similar space frame to the Polaris class, and sharing its sensor package, the Bandit forgoes advanced active defense in favor of a large antiship missile battery, allowing it to punch slightly above its weight class, and heavier engines to enable it to fill a pursuit role.

Partial compiling of the current rules for STGOD 2k9.

OOB purchasing: You get the following amount of points to spend on your OOB.
1000 points to be spent on spacecraft and starfleet.(cruisers, frigates, battleships.etc)
500 points to be spent on planetary forces (infantry, airforce, armour, etc)
250 points to be distributed amongst your holdings to represent their industrial output and intrinsic garrison (10 point planet X, 15 point planet Y. etc)

Intrinsic garrison. All holdings except mobile ones have a free garrison attached equal to their industrial points. This is like your normal troops except does not possess spacelift capability and cannot relocate. Normal troops have spacelift capability/dropships.

You can convert planetary force points into starfleet points at a 2/1 ratio if you wish.

Strategic movement: Travel is conducted via nodes, points in space that are mobile and follow a mostly predictable path around the edges of systems, this path makes keeping ships on station at them a draining undertaking due to course corrections. Each node offers instant translation to its partnered node in another system so most strategic movement is taken up by the trips to and from nodes at STL velocities. Travel times to cross from one node to another is 2 days for light elements and 3 days for capital ship elements.

Communications: The only way to transmit at a speed above that of light is to use a bucket brigade of node transit drones. Each one uses a communication laser to send the data to the next NTD on the chain or to the destination. This process can take anything from an hour to a day per node depending on the location and availability of the drones when the message is sent.

Sensors: We're going for a slightly space opera ish feeling, its possible to be in a system and not see every little thing in it that doesnt have stealth. Sensor ranges are a bit less than that.

Stealth: Stealth is a modification for ships that doubles their cost and makes them stealthy, simple no?

Theater shields: In order to make those point spent on ground forces relevant the theater shields over bases and cities have been increased in power massively compared to previous games. A theater shield can stand up to bombardments from orbiting spacecraft for days necessitating ground invasions as opposed to simply issueing an ultimatum of 'surrender immediately or get glassed'. Not that you cant be a dick anyway, you can still bombard undefended parts of the biosphere and stuff. Just can't take the planet that way unless you manage to fight the space version of Greenpeace.

Production: Each production turn(at an interval yet to be determined) you get a number of points equal to the total industrial production of your holdings with which to produce new ships and troops. There is no upkeep but production turns are at an interval greater than previous games.

Combat: Fleet strengths can be used for rolling dice of damage or as a baseline for rping it.
Current dice roll for damage per exchange is a roll of 10d(base value of fleet)/20*tactics/rping/funky gadget modifier.

War and Peace: While a state of active war exists between two parties, all currently occupied territories are worth half as much due to resources being committed to things other than putting down local rebellion and whatnot.

If a party loses substantial territory in a war (at least 50 points), and then signs a peace treaty or ceasefire, they still produce half as much as what they lost during the next phase, to account for the public outcry and plans for 'the next war'.

Academia Nut wrote: ↑2007-12-15 03:15pm 1d4 to determine the quadrant, using the Cartesian method for naming them as the guide (ie 1 = I, 2 = II, 3=III, 4=IV, simple enough)

Successor States:
1d6 along x
1d6 along y

Outsiders:
6+1d6 along x (this can be reduced to 6+1d4 if more compact play is desired)
6+1d4 along y

Simon_Jester wrote: ↑2020-10-19 10:11am I'll take whatever works; I'm playing a human colony state produced by a long range colony expedition in the relatively distant past, since that seems to be the basis of our planning.

EDIT:

To be clear, I'm talking about nation location and accepting being rolled up as a, ah... 'successor' is the word?

madd0ct0r wrote: ↑2020-10-19 02:11pm I might need to withdraw. Got a new dog, uni restarting and overtime at work does not look likely to decrease.
I'm dead on my feet.