SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread III

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Steve wrote:In an AIM chat we've been discussing new build times. I like this scheme:

10-29: 2 months
30-54: 3 months
55-99: 4 or 5 months
100-150 point: 6 months
150-200 point: 9 months
200-300: 12 months
300-450: 18 months
450-600: 24 months
600-800: 30 months
800-plus: 36 months, possibly with special mod-modifications for cases of REALLY FREAKING RIDICULOUS ships
Any opposition? I want to adopt it.
I know it was my idea in the first place, but I propose very slight modification, to:

<10 points: 1 month (yacht-class freighters are so ubiquitous they're probably made using assembly line techniques)
10-29: 2 months
30-54: 3 months
55-99: 4 months
100-149 point: 6 months
150-199 point: 9 months
200-299: 12 months
300-449: 18 months
450-599: 24 months
600-799: 30 months
800-plus: 36 months, possibly with special mod-modifications for cases of REALLY FREAKING RIDICULOUS ships

And, of course, for the record, the usual "50% of build time for commissioning."
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Re: SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread III

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If we are going to impose restrictions on large ships, we should impose restrictions on too many small ships.

And if you are going to ask me, that's way too many subdivisions for the <100 points.
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The below-100 classifications cover the large range formerly occupied by "1 month per 10 points of hull cost," including most of the ships in the game.
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Also it is a realm that for most players their ships occupy for most their navies. Yes the K-zone is different, but I don't think many of the players want super ship syndrome. If there is a slight preference to producing small ships we don't get dick waving super Ultra Battleships popping up every where. Besides there is the Mod decision that someone is building too much based on their income, despite no-one yet coming into conflict with it.
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Personally I think battleships should be long-lead items. Historical precedents favor that, and it forces a degree of long-term planning: it avoids escalating "Well I build a ship that weighs THIS many tons!" foolishness.
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Two updates in a day. Whew.
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Oh god, Shroomka. Yes! :lol:

Nice updates guise. Hey Steve, I only now just figured that the whole storyline with Stephen and the SEB thing and Sidney Hank was set in the future, because I didn't really notice the dates given, so I was all confuzzled when I read Stephen and Co. still in Tattooweenie when pages ago they were hanging out at Hank's crib, until I realized it was GODDAMN UNREAL TIME and they were happening in different places and different times! Then I was like "oh!" and stuff. :D

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I actually misread "Ranoidea" as "Randroidea" the first few times I encountered it. That makes me wonder what the Ranoideans' stance on libertarian philosophy is, though.
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Since their name for their own form of government translates as "technosocialist," the answer is "probably rather poorly."

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Shinn Langley Soryu wrote:I actually misread "Ranoidea" as "Randroidea" the first few times I encountered it. That makes me wonder what the Ranoideans' stance on libertarian philosophy is, though.
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So basically, what they think about libertarianism is:

*ribbit* Another one of those wacky alienoid philosophies for crazy alienoids. *ribbit.*

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Simon_Jester wrote:So basically, what they think about libertarianism is:

*ribbit* Another one of those wacky alienoid philosophies for crazy alienoids. *ribbit.*

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*ribbit* A harmful alienoid philosophy for particularly selfish and uncaring alienoids. *ribbit*
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It occurs to me that some governments may try to use the ESPer Olympics to scout and possibly recruit talent to their own government, though I doubt that'd be easy.
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Dang, now I have a third socialist-like state near me? :o

Now I have a real reason why my nation has never been so aggresive.
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Shepistan should fund and aid the Centrality in its stand against COMMUNISM!
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Gah. :x I'm getting less free time to do anything other than drop by for a look from time to time. As such, I really can't seriously join this game until my studying for my comprehensive exams are over three months from now.

Is it possible to temporarily hand over control of my nation to someone or give people the go-ahead to use the R'nish as they see fit? I don't want them to sit there and do nothing because my time-management is shit.
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Ilya Muromets wrote:Gah. :x I'm getting less free time to do anything other than drop by for a look from time to time. As such, I really can't seriously join this game until my studying for my comprehensive exams are over three months from now.

Is it possible to temporarily hand over control of my nation to someone or give people the go-ahead to use the R'nish as they see fit? I don't want them to sit there and do nothing because my time-management is shit.
Well, you can specify someone to further plots connected to the R'nish if you want. But given our slow time progression in three months we'll just be getting out of 3400 as a year, if even that advanced. So you won't miss much in terms of events, I'm sure.
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Hmm...it might be interesting to ponder the legal implications of Heraclius IV getting caught sneaking into the palace. What's his legal standing? If it hasn't been cleared up, it's possible he might just outright demand access to the vault and get it :D

It's funny how much disruption mind uploading/downloading might cause with our comfortable legal framework. For example, let's say an upload goes missing for a couple decades, and as per his instructions, a Solarian company restores him from backup. He goes back to his life, and then BAM the original returns having escaped from a Bragulan gulag.

Who gets the guy's stuff?

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PeZook wrote:Hmm...it might be interesting to ponder the legal implications of Heraclius IV getting caught sneaking into the palace. What's his legal standing? If it hasn't been cleared up, it's possible he might just outright demand access to the vault and get it :D

It's funny how much disruption mind uploading/downloading might cause with our comfortable legal framework. For example, let's say an upload goes missing for a couple decades, and as per his instructions, a Solarian company restores him from backup. He goes back to his life, and then BAM the original returns having escaped from a Bragulan gulag.

Who gets the guy's stuff?

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So what happens to him? He was told to go into the palace by Heraclius IV who might as well still be the rightful ruler of Byzantium! Can the UN punish the Imperium for that? :D

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PeZook wrote:So what happens to him? He was told to go into the palace by Heraclius IV who might as well still be the rightful ruler of Byzantium! Can the UN punish the Imperium for that? :D

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Well, I would imagine the Byzantine Empire's legal specialists will have a field day....

And yes, I wonder... but I think I don't know enough of legal speak to do a decent post..
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PeZook wrote:For example, let's say an upload goes missing for a couple decades, and as per his instructions, a Solarian company restores him from backup. He goes back to his life, and then BAM the original returns having escaped from a Bragulan gulag.

Who gets the guy's stuff?
This isn't unprecedented, and the usual solution is conjoining of both personalities followed by putting one of the bodies on ice as a spare, though the specifics vary depending on the terms written into the backup contract. I'd also point out that talk of an 'original' with respect to mindstates is, at least in the Sovereignty, a sure sign of a hilariously archaic and outdated view of things.
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Well, in this context "original" is quite meaningful, in the sense that Geppetto keeps referring to "my senior self." If we have Bob von Schrom, born in 3329 and just escaped from a Bragulan gulag, and we have Bob von Schrom, restored from backup and decanted in 3398, then just by looking at a calendar you can definitely say that 3329!Bob is the "original."

That doesn't mean that 3329!Bob is in any sense more 'real' or has some kind of rights over 3398!Bob, but 3329!Bob is definitely the original in a historical sense.
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