Stormbringer wrote:It wasn't a particularly good attempt. But then again everyone also immediately saw through everything which has been a continuing problem in this game.
Again, I don't exactly see where that's been happening. Could you cite an example?
It's not the vacations I'm worried about so much as the constant fucking bickering and bitching. That kills games, and quick. And when some one has intermittent access and everythings a fight that tends to slow things down.
We've managed to survive a lot of bickering and bitching so far, and while I do admit it wears on me at times, it can be resolved reasonably, and the amount of bitching since Laz left has been miraculously low.
Basically, I just want to end this constant fighting all the time.
There wasn't fighting until BS was pulled. There's a reason for that. I'm willing to work with people a great deal, but I expect something in return. I wasn't getting it, so I put my foot down.
He's hardly the only one that only posts intermittantly. Darksider and a number of others do the same. Patience is a virtue.
Yes, but there's a difference between not posting much and staying out of the way of major events. Imagine if Thirdfain had launched a massive invasion of the Asgard mere days before he had to leave, then disappeared without telling anyone and without appointing anyone to control his forces in the iterim. The STGOD would be dead inside a week.
The point is, don't embroil yourself in huge events if you cannot follow through. It's not much to ask, really.
And he's stated some of this and perhaps, like myself, given too much credit to people that they could understand some things with out having it hammered home in extreme detail. The idea that a power operating at long range is capable of that shouldn't really come as a suprise.
If this were his standard fleet, I might be more inclined to agree with you, but when one is making high quality replicas of other nation's ships, you have to throw your nation's own design philosophies out the window if you expect the ruse to be even remotely believable. I would imagine that concept is relatively obvious. They have to behave like KSE ships in order to be effective, and that would include things like FTL speed, range, supplies on board, control terminals, and so forth down to the factory markings and serial numbers on all the parts. Otherwise just about anybody would easily see through the shams.
Unless he's using Highlander as a basis, dictating how his power ought to run is bad form.
You're missing the point. The idea of reduced need for food and water is NOT implied in his OOB, NOR is it logical to assume that because they can come back from the dead, they can get by on fewer (or no) supplies.
It's not a matter of redlining drives. It's a matter of a power that is set up to make long voyages being more capable of endurance than those that aren't.
Okay, I'll spell this out I guess.
1. Star Trek ships can maintain FTL for weeks
2. This STGOD is roughly DS9 tech level
3. Thus, roughly any power in known space can maintain FTL travel for weeks if need be.
Note that I am not saying that any known space power can maintain top speed for several weeks on end, much less redlined drives. At best, what such an endurance advantage would equate to would be a slight increase of speed on very long trips, but that's about it. Also, if you really want to get into it, if that's the case, then it would make sense that shorter range voyages would put the cross country champion at something of a disadvantage, wouldn't you think?
After all, the Ousters (who are the only other major "out there" power) have slower FTL than the rest of us, presumably for a similar reason.
Never mind that you're three weeks out, which in the grand scheme of things, isn't all that much considering that naval ships in known space would be capable of deployments for several months.