ASTA

The Dawn of Tomorrow's World(A Dieselpunk Nation Roleplay)

Considered joining this RP, but then I noticed two nations are packing naval firepower equal to or greater than the modern US Navy.

EDIT: Honestly, unless the ballistic missile is invented, Boerd's Mega Navy is more or less going to solo the RP.

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WilsonTurner said
By the way, so that no one can complain in the future, new warships will be rolling out in Valkian homespace. Not mass-production, but there'll definitely be an increase. Many ships are gone, exploring neighboring systems, so it's best to keep the home defense fleets up and full. Explorers probably won't be produced until there is an active war with someone. And stealth isn't exactly a special drive. Draconians go full-blast with stealth on their Lightships, so that they are effectively, totally and completely, invisible, but space is massive. What is 'close' in space is too far to go with a bullet on the ground. Giant ships keep their distance; they can't afford getting too close. Space is too tricky to handle in to pilot that close. So, visually hiding oneself is really only needed if you're being a Lightship- where you're essentially coming right up to someone's face, blasting them apart with a powerful gun, and then fleeing. The Battleship X could stealth itself, if it wanted to. It'd be much, much harder than a Frigate or even a Cruiser, but it could. If it sat at the edge of a system, and shut off all active sensors, locked in its heat and everything, ran silent, it'd be invisible. It'd be pretty damn hard to detect without getting in close. And the likeliness of getting in close to a single spot on a MASSIVE SPHERE, is pretty damn low. Being unseen isn't fancy unless you're going in close, or even medium range- just shutting most everything down and deactivating all active sensors is all you need. Actively sweeping for things is revealing your position- to a passive scanner, it lets it know the source. So everyone sees you if you actively scan. Valkians actively scan- Draconians only scan if they think they can overcome anything, and lock on active sensors to a target to blind them. It's like laser lights, I think.And plasma are like, generators that create a containment field, no? Produces plasma, puts it inside, and then jets it out? High rate of fire would mean overheating, and an EMP could possibly disrupt the field. If you're about to fire, or holding a shot, that'd essentially destroy that containment field, but not necessarily the systems, and blow up.

Stuff like this is why stealth needs to have specific rules tailored for it.

Magic needs them as well.

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WilsonTurner said
The Valkians confine themselves to their own solar system, believing that once they have completely colonized and fortified the entire system, they will be ready for expansion. The Draconians are more like a virus- they will spread as far as they can, or they want, setting up little bases and outposts everywhere with cloning facilities or incubation facilities, and simply let their rate of growth grow exponentially. New Condia, I've decided, is the closest inhabited planet to the Draconian home systems- not as in they are neighbors, but that is the closest. I'd say that there are probably half a dozen to a dozen systems already 'seeded' with Draconian bases. Each of those bases will build up, establish contact with the home system and each other, and begin pumping out ships and such as they expand across the system.New Condia isn't a major battle, in their minds- it'll be a first step towards galactic dominance.

Might have to hinder those plans.

Really wish Keyguy would answer my question though.

Is RPGuild dying?

Prince said
This thread has just-plain gone on too long. Staff is highly-aware of the outcries the site has, we're getting nothing productive done, any real argument for-or-against anything was stomped out early by several of us. Mahz is a motherfucking adult capable of assessing a situation, making judgement calls and taking responsibility. Not a soul on this site has any right to second-guess his judgement, question his calls or even dare imply there is fallacy in his actions. He provides us a service free of any charge to any of us. His service, to us, has created a community, it has given birth to all of these great things people have vouched for and hold important. We have already determined the RPGuild is not dying, other opinions are the minority and fall on deaf ears, leaving this thread to fall short of its original purpose.I also feel a lot of more recent posts are just dick-measuring competitions to see whom can seem the most mature in how we resolve hostilities and conflicts here. That may not be the intention, but when I read through some of these admittedly-impressive soliloquies, it just looks like a redundant series of posts where the next guy tries to sound better than the next. That's nonsense. Half of this thread is nonsense. If you guys want to have different discussions, go make them. Go make them and have a constructive conversation over the site instead of debating over tangents on this one. That's not productive, its just circular debate where none of the Staff or anyone observing the thread can attain useful information by observing and assessing it. You all have voices to be heard, intellectual points to make. Go make them in way that will be intelligent, constructive and structured. What I see on this thread, at this point, is just pointless. The question was answered and beaten to death. Move on.

I don't think offering a free service exempts you from constructive criticism. Telling Mahz to throw out the fishing line and reel in some assistance can't be worded in a nicer or more 'intelligent' manner; it's a basic piece of advice, not an entire thread that requires 30 pages of extensive discussion to come to a conclusion.

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Keyguy, you don't have a main character aboard that ship do you?

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Nevermind.

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Part of the benefit of never disclosing how many ships you have is that you're relatively immune to power creep; you can summon as many armed spacecraft as the plot shared between roleplayers demands.

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Why is it called Space Africa?

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WilsonTurner said
Set rules REALLY need to be employed for DUCK. Stealth is currently not a problem.

Until you can lazily place hundreds of ships somewhere without being seen.

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WilsonTurner said
Well according to the laws of roleplayism, the doctrine of bullshitism, and under the Godly Handwavium, roleplay says no.Sends waves through it, keeps heat and poop in [dangerous for extended periods of time], etc., #invisible can't see.If we would like to get technical, and brutally mutilate any and all people who aren't being realistic and completely and perfectly accurate, let's go ahead and smash... everyone's face in, except for you, ASTA, and a couple other people, like Mr. Septonian. But yeah, pretty much the rest of us are all screwed if we must completely and totally accurate, according to the science of TODAY. Then again, we are so far in the future that even God may have died of old age [exaggeration for religious; not so for atheist], so I think technology might have CHANGED, don'tcha think? Well, HUMAN technology might not have changed, but we're a bunch of nerds roleplaying science fiction... and my little pony... so I really don't think it's good to be completely and totally accurate, ASTA.So, according to the laws of holycrapthisain'treallife, I will continue with my invisible ships that are pretty much undetectable until they do anything other but use their stealth systems. Except, of course, magic. Because magic can do frickin' anything because it's frickin' magic, and because they're all so dependent on magic, they've got everything else too, even though there's no need for it whatsoever because magic does EVERYTHING better than EVERYTHING, and is completely unattainable except by being LIKED enough to get it, in which you must STAY liked enough in order to KEEP It, or it'll get taken away.You know, when I think about it, I'm probably just gonna assist Darkwolf cause he's cool in destroying Duck, because he won't add any restrictions and keeps his magic way overpowered for the roleplay.

I'm actually advocating to keep away from ultra-realism, but set rules do need to be employed for stealth.