ASTA

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For example a page on nuclear energy, giving a brief intro and then explaining who uses it and how it's standard or even low tech in this setting.

The idea is solid, but this is one step away from Kardashev-style technical tiers that will only be given legitimate worth by a handful of player nations that effectively set an extremely inconsistent technological standard for "advanced". I'd argue antimatter reactors are innately inferior to thorium fission reactors or fusion reactors due to their need for active containment units that, should they fail, will result in the utter destruction of the reactor and anything within an X mile radius, but I doubt anyone cares about any of these factors because the superficial Space Opera standard can easily be invoked as a suitable (to me: sloppy) counterargument.

Stick to submitting your nations to the wiki. Leave out the categorizing.

Spam, please take Magnum back.

68 posts in? I thought this died after page 1.

@BrokenVeil I'm assuming that she's looked at the "Church of Gwazi" and "SS Iwaku" meme's that I'm apart of (and so is half of Iwaku), decided she didn't like it and then chose to blame me for it all.

Though it should also be noticed that ASTA's posting activity in Iwaku's General Chat (where this drama happened) has been next to zero. So why she's randomly barging in now and complaining about something she rarely frequents (on another site I might add)? *shrugs*

@Gwazi Magnum

I post in General, just not nearly as often as you do, and definitely not in the same forum topic archetypes that you typically frequent. I'm more of a silent, metaphysical echo force that floats about in the background. In contrast, you are a lively chap that uses a high-powered megaphone to convey your thoughts and emotions to everyone within a thirty mile radius. You steal my glory every chance that you get.

But no seriously, this thread wasn't engineered to start some cross-forum war or something. That's a forbidden level of retarded that even I wouldn't flirt with. A light jab at another user? Sure. Pointless internet slap fight involving multiple parties? No.

Though, I didn't expect Azarthes to "help". That was shocking and unexpected.

Isn't ASTA a guy?

@Vordak

That's up for debate.

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<Snipped quote by ASTA>Um, nobody said anything about this.
Just because they say it's immune to firearms or anything similar it doesn't mean it can resist ANY projectile weapon.
It's closer to "Look how durable this armor is!"
That's all. Firearms with sufficient power still break through it as expected.
Seriously, you have issues with reading comprehension here.

@Willy Vereb

Your statement on page 71, as well as Duck's, literally contradicts this entire post.

But hey whatever. That's good enough for me!

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You are treading a very thin line with me ASTA.

And applying real science and development to a NRP where fantasy magic is a thing and non-magic stuff is probably powered by handwavium is a bad idea.

@duck55223

It's less about applying real science to a science fantasy RP and more about preventing myself from being swamped with unrestricted (and extremely inconsistent) technobabble.

There's a precise nation flavor that I'm working towards, but if we're at the stage where No Selling an entire class of weapon is permitted, then I can only ponder whether or not No Selling space fighters, giant battleships, missiles, power armor, or some other article of technology is the next stage in the wank tree.

Because if it is, I'm ready to take advantage of it. Let me know.

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As stated by Zoldcyk, there is a policy against arguing in the OOC. I'm stepping and telling everyone to either drop it or take it to PMs.

@Durandal

No one's arguing.

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Many armors in this RP also include the classic "immune to firearms" sentence thus directly rendering modern infantry weapons useless.

This only opens up the possibility of someone drifting into the roleplay and proclaiming that their fictional suits of armor are incapable of sustaining damage from traditional science fiction weaponry. Throwing around the "I" word is a rather dangerous slippery slope to start down.

At the end of the day, your standard M4 carbine is identical to a longbow, a crossbow, a flintlock rifle, or a near-future railgun in principle (but not in mechanical function). While the rules for a DEW may be different, a handheld railgun is going to be constrained by Sir Issac Newton's tyranny, making the few merits that it retains somewhat moot and irrelevant if the creature firing it is incapable of withstanding the recoil that such an infantry arm will generate upon being fired. If people are going to hand-wave the issue of recoil away with a railgun, the same can be done for the firearm.

At any rate, I'm not using modern firearms for my faction, but it irks me when I see people writing off customary firearms as inherently useless in space opera settings.

My beams being antimatter only give them a slight boost in comparison. X amount of antimatter can only interact with X amount of matter.

The antimatter itself, at least from my perspective, isn't the problem, but the concept of an FTL positron beam strikes me as being over-the-top even for a space opera setting. Your standard graser, x-ray laser, or neutral particle accelerator is overpowered enough, but throwing matter at warp factor [insert random numerical value here] is a tad ludicrous.

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Oh, Wilson's gone. Sweet.

I've recently garnered some inspiration for a new nation concept. If I don't suddenly vanish again, I'm going to post a WIP within the next day or two.

Additionally, if you seriously think that modern firearms are somehow incapable of contending with the body armor in this RP, then you might want to revisit contemporary firearm technology (specifically the plethora of cartridge phenotypes that a firearm can be chambered for). For example, your standard FMJ round is not going to have the same penetration values of an APDS cartridge or a round with a tungsten (or depleted uranium) head. If stopping power and penetration are both still an issue, move on to the next little-known stage of firearm engineering: gyrojets, electrothermal-chemical technology and improved propellants (such as bulk-loaded liquid propellants or nano-engineered solid propellants).

There's more to infantry weapons than just lasers, railguns, and plasma weapons. To be honest, a modern high-powered anti-material rifle that's chambered for the Russian 14.5×114mm HMG round is capable of destroying light-armored vehicles with relative impunity. Give one to a soldier that's wearing a bog-standard powered exoskeleton, shove a smart sight on it and boon the Russian HMG round with the capacity to correct itself mid-flight (yes, self-guiding bullets do exist: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/darpa-has-created-self-guided-mid-flight-changing-bullets) and you now have a soldier that has nullified the anti-material rifle's greatest weakness: lack of mobility due to the weapon's innate mass.

EDIT: Of course, the above ignores logistics, the nature of urban combat and the training needed to operate such a hefty rifle, but meh.

EDIT 2: Although the RP has a single nation that utilizes particle accelerator weapons that can fling antiparticles at FTL velocities. Which can somehow only be guarded against by employing energy shields or [nanogibberish] armor forged from [nanogibberish] wonder materials.

>Powerscaling
>Duck actually reading apps

Pick one.

Spam, please take Magnum back.

2 We don't negotiate with terrorists

@Azarthes

Oh.

Spam, please take Magnum back.

No.

@idlehands

LOL

@TheMusketMan

Not even a consideration?

I need to work on my sales pitch.

Spam, please take Magnum back.

Can't tolerate this anymore. Whine mode engaged.

He's spamming shit-tier threads on Iwaku that are meant to be comical but they are most certainly not comical. They are the opposite of comical. They are un-comical.

If you lot don't like that relatively one-sided deal, I'll trade you one Rare for one Gwazi. I think that's fair.