07-06-2013, 09:12 PM
Long was the wait. Eons passed. The people, spawn of The Elder became known as such. During the Harrowing years, it was dark times. The people, believing in the strength of The Elder, endured...and hoped.
The day that one born under sky of the largest brightest moon in thousands of years would be their leader, their hope, it was said, but still they waited. Until.
THere was a savage storm - a wintery mix, that engulfed the planet. It lasted days, then weeks, then a full month. Many perished, mostly the young and the old. Then, one night, as the day wore on to evening, the storm wavered and then waned and the skies cleared to the clearest they had ever been. The moon rose. It was like no other moon before. Bright. Wide. Clear. Showing a...face? A mother, gave birth that night as all emerged from their homes and looked skyward. The cries of the babe were heard. A girl. The Daughter of The Moon.
The Elder have risen. This was a New Beginning.
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I played EC back in the 80s for several years and loved it. Even though our planet was a mess and mo orders always screwed up it was a delicious mess. Now, this looks easier now that I am easing my way back in to it. After talking with Ixnay, and reading through the densely laid out tutorial (it could have been much easier to follow with bulletted steps), I made a lot of moves that most everyone is likely to be making.
-Named everything (I picked up here at turn 2 from a dropout!)
-Assembled AUT-3s
-Drafted as many trainees as possible
-Shut down all of my mines (I have plenty of raw materials to last during this outage)
-Assembled many of my labs and farms and factories (could not do them all due to PRO shortages)
-Updated my RSCH to add LAB technology
-Probed the system again and also did a star system probe
-Probed the alien colony
-Doubled the OBC size and sent more raw materials there
-Built 10 more ships, making 12 total - sent 9 to each orbit to survey, sent 3 more out of system to explore
Next turn will be seeing what I do about the alien base, and getting a colony ship ramped up for colonizing the other HAB world in system. Might need to plan out RSCH for the coming turns (LTSU, more AUT, BEamers, etc).
The tool is getting more useful. I hate not having a full printed out PDF of the rules handy. The wiki of the rules is fine but I hate having to switch to read up what I need to know back and forth in windows. The tool is not entirely intuitive, but once you know what you are doing, the orders really do write themselves.
I am hoping that the colony and ship #s can become ship names when I pick to write orders, but I doubt it.
Every time I write new orders for new ship/colony #s, I will have to go back and see what is what in order to get the order correct. It will only get worse as the turns wear on.
The day that one born under sky of the largest brightest moon in thousands of years would be their leader, their hope, it was said, but still they waited. Until.
THere was a savage storm - a wintery mix, that engulfed the planet. It lasted days, then weeks, then a full month. Many perished, mostly the young and the old. Then, one night, as the day wore on to evening, the storm wavered and then waned and the skies cleared to the clearest they had ever been. The moon rose. It was like no other moon before. Bright. Wide. Clear. Showing a...face? A mother, gave birth that night as all emerged from their homes and looked skyward. The cries of the babe were heard. A girl. The Daughter of The Moon.
The Elder have risen. This was a New Beginning.
=========================================
I played EC back in the 80s for several years and loved it. Even though our planet was a mess and mo orders always screwed up it was a delicious mess. Now, this looks easier now that I am easing my way back in to it. After talking with Ixnay, and reading through the densely laid out tutorial (it could have been much easier to follow with bulletted steps), I made a lot of moves that most everyone is likely to be making.
-Named everything (I picked up here at turn 2 from a dropout!)
-Assembled AUT-3s
-Drafted as many trainees as possible
-Shut down all of my mines (I have plenty of raw materials to last during this outage)
-Assembled many of my labs and farms and factories (could not do them all due to PRO shortages)
-Updated my RSCH to add LAB technology
-Probed the system again and also did a star system probe
-Probed the alien colony
-Doubled the OBC size and sent more raw materials there
-Built 10 more ships, making 12 total - sent 9 to each orbit to survey, sent 3 more out of system to explore
Next turn will be seeing what I do about the alien base, and getting a colony ship ramped up for colonizing the other HAB world in system. Might need to plan out RSCH for the coming turns (LTSU, more AUT, BEamers, etc).
The tool is getting more useful. I hate not having a full printed out PDF of the rules handy. The wiki of the rules is fine but I hate having to switch to read up what I need to know back and forth in windows. The tool is not entirely intuitive, but once you know what you are doing, the orders really do write themselves.
I am hoping that the colony and ship #s can become ship names when I pick to write orders, but I doubt it.
Every time I write new orders for new ship/colony #s, I will have to go back and see what is what in order to get the order correct. It will only get worse as the turns wear on.