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They'll retrofit when there's room and cash. Remember they use the private income. And make sure your design hasn't been auto-replaced or something.
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That was really fun to read. Thanks Grey.
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Best part is when they retrofit, they use your starbases, so you get paid for it. It's one of the easier ways to get money out of your private sector.
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nimby posted:Best part is when they retrofit, they use your starbases, so you get paid for it. It's one of the easier ways to get money out of your private sector. Yep. Need to extract funds from the private sector? Design huge rear end mining stations, open the ship list, manually order the retrofitting of all mining bases, receive massive cash infusion. Then you can revert back to the regular design and order them all back to that design so that the maintenance doesn't kill them.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:Yep. Need to extract funds from the private sector? Design huge rear end mining stations, open the ship list, manually order the retrofitting of all mining bases, receive massive cash infusion. Then you can revert back to the regular design and order them all back to that design so that the maintenance doesn't kill them. Capitalism!  Though I do sometimes wonder how a Hive Mind society has a private sector.
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3654822 Advance Tactic Gold LP is now up.
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Neruz posted:Note that civilian freighters seem to be allergic to retrofitting so if you start in the Age of Shadows you will be stuck with a bunch of civilian freighters with no FTL drives pootleing around your home system. I assume they eventually will retrofit a warp drive or die in a pirate attack but its kind of funny watching these lines of STL guys crawling across space. Remember that they also have to, you know, get to a starbase to refit. So if they're departing your home planet to a gas station across the system, they don't even have a chance to refit until they get all the way back. And if you made them super slow as well...
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Another reason why Age of Shadows sucks unless you're some kind of masochist.
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I tend to find it reasonable, but then, I constantly play Securans, so I somehow don't get hassled much. It's just slow.
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Neruz posted:Note that civilian freighters seem to be allergic to retrofitting so if you start in the Age of Shadows you will be stuck with a bunch of civilian freighters with no FTL drives pootleing around your home system. I assume they eventually will retrofit a warp drive or die in a pirate attack but its kind of funny watching these lines of STL guys crawling across space. Given that the Age of Shadows happened after a golden age in the first place, they're correct in assuming that all this FTL junk is a fad and will be over by the time they make their trade run anyway.
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Veloxyll posted:Remember that they also have to, you know, get to a starbase to refit. So if they're departing your home planet to a gas station across the system, they don't even have a chance to refit until they get all the way back. And if you made them super slow as well... I've seen several of them go into a starbase and then come out without FTL engines. Upon closer inspection it does appear that they are very slowly retrofitting to have warp bubbles, it seems like one out of every ten or so decides to retrofit when they reach a starbase. The civilian economy has shittons of money (in fact I think I might use that mining base retrofit thing to pull some credits out of it, they don't need that much money) so it's not that, I think some of the freighters just don't feel like retrofitting just yet.
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Are you marking their current models as obsolete? I tend to leave them with only one buildable model, and they retrofit just fine.
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Wonderful LP, Grey. Thanks. Hail Ghana!
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Sorry to rip up the last page with a complaint but I noticed the link to the last update in the OP is broken.
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Nice LP - good idea, good execution (as always). Thanks for running it.
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Great LP man, really enjoyed reading it.
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Aug 3, 2014 22:14
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Grey, it's been a fantastic ride. Looking forward to the next LP.
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Aug 3, 2014 23:45
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Quick and dirty: Thanks for the wild ride!
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Aug 5, 2014 03:28
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Thanks for one heck of a crazy ride, Grey!
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Great fun there, and this lp led me to get the game and thoroughly enjoy it!
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Decoy Badger posted:Quick and dirty: The croctapus in the well..... Amazing.
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Decoy Badger posted:Quick and dirty: Please tell me that's a miniature Death Star.
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Valiantman posted:Please tell me that's a miniature Death Star. The baby croctapuses are pushing cows into a hole in the ground as well.....
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Grey Hunter posted:The baby croctapuses are pushing cows into a hole in the ground as well..... Wouldn't it be croctopi?
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Grey Hunter posted:The baby croctapuses are pushing cows into a hole in the ground as well..... They are learning to imitate their father figure.
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Valiantman posted:Please tell me that's a miniature Death Star. Yup, right next to the Kaaba building block. The only other things not mentioned so far are the Fosters and the eyepatch. Too bad Ghanan Australia was not meant to be.
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Oh man it's got everything. Well done grey, it was another great LP! Sorry for crapping out with the stories so early, started a new job and suddenly didn't have the time on my hands I used to. Hopefully you guys thought they were good!
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Decoy Badger posted:Yup, right next to the Kaaba building block. The only other things not mentioned so far are the Fosters and the eyepatch. Too bad Ghanan Australia was not meant to be. Hah, I did wonder what the block was. That's brilliant. 
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nimby posted:Wouldn't it be croctopi? Croctopodes. 
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This has been a beautiful LP. Thanks a ton Grey!
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