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Post by slayernz on Oct 15, 2017 16:57:22 GMT -5
resistor in the early early days of ST, Permadeth was a hot topic - lots of people couldn't get why you would want to play a "casual fun game" where you could lose everything in a heartbeat due to some careless glitch in the code (roll of the dice/current wind direction/price of cheese). I absolutely hated it when I moved up to Crazy difficulty - "This is not fun! I only got off on my first mission, took on every ship I encountered along the way, and all of a sudden, I'm DEAD?!?". Captains became named after letters of the alphabet so I knew how many were killed (Crazy Adam, Crazy Bob, Crazy Charlie, Crazy Derek, etc). However ... then I learned from my mistakes. I figured out that cautious captains lived longer than gungho kill-em-all captains. I learned what stats helped my playing style, and what I needed in a ship, and how to trade, and how to capitalize on the rumors and politics of the day. Yes, permadeth sucked if you lost a captain to an evil Steel Song pirate (it happened so often, that I have maintained a blood feud with Steel Song ever since), but it forces you to learn and actually understand how things work. Jumping up to Impossible difficulty, same learning pain - one in ten captains survived, and even then, it was to the point that every turn risked certain death. Now (on ST1), I can start an impossible captain, and be pretty confident that I will have him/her up and running 90% of the time, and killing Steel Song with impunity within a few dozen levels. In summary, I think that Permadeth actually makes the game more enjoyable and replayable in the long run. You get bored when you become dominant, and if death is not a barrier and your captain can live on forever, then boredom comes quick. It'd be like playing Basic difficulty all the time. Fun to learn on, but boring once you can kill anything that moves while flying an escape shuttle.
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Post by slayernz on Sept 21, 2017 23:05:12 GMT -5
Paw Print Fluffy Bunny Killer SS Annihilator (Steel Song Annihilator) Asymptote (you can get close, but you're never gonna touch it) <-- Ironically, had one of these - got destroyed in a Xeno encounter, so clearly was mis-named)
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Post by slayernz on Sept 21, 2017 18:58:52 GMT -5
I've missed the forum too. Haven't played any games on my phone for aaaaaaaages either - so miss that too.
You know - I still haven't actually finished HoS yet!?! How un-devoted am I? I feel almost as bad as a Steel Songer. Almost.
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Post by slayernz on Jan 30, 2017 17:15:43 GMT -5
We will certainly communicate to everyone that there are multiple phases of the alpha planned, and that phase one will be the roughest. People who want to wait until phase two to jump in are welcome to do that. What - rough is good ... Cadar captains don't wake up in the morning and say "Man, I have to blow up 27 ships today. I might skip this shift". No, they yell "Yeah, today is a GREAT day to make someone die". They might even add "Preferably Steel Song someones". As grävling said, I do think you should open up the ST2 areas now for us to add comments to. They might actually be constructive or useful. might. well kinda not really. but they might make you laugh.
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Post by slayernz on Dec 31, 2016 18:13:02 GMT -5
For the record, I'm pro-Steel Song. When I see them, I always go for them. And shoot them. And blow them up, and shoot the debris. That's what you mean by pro-Steel Song right?
Impossible is still a challenge. It's not impossible, but it's hard enough to keep you engaged.
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Post by slayernz on Dec 16, 2016 18:09:17 GMT -5
grävling thanks for the torp. resistor's ship is steel song do unless you used a steel song torp there would be no actual resistance. I dunno what athios flies these days. I think I'm down to the last few lives, but then I'm hoping that Dr technologists are created and every part can be cloned for replacement
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Post by slayernz on Dec 16, 2016 2:32:17 GMT -5
Hmmm now that I think about it, the steel song symbol is the same as a kids scooter wheel ...
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Post by slayernz on Aug 9, 2016 6:14:05 GMT -5
Interestingly - there is both pork and ham (which is, as far as I'm concerned, pork) Sometimes there is 89% "pork" Sometimes there is a little more But in any case - you really don't want spam in your computer
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Post by slayernz on Aug 8, 2016 23:55:00 GMT -5
ntsheep Spam is made out of pork products ... kinda. Actually, when run through the food analyzer, my crew found that it had 72% unknown material including three elements that are not found in the periodic table.
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Post by slayernz on Aug 8, 2016 23:29:43 GMT -5
I have a problem with the Cadar flagship - Torps are part of the Cadar psyche, but 40 torps is excessive. Still, it's better than the Cadar shuttle ...
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Post by slayernz on Aug 3, 2016 5:15:48 GMT -5
Yeah - if Steel Song settled on it, it will be pretty tragic for me BTW, congrats Cory Trese - your Karma makes you True HD
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Post by slayernz on Jul 27, 2016 23:25:54 GMT -5
Good thing that my version of Star Traders history is not quite recognized as canon. You should see my entry about Rouge traders callidus, It is a little known fact that in the short period after the Exodus, there were only two types of alcoholic beverages to survive. The most common type of alcohol was Vudka, which has its origins traced all the way back to Rossia, on the human home world of Earth (historians have little knowledge about Rossia other than the fact there were dancing bears and their military had Cusacks running around - presumably on top of the bears). The other type of alcohol to survive the exodus was a wine called Rouge. It was Rychart who tried to push Rouge as the alcoholic beverage of choice. At the time, Rychart was undercapitalized, and was also attempting to dominate the quadrant through aggressive tactics. Unfortunately, Red wine caused more hangovers than Vudka did, and Rychart captains often had raging headaches when enemy factions encountered them. As such, Rouge is rumored to be one of the key reasons why Rychart became the inferior syndicate, and resorted to producing fashionable hats instead of alcohol. Nonetheless, there are still a number of Rouge traders out there, trying to reinvigorate the market for an alternative to Vudka. Oh ... here is an archival photo found of a Rossian Cusack Oh and
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Post by slayernz on Jul 27, 2016 3:41:27 GMT -5
Zer0Winds why do you think Steel Song and De Valtos aren't best of friends ... and why Glurk the Stupid and all of his family suddenly disappeared from all royal records.
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Post by slayernz on Jul 27, 2016 1:41:15 GMT -5
What hey ... I don't love laser pointers ... And I don't respond to cans opening too maybe. How did Steel Song ships launch? A long long time ago, Steel Song definitely did have real ships. This was back in the exodus, where Steel Song were surprisingly quite powerful (for a clan). As with all clans, there was a supreme ruler, who was born into the role (A bit like 20th century monarchs). It just so happened that the Steel Song ruler of the time, Glurk XVII, aka Glurk the Stupid decided that it was very expensive to launch heavy starships into space. Glurk made a deal with an honorable syndicate (De Valtos) which went something like this: Glurk the Stupid (GtS): "I'd like to discuss with you the possibility that we could rely on your ships to carry our ships into space so that we can save on fuel stuffs" De Valtos Industry Liaison (DeVIL): "Sure, we'd like to help you but your ships are very heavy, and we'd have to charge you for the sky-lifting. Maybe we could come up with something that is mutually beneficial" GtS: "Sure, what do you have in mind?" DeVIL: "Weeell, how about if you signed over all of your current ships, and we manufactured brand new starships for you in an incredibly light-weight and quick-to-manufacture material. We'd get compensation from recyclng your ships, and you'd get a brand new fleet" GtS: "Wow, that sounds great." And thus, the De Valtos Sky Lift treaty was established. Steel Song ships were guaranteed transport from surface to space (and back again) in return trading in all of their old heavy outdated ships. Steel Song also benefited from a brand new, rapid-deployment fleet: A win win really.
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Post by slayernz on Jul 26, 2016 17:42:54 GMT -5
I thought this steel song ship was like the TARDIS ... but I was wrong. ... oh so wrong.
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