Preserved Topic: Ozonia ad astra II, to war or not? (Page 2 of 3)

Hey, i gots probs... is there some preliminary thing to download here? i went and logged in, pressed Play now yadayada.. it thought for a sec the gave me a cannot find page window...

repeatedly tried with several names.. somewhere thru that top link i found a Telnet connection thingy, never messed with that b4, but it was goin good(i think? lol) i was jumping thru sectors came across a planet and then i was like umm why wasnt it workin b4.. just curious, mayb im stoopid _ry

<edit> i think i just found my prob er.... brb. </edit>

[This message has been edited by chudzta (edited 03-20-2003).]

chudzta: i had some problems at first....it was because of my firewall...i didn't find a fix....so i just shut my firewall off while i was playing.
i got the windows interface after that, and have had no problems with my firewall

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And to add to my shitlist above:

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DERBERUFSSOLDAT killed your Starbase at 17654 (you earned 120000 reputation points)

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if you spot them let me know

chudtza: Try a different browser or something - it should work

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Damn I'm getting hammered over in team OZN:

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ADJUDICATOR killed your Starbase at 19833 (you earned 240000 reputation points)
324 fighters were killed in 19833 (you earned 64800 reputation points)
676 fighters were killed in 19833 (you earned 135200 reputation points)

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I'd appreciate some backup as I can't keep replacing #6 starbases and a thousand fighters. If the rest of team OZN could spread out and reinforce the general area - I can give them co-ordinates of planet/depots to take over.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

And someone has built an attack starbase near our area:

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Sector 21160:GreenPort:Planet:#1 Attack Starbase: *scout destroyed by enemy forces*

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it needs to go asap.

[edit: OK it is now dead:

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(There is a starbase in this sector attached to BOB2002 [---])

(30 of your fighters were destroyed by the Starbase!) The Starbase was destroyed!

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but things keep piling up:

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Entering sector 19694...


(There are 5000 fighters in this sector attached to USS SARATOGA [UFP])

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its not clear if this is part of a wider strategy or what]

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

And more:

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ADJUDICATOR killed your Starbase at 25095 (you earned 60000 reputation points)
750 fighters were killed in 25095 (you earned 150000 reputation points)

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LF: We could really do with your fighters round about now.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Woohooooooo, I got a 3-D map of one of the galaxies (well, a representation of one of them at least... I didn't want to spend all day putting in the coordinates of 1000+ sectors , I'm gonna start working on automating it before too long).

I only have the ring type right now, but hey, I'm pretty proud of myself for getting that much
Warning: You need a VRML viewer to see the .wrl file,
Warning2: The only screenshot I have up right now is a whoping 185kb,
So, if one or neither of those phase you, here's the link: http://courses.cslab.utpb.edu/practice/SST/SST.html

For you others, I'll have a much smaller image up before long. (Anyone here ever do any work in VRML? This is my first and have a question or two...)

Hmm, judging from Emps last several posts, I think I oughta spend some time building up some forces before I get too involved in the maps

[edit: BTW, I highly reccomend getting the VRLM viewer, that thing is sweet]

[This message has been edited by Lord_Fukutoku (edited 03-20-2003).]

And another starbase has appeared:

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Sector 20333:#2 Def. Starbase: *scout destroyed by enemy forces*

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[edit: This appears to be Lacuna's so.........]

:F: Good stuff with the mapping - how about kicking someone's ass too?

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

All righty then, fine... lmao.

Are our bases on Attack or Defense? Figs as spies or deny all entry?

And I have 2 more #6 bases: 30700 and 19309, each with 2k figs...


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

Haha! Finished off a level 20 bunker with 13000 Fighters in it at sector 157933 - then stole his planet.
..I wish I could see his face the next time he logs on.

LF: Set them to defend and the fighters to deny all entry. I'd move them in towards 17142 if you can.

If anyone else wants planets and depots to settle and reinforce then let me know as I have quite a few I've moved into position

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

lmao, rock on dan

All right, have another in 24938, (also #6 with 2k figs).
K, that's what I had been setting them too.

Those three sectors are just on the other side of 17142 (ie. linked to, from 17142). Close enough?

Okay, I got 17563 fortified a bit and it leads directly to 19309. It's got a starbase and I've got several thousand figs in my holds so it should be alright for a bit.

Let's get a few ships (hypers) and start warping in loads of planets from other galaxies... Not because we're running out, but just so it's a lot easier to make loads of money from autoscooping, instead of having only 1 planet per 4(?) sectors... Just a thought.

Ahhhhh yes but tell them how many fighters it took

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

OK,
19386 - #6 base, 2k figs
31763 - #7 base, 2k figs (I'll add these to the FAQ in just a moment)

LF: technically they aren't close as they are 'downstrem' of 17142 and we need the upstream area fortified so

17142 is connected to from the following (and the systems upstream from them are in brackets - the ones that currently have planets and depots are marked with *, nebulas with x):

25095
22056 (16365, 26620*, 28873, 21638)
20752 (27513*, 26311x)
17654 (26884*, 31804)
29556 (22873, 23203*, 29816*)
19883 (29760, 23739*, 30478, 29185*)

All of the closest upstream entries have planets, depots and starbases (depending on whether someone has kicked my ass or not) and so does 26884 but the others are open for people to move in (I think). I will be shoving more planets and depots in towards this and I encourage other people to do the same (find a planet and plot the course to 17142, then travel down that path and check if it is clear and then move the goodies down - a tad tortuous but it should really make things a lot better for us in the long run ).

Downstream planets and depots are good for extra trading but make no difference here as connections are one way so getting back to 17142 involves quite a looping journey

[edit: I haven't updated the FAQ as things are being pushed around a lot]

[edit2: Well I see that all 5 downstream sectors have a planet, depot and #6 starbase but this is only going to catch anyone leaving 17142 - where I've been hammered are in the 6 upstream areas where it could leave a path open in to the middle]

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

How do you find other people's starships? I only run across a few every now and then, just at random.

Is there an upgrade I missed?

Raptor: No upgrade - it is handy having a scout lancher - Emperor_ming has one and has been filling the glaaxy with scouts. You can spot anyone they pass or anyone who later passes them. usually its just down to other people spottin ships, starbases and bunkers and passing the informaion around.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

OK, I'm getting the hang of this.... I've got full holds and a tractor device and all that good stuff, and I've been building up my forces (went from 300 something fighters to 1900 something fighters today... nothing compared to Dan's 30,000, of course...). I'll get to pushing stuff around nex time.

All I had time for tonight was build up stuff for OZN, and use up enogh fuel in my other ships so they are all under 2mil AM... I saw somewhere that your antimatter will only build up for 4 days because that's all you can hold... Not sure if it's true or not, but I don't care to find out by not getting a bunch... Tomorrow or Friday I'll do some serious moving around of stuff and building up forces. Until then, party on Wayne!

LF: Party on dude.

Is there any chance of using that mapping on this area? now that would be useful!! I have quite a bit of that areas plotted out and the locations on depots and planets further afield so it should be possible to really bring things together

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FAQs: Emperor

LF: I can't imagine that would be true (about the AM), since you get all of the AM even if you start the game late. I think I only dropped under 3 mil today (I'm somewhere just above 2 mil), but I get more every time I log on (or, to be precise, I get more each hour and then just discover it when I log on).

Ah, a scout launcher... so that's why I kept passing these Ming ships all over the place. I was wondering if maybe I was going around in circles, but then I started keeping track of sector numbers, and they were all different ships!

Maybe I should've gotten a scout launcher (or, better yet, a planet finder) for my last equipment bay rather than this shield...

Hmm... OK. Back to work.

I finally upgraded to a liner (and got all my holds). Now I'm working on building up my fighter force.

I also found an abandoned planet in 23649, but I couldn't move it (I don't think I have the proper equipment). If someone wants to push it toward 17142, feel free.

[Edit: I also spotted this guy in 16988...

Corvette: Minion+0 POLLIER of [---] with 0 fighter(s) [asleep]

No fighters, not attached to a team, a corvette... looks like he just started out. I was sooooo tempted to blow him away and make my first kill an easy one, but I exercised restraint and let him be. If I made a mistake the next person to log on can blow him away ;-)]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 03-20-2003).]

Suho1004: I did kill a number of ships the other day but if they are at Minion+0 and have 0 fighters its not worth the effort - I have been tempted to just post them a notice telling them to bugger off. You can kill it if you want but it is a hollow experience. Take down something bigger - its more satisfying

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Yeah, I think I'll just wait until I have about 10,000 fighters and then go pick on some big guys.

Emps: Yea, I've been thinking about how to map out our galaxy, but I still haven't been able to find any logical pattern in the sectors or links... It would look incredibly chaotic any way I've thought about trying it so far... If anyone has any suggestions (any at all), please let me know... I've thought about a huge cube, but 16000 isn't a nice cube, so possibly 32 x 25 x 20, but even then I don't think the sectors line up nicely (and if it did someway like that, you'd think they would have a type of galaxy for 'Not-Quite-Cubes'...)

Suho: I can't remember where I saw that, but I'm sure it's one of the settings that can change every game... So I may have seen something for a previous game.

About killing Minion+0's, it would probably suffice to post a grafitti message pointing to a blackhole, and deploy a few hundred fighters there as incentive. Then keep track of the name, and if you see them later (still in our galaxy) have at 'em.

I think we (especially you LF !! - you'll know why in a second) should hold off killing anything with less than 1000 fighters. If they're part of another clan, or if they're wanted for killing some of our stuff, then I can understand, but I have no ambition to rebuild my 4 or 5 ships that mistakenly ran into Ozone1 and Ozone2 before they built any fighters, or before I put them in the faq. (and for the next couple days any member of team [FRA] better watch out for my big ships, they might be a little mad - just kidding of course, but stop killing things that don't pose a threat to you, even if they are in the galaxy, we definately need either a 1000 fighter, or maybe even 2500 fighter rule before we kill sleeping ships.)



[This message has been edited by Dan (edited 03-20-2003).]

Yea, that sounds like a good idea... I've been trying to only kill bigger ships in our galaxies (I figured if they were already that high in the standings and they were with us, they'd be on a team of ours by then), but I can see the reasons for waiting... Also, any other ships anyone makes, let's get them listed in the FAQ fairly quick, because it seems from a few of these posts no one is really safe

BTW, Dan, I eased up on the killing... Sorry about your ships though.
If it's any consolation, I just got hit by some friendly fire as well...

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(There is a starbase in this sector attached to DUFTY [OZN])
(76 of your holds were destroyed by the Starbase!)

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Dan: Sounds reasonable - its no fun anyway

I would suggest that things are going to start heating up and we are probably going to need all the fighters we have so I would suggest people refrain from killing anything unless it is a threat or it is on someone's wanted list. We could quite easily end up with an awful lot of people trying to wipe us off the map before things really get moving.

I would recommend finding some way to warm people off before smighting them

[edit: And it sounds like Dufty has his starbase set to attack and we really need to keep them set to defense]

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

for vrml info -i love the work done by paul@-nospam-digitalspaceart.com (remove the -nospam-)
one example: http://www.digitalspaceart.com/alienmoonintro.html

also, i think comp.lang.vrml is still operating

a good source of info: the Annotated VRML 97 Reference - though it might be a bit dated. (the language is being updated, but vrml97 is still functional)

[This message has been edited by velvetrose (edited 03-21-2003).]

::big thumbs up to velvetrose::
Much thanks for those links. That'll give me a nice place to start from when I get some time.

I still think that leaving a grafitti message pointing out a black hole + a few hundred fighters left in the sector with a Minion+0 (or any other lower level ship) would be a place to start, as opposed to just killing them. That is unless they are a big enough threat. Yes? No?

Yes. I have tried but failed in the past.

Also how do you tag someone with a homing device?

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FAQs: Emperor

I think you need an HDlauncher.

Go ahead and add Dasbevormunden, Dasbevormunden3, and Lazy_Trader_1 [edit: and Dead Currency] to the shitlist. It took the three of them to kill Raptor4.



[This message has been edited by Raptor (edited 03-22-2003).]

Sector 156127
Planet STARBASE DESTROYER: Iron, Alc, HW
Level 20 bunker with 5450 fighters has refused you clearance to land!

Someone want to kill it? (I figure about 9000 ships with 10 combat computers will do it - maybe use 3 accounts, 3000 fighters each.) If no one gets it by tomorrow night, I'll kill it.


[EDIT] Looks like Sharund is back in this sector too (with planets right beside this bunker) - hes the guy I killed who had the level 20 bunker with 13000 troops. [/EDIT]

[EDIT2] NOTSNARC killed your Starbase at 109801 [/EDIT] Well, he's dead.. soon!

[This message has been edited by Dan (edited 03-22-2003).]

[This message has been edited by Dan (edited 03-22-2003).]

OK team FRA are grouping around 158671 and so here is my early mapping the first column show the entry points to that sector and then entries to them are in brackets (ones with bases are n bold ones with nebulas have an x, a depot is D and a planet is P

157675 DP (156809 DP, 159129 Dx)
156316 DP (157932 DP)
157310 DP (158167 DP, 158340, 157199))
156741 DP (156655 DP, 158582 DP)

Silence you might want to think about reinforcing 158167 - I dropped a planet in there for you but a #2 starbase is asking for bother.

I have quite a long chain into 17142 here:

159726 DP -> 158356 DP -> 156053 D -> 158516 DP -> 159129 Dx-> 157675 DP -> 158671 DP

Hope that helps - I'll transfer it over to the FAQ (or someone else can as I'm a bit pushed for time) so people can tweak it and add to it as they map the area out. Remember this is also a one way galaxy so the downstream planets are only the ones you exit to so to secure the area you need to reinforce the upstream sectors and the ones which link in to them

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

My first character was killed before (although some of you already know):

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IRON KNIGHT killed your Starbase at 156316 (you earned 240000 reputation points)
2000 fighters were killed in 156316 (you earned 400000 reputation points)
IRON KNIGHT killed 658 of your fighters (you earned 131800 reputation points)
IRON KNIGHT destroyed your starship.

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I've heard him talking about how he is going to war on everyone so watch out and if you see them let me know

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FAQs: Emperor

ummm this thing is being mean to me .. betr query down there

[This message has been edited by chudzta (edited 03-23-2003).]

hey, i tried rpelying a bit ago, it vanished, i think... if it pops up someone tell me

couple questions..
Whats the importance/use of nebulas?

OBviously i just started, all the basics came to me, and i was learning alot every couple minutes.. but whats the easiest way to mass money when ur still pretty much broke... in order to get like abooster or something... im in the End of Mission galaxy(is that where all noobs are dumped?)

anywho i wrote down some info of the OZN, and 'applied ot join or whatever' .. not sure if i went about that right... who knows...

ttyl _ry