Hvy Metal II : Game Status Report #6
- From: Plundaria <ray.hyatt@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:54:30 -0400
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Mountain of Power, Plundaria Prime
"I'm not dead yet."
-Monty Python, Holy Grail
From its high vantage point the machine watched. It's sensors coldlycollecting every detail. Recording every nuance of the organics
behavior. Oil shortages where becoming more common, the creatures had
begun diverting their food supply into fuel at the expense of feeding
their populations. It's predictive heuristics forecast radiological
warfare was not far off. The isotopes available on this world would
make that an especially effective affair. Good for the machine. Many
of it's strongholds had fell. But some remained. All it needed was
one...
Plunderbot Sorosub Secondary Core syslogs (translated)
Hvy Metal II has had 34 updates so far. Global oil resources are
running dry at an alarming pace. Several times strategic oil reserves
have been captured by invading neighbors, only to be fed quickly to a
ravenous industrial-military complex. Increasing amounts of food are
being turned into biofuel now.
Two powerful alliances emerged: beep / Baldoria, and Lowland /
Loc-Nar. Lowland is also allied with DonQuixote, who is allied with
Wales. The usual tangle of NA's complicates this even further.
The ominous clicking of Geiger counters has been overheard in some
places.
The conflict between Wales and DonQuixote over the Aridon spoils was
ended amicably, after violence had led to a stalemate.
This freed Wales to launch a preventive attack on his new neighbor
1EyedMonster, who was busily mopping up the last RimFire sectors.
Wales took a buffer, then dug in deep. This worked reasonably well
until 1EyedMonster managed to do serious damage to the Welsh airforce.
A suprise attack by DonQuixote on 1EyedMonster relieved some pressure
there.
The battle for TheDiplomat rages on. After starting a war with
Dethklok, TheDiplomat was attacked by beep. The Diplomat has stood up
with admirable courage to the mighty beep war machine for eleven
updates so far. beep's advance has been slow, but brutally steady.
Dethklok's has been less effective.
Lowland shifted attention from beep to Baldoria, who was already
engaged by DonQuixote. The offensive stalled after initial success,
and the enemies are now locked in a bloody battle of attrition.
The tech race is too close to call. Dethklok, Lowland and Metallica
are in the lead.
- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Fri Jul 25 14:02:17 2008
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
beep 1.2K 98% 436K 12K 4.3K 1.1K 16K 24K 850 1.5K 380 10 130 20K
Lowland 795 100% 341K 6.8K 11K 620 4.0K 33K 1.5K 2.2K 260 8 150 1.3K
1EyedMons 905 94% 283K 7.1K 7.2K 620 3.3K 31K 500 950 220 8 100 307
DonQuixot 780 98% 241K 10K 6.9K 525 3.8K 14K 900 150 280 20 160 5.0K
Loc-Nar 700 100% 188K 12K 11K 670 8.2K 16K 1.5K 3.0K 240 30 160 10K
Baldoria 665 98% 227K 4.8K 4.7K 470 2.7K 16K 50 1.0K 270 30 190 14
Wales 655 93% 218K 4.6K 825 45 1.3K 15K 20 250 50 5 40 854
Dethklok 420 99% 123K 6.0K 9.9K 475 1.8K 12K 300 400 60 10 80 2.8K
Metallica 350 100% 109K 2.8K 6.6K 410 1.6K 27K 600 500 70 1 80 5.0K
TheDiplom 120 91% 53K 4.8K 875 90 1.3K 6.4K 3 900 30 0 60 10K
Plunderbo 4 66% 0 100 300 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 105K
HeavyBarr 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20K
Xymaca 0 0% 50 4 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 10K
BlackComp 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.2K
Beehive 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1
Dentrassi 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1.4K
Council 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4.2K
Aridon 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -8.0K
RimFire 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -9.8K
Fighting_ 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -29K
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 6.6K 97% 2.2M 71K 63K 5.0K 44K 195K 6.2K 11K 1.9K 130 1.2K 145K
Announcements since Wed Jul 9 21:00:00 2008
Announcement from visitor, (#20) dated Wed Jul 9 21:40:23 2008http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4n9IulNtcE
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Thu Jul 10 06:53:02 2008} Last seen forgetting to put updates on the newsgroup.
Ha! Five bars for visitor.
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Thu Jul 10 06:56:51 2008A player criticized the production efficiency of biofuel plants.
All products depending on tech (or any other level) have a minimum
level "min" and a lag "lag". "show se c" shows them. Production
efficiency at the minimum level is always precisely zero. It rises to
0.5 at level min+lag, and to 0.67 at level min+2*lag. info Quick-ref
has the exact formula.
The lag is usually 10, i.e. you get quite reasonable efficiency very
quickly after you exceed the minimum tech. Except for biofuel, where
the lag is 80.
So, if your biofuel production efficiency is useless right now, keep
researching and try again with better technology.
Announcement from beep, (#1) dated Thu Jul 10 07:21:42 2008in other words "alternative fuels don't make sense, just keep drilling";
typical republican/neo-con response.
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Thu Jul 10 07:32:00 2008Didn't you mean "just keep robbing neighbors"?
Announcement from beep, (#1) dated Thu Jul 10 07:38:40 2008wake up people! the oil _will_ run out! someday soon oil will
become to precious to be burned as gasoline! my brother (who works for
an ExxonMobil plastics plant) assures me that is true; time to join
the green revolution!
after all, would you rather pollute the planet or build more guns and tech?
Announcement from 1EyedMonster, (#2) dated Thu Jul 10 09:24:46 2008guns and tech! guns and tech!
Announcement from TheDiplomat, (#4) dated Fri Jul 11 08:03:09 2008Who needs guns and tech when mil and ulgy face will do?
Announcement from Wales, (#7) dated Fri Jul 11 14:02:53 2008Mil and an ugly face have done nothing for me!
Announcement from Loc-Nar, (#3) dated Fri Jul 11 14:03:46 2008I'll {hic} drink to that
Announcement from Plundaria, (#21) dated Sat Jul 12 17:16:17 2008A dark cloud rolls across the lan...
Plundaria is back from vacation.
Announcement from Plundaria, (#21) dated Mon Jul 14 15:14:23 2008
Holiday nominations & scheduling
So far we have one pending in the next 60 days
(USA) Labor Day Sept 1 2008
Any other we should consider for downtime?
telegram the deities with any you want to nominate.
We'll collect them, and perhaps honor some of them.
Announcement from Plundaria, (#21) dated Mon Jul 14 15:16:18 2008Game error correction
mif has the wrong stats. They will be repaired shortly.
Any existing mif will be retrofitted to the new specs.
Announcement from Plundaria, (#21) dated Mon Jul 14 15:17:42 2008And that was mif not milf
yah perverts. Sheesh, first request is a DD refit...
Announcement from beep, (#1) dated Mon Jul 14 15:18:46 2008when do we get mech light infantry? stats should be about 38-24-38
Announcement from Baldoria, (#19) dated Mon Jul 14 15:50:08 2008
What if Labour Day isn't holiday for you?
Announcement from Plundaria, (#21) dated Mon Jul 14 19:17:48 2008}What if Labour Day isn't holiday for you?
It might be for others in the game or a deity.
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Tue Jul 15 13:25:22 2008A player inquired about what exactly does or does not work with
auto-supply. This is actually documented in info Hvy-Metal:
Automatic shell supply for sector flak, ship flak and ship missile
defense is disabled, because its bugs interfere with Hvy Metal
modifications. Same for automatic supply of land units on loading
them onto ships or land units.
The player additionally asked about artillery units in particular.
The only place where we touched resupply of land units is loading them
onto ships and land trains. Places we did not touch:
* fire command: does not auto-supply since 4.3.12 (actually, it does,
but it requires at least one shell before auto-supply, which makes
it useless)
* Interdiction: never auto-supplied
* Return fire: does auto-supply
* Support fire: does auto-supply
* Flak: does not require shells
* Attack: does auto-supply
* Reaction: does auto-supply (I think)
* lmine command: does auto-supply.
Additional information is in announcements I posted on
Thu Jun 19 10:01:43 2008
Sat Jun 7 08:19:48 2008
Use wire 99 to read old announcements.
Announcement from Metallica, (#5) dated Tue Jul 15 13:30:40 2008Maybe TheDeathAngel goes car shopping day?
I'm looking at
Chevy Cobalt Coupe
Nissan Altima Coupe
Pontiac G5 Coupe
Honda Civic Coupe
The Altima is there as an 'ooo it's sexy' car
the others are there because they get 35MPG and don't
cost over 20K
and they'll all be in black.
oh, and I plan to drive the wheels off it
so it has to be durable as hell
Announcement from DonQuixote, (#6) dated Tue Jul 15 13:56:46 2008Baldoria should get the Nobel Cash Management Award.
Zero dollars in the bank. Perfecting budgeting.
Announcement from TheDiplomat, (#4) dated Tue Jul 15 23:00:37 2008} * Interdiction: never auto-supplied
What about shells already in the sector with the unit,
because I'm really wondering what good a 5 shot fort gun is.
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Wed Jul 16 07:03:19 2008} } * Interdiction: never auto-supplied
}
} What about shells already in the sector with the unit,
} because I'm really wondering what good a 5 shot fort gun is.
Which part of "never" was unclear? ;)
Whether the fortress gun needs to be tweaked is a different topic.
You're all invited to discuss it, but actual changes have to wait
until next game.
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Wed Jul 16 16:04:31 2008A player inquired whether aau need guns or shells loaded to fire flak.
They do not.
Announcement from TheDiplomat, (#4) dated Wed Jul 16 23:12:33 2008Seems like I found a use for the 5 shot wonders after all.
Announcement from Dethklok, (#16) dated Thu Jul 17 21:23:01 2008Born of evil in a fiery volcano
On a mutilated mission to inflict
Merciless pain
Sacrifice your soul to the deity of DEATH
She's concocted your murder
And you've lost all your defenses
She was summoned by the
Ancient wizards
To carry demon children in the
Poisonous flood
Day of her conception the prophecy
Was written
On the scrotum of a wizard in his
Testicle blood
Run but you can't hide
The hunt is on
Your life is gone
CASTRATIKRON
Eyes they will go blind
If looked beyond
Your life is gone
CASTRATIKRON
Sharpened claws poisoned tip manicure
Painted skin hiding the beast within
Daggered heels designed to cut your face
No remorse crushing the human race
Sharpened claws poisoned tip manicure
Painted skin hiding the beast within
Daggered heels designed to cut your face
you can *sing* along here (a brutal live vid shot) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5dlL7YH6gw
Announcement from Metallica, (#5) dated Fri Jul 18 16:18:03 2008but...
can you beat Thunderhorse on Expert? ;)
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Sat Jul 19 21:31:34 2008A player inquired about plane repairs on a carrier.
Every two mil on a carrier contribute 0.01 work per etu to each plane.
However, the efficiency gain is divided by three, unless the carrier
sits in an airfield, and can't go beyond 80%.
Example: consider a carrier with 100m that carries a 30% f2 and a 20%
jf1. The military provide 30 work to each plane. f2s can gain up to
93%, jf1 up to 75%, to a limit of 100%. The 30% f2 gains 70% (+93%
cut off at 100% new eff), divided by 3, yielding 23%, new efficiency
53%. The 20% jf1 gains 70% (+75% cut off at 100%), divided by 3,
yielding 23%, new efficiency 43%.
I don't claim this makes much sense.
You can predict repairs by fooling around with stop and budget. A
neweff command for planes and such would be useful.
Announcement from Loc-Nar, (#3) dated Mon Jul 21 09:47:34 2008If I could trust my remaining brain cells,
pei had some commands for that already:
pneweff |tag0
but I'm not sure whether those commands would be able to cope
with stop/start of the current server....
Announcement from beep, (#1) dated Tue Jul 22 16:11:23 2008'tis a sad day when you get shot at for trying to move 13 uw's around...
Announcement from TheDiplomat, (#4) dated Tue Jul 22 22:53:02 2008}
}> Announcement from beep, (#1) dated Tue Jul 22 16:11:23 2008
}'tis a sad day when you get shot at for trying to move 13 uw's around...
}
The once joyful citizens of the now rather small country can be down
right pissy when subjugated.
btw, Are you ready to give over yet and sign a NA?
Announcement from beep, (#1) dated Wed Jul 23 01:29:13 2008}The once joyful citizens of the now rather small country can be down
}right pissy when subjugated.
callous person, they were peasants fleeing the crushing poverty
and dispair of their homeland (guess who) just hoping to make a
better life in the benevolent beep hegemony. unfortunately for
them the swells living in the ritzy Hyannisport of Lowland across
the way didn't want their view spoiled by the humble hovels of
working class folk and invoked the NIMBY principle.
}btw, Are you ready to give over yet and sign a NA?
when are you going to offer something that benefits the happy and
industrious citizens of beep?
Announcement from 1EyedMonster, (#2) dated Wed Jul 23 10:45:35 2008with great shells comes great responsibility.
Announcement from visitor, (#20) dated Wed Jul 23 11:27:07 2008indeed....
but how do you explain this:
Wed Jul 23 11:22 1EyedMonster gunners bombard 1EyedMonster territory ten times
??
Announcement from 1EyedMonster, (#2) dated Wed Jul 23 11:31:15 2008
ritualistic ceremony. some people enjoy asphyxiating themselves
during their moment of pleasure; my men enjoy dodging explosive
rounds. it's a rushhhhhhh....
Announcement from Plundaria, (#21) dated Wed Jul 23 11:41:54 2008Ahh the sweet joy of shelling.
Smells like....
empire
Announcement from beep, (#1) dated Wed Jul 23 23:44:48 2008deep thoughts with the citizen leader:
i love our new american money; it's colorful like monopoly money.
now i can pull out the monopoly set and pretend i'm really really rich.
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Thu Jul 24 21:23:12 2008Bug alert: missile interdiction appears to ignore the mission range.
Workaround: use the range command to reduce the range.
beep earns five bars of gold for reporting this bug.
Announcement from DonQuixote, (#6) dated Thu Jul 24 21:28:45 2008It always has ignored range...
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Thu Jul 24 22:08:41 2008} It always has ignored range...
.... which was always wrong. info mission clearly documents that
interdiction missions obey the op-area.
Since I wasn't aware of the bug, reporting it earned gold bars. Even
if everybody else had known it for years.
Announcement from beep, (#1) dated Thu Jul 24 22:54:03 2008there be a word for peoples who know about bugs but don't report them
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Fri Jul 25 08:57:15 2008I think one could be excused for mistakenly assuming that missile
interdiction worked as designed.
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Fri Jul 25 08:57:25 2008I fixed the missile interdiction bug. Please continue to report bugs!
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Fri Jul 25 21:24:43 2008Okay folks, the truth about automatic supply and interdiction.
Artillery have always drawn shells to fire interdiction, but unlike
ships and unlike for support and return fire only when they already
had some.
When I refactored the firing code for 4.3.12, I accidentally removed
the special case for interdicting artillery: since then, they draw
shells for interdiction just like for return fire and support fire.
Sorry about the misinformation! Baldoria wins five bars for
disbelieving it.
Announcement from Dethklok, (#16) dated Sat Jul 26 14:40:16 2008So are you saying they always autosupply for for
interdiction, support and return fire or they only do so
if they have one or more shells when out of supply?
Announcement from Hanuman, (#22) dated Sat Jul 26 16:04:00 2008Right before the gun fires, it checks whether it has sufficient shells
for one salvo, and it it hasn't, it supplies just enough shells for
this salvo. If it supplies before firing, it'll have no shells left
after firing.
Before 4.3.12, there was an additional condition for land units firing
interdiction: fire only if the land unit has shells, before supply.
Example: hat, 4s per salvo, 15s in magazine, a series firing triggers
(interdiction, support, return fire):
Trigger Supplies? Fires? Magazine
1 no yes 11s
2 no yes 7s
3 no yes 3s
4 1s yes 0s
5+ 4s yes 0s except for:
5+ 0s no 0s interdiction before 4.3.12
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