[Imperial Historian]

Gnaw, on 15 November 2013 - 05:14 PM, said:

Hmmm.

Hey, hippies. Seeing as how we're committed to ridding the galaxy of Twelve, why don't you all take a hard look at the Norwegian Ford consortium.

ah hell. I can't say that with a straight face. Morgoth and CF are basically our problem aren't they? *sigh*


Tatts, IH. Do you remember me saying something about a nasty little plan Twelve and I briefly discussed sometime during game 3? It was to run a ship far into somebody else's territory and drop a warp portal development on them.

While you two are discussing Twelve being trapped, there's a warp portal development just 8 mats away. He's passed so can't get it this round. But one of us is probably going to have to eat that turn 1 next round. I was considering getting it anyway, just not this soon. Dropping it onto my warp portal hex defuses the development and makes that hex worth another VP.

Nah warp portal is 8 material, twelve can't afford it.

I've been expecting Khell to go for it, but he doesn't seem to be biting.

[Gnaw]

twelve, on 15 November 2013 - 05:44 PM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 15 November 2013 - 05:37 PM, said:

I do love a good master plan.

Hopefully it's better than mine. The Iet's do everying possible to make it easy for someone else to eliminate you without bankrupting yourself plan.

I highly recommend it.

Morgoth if Gnaw grabs that warp development then he can't defend Arcturus from your attacks. 4 population cube planets ripe for the taking with a discovery tile and rep points all rapped into one. Yummy.

Imperial Historian, on 15 November 2013 - 05:47 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 15 November 2013 - 05:14 PM, said:

Hmmm.

Hey, hippies. Seeing as how we're committed to ridding the galaxy of Twelve, why don't you all take a hard look at the Norwegian Ford consortium.

ah hell. I can't say that with a straight face. Morgoth and CF are basically our problem aren't they? *sigh*


Tatts, IH. Do you remember me saying something about a nasty little plan Twelve and I briefly discussed sometime during game 3? It was to run a ship far into somebody else's territory and drop a warp portal development on them.

While you two are discussing Twelve being trapped, there's a warp portal development just 8 mats away. He's passed so can't get it this round. But one of us is probably going to have to eat that turn 1 next round. I was considering getting it anyway, just not this soon. Dropping it onto my warp portal hex defuses the development and makes that hex worth another VP.

Nah warp portal is 8 material, twelve can't afford it.

I've been expecting Khell to go for it, but he doesn't seem to be biting.

I'm expecting him to do it this turn. Only reason I talked about it when I did.

[Galactic Council]

Housekeeping question on colors:

I noticed that some of the colors can change rather drastically when I move the svg or the jpg from screen to screen on my laptop. Red, pink/magenta, and orange seemed to be the worst. So I played with them a bit on the starbases and influence discs.

Does anyone see a difference? Does anyone care?

D'rek: Pink, purple, or magenta?

Is the red better or worse Twelve?

CF: I can't seem to do anything with the orange. It's not a web friendly color. I can change it to the light blue easily enough.

[D'rek]

Galactic Council, on 15 November 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

D'rek: Pink, purple, or magenta?

It doesn't matter to me.

This post has been edited by D'rek: 15 November 2013 - 07:55 PM

[cerveza_fiesta]

Galactic Council, on 15 November 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

Housekeeping question on colors:

I noticed that some of the colors can change rather drastically when I move the svg or the jpg from screen to screen on my laptop. Red, pink/magenta, and orange seemed to be the worst. So I played with them a bit on the starbases and influence discs.

Does anyone see a difference? Does anyone care?

D'rek: Pink, purple, or magenta?

Is the red better or worse Twelve?

CF: I can't seem to do anything with the orange. It's not a web friendly color. I can change it to the light blue easily enough.

No difference to me. I could be rainbow if that's easiest

[twelve]

Red looks fine. The one item that I'm having a bit of trouble is Tatts yellow Dread. It looks a bit yellowish green. All the rest of the colors seem fine to me.

[Galactic Council]

D, on 15 November 2013 - 07:55 PM, said:

Galactic Council, on 15 November 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

D'rek: Pink, purple, or magenta?

It doesn't matter to me.

cerveza_fiesta, on 15 November 2013 - 08:15 PM, said:

Galactic Council, on 15 November 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

Housekeeping question on colors:

I noticed that some of the colors can change rather drastically when I move the svg or the jpg from screen to screen on my laptop. Red, pink/magenta, and orange seemed to be the worst. So I played with them a bit on the starbases and influence discs.

Does anyone see a difference? Does anyone care?

D'rek: Pink, purple, or magenta?

Is the red better or worse Twelve?

CF: I can't seem to do anything with the orange. It's not a web friendly color. I can change it to the light blue easily enough.

No difference to me. I could be rainbow if that's easiest

I don't think anybody will care. But I thought I'd ask. I recall Twelve saying something about the orange and red looking similar on his screen.

Changing the colors is easy enough now except for the ships.

Switching those objects from images to vector art has reduced the file size very slightly but increased the stability of inkscape. Which only matters to me until I can figure out how to host the svg file so that browsers can render it. That would be a huge improvement.

[Galactic Council]

twelve, on 15 November 2013 - 08:19 PM, said:

Red looks fine. The one item that I'm having a bit of trouble is Tatts yellow Dread. It looks a bit yellowish green. All the rest of the colors seem fine to me.

Damn. I've really got to start checking for newer posts before submitting.

The ships are still a photo. Recoloring those is more difficult. But doable. I just hadn't got around to it yet.

Edit: I've considered buying the game just so I could get accurate color comparison. But I don't know any souls near me who play board games.

This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 15 November 2013 - 08:30 PM

[twelve]

Galactic Council, on 15 November 2013 - 08:26 PM, said:

twelve, on 15 November 2013 - 08:19 PM, said:

Red looks fine. The one item that I'm having a bit of trouble is Tatts yellow Dread. It looks a bit yellowish green. All the rest of the colors seem fine to me.

Damn. I've really got to start checking for newer posts before submitting.

The ships are still a photo. Recoloring those is more difficult. But doable. I just hadn't got around to it yet.

Edit: I've considered buying the game just so I could get accurate color comparison. But I don't know any souls near me who play board games.

I'm in the same boat. I wish I had a gaming group to get together to play these games live. Otherwise it's not really worth getting. Just an expensive box gathering dust under the bed or in the closet.

[Tattersail_]

I left my phone in work so I won't have it until Monday. That means right now I am logged on to my laptop which I hardly use. My point is, I have just taken a break from my Friday night routine with the wife to come on and make sure I am not holding things up and see if there is anything interesting happening in thread. There wasn't. Sigh.

[Galactic Council]

Ganoes Paran, on 15 November 2013 - 08:56 PM, said:

I left my phone in work so I won't have it until Monday. That means right now I am logged on to my laptop which I hardly use. My point is, I have just taken a break from my Friday night routine with the wife to come on and make sure I am not holding things up and see if there is anything interesting happening in thread. There wasn't. Sigh.

We're waiting on Tapper.

Twelve is the only provisional which is understandable. Too much going on for provisionals at this point of the round.

[Tapper]

If I haven't used the pulsar yet;
pulsar upgrade on the dread: +2 comp on empty slot.

Otherwise, influence, turn a colony ship face up.

[Galactic Council]

Tapper, on 16 November 2013 - 05:17 PM, said:

If I haven't used the pulsar yet;
pulsar upgrade on the dread: +2 comp on empty slot.

Otherwise, influence, turn a colony ship face up.

You can build or move with the pulsar.

[D'rek]

PASS

[Tapper]

Aw crap. Well, Influence and flip colony ship it is, then.

[Galactic Council]

Tapper, on 16 November 2013 - 06:30 PM, said:

Aw crap. Well, Influence and flip colony ship it is, then.

Noted.

Edit: You have one ship unused now.

This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 16 November 2013 - 06:42 PM

[Galactic Council]

D, on 16 November 2013 - 06:27 PM, said:

PASS

Provisional since we're waiting on Khell?

[Gnaw]

"Gnaw. We may wish that we had been drunk yesterday. You told me last week that the Hydrani have a strong economy. Fleet Security Officer Tkerri has informed me that the squids have two cruisers within strike range of Arcturus."

"Hydrani. They have sufficient resources to put another cruiser in play as well. Or two armed and armored interceptors. That does not bode well for the garrison in Arcturus."

"Garrison? Hah. One Long Shot class interceptor and two ships of our ever so helpful cousins. Who actually responded when we commed them the intel."

"They deigned to speak to us? The usual indecipherable nonsense?"

"Oh no. Where's your bottle; you're going to want it. They spoke Draco and commed in the clear on both fleet and trade frequencies."

Arcturus Daily Herald said:

Descendants. The Ritual nears Completion. The Heirs require your protection for the duration of this cycle. We Invoke the Will and Words of Draco.

"That was broadcast on trade channels? Arrogant bastards. Secretary, send for the Trade Department duty officer. Then restock the cabinet. Three bottles is not enough for a proper requiem on the passing of two Heir ships."

"Of course Chmee Gnaw. Are we then not acknowledging the Invokation?"

"The Fleet Admiral and I will compose a proper reply. Which we will transmit on the trade frequencies. Kzaargh, glass?"

"Just the bottle. Secretary, it is not well known but Imperial policy changed after the death of Chtarra Riit's grandsire during the loss of Canyon. We Invoked for the first time in six centuries and the Heirs did not respond. Official policy remains that we always stand ready to submit to the Will and Words of Draco. Unofficial policy is that any response to the Heirs should be sent in the Heroe's Tongue. And consist of our most sincere apologies that the Descendants have no ships to come their aid."

[Gnaw]

And my idea of RP is stealing a race from an old book series, plugging them in the Eclipse universe, and doing what is essentially fan fiction. Sad but all I could come up with.

[Tattersail_]

provisional dread to 310