Succession #2A- With Death

[FourFire]

Yeah, you have to backtrack to Eridani then go through the other gate there which will lead you to a level 7 system (Sung & Ventari) that system contains some dead shops and a corporate trade post. In the next system after that, you will find Urak and charon pirates. That system contains two dead banks. If you continue through the next gate you will reach a binary system which contains Ares, Ranx and luminous factions, there are five gates there including one each to St. Kathrines and Charon.

[Autohummer]

Transcendence has become extremely laggy. It is also very unstable, if I quit/lose a life and return to the menu, I cannot reload the game without crashing.

Despite this, some progress has been made. A trading post was found and a shipwright was bought.



I initially wanted to capture a Ventari destroyer, but their weapons were too powerful. I ended up finding better loot: A Xenophobe Defender which I christened The Edelweiss. (The Dragon Slaver II was uncapturable)



I have returned the fleet to Eridani for refits and repairs. The Edelweiss has basic shields and 12 armour segments, so it will depend on extruded armour a lot. Also, it needs a engine upgrade and more powerful omni weapons if it is to do any good in combat.

I also broke the mission at the mining station in Eridani. All Centuri raiders have been destroyed but the mission would not complete.

An Earth Slaver has its sights on us! With the current status of our ships it would be too costly to destroy, but it seems even if we reload it is still homing on us. Had to destroy it with missiles.

Every friendly station in all systems had been destroyed. Aren't they supposed to be rebuilding?

Broke the Ranx blockade into St. K, posed to do militia missions.

I will continue after a few hours. Since nobody's taking the Sunday slot, please let me take some allowance with that.

[Autohummer]

Edelweiss has been upgraded somewhat, although it is still slow.

The next system, Bethe, has several Aquila wrecks for use with shipwright. Also, there are definitely salvagers in the area, all wrecks had been looted clean. Tracking down and destroying them would yield extremely valuable loot. There are also 2 CSCs in the area, CSC Arctica and CSC HQ. I have yet to find them, though.

The rest of the fleet has been placed in St. K system, in the middle of the Arcology ring.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qpdt66

[RPC]

Sweet, screenies!
I'm going to check into what's making the filesize huge though, it's really starting to concern me... :/
EDIT1: You got a defender? Sweet!

[Autohummer]

Another note: military ID is onboard the Edelweiss. Also, if someone think it is too slow/bulky/etc to keep up with the rest of the squad, I don't mind the next player taking the liberty of changing it into something else at a shipyard, just keep it a (light-ish) capital ship and make sure the valuable armour and equipment stay in our squad.

[RPC]

Taking a turn, will get three nanite shields. Upgraded TARDIS from EI200 to Antares V. Taught Autohummer how to link weapons on the Edelweiss.

[RPC]

Okay, so I went ahead and took a bit too much time for my turn.
So it turns out the recon ship was used by Fourfire as a scouting ship to look at the other systems. This means that this ship, and the borer I got at St. Kat's, are both for the taking/ upgrading.
Now let's talk about my save.
I think I know what's lagging the game:

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The next player can take down the ferians (there are three hives, to be exact) if you want.

Also, The Edelweiss and TARDIS are about on par with each other in terms of firepower, I think the MAG launcher I recently added makes the Edelweiss a bit stronger. Apparently the MAG launcher has a minelayer mode o.O

For the next person taking a turn: I highly, highly suggest farming Ranx Dreadnoughts. We need some kind of new armor for the TARDIS and uranium whatever isn't cutting it. I've been starting to harvest them for the past few turns but got sidetracked with exploring the system.
Most of the fleet have been left in safe waters at St. Kat's -- I think if we can get more money from the Adventure Outfitters or Thor's(s?) in the other systems we can get more money to give all the ships a Hyperion.

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It's not that bad now that both ships are pretty much capital ships.

Here's the loadout for The Edelweiss:
ITPW40 multitarget blaster
MAG launcher
Ion blaster (x2, linked)
Nanite shield
Hyperion
tritium propulsion upgrade
LaLumiere advanced defense system
Emergency Escape Device (the TARDIS has a beacon in it's hold)

Transuranic armor
refined ithalium armor (x3)
heavy sung armor (x2)
refined orthosteel (x6)

The TARDIS:
Katana (x2, linked)
Dual converging mining laser
NAMI missile launcher
Nanite shield
Hyperion
tritium propulsion upgrade
miner's cargo hold
Dash Merc's Rotolooter
Enhanced Autopilot
ICX missile defense
raw materials processor
SmartCannon AM PD system

Heavy sung armor (x11)
refined ithalium
Transuranic armor (x3)
P150 hexphase armor
refined uranium armor (x7)
quadrocarbide

Ventari are posing a huge threat. In two systems I've seen so far, they're situated next to gates such that they take down respawn freighters and unsuspecting Pilgrims (namely, us).
Please fight with care as they can ionize reactors as well.

The Edelweiss and TARDIS also have advanced ICX devices, courtesy of TVR's ICX rewrite (I think). This is also means HEAVY friendly fire. Please take note to turn them on (like if you go to fight Ranx) and off when necessary. The TARDIS in particular has one that uses smartcannon rounds, so don't sell them off.

EDIT*: Image Gallery here.

Here's the save:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23352181/Succe ... BRPC%5D.7z

[FourFire]

Taken.

Finished: [Broken]

Note: the freighter is alone just inside a gate, the system we are in contains the Ring Station.
Be careful (just because I scout with the freighter, doesn't mean it's easy)

[TVR]

Remember, all point defence devices can be switched to hold fire mode by using "holdfire.bat" (U -> 9), it's installed with each PDS.

[Autohummer]

I seems to be having trouble loading up the savegame with my uni laptop.

The debug says this:

System 11: Unable to load object.
State: Loading object subclass
ObjectClassID: 100007

[RPC]

I'm getting the same error as well. Fourfire, can you try to reload and see if you get the bug? If not I think Autohummer can try from my last save.

[FourFire]

When, I'm trying to relaod the save I am also getting that same error
You'd better restart from turn #4...

[RPC]

Updated Extensions in first post. Apparently Gravity doesn't like 338 wrecks floating around.

[Autohummer]

After a bit of bugfixing, I have retaken the turn 4 savegame. Stand by.

In order to acquire sufficient Transuranic armour plates to equip both the Edelweiss and the TARDIS, I have launched Operation Graveyard of the Dreadnoughts, a search-and-destroy operation at the Ranx HQ in the Karljosephine System.

Below are photos taken during the intrusion and assault.





Over the 3-hour operation, an immense amount of loot was captured. A portion of it (10 kiloton cannons among some assorted ammunition) was sold at the Teraton for Rins, but most of it was transferred to the TARDIS. Apart from full Transuranic for both capital ships, one megadrive was also recovered and installed on the Edelweiss (the original was transferred to the TARDIS' hold.) In addition, the Fiery Star was given better armour and a Class V shield to replace the magnetic shield.

Current save (You may continue if you wish, but I will continue it tomorrow if nobody does, since I haven't met the turn requirement of exploring 1 new system.): http://www.sendspace.com/file/q5yszt

[RPC]

There's a Teraton? o.O
I'm going to continue, woot transuranic!