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I have been writing as a hobby for longer than you have been alive. I have been a regular member and roleplayer of no less than fourteen different online forums during that time (including the old RPG), five six eight of which no longer exist.
I was previously a regular on the Homestuck forums, but I became so sick of thread turnover there that I asked around and eventually found the Guild. Since joining, I have exclusively only participated in Advanced RPs. Before Mahz gave NRPs their own subforum, I used to be an NRP regular in the Advanced Subforum. I am a Guildfall survivor, and know/regularly write with a few others.
If you ask anybody who has written with me in previous RPs, they should tell you that I have a generally open schedule, I post regularly and in a timely fashion, and I never drop an RP once I join unless the thread dies. Some of them may tell you that I have extensive expertise within the realms of Biology, Psychology, and Physics, which I will make no effort to validate since there is no way I can provide hard proof of aforementioned alleged expertise to anybody over the internet (though I am happy to try and answer any questions you send my way).
My favorite fandom is the Myst franchise, which seemingly nobody other than me has ever heard of.
I was a Contest Moderator for the Writing Contests Subforum for just a little bit over two years. I wrote the Moderation Policy for that subforum and I ran a contest called the Twelve Labours; you can still go there and see all of them and the entries people wrote for them in the Contests Section and the Victory Archives.
I have been quadruple secret banned from the guild discord. That is not a joke.
I was previously a regular on the Homestuck forums, but I became so sick of thread turnover there that I asked around and eventually found the Guild. Since joining, I have exclusively only participated in Advanced RPs. Before Mahz gave NRPs their own subforum, I used to be an NRP regular in the Advanced Subforum. I am a Guildfall survivor, and know/regularly write with a few others.
If you ask anybody who has written with me in previous RPs, they should tell you that I have a generally open schedule, I post regularly and in a timely fashion, and I never drop an RP once I join unless the thread dies. Some of them may tell you that I have extensive expertise within the realms of Biology, Psychology, and Physics, which I will make no effort to validate since there is no way I can provide hard proof of aforementioned alleged expertise to anybody over the internet (though I am happy to try and answer any questions you send my way).
My favorite fandom is the Myst franchise, which seemingly nobody other than me has ever heard of.
I was a Contest Moderator for the Writing Contests Subforum for just a little bit over two years. I wrote the Moderation Policy for that subforum and I ran a contest called the Twelve Labours; you can still go there and see all of them and the entries people wrote for them in the Contests Section and the Victory Archives.
I have been quadruple secret banned from the guild discord. That is not a joke.
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@DeadBeatWalking, the interest check described this as a low-fantasy setting. Could you elaborate a touch? I am going to go big on opiates and I would like to know how heavily I should or should not lean on skeptical mysticism.
*Checks watch.*
A touch earlier than expected, but alright. Guess contests are back on.
Sidebar updated.
A touch earlier than expected, but alright. Guess contests are back on.
Sidebar updated.
Interested.
In order to help facilitate everyones' mutual lust for ludicrous technological lunacy, I will probably be making an engineer/technician type character who can help everyone on the crew out as far as that angle goes. Mechs included.
In order to help facilitate everyones' mutual lust for ludicrous technological lunacy, I will probably be making an engineer/technician type character who can help everyone on the crew out as far as that angle goes. Mechs included.
It is a kill or be killed world. 
Speaking of which, shameless plug ahoy, making preparations to start a Xenonauts AAR. Alien Genocide ON THE ALIENS guaranteed.
Speaking of which, shameless plug ahoy, making preparations to start a Xenonauts AAR. Alien Genocide ON THE ALIENS guaranteed.
The League of Goroth Territories is constraining your growth and occupies space that should have been yours.
MURDER THEM TO THE LAST DESPERATE REMNANT.
Declare war. Demand the cleansing of every one of their planets and the seizure of their capital. Then let the PURGES commence. TAKE what should be YOURS.
If you can find the money, make a deal with the Curators. You may also find it worthwhile to build a frontier outpost in the same star system, which will prevent other powers from exploring it should you close your borders - denying them the advantage of any kind of relationship with the curators.
MURDER THEM TO THE LAST DESPERATE REMNANT.
Declare war. Demand the cleansing of every one of their planets and the seizure of their capital. Then let the PURGES commence. TAKE what should be YOURS.
If you can find the money, make a deal with the Curators. You may also find it worthwhile to build a frontier outpost in the same star system, which will prevent other powers from exploring it should you close your borders - denying them the advantage of any kind of relationship with the curators.
Sirius was not named after-
I am having a hard time determining whether you were being serious about that.
Anyway, you are not quite done being overwhelmed yet. Explore a touch more in the direction of your Galaxy's Rim - you should shortly find one or two of your Fallen Empires, and that will be a treat.
Also, you have an important choice to make now - Rush or Growth, and I am not talking about your military efforts. With every additional colony you make and with every pop above 10 (across your entire empire), Research becomes more difficult to complete in a timely fashion. In order to not be left behind in the stardust, you are going to want to pursue a specialized tactic or else find a balance that will let you keep pace with your neighbors.
If you decide to rush, completely forget about colonizing more planets (maybe one more if it has more than 20 tiles on it) - grind up Political Influence and start placing Frontier Outposts in resource rich areas to handle your needs there. It might interest you to know, you could potentially use such an outpost to Culture Bomb the League and steal Alpha Centauri back from them, assuming it is close enough to their border. I digress though - you can try a Rush tactic by building tall on the spot and using frontier outposts, then build your few colonies tall with research facilities. This will hit you pretty hard later in the game production-wise when you have to start competing with the industries of the blase AI, but you'll have a pretty hefty tech advantage from the get-go.
If you go for a growth approach - drop everything you are doing and start colonizing like crazy. Not every habitable planet you find though - only shoot for planets with 16 tiles or more, anything else is too much of a waste considering the Research penalty. Then invest in the infrastructure of your planets and try to go for a research-oriented ecology on each. This will leave you sucking wind until the midgame, but once everything is built up you'll probably be the dominant scientific power in the galaxy thanks in part to your Fanatic Materialist ethos. The eventual goal of this approach is to overpower the Research penalty by adding more science per planet than average.
I am having a hard time determining whether you were being serious about that.
Anyway, you are not quite done being overwhelmed yet. Explore a touch more in the direction of your Galaxy's Rim - you should shortly find one or two of your Fallen Empires, and that will be a treat.
Also, you have an important choice to make now - Rush or Growth, and I am not talking about your military efforts. With every additional colony you make and with every pop above 10 (across your entire empire), Research becomes more difficult to complete in a timely fashion. In order to not be left behind in the stardust, you are going to want to pursue a specialized tactic or else find a balance that will let you keep pace with your neighbors.
If you decide to rush, completely forget about colonizing more planets (maybe one more if it has more than 20 tiles on it) - grind up Political Influence and start placing Frontier Outposts in resource rich areas to handle your needs there. It might interest you to know, you could potentially use such an outpost to Culture Bomb the League and steal Alpha Centauri back from them, assuming it is close enough to their border. I digress though - you can try a Rush tactic by building tall on the spot and using frontier outposts, then build your few colonies tall with research facilities. This will hit you pretty hard later in the game production-wise when you have to start competing with the industries of the blase AI, but you'll have a pretty hefty tech advantage from the get-go.
If you go for a growth approach - drop everything you are doing and start colonizing like crazy. Not every habitable planet you find though - only shoot for planets with 16 tiles or more, anything else is too much of a waste considering the Research penalty. Then invest in the infrastructure of your planets and try to go for a research-oriented ecology on each. This will leave you sucking wind until the midgame, but once everything is built up you'll probably be the dominant scientific power in the galaxy thanks in part to your Fanatic Materialist ethos. The eventual goal of this approach is to overpower the Research penalty by adding more science per planet than average.
Rename your Homeworld to Fatboy Slim. '-'
Alternatively, if you refuse to do that, name the next planet you colonize Fatboy Slim.
Alternatively, if you refuse to do that, name the next planet you colonize Fatboy Slim.
In your post you said you had already covered the first ten years. In the future, could you alert us to when we might be able to meaningfully interject/make suggestions prior to you taking action?
So that I can tell you to murder them all before you make peace with them. '-'
So that I can tell you to murder them all before you make peace with them. '-'
Please enjoy, whenever I write in here, and please feel free to post in this thread to critique, comment or suggest actions to take in the future (such as 'you should enslave those damn aliens' or 'purge them!' or 'make a zoo with all foreign aliens' or something!)
Enable Ironman Mode ya pansy.
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