Fenway's Super Official Super RP

[Chairman_Tiel]

mod = modification in this case.

ACH is suggesting we put our thinktanks together and modify DEFCON to suit our sci fi universe and use it for roleplaying purposes.

e: That'd require everyone get the game though, and that's not really a 100% viable option I guess.

[Ivan2006]

That... would take a lot of effort to code. I think.
In that case, I don´t think that´s a very good Idea.

[Iv121]

@ Fenway I tie the fleet size to size for two main reasons - 1. Give another use to this stat, gl.
2. If you have 1 system under control you can't get millions of people to station on your ships out of nowhere unless you plan to mobilize the whole system.

Also ACH you can't pull invading fleets out of nowhere (unless you plan to be the ultimate villain so that everyone in the RP tries to hunt you down). As I said that system was heavily protected by different navies who had interest in it, jumping in the middle of that, without supplies routes, without allies, is bad.

[ACH0225]

I've always been the invading villain. Don't you know, that's what we owls do. Genocide.

[Ivan2006]

If you have 1 system under control you can't get millions of people to station on your ships out of nowhere unless you plan to mobilize the whole system.

Actually, if you consider a population in the billions per average planet (as earth), you would still only have 0.1% of your people in the fleet with 1M members.
Also, in that case, it would be tied more to social, as this variable includes the population.

[Chairman_Tiel]

Not really. The game's primary modding focus is graphics.

Design a new map to make cities = planets, change unit icons to spacey stuff, done. But that's besides the point.

[Iv121]

If you have 1 system under control you can't get millions of people to station on your ships out of nowhere unless you plan to mobilize the whole system.

Actually, if you consider a population in the billions per average planet (as earth), you would still only have 0.1% of your people in the fleet with 1M members.
Also, in that case, it would be tied more to social, as this variable includes the population.

I don't think the populations are in billions like on Earth. Our population is damn dense. Considering you are all survivors of an annihilation war the population would be closer to fallout per planet. I assume around 30 million on each if not less.

[Chairman_Tiel]

At around 80 person per ship, though, that means you can have quite a lot without reaching ridiculousity.

[Ivan2006]

I've always been the invading villain. Don't you know, that's what we owls do. Genocide.

About that... Is it possible that the old owl empire sponsored someone by the name of Davros, cause that sponsorship could be what caused your doom.

[Iv121]

At around 80 person per ship, though, that means you can have quite a lot without reaching ridiculousity.

It takes 10,000 people to man a dreadnaught

[҉]

At around 80 person per ship, though, that means you can have quite a lot without reaching ridiculousity.

It takes 10,000 people to man a dreadnaught

Depends on the dreadnaught. That's not a number you can just state like that.

[Tunnelthunder]

At around 80 person per ship, though, that means you can have quite a lot without reaching ridiculousity.

It takes 10,000 people to man a dreadnaught

Depends on the dreadnaught. That's not a number you can just state like that.

Yeah my quantum ais cut crew sizes in half

[Iv121]

Well my capships in theory host 5000 people on board. Those are still formidable numbers.

[҉]

Well my capships in theory host 5000 people on board. Those are still formidable numbers.

It varies way too much to be certain, though. For example, the Invisible Hand is more than a kilometer long but only carries a crew of 350, because almost the entire ship is run by droids. By contrast, Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers are only 600 meters long but require a crew of over 16,000. There's really no way to tell.

[Ivan2006]

Well my capships in theory host 5000 people on board. Those are still formidable numbers.

All EE ships are designed in a way that the main functions can be operated by 6 people.
However, if you run into problems, you are in trouble if you use the 6-man-crew configuration.