>>5761125
Wow, when you say "numbers-heavy", you fucking mean it.
What's the purpose of having so many damn numbers everywhere?

>>5761205
Some might argue with me over this but it makes the whole thing easier to comprehend and it makes it easier to see what is happening. This way, you can observe the effects of your actions without resorting to abstract terms that are subject to opinion.

>>5761290
Yeah, I think I will pass.

Some time has passed. I'll give this one bump - just to see if there's any possibility of anyone being interested.

Dunno about anyone else but I am interested.

>>5762816
Gonna wait on at least one or two more folks 'fore I start anything.

I'd be interested if I wasn't about to embark on a perilous journey that could take 1-2 hours.

Well, i wasn't one of yesterday, but count on me for a while

>>5762870
Wasn't really yesterday. More accurately, the night before that.

In any case, I will post your current status in number-crunching stuff.

>>5762962
551.1 tons of heavy metal
6,103 units of fuel

+260 tons/day
-458 fuel/day

You recently produced 24 Heavy Combat Drones. That leaves you with 30 Heavy Combat Drones and 6 Light Combat Drones in total (excluding the 18 Light Combat Drones guarding the deposits).

Five constructors are building your Forward Construction Site. One day remaining until completion.
Four constructors are heavily reinforcing your primary facility. Two days remaining until completion.

Yesterday - before I vanished - there were two main problems:
1. People were arguing about when to start their aggressive actions on Lemmington Pharmaceuticals.
2. People were arguing about whether the war-chanting primates are actually any threat or not.

What action would you guys like to take?

>>5763023
1. We don't have the damn numbers to make any aggressive action against the corporations - lay low and don't make any hostile actions unless you have support.
2. Be ready to fuck their shit up. Keep all of your combat drones watching very closely.

Hell i love this kind of stuff.
I'm all in, if i didn't have to goto bed

I attack the darkness with Magic Missile!

>>5763078
Seconded.

>>5763084
Damn it, boy, where do you live, Asia?

>>5763078
Need to curb fuel consumption.
Keep some lookouts powered up, shut the rest down.
Get those sampler drones looking for Gas ASAP, get a few constructor drones to build roads for any gas pockets previously discovered and a few to increase max capacity on the gas pockets we do have.

Christ, don't be stupid with going to war. At the moment it's a completely unnecessary drain on resources.

>>5763146
Ausfailia. It's 6:40 in the morning, been up all night.

>>5763167
To the North, you're dangerously close to other corporation territories. It might cause disputes.
To the East and West, you have ocean. With no amphibious or submersible technology, you can't move your drones out there.
To the South, you've got the masses of chanting primates.

The territory you current possess is absolutely riddled with holes - there's no more resources to find there. If you want to get more, you have to expand in at least one direction.

What would you like to designate as your lookouts?

Also, your constructors are busy building at the moment - unless you'd like to construct more.

Also, here's a map that you may find useful.
Orange background is AlphaRange.
Cyan background is Lemmington.
White background is Centauri.
Green background is Kil'thweq.
Blue background is TradeStar.

>>5763254
brofist fellow nocturnal ausfag.

>>5763259
Let the six light combat be the lookouts. Deactivate the rest.

If i remember well the day, we can meet the schedule if we don't use more metal, but we obviously need more fuel, is there anything we can buy from the TradeStar to find more fuel or something?

(Offtopic, somehow this reminds me of Cortex Command, it's inspired from there or somewhere else?)

>>5763259
Oh, wait - here are the available gas pockets you currently have available:


3 with 2500 fuel
2 with 2500 fuel (Long Range)
2 with 2000 fuel

You need to produce harvesters and haulers if you want to start using 'em, though.
>>5763309
You got one of the big influences in one.

Number heavy?

Uh huh.

How many nukes do we have?

Everyone ready to start taking this job seriously?

>>5763335
How many of each do we need in order to be able to extract 600 per day?

>>5763347
You don't have access to nuclear weaponry - if you wish to purchase additional technology, you need to buy it from a corporation that has it.

Basically, what's happened is, TradeStar doesn't want to waste too many resources on this project - so you were sent off to this planet with the bare minimum technology, only possessing the bare essentials to start a mining colony.

You want technology, you're going to have to pay for schematics, blueprints and so on. Of course, you can attempt to jury-rig stuff, but the chances of success are minimal.

>>5763261
Fistin'

>>5763259
We still have some space up north. We can weather any light disputes that arise (IF they arise, considering how much space the other corporations have to expand), and there's always the advantage of being the first to to lay claim to an area.

Send some samplers to look for gas down south as well, but discretely.

How much did that aqua technology cost again?

>>5763356
If you don't raise the Maximum Capacity of your pockets and keep them upgraded with roads, that'll be 190 fuel a day for each gas pocket.

So, excluding the long range one, if you give all of these gas pockets roads and 10 Heavy Haulers and 10 Heavy Harvesters each...
Your current rate of fuel loss of:
>-308 fuel/day (after deactivating 30 heavy combat drones)
has the potential to become
>+142 fuel/day

>>5763335
2 light constructors, then heavy harvesters and haulers (1:1). assign them to the closest mine with 2500 gas, set the heavy constructor drones to start building roads to the mines. Put two heavy combats on each mine that has drones on it.

I say we expand into Lemmington territory.

No nukes?

Fine.

Why don't we, quietly, team up with one of the most promising other on planet corps?

Rape & rampage the rest. Divvy up the planet & show unholy profits to our sponsors. I'm sure they'll count that as a win.

>>5763441
Construct 10 haulers and 10 harvesters a day then - when those constructors are done with the forward construct thing, get them to make roads

Where is the forward construction base being built by the way?

So, today's order...
>Deactivate 30 Heavy Combat Drones
>Construct 10 Heavy Haulers and 10 Heavy Harvesters and 2 Light Constructors
>Assign constructed to gas pocket
>Get samplers to expand to the North
Are we in agreement?
>>5763444
The previous layout of drones per deposit was:
>10 Heavy Harvesters
>10 Heavy Haulers
>2 Light Constructors
>3 Light Combat

You sure you wanna stick with 2 Heavy Combat instead of 3 Light Combat?

>>5763513
It will be on the very edge of your new territory after today's expansion - practically neighbours with Lemmington - just as you wanted it to be.

>>5763522
Lets keep the light combat drones on guard duty, Heavies should be used for any actual fighting we get into.

>>5763522
Get some of the heavy constructors to build roads to the gas pockets as well

Due to the fact that no one disagreed with the orders that you've given, let us advance to Day 13, subcontractors.

>>5763603
They'll be able to do that after they're finished building what they're currently building.

>>5763620
I meant take some off of what they are currently building, assign them to the roads.
Gas is top priority at the moment.

DAY 13:

800.3 tons
5,795 fuel

+260 tons/day
-263 fuel/day


Gas Pocket 3: 150/2500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (150/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Forward Construction is complete. Five Heavy Constructors are moving to construct a road for Gas Pocket 3.

You have discovered an additional heavy metal deposit with approximately 3000 tons worth of cargo.
You have discovered an additional gas pocket with approximately 2000 units of fuel.

You have been contacted by Lemmington Pharmaceuticals. They request that you temporarily cease your mining and fuel pumping so that they can attempt to locate specimens in your territory.

The native war chants have ceased - instead, they're simply maintaining the beat. Slowly, three gargantuan primates, covered in hair and armed with crude rock axes appear, hitting their axe blades to the beat. They're approximately twelve feet tall and judging from their build, probably weigh about a ton each. Finally, the beat comes to a stop and one of them roars gutterally.
Translated: "Leave our land!"

>>5763688
Also, map update.

I take it you want to continue with the construction of 10 harvesters, 10 haulers, 2 constructors and 3 combat, for your gas pockets?

Despite what your actions today might be, of course.

>>5763688
>You have been contacted by Lemmington Pharmaceuticals. They request that you temporarily cease your mining and fuel pumping so that they can attempt to locate specimens in your territory.

Tell them to pay up, or GTFO. Charge as much metal as you would lose for stopping, plus some on top for the inconvenience, or offer to do so in exchange for technology. Preferably the kind that would allow to traverse water.
Shut down your most of your metal mining drones if they accept the money offer, and send the active ones to mine gas.

>The native war chants have ceased - instead, they're simply maintaining the beat. Slowly, three gargantuan primates, covered in hair and armed with crude rock axes appear, hitting their axe blades to the beat. They're approximately twelve feet tall and judging from their build, probably weigh about a ton each. Finally, the beat comes to a stop and one of them roars gutterally.
Translated: "Leave our land!"
Activate some heavy drones, send a single survey drone to see if they are still open for negotiation.

>>5763783
I'll require more opinions on what to do with Lemmington Pharmaceuticals.

However, in response your question, the gigantic hairy mammal gestures across the landscape.
"You have inflicted great wounds upon the earth. You will seal all of the wounds that we can see before us - close them forever and never open them again. Allow trees to grow once more from the soil. You shall do as we demand or we shall smite you with the fury of the father!"

There are three of the giant natives, approximately sixty of the large natives and ninety of the smaller natives.

>>5763783
Go with this for Lemmington
>>5763865
How many mines can they see from here?

>>5763865
Oh, and by "all of the wounds that they can see before them", they mean Mine 3 and Gas Pockets 1, 2 and 4.

Then another vote for asking compensation with lamington

>>5763890
Tell them no, ignore them unless they do anything potentially harmful to our operations.

Seconding Lemmington.

Have our heavy drones gone up against one of the primates before? How did they match up?

>>5763908
>>5763880
>>5763783
Lemmington wants three days of ceased activity. In response, they are willing to offer you one of the following deals:
- 500 tons of heavy metal and 2000 units of fuel.
- Schematics for a harvester-sampler hybrid drone.
- Formulae for basic toxic gases. These are capable of heavily disorientating organic creatures and even incapacitating the weakest.
- Basic cloning technology. Clones cost no heavy metal to construct and do not require fuel to stay online. They are also capable of doing any of the jobs listed. However, they are only as efficient as light drones, they require supplies instead of fuel to survive, they require habitats to live in and they are sentient - so unlike drones, they are capable of disobeying orders.

>>5763940
So far, you've successfully avoided any conflict with the primates.
However, now the giant natives are screaming with rage - and so are their smaller kin. They stride forward, brandishing primitive weaponry.
Translated: "If you shall not give us our land, then we shall take it!"

Do you wish to activate any of your heavy drones?

>>5763993
They'll have to give us 800 tons of metal, because that's how much we'd lose.

There's no point in doing this unless we get equal and/or greater amount of metal.

I also don't like the cloned.

>>5764019
Yes. Warning shots until they're within 250 yards of any mine/base.

We can get the metals we need with only 10 days, and 2000 fuel (plus 500 metals) is a good deal, i vote we make that deal with them, but stopping the mining after that time will require more metal

I don't know about the apemen, but i recommend reactivating the drones, it might be time to start capturing them

>>5764059

Actually, we don't really lose the metal, since its limited in the mines, so we are only storing it until later, and wining and extra 500

>>5764059
>>5764098
What do you wish to do with Lemmington then?

Also, you activate your heavy drones.

All of the combat drones in the area:
30 Heavy Combat Drones
18 (12 from the mines) Light Combat Drones
They are currently armed with stun weaponry for melee and laser weaponry with ranged.

Your warning shots only anger the natives further. They pick up speed.

How do you wish for your drones to fight this battle? It's an open field battle with little to no cover, with the natives charging towards an assembling line of drones. What tactics do you wish to initiate?

>>5764173
Wait, 16 from the mines.

Make that 22 light drones.

>>5764173
Take out the biggest, then scatter; keeping out of melee range but within visual LoS.

Wait, we already have stun? perfect, i though we had to disable them shooting at the legs, let's see

We need at least one of the big to trade with whoever whas the weapon conglomerate, but they might be dangerous, so shot the big ones, the small ones are to be captured unless they make a lot of damage, then killed

>>5764199
>>5764217
Any further input?

>>5764241

Take Lemmington up on their offer. 500 tons of ore and 2,000 fuel, and we'll let them forage for specimens for a few days.

The combat drones hold their ground until the apes attack. At that point, stun as many as possible and bring them in. Depending on how cooperative they are, we either ally with them or sell them to AlphaRange.

>>5764241
In that case...

It's obvious that these natives aren't used to the concept of ranged combat. They continue to charge blindly despite running into a wall of laser fire. A handful of the large primates and their lesser cousins fall but not much more, because the majority of the laser fire is focused on the big ones.

One of the giant natives comes crash to the floor, its body covered in horrible burns. A second giant is suddenly engulfed in flames as its fur ignites and flails wildly, slaughtering many of its comrades in a wild, blind rage.
The third giant makes it to your lines. It kicks your light drone around like soccer balls, easily crushing three of them beneath its gigantic feet. It sinks its axe through the reinforced metal of one of the heavy drones, destroying the hardware contained within. It tears out the axe, turning to the next closest drone.

TradeStar:
29 Heavy Drones
19 Light Drones

Natives:
1 Gorilla
54 Apes
77 Chimps

Your next choice?
>>5764358
"Wonderful! We'll arrive tomorrow. I'm sure this is the beginning of a wonderful business relationship."

Stun the gorilla! i'm sure we can fetch a sum with AlphaRange, kill all the smaller ones that get close until the gorilla is stunned, then use the weapon that is better suited

>>5764378

Focus fire on the last gorilla. Screw stunrods, this guy is too dangerous. Laser his ass.

Over intercom, shout very, very loudly to the rest of the apes: "Cease this foolishness! You can either put down your weapons and discuss this diplomatically, or you can die."

>>5764432
>>5764429
Okay, we need to decide.
Should the gorilla be captured or killed?

Well, while i wanted to trade the gorilla, i'm sure we'll get more opportunities later, so i switch to killing, still, use all the weapons in him, if we get lucky and stun him, all the better

A group of your drones encircle the gorilla and attempt to shoot it down and stun at it and ram into it and do everything within their power to kill it. It smashes through one - no, two more heavy drones before it eventually crashes to the earth, its heavy body slamming into the moist soil, dead eyes gazing into the heavens.
Attention turns back to the apes and chimps - which have caught up. They're barely twenty feet away. Your drones have barely a second to react before the horde hits them - but it's almost disappointing. As soon as the third gorilla falls, dozens of primates seperate from the ranks and attempt to run for it. Even more attempt to leave, trying to break away from the melee as you scream for diplomatic results, while the remaining few try to desperately maul your machinery. Four more light drones are destroyed and another heavy drone is swamped, covered in tiny little chimps ripping and tearing at every cable they find.

Over half of the natives are running for their lives. Those that remain are either dying or being incapacitated by stun rods.

TradeStar:
26 Heavy Drones
15 Light Drones

Natives:
All gorillas dead.
24 apes dead, 17 apes incapacitated.
39 chimps dead, 21 chimps incapacitated.

19 apes and 30 chimps have fled from the scene.

I say we let them go, that way they will explain what happened and we will have some peace, at any rate, i'd prefer to wait until Alpha pays for these ones... wait, do we have anything to contain them?

>>5764885
Up to fifty living specimens can be stored in the habitat. Unfortunately, specimens also require supplies in order to survive. You currently only have enough supplies for yourselves - for two months.

You can choose to contain the incapacitated natives but there is a chance that they will die from their wounds or from a lack of nourishment.

>>5764885
Yeah, let them go.

That's probably a pitiful amount of AlphaRange probably won't give a shit.

>>5764994
>>5764885
The shocked apes and chimps are released and they run gibbering back into the forest in fear and shock.
Gas Pocket 4 now only has 2 Light Combat Drones guarding it. There are no spare Light Combat Drones. There are 26 Heavy Combat Drones.
In any case, tomorrow Lemmington's lackeys arrive to observe for plant specimens for three days. You will not be able to do any resource collection or resource sampling. In exchange, you will recieve 500 tons of heavy metal and 2000 units of fuel.

Shall we advance to Day 14?

>>5765115
Go on.

I meant to let go the ones that we're running, not the unconscious ones, ah well, we didn't have anything to hold them.

Go on to next day

>>5765115
>>5765201
Day 14:

1049.8 tons
5,422 fuel

+260 tons/day
-171 fuel/day

Today, things are going to change a little. Several gigantic, fancy, shining and completely sterile looking harvester-sampler drones roll across the border into your territory, five of them in total. Each one is accompanied by a armed and armoured human - all of them are identical.

These samplers begin to roll across the soil, all over your compund and all around your mines, taking samples of every tiny piece of plantlife that is available.

At this moment in time, any continued harvesting would make Lemmington Pharmaceuticals very angry.

What course of action would you like to take? At the end of this period, remember as long as you comply, you will recieve your payment.

>>5765266
Disable everything in the mines and gas pockets except for the combat drones.
Disable the heavy combat drones again.

We need to consume the least amount of fuel possible if we're gonna survive this shit.
Meanwhile, keep on producing the harvesters for each gas pocket. As soon as they leave, we're gonna restart this operation. Keep on building the roads too.

This way, the profit we recieve from this is huge, since we're barely using any fuel at all, now that the harvesting is stopped.

>>5765307

Seconding this, but make sure that anything we do doesn't disturb their operations (nor is seen badly by them) also, if possible, keep checking for more resource caches

>>5765307
... this fucker's on to something.
seriously, we have like, eighty heavy harvester and eighty heavy haulers working away. that's the main drain.
We turn them off, we're practically spending nothing!

>>5765334
seconded. now those damn aliens are gone, we can continue to exploit the rich South-East without consequence.

>>5765266

Stop harvesting in the areas they are studying (do we have any mines outside of their range? If so, keep those ones running at full power). Turn off the harvester and hauler drones that are assigned to the closed mines to save fuel, but leave the constructors online in case something happens.

Keep a heavy fighter close to each Lemmington squad, for their own safety of course.

God damn it. I didn't see this loophole.
>>5765366
They demand that everywhere is kept offline - their samplers are very sensitive and delicate and there must be as little disruption as possible.

So, let's get this straight.
>Disable everything in the mines
>Disable every combat except for one heavy for each squad
>Keep constructors building roads
>Keep on constructing 10 harvesters, 10 haulers, 2 constructors and 3 combat - just don't activate them.

This right?

>>5765456
Also, I can skip all the way to Day 17, which is the time they will be leaving by.

You folks okay with that?

Ok with me, so long as they pay up, if anything in the list is going to stop their work (and specially, their pay) then stop that too, 3 days for all that isn't too much

>>5765456

That's right.

Day 17:

You lost a total of 10.5 tons per day due to construction.
You lost a total of 125 units per day due to maintainance and 105 units per day due to constructions.

You have built three new roaded gas pocket facilities that are fully functional.

You have also been paid.

Resources and the rate that they're now being generated/spent at:

1518.3 tons
6,791 fuel

+260 tons/day
+84 fuel/day

You have discovered:
- a mine with 2500 tons
- a mine with 2000 tons (long range)
- a mine with 2000 tons
- a gas pocket with 3000 units
- two gas pockets with 2500 units

All 26 heavy drones are now deactivated again. The only combat drones online are ones defending your mining facilities.

No sign of the natives. They've fled, deep into the Southern jungle for now.

What do you wish to do?

>>5765589

I'm assuming the new mines and gas pockets are to the south.

Send all harvesters and haulers that aren't busy to the 3,000 unit gas pocket, and have the constructors start building a road to it. Assign ten heavy fighters to guard it.

Once we've gotten our fuel intake more strongly into the positives, we'll be able to mine for more ore.

>>5765589
Also, map update.

One other significant event. During the night, when you look to the North-West, the night sky is filled with a faint, fiery light and far-off sounds of war and conflict can be heard, sounds of shattering plastic and crumpling metal and cracking chitin.

>>5765747

Have a light sampler check it out.

>>5765747
Here's the map.
>>5765726
There are currently no free haulers or harvesters - they're all working at respectively factories - and yes, the 3000 gas pocket is the Southern-most one. I'll have you construct everything you need to collect gas there.

>>5765770
The sampler will arrive there tomorrow.

chitin and metal... that's alien versus machine, well, so long as we aren't fighting them it's to our benefit, but keep some guards towards the north

Well, it's sleep time for me (eurofag here) i recommend pushing south, as the natives must be easier than the corps (even if there are more) also, stockpile fuel, we should compare repulsor and amphibious tech

And someone archive this thread in sup/tg/

Day 18, then?

>>5765837

Sure.

Also, archive? Someone?

>>5765837
Day 18:

1778.3 tons
6,810 fuel

+260 tons/day
+119 fuel/day

You have 4 heavy metal deposits and 8 gas pockets currently being harvested.

Your samplers discover:
- a deposit of approximately 3500 tons (long range)
- a gas pocket of approximately 3000 units (long range)
- two gas pockets of approximately 2500 units (long range)

To the North, your sampler comes across a completely war-torn landscape. Shimmering shapes of smooth white plastic soar through the sky before plunging down from the heavens, engaging in combat with strange, bulky metallic behemoths, as shown in the picture. They are also accompanied by alien footsoldiers. The ivory synthetics are engaged in brutal war with the aliens of Kil'thweq, it would seem.

>>5765962
I'll handle the archiving process later.

>>5765991

The kil'thweq are PRAWNS????

>>5766028
Prawns with a completely different attitude and in a completely different universe in which the District 9 events didn't take place.

I just couldn't think of a more suitable alien.

>>5766049

Whatever they are, let them duke it out with Andromeda. We'll ally with whoever comes out on top.

>>5766064
Will you withdraw your sampler? And what else will you try to do?

Sweet maps guys, how'd you generate them?

>>5766185
I didn't.

>>5766210
Source then?

Right.
See if we can trade with anyone for the Schematics to a Bridge. We'll use it to build across to the Northeast.
Until then, have whatever Constructors aren't being used for roads start filling in Dirt at the notheast gap.

If we have more Mineral pockets that aren't being mined, construct 10 harvesters and 10 haulers and get working.
If the pockets are too far away to be hauled by only 10, then construct 15 haulers or 20 (however many is needed for maximum output).
If there are no spare mineral deposits, construct 14 Heavy combat drones, and enough Light drones to replace what we have lost, and push Southwest into the natives' land.

When the bridge is complete, get to work on a second storage/craft production facility at the position indicated by the Dark blue star.

>>5766255
Google "world maps", "region maps", "map generator", I can't remember what I typed to find it.

Proposed bridge (brown) and construction facility (blue star)

>>5766101
Withdraw sampler
Start sampling southern area
Start pushing down into natives' area with 21 heavy combat drones in 3 groups of 7, keep the other 5 (we had 26 alive, right?) at our various sites in case we get attacked by someone.

>>5766280
Request permission from Centauri to send our attack drones through their territory into the Kil'thweq region, to help them in their battle.

We are offering:
#1: Combat assistance with Kil'thweq
#2: A promise not to attack Centauri until the enemy to our southeast, and any enemies to our northeast have been pushed off the planet.

In exchange for this, we request:
#1. The ability to move our drones unopposed through Southern Centauri space, to the Kil'thweq region.
#2. The ability to sample and mine any Heavy Minerals deposits in the (former) Kil'thweq space, and transport the resulting heavy metals to our HQ, without being attacked. Centauri gets all the gas and plastics available in that region.

>>5766406
What does everyone think of this idea?
Is it viable, or should you stay out of the conflict? Vote, please.

What's the scale on that map? 1 pixel = 10km?

>>5766478
Let's say 1 pixel = 5km.

>>5766445
I think we'd have a much easier time on this map with Centauri guarding our Northern border; can we also ask that Centauri do not attack -us- until -they've- dealt with all other blockades to their expansions?

God damn. Why'd we get rid of the stunned Natives? Alpha would have supplied us with heavy firepower for those fuckers.

We've got to expand southward and across the water.

Protect Centauri's territory. Don't actively fight the aliens. Just defend Centauri. We need them as a buffer between us and the aliens.

>>5766445
I like it.

Also I found the map you used Plasma, came from this thread (typed "map generator" into Google images): http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/243610-anybody-know-good-free-map-generator.html

>>5766406

Do this, but leave out the part about not attacking each other "until" all our other problems are solved. That will just put them on the alert and make them think we're plotting to rape them, which we aren't (yet).

Let's also salvage the Centauri and Alien tech.

Take it back to our HQ and try to duplicate it.

#1: Combat assistance with Kil'thweq
#2: Non-agression pact with Centauri that lasts until we've claimed the lands south of us, and the lands northeast of us. (see map)

In exchange for this, we request:
#1. Free movement into Kil'thweq lands
#2. Free access to all Heavy Minerals in Kil'thweq lands (plastics and fuel go to Centauri)
#3: Non-agression pact with Centauri that lasts until they've cleared out their other rivals. (see map)

>>5766311
Putting five heavy combat drones back in your central territory, twenty-one going South.
>>5766272
Four constructors are going to begin the construction of a bridge - it's a relatively simple structure, it doesn't require a specialist mindset like other projects.
However, for a bridge even this size, it'll be 500 tons of metal.
The other five are busy building roads and more harvesters and haulers are being constructed for heavy metal harvesting.

DID YOU KNOW: Constructing storage facilities near long range locations removes the efficiency penalty.

>>5766644
Well, pacts can't be indefinite
So let's say, a 3-month pact of peace?

>>5766697
Forget about the bridge for now. We still need to hit our quota for the month first.

Build some centralized storage facilities near long ranged mines and gas pockets, with 2 light turrets.

>>5766712
How about we just offer a non aggression pact with them.

No dates or time limits. That would make them suspicious of us when the time nears it.

We can double cross them whenever we want. Just make for peace with them. Get them trusting us.

>>5766697
Don't make the bridge just yet, then. Wait until the end of the month.
Focus on expanding south.

>>5766731
Sounds like a good idea, but remember they might get backstabby too!
... Well, Maybe not, we are helping them with their enemy here. I suppose that will make them less backstabby.

>>5766746
Exactly.

We're seen as their savors. They're making plastic, we leave them a lot of gas deposits, we look like good guys. Once we're stronger, if we want to eliminate them, we can. We'll be so infused in their territory, we'll have them surrounded.

OP, make sure we salvage their technology.

>>5766758
Original poster of pact plan here.

Suggest changing it to:
Indefinite pact of peace
Military aid against Kil'thweq
Free access to Heavy Metals in Kil'thweq territory
Free passage through southernmost Centauri territory (to reach Heavy minerals)

>>5766800
And ability to salvage some dead combattants for Heavy Mineral collection, and for any mining, gas-collecting or defense benefits they may have.

>>5766800
You call up Prospector 137 about this. The synthetic voice is honestly surprised.

"This... This could come in very useful for both of us. Thank you for this generous offer. It is accepted. For now, I have no aid to demand of you in this war effort... But I will have need of some of your technology soon enough, if I am to be successful in this conflict."

In any case - are you folks ready for Day 19?

>>5766697
How are the 3 groups of 7 heavy combat drones doing in Southern territory?

What are we constructing at our 3 Drone making depots (2 in central star, 1 on border with Lemmington)? I assume it's haulers and harvesters at full speed.

OP, FYI

We will NEVER give Centauri any of our tech. NEVER!

Don't even ask about salvaging their stuff.

Covertly salvage their destroyed forces, and the Kil'thweq. Keep the salvaged forces at some secondary storage area where we attempt to discover their tech. We don't want that shit at our HQ in case of some disease or self destruct function.

But we are not letting this opportunity pass us by. We are taking the downed forces, no matter what.

>>5766848
You haven't constructed anything at Forward Construction yet - is there anything in particular you'd like to make?

I'm making the traditional:
10 Hauler
10 Harvester
2 Constructor
3 Combat
for another mine that was requested earlier.

As for how your 21 troops are doing - that'll be stated at Day 19.

Request from Centuari for their repulsor tech so that we can better aid them.

If they offer it, take it.

If they offer it in exchange for something, deny it.

Start amassing our forces near the centauri kil'thweq border. Fire on any Kil'thweq that comes too close.

>>5766846
Tell 'em we're handing a war of our own to our southwest. We're doing fine alone, but we wish to make sure no Kil'thweq (or anyone else) attacks us from the north. We figure the best way to do that is to help Centauri (you) fight the Kil'thweq.

>>5766906
Our forces are to the south; we aren't aiding them just yet.

Advancing to Day 19.

>>5766910
DO NOT SAY THIS

That will make them think we don't care.

Even if we don't care about them, we want them to think we do.

>>5766889
Hey, wait to see what they offer in return.

If they're offering Flight technology in exchange for Tunneling and Laser technology, I'd say take it. Every trade between 2 corps makes BOTH of them a little stronger, compared to their rivals.

>>5766952
Shut the fuck up.

Our laser technology is the best thing we have.

WE SHOULD NOT GIVE IT TO ANYONE, EVER!

>>5766947
Nonetheless, tell 'em we can't devote all of our attack forces to their war.

>>5766964
Not even for motherfucking flight?

>>5766978
No.

Not even for flight.

We had this issue come up the other day when we were doing this in an earlier session. They offered us their flight tech for our laser tech.

They have mastered the flight tech. With lasers they could destroy us if they tried.

Our lasers need no ammo. They're infinite and powerful. We'll get flight tech from the Centauri soon enough. We won't give them our most prized technology.

They are only are allies for the time being. They're still a rival company.

>>5766905
At north construction:
Make 2 heavy samplers, send these south.
Then make Light combat drones until we have 3 for each mine
Then focus on the same pattern we're doing at Main construction.

Day 19:

2042.8 tons
6,709 fuel

+325 tons/day
-66 fuel/day

Five of your heavy constructors are building a Southern storage facility, removing the range disadvantage from several deposits and pockets. This will take one more day.

21 of your Heavy Combat Drones have been split into three groups. Alpha, Beta and Gamma. They have been exploring Southwards.
Alpha squadron has located a small pack of chimps. They are aware of Alpha's presence and are preparing to flee. Response?
Beta squadron has located nothing of importance. Search continuing.
Gamma squadron has located nothing of importance. Search continuing.

AlphaRange wishes to discuss a business deal with you.

No further communication from any other faction.

DID YOU KNOW: You are still able to purchase schematics, blueprints and other interesting things from TradeStar - you don't have everything they have to offer.

>>5767014
Note: Every mine and gas pocket already has 3 Light Combat Drones - it's protocol.

Your first request is acknowledged, subcontractor.

>>5767037
If the chips can outrun Group Alpha, let the chimps flee, then have Group Alpha take position on a hill or other high-visibility area.
If Group Alpha can outrun the chimps, Spread out and follow them to where-ever they're running to.

AlphaRange wants us to send 'em more natives, right? We can do that, but first we'll have the Attack groups find a suitable amount of natives - then we can send in the haulers. :)

>>5767037
DID YOU KNOW: Tradestar's a fucking ripoff?

Capture most of the chimps with our stun weapons. Let one or two escape to see where they go.

Capture as many as we can and send some haulers to transport them.

What does Alpha have to say?

>>5767037
At the turn of the month, we'll ask Tradestar for the price of schematics for Transport boats, Oil rigs, Oil prospecting boats, and some speedy, lightly-armed boats for exploration.

>>5767112
>>5767083
Constructing additional heavy haulers for slavery purposes.
Twelve heavy haulers should suffice. Each heavy hauler can carry one gorilla, five apes and twenty-five chimps - or any combination.

Alpha squadron engaging the chimps, with stunning as priority. It's quite a bit of effort for your heavy drones - but they eventually catch up and the stones begins. Twitching, unconscious chimps are left on the jungle floor while Alpha squadron tracks the few remaining stragglers.

>>5767037

Let the chimps run. If we back them into a corner, they'll fight to the last man, and they've proven that they can do considerable damage. Better let them escape than force them to fight, especially if we're going to be needing our warbots for the Kil'thweq.

Put us through to AlphaRange. See what they have to say.

>>5767112
AlphaRange contacts you:

"Listen, we've got a business deal. The lesser natives - that we have labelled as 'chimps' - are dextrous and work very well in small places. They're ingenius little critters - we've managed to teach a few some basic engineering skills. Point is, we want you to collect fifty of them. In exchange, AlphaRange has got a whole buffet of tech' for you to cherry-pick from. Stuff 'em in your base's habitat, give us a call and we'll have a 'copter over there to pick 'em up the day after. Got that? Catch you later."

>>5767222

"We'll consider your offer. Expect to hear from us soon."

"By the by, how about them kil'thweks?"

>>5767270
"Who cares about them? We'll deal with them when they get to us - if they get to us. For now, we'll let 'em fight that synth supremacist bastard, 137."

How many chimps have we stunned?

>>5767211
Alpha Squadron withdraws.
You tally up the number of stuns you made and it turns out to be thirteen. Eventually, one of the haulers you design for slaving purposes arrives and bags them, to take them back to the main base habitat.

>>5767222
FUCK YES. YOU ARE THE BEST DEAL EVER.
FULL SPEED AHEAD CAPTURAN GAEMS.
HWEE CAPTOOR'D EET FHOR BUSINESS!

We're gonna need another Construction facility sometime soon, so build it in the south, with the Mineral storage facilities there. Do we have any spare construction drones? Getting that 4th bot factory up will be very useful.

Build 5 Combat drones at every base we currently have. (total 15)
Get 24 haulers from our heavy metal mines in the south.
Have the bases queued to produce 8 Haulers each (24 total) to replace the 24 we took from the mines.

With these 15 Heavy combat, and 24 Heavy Hauler, have them group up with our existing 21 Heavy combat drones in the south.
Make 6 teams with the following specification:
6 Heavy Combat, 4 Heavy Hauler.

Name 'em "Freedom Alpha" through "Freedom Zeta".

>>5767339
Inform Alpha of the other two kinds of the local Xenos, and ask of what we could possibly get for selling them.

what forces do we have supporting 137? Also, if you come into contact with the Xeno Prawns and manage to down any of them in combat, attempt to loot some of their tech.

What the hell are you planning to do with TWENTY-FOUR haulers?

I think perhaps we should buy a favor from our friends at Lemmington.

While this talk of the "Great Father" might just be the religious supersticions of a primitive race, it could also be something more. We've determined that there are at least three distinct castes of alien; what seems to be foragers (chimps), guards (apes), and offensive warriors (gorillas). The "father" could be the title of a command caste, possibly a creature of deadly power. I think we need to find out about the biology of these things.

I move that we contact Lemmington and ask them for scientific data about the natives, particularly their life cycle and biological castes. We'll offer them some fuel in return.

>>5767411
Capture 600 Chimps, 120 Apes, 24 Gorillas, or any pro-rata combination thereof. D'uh.

>>5767379
"We accept apes in twenties, for the same reward. No deal for gorillas, though. Too unruly. Can't make a decent slave out of 'em ever. Besides, only thing they'd be useful for is pitfighting. Too big for anything else."

Also, we have clones and bioweapons now though, right? Perhaps we can use some of those bio-weapons against the kil'thweks.

Also, do clones take up supplies? If not, we could use as foot soldiers to support 137 or slavers to help us enslave the chimps.

>>5767448
Well, that's that then.
Burn every Gorilla, capture whatever Ape and Chimp are possible to be captured.
Make Combat and Hauler squads, and go wild. We'll get awesome amounts of Tech! =]

>>5767448

"Really? They fucked up our heavy laztanks pretty bad. Seems like they'd be decent for groundbased warfare. but whatever you say."

>>5767462
No, you do not.

You denied any of Lemmington's technology in favour of their resources.

>>5767494
ah, shame.

Do clones take up resources though? I'm just curious.

>>5767489
"Listen - you got a translator device, right? Those gorillas - they're the 'sons of the father'. They're treated like fucking gods. They're proud, they're arrogant, trying to break them is like trying to stop a bullet with a sheet of fucking paper. They're just impossible to train. We could use lobotomy and shit, but that's Lemmington's area of expertise - and we don't talk that much."

>>5767501
Clones cost no heavy metal to construct and do not require fuel to stay online. They are also capable of doing any of the jobs listed. However, they are only as efficient as light drones, they require supplies instead of fuel to survive, they require habitats to live in and they are sentient - so unlike drones, they are capable of disobeying orders.

>>5767494
also, we have fourteen heavy combat droids (HCDs) going up to support 137 right? And what is 137 fighting the enemy? Are his forces literally diving bombing them by ramming them, more combat tentacles, or is he/it actually dropping some kind of bomb on them? Or maybe using some kind of slug or plasma based weaponry?

REMINDER!

We NEVER give away our tech.

We're outclassed by these three in their respective areas. We need to become a combination of their powers.

Giving any of them any of our capabilities will only make them into stronger adversaries later on.

>>5767534
Okay then, start constructing some slaver squads- I'm thinking five LCDs and two HCDs a squad, the LCDs should be able to handle the chimps, and the HCDs are for in case anything bigger comes along. Should that work? And maybe a single heavy harvester per squad. I say we construct three squads to start off with.

>>5767542
137's 'bots rely on speed. They're very, very close ranged but they're also quite fragile, so they rely on hit and run tactics, dancing between enemies and neurologically overloading them with massive electrical pulses emitted from the tentacles.
Simply put, one hit kills. 137's 'bots have got the motherfucking death touch. But, as I said, it relies on them being close up and personal and if you manage to hit them before they hit you, the plastic usually deforms and renders them useless. One hit kills you, one hit kills them.

What are our fastest combat droids? Light, right?

We should use them as the main slaver force as they'd be able to round up the natives quickly.

We can use medium and heavy droids as back up. Shooting down the escaping natives to prevent retaliation from the free natives.

THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD DO

Also, are there any new veins we can mine in the south?

>>5767542
Also, 137 has not requested your aid yet - none of your forces are helping him at the moment.

Also, have we salvaged ANY combat forces at all?

>>5767607
hm, interesting, interesting... I assume 137 is already attempting to collect any of his own soldiers corpses from the battle field to stop anyone from getting a hold of their tech, right?

Either way, have the two (or is it still three?) squads of HCDs march to 137's lines and act as supporting fire. Try and keep the filthy kil'thweks on their toes and in once place, letting 137's soldiers get into position to give them the deadly touch, as you say.

Okay.

I think I know what needs to be done now.

We can move on to Day 20 now.

Pulling back Alpha, Beta and Gamma so they can be reinforced.

Preparing the Day 20 update.

>>5767625
wait, what? I thought one of the parts of the treaty we set up with him to mine metal in his area was military support. Oh well- have a squad or two of HCDs or LCDs on stand by in case he calls for help to act as fire support for his soldiers.

>>5767630
No. You haven't moved anything to the Kil'thweq-Centauri combat zone. You're all focused on the slavery missions, it seems.

>>5767680
You have five combat drones on standby at your base.
He will say when he needs help and he'll expect you to give him that damn help.

>>5767525
Right. So Gorillas are only 1 step below the Big Boss monkey.
Assuming each size category of Gorilla increases size by a factor of 5,
and 30 of our HCDs took down 3 Gorillas with 3 Losses (1 was lost to chimprush, not gorillas),

I'd say 6 HCDs are enough to take down 1 Gorilla with substantial losses.
We'd need 32 HCDs to take down 1 "Next size up" (King kong) with substantial losses, assuming the Kong has 5* the ability to take damage, and deals 5* the damage in combat.

60 HCDs should be enough to down 1 Kong with minimal (<10%) losses.

>>5767715
Until 137 asks for our support, focus on slavery.

It might be beneficial to have a squad or two of LCDs or HCDs nearby for quick response should he call on us though. He is the closet thing to an ally we have at the moment after all. And the kil'thweks are imperialists- any help they ask of us will most likely end in them stabbing us in the back.

>>5767753
That's all based on assumptions.

When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.

also, remember how 137 said that some of the locals have stolen some of his equipment?

All I'm saying is, we may have to prepare for a raiding squad of looted tech.

>>5767731
Well, when he calls for it, we're ready to cut our slaver missions to 1/3rd, and get the other 2/3rds up there to help his ass!

Day 20:

2353.8 tons
6,203 fuel

+325 tons/day
-376 fuel/day

You've produced 24 new heavy haulers.
You've produced 12 new heavy combat drones. 3 still need to be constructed.

You've constructed a Southern storage facility. You are now constructing a Southern construction facility that will be built by tomorrow.

You have an incoming message from Lemmington Pharmaceuticals.

Also, here are the available deposits and gas pockets you haven't tapped yet:

Mines:
1 with 3000 tons
2 with 2500 tons
1 with 2000 tons
2 with 1500 tons
6 with 1000 tons
4 with 500 tons

Gas Pockets:
1 with 3000 units
4 with 2500 units
1 with 2000 units

>>5767781
They haven't take any of OUR tech yet. We need to keep it that way.

500 tons for self destruct tech, right?

Would we be able to use the self destruct feature on a drone they take with them? Effectively turning it into a bomb

>>5767757
Yeah, if possible, take 3 HCDs from the base (leaving 2), and combine with 9 HCDs produced at our 3 bases, leaving a squad of 12 stationed on his southern border. That should let him know we're ready to help when he gives the call.

Have our Surveyors found any more gas or mineral deposits?

>>5767798
Can't you just include the messages with the status update?

>>5767798
ah, Lemmington- perhaps we can get some useful tech from this time, or perhaps some more materials.

>>5767798
We built 2 heavy surveyors, and still have 1 intact, right?
Have 2 search for gas, 1 for minerals.
Repeat the process with however many Light survey drones we have - out of every 3, 2 search for gas, 1 searches for minerals.

Also, what's Lemmington up to?

>>5767798

Our monthly ore quota was 2,500 tons, was it not?

What does Lemmington have to say?

>>5767805
It'll take a while before fitting all drones with self-destruct tech; can Construction drones do this, or would the bots need to be recalled to a drone production facilitiy?

>>5767798
The last time we talked to Lemmington, we let his lads look our place over for any good... minerals or something. Maybe he has good news for us. Or is wanting to declare war, who the hell knows.

>>5767818
"Hello there, friend! We have a request from you. We hear that you've aquired subdual-based weapons technology from AlphaRange. We do not deal with them any longer, so that is why I have come to you. We need gorillas. Lots of gorillas. We need to analyse them, we need to test them, we need to discover as much about them as possible. Could you please bring us a sample of five? In exchange, I am sure I could offer you some invaluable technology."

DID YOU KNOW: Supplies are required in order to keep living creatures - including prisoners - alive. You can either purchase supplies from TradeStar or you can harvest and haul them like any other resource.

>>5767890

I suspect he's going to bitch at us for fighting the natives (it would be just like Lemmington to have a satelite spying on us), but I could be wrong.

>>5767892
What's our Supplies level?
How much is being consumed?
Maybe we need to make more COMBINE HARVESTERS and start OM NOM NOMing every forest for supplies.
Also, Fuck yes, Capturing gorillas and apes and chimps!

>>5767892
...Gorillas. As in the large, furry, cut-our-HCDs-in-twain-with-a-singe-fucking-blow Gorillas? And they know how unruly they are, right?

...sure, what the fuck. Tell them the reward better be damn worth it though. Also, ask why they don't deal with Alpha any more.

>>5767923
You came to this world with two months worth of supplies for yourselves.

>>5767907
Not only is he not bitching, he wants us to fight the natives and then give him the natives we capture!
Fuck yeah, slavery!

>>5767892

Now that's a pleasant surprise.

"Gorillas? Got it."

Any chimps and apes we capture will go to AlphaRange. Any gorillas will go to Lemmington, though I'm not sure we'll be able to take any of them alive.

We're fucking awesome.

>>5767940
maybe we can make some kind of ambush droid to try and sneak up on them. Ask around, see if such a thing exists.

>>The Great Father.

>>5767933
Well we're gonna need to cut maybe ~10 harvesters and 10 haulers from our mines, and build up some replacements.
How's that 4th bot facility going? Better get it up and running, we're finding more and more uses for Harvesters and Haulers (Food for slaves, I'm assuming 1 Harvester/Hauler can supply 1 gorilla, 5 apes and 25 chimps), Combat drones (Slavery fuck yeah & Combat with kwi'theq), and even Construction drones (More bot facilities and roads).

How about some large darts with stunning rods attached. Long range stunning capabilities. These natives are all charges and close combatants.

We need our heavy constructors to build more construction sites. If we're gearing up for war and heavy enslavement operations, we'll need to constantly expand fuel harvesting operations just to keep up with demand.

Start construction of three sites. Position one of them relatively close to the border with 137 so that it can produce combat drones close to the front lines, and one of them farther south so that it can support harvesting and slaving operations there.

We're autosaging.

New thread, or game over for today?

We're gonna need to send some of our mining harvesters/haulers to get enough slave food for 10 Gorillas / 50 Apes / 250 Chimps / pro rata combination, however many Haulers and Harvesters that is.
We're gonna need to re-build however many of them we've borrowed from the mines.
We're ALSO going to need to keep making a few more combat drones, so we have 36 in Slaver groups, 12 ready to fight on the border of Centauri, and 2 at Base.

How much fuel can we get from TradeStar in exchange for 500 tons of metal?

>>5767940
>>5767926
"You sound surprised. I'd like to inform you that Lemmington Pharmaceuticals is purely scientific. We are here to gather, analyze and utilize biological material in the name of science. We are not a bunch of flower-sniffing hippies. That's Uni-Peace.

"As for why we don't deal with AlphaRange, they almost went bankrupt several years ago when we monopolized cloning technology and they blame it on us. I'd rather not go into details.

"In any case! Lemmington Pharmaceuticals out. Ciao."

>>5767892
Can we build a dedicated Supplies Production facility?
If so lets construct (at least) one at the location that we're using as a holding cell.

Also lets begin tapping more of those unused resource depots in our territory; the 3000 ones immediately and the 2500 ones ASAP.

Getting our hands on self destruct technology is also desirable.

Quick Call for Clarification: As per our agreement with Centauri, are we currently allowed to harvest in their territory?

>>5768015
We are not autosaging. That starts at 245 posts.

>>5768015

New thread.

Also, let's not forget our primary mission here. We are miners. Ore comes before anything else. Slaving and mercenary work are secondary.

>>5768057
While we are miners; a tech rush is inevitably in our favor for long term planetary exploitation. As long as we are making our TradeStar mandated Hard Caps on minerals.

>>5767985
If we ever make any enemies; we need to make sure they don't think of arming these natives... that would make our relationship, unfavorable.

>>5768033
Your agreement stated that you're allowed to harvest in Kil'thweq territory, when it is conquered.
>>5767985
You can try and jury-rig it and risk wasting materials - or you can buy schematics off of AlphaRange.

>>5768091

Fortunately, the natives have so far proven themselves so stupid, short sighted, and belligerent that I doubt anyone will be able to manage this.

>>5768044
Make sure we take as many harvesters/haulers as we need from the mineral mines, in order to support the slaves we capture.

Build HCDs until we have a grand total of 50 as first priority at our 3 'bot-building sites.
Second priority for 'bot-building sites is making up the numbers of Harvesters and Haulers we replaced.
Start making a Holding facility at our mainbase with the Construction drones, this is their #1 priority. Their #2 priority should be expanding the Southern mineral base to have 2 Bot construction facilities, similar to our main.

Sampler drones should be 66% devoted to finding gas, 33% devoted to finding minerals. How many deposits of each do we have that are untapped?

Offensive teams in the south should focus on capturing as many of the natives as possible, with the exception of letting 1 or 2 from each group run away and lead them to their Towns (or where-ever most of their dudes are).

>>5768122
>Mines:
>1 with 3000 tons
>2 with 2500 tons
>1 with 2000 tons
>2 with 1500 tons
>6 with 1000 tons
>4 with 500 tons

>Gas Pockets:
>1 with 3000 units
>4 with 2500 units
>1 with 2000 units

>>5768114
How much will it cost to jury rig this and what are the chances of success?

And in regards to the natives being trained: AlphaRange has already said they've gotten the Chimps to do menial tasks already. I suspect if we become enemies, they'll use the Apes and possibly Gorillas as front line forces.

They say the Gorillas are too wild to control. But think of them as nukes in the 30's and 40's. If you were developing them, would you tell anyone else before they were ready to be used against them?

>>5768122
Here are all of the deposits and pockets you haven't tapped yet:

Mines:
1 with 3000 tons
2 with 2500 tons
1 with 2000 tons
2 with 1500 tons
6 with 1000 tons
4 with 500 tons

Gas Pockets:
1 with 3000 units
4 with 2500 units
1 with 2000 units

>>5768114
we might as well try and jury rig it first. It doesn't sound that complicated.

>>5768114
Lets try to purchase these schematics, explaining that they will greatly aid us in fulfilling our previous arrangement as leverage.

>>5768141
The chance of success is 50-50. Flip of a coin, really. The real version is also much better and the time taken to jury rig is much longer, too. Generally, jury-rigging is a bad idea.

>>5768171
>>5768159
Do we need schematics for containment cells?

If so lets incorporate that into our list of desired purchases; waiting upon their price offerings to finalize said decision.

>>5768114
Buy it from alpharange with our first shipment of 50 chimps or 20 apes. We'll be able to find plenty of other natives.

Contact Centauri. See if they'll allow us to equip one of their fliers, and give it commands to hover out of Gorilla range and stun them. Offer some fuel in return.
Specify that this Flier remains under the control of Centauri; they own it, we don't, and we're renting its ability to hover out of Gorilla range and stun the Gorillas.

Plasma, can you give us a list of some tech and services that TradeStar offers, as well as prices?

>>5768171
...yeah, but what we're basically looking for here is a stick with a stun bit attached to it. I could probably make that with some duck tape and suitable power pack for the stun rod. Creating something for the droids to fire it with could be a bit tougher, but still. We could probably make the stun javelin ourselves, and then buy the firing mechanism separately from someone else.

>>5768186
Habitats act as containment cells. They're used to house any living creature, even against its will.

In any case, you contact AlphaRange.

"I suppose we can make some sort of deal. Okay, how's this - five hundred tons for the schematics."

Also, someone asked how much fuel you can get from TradeStar in exchange for 500 tons.
The answer is 5000.

>>5768228
Fuel from TradeStar sounds like a viable option. We make close to 500 tons of metal a day, and would get 5k fuel for that per trade.

It's more efficient than what we're doing right now.

>>5768228
Buy the long-range stun technology for 370 tons and the 13 chimps we've gathered so far.

Tell Tradestar we're going to give them 3,000 tons at the end of this month - 2,500 as agreed, and 500 for 5,000 units of fuel.

>>5768205
Okay.

One month's supplies, ten people - 1 TON
Ten units of fuel - 1 TON
Self-destruct Schematics - 500 TONS
Fussion Battery - 500 TONS
Amphibious Schematics - 1000 TONS
Transport Drone Schematics - 1000 TONS
Superheavy Drone Variant Schematics - 5000 TONS

Make requests - they might have it on their list. They might not. These are just a few basic things.

How about flamethrower weapons?

Ask both TradeStar and AlphaRange

In any case:

You're constructing a construction site in the South.
You're constructing 3 more heavy combat drones.

What else do you want to construct?

>>5768228
Investigate if there is any form of long range stunning technology they may have to offer; if there is add that to the purchase.

Otherwise, make the deal for 500 tons.

>>5768303
A flamethrower?
Hm. What if there was some device which could project heat over distances of a kilometer or more, in some form of tight 'beam'?
We could call this device a "Laser", and it would be superior to a flamethrower.

>>5768332

yes, but for every concentrated-fire weapon, there is a shorter-ranged application (see rifles v shotguns). Possibly a way to keep melee-ranged attackers off our combat drones?

>>5768303
TradeStar is more industrial than anything else.
You want combat shit, go to AlphaRange - and yes, they have flamethrower technology. It's one of the things they will sell to you in exchange for slaves.

In any case - to the guy who wanted to buy stun darts for 13 chimps and 370 tons - you got a deal.
Tomorrow, a 'copter will come, pick up the chimps and give you the schematics.

>>5768228
>Also, someone asked how much fuel you can get from TradeStar in exchange for 500 tons. The answer is 5000.
137 offered us repulsor technology in exchange for only 6000 fuel! Get it!

>>5768356
More like Crossbows vs. Katanas, amirite?

>>5768322
>What else do you want to construct?
An additional harvester group or two.

>>5768385
No dice. The deal's now 5000 fuel and laser technology.

>>5768401
No, more like Pistol-whipping with gold-plated Deagles vs. Shooting with gold-played Deagles, herp durf a hurr derp durr

>>5768414
How about 10,000 fuel for repulsor tech

>>5768410
Okay - a harvester group for one of the gas pockets.

Anything else, or shall we move on to Day 21, where we will be able to replace our lasers with stun guns?

>>5768322
Begin production of the drones needed to expand our mining operations to the most possible locations gathered so far.

>>5768456
As the GM, I am able to identify that you have found a loophole and I will deny you use of that loophole because I am a shitty GM.

So no.

Not for 10,000.

>>5768457
Move forward and begin the retrofitting.

Also; have we bought the Supplies tech yet, if so begin construction, if not do so and begin construction.

>>5768292
>One month's supplies, ten people - 1 TON

Assuming Gorilla = 5 people (they're fuckin' huge), and chimp = 1/2 person (they're fuckin' tiny), with ape being somewhere in between (they're fuckin' in between),

we can trade 100 tons for enough to supply pretty much everything we capture.

Might as well buy some with the turn of the month, and use our own stores for now.

Goal at the end of the month:

2,500 heavy metals (quota)
100 heavy metals (1000 man-months of supplies)
1000 heavy metals (5,000 fuel)

Bringing total to 3,600 tons. We're able to get that at our current rate, especially if we divert the Fuel-making stuff to the Ore-making stuff.

>>5768493
This pretty much invalidates the need for Supplies production, especially at the cost of 500 Metals...

>>5768493
1000 heavy metals is 10,000 fuel.

About to post the Day 21 update.

Also, this thread is about to autosage, so I will start a new one. I'll link to that in here. You guys okay with that?

>>5768556

yeah

>>5768617
This is the link to the new thread.