Posts by [BC]afGun

  • Meteorites in Russia (Siberia, Chelyabinsk)

    As far as i know:




    Translation:


    Just a few words: nobody knows what happening and nobody can give any proper information...


    UPD:
    No dead. Total about 500 injured, mostly by broken glass from sonic wave.

  • Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion SP map: Morning Star system interpretation

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    Perhaps, this is the only the game in which there is a most complete and plausible interpretation of LoMS (Geleon), as its ever possible.



    Screenshots see here
    File is attached to this post. See it below.


    Map Name: World Mixing: Land of the Morning Star
    Type: Singleplayer, based on "World Mixing" bigger map version
    Created by: afan a.k.a. [BC]afGun
    First version at: 31 Jul 2011
    Last updated at: 12 Jan 2013
    Version: 2.3 (Adapted for Rebellion)
    Category: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion


    Installation:
    Copy the file to the directory:


    C:\Users\%Username%\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GalaxyForge.


    or


    C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GalaxyForge


    And enjoy ^_^


    Plot:
    As a result of the anomaly, the representatives of your civilization % Player_Race% got to no one knows where, where else heaven knows what's going on: the planets belonging to the star are completely alien and behave differently than they should according to physics laws, why often the annoying breakdowns and misfires are happen.
    But this is not the last thing that will surprise you. The worst test is yet to come. And it is called the "Ghosts" who can animate your fears and sends them to you in such quantities that you have not seen even in your most terrible nightmare.
    Soon you will realize that the question is merely to survive.


    Shord description:
    The map is an interpretation of Morning Star system from "Chronicles of Guardian", as well as the plot.
    Initially, the game sets the player in front of the task is not to choose the most effective strategy: development, defense and attack and so on; but the strategy of planning, command and control of your fleet during the battle.
    If you're constantly losing frigates and cruisers, so you are got off well... if your battleships are still alive, of course. If you have to concentrate all your forces at one place, providing a constant and rapid influx of reinforcements (which is very difficult in conditions of one main phase path), then you are beginning to understand the essence of this scenario.


    Map stats:
    Size: Giant
    Players: 6
    Players start locations: locked, allied player2 is in a hostile system.
    Game type (recommended): Top vs Bottom
    1х1,2,3,4
    2х1,2,3,4
    Stars: 3
    Morning Star - big
    Kraz-Geleon - small, accessible only through the wormhole from LoMS Sector
    Random star - medium, system of active hostiles.
    Number of planets: 174
    Pirates: present (9 bases in depth in the enemy system)
    Planet Artifact Density: 40%
    Planet Bonus Density: 70%


    [wise=warning]High hardware (CPU) requirements. Waiting for working well trigger system because nothing else can optimize SUCH without killing the essence of scenario.[/wise]



    Features:
    - Long gameplay. Save, Load, Pause - your best friends.
    - Teams locked (V.2.3).
    - Allied SOL system is deleted (WM MP->WM SP), where all the objects (up to Meka-Meka and Ceres) which now known are placed. Possibly will be available as another map in the future.
    - Ally-computer is added back. But now in a hostile system.(V 2.3)
    - Main phase path has no parallel.
    - Planetary sectors (clusters) may have a branched type of phase lines, which forming the periphery.
    - Some sectors are divided by wormholes (V 2.0.). Way to distant planets got a little closer.
    - 4 opponents are deleted (V 2.3). Cope at the start with these.
    - Home planets of opponents are connected with wormholes criss-cross their system (1.2 MP), but in order to get through to them, you need to cut through the pirates (1.7 MP)
    - Neutrals are flying now not only on the battleships, but also the Titans (2.3). And they are many. Do not say that you weren't warned.


    Recomendations
    Overall:
    - Upgrade your computer ;). Some says the game can even take off in the dump due to such overload...
    - Do not place Vasari as opponent. They are not completely depend on the phases. Although, the taste and color...
    - The easiest way to kill interest in the the map: make friends with the neutrals.
    - Take your time.
    - Take this scenario, then pump up the skills of unit and fight control. Elapse without loss, then pump so much that it could be felt even over the nultiplayer.
    - Withstand the onslaught of computers means to know many aspects of defense against superior forces.
    - Withstand the onslaught of sophisticated computers, is to begin to give light a cigarette even to the real player opponents at your base defenses


    Strategic:
    - Here the hardiest wins. Only after that: strongest, crafty...
    - There are two ways from LoMS to explore: one is to the center of the system, the other to Kraz-Geleon. I suggest to attend the second at the beginning - it is easier, but longer.
    - Kung Fu with small forces - it is very cool, but here works only the roll bar and boxing with shock fleets.
    - Not flatter yourself - build battlships (as many as you only can) and connect boldly into the one fleet.
    - If you have accumulated a lot of money, then you have not met yet with the opponents, but just about to. Procure crystals for future use. You will need them.
    - With a maximum computer difficultiy, you can even not touch the super-defended gravitational wells. Make better that you would be notice in time and hit the enemy forces which would be already in your home system.
    - Survived the first strike? Next will be easier... may be.
    - If you are building a fleet about 3 hours to purge a single the well, then your strategy is working badly.
    - Some neutrals needed for leveling and hold the enemy for a while, and then to the massacre.


    Planning actions:
    - Yep, it is important, but even more important to do it unhurriedly.
    - "Intelligence - the main thing in war" (с)
    - Calculate who you want and for what in the given battle. Losing the entire auxiliary fleet not so hurting like losing a 9-th level carrier...
    - Level of armor, HP and fields amount - are indicators of "fatness". The ability to withstand incoming damage a long time - is the indicator of survivability. Pay attention to the second and send the most hardy ship forward.



    Tactic:
    - You know a magic button called "Pause"? Draw a little heart on it. At the first meeting with an epic battle, you will understand what I mean...
    - Hone your unit control. Be clear about the focus of your attention. If you do not cope - press pause.
    - Pause for 3 minutes does not mean that you are slowpoke. It means you have a serious fight.
    - If you start to feel your ships like native, so the chances of survival in the battle have been increased.
    - Fight in the best traditions of MMORPG raids: "tank" is in front and holds the damage incoming, "supports" are repair and recharge him, the others - deal own damage. Sufficiently reliable scheme, if each ship is fulfilling its role well.

    FAQ


    *after first meeting with 15 battleships + 2 titans*: OMG WTF?!?!
    - Dont worry, go drink of tea. If you'll survive and destroy them, then in the future they will be not so frightening to you. This, oddly enough, is possible.


    Cleaning out wells is unreal!
    - Everything is possible. Just that the farther you go, the harder the goal. I'm not Suvorov too, but quite able to succeed.
    ...and to make some epic screenshots ^_^


    So why the map is heavy load computer?
    Because Is too much fowl flying around. I'm waiting for optimized trigger system to solve it most effective in possible future addon. But now it's impossible.


    What is the essense of map?
    En Masse battles an epic scale with a turn to the style of the siege of Stalingrad at the end. The game engine sometimes makes be touched when game interface during the battle is turned off...
    Hardcore also starts only because while trying to keep track of all of the fleet when only important is needed the attention.

  • Happy New 7DD-th Year!

    "According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2013 is the Year of the Snake, which begins on February 10, 2013 and ends on January 30, 2014"


    Anyway, snake will familiarize oneself at first

  • Happy New 7DD-th Year!

    Mine is the wisdom of the ages.
    I hold the key to the mysteries of life.
    Casting my seeds on fertile ground,
    I nurture them with constancy and purpose.
    My sights are fixed.
    My gaze unchanging.
    Unyielding, inexorable and deep,
    I advance with steady, unslacked gait,
    the solid earth beneath me.


    I am the snake.


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    As a full representative of this sign, the relative of the Dragon, and the Scorpio, the Snakes's favorite Water sign of Power and Creation and the Ressurection - I wish to you the best of luck, wisdom, patience, success, and more to help you reach the very stars!


    Happy New Year!
    And without hangover... he-he...



    P.S. Oh... My liver...

  • 42

    Actually, I was not going to create the topic, but... some people started to contacting with me, and especially asking the difficult but the same questions. So, this thread is created in order to fill some lack of information.
    So...



    1. What will happen with the "Under Crossing Fire" project?
    - I don't know. Currently all the works are stay on hold.
    Anyway, the story is divided to "UCF: Prehistory" (wich is the current story) and "The Chronicles of Guardian: Under Crossing Fire" (actual planned book based on integrated CF-CoG universes, CF-time is after thousands years from now and this project now on hold). So, the prehistory will continue if my clan members will present here in the future.
    Already released concepts (most of them on russian) are here. You can find some descriptions of CF-CoG integration within the spoiler in the targeted message at the link above. Also here you can find the info about the projected ships, weaponry, technology, fleet structure, short history concept and the descriptions of the "Omicron Psi" and the other related new systems.
    The concepts about future universe structure, cataclysm nature and consequences, key-events of the plot and the key-ships "Ksygon-Geleon" ("Shadow of the Land of the Morning Star"), "Kraz-Geleon" ("Friend of LoMS"), Planet-Crusher "Starflare", SunShine ship "LoMS" and the new constructed "Golden Arrow" are not released for now as not completed.


    2. What will happen with the clan?
    I haven't closed it. So, BC may arrive here and not one time. And it's also mean that I'm still supporting CF. Just not here.


    Thst is all, I think...


    P.S. Who need help with the content translation from English to Russian - I'm always available on Skype.


    P.P.S. In case if I will not come back: Thanks everyone and for everything...

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  • Questions, suggestions for CF 2.0

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    And then you cry "my ship is not powerful enough, i got shot down".


    I'm afraid I'm too old to cry. Again. You're misunderstand what I tried to say, but... Your word like the law of God that in force till the End of Time.


    From this position I can not argue, or even suggest. I really can't understand the people who choose to suppress any initiative in the bud, and then another psycho that nobody moves a finger. I can only choose a different world, becouse just tired of this. Fortunatley, that freedom i still have.


    Farevel.

  • Questions, suggestions for CF 2.0

    eh...


    I repeat once again for those who are in the tank: it is necessary to review the entire balance concerning superheavy ships. Not only one ship - all the battleships and their systems.


    But I repeat it for those who have understood me wrong. My suggestion does not make sense, I already understood.
    For those who doubt my competence, I can not do anything. Just sit quietly and smile. And to play the other game...


    But. If I choose that ship, which I like, and I can still be killed by a strong player bu also kill someone - then all is well. But if I choose the one ship that is priori stronger, but I frankly do not like it - it's an imbalance.


    *groan*
    Where is my "sub command" disc... I need to blow off some steam...

  • Questions, suggestions for CF 2.0

    Better BS? I chosen the front cruiser of habit. It has less life but it is better against other cruisers. Always was... At least with the proper balance.
    And I do not need to talk about the vulnerabilities and strenghth of cruisers. I'm fly with cruisers in all games with that possibility since 2002... I said several times: BS can't survive even with the cover. Docking sequence was interupted with cover of 3 fighters. I was died in seconds. We could not even react. So now I can only fly around, trying to avoid the damage. You really call that the "fire support"?.. No, really?

  • Questions, suggestions for CF 2.0

    ok. Then delete them. Completely. BEcaouse THAT is not battleships.
    Maybe you can not imagine that life for more than 10 seconds under normal shots is not "ubership", but I can.


    I'm not the PvP pilot. I'm not the fighter pilot. So, there is nothing what i can do here even with the roleplay. And there is really no fun when i'm trying to dock and getting killed by NPCs fighters during the sequence.

  • Questions, suggestions for CF 2.0

    Ok. Now i'm calmed down a little and can talk about my vision of BS, crusiers and fregates (gunboats).


    1. Armor and shields.
    Do something with it. Every capital ship is designed for taking much damage until the fighters done their work. For now, fighters can't even cover battleships, while NPCs shoot the capitals prior to fighters.
    I can understand complete complete absence of even an emergency repair and recharge. But even these ships must not explode on the shot, as from a several torpedo impacts.


    2. Weaponry.
    Liberty front cruiser is designed as anti-capital battleship for close combat and even ramming. Logically to imagine that such a ship will bring down a fighter only with a very large fortune (that does not cancel ability to shoot down one heavy fighter during the manuver to attack). BUT.
    Where are the torpedo launchers? Where are heavy anti capital guns? I can shoot only by forward gun and it's damage... well... I'm usually dying before even one cruiser explosion.
    The same applies to other ships: anti-fighter battleships, fast gunboats, heavy armored battleships and others. They NEEED the proper weapons for their fighting style. Current "gentleman's kit" looks like a mockery.


    3. Again about ship classes:
    I do not see that value the the relation of BS fighting style, weapons and the correct armor, special abilities may be. You can use even homeworld logic: anti-capital is vulurable for fighters but can deal serious damage to heavy armored capitals. heavy armored capitals can slowly destroy almost everything, but dies very hard if there is no bombers with proper weapons flying around.
    Even in the original, that differense between the classes was a little better taked into account better than current situation.


    4. forever alone.
    I'm flying in the BS. What the hostile i can face? Several fighters... sucks... Oh, cruisers!... no.. the fleet of crusers... ok, truing to mape a safe distance to shoot. Oops, too close - several impacts and my ship has been annihilated by 3-4 ships for secons. So I can't deal with them alose, and it's right. But I can't survive it even with the cover... sucks again...


    Conclusion: at the moment, capital ships are completely useless. For roleplay, and for pvp. But as transport are quite good...


    Seriousy. Warships need to be improved, and even complete revision.
    And remember, that the battleship actually can hold 4 fighters. Even player fighters.

  • Questions, suggestions for CF 2.0

    For the god's sake, restore the power of a good old cruisers and battleships! Some cruisers cant handle with the fighters and can't hold any attacks. I get killed twice today by only 4 fighters and while docking. Docking, damn it!.. The cruisers are MUST be like a space tanks! They could not kill the fighetrs but mast HOLD the damage incoming at least for minutes, not for two or three seconds!


    A big space target dummy... Each time, I'm very frustrating. And these ships are only kind that i'm flying. All these forced crazy maneuvers of survival begin to seriously annoy.


    P.S. And do something with the sound of ion cannons. I can't hear anything.


    SCNR...