<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Zanotirn<br/>
In this case the goal is to have not an individual recon unit, but an expeditionary force that can claim territory from marauders and wildlife. Recon units do very well in this role since they are fast and their combat abilities are adequate for the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>1. It would help to have equipment quality level between current obsolete and low, in which the equipment would not be sent back immediately, but would be effectively treated as a lower tier of losses - i.e., replace with acceptable quality equipment if logistics capacity is ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Eretzu<br/>
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Alternatively I feel that counter attacks should use ammo (no idea how it actually works right now, but if you could make the tank run out of ammo, then you could make it retreat by the sheer amount of troops and kill it by surrounding it first ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Idea 1#<br/>
Would be really handy if you could click on a OHQ and see their command range much in the same way as seeing movement range. But perhaps the hexes will be shaded blue or gold color. This would give the player a quick overview of what units it has within that ...

<r> Aircraft are actually exactly another reason this came to mind; I redesigned a bomber into a transport at one point, but any renaming of the new model renamed the base one too. Being able to name the two seperately would be very nice for avoiding confusion.<br/>
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I do wonder if there's ...

<r> Personally I like the idea of radar stations that someone proposed up-thread. Hex-building that grants recon on surrounding tiles based on level, requiring machines for the first couple of levels and then hitech parts for the remainder.<br/>
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Something like-<br/>
Radar lv1; 2t radius, 50 ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar<br/>
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I think that the underlying issue here might be that for some reason we're allowed to have, say :<br/>
Blitzer II to be an anti-infantry design with a howitzer, while Blizer III is an anti-tank design with a HVG ?<br/>
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Then you get ...

<t> Something for flavour/fluff, but it'd be nice to have slightly more flexible unit naming options.<br/>
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I figure how it works is something like this; upon completing a new unit design, you're given a prompt for the base model name (e.g. "Tiger") which is static across all variants of the ...

<r> I wasn't looking at the energy plant stats when I wrote that, so excuse me for not having a <I><s>[i]</s>perfectly balanced<e>[/i]</e></I> example off the bat.<br/>
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ASRGs/RTGs would probably be a mid-level tech, and I don't think they would scale very well (maybe lv3 max and outputting ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zgrssd<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Stirling engine:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
The Stirling e ngine is a way to generate work from a heat differential.<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>History:<e>[/b]</e></B> It is a contemporary of the Steam Engine, 1817.<br/>
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<t> Another minor gripe; "Cluster Bombs". This tech applies to regular howitzers (both direct-fire and artillery) and rocket/missile launchers as well as aircraft bomb bays. I'd suggest "Enhanced Fragmentation" or "Cluster Munitions" as alternative terms that serve as better catch-alls for the ...

<r> As it turns out black powder has its own oxidizer too, which I managed to gloss over- my mistake. So if you could manage to pack a muzzle loader in microgravity (which would be a feat and a half all by itself) you <I><s>[i]</s>could<e>[/i]</e></I> theoretically fire it. Hitting anything is ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar<br/>
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Right, firearms operate too fast to even start using oxygen from the air ?<br/>
I guess they're using the sulfur that is part of the composition of back powder as an oxidizer instead ?
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We haven't used black ...

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bar use is pretty much deprecated, you should be using Pa (or atm ~= 1.013 bar ~= 101.3 kPa) instead<br/>
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AFAIK we aren't talking about *literally* Venus, but one of the SE (and Traveller's ?) planets ?
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Please do add, a couple months old is a very short time as forums go !<br/>
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Well, the main issue with airless moons is that (conventional) firearms and diesel engines shouldn't be able to work either...
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zgrssd<br/>
Pretty sure Gas Powerd Air Rifles are supposed to simulate the Girardoni Air Rifle: -<br/>
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It was used by the Lewis and Clarke Expidition and the Austrian Military from 1780 to 1815.<br/>
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The main advantage is a pretty low ammo/supply ...

<r> Also, to offset waffling about idiosyncrasies, here's an actual text correction; Polymer Armour should probably be Composite Armour.<br/>
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Polymers are a very 'wide' and 'vague' concept, because they exist in many, many natural and synthetic forms, and the most common synthetic polymers ...

<t> Honestly I would ditch the gas-propelled weaponry entirely. From my own digging into the concept(s) involved (since I assume they're meant to be combustion light-gas guns*), they sound hideously impractical as personal-scale arms to the point that nobody would ever consider seriously using them ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zgrssd<br/>
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The highest Respiratory Hazard Level is poorly named with "Insidious".<br/>
The word indicates stuff like <B><s>[b]</s>Stealthy<e>[/b]</e></B>, <B><s>[b]</s>Methodical<e>[/b]</e></B> and <B><s>[b]</s>Ambush<e>[/b]</e></B> - the <I><s>[i]</s ...

<r> I've found a quick and easy solution to fixed-wing aircraft design that works fairly well so far; just base your specs off existing planes! I'm not sure how engine power compares to horsepower (1:1?), but if you match engine type or total horsepower, hull length, wingspan, and fuel/bomb/cargo ...