/strek/ - Star Trek

>>31968

It's something that happens in every such game. Civ 5 is infamous for it.

>Played two games so far, one unmodded, one modded (Balance of Power)

>Both games as Federation (I like the ships) and want to try diplomacy

>Both times achieve overwhelming military superiority due to good resource management, but constantly press for peace with mild to moderate incentives

>AI always rejects

>Disposition constantly falls

>Conquer some star systems which Feds hate hoping to push the AI towards peace, AI attitude barely changes

>Everyone always hates me

>Whenever an AI decides to ask for peace (almost never), they break it practically the next turn

What am I doing wrong? Am I just supposed to pour money into my enemies just to make friends? It seems like when you demonstrate you can eat them alive and ask for peace, the AI would be eager to accept. It seems like they should be showering me with gifts for peace and alliances.

I do always try to scoop up minor races, I guess that could make everyone hate me, but not that much.

Also wanted to bump this thread, fun game.

Please no jokes that everyone should hate the Feds, I just like their ships and I'm trying out different mods. My next game will be as best faction, I just want to know what I'm doing wrong

>>32969

Check for patches?

>>32970

If you mean those in "tools" folder, than i ran all of them except the EdificePatcher. No improvement. If you meant those on the AFC, then shouldn't they be obsolete being from the 2013, while the game pack is 2017?

>>28660

It's 1/1000 scale, and is a little under 5 inches long (similar size to the Eaglemoss Oberth in your photo, I think?). It comes as part of a 2-pack with a Klingon Bird of Prey.

I'm pretty salty because the BoP seems to have received a lot more attention than the Oberth in its engineering and detailing. It's still got its share of blunders, though.

Also

>That itty bitty Micro Machines Oberth

I've got one of those floating around my home somewhere. Every time I stumble over a few of my old Micro Machines, I'm disappointed when none of them are the USS Grissom.

>>28663

Sink marks occur where plastic is molded relatively thick. The plastic contracts and "sinks" inward as it cools. Basically all of the gray patches in the WIP photo I posted (except for on the under-slung sensor pod) are areas where I had to fill visible depressions/sink marks. They molded the pallet section of the hull as a single thick piece, and so most of its flat surfaces had visible deformation.

Sink marks are a common thing in injection-molded plastic kits, but in a competently-engineered kit they're so small and shallow that they're practically imperceptible.

>Oberth Collection

Anyone think this is like having a loli collection that FBI are going to bust down your door any minute for?

>>28758

They're like a century old, wouldn't that make them more like age-shrunken GILFs?

All the main characters know Klingon so the translator leaves it alone

>>32843

Keiko looks relatively calm in that episode.

>>32818

Klingon was designed by a linguist to have its own syntax and vocabulary that all sounded like it came from the same language. I don't know if the language has a complete vocabulary, but it does have a complete structure.

A possible explanation for words not being translated is that one can decide what gets translated by the universal translator and what does not before speaking.

>>31783

fumble fingers fix: * hang around

>>31747

I really miss the ship thread and model autism of this board.

My dad is really big into star trek should I introduce him to this place?

>>32861

That depends. Post some pics of your dad's anus to help us make up our minds.

I've always wondered, exactly how many more credits does Picard make than Riker?

How do Romulan sleeper agents put up with all the spankings when disguised as Vulcans?

>>32808

What if Earth-Romulan War was fought by hacking into each other's computers with Romulans beaming them over lusty big breasted Vulcan pon far porn while Humans return by sending them Gachimuchi?

>>32825

The the Romulans have a strange tactic.

>>29563

Because he's in love, actually.

I wonder how people here would like Hyperdrive

>>32708

Another one.

>>32724

I watched an episode when it came out. It was like watching reddit trying to create Red Dwarf.

>>32724

Looks like a bunch of hobo ayys talking to space janitors.

and you are trying to force me to go back to reddit how, strong language? Nigga please.

>>32773

>So how did Voyager's replicators work?

They rationed them officially due to a lack of power but unofficially due to a lack of supplies.

>>32786

>>>/oven/

>>32807

Send them to the Vulcans first.

Green New Deal in my budget or avocado on my toast

>>32765

Gowron still has the far superior gaze. She does manage to go full four-sides white in one of these, but just barely.

>>32646

>>32658

>>32662

GOD HATES FUN

>>32663

>Be a nigger and post random unintelligent shit that has nothing to do with anything

>Hating fun

You must have Cardassian IQ to post on this board.

>>32670

No, they just fell for D&C tactics.

>>32330

This could also be why she got promoted straight to Vice Admiral from Captain; she was the Evil Admiral archetype personified so there was no need for her to putter around figuring the role out.

>>32330

The difference between good and evil is only how effective their tactics. If you pick a stupid option and succeed, you're a hero; if you pick a stupid option and fail, you're a villain. Hilariously enough, I mostly see Janeway as a female version of Kirk; they both did things their own way, flew off their rocker all the time, and had to be restrained by cooler heads. You wouldn't have called Kirk "evil" because despite everything, he still got the job done. So did she, albeit requiring some pretty serious ass-pulls involving the Borg and time-travel. But then, so did Kirk, or did you forget about the whales?

Also, consider what admirals actually do. It's perfectly rational that they just put her in charge of any small part of the Federation dealing with the Delta Quadrant because she was literally the only commanding officer with experience.

Not sure how shameful this is, but I personally find Data doing small talk hilarious.

>>31794

I just called her Seven of Nine and her borg spheres.

>>32715

>Seven by nine

DAMN that's some girth right there.

>>32678

TAS never fully used animation to come up with wild scenarios that couldn't be done in live action. The scale of that insectiod ship compared to the Enterprise in the first episode of TAS was memorable, then there was that practical joker episode with the rec room when the Enterprise was playing tricks on the crew. Aside from that most of the scenarios don't really leap out to me and I felt a good chunk of those episodes could've been done in the original series if it was never canceled.

I can't think of many TAS episode that I actually liked all that much, either. Maybe The Slaver Weapon? That's about the only one I felt which was worth a watch.

>>32675

Couldn't anyone basically scrape this level of animation together these days and call it Start Trekks or something and just have fun with it?

They should have done an animated adventures of Porthos.

>>32598

2004 Newgrounds would probably have been able to do a better job.

>>32668

Because you lost.

>>30621

>kiloton-TNT equivalents

That's the real issue here, in order to outbang a conventional nuke you'd need a fucking huge rock. The tsar bomba had a yeild of 50 megatons, that's a 50 million ton rock at 3km/s. Sure, the rock is gonna be going a lot faster than that since it's got the whole distance from the moon to accelerate, but you'd still probably need a rock with a mass of tens or even hundreds of thousands of tons, and then you've got to build something that can launch it off the moon.

It would be far, far easier just to use nukes, and you don't even need to be on the moon to do that.

>>31073

>Far easier to use nukes

Not really. For one thing they cause radioactive fallout which really messes with your ability to occupy the cities you just bombed. An ability to precision-target military installations with large-scale destructive capabilities, that doesn't leave behind radiation is extremely valuable. There's also the whole matter that there is NOTHING THAT CAN STOP a million-ton rock hurtling in from space. A nuclear missile can be detected and shot down, and planes carrying nuclear bombs can be shot down. A giant rock? All you can do is run.

As for the logistics of launching it off the moon, don't forget that gravity is only 1/5th of Earth, and there is no atmosphere to slow it on the way. There's no need to use rockets; a simple mass-driver like a coilgun or railgun will do. So long as you can get it to L1 at around 80,000km above the Moon, even if it's crawling at that point, it'll keep falling back to Earth the rest of the way on its own.

>>30333

His name is John Flynt

>>31159

the radiation isn't really a factor tbh. wear insulted clothing and face mask with air filters and you're fine.

>>31159

>there is NOTHING THAT CAN STOP a million-ton rock hurtling in from space

True enough, but for the same reason it's incredibly hard to get it moving in the first place.

The change in gravitational potential energy moving an object from the surface of the Moon to L1 is something like 3MJ/kg.

Say you use a chemical gun. Combustion of H2 with O2 has an energy density of about 16MJ/kg, so ignoring questions of efficiency (e.g. heat loss), you're looking at around 200 kg fuel per ton of rock. An object dropped from the Moon has energy 15 times its mass in TNT equivalent. Together, fuel is worth roughly 75 times its mass in TNT equivalent rock delivery.

The US nuclear arsenal (in theory) could field something like 500-700 Mt of warheads. That works out to the equivalent of up to ten million tons of fuel for your gun. And you have to produce all of this on the Moon. And this ignores the materials required to actually build your guns.

A railgun has efficiencies of, say, 30% at converting electrical energy to kinetic, so that's 10MJ per kg of rock to L1, and thus 670 GJ per kiloton TNT equivalent. In other words, your yield is only 6kt per kt of energy input, and what you pay for that increase with is the massive amount of infrastructure to support many (you need to be able to launch many in a short time, after all) impossibly large guns on the desolate Moon, and the massive power supply they would need.

And launching it aside, think of what it would take simply to carve out a thousand ton rock and move it to the gun!

The Star Trek Wars. How is this even up for discussion?

Star Wars as a whole is the most overrated thing ever and needs to just be ignored already.

>>32713

Are you retarded? It was good enough to be the death of cinema, that should count for something. The new ones have all been garbage though.

Star Gate.

>mass migration

>good

I really don't think he killed her. She was the one he actually loved.