Hey guys,
updating SFW discussion boards.
this game is teamed and ready to go. builds are in process and we will just have to wait for Paul to ignite the game boosters to get it off the ground!

By Kirk Petty (Zugzwang) on Tuesday, March 06, 2012 - 10:53 pm: Edit

what happened to our other thread--

By Jeff McKlevey (Low) on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 01:27 pm: Edit

It cloaked out

By Lloyd Bangs (Ninja1) on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 - 01:35 pm: Edit

thats what having a Romulan secretary does for ya!
having multiple threads is confusing. a second historical thread was started when one had already existed (this one).

By Lloyd Bangs (Ninja1) on Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 01:29 am: Edit

they're here!! game on, boys!

By Kirk Petty (Zugzwang) on Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 11:45 pm: Edit

The Federation and its minions have engaged in
economic piracy. Once again they have proven themselves to be without honor. The coalition in order to preserve a more perfect space union do declare that a state of war exists between it and the alliance

By Lloyd Bangs (Ninja1) on Friday, March 16, 2012 - 04:10 am: Edit

Oh ya? Well, sticks and stones, dude!!

By Lloyd Bangs (Ninja1) on Friday, March 16, 2012 - 04:18 am: Edit

Hey did you guys just hear what "THE KLINGON" said?
He said we are minions!
He said we are pirates!
He said we have no honor!
He said they declare war on US!
Are we going to stand for that?? NO!
Come, bloody my blade Klingon hoard so that I may use your flesh to feed my dogs!
(was that better trash talk?)

By Jeff McKlevey (Low) on Friday, March 16, 2012 - 08:04 am: Edit

Iacta alea esto. Venite tripudiarent lunae.


Lacerta Venator

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Friday, March 16, 2012 - 08:52 am: Edit

Hey, what happened to the Universal Translator?

* Smacks the Universal Translator *

* Looks at Jeff *

Poor Geico gecko! What'd he ever do to you???

By Kirk Petty (Zugzwang) on Monday, March 19, 2012 - 11:33 pm: Edit

To the Gorn,
We of the Coalition invite you to right the on-going wrongs being visited upon your people Attack the Feds! After your initial meeting, where the terran captain got lucky and found some sulfur, they have done nothing but insult you. They use lizards in all sorts of disrespectful ways. They have produced shows where the brutal race were decietful lizards living under an emoitionless queen (V) They have a iittle green naked lizard shamefully pushing car insurance-- even playing on the proud family name Gecko calling their insurance Geico.

By Gene Malin (Privateer) on Monday, March 19, 2012 - 11:38 pm: Edit

I have always believed there should be a third party. A pirate that works alone and works both sides.

By Jeff McKlevey (Low) on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 07:57 am: Edit

Gene, there is, we are the Roms. We are just so good at it, even the rulebook has not figured it out yet.

By Gene Malin (Privateer) on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 08:46 pm: Edit

No, the Roms are part of the Coalition. The Pirate would have his own set of victory conditions.

By Jeff McKlevey (Low) on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 08:09 am: Edit

Just getting to caught up in the details there Gene ;)

Besides, the victory conditions are a subset of the rulebook, and as I said, even the rulebook has not caught up with the sneakiness of the Roms.

By Kirk Petty (Zugzwang) on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 11:05 am: Edit

I think its a great variant idea Gene

By Jeff McKlevey (Low) on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 12:54 pm: Edit

The only real trouble is game balance.

But thinking about it, that just might be what the Alliance side needs this go around to have a fighting chance.

By Lloyd Bangs (Ninja1) on Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 12:21 am: Edit

Gene, i love the idea. what are your ideas for using that variant?

By Gene Malin (Privateer) on Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 10:14 pm: Edit

For the Pirate to win, he would have to compile a set of Victory Conditions of his own, and that would have nothing to do with the actual winner. You could also have a few pirates in the game that were spread out.
They would do what Pirates do, raid sites, rent ships out, stuff like that. They could charge extortion fees to allow a home sector to stay in bonus, things like that. Could be a lot of fun.

By Lloyd Bangs (Ninja1) on Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 11:07 pm: Edit

Gene,
that might work as a Cops-n-Robbers game.
i have been working on an Arena style variant that could use an element of this sort. mind if i use the idea? the arena game is an 8 players die-hard for die-hards game. no diplomacy, so the pirates would do well.
let me know of any other ideas for it you come up with.

By David Alsford (Davidals) on Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 08:30 am: Edit

Sorry for the off game intrusion. In the historical format I think you would have to make it impossible for the pirate to own/take major sites as otherwise in the NPC areas they would become a galaxy wide power in the few turns it takes the Coalition/Alliance to reach out. Give them a cloaked base in every sector for scans and ship construction plus a target of X amount of income, Y amount of ships or a combo of X and Y for victory conditions.

By Gene Malin (Privateer) on Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 09:58 am: Edit

For the idea to work, you would need a very above average honorable person to play the pirate, lest he become an ally of one side or the other.
I would imagine the player would need to be a veteran who has worked with a large number of players.

By Kirk Petty (Zugzwang) on Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 09:56 pm: Edit

What better man of I honor, I submit, then the Privateer himself, Gene Malin

By Isidore Baker (Cloudmasters) on Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 05:53 pm: Edit

I'll play the andros.
Start with 1 Courier in each sector.

By Gene Malin (Privateer) on Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 06:57 pm: Edit

I like that idea, Andros and Pirates.
Maybe start with 1 base for each, and all the maps. A courier in each sector and a LR in each sector. The LRs would be cloaked. Both could build a ship a turn at any base they own.