Let's try for negotiation. Maybe we can talk our way out of it...that is my decision...anyone else want to chime in??
Okay, negotiation. Jenni will grumble, but she will go along with it.
Heck Dev is grumbling, but better that then being blasted into space...
Hello, hi new guy here just adding my two cents, yeah I agree negotiation's way better than a fight that we don't know we can win.
Is there a way to hack into their computer system and shut them down? Otherwise I'm for fighting our way out of here. Not too keen on give up our goods but if that's what you want to do we could offer them some of the cargo we picked up on the station. Not the isotopes, maybe a ton or two of weapons.
Not really, unless you can get onto the ship, or get a probe/robot onto it to plug into it. But doing that would be pretty obvious right now.
Hello, new here, trying to get up to speed, but doesn't honestly sound like fighting is worthwhile here.
I have an idea but I need to confirm how money works here before implementing it. My understanding is that money transactions and records have to travel via ship for money to actually change hands. Is that correct? If we give him credits and blow him up then it would be like the transaction never happened.
No, if you transfer credits from your credit chip to his credit chip, your credit chip would record the transfer. So the next time you dock, it'd auto update from your chip.
You can claim the chip was 'lost', but the bank will honor any other chips that have transactions against yours (including his if someone finds it later, if it should somehow accidentally survive), and then the bank would press charges.
However, you are currently carrying a 'certified chit'. A certified chit is usable anywhere at any time, because it's certified to carry (it's sort of like having bank bonds in a chip), it's not connected to an bank account, all your cash is on it. The military pays non-citizens with them so it doesn't have to deal with people trying to hack their accounts. They put your payment on the chit, give you the chit, and you never know what account they took it from. Basically, since they don't know you from Adam, they don't trust you to know where their bank accounts are. So they just pay you in 'cash' and call it a day.
Sorry heavy work week so far (and it's only Tuesday!!)
I will try to get a reply out asap, but did anyone weigh in on our next action? Do we want an escort or do we go it alone?
Another 50 grand? I say that we go it on our own. Put in at the first good-sized port and upgrade our ships with what we have left.
Sorry got distracted by the nice weather.
I say no to the escort.
Tick tock tick tock
We do have new players who can comment, OOC, do we not?
Oh I personally don't mind either way, it's not like either of our characters are in the position to really contribute to the decision making of the characters anyway.
I like that once you showed your belly the vargr became a perfect gentleman. :P
And that folks, is what happens when your GM rolls an encounter labeled 'You encounter an especially bold pirate'. :)
*applause* Well done! I was convinced that was a planned encounter!
Same here!! Awesome encounter!!
Glad you liked it. Sorry it cost you 50,000. :)
I so wanted to blow him up on his way out once I figured out he was alone.
Great job on the encounter!
Yay great encounter that I did nothing to help with. To bad we didn't keep the device, we could have sold it or use it as a torpedo or something, like check to see if it was ever actually a threat to us or if we'd just been had.
Opening a device with thorium powder and explosives inside is usually contraindicated for long term survival. :P
Of course, maybe it didn't have that stuff in it... but maybe it did... did you really want to find out?
Ticky Tocky
Having internet problems, not sure how often I can post, bot me as needed.
Poke? We have some people not posting :
Alison
Warren
Tam
Even if I don't specifically call you out for something, that doesn't mean you don't post. You can post doing something. This is the first major trade port you've been at in decades...
Sorry, my depression hit me bad last week and I just lost enthusiasm for pretty much everything. I'm through the worst of it for now and will endeavor to be more loquacious.
Sorry to hear it, Alison. Real life and real health come first!
Poke Poke! I need someone to make a decision on where you are parking.
Poke poke? GM waiting for anyone to unload cargo, buy more cargo, etc? Trade Data was in the post earlier.
Took me a while to find it even after you said it was there. I'll work on it.
Please separately highlight it next time so it's easier to see?
Thanks.
Hmmm... I found a link for Trade Data from Inudak, but didn't we come to Ansana? Can you repost the link?
Inudak is the current location. Ansana is the subsector capital, and your next stop.
I will be out of pocket this weekend (Friday through Sunday). I have a local convention and will be running PFS for much of it, so I will not be checking in. See everyone on Monday.
So perhaps I misunderstand the nature of the DM's in the Trade Data. When I look at another system's Desired Goods and it has a Trade DM next to it, what is the meaning of that Trade DM? I thought larger meant higher prices. Was that wrong?
When looking at the table, there is two tables. One is labeled 'Readily Available Goods' and lists a DM. That is the DM added when trying to Purchase (Purchase DM) at the destination. That is, it's telling you what is most likely to be for sale at the destination.
For example, on the current Trade Preview for Tufae
Basic Consumables 3
Basic Raw Materials 3
Biochemicals 1
Live Animals 2
Luxury Consumables 2
Radioactives 3
Textiles 7
Uncommon Raw Materials 2
Wood 6
From looking at this, at Tufae, it is very easy to find and buy Textiles and Raw Woods, which means you'll probably get good deals on those. Everything else will be somewhat cheaper than normal, but not likely to have super deals (it's still random though, so there's always a chance to get a good deal).
The second table is the 'Desired Goods' table, which has information about Selling at the destination (Sale DM).
Basic Machine Parts 2
Electronics 1
Petrochemicals 2
Pharmaceuticals 1
Robots 2
As we can see, Tufae doesn't have any strong 'desires'.
So, the DM's vary depending on which table they are on. In general, things on the 'Readily Available' table will be for sale, and the price will cheaper for higher DM stuff. In general, things on the 'Desired Goods' table will fetch higher prices than stuff not there, and almost certainly more than the 'Readily Available' stuff.
But there's a lot of randomness in it (Rolling a 2 or a 12 on the check can totally overwhelm all but the highest DMs). I take it that the cargo hold unfortunately has mostly things that won't sell well here? That's entirely possible with randomness (thus the 'speculative cargo' being risky thing).
Okay, that's what I'd hoped it was. Ansana isn't going to pay off very well for some of the things we bought, but it looks like that came down to die rolls.
Thanks.
Yeah, if you look at the Desired Goods table, you can see what the modified roll was. For example, I think you have Slug Weapons. The modified roll for those was 5, resulting in a horrible price. Your residential appliances should sell well.
Sold em at Inudak!
Sorry if I'm kind of hit or miss this week. Had a holiday, had sleeping issues over it, got RIF'd first thing Tuesday morning, wife is out of town at a funeral, and finally realized how much I'd grown to hate my job when I felt relief at getting RIF'd rather than being upset. So in a weird place.
I understand the hating your job part. For me, it wasn't hating where I work, but rather hating what I did. When they let me go because of certain issues (I have severe depression and essentially they were concerned about a possible "incident"), it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
It wasn't where I worked, I liked everyone. It was what I was doing the last year (fixing other people's code) rather than going out and doing projects where I'm building new customizations.
Getting let go from my last job was exactly what I needed to get me to go find the better job I have now. Good luck, MDT!
I'm going to have to officially call Tam lost at this point. The player hasn't posted to any of their games since April 27th. I hate it when that happens, I always assume the worst when there's an abrupt loss of posting. :(
May have also lost our new player (Alison), no posts since the 15th. *sigh* Well, it's a good place to lose them I guess, and both are non-Imperials.
Question for the group, how much do you want to play out the 2 months of down time on Annasa, and the 6 months trip back to Imperial space? Most of that 2 months will be training to bring your skills up to date, but the 6 months you can train new skills.
Annasa is TL 12, and the Impire is TL 13 now. You can find some TL 13 stuff on Annasa if you want to search for it, but it'll take up retraining time. Up to you guys though.
Anyway, I figure we can do one of the following :
1) Back to Imperial space in 1 big post.
2) Spend a week (real time) on Annasa, week (real time) on the Ship, then Imperial.
3) Play out each week and take however long it takes.
Thoughts? Feelings?
I'm against the first option. Having such a massive time jump just seems like a waste to me.
I recommend giving us time on Annasa then give us a little time in the ship. Yeah still massive time jumps but it's more satisfying then putting up, "Six months later."
Unless you have something planned, I'm fine with the 6 month jump. I'd want no more than a week on Annasa and a week traveling.
It depends on how you want our story to unfold, GM. If the story is about traders who pick up the occasional adventure as they wend their way through space, The Ruler of Five is at least as good a location for that as the big, static Imperium.
If the story is going to happen in the Imperium and this is just the journey to get to the story, then start where the story is (with a monumental increase in our wallet size to account for Moyasmedsev's shrewd way with speculative cargo, of course.)
Skip it and move us into the Imperium. Maybe a bit of RP here, but I would rather be in Imperium space (where my character might be able to gain a number of resources back since our ship was taken from us)