Are the Feds really so overpowered?

posted on September 11th, 2010, 5:57 pm

I'll have to correct you on that.  Its 30 rubles to the dollar.  For that i can buy about 30 decent* cigs or 1 decent can of beer or more than a litre of petrol (its currently about 22 rubles for 92 (4 star)).

i know the ruble is no longer having the issues of the 90's any more, its just a long standing joke. feel free to make any jokes about tea/crumpets/cricket that you like for me  i actually dont like cricket, but tea and crumpets  

How much do cigs, beer, and petrol cost you?

well im british so i have no idea how much those cost in USD

i also dont smoke drink or drive so even if i was american i couldnt help you lol.

posted on September 11th, 2010, 6:03 pm

lol got to love sterotypes for you info i live in Iowa and live on a farm (our ground is rented out), my grandfather is a farmer, and i bottle fed a calf for two or three weeks.

posted on September 11th, 2010, 6:04 pm

i know the ruble is no longer having the issues of the 90's any more, its just a long standing joke. feel free to make any jokes about tea/crumpets/cricket that you like for me  i actually dont like cricket, but tea and crumpets  

well im british so i have no idea how much those cost in USD

i also dont smoke drink or drive so even if i was american i couldnt help you lol.

Ah you missed the post (another thread i think) where i mentioned i'm british myself... i'm a Yorkshire lad, raised up t'north, where men are men, and sheep are worried.

posted on September 11th, 2010, 6:08 pm

Ah you missed the post (another thread i think) where i mentioned i'm british myself... i'm a Yorkshire lad, raised up t'north, where men are men, and sheep are worried.

i thought u were russian in your post you said you could purchase stuff with rubles. i remember your post before about living near tyler.

lol got to love sterotypes for you info i live in Iowa and live on a farm (our ground is rented out), my grandfather is a farmer, and i bottle fed a calf for two or three weeks.

well at least you have a connection to trek

posted on September 11th, 2010, 6:14 pm

Ah yes.  The great canyons of Iowa, as seen in the last Star Trek movie...  

posted on September 11th, 2010, 8:04 pm

Yeah i also kinda wonder who thinks feds are underpowerd, i honestly have no guesses, theres only one person that i could think of and he hasnt been here in a long time.

Personally, i feel like warpin is a crutch that feds have to use in order to win, somtimes i wish that sfc would be taken away, so that feds dont have to rely on that to win,

posted on September 11th, 2010, 11:16 pm

Personally, i feel like warpin is a crutch that feds have to use in order to win

thats not true.

feds can easily win without sfc.

their ships are cheap enough to double yard with ease.

once u got your expansion up u can even triple yard.

i think if u had 2 moon pairs u could quadruple yard sabres. that would be a stupid number of sabres.

posted on September 11th, 2010, 11:19 pm

Yeah, I have won without SFC.  In a team battle, i had enough antaries yards to spam the heck out of intrepids and monsoons that we won very soon.  tbh I forgot to build SFC.

But SFC does help.

posted on September 11th, 2010, 11:34 pm

Yeah i just tried a double saber start, while not vaible vs the borg, it can work well

posted on September 12th, 2010, 9:03 am

i thought u were russian in your post you said you could purchase stuff with rubles. i remember your post before about living near tyler.

I'm an ex-pat.  Born in Germany (to British parents on British soil - RAF base), grew up in Sheffield, worked around the country, emigrated to Russia.

posted on September 12th, 2010, 9:05 pm

You can indeed run double yard Sabers off of one moon pair, I did it with Canaverals mixed in one time (the Canaverals caused a dil shortage tho.) Quadruple yard Sabers off of two is reasonable to expect.

posted on September 24th, 2010, 11:26 pm

My two bits on warpin...

To a great extent, it is based on chance, the ships you get are picked according to a formula and aren't fixed, and i don't think that a skill-based game should have anything left to chance.

posted on September 24th, 2010, 11:50 pm

and i don't think that a skill-based game should have anything left to chance.

  Erm ....  really?

  But the very fundamentals of weapons in Fleetops are based on chance.

Torpedoes have a 20% and 40% misschance against medium and small targets respectively.  That's mirrored by a non-variable amount of reduction applied to pulses for the same thing.

  Variance, variables, and percentage chance-based things (like the warpin) are what make thing exciting!  If there weren't any, it wouldn't be much fun .

posted on September 24th, 2010, 11:54 pm

I think he means chance in terms of one getting a Galaxy when you need to kill a Dodecahedron, rather than an Excelsior  . Or, if you will, a random meteor blowing up your Starbase 

posted on September 25th, 2010, 8:17 am

i know the ruble is no longer having the issues of the 90's any more, its just a long standing joke. feel free to make any jokes about tea/crumpets/cricket that you like for me  i actually dont like cricket, but tea and crumpets  

well im british so i have no idea how much those cost in USD

i also dont smoke drink or drive so even if i was american i couldnt help you lol.

I'm american, so I can tell you...though our measurements are still in imperial units.

1 gallon of gasoline - $2.50 to $3.80, depending on location
1 pack of cigarettes (20 cigarettes) - $6 to $9 depending on location.
1 bottle of average beer - $1.50 in stores, $3.50 to $6 in bars/clubs, based on location.