Squiddy McSquids possibly short life - {Possible spoilers inside}

x3mitn · Post by **x3mitn** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 20:20

Why would you need salvage insurance?
Great story so far, getting bored with building, too much money too easy! Split killing sounds fun, though I tend to go in all guns blazing and whack, b$gger - start again!

Loads of tips without being tips top drawer story!

Long live the squid

BDStyle · Post by **BDStyle** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 20:33

x3mitn wrote:Why would you need salvage insurance?
Great story so far, getting bored with building, too much money too easy! Split killing sounds fun, though I tend to go in all guns blazing and whack, b$gger - start again!

Loads of tips without being tips top drawer story!

Long live the squid

Crashes I'd expect, I've done a fair few death is death starts in my time and while reloading because of the game is a no no.. it crashing is certainly not a reason not to reload.

I'd forgive slug for a reload if his system crashed or the game hung.. thats fair in my book considering this is hard enough as it is without having to deal with something totally beyond his control.

DocIceT · Post by **DocIceT** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:13

Next time the bloke in Omicron Lyrae asks you to ferry people around just accept. Then sell them at the nearest pirate station or turn them into Mercs.
That way the job is worth it, Squiddy style.

Necrosexual · Post by **Necrosexual** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:20

Next time the bloke in Omicron Lyrae asks you to ferry people around just accept. Then sell them at the nearest pirate station or turn them into Mercs.
That way the job is worth it, Squiddy style.

Ahahaha! Accept you are escorting a ship with the passengers not carrying them. Good idea still.

This just in Terran dignitaries kidnapped and sold into slavery

Stryc9 · Post by **Stryc9** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 10:01

I've taken the liberty of going back to the first post and compiling each update into one text files for those that are behind and need to catch up or those that just want to have it for reference because they have poor memory.

Here's the link:
http://www.geocities.com/akira_2001us/Squid.txt

I'll try to remember to keep this updated as often as I can.

Blown · Post by **Blown** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 10:41

PLEASE!!!

Wrap the text... my poor browser (and eyes) can't cope with long lines of text extending 5 screen widths into the distance...

if you plan to update it, it isn't practical to download it, at that point I may as well maintain my own.

EDIT: Was originally intended for Stryc9. Apologies for the misunderstandings.

Necrosexual · Post by **Necrosexual** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 11:04

Why
Don't
You
Just
Change
Your
Sett-
ings?

KiwiNZ · Post by **KiwiNZ** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 11:05

Alternatively, simply go through the posts and copy and paste the text into a document.

Necrosexual · Post by **Necrosexual** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 11:29

Surely there is a solution on your part that does not involve NUKLEAR SLUG taking a course in visually impaired sentence construction for online forums.

Blown · Post by **Blown** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 11:29

Problem is it opens as a web page... complete with formatting.

yes, I could download the document and open it in ABIword, or textedit, or any number of other apps, but at that point I'm downloading the file again, and if I'm using it to keep track of the story, I'm constantly deleting and replacing the file.

Yes, I'm being lazy, but if you know how to activate word wrap in firefox, tell me, and I'll be in your debt.

EDIT: Argh, sorry, see what was being said... I was reffering to the compilation by Stryc9, not the originals on the forum, those are fine and wrap properly.

Necrosexual · Post by **Necrosexual** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 11:35

No i'm sorry for being a troll. have you tried google for "word wrap in firefox"

Ravenholme · Post by **Ravenholme** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 13:19

Great story Squiddy, I love it.

(For those interested, next chapter of Tupman is up, it's a bit short, I threw it together at three in the morning)

NUKLEAR-SLUG · Post by **NUKLEAR-SLUG** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 18:30

A quick systems check and then bracing myself for trauma I drop into X598 to be greeted by a wall of red on my Gravidar.. ah, no wait. Hang on, that's just jam (never eat while flying). Actually it appears there's a mere three ships guarding the other side. Fair enough it's an M2 an M1 and a Q but still, only three ships. Xenon, plague on the universe my arse.

Anyways, I'm much faster than them and by the time they've realised one of those meatbag critters is invading their space and turned around I'm already going hell for leather towards the east gate. Way off in the distance by the north gate I can see what looks like another three Q's but I'll be long gone by the time they get anywhere close. Apparently the Xenon aren't really expecting people to fly INTO Xenon territory as they haven't bothered to guard the east gate at all. I guess just me and Mahi Ma's idiot friends do this kind of thing. Reaching the gate without incident I head thru into X627..

Ok, that's almost even better, a grand total of two ships this time. An N and what is apparently a PX, a variant on the P I'm guessing? The N isn't a problem as it's 20km away.. and it's an N. The PX in the other hand is right on top of me. Fortunately I've got the positional advantage and 6xHEPT eat thru PX quite handily it seems. Continuing across the sector I start to see movement in the distance.. maybe this sector is a bit livelier after all. I can't see much more than a single J/K at the moment tho as they're still out of gravidar range.

Quarter way across the sector and I start to get registers on gravidar and the place lights up red, a jam-free red this time. This is more what I was expecting. I might be inclined to back off at this point were it not looking very likely that the next gate leads me to my goal. Then again it might turn out that's a goal I don't want to achieve..

Anyways, I'm currently looking at one K, possibly another in the distance and a Q plus a veritable horde of fighters. There's even some closing in behind me from the edge of the sector cutting me off, and they're all converging on my position. I'm not too concerned tho, I have the utmost confidence in Thunderchilds ability to handle the smaller stuff and I have a little suprise in my cargo bay. Continuing on a little further I reach a point towards the centre of the sector which puts the maximum number of targets in range and at this point I cut the engines and go 'Deathblossom'. Rapidly cycling thru targets I dump all my missile tubes and approximately 4Gj of damage goes streaking out across the void towards the incoming Xenon.

First strike is a resounding success and cores a path thru the centre of the Xenon fighter swarm. Foot to the floor I go burning down the middle of the resulting debris field towards the east gate into Core 023. A couple more follow-up missiles pick off a straggler or two and a quick dodge around an asteroid to avoid that K and I'm clear and free. The only thing that can catch me now is a wing of N's coming up rapidly from the south but Thunderchilds turrets and shielding is more than capable of withstanding them and a few Wasps in the mix soon thin out the swarm. Coming up fast on the gate I break thru and into...

.. I'm not quite sure what actually. Well I'm not in Core 023 where I was expecting, that's for sure. I know where that is and there and here are most definitely not the same place. It appears I'm in some large structure of some sort and if what I can see out the 'window' is anything to go by I'm way the hell too close to a sun for my liking. SPF-50 really isn't going to cut it if the shields on this place fail. On the plus side at least nobody is shooting at me at the moment so that's some consolation and it looks like there's a busted up ship not far off. Could be the Boron guys idiot friends.

Yep, that's them all right. Blackbox says the Xenon didn't appreciate them interloping and shot the hell out of them. Well who would have thought eh? Anyways, as far as I'm concerned that's my end of things dealt with so I guess I'll drop by Kingdom End and report in with Mahi Ma. Hopefully I'll get that reward he was being so vague about before.

Think I'll tell him they died horribly just for giggles..

TheJakal · Post by **TheJakal** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 19:05

Brilliant lol and good luck with yoru reward. Now havign not given decent comment on this fine thread I feel now is a good a time as any to do so.

I can safley say you've inspired me greatly. Simply put I love it. The whole approach thing gives the game a new life and makes you acrtually concentrate on what your doing rather than thyinking I'll just go for it and reload if I die after all I dont want to lose anything. It forces you to consider your fragility and not go after that M3 wing in a M5 or depend on autopliot to turn your TL asround as you exit a jumkp gate to take it back throguh again (I did this in my brand nnew Herc in X2 which I'd saved for for ages and was my first cap ship. Needless to say the entire Arogn military in the sector went red right before my new shiny ship went boom).

I've tried to make a start with this so many times (must be on my like 10th so far) and am finally learning a few things that may help me stay alive this time (like not attacking a fighter wing in a M5).

Just out of wonder did you post right after you'd done the first log in game or did you wait till you had a few logs ready and knew that you were ready to roll and that it was actually gonna get somewhere?

As for your Elephant poaching have you thoguht of ordering a station and telling them to put it in some pirate sector. that way you could jump it then and take it without having the secotr military to deal with. Just get the cheapest factory I'm sure its a loss you could cope with for the rewards you'd get.

Cheers

TheJakal

Seathal · Post by **Seathal** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 19:13

Squiddy meets the Hub! This is getting even mroe interesting. You advance fast!

Stryc9 · Post by **Stryc9** » Sat, 6. Dec 08, 23:02

Blown: I see what you mean, I'll work on fixing it shortly.

ScorpiusX · Post by **ScorpiusX** » Sun, 7. Dec 08, 00:03

TheJackal theres no need to buy a station all he needs to do is com the TL and tell the captain to fly to a sector e.g from Light of Heart send it to Argon Prime and you get to choose which of those nice pie rat sectors to jump it in.

Blown · Post by **Blown** » Sun, 7. Dec 08, 01:11

thanks for that...
I've done a Google search, and so far, I'm not sure there is a solution in the Firefox browser, only ones I've found are for web page editing, but it seems to load fine in Safari, looks like this wasn't something they expected people to do with Firefox.

Ah well... guess open-source ain't perfect.

Stryc9 · Post by **Stryc9** » Sun, 7. Dec 08, 02:53

All fixed now, and the link's in my signature too.

Ravenholme · Post by **Ravenholme** » Sun, 7. Dec 08, 02:56

TheJakal wrote:Just out of wonder did you post right after you'd done the first log in game or did you wait till you had a few logs ready and knew that you were ready to roll and that it was actually gonna get somewhere?

Can't speak for NUKLEAR, but I started as soon as I played the first part of Tupman's journey. I didn't know if it was going to go anywhere, in fact, I could have died at the next jumpgate. If that's how it had happened, that's how I would have reported it. Luckily though, I've had a lot more luck than that.

I just wonder if it can last.....

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Squiddy McSquids possibly short life - {Possible spoilers inside}