I like it! I could have used it if it also included auto-scrubs for catastrophic math failures.

--Mav

After watching Gav's Catastrophic Failure cause a chain reaction of failures I have decided to add a new rule.

Emergency Protocols:

As happened so often in life, space flight is frought with the dangers of possible catastrophic failures in the myriad number of parts involved in any launch. To reflect history, and common sense, the following will help the player deal with any possible catastrophic failure a bit easier.

When a player has a CF, any future mission requiring the part that failed can be autoscrubbed by invoking the Emergency Protocols. When a player has a CF he will be given, the following turn only, the chance to invoke the Emergency Protocols. When invoked the GM will autoscrub any future missions requiring the part that had the CF, including any missions occurring the same month as the CF.

If the Catastrophic failure involves a MLB failure on launch where the Pad is destroyed invoking the Emergency Protocols will autoscrub ANY mission scheduled to use that pad, as well as any mission using the failed part.

Now, invoking the Emergency Protocols will involve a LOT of pain in lost PP's, but chances are the player will have lost the PP's and the hardware involved in the subsequent launches. Also, invoking the Protocols is entirely voluntary, and up the player's descretion as to whether, or not, they are used.

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Cheers, Thor

Could have helped greatly !
Lets try it and see how it goes ...

Well, I am almost home (Just a 4 hour wait and then 1 hour), and that'll make me be up for 23 hours without sleep!

Anyways, I like the fixes that are happening; when I had the critical failure of my LEO rocket I would have been dead had my next launch been sooner. I'll be able to talk more once I'm back.

so noted.

a way to note certain standing orders is going to be needed in the program.

this may take some thought. Percentage wise, only systems that rely on skills can ever reach 100%. all others will always have a 2% failure rate, no matter what.

some of the missions will end up with a series of rolls and multiple chances to hit that 2%. It would be interesting to see if the mission failure rate ends up being higher then 2% because of that.

*Edit*
many of the CF can be mitigated by astronaut skill rolls.

Processed Gav's December, and Mav's May 1960 turns. Their next turns have been sent out.

Gav's Year End Report is due.

Ok guys, in the last turn I gave Gav a Mulligan on his first Launch of the month. The reason I did this is because without it he would have had a CF on launch. Maybe I am not as sadistic as a 'good' GM should be, but I could not see the point in inflicting such a bad CF on him just as he was recovering from the previous CF.

And before anybody asks, yes, this is my first Mulligan since we began testing. I guess Gav just has some really bad luck following his agency!

I am telling you all about this for discussion. So, please, comment on it.



Cheers, Thor

I would have continued either way but glad for the break you gave me!~

Hopefully I don't have to use it any time soon. Save it for the astronauts.

I have no problems with the occasional mulligan, especially in a situation like this where one crit fail gets compounded.

--Mav

Like I said, I'll be sitting the rest of this test out. I'm still lurking, just not posting as much. The program looks good, I think it'll really help by removing the rather annoying number crunching etc that the GM has to do, so people can just get together and play.

I'll be a bit more active posting from now on.

Hi, posted here since is the current playtesting thread.

For those who don't know me, hi, i came here from Aurora forums, i played 4x games for 3 years, i have some knowledge of VBA and C++ codes, and
long time ago i was in the top 100 players on Cyberscore (Maybe someone knows the site). In case you want to give me programming, i like gameplay and IA.

I'd like to apply for playtesting, tell me how to begin.

Thanks.