General Social/Chatter Thread

[Desertfox]

I think Walter beat you there, I think I saw a circular monitor in the Norse fleet somewhere. That said... more circular monitors are always a great thing!

I would go with more destroyers... or something completely ridiculous, Surcouf perhaps?

I tried a ship with 5x1 250mm in a Fletcher layout, but SS doesn't like that very much.

If only there was a way to sim recoiless rifles... I would totally build destroyers with large caliber recoiless rifles replacing the torpedo tubes.

[maddox]

Be prepared to be copied.

That or Faa Di Bruno.

[The Rock Doctor]

Be prepared to be copied.

That or Faa Di Bruno.

I should sim that one out and see if it somehow has worse seakeeping than my Novgorod sim.  It's possible, I'm sure.

[The Rock Doctor]

Had a dream that Kirk wrote up and posted a very detailed set of rules for construction of Monopoly-style hotels in our colonial provinces.

Sadly, I do not know what those rules were.

[AnchorSteam]

Okay, first post and I am putting it here becaise I don't know where else to do the Intro.
It's late in the day, so sorry if I missed the right place for this.

A few questions to start off with; where should I start? Is the Sim program compatible with my Mac?
Are there any availble countries, or should I create one? Where is the most recent map?
Lasty, is there a different skin-setting? This white is killing my eyes!

[Kaiser Kirk]

Had a dream that Kirk wrote up and posted a very detailed set of rules for construction of Monopoly-style hotels in our colonial provinces.

Sadly, I do not know what those rules were.

It's part of the current ruleset, haven't you been doing that?
On the turnsheet in F32 is the "# houses" cell, which tracks if you've built enough to install a hotel,
hotels generate $+0.5 and 0.1BP/province
and...

Nah doesn't exist.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Okay, first post and I am putting it here becaise I don't know where else to do the Intro.
It's late in the day, so sorry if I missed the right place for this.

A few questions to start off with; where should I start? Is the Sim program compatible with my Mac?
Are there any availble countries, or should I create one? Where is the most recent map?
Lasty, is there a different skin-setting? This white is killing my eyes!

Greeting AnchorSteam, the beer with a little bite to it.  The co-owner used to live in Bolinas CA.

Time is a little immaterial.

1) Start place - this works.
Basically it's a moderated game, the moderator (Me/Snip) looks for compliance with the rules and interpretation.
There's a number of countries available.
start up on a nation is a bit formidable for a new player, but help is available.

The game started in 1910, the world is getting gobbled up quickly.
However, there are several nations open, and all the decent ones have started on colonies, so no new player would be left out.

2) Mac...I believe it can work with SS3b, but I'm going to leave that answer to other people.  It's setup for Windows, but I know there's a bunch of emulators for mac these days so thats rarely a barrier.

"SS3b3 is the program we use.  "

Where is that?  Here at Springsharp in the upper right : http://springsharp.com/info.htm#preview

Our rules and stuff are under the rules tab : https://www.navalism.org/index.php/board,575.0.html

A bit formidable to get going as there's a log of information.
...but N7's the trimmed down version.

3) Before jumping to a nation, you should probably get a handle on using SS3b, so that the ships you generate are those you actually want to use.
I'd suggest looking at other folks SS's and first copying them, then tinkering with the parameters.

Most Recent Map would be the Colonial Expansion map, showing this turn's expansion phase.
I'm waiting on the results of a little Japanese-Chinese Conflict (the 2nd in ..2 years...) before updated maps.

That thread is here : https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,7455.0.html

4) PM Guinness on that. He's the one that keeps the board. I just use the default.
that way de fault is mine....

[snip]

Guinness would be the best resource for getting Springsharp up and running. I think there is a thread somewhere were the efforts at such in the past were detailed. Will see if I can dig it up.

[AnchorSteam]

Thanks Gents, that was a one-hour nightmare trying to make that thing work, none of the three Apps that I downloaded seemed to help wit that.
This is a mini-mac, not suited to online games anyway.

If that was just a ship-builder than I can get by with stuff that existed.

Thanks for the prompt replies, I will be back tomorrow.

[snip]

Thread with past experience on the subject.

[Guinness]

To change theme: Profile->Look and Layout->Current Theme (Change)

If any of the choices don't work for you, let me know.

SpringSharp on Mac: I used to run it in Wine on my Mac successfully, but of late Wine doesn't work on Macs anymore (because of the deprecation of 32bit apps in modern MacOS). I took to running it in a Linux Virtual Machine under VirtualBox on my Mac. Loose instructions are here:
https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,7015.msg93914.html#msg93914

[TacCovert4]

And ultimately,  if you're still having trouble with springsharp,  some of us can design ships for you.  Though ship design is half the fun. 

[AnchorSteam]

To change theme: Profile->Look and Layout->Current Theme (Change)

If any of the choices don't work for you, let me know.

SpringSharp on Mac: I used to run it in Wine on my Mac successfully, but of late Wine doesn't work on Macs anymore (because of the deprecation of 32bit apps in modern MacOS). I took to running it in a Linux Virtual Machine under VirtualBox on my Mac. Loose instructions are here:
https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,7015.msg93914.html#msg93914

That worked beautifully! Not only is the screen a nice, comfy black but the lettering is also larger. MUCH easier to read.

Thank you.

[AnchorSteam]

And ultimately,  if you're still having trouble with springsharp,  some of us can design ships for you.  Though ship design is half the fun.

Yes, the brief glimpse I had of it makes it look as easy to use as the old Battletech system, which was fun & easy ... but this is a mini-Mac, all the complications and nowhere near the power of a regular mac.

So, instead of diddling around with that, shouldn't I look into available Nations? If one has been abandoned with an existing Navy I can work with that. I was hoping for Siam but that seems to have beentaken early on. That's a pity because I did some extensive work on it for a 1941 game, but this is 1915, yes?

I can also work with historical ships. As you may remember, I know a few things about those  8) .

So, is there anything just laying around that I can start with as-is?

[snip]

Kirk will be the one to talk with about finding a home, but I think you've already done that step  :) We've got a quite radical alternate timeline backing some game design based decisions about the map early on. I can go into more detail if you want on the goals and such.

I dont think you would have any trouble getting VirtualBox to run on a MacMini. Springsharp is rather central to what we do, and it's the only real required thing. Any ship which exists in universe needs to have a valid SS3b sim. Whether or not said sim is a defacto clone of a real design or not doesn't matter.

Current game time is somewhere in the second half of 1913. The second shooting match between Japan and China in the last year is main event of focus, but there are some other little things here and there as well.

I think there would be a couple good locations to look at landing. In no real order but with some justification from where I sit. Kirk can of course provide more details or strike any of these off the potential list.

• Rajasthan [the dark green on the Indian Subcontinent]: India has really had nothing done with it, so would be a reasonably clear slate to work with. Only super defined thing is [I think] the relationship with Parithia (bright orange). Has good players around it to work with on storytelling.
• Ethiopia: One of the weaker powers, like Thailand, but with some room to grow internally that other smaller powers dont really have. Keeps you in the same neighborhood as Rajasthan would, but does limit interaction with players outside of that area. A good place for a more unique fleet design and doctrine. Not a whole lot of diplomatic ties, so would be rather free to chop your own path.
• Peoples Republic of Maya: The Maya are perhaps the most fleshed out of the NPCs at this point, due to proxy with the recently awoken Aztecs. Definitely in a couple active areas with both local and colonial powers. Would prehaps be the most interesting from a "doing stuff right now" level. Only fixed think here is the do not like the Aztecs, at all.
• The Norse: Right now, the only major power that is vacant. Has a large fleet and more extensive colonial holdings. More set relationships [The Norse and Rome dont get along very well, for example] than ones open to interpretation.