| Protected Storage Tower |
[Feb. 25th, 2008|11:38 am] |
Cost: 7500 Cr.
Power: 4MW/day
Time: 48 days.
This is an improved design of the Storage Tower with an inbuilt Laser Turret to fend off unwelcome visitors. It should be noted that all ore storage devices will be prime targets for enemy attacks, as they are one of the prime requisites of any colony. It would therefore seem wise to protect them. This is done by putting a huge fake plastic gun on the top, and a fairl pathetic real laser turret inside it. This is in the vain hope that any attacking fleet will see the fake weapon, and decide they are outgunned. The reality, of course, is that they see the tiny laser that it fires, and think "oh, it's another one of those realistic plastic guns. I'm off.' Honest. Don't delay buy one today.
Clicking on this building lists the ore stored by category. |
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[Jan. 7th, 2007|04:50 am] |
Hurrah, my Amiga equipment arrived. God bless die-hard fans who can't admit that 68000-series processors are outdated on the modern desktop; they're keeping the companies in business that produce my spare parts.
Does anyone recall those joysticks with the black base, two red buttons, and the red stick topped with a red ball? It seems that unlike the stylish moulded-plastic black Quickshot joysticks of the day, of which I own four and all are broken, this red-ball type joystick - Competition Pro, was it called? - is famously reliable. Perhaps then I shouldn't be surprised that a company appears to have put the Challenger Pro back into production, just to satiate all the old Amiga fans whose fashionable black Quickshots won't go left any more. Not only that, but they've released a special blue and silver remake for the PC that uses USB. Is that excellent or what? I now own two of the former and one of the latter.
I spent much of today playing Knights with one under the emulator. Knights is this two-player freeware game where you each control a knight running around a dungeon, picking up potions and magic scrolls and bigass warhammers and setting bear traps and breaking down all the doors with hammers just in case your opponent's set a poison trap on it and locking the good loot into trapped chests just to be a dick to your opponent and blatting your opponent over the head with the warhammers and taking his stuff and winning. It's a fun action game which can involve an surprising amount of tactics and screenwatching. It sort of makes me wish I had the time and inclination to figure out how to make a homebrew port to the Nintendo™ DS™. I do not see how this game could not be better with four players swinging bigass hammers around instead of two. |
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