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terje439 -> Now why would they chose a noob like me? (4/19/2014 2:59:16 PM)
This will be a "what the heck is the noob doing"-AAR. I bought the game yesterday, and have so far been sacked twice in 1973 since I was nowhere near a lunar landing. I will be playing the campaign game on normal (lowest) difficulty. Feel free to comment/laugh/ridicule as you see fit. Oh, also worth noting, I did not read the PDF-file (aka manual), just having a go at things and will see where we end up. Also, I have never really read up about the space race, so although alot of the rockets and satelites etc may sound familiar to you, I have only heard about a few [:D] Terje

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 3:10:15 PM)
1st Quarter 1955 (from now on written 1Q55) Although the nations of the world all agreed that I was the only logical choice for conquerring space, and that they should all unite behind my efforts, they really had no clue as to what was needed. I. My research facility is way too small, so I upgrade it. I want more geniuses working here. II. There is no place for my pilots/astronauts to work from, so I build them a cot. III. They also forgot that I need groundcontrollers to control my spacecrafts. Another cot built. IV. They even forgot that I needed to build my rockets. Had to build a spaceship-building-cot as well. V. Since the text on my PR building tells me that upgrading it does "something", I upgrade it. It also helps that this peticular upgrade is free. [image]local://upfiles/11504/13104AB370F049F0A81065D5BF1591DD.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 3:15:10 PM)
1Q55 I am told that I should check the PR building. Since I am oh so obedient, I do so. I have two goals, 1 short term and 1 long term. Long Term - Moon landing (aka Neil Armstrong). Short Term - These vary from game to game. THe thing is that not fulfilling them will give alot of negative points, while fulfilling them will give alot of plus points. If I manage both, I get 2x400 points, which is really close to the 1000 points needed in total to max out the next budget I get. The budgets are given for a few years every time, so managing to fulfill the points needed to max out the budget makes the game alot easier (not that I still haven't failed miserably in the past two attempts though hehe). [image]local://upfiles/11504/DB56FBC5E49C42BEB5136828B8663118.jpg[/image]

AbeSimpson -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 3:22:51 PM)
Ok, disregarding. [:D]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 5:23:21 PM)
1Q55 Well, it is about time we open up some research programmes. We need rockets, and then something to put in our rockets. We decide to open two rocket programmes right away, although that might bite us later on as we have used a LARGE portion of our budget now. [image]local://upfiles/11504/5E985E6FB17048EEAA6F4A2898E24F04.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 5:27:34 PM)
1Q55 Then we start some more research, this time some stuff to put in our rockets, and a high tech aircraft. [image]local://upfiles/11504/BF6A35858DC24910A46548A570B7E2C7.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 5:33:59 PM)
2Q55 Not much goes on this quarter, I look at the research progress, and then I hire two ground controllers, so I can start training them up to the level dictated by the short term mission I recieved at the start. [image]local://upfiles/11504/0AE86B756E814D859EFCDEEA7354B788.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 5:42:25 PM)
3Q55 Again a slow turn, we hire one pilot/astronaut so we can get him skilled enough to pass our second short term goal, and we also add three scientists. The screenshot below is taken BEFORE we do this, so in the end our positive cash flow is a mere 143$ per quarter. That is the thanks I get, I agree to take man into space, and the governments do not give me the funds I want... [image]local://upfiles/11504/A094ABF6AAE24B518C15D948803A1453.jpg[/image]

wolf14455 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 5:48:11 PM)
subsribed [:D]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 5:48:54 PM)
4Q55 Well, the research on our rocket and on our satelite is going really well, but I prefer to keep working on them so that the chance of something going wrong is reduced. One of the ground controllers we hired actually was skilled enough at start to allow us to pass our first short term mission. That was easy [:D] But as they are not skilled in all aspects of their work, we will give them advanced training for the time being. THe plan is to have them at 90+ in all skills before long. [image]local://upfiles/11504/B7FAC54705FC40978509BD18293A8332.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 5:56:55 PM)
1Q56 Although we could try to launch the Sputnik satelite now, I want to keep working on our rocket first. If we launch and something goes wrong, the programme is set back quite a bit (after all, would YOU try to take off in the same rocket that just exploded on liftoff 3 months ago??) The three scientists we recruited are distributed on our three research programmes to help speed things up. [image]local://upfiles/11504/F0414890873143BB8A31BED802908D8E.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 6:04:44 PM)
2Q56 The reliability on our project is rising, but I do not want to risk anything just yet, so we will let another quarter pass. And ofc, do we have enough ground controllers? I think not, so I order 3 more (a total of 5 is all that can fit in their cot at the moment). That means that we are now at minus 9$ per quarter. Oh well, not everything is ment to make a surplus I suppose. We also have mroe than adequate funds for the time being, so I am not worried as funds should increase shortly. [image]local://upfiles/11504/C5546F8DB73040ACA355140F41ABB607.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 6:10:13 PM)
3Q56 Well, we could have launched by now, but our recently aquired ground controlers are still working on their SATs. We ask the professor how he feels about the X-15 project. [image]local://upfiles/11504/C409DA9D3D5443348D002242974FAC49.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 6:18:32 PM)
4Q56 We decide that the X-15 will fly this quarter, while relocating the scientists working on it to work on the Sputnik satelite and the Sputnik rocket. The X-15 flight had a calculated chane of success of 82%, so 4 times out of 5 everything will be just fine. [image]local://upfiles/11504/13546AC5529C436DB6808CE75C307803.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 6:20:03 PM)
More later, right now there is CW in WoT. Feel free to post in this AAR, or as stated at the beginning, laugh at, point out flaws etc etc. I promise not to let my feelings get hurt [:)] Terje

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 8:44:37 PM)
1Q57 We decided to hire some more staff, so we hired 6 more pilots and 6 more brainiacs this turn. That brings our economy down to showing a quarterly loss of 470$, with 7209$ in the bank. More than enough. I hope. We decide to keep working on the Sputniks, and send the X-15 on a new mission this quarter. I am not too happy with my ground crew though. [image]local://upfiles/11504/E33F3F4A79C34E56A2347663CF4364A8.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 8:53:20 PM)
2Q57 Well, the X15 did well last quarter, so we will send it up for its last mission. Although I could keep flying these missions, they would not really add anything to our space programme except for tiny ammounts of prestige. Too few points to be worth the consumation of workers on the ground, so if the next missions performs well too, we will scrap the X-15, as we have no further use for it. We now have one "spare" person in the ground control section, so I send one of them off to school. [image]local://upfiles/11504/FCF91A83664346808C02FFED72712D58.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 9:03:09 PM)
3Q57 Well, the X-15 programme is closed down as the last mission too was a success. Nothing more for us to gain there. But the clock is ticking, and we need to start aiming at that large yellow cheese in the sky. Only...We are not allowed to open any Lunar programmes just yet. We need to place a satelite in orbit first. So, there is no doubt anymore, the Sputniks are to be sent up this quarter! With research almost complete on them, our rocket research is switched to the larger (MUCH!) Proton rocket. [image]local://upfiles/11504/37C2D04C8D5849BCB4E6305ECBD8C7EA.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 9:11:25 PM)
4Q57 There is no champagne to be found on the base. There are however alot of angry managers yelling at their subordinates. The Sputnik launch was a failure! Now we have to do more research on the Sputnik components, what a waste of time! [image]local://upfiles/11504/C5F4F5DEF58D4E00AC346B8FD7C90CAF.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 9:17:01 PM)
1Q-4Q58 With the setback suffered during the Sputnik launch, we send our people to school. The main reason is that we are now low on funds, and cannot afford another launch just yet. So for now, we train our people and hope for better days.

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 9:28:51 PM)
1Q59 Saved by the bell. The new budget has arrived and saved us from bankrupcy. We are given two new short term objectives, one is to keep our funds above 8000$, and the other says "keep the reliability of atleast two mission components associated with the following set skill "human rated rockets" above 85%. I can tell you right now that #2 will fail, as I do not have any components with that skill. Since we do not have the required funds available to launch the Sputniks, we send a total of 13 staff members on training. [image]local://upfiles/11504/18DE7AED29774D83A786148B94ED9344.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/19/2014 9:29:24 PM)
Night, more will follow [:)]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/20/2014 2:40:02 PM)
2Q59 With all our staff undergoing training, we are not able to do anything, but we change our researchers from the Sputnik rocket and back to the Proton rocket. [image]local://upfiles/11504/0A5066546E7543349EB25FAD88B2B14D.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/20/2014 2:47:51 PM)
3Q59 We launch the Sputnik, again we have a failure during countdown. This is becomming critical as we need as satelite in orbit to open up new projects. Time is wasting quickly now. I fear we might have to attempt some shortcuts down the line, but we shall see. A total of 7 staff members were sent on training. [image]local://upfiles/11504/485EB0EDD0FE4B1F96CA46777D5858B7.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/20/2014 2:51:43 PM)
4Q59 Nothing to do but wait while the reliability on the SPutnik is back up, so we keep training our staff. [image]local://upfiles/11504/105CB68375DF4D0D87F5B21DBF1D2FFE.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/20/2014 2:55:00 PM)
1Q60 Still waiting on the Sputnik modules. More training. [image]local://upfiles/11504/957283B10C9347148138F992C3EF1D42.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/20/2014 3:00:12 PM)
2Q60 We took a slight gamble and launched the Sputnik at a lower success chance than last time around, but this time we succeeded. This is VERY important as we can now send probes to the moon, as well as trying to send people into space. [image]local://upfiles/11504/85AB240265614BF88C78A4419B26FAA6.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/20/2014 3:17:43 PM)
3Q60 We open our first moon program, and we realize that we are going to need a larger audience for Major Tom, so we expand our control centre. Our pilots keep training, while our scientists focus solely on the new module and the Proton rocket. We also close down the Sputnik Satelite program to free up space in our HQ (the size of the HQ dictates how many programmes you can have open at any time. Closing down the ones that are of no further use is cheaper than expanfing the HQ). [image]local://upfiles/11504/D3A194CB59DB47B7B148AD0741430ED8.jpg[/image]

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/20/2014 3:21:26 PM)
4Q60 Nothing happens this quarter, research on the Proton has now given it a reliability of 65%, so it is getting there. I would have liked to open another research program, but the programmes to send people into space are a little too expensive just yet.

terje439 -> RE: Now, why would they hire a noob like me!? (4/20/2014 3:25:02 PM)
1Q61 We send our people out to train once more, and hire three new ground control crews. I need more, but the rest that applied for the positions were simply not good enough, so we will have to wait a little longer before we hire more people.

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