excerpts
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-debate-cleveland
The American Presidency Project
JIMMY CARTER
39th President of the United States: 1977 ‐ 1981
Presidential Debate in Cleveland
October 28, 1980
QUESTIONS
U.S. ARMED FORCES
MR. STONE. Governor, as you're well aware, the question of war and peace has emerged as a central issue in this campaign in the give-and-take of recent weeks. President Carter's been criticized for responding late to aggressive Soviet impulses, for insufficient buildup of our Armed Forces, and a paralysis in dealing with Afghanistan and Iran. You have been criticized for being all too quick to advocate the use of lots of muscle, military action, to deal with foreign crises. Specifically, what are the differences between the two of you on the uses of American military power?
GOVERNOR REAGAN. I don't know what the differences might be, because I don't know what Mr. Carter's policies are. I do know what he has said about mine. And I'm only here to tell you that I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.
Now, I believe, also that this meeting, this mission, this responsibility for preserving the peace, which I believe is a responsibility peculiar to our country, that we cannot shirk our responsibility as the leader of the Free World, because we're the only one that can do it. And therefore, the burden of maintaining the peace falls on us. And to maintain that peace requires strength. America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong. We can get into a war by letting events get out of hand, as they have in the last 3 years under the foreign policies of this administration of Mr. Carter's, until we're faced each time with a crisis. And good management in preserving the peace requires that we control the events and try to intercept before they become a crisis.
But I have seen four wars in my lifetime. I'm a father of sons; I have a grandson. I don't ever want to see another generation of young Americans bleed their lives into sandy beachheads in the Pacific, or rice paddies and jungles in Asia, or the muddy, bloody battlefields of Europe.
Gladiator (2000)
Quotes
Commodus, Emperor's son: Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle?
Emperor Marcus Aurelius: You have missed the war.
From 10/28/1980 ( from The American Presidency Project: Presidential Debate in Cleveland ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 8203 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8203 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 2846 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 9/13/1987 ( premiere USA TV series "Private Eye" ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 9/13/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: "Realm Of The Arctic Circle" for crossing the Arctic Circle - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 6908 days
6908 = 3454 + 3454
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Remarks in Boston at the Old North Church Bicentennial Lantern Service ) is 3454 days
From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted seafarer ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 6908 days
6908 = 3454 + 3454
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Remarks in Boston at the Old North Church Bicentennial Lantern Service ) is 3454 days
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 5792 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/11/1981 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Remarks on Presenting the Young American Medals for Bravery and Service ) is 5792 days
From 9/23/1969 ( premiere USA TV series "Marcus Welby, M.D." ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 12256 days
12256 = 6128 + 6128
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 6128 days
From 12/10/1931 ( the Nobel Prize is awarded to Carl Bosch in Chemistry ) To 5/21/1969 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and in 1973 the law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) is 13677 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 13677 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 3090 days
3090 = 1545 + 1545
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/25/1970 ( premiere USA film "MASH" ) is 1545 days
From 10/4/1953 ( premiere USA TV series episode "You Are There"::"The Secret of Sigmund Freud" ) To 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly the date of the top-secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I theorize only ) is 13677 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 13677 days
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 5/10/2002 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Meridian" ) is 13677 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/14/2003 ( ) is 13677 days
2003
From Wikipedia
April 14 – The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/joint-proclamation-the-heads-government-six-countries-regarding-the-completion-the-human
The American Presidency Project
GEORGE W. BUSH
43rd President of the United States: 2001 ‐ 2009
Joint Proclamation by the Heads of Government of Six Countries Regarding the Completion of the Human Genome Sequence
April 14, 2003
We, the Heads of Government of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, and China, are proud to announce that scientists from our six countries have completed the essential sequence of three billion base pairs of DNA of the human genome, the molecular instruction book of human life.
Remarkable advances in genetic science and technology have been made in the five decades since the landmark discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA in April 1953. Now, in the very month and year of the 50th anniversary of that important discovery by Watson and Crick, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium has completed decoding all the chapters of the instruction book of human life. This information is now freely available to the world without constraints via public databases on the World Wide Web.
This genetic sequence provides us with the fundamental platform for understanding ourselves, from which revolutionary progress will be made in biomedical sciences and in the health and welfare of humankind. Thus, we take today an important step toward establishing a healthier future for all the peoples of the globe, for whom the human genome serves as a common inheritance.
We congratulate all the people who participated in this project on their creativity and dedication. Their outstanding work will be noted in the history of science and technology, and as well in the history of humankind, as a landmark achievement.
We encourage the world to celebrate the scientific achievement of completing the Human Genome Project, and we exhort the scientific and medical communities to rededicate themselves to the utilization of these new discoveries to reduce human suffering.
His Excellency Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic.
The Honorable George Bush, President of the United States of America.
The Right Honorable Tony Blair, M.P., Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
His Excellency Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
His Excellency Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan.
His Excellency WEN Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
excerpts, comments by me
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-boston-the-old-north-church-bicentennial-lantern-service
The American Presidency Project
GERALD R. FORD
38th President of the United States: 1974 ‐ 1977
Remarks in Boston at the Old North Church Bicentennial Lantern Service.
April 18, 1975
Bishop [ Superstition ], Vicar [ Superstition ], dear friends:
Two hundred years ago tonight, two lanterns hung in the belfry of this Old North Church. Those lanterns signaled patriots on the other side of the Charles River British troops were moving by water. As Longfellow said in his poem: "One if by land, and two if by sea."
Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott rode into the night, alerting the colonists the British were coming. When day broke, according to the diaries of the time, the sky was clear and blue.
British troops had crossed the Charles River. They marched all night, and after a skirmish at Lexington, the Redcoats arrived at Concord. There a volley was fired by our Minutemen, what Emerson called "the shot heard round the world." The American war for independence had begun.
Tonight we stand in tribute to those who stood for liberty and for us two centuries ago. Tonight, we bow our heads in memory of those who gave their lives, their limbs, their property for us during that historic struggle, because tonight we begin as a nation and as a people the celebration of our Bicentennial.
Alexis de Tocqueville, the French historian, wrote of our beginnings: "In that land, the great experiment was to be made, by civilized men, of the attempt to construct society on a new basis."
Over the decades, there were challenges to that experiment. Could a nation half-slave and half-free survive? Could a society with such a mixture of peoples and races and religions succeed? Would the new Nation be swallowed up in the materialism of its own well-being? The answers are found in the history of our land and our people.
It is said that a national character is shaped by the interplay of inheritance, environment, and historical experience. Our inheritance is basically that of Western Europe. From the English, we received the traditions of liberty, laws, language, and customs.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-6298-national-desert-storm-reservists-day-1991
The American Presidency Project
GEORGE BUSH
41st President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Proclamation 6298 - National Desert Storm Reservists Day, 1991
May 21, 1991
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On this occasion we gratefully salute the members of the National Guard and Reserve forces of the United States -- dedicated and highly trained men and women who played a major role in the success of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Whether they served directly in the Persian Gulf or on military bases in the United States and elsewhere around the world, as members of our Nation's Total Force, these National Guardsmen and reservists made a vital contribution toward the liberation of Kuwait.
During the course of the war in the Persian Gulf, more than 228,000 members of the Ready Reserve were ordered to active duty. Thousands more volunteered in advance of being called to support the coalition effort. Members of the Army National Guard, the Army Reserve, the Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, the Air National Guard, the Air Force Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve -- these men and women were trained and ready to do their jobs. As they have done for all conflicts since colonial times, guardsmen and reservists responded quickly to the call. They promptly assumed a variety of combat missions such as armor, artillery, tactical fighter, tactical reconnaissance, and minesweeping. Their support missions included transportation, medical, airlift, service/supply, civil affairs, intelligence, military police, and communications.
When called to active duty, members of the Ready Reserve were suddenly required to leave behind their families and their careers. As we thank our Desert Storm reservists for the many sacrifices that they have made in behalf of our country, it is fitting that we also honor their loved ones. They too have shown the extraordinary degree of patriotism and courage that we have come to expect of the Nation's military families. National Guard and Reserve units worked in close cooperation with the Active Services to develop a broad-based family support network to assist these new military dependents.
The Nation's employers, educators, and other institutions throughout the private sector have provided strong support and assistance to their reservist employees and students who were called to duty on short notice. The National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a 4,000-member network of business and civic leader volunteers, has put forth special efforts to help guardsmen and reservists, as well as their employers, to understand their job rights and responsibilities.
In recognition of their vital role in the liberation of Kuwait, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 134, has designated May 22, 1991, as "National Desert Storm Reservists Day" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day.
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 22, 1991, as National Desert Storm Reservists Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities in honor of the courageous men and women of the United States Ready Reserve.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth.
Signature of George Bush
GEORGE BUSH
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-press-secretary-bill-signings-0
The American Presidency Project
GEORGE W. BUSH
43rd President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Statement by the Press Secretary on Bill Signings
December 20, 2006
On Wednesday, December 20, 2006 the President signed into law:
S. 1998, the "Stolen Valor Act of 2005," which expands criminal penalties for fraud relating to military decorations and medals;
From 12/25/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 5474 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/28/1980 ( referenced here - from The American Presidency Project: Presidential Debate in Cleveland ) is 5474 days
From 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 595 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/20/1967 ( Muhammad Ali convicted of draft evasion ) is 595 days
From 5/21/1991 ( George Bush, 41st President of USA: Proclamation 6298 - National Desert Storm Reservists Day, 1991 ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 5816 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/5/1981 ( Ronald Reagan, 41st President of USA: Remarks Following a Meeting With Former National Security Officials on the Sale of AWACS Planes and Other Air Defense Equipment to Saudi Arabia ) is 5816 days
From 1/19/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Dead Man's Shoes" ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 16406 days
16406 = 8203 + 8203
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8203 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 4192 days
4192 = 2096 + 2096
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/30/1971 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the US Navy Commander circa 1971 was United States Apollo 15 Falcon spacecraft US Navy astronaut landing and walking and driving on the planet Earth's moon - his 4th of his 6 lunar-landings Project Apollo ) is 2096 days
From 12/5/2002 ( premiere USA film "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 10/2/1955 ( premiere USA TV series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 15023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 15023 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 4/19/2000 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: At Hayden Planetarium, Tyson Opens A Window To The Universe ) is 15023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 15023 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 4/19/2000 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: To $ 1,000,000,000 And Beyond . . . After Five Years, Administration's Fund-Raising Efforts Pay Off ) is 15023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 15023 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 8:17 PM Tuesday, November 06, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2005
The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 (the Act), signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2006,[1] is a U.S. law that broadens the provisions of previous U.S. law addressing the unauthorized wearing, manufacture or selling of military decorations and medals. It is a federal offense which carries a punishment of prison time and/or a fine; the scope previously covered only the Medal of Honor.
The Act was first introduced into the United States Congress's House of Representatives on July 19, 2005 by Representative John Salazar, a Democrat from Colorado, as H.R. 3352.[2][3] It was introduced into the Senate by Senator Kent Conrad, a Democrat from North Dakota, on November 10, 2005 as S. 1998.[4][5] The Senate version was passed unanimously on September 7, 2006.[5][6] The Senate version then went to the same House Judiciary Committee that held the House version. The Act briefly stalled, but the House subsequently passed the Senate version, S. 1998, on December 6, 2006.[7]
The purpose of the Act is to strengthen the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 704 by broadening its scope and strengthening penalties. Specific new provisions in the Act include: granting more authority to Federal law enforcement officers, extending scope beyond the Medal of Honor, broadening the law to cover false claims whereas previously an overt act had to be committed, covering mailing and shipping of medals, and protecting the reputation and meaning of military heroism medals.[3][5]
The need for the Act came about because of large numbers of fake military heroes in the United States. For example, as of June 2, 2006 there were only 120 living Medal of Honor recipients, but there were far more known imposters.[8][9][10] There are also large numbers of fake Navy SEALS[11][12] and Army Special Forces,[13] among others.
The Orders and Medals Society of America (OMSA), an organization of collectors, had opposed the bill in its current form. OMSA is of the opinion that the changes to 18 U.S.C. 704 included wording that implied that any movement or exchange of medals would be illegal
excerpts, see also:
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/03/today-is-03142024.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:12 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Today is 03/14/2024
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/spacex-starship-third-test-launch-thursday-rcna143286
NBC News
SpaceX launches Starship rocket into orbit on test flight, but loses spacecraft during return to Earth
In the rocket’s third and most ambitious test flight yet, it achieved two milestones: Starship successfully reached orbit and re-entered Earth’s atmosphere for the first time.
March 14, 2024, 3:00 AM PDT / Updated March 14, 2024, 9:02 AM PDT
By Denise Chow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(service)
Steam (service)
From Wikipedia
Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games, and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, like game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat measures, social networking, and game streaming services. Steam client's functions include game update automation, cloud storage for game progress, and community features such as direct messaging, in-game overlay functions and a virtual collectable marketplace.
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March 14 2024 7:11 PM PDT - In Occupy Mars: The Game General Discussions
One of the reasons I QUIT a few days ago with their current build
I don't like quitting but the jerky video is just too annoying. I've got to the point I need more uranium and while the Jetpack is useful, you can't haul anything in it. You lose a lot of yield by drilling it down to small rocks. Drilling to the larger fragments and then loading into the truck, for those distant meteorites, yields more ore
But the problem is bouncing around in the Marstruck and the jerky video has become just too annoying for me and should be a priority for them, if they're working on that Spotty robot instead of fixing the jerky video
So I quit a few days ago until they fix that problem, which they promise will also fix those annoying scrapped bases and rock fragments returning to the location where I placed building.
It's a very good game overall. Just like we saw today with SpaceX, they'll get it worked out eventually but I'm glad I'm not depending on them for breathing air or Tesla ECU's for power
Something fun to do in the game?
March 12 2024 - In Occupy Mars: The Game General Discussions
I too am expecting that the future will involve the arrival of colonists.
Sort of like Surviving Mars game. But this game is much better
At least, better in potential.
I give up on it. I've had enough of the jerky framerate and the bouncing Marstruck
Some sort of VTOL transport would be great. Don't care for the Jetpack. Haven't heard about any possibility of new content on that topic
The next update is supposed to eliminate the jerky video so I'm not playing the game again until that update
Looked at Satisfactory but it's played out for me until at least 1.0. Planet Crafter is releasing 1.0 soon so I'm not starting on that again til then. Farming Simulator 2022 has some good mods and at least one map I like.
Power sources
March 12 2024 - In Satisfactory General Discussions
At that desert at the north-east corner of the map, I tapped several coal deposits and with Mark 5 conveyors, established a central power-production site on that large lake to the west
Presently, I have 42 coal plants there constantly cranking out almost 3000 MW
Haven't tried nuclear because it's so complicated. Fuel generators are good but I don't trust them yet. The coal generators give me a great backup until I get figured out the other sources
Something fun to do in the game?
March 11 2024 - In Occupy Mars: The Game General Discussions
I'm working now on establishing a large base with many large domes connected together
I'm not that crazy about how the harvesting process works and I haven't yet figured out if crates help any
So I will build about a dozen large domes, at least, and plant them to capacity and then see how much trouble it is to harvest it all
Kilopower isn't that hard to find. Best I can tell, it's not tied to any specific location. You just simply have to visit a lot abandoned sites. I use the Marstruck and zip off on the flatlands as much as possible. I can find them all fairly quick.
Another goal for me is setting up a site with a very high volume of stored water. That means interconnecting many waterholes
Power distribution
March 11 2024 - In Occupy Mars: The Game General Discussions
I'm guessing that Pyramid Games got the ECU from Tesla. It's something from the real world. The developers decided how to implement a solution and we all work to meet the challenge in the game
I read that the update for kWh will break saves
I'm okay with that. I start over often and I'm not that emotionally attached to any of my current constructions
Sometimes I wish I had not heard of this game until 5 years from now
But it's really fun
I'm trying to remember how power-distribution works in Satisfactory, I haven't played it in a long time.
But that's really an important point: the game works how they developed it. It's clearly not the Satisfactory game. Or Planet Crafter
I like the challenges.
Power distribution
March 10 2024 - In Occupy Mars: The Game General Discussions
I think it's a fairly realistic experience and nothing about it is making me disgruntled towards Pyramid Games. It's Early Access. I'm getting what I paid them for.
The fact is, power-distribution is a trivial issue
Now that kilopower is available, I simply over-power my base
Plenty of uranium from meteorites for me, even now that uranium boulders have disappeared. I haven't even started checking the caves, which I assume is the other source of uranium.
Overflowing with small circuitboards now so ECU's are easy to throw up anywhere I need one.
Each building has a power input and I'm seeing kilopower/ECU banks on one building charging my massive battery pack on a totally separate building, when they're all connected together. So when in doubt about power, I just add more kilopower
I can live with the vehicle handling. The Rover is kind of annoying when backing up but it's nothing really I want to gripe about.
One new feature I would really like to see is about infrastructure between distant points. Some other way to connect waterholes other than stringing out a blue hose across the ground. Something like an underground pipe structure
Meteorite storms have disappeared the past few months so I haven't tried again constructing that Meteorite missile system. Hopefully they're simplifying that mess before meteorite storms return to gameplay
Power distribution
March 10 2024 - In Occupy Mars: The Game General Discussions
Something similar to how the Workshop supplies power to the bays. It distributes power automatically to the bays and the airlocks. There's a fuse panel in the Workshop and I would like to see a structure similar to the ECU with circuit-breakers for each port. Maybe the total power available to the individual ECU-breaker could be set.
Would like to understand why there is any sort of advantage to the system of percentages
I have always thought that was something that created an unnecessary complication to the game
Spotty ??
March 8 2024 - In Occupy Mars: The Game General Discussions
Gave it another shot after reading your comment.
Had to reload 3 times but I finally figured out stable flight
I can see the appeal but I still prefer the Mars truck. It charges automatically. Very slightly more inventory storage. Doesn't crash. Speedier than the Rover and also more stable than the quad
I tend to make one large base and I also try to travel in the flatlands. Traveling the rough terrain would make the Jetpack much more convenient.
When I started this note, I had just finished a construction at Endeavour with 9 large domes connected in series so I could attach two distant water-holes without an unsightly blue hose strung along the flat surface
Testing the Jetpack, I discovered that Noctis has 3 waters fairly close. Not as flat as Endeavour but then I discovered a similar configuration on the east side of Endeavour with standard seed 316. Not sure if the seed changes that section but it does change the south water-hole.
So the Jetpack and the drone might be useful for scouting the terrain features that I didn't know about, but for me, it's a neat toy I probably won't get much use from. I suspect the same will be true with Spotty.
If Spotty automates certain features such as grinding the interiors of abandoned structures then that might be useful but then what would really be the point of it? Makes it less tedious but that's become part of the routine for me. Saves time, but really, better factory structures would be preferred by me. Conveyor belts loading ore into dump trucks would make it more convenient for me
If only Satisfactory had the random terrain that Occupy Mars has then I probably wouldn't even be playing this game.
The base sites of Occupy Mars are always the same but the terrain seed makes the surrounding terrain more random and that's appealing to me. Satisfactory is always the exact same terrain and even a randomness similar to Occupy Mars would make it a lot more replayable to me
I'm hoping the developers will focus on more construction and manufacturing innovations for Occupy Mars
Spotty ??
March 6 2024 - In Occupy Mars: The Game General Discussions
Lots of new features recently I like. Very glad that Kilopower is available. Seed canisters so much easier to acquire now and I like that recipes are possible, even though I can easily survive solely on potatoes.
I - and I think all of us - are waiting for new features to become available in the next few months. Eliminating the jerky-motion will be a very welcome improvement. Improvements to animations and the elimination of re-appearing items will also be very welcome to me.
In the research tree, I see the listing for the Spotty robot
A few years ago, a television series (War of the Worlds) featured a similar robot - the BigDog military robot from Boston Dynamics, presumably - and it was really sort of unimpressive. I don't know what Spotty is supposed to do, other than maybe pick up those random stones that are now scattered around the fields.
And I find myself wondering if that is something else I will probably never use, such as the Jetpack and the Ingenuity.
Those are great features to make us feel it is realistic to plans here on Earth to someday occupy planet Mars
But for this game, I have other ambitions
A bulldozer would be really, really great!
We have the miners now and I do like those
A real dump-truck. A type of tracked-wheel crane that can pick up an entire boulder and place it in the dump-truck. With all those dense fields scattered around, I would just drive the crane out to one and leave it there while I load the dump-truck back to the Big Crusher, which doesn't have a ramp structure that the Marstruck will catapult over if I hit it too fast. No, just like the new Big Miner, some type of rotary arm for unloading, maybe. A type of drill that doesn't destroy the rock. Smashes it into fragments, instead. I see something similar happening after meteorite strikes. I find boulders fragmented into their constituent elements and that makes it easier to load with the Grabber. But some type of conveyor belt gadget would be especially appreciated by me for loading a dump-truck. Realism may be an important ambition but after bouncing already about a million times in the Marstruck, I think some innovation may be in store for the equipment available to us
It's a great game and I look forward to the improvements but I don't think Spotty is going to add much to it and I am hoping for much more interesting equipment
March 6 2024 - changed screen-name on Steam to 'Tomorrow'
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 09:43 AM Pacific-time USA Friday 03/15/2024
