Cutter John
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Posted - 2005.06.03 04:32:00 -
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 Originally by: Maxine Stirner
1)It is not likely that your ship engine's operate on the ejection of mass (including excited particles).
Seeing as ships are able to "relocate" themselves at thousands of times the speed of light, it is not unreasonable that the same technology is used to move the object versus the rest of its "footprint" or the rest of the universe.
Perhaps mass ejection systems would simply require too much power and resources. By simply manipulating local conditions at a sub-mezoscale level, they use less power although they reach definitive limits in regards to the operation of other ship systems.
Ships banking when turning is one that I can't explain, but then again I'm just a fighter jock/explorer rather than a scientist.
i think they just put in a speed limit to make balancing and gameplay easier. i know i wouldnt want to try to play with newtonian physics with this interface. and bs being slow and powerful and frigates fast and weak is central to the games balance. as far as ships banking, i think they did that just to give us an up and down to the game, since, being from a place that always has an up and down, we are more comfortable with it.
Originally by: Maxine Stirner
2)Being able to play hide and seek would be fabulous.
would be great, but i've read a post from the devs long ago saying that doing a line of sight calculation on each shot would be very expenxive in terms of server time, and wasnt very feasible.
Originally by: Maxine Stirner
4)See number 3. I can't really explain the lack of such artifacts of civilization anymore than I can explain the recent trend towards onamonopoetic spellings of ordinary english words like "be, are, why, you and you're."
systems being empty as they are are a byproduct i think of quantity over quality. we have 5000 solar systems sure, but its very obvious they were all procedurally generated. i'd really have preferred for the devs to put quality time into 50-100 solar systems and make them expansive and interesting than for them to pull the systems from a machine and assign them names.
And people use onamonopoetic(is that even a word?) words because its a form of shorthand typing. when chatting online speed is often more important than precise typing. ;)
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