Absolutely! Feel the thunder of my +9 boom stick.Originally Posted by Redrobes
Absolutely! Feel the thunder of my +9 boom stick.
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Hi guys, I've just found this thread.
Yeah, VD is great for its scale capability, but as Redrobes demonstrated, it doesn't make much sense to map more than a couple of light-seconds. Once your planets vanish to dots, there's nothing left to map! After this, you just use a false-scale hex map to show star/planet locations.
Lightspeed has other problems attached from a scientific angle. Travelling that fast raises all sorts of nasties around time-dilation. That's why Sci-fi writers invented warp/hyper/jump drive. It soothes the headaches.
Mapping a Traveller ATU.
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The Viewingdale capabilities are, really, quite impressive!
Should probably take War & Peace along as well...
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I would suggest an unabridged Websters dictionary, and perhaps a few others from different languages. Make it educational as well.
Oh, and probably a copy of PhotoShop CS 52 or Campaign Cartographer 26 so that you can map the cosmos as you zoom along.
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That was mindblowing! Fantastic video Redrobes!
Toff: Don't the people in your universe go mad having to spend 112 years with each other on a ship?
If I'm remembering my relativity correctly, the people on earth would measure the time it takes for the ship to travel a light year at light speed to be 1 year. However for the people on the ship it would be very little time indeed - vanishing to zero as they reach the speed of light. However you can never reach the speed of light, so really the perceived time would merely get smaller and smaller depending on how close to the speed of light you managed to get.
So actually, forget war and peace - if your tech is really good, you'd best pack a few dvds and then you're there.
This also avoids the ageing issue (apart from the fact that when you arrive back at earth you'll be answering to your former commander's great grandchildren).
Always have to bring hard science in don't ya?!
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For the original interest in this stuff, check out the twin paradox. Also, Iain M Banks does this very well in the Algebraist with soldiers being a separate class that age differently due to the amount of time they spend close to light speed.
I am reading Banks books now too. I have two more before I get Algebraist tho.
Just wanted to say that V1.07 of the app has been released, details of up-reving / patching can be found on the main site. I thought id mail that news here instead of the news section like I usually do cos it would knock off the FUMcon event which I still hope to get online for, if i can find two seconds to rub together in my unusually busy time right now. The Easter w/e should help out a bit there I hope. So you can play with AU's and lightseconds whilst reading war and peace...
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