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Wooden Slats ???

Dec 07, 2005 RattMann link
I have been meaning to post a screenie of this but have been putting off "repairing"
my web page for about... well... a long time.

Fly into a docking bay at any station. Stop. Look at the back of the docking bay.
In the middle of the back wall is what seems to be a "doorway." The doorway is
partially blocked by what appear to be wooden slats. Lumber. Five 2 x 8s or some-
thing like that. Or does anyone see something else?
Dec 08, 2005 ctishman link
That must be the most expensive airlock in space.
Dec 08, 2005 Will Roberts link
Must have been at Odia M-14. Probably so (unnamed) drunks looking for a toilet don't open the airlock by mistake.
Dec 08, 2005 yodaofborg link
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about :)

I see what apears to be a doorway (closed, of course), but see nothing that could be described as wooden (although it looks more like concrete than metal).

/me really wants to see a screeny!
Dec 08, 2005 Celkan link
Might be one of those "very high" texture resolution gimmicks, like the signs on the Atlas' hatches.
Dec 08, 2005 RattMann link
Hey Yoda... Give me an e-mail address and I'll send you a screenie.
Dec 09, 2005 Beolach link
My screenie: http://mandalor.homelinux.net/vendetta/screenshots/EntranceDockBack.jpg

Looks fine, not particularly wooden looking, IMO.
Dec 09, 2005 Martin link
Yep that's what mine looks like too. Not too wooden though.
Dec 09, 2005 yodaofborg link
Yeah, mine look a lot like Beolachs, only not as bright (i think space in this game is too bright anyway!) and Celkan, I usually play at 1280x1024 with everything maxed (I usually jump to smaller res for screenies taking/movies) One of them High resolution things? maybe a low res thing :P

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this-account-name(at)hotmail(dot)com ratt man ;)
Dec 09, 2005 sarahanne link
It looks like a ladder.
Dec 09, 2005 RelayeR link
Those are the cogs that the gear grabs to lift the lower half of the blast door. The brownish color is the lubricant.
Dec 09, 2005 Minimus link
hmmm the station cleaning bots aren't doing the job properly again.

/me fires responsible bot
Dec 14, 2005 RattMann link
Hmmm...

Beolach's screenie looks quite a bit like what I see but quite a bit brighter. I still
think it looks like wood. And you can see through the spaces between the "slats"
to an area inside. If not wood, what? Bronze? Brass? Gold? And yes Yoda, most
of the stations texture looks like concrete to me too.
Dec 15, 2005 LeberMac link
It DOES look kinda like wood.
Dec 15, 2005 johnhawl218 link
just chalk it up to bad texturing and call it a day, nothing really looks metal anyway. Well, accept for the new ships.
Dec 15, 2005 icbm1987 link
John... "except"... not "accept"... homonym confusion!
Dec 15, 2005 RattMann link
Thanx for the spelling corection "icbm." And "johnhawl" yes, we could "chalk it up"
to bad texturing, a bad hair day or whatever. I thought it somewhat curious that
something that looks like a temporary board-up of an old store-front would be
found on a high-tech space station. Whether it's wood or something else is a question, but what's really odd is: why is the area behind it seemingly open to the
hard vacuum of space?