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1. +1.... just because its an option.... -1 if it takes too much of dev's time to implement...
2. +1... loled at the 'quantic remote' using entangled particles... just vague enough to be able to not have to explain it :)
3.1 +1
3.2 +1... lotsa resources required would be nice, make it a struggle to maintain using this around experienced rats
2. +1... loled at the 'quantic remote' using entangled particles... just vague enough to be able to not have to explain it :)
3.1 +1
3.2 +1... lotsa resources required would be nice, make it a struggle to maintain using this around experienced rats
1: 0
2: -###, magic?
3.1: +###
3.2: +###, but not too many resources.
2: -###, magic?
3.1: +###
3.2: +###, but not too many resources.
If ships can pass through wormholes, why not radio waves?
Wormholes have an explaination. Radio waves... ??!
Seriously. You don't know what a radio wave is? There is something called wikipedia...
"Radio waves... ??!"
/education fail
/education fail
Ok, facts:
-radio waves traverse space, modulating it as is passes
-Wormholes are holes in universe fabric with 2 ends as a tunnel
-Without space radio waves cannot propagate. So it can't traverse WHs.
-With limited light speed, even within a single system there would be seconds or minutes delay. Earth is at 8.317 minutes from sun at light speed.
So, to make universal /100 possible, there should be sub-space-radio, yet undiscovered in 2010.
More important, if we have real-time comms, we can have no-delay remote control of turrets, or 'body matrix' across stations. And if we can ressurect after exploding far away in space, I see no limits why I can't respawn now in another station, then back here.
And now that I noticed there are 2 Crusaders around...
-radio waves traverse space, modulating it as is passes
-Wormholes are holes in universe fabric with 2 ends as a tunnel
-Without space radio waves cannot propagate. So it can't traverse WHs.
-With limited light speed, even within a single system there would be seconds or minutes delay. Earth is at 8.317 minutes from sun at light speed.
So, to make universal /100 possible, there should be sub-space-radio, yet undiscovered in 2010.
More important, if we have real-time comms, we can have no-delay remote control of turrets, or 'body matrix' across stations. And if we can ressurect after exploding far away in space, I see no limits why I can't respawn now in another station, then back here.
And now that I noticed there are 2 Crusaders around...
err yes I sometimes log onto my other accounts... but ya, you have a point, Alloh, we don't really need an explanation... 100 is explanation in of itself.
I think that the AI turret is a good idea, but it might be sensible to give it only a limited ammo allocation or something like that. Set it up as a kludge of an idea, available from a minor UIT faction like Xang Xi, using tech co-opted from Hive bots. Set the thing up so that it still uses the IFF from the Hive bot, so it will not fire on Hive bots, but it will fire on other players who aren't in a group with the user, or on Station NPCs.
Make the ammunition something like the Flechette gun; a shotgun system to compensate for the AI's rubbish aiming abilities and make the thing only work fairly close in to the player's ship, so strictly a means of guarding one's back in a firefight with a pirate. That, plus the limited amount of ammo the thing has onboard (it's a kludged-together system, remember, shoehorned into limited space so the ammo can will be quite small) would make it fairly ineffectual except as a defensive tailgunner. The poor IFF would also allow for comedy moments when a player enters a station sector with one turned on, shoots up a guard and gets a temporary KOS for his trouble.
Make the ammunition something like the Flechette gun; a shotgun system to compensate for the AI's rubbish aiming abilities and make the thing only work fairly close in to the player's ship, so strictly a means of guarding one's back in a firefight with a pirate. That, plus the limited amount of ammo the thing has onboard (it's a kludged-together system, remember, shoehorned into limited space so the ammo can will be quite small) would make it fairly ineffectual except as a defensive tailgunner. The poor IFF would also allow for comedy moments when a player enters a station sector with one turned on, shoots up a guard and gets a temporary KOS for his trouble.
...Of course I know what radio waves are, idiot. I'm utterly confused about how you might plan to move something with them. Alloh, we don't need more magic.
Honestly, do you think I'm five?
Honestly, do you think I'm five?
What do you mean 'moving something with radio waves'? They're thinking remote-control (ala television or RC helicopter) not light-sail-through-a-wh. Either that or alloh is so jumbled no one can interpret it properly.
Honestly, do you think I'm five?
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, pretty much.
Tarenty, unless you're also "The Crusader!" then the explanation was not for you. And was not about what is a radio wave, but why it does not cross WH.
And it was about a sort of RC turrets, with its gunner sitting comfortably inside a station, so we don't have to do magic or die/respawn there/die/respawn back.
Subspace comms, as /100, or entangled particles, would be RP justification.
+1 to "Dumb AI" or "Hive Firing Control Core", sound a good balance to "npc gunner". Ignores bots in general, and hate anyone not grouped.
And it was about a sort of RC turrets, with its gunner sitting comfortably inside a station, so we don't have to do magic or die/respawn there/die/respawn back.
Subspace comms, as /100, or entangled particles, would be RP justification.
+1 to "Dumb AI" or "Hive Firing Control Core", sound a good balance to "npc gunner". Ignores bots in general, and hate anyone not grouped.
ok tarenty, there has been a change in ideas:
step 1: read allohs post
step 2: realize that you cannot broadcast on 100 to everyone unless there is some radio-like communications system that traverses wormholes
step 3: come to the conclusion that instead of sending chat strings, this chat system could be used to instantaneously send commands to a turret with minimal space taken up (think: radio controlled tanks or those little remote control toys you used to get as a kid)
There doesn't need to be an explanation, unless someone would care to explain how 100 instantenously transmits chat across the entire known VO universe.
step 1: read allohs post
step 2: realize that you cannot broadcast on 100 to everyone unless there is some radio-like communications system that traverses wormholes
step 3: come to the conclusion that instead of sending chat strings, this chat system could be used to instantaneously send commands to a turret with minimal space taken up (think: radio controlled tanks or those little remote control toys you used to get as a kid)
There doesn't need to be an explanation, unless someone would care to explain how 100 instantenously transmits chat across the entire known VO universe.
You can use chat to control ships anyway, with the right plugin.
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slime, we don't need to hear about you're... unscrupulous... use of plugins... lol
Crusader, Alloh, I'm not stupid. I understand what you are attempting to get across to us all. I misread. Everyone can misread, even the infamous old fart, Dr. Lecter.
"If ships can pass through wormholes, why not radio waves?"
I thought you wanted to pass ships through radio waves to move them something like a wormhole does. Poorly worded, imo. >_>
An RC gunning option is interesting, though there should be a fee for using the station's equipment.
"If ships can pass through wormholes, why not radio waves?"
I thought you wanted to pass ships through radio waves to move them something like a wormhole does. Poorly worded, imo. >_>
An RC gunning option is interesting, though there should be a fee for using the station's equipment.
Sigh. Are you really not clear on the basic rules, tarenty?
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