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Pegasus Grand Admiral Pitch Black
Joined: August 02, 2005 Posts: 434 From: Eleventh galaxy on the right!
| Posted: 2009-12-18 11:14  
This is an interesting read.
http://gizmodo.com/5426453/the-physics-of-space-battles
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Sardaukar Admiral Raven Warriors
Joined: October 08, 2002 Posts: 1656
| Posted: 2009-12-18 11:52  
Fascinating.
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Izzy Fleet Admiral Interstellar Cultural Confederation United
Joined: March 15, 2006 Posts: 41 From: USA
| Posted: 2009-12-18 13:13  
so bascially just floating around in space?
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Dwarden Admiral CHIMERA
Joined: June 07, 2001 Posts: 1072 From: Czech Republic
| Posted: 2009-12-18 13:32  
Nexus : The Jupiter Incident got some nice touches in the Black Sun engine (the routes in pre FTL intro)
sadly scale of power in Black Sun engine v2 never reached public ...
and there is reason i like Independence Wars serie and B5:IFH/HomePlanet and that's ~newtonian like physics...
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Eledore Massis [R33] Grand Admiral Templar Knights
Joined: May 26, 2002 Posts: 2694 From: tsohlacoLocalhost
| Posted: 2009-12-18 13:37  
[ This Message was edited by: Eledore Massis [R33] =ADM= on 2009-12-18 16:08 ]
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Scorched Soul[+R] Marshal Pitch Black
Joined: November 14, 2005 Posts: 378 From: USA, NJ, Princeton
| Posted: 2009-12-18 13:51  
While this all makes a lot of sense and is very cool please don't bring us any spherical ships in the next update of DS
A flying ball is about the last thing I want to stare at for hours on end while playing a game
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Sardaukar Admiral Raven Warriors
Joined: October 08, 2002 Posts: 1656
| Posted: 2009-12-18 14:11  
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On 2009-12-18 13:51, Scorched Soul wrote:
While this all makes a lot of sense and is very cool please don't bring us any spherical ships in the next update of DS
A flying ball is about the last thing I want to stare at for hours on end while playing a game
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Tell that to a veteran TIE Fighter player.
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Jim Starluck Marshal Templar Knights
Joined: October 22, 2001 Posts: 2232 From: Cincinnati, OH
| Posted: 2009-12-18 18:07  
Saw this mentioned on another forum, and many of the conclusions he draws are highly questionable.
Atomic Rockets is a much better and more in-depth analysis.
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YIIMM Grand Admiral
Joined: June 16, 2005 Posts: 851 From: Barcino, Hispania Tarraconensis
| Posted: 2009-12-18 20:30  
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On 2009-12-18 14:11, Sardaukar wrote:
Tell that to a veteran TIE Fighter player.
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Yeah, but you're just the Emperor's stool pigeon...
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