Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Urist McScoopbeard]

As already stated you'll still hear shit, cause you know your in your ship, the only thing you WONT be able to hear are your enemies' desprate plees for mercy. Plus, who wouldn't want ultra-stealthy spess commandos? (Any wh40k references will be shot, survivors will be shot again.) Noiseless space seems somewhat of a not-problem, I mean you won't even be in space that much

[Vattic]

I suppose we might end up with something similar to how Shattered Horizon deals with the lack of sound in space. In that game, while you have enough power, your suit simulates sounds. I could imagine having computers generate sounds when enemy weapons fire and similar.

[Sirus]

I suppose we might end up with something similar to how Shattered Horizon deals with the lack of sound in space. In that game, while you have enough power, your suit simulates sounds. I could imagine having computers generate sounds when enemy weapons fire and similar.

That's the hand-waved explanation for Star Wars. The ship's sensors pick up on engines, lasers, etc and simulates a sound for them.

[Vattic]

That's the hand-waved explanation for Star Wars. The ship's sensors pick up on engines, lasers, etc and simulates a sound for them.

Didn't even know Star Wars tried to explain.

[Sirus]

That's the hand-waved explanation for Star Wars. The ship's sensors pick up on engines, lasers, etc and simulates a sound for them.

Didn't even know Star Wars tried to explain.

Only in the background material, and I'm not sure how canon it is. It kinda makes sense though.

[ThtblovesDF]

I like the idea of hearing your ship break down under you and then - suddenly - the utter silence of space as you float out.

[sambojin]

That explains why the voice transmissions in Starwars are always so crap. The must be using Notch's CPUs coupled with crappy sound cards. Between simulating engine noises, turning noises, weapons and explosions, R2D2's beepy crap and whatever else, there's probably not enough bitrate and sound channels left to give a reasonably crisp voice transmission.

Oh, hang on. They explained that with saying it was encrypted. The only thing they seem to encrypt in the entire Starwars bloody universe are absolutely vital-to-understand fighter transmissions, and ensuring that everyone has really shitty video resolution (holocams or whatever) on even unimportant video transmissions. The can't lock doors, anyone can pilot a star-destroyer, no-one has you invented a decent set of security systems, but they encrypt publicly accessible broadcasts, military transmissions, and absolutely nothing else.

I really hope that Notch remembers that a fair bit of SciFi is the fiction part. There's some stuff that you really shouldn't go into or explain too much. You just say, "It's like that. It's in the future. That's what stuff is like in the future." You never try to actually explain stuff. Why would you? You're not going for a doctorate with your scientific explanations, you're writing fiction. Science fiction in fact. Or you may as well start waving your hands and telling them that THAT is the reason it's like that. Because you waved your hands.

[sambojin]

That wasn't meant to be a rant or trolling, but to make a logically consistent universe in a sci-fi setting is a pointless task. We don't even live in a logically consistent world today, and this is science-reality. There's plenty of stuff that gets explained by hand waving.

If you had lightsabers, hyperdrives and missiles, wouldn't you put a really big lightsaber onto a hyperdrive equipped missile and make all shield and armour technologies redundant overnight? It would even block turbolaser fire on it's way to cleaving through entire capital ships............

[Aptus]

really big lightsaber onto a hyperdrive equipped missile

That is something that always bothered me about warp/ftl/jump/whatever-drives. Why bother having warships? If I was the evil emperor of the far future I would equip my Future Nukes^TM with warp drives and jump them straight into the atmosphere of the planets I want dead and the ships I want blown up.

[rarborman]

Didnt you know, as technology gets more advanced, the people making it get less intelligent, starwars timescale has people using lightsabers many thousands of years before the movies were set, and that many more hundreds of thousands of years before that hyperdrive was made by now nearly extinct alien overlords using the force and technologie making massive fleets with power ripped out of a star and doing all kinds of crazy other shit, and durring all that time there were sentient robots and still nothing got done that could be noteworth... lucus is a very bad at science, he tries but hes a hack at it, he is a movie writer. Startrek tried alot better and doesnt give was far flung crazed timescales, it was best guess with optomism, and stayed with very scientific outlook with TV entertainment in mind.

[Brons]

So any word on how Notch is going to prevent pay2win syndrome?

A lot of talk with almost no basis but at the same time this sounds like a crucial element to this game.

really big lightsaber onto a hyperdrive equipped missile

That is something that always bothered me about warp/ftl/jump/whatever-drives. Why bother having warships? If I was the evil emperor of the far future I would equip my Future Nukes^TM with warp drives and jump them straight into the atmosphere of the planets I want dead and the ships I want blown up.

Star Trek solves this by basically saying that warping inside systems is very dangerous.

[jocan2003]

As they did say teleporting was dangerous too.....

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Never hurd ot the galaxy gun? It was a giant gun in spess that fired planet-killing rounds through the galaxy!!! And that is starwars canon.

[Girlinhat]

Disregard.  I don't think Scoopbeard ever really posts productively.

[Sowelu]

Thank God I'm not the only one.

Whoops, that wasn't very productive of me either, but still.