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Post by Fishy on Jun 16, 2012 8:13:52 GMT -5
One important question is; how can future technologies work? Obviously it varies from faction to faction, but it's important to have some sort of basis as to how you could potentially travel faster than light and so on.
Another question is; do we want some sort of force/mass effect/psychic type thing? If we do we'd need a good enough reason as to how it can exist.
It does make sense that people would have armour which is robotically assisted thus allowing them to move faster and carry more weight. The down-side is that it would take more resources. Thoughts?
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Post by purgatoryfire on Jun 16, 2012 8:16:46 GMT -5
Well i hope i could help with the Physics side of things! My physics knowledge tells me that ALL theories we can explain with current knowledge of science restricts inter-stellar travel to something like 4 years between two of THE CLOSEST stars. Perhaps if we had a similar restriction on time travel, not necessarily 4 years it would make the universe more enriching? Would give it a SLIGHTLY greater sense of realism.
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Post by Fishy on Jun 16, 2012 8:31:46 GMT -5
I'm not going to argue physics with you. I failed Physics at school  . Would make sense to have that. Would make it interesting to see how that would affect conflict. Could you stretch it in any way? Instantaneous travel makes little sense though. |
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Post by purgatoryfire on Jun 16, 2012 18:35:43 GMT -5
If we said something like just light speed, it'd take 4 years to travel to the nearest star to the sun. We could probably make things more exciting if we said 4 years to travel half the length of the galaxy?
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Post by Fishy on Jun 17, 2012 15:52:55 GMT -5
That would make an interesting concept. To cope with that you would have to develop strategy (defence forces more spread out) and also possibly you could even have Stasis pods etc.
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Post by Fishy on Jun 18, 2012 11:24:15 GMT -5
I've been thinking about an idea as I was painting a model for playtesting. What if in the future, technologies were available which could change the colour of armour and clothing? That would allow armour to change to different environments: ie. you could be deployed for several months in a city, move from building to building and the armour would change to suit whichever environment you were in.
It's not invisibility as it would be based on pre-set patterns, (thus making it different from invisibility) but it would darken for rooms and so on. For a wargame this should not be a pre-set as it'd be quite an advantage!
I'm also quite a fan of visors. I don't think that in the future we'd be using normal eyesight. It would make sense for a visor system such as the one in Halo ODST (where it outlines enemies and so on).
I'm looking at weaponry. Is laser weaponry actually a good idea? It may have advantages that bullets don't have, but I've never been convinced by it.
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Post by Alex on Jun 18, 2012 16:08:50 GMT -5
My view on this is pretty limited, I know plenty sci-fi but not the real-life science to back it up. xD
Lasers are a pretty big staple of any Sci-Fi setting, wouldn't be fair to remove them entirely. Afterall, what would you replace them with? Mass-drivers? Just Torpeodes?
As for speed of travel, I was happy with whatever warp-drive/hyperdrive we had before, where it was pretty loose, but safe to say you couldn't fly across the whole galaxy in hours.
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