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It's discussions like this that make me wish the show had a floorplan of the base in question. We know the base had weapons emplacements to fight off ground and air attacks so the armory wouldn't be deep inside the base where resupplying those weapons would be difficult. So it's much more likely that they had two armorys, or a main armory near the exterior and a weapons locker that was closer to the gate room.

Now the problem with a weapons locker is that while it may have a few thousand rounds of ammo, it isn't going to be all one caliber. The locker will carry several different types of weapons for "SG" teams as well as some ammo for the weapons so space will be limited. Everything from pistols, to SMG's, assault rifles, shotguns, SMAWS, M-60's, grenades, claymores, C-4, and LAWS and the ammo stored in the locker will be divided up between those weapons. So I figure they may have had 1-2 thousand rounds at most for any one type of weapon with the rest stored in the main armory.

Then theres the fact that during the first show they got trapped when the air bombardment collapsed the ceilings on some of the passageways. Which side of the collapse was the weapons locker on?

Now assuming the weapons locker was on the gate side and they sent someone to grab ammo (and assuming that they had an itemized list of what weapons everyone was carrying so they could grab the most ammo for the weapons they had on hand) it's possible they could grab a couple thousand rounds of ammo but divied up between the people with weapons that won't go very far or last very long even if they only fire single shots.



I'm now wondering just how much ammo they burned thru on that one planet where they got caught in the time travel loop.

Oh please that's a fantastic price for a limited run edition that's over 7 years old and originally sold for was it $49.99 or $59.99?


As opposed to the WoW collectors edition that's currently selling on Amazon for $2,000.00

or the Guild Wars collectors edition that's selling for $889.99 on Amazon.

I didn't make that argument. I only said lets stay away from yellow snow.

You are forgeting that these people didn't have time to bring a lot of supplies with them. They just grabbed whatever they could carry from the pile of scientific equipment staged in the gate room. The ammo they had was whatever they had been given when the base was attacked.

Items like ammunition are always kept under lock and key in the bases armory until it needs to be issued. It is never under any circumstance left out where anyone can go thru it.

The most they would have been issued during the surprise attack would be half a dozen clips of ammo. And I'm basing this on my own personal experience in the military.

Now during a time of war in a war zone sure they would be carrying as much ammo as possible, but they weren't at war. They were on an uninhabited planet and they weren't expecting an attack from the Lucien Alliance.

Oh and if you look at the weapons in the show iand in the pics they aren't using the FN P90's that SG1 and Atlantis used that have 50 round clips, they have M-16's with 20 round magazines

It's not that the rarely used definition might offend someone. The truth is that there are far too many people whose existence seems to revolve around looking for things to be offended over, and far too many immature jacktards that get a kick out of antagonising them. It's hard for the rest of us to soar like eagles when we are surrounded by these turkeys.

Ya know I just remembered the only items that can be manipulated in the way Zep is describing is the Winter's Gifts recipes. Supply is restricted to whatever can be grabbed up during the Winter Event so the rest of the year people have to pay thru the nose if they want them before the next Winter Event.

No the ancients didn't. Which is why they have constantly had to use the stargate to resupply food and water to supplement the garden they established on the ship. The writers have shifted the focus of the constant supply gathering to the background because they had to get on with telling the SGU story.

The only ancient tech I recall them finding that helped them with their lack of supplies was the recharging device. Oh and it's a good thing they brought "magic" guns that never run out of bullets or they'd have been defenseless a long time ago. Either that or they have found a chain of stores on the other side of the universe that sells them Earth made ammunition for discount prices.

Dude where have you been? The tone changed over a year ago when the mods dropped the hammer on everyone and implemented more draconian rule enforcement. The Comic and Hero/Villain Culture section had almost all of it's threads purged when hundreds if not thousands of threads were deleted because they didn't meet the new stricter standards.

Or are you talking about something else? If so please be more specific.

Well there's no way they could bring enough food and water or ammo for weapons but the ancients could have those supplies on the ship. No one would have blinked an eye at that.

Doesn't change the fact that what he said is true.

No it isn't. The game has around 70k players spread across 15 servers that are constantly buying and selling on the Market. So there's no way a single SG or even a coalition of several SG's can tie up the supply on the market consistently, especially when the supply is infinite. This isn't the real world where resources are limited. The game wasn't programmed to act that way.

Okay just finished watching it on the sci-fi website and I have to agree that it was one of the better episodes they've made. It's a shame that this probably won't save the series.

In my opinion as long as they behave I ignore them. I only petition them when they have gone out of their way to violate the rules. For example I recall one that was gay bashing and another time one was throwing around racial slurs.

Careful Goat your nerdrage is showing.

quis·ling

[kwiz-ling]
–noun a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.





Origin:
1940; after Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), pro-Nazi Norwegian leader.


So your implying NCSoft and the GM's as an invaders that don't have a legitimate claim in enforcing the rules of the game, and the people that help them are traitors to their country.

You're right to point that out. Thanks for the correction.

More like Lawful Amoral and Chaotic Hungry.

I don't think that's entirely accurate. Sure they may have had a couple of employees check the game out to see if it was possible, but they could easily take plenty of screenshots of regular players running around with their Hulk, Ironman, Dr. Doom, Wolverine, etc clones. Heck every time a new super hero movie comes out theres a bunch of clones running around for about a month or so until the GM's get them all genericed.

I think this is close to the truth. Marvel, by how the copyright laws are written, was obligated to sue once they learned that copycat characters could be made, and the DMCA was a big factor in why they didn't win.

It seems to me to be one of those situations where the only winners are the damned lawyers because neither company won. Both wasted a ton of cash going around in legal circles.