Mothers_Love

Exactly the kind of creative rush that had me do an introduction course, a part-time 32-week 3DS Max course last Sept '09 to June '10... And wow is it complex!, I mean to get a really good animation of a decent length with a high poly model and all the animation weighted and timed right to look realistic with real world physics. Definately gave me a new respect for the ridiculous amount of work that goes into every frame times 24 of every second times every render pass of every animation. Nightmare.

Makes you realise that a lot of these animations are truely collaborations of a great many specialised artists; modellers, texture artists, animation artists, vfx artists, enviromental artists and script programmers. No mans a mountain but subscribing to digitaltutors.com, gnomon workshop.com or lynda.com helps.

City of Heroes should play to its strengths and not try to emulate features of Champions-Online that the engine or gameplay would struggle to accomodate. That said it shouldn't be so proud as to snub features which could potentially explore an evolution of our gameplay.

Personally I'd say no to a charge-up mechanic, but would be open to a customisable block of sorts being added to every class to mitigate some of the damage when low on end and make combat that bit more strategic.

Thats not Batman !.... thats Batmak ! - Go back to start, do not collect £200, abandon the whole program! - Faiiiiil !!!.

Our chemical propulsion technology would not work because we would run out of fuel; a): if launched from Earth, somewhere around Mars - or b): If constructed in orbit and fuelled there, somewhere before we left our local system.

The only propulsion tech that we have experimented with is ion propulsion and solar sails pushing off of starlight or a base-laser beam. The former being very slow at building up speed, and the latter (as far as i'm concerned) in both forms is totally unsuitable for independant deep space travel. Space is full of debris and other hazards travelling at ridiculous speeds. A rocky grain of space dust can punch holes in solar sails and sheet metal when its travelling at tens of thousands of mph.

If we did work out some kind of nuclear fusion or ion-drive, then we would still have to contend with the fact that this would be a generational ship that would have the entire onboard population to go through many generations of decendants before it reached its destination.

Problem 1: motivation and training en route with a loss of incentive re: the target destination.

Problem 2: Gravity. Unless a decent gravity can be generated onboard, the humans would not have the strength to disembark anywhere with gravity because their bones would shatter like the finest most fragile glass. Even after 10 months in orbit current astronauts/cosmonauts lose 40% of their bone density which is why they are practically carried away by ambulance on return.



Four things will force us to take expansion of our species more seriously.


1): The exponential expansion in World population and the starvation therein.
2): The total depletion of mineral resources.
3): When a large asteroid hitting shows us that we cannot afford to stay exclusively on our homeworld.
4): The expansion of our own star to Red Giant status in 5 billion years which consumes our solar system. If we haven't got our ship together by then, then i absolutely despair and reckon we deserve to go extinct.

127 light years away = 746,585,422,394,318.2 Miles away.

Never gonna get there until Warp theory is realised, and thats never gonna happen until Mankind makes an astonishing breakthrough in a capable new powersource, and we are unfortunately far more likely (given our track record) to blow ourselves up through new said technology through war.

I used to love to speculate about stuff like this, but the more you research it the more you find that we are still a pretty low-tech and basic species, still dependant on dead plant and animal remains for the majority of our power sources.

I'd say concentrate on major outposts on the Moon and Mars to avoid the 'all your eggs in one basket' doomsday scenario - and then lets see where technology is in a thousand years or so.
One things for certain. As long as we let our differences divide us here on our own home planet, we haven't a hope in hell of making the steps we should be doing as a species.

The film is 50/50 WWII period piece & modern-day interpretation.

Aww thats a shame. Theres another vote right there then to start over with the Cryptic2 engine.

Yes, Although Stephan & Marcus (as Recluse and Statesman) go back to their origins in the 1930s, the modern-day CoH is set in the late seventies / early-to-mid eighties:
You can read all about them in the CoH novels 'The Web of Arachnos' & 'The Freedom Phalanx'.

As Steampunkette has already mentioned, this is an impossibility. The very thought I must say somewhat amuses me. I'd definately invest some slots in 'Piggy-back'.