Scythus
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Quote:Well, he's not level 20 yet, so....Originally Posted by Yat Man
Honestly as a warshade, i feel that the only time in my career I should have a problem with voids/quantums is lvl 1-20. After that you have black dwarf, stygian circle and enough inspiration slots for an emergency break free that the most you should be inconvenienced by a void is 3 seconds. -
It would be cool if there were a few soloable story arcs exclusively for Incarnates.
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Well, that's definitely not the guy we see in the trailor.
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I like my Warshade, but god damn I hate Voids/Quantums. I spend too much time on my back with them to be fair.
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Well then, terraforming should only require a Genesis missile in that case in the BSG universe.
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Quote:I didn't get a prepatch either.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I've fully logged in and out twice (ran up and down the streets for good measure), and no pre-patch. I double-checked my City folder, and there is no MajorPatch file sitting in it, either.
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Quote:Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a reference to that arc. A lot of the tip missions oddly enough seem to reference Westin Phipps' arcs. For example, the Freakshow school tips heroside? Why that's blatantly Phipps'... Freakshow school arc.Originally Posted by DarkGob
I think it sounds more like a reference to this arc, myself, but the devs do seem to have gotten fond of throwing little clues (or misdirections) into tiny things that you don't normally pay attention to.
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Quote:Well, an actual Japanese studio is doing the artwork, so it isn't so much "anime inspired" as it's actual anime style.Originally Posted by Ice_Wall
Is anyone else bothered by how "anime" inspired all the cartoons are these days?
I really miss older style animation and seems any time I see a new remake of those old 80s cartoons there redone in some anime-ish fashion and I just don't like it as much. -
Quote:Which will again pale in comparison to the aforementioned energy requirement to travel faster than light. Seriously, terraforming is Type I Civilization stuff. FTL travel? That can only be attempted by Type II and Type III.Originally Posted by Smersh
Well, that and bio-engineering an entire ecosystem. Not to mention the sheer energy requirements.
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Quote:It's British for "what."Originally Posted by Mandu
What is wot?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
The only thing I'm complaining about is that it would have been terribly easy to come up with a set of maps that were "plausibly realistic" knowing what we actually do know about real life solar systems. The map they came up with screams "we did it just because it looked pretty". Sure it's a "possible" scenario, but the fact that it's so incredibly unlikely is jarring to anyone who knows the smallest amount about the real life universe out there. *shrugs*Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
Actually I am a "hoot" at parties.
Again I'm not saying that what they came up with isn't "possible". But anyone will tell you that some of the best science fiction out there is considered the "best" because the science involved in those stories is just about as totaly NON-FICTIONAL as possible.
There was basically no reason they couldn't have come up with a "fictional" setup for these systems that didn't follow the best REAL WORLD information we have. What makes it especially jarring is that they didn't just randomly come up with an unlikely scenario - they seemed to go out of their way to come up with something that was so completely unlikely in nature that they purposefully went out of their way to make something silly.
I simply find it unfortunate that they messed up something so basic when otherwise it was a very cool effort. *shrugs*I'm not exactly sure what you mean by any of these statements. "Moving multiple planets?" Buh? What are you talking about? No one said anything about "moving" anything.Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
I'd rather let my mind accept a BSG civilization based on real world knowledge of typical solar systems and the level of assumed technology they had to work with. Sure they produced fleets of FTL capable Battlestars. But nothing we've seen suggests they had the level of stellar engineering capable of moving multiple planets and stars around into a symmetry so perfect it'd be beyond even the gods of Kobol themselves to arrange.
We were talking about terraforming. Y'know, taking one suitable, rocky world and turning it into something as verdant as Earth is right now. Considering that they're called the "12 Colonies of Mankind," I'd say more than half of those worlds at least were terraformed if not all.
Seriously, if a civilization has mastered FTL travel and self-aware AI, it's more than capable of terraforming a planet. Terraforming a planet is actually a lot easier than building a sentient machine or a hyperspace engine. All you need to do is melt polar ice caps and manipulate the gases in its atmosphere and grow plant life. This is surmountably easier to achieve than the magical coding that'll make a robot self-aware or the infinite mass material you'd need to travel faster than light.
Are you trying to say planets are rare or something? Last I checked, our astronomers have discovered over 500 exoplanets within 300 lightyears of Earth so far and we're getting better and better at detecting them as we go on. We've finally been able to spot rocky Earth-size worlds in the last couple of years, so there's clearly no shortage of those types of planets.
What the hell is so "wrong" about the BSG maps? Is it the stars themselves? Last I checked as well, there's plenty of G-class and K-class stars in the universe. You're just frankly not making any sense at all. -
Quote:Our solar system alone has at least two "good enough" planets to terraform; Mars and Venus. They're both within the goldilocks zone of our sun and appropriate size for habitation. True, Venus will be bit more of challenge than Mars, but all you'd really need to do is strip its atmosphere and then crash comets into it until has a new one.Originally Posted by Lothic
Actually it's called Science Fiction.
It's still incredibly unlikely that you'd have four very close star systems which started out with enough "almost good enough" planets to do that much terraforming, assuming we knew this civilization was advanced enough to do massive terrforming like that in the first place. -
Quote:FINALLY! That has been annoying me for ages.Originally Posted by Blood_Beret
Pets should no longer switch names after zoning.
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Quote:It's called Terraforming.Originally Posted by Lothic
I can certainly accept that this is a "canon official" map and may even be a "scientifically plausible" one. But seriously, if there ever existed a region of space where there were a dozen "earth-like" planets all within 0.1 light years of each other that would be like a one-in-a-bazillion bit of good luck by any plausible measure.
We know this civilization has "FTL drive" capability already. It frankly would have been a tad bit more realistic for these 12 colonies to have been spread out across more like 9 or 10 systems separated by say at least 25 or 50 light years. While this map is pretty it's also clear they sacrificed a bit of "realism" in order to achieve a nice bit of tidy symmetry for the purposes of a TV show.
It's a great map for this awesome TV series. But let's not get -too- carried away by it. -
"But I thought girls dug big, expensive gifts."
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Arrow defenders suck? Since when? Those arrows hurt, especially on my squishies.
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Quote:Hear, hear!Originally Posted by Sevenpenny
Its about friggin time! The CCA is an antiquated "thing" that is best put on the scrapheap of history and forgotten.
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Quote:It's on this night now. No, now it's on this night. We have now shifted it an hour later. Now two hours earlier. New night. Oh, no one's watching anymore, cancel it.Originally Posted by Desi_Nova
I have faith that SyFy will frack this up
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As far as movie critics go, Ebert is one of the few I admire and like. I don't always agree with him, but he usually has a better idea of what he's talking about than some other critics I've observed.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ironik
Who was that one doofus who badmouthed and griefed people in PvP to write some paper about bad behavior in MMOs. I'll bet that's who PP is.So your theory is Twixt has returned?Quote:Originally Posted by StarKitten
I think the guy's name was Twixt. Or...something like that, anyways.
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Great, another YMMV argument. Swell.....
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Quote:I gather you never saw Battlefield Earth.Originally Posted by Ironik
Well, the general rule of thumb IS "bad book, good movie," so you never know.
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Quote:Who was demanding an explanation of the joke? You. Fail.Originally Posted by BigFish
You feel the need to explain the irony and then blame me?
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What? Do they think everyone has bad eyesight now? I'd say a lot of the typeface they use now is larger than a Dr. Seuss book. It's just... HUUUUGE these days.
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Quote:Yeah, I've been noticing that with a lot of published books recently. Publishers have been progressively using larger and larger typeface. What's up with that?Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
I saw this book at the bookstore today.
It's Huge. Then I opened it and saw how big the type was. If someone was holding the book open across the street I could still read it.