NetherWolf

quote:I'd have to come up with something for transports without marines. Well, if you are entertaining ideas on the subject, I was thinking of new class of crewmember called security. Basically marines in function but make them non-deployable, and perhaps less eficient in combat. They're just glorified security guards. this would allow a civillian player to partake in the "fun" of a boarding action, without, hopefully, mucking around to much with the balance and innards of the rest of the game.

Suppose for the sake of argument, you are playing a noncombat caste that has no marine compliment, Do non-marine personnel have a prayer of a chance at stopping intruders? Or should I just hope I'm very close to a station?

Game installed let the saga begin

I too do not support a nuclear option. I would also like to add that I am touched by the support I have seen from members of the international community, thanks guys it is appreciated.

Well, Bin Laden may or may not be behind these attacks. However consider this, Bin Laden is not the only one with an axe to grind with the U.S. I've been seeing reports last night that indicate that if it was Bin Laden, He might have had a little help, specifically state supported help. Up until now Bin Ladens tactics have amounted to the car bomb or variations thereof. Reports also indicate that it would take a well trained pilot, not just a cesna jockey, to navigate and guide those jumbo jets so precisely into their targets, and I don't believe for a moment that they could coerce our own pilots to do something like that. They'd die first. Those pilots whoever they were had to have time in a large bodied jet. Bin Laden may be rich, but that sort of training indicates to me the tacit cooperation if not support of a government. otherwise Bin Laden would have to find at least four fully trained and professional pilots willing to lay their lives down for the cause. Now all of this is conjecture, but personally I think our old friends from Iraq may have had a hand in this. I'm an American and I love my country, and I am consumed by a cold calculating anger by yesterdays events. Yet, I am rational, and I do not believe we should make a move until we are sure. But I also believe this operation was to big to forever cover the identity if not the exact location of the perpetrators. And if it is discovered that Iraq was involved, then I say we move in like Mother Hell and do what we should have done a decade ago.

A bit late, but I wanted to say thanks for supporting an analog rudder axis, Just saying that I noticed.

quote:Actually in BT the Mechs are about 10 to 15 meters tall. I remember that because thats the size of the antennas I used to work on. heh, maybe it was feet then, actually I pretty sure thats what it was now that I think about it, my mistake

Well, my love of giant mecha was never quite the same, after I read an article in the old cyberpunk suplement Heavy Metal. It basically asserted that the physics behind a 40-50m tall metal humanoid robot just wouldn't work as a construct of that density would sink up to its knees into the earth. (We're talking dirt not concrete here). Other problems included providing a massive silhouete that our current day targeting systems would have absolutely no problem hitting. Thereafter I tended to gravitate more toward Heavy Gear scale mecha which I believe are around 10-15m tall. Examples of these can be found in the Anime shows Armored Trooper Votoms or the more recent Gasaraki. I've played Battletech and had alot of fun with it, but after having played Heavy Gear the table top game it just seemed more "realistic" to me. For one thing those battlemechs sure could soke up the damage unless you got a lucky head shot. This might make for a fun game, but I believe the sort of armor that a humanoid shaped robot could "realistically" carry would at best soke up one or two hits from a modern day tank gun. I am by no means trying to pass myself off as an expert. I have never been in the military, and my oppinions stem only from what I've read. Most recently I've been into power armor and Grav-tanks for my military sci-fi fix such as can be found in David Drake's Hammer's slammers series of books or Fasa's old Renegade Legion line of games. This isn't to say that Fusion powered Anti-gravity tanks are any more "realistic" than 50m tall giant robots, in some ways I suppose less so. It just seems more "realistic" to me, and a closer analog to what we have today. However, as long as we're dreaming, let me put my vote in for the YF-23 stealth valkyrie from Macross Plus, That's gotta be the coolest

Heh, guess I'll check in as well. I'm 29 so that ought to bump the average age back up a bit Oh and hi btw.