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Author Topic: The Dark Star (space game) - Planning thread (It begins! Link on latest post)  (Read 78938 times)

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Re: The Dark Star (space game) - Planning/Pre-game/Interest thread
« Reply #390 on: January 14, 2015, 04:51:19 pm »

Was my statement of Does Everything Nobody Else Covered, specialising in maintaining air supplies and fixing computers an acceptable skill set?
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« Reply #391 on: January 14, 2015, 04:55:18 pm »

Was my statement of Does Everything Nobody Else Covered, specialising in maintaining air supplies and fixing computers an acceptable skill set?
"Does Everything Nobody Else Covered" is a pretty huge set of skills.
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« Reply #392 on: January 14, 2015, 05:11:25 pm »

It's almost as good as having the superpower to have any superpower other people haven't thought of.
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« Reply #393 on: January 14, 2015, 11:44:36 pm »

So, people are saying "large" ship or "small" ship, but those are relative terms. Let's use some figures/comparisons. In response to an earlier comment, naval vessels are non non-applicable here: they can be used as valid points of comparison because they have a certain amount of space on board, a certain number of chambers of various sizes, and certain dimensions. Another good point of comparison might be buildings.
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« Reply #394 on: January 14, 2015, 11:50:17 pm »

We want a ship with a considerable amount of mass.
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« Reply #395 on: January 14, 2015, 11:58:04 pm »

"Considerable" is also imprecise. Perhaps it might help people get a picture of what you're talking about if you start with another ship as a point of comparison.
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« Reply #396 on: January 15, 2015, 12:02:57 am »

Wait, so are we using ships to compare to space crafts or not?
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« Reply #397 on: January 15, 2015, 12:06:45 am »

Another space ship as point of comparison. Preferably a well-known/easily googled one.
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« Reply #398 on: January 15, 2015, 12:12:59 am »

I already gave a comparison earlier.

((Definitely larger then an ocean liner if you want anything better then a Ceta Grade AI. Try about the size of a Rorqual.
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« Reply #399 on: January 15, 2015, 12:19:32 am »

I can only get figures for volumes on there, but it seems larger than say (in naval terms) a supercarrier? So, about Enterprise-sized?
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« Reply #400 on: January 15, 2015, 12:31:44 am »

Is it too late to join in?

Also, I would totaly go with a nostramo type ship...
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« Reply #401 on: January 15, 2015, 12:33:05 am »

Not too late, especially, as Harb is probably dropping out.
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« Reply #402 on: January 15, 2015, 12:37:53 am »

Great! I'll get to making a guy... and reading all 27 pages of this......
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« Reply #403 on: January 15, 2015, 12:47:09 am »

I can only get figures for volumes on there, but it seems larger than say (in naval terms) a supercarrier? So, about Enterprise-sized?
It's like fifty some times larger then the enterprise. Look at the tonnage.
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« Reply #404 on: January 15, 2015, 12:50:17 am »

That's well over our size limit, though.
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