Hey All....
Just got on the list again after a long long long absense. I just
read Scott's message and had a few thoughts of my own.
>Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 13:45 CST
>From: [email removed]
>Subject: (4456) Orbital Surveillance, Grav Belts, and Antimatter
>
>The images they get are almost good enough to identify individuals. It
>seems to me that if the troops involved carried Identification Friend or
>Foe Transponders (as we assume is carried in combat armor and battle dress)
>You could easily target individuals on the surface of a planet from orbit.
>The images were THAT clear. I'm not even sure you'd need transponders.
>You could see what they were wearing, and if the uniforms of the troops
>were sufficiently different, it would be child's play.
>That means that just about every ship that carries a laser would be
>absolutely DEADLY to ANYONE on the ground. You wanna assassinate Lucan?
>Just go into orbit around Capital and wait till he steps outside!
A great idea, but wouldn't an atmosphere cause problems with this sort
of stuff (i.e. shots from orbits for assassination)?? But does that mean then
that the range of a Laser Rifle is increased on Vaccuum worlds since it doesn't
have any resistance because of atmosphere (what about dense worlds??) Any
comments from the Physics majors out there on the mechanics of laser/bullet
fire in other than normal (i.e. earth-like conditions??) I mean, when
you think of it, when your using a shotgun in a dense atmosphere, wouldn't
the range be shorter??? Is this thought of in the game mechanics? I don't
think so..........
>You mentioned similar errors in the vehicle archives? OUR vehicle
>archives? Not in MY designs! Where! Where! I may make the occasional
>typoxsh#4, but I don't think *I'm* guilty of common sense mistakes like
>the ones in the Imp Encyclopedia.
I agree with Scott here for sure... the Imp. Encyclopedia SUCKS for typo's/
errors.... too many beers that night for whoever did them. BTW, Scott, did
anyone ever think of writing a hypercard stack for keeping those designs?
(or do you have one??) A friend of mine recently pulled some of the designs
off the net and thought it would be cool to put them (with a picture of
course) onto a Hypercard Stack. He has been thinking of doing it, but
alas, a new girlfriend is taking away his Hypercard programming time.
Anyone have anything like this???
James aka "Trader Bob" Johannesson
Internet: [email removed]