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Posted by: waresky
« on: June 07, 2009, 09:39:40 AM »

Quote from: "Paul M"
Well Steve you win the "most interesting"* Italian Vacation Award I guess.  I visited Rome and Florence with my parents last year and we had the usual touristy things: the toliets on the train going down, even though we were in 1st class, being a mess, eating in an Irish pub in Rome as the other restraunts were not so good (we were too near the train station I think), getting caught on the Roman forum during a thunderstorm and getting soaked, getting ripped off by a resturant down the street from St. Peter's for lunch but on the other hand having a wonderful set of meals in a restraunt in Florence.  Getting to see both the Roman ruins was a real joy for me as I basically have a minor in the classical studies and seeing that stuff not in a book but in person was just a blast.  I'm still, disturbed I guess, that on the road leading to the Vatican you are walking past high price women's clothing stores...something is just very wrong about that.  As a hint go to the Sistine chapel in the afternoon, the lineup is much much much much shorter (200 m as opposed to 1+ km in the morning).  Overall though we had a great time and I learned a new Italian word "Umbrelli" given that there was a person on each street corner in Rome trying to sell you one.

Sounds like you need a vacation to recover from the vacation.

*as in the Chinese curse

Am Italian.
u can find me on google Earth typing: "TRENTO" or better:"MEZZOCORONA" little hamlet:)
north east italy.beneath in Alpes,Dolomiti..
there r the most beautiful landscape,most welcome restaurant or little hut on mountain u can't find in whole ITALY..ther u can find the most highest groups of mountain in a same region..
And there u can find me:)
good meat,balanced,nature preparations,no traffic,take a most wanted breath in every Alpes..

C'mon on trentino,NOT going to damned boring Rome..:D
there r true italian style.
Posted by: Paul M
« on: May 29, 2009, 06:11:15 AM »

Well Steve you win the "most interesting"* Italian Vacation Award I guess.  I visited Rome and Florence with my parents last year and we had the usual touristy things: the toliets on the train going down, even though we were in 1st class, being a mess, eating in an Irish pub in Rome as the other restraunts were not so good (we were too near the train station I think), getting caught on the Roman forum during a thunderstorm and getting soaked, getting ripped off by a resturant down the street from St. Peter's for lunch but on the other hand having a wonderful set of meals in a restraunt in Florence.  Getting to see both the Roman ruins was a real joy for me as I basically have a minor in the classical studies and seeing that stuff not in a book but in person was just a blast.  I'm still, disturbed I guess, that on the road leading to the Vatican you are walking past high price women's clothing stores...something is just very wrong about that.  As a hint go to the Sistine chapel in the afternoon, the lineup is much much much much shorter (200 m as opposed to 1+ km in the morning).  Overall though we had a great time and I learned a new Italian word "Umbrelli" given that there was a person on each street corner in Rome trying to sell you one.

Sounds like you need a vacation to recover from the vacation.

*as in the Chinese curse
Posted by: ShadoCat
« on: May 28, 2009, 06:56:27 PM »

Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"
Quote from: "ShadoCat"
KEERAACK!!!

The beasts take offense and then take a bite out of your chariot. Lose one point of armor on the front of the chariot.
KERRAKKKK!!!

Your beasts take the hint and put their minds to the task. 1 Space, 1 Pt to Beasts

That is a great game :)

Steve

Yep.  There's nothing like starting a chain reaction collision.  <grin>
Posted by: ShadoCat
« on: May 28, 2009, 06:44:05 PM »

Quote from: "Cassaralla"
Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"
Quote from: "ShadoCat"
KEERAACK!!!

The beasts take offense and then take a bite out of your chariot. Lose one point of armor on the front of the chariot.
KERRAKKKK!!!

Your beasts take the hint and put their minds to the task. 1 Space, 1 Pt to Beasts

That is a great game :)

Steve

*Plays Maximus Turnius card.*

(Hope I have the right game here.  :)  )

Slide out three lanes....

Yep.  Nothing is more beautiful than a FRENZY going into a turn...

...and nothing is more aggravating than the lucky bonehead I play with who survived it.
Posted by: Erik L
« on: May 28, 2009, 12:46:18 PM »

Quote from: "Paul M"
I didn't think it would be an issue with a starfire fiction section on the board...my comment was more a personal in-joke relating to my time running an order on a NWN PW and events related to that.  I can't say I am surprised that Aurora discussions are actively discouraged though on that other board.

I think if there were a discussion relating to NWN, it'd have to be in the... hmmm... Maybe I should make a general "Other Games" forum.
Posted by: Cassaralla
« on: May 28, 2009, 09:35:28 AM »

Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"
Quote from: "ShadoCat"
KEERAACK!!!

The beasts take offense and then take a bite out of your chariot. Lose one point of armor on the front of the chariot.
KERRAKKKK!!!

Your beasts take the hint and put their minds to the task. 1 Space, 1 Pt to Beasts

That is a great game :)

Steve

*Plays Maximus Turnius card.*

(Hope I have the right game here.  :)  )
Posted by: Paul M
« on: May 28, 2009, 03:39:25 AM »

I didn't think it would be an issue with a starfire fiction section on the board...my comment was more a personal in-joke relating to my time running an order on a NWN PW and events related to that.  I can't say I am surprised that Aurora discussions are actively discouraged though on that other board.
Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: May 27, 2009, 03:52:19 PM »

Quote from: "Paul M"
I'm with Mav (as I recall a not unusual occurance on that other board we used to haunt) as far as the writing vrs talking.
Its OK, you can talk about Starfire on here but they get extremely upset if you talk about Aurora on the Starfire list :)

Steve
Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: May 27, 2009, 03:50:52 PM »

Quote from: "ShadoCat"
KEERAACK!!!

The beasts take offense and then take a bite out of your chariot. Lose one point of armor on the front of the chariot.
KERRAKKKK!!!

Your beasts take the hint and put their minds to the task. 1 Space, 1 Pt to Beasts

That is a great game :)

Steve
Posted by: Paul M
« on: May 25, 2009, 10:14:01 AM »

The missiles his fighters carry are AMMs with a 32K km/s velocity, if memory serves, I suspect they will hit very well.  I'm not sure what the HTK of the targetted fighters would be, likely 2 or 3 missiles to kill or mission kill the fighter.  If they used bigger missiles, I would have designed them with high speed anyway (sort of torpedo like) so their chance to hit the fighters would be still good and each one hitting would likely terminate the fighter, but you would fire fewer.  At a guess it would balance out.

A possible design glitch is that the carrier has, if memory serves, 500 or so missiles in its magazines that is only (20 fighter x10 missiles/box launcher = 200 full strike) 2 complete reloads on the carrier.  That is a bit small I'd think.

I'm still inclined to mark some of this down to personal preference mind you.
Posted by: Brian Neumann
« on: May 25, 2009, 10:00:19 AM »

Quote from: "Paul M"
I'm with Mav (as I recall a not unusual occurance on that other board we used to haunt) as far as the writing vrs talking.
 
But for the reduction in speed of the fighters the 75 tons is composed of 50 tons (1 HS) for search sensor and 25 tons (0.5 HS) for the fire control, as you have a 16 million km fire control my suspicion is that you aren't far from using 50 tons now anyway, so the increase is either 50 or 25 tons.  The other point is who cares how fast the fighter goes in the abstract?  You can launch your missiles outside of a range where the enemy can engage you even if they know you are there and no fighter armed with a gun is going to get to you before you can launch and run back to re-arm.  By being able to engage fighters anyway you can just wait till they are a 0.5 m km distant and salvo some missiles at them anyway.  Sure you abort the strike on the ships but you'll get them next time anyway.

The problem with this is that the number of reloads is limited as missiles are big compared to their magazine's and in addition missiles that are good against ships are probably not very accurate against fighters.  After all most fighters are moving around three times as fast as their parent ships usually move.  If you only have a 40-50% hit rate against those fighters you are throwing a lot of missiles away.

Brian
Posted by: Paul M
« on: May 25, 2009, 07:19:24 AM »

I'm with Mav (as I recall a not unusual occurance on that other board we used to haunt) as far as the writing vrs talking.
 
But for the reduction in speed of the fighters the 75 tons is composed of 50 tons (1 HS) for search sensor and 25 tons (0.5 HS) for the fire control, as you have a 16 million km fire control my suspicion is that you aren't far from using 50 tons now anyway, so the increase is either 50 or 25 tons.  The other point is who cares how fast the fighter goes in the abstract?  You can launch your missiles outside of a range where the enemy can engage you even if they know you are there and no fighter armed with a gun is going to get to you before you can launch and run back to re-arm.  By being able to engage fighters anyway you can just wait till they are a 0.5 m km distant and salvo some missiles at them anyway.  Sure you abort the strike on the ships but you'll get them next time anyway.
Posted by: ShadoCat
« on: May 23, 2009, 12:15:22 PM »

Quote from: "Kurt"
Quote from: "Haegan2005"
Quote from: "mavikfelna"
Ok Kurt, enough talking, more writing! ;)

--Mav

Agreed!

:D Okay, oaky, I get the message.

I'm currently in the middle of a fairly large battle.  It should be interesting!

Kurt

KEERAACK!!!

The beasts take offense and then take a bite out of your chariot. Lose one point of armor on the front of the chariot.
Posted by: Kurt
« on: May 22, 2009, 08:27:31 PM »

Quote from: "Haegan2005"
Quote from: "mavikfelna"
Ok Kurt, enough talking, more writing! :D Okay, oaky, I get the message.

I'm currently in the middle of a fairly large battle.  It should be interesting!

Kurt
Posted by: Haegan2005
« on: May 22, 2009, 01:34:42 PM »

Quote from: "mavikfelna"
Ok Kurt, enough talking, more writing! ;)

--Mav

Agreed!