Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Kool-Aid is okay if you mix it with lemonade. Especially raspberry lemonade. Mmm. Oh the sweet and sour goodness. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Blasphemy! Kool-Aid is always crap. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Hmmm... I should just be getting home then. I'll be on dialup, but that's good enough for IRC. I should be able to manage. I think. I hope...

Unless DEG curses us with screenshots. Curse because it will take me several minutes to download unless they are highly compressed. And I don't wanna wait http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Hmm, I *might* be able to catch the Last little bit of the chat. I'm in the Pacific time zone, but I usually don't get home from work until almost 6:00 or so. Just before Christmas is a busy time of year at work...

Well, I guess if I miss the chat, I'll just read the log.

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Like I said in another thread,.. let's make Dec 22nd and the #spaceempires chat room the day and place for this years SE xmas party. I encourage everyone to try and drop by there at any time. If you can manage to be there when Aaron shows up, all the better, if not we can still have fun.

As for releasing screenshots or any other artwork, I can and do make lots of 'fluff' but the decision of if and when to publish any is always up to Aaron. I'll try to do some special stuff for the occasion, at the very least, some new wallpaper, but I suspect that any screenshots will be held back until the official announcement of the beta in January.

I just had a thought, maybe I'll put together a bunch of the artwork that is on my editing room floor. You know stuff that has not 'yet' been approved or made to fit in SE5.

Just to keep my rep as a master teaser (according to Fyron) I'll tell you this.. I made what I think is a Fantastic Concept for a 'Ringworld' but it didn't fit in with aaron's view/idea of what a ringworld should be. I think he like many have been brainwashed by the traditional view of a 2d surface that well, rings around the sun. But personally I don't like the idea of a planet that is always in sunlight. I like to sleep in the dark, look at the stars, and with that type of ringworld, they would be lost to the brightness of the sky. The poor people that would be forced to live/work in a world without stars. Just so you know, I never saw what many know as this type of ringworld, so when I came up with my concept, I went a more mechanical route. After all, these things are supposed to be built right? Anyway, I'll see if Aaron will let me publish that render.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

David:
I've seen a very cool concept of a ringworld too. It involved more than one ring.
One ring to live on and several others to provide space for machines, weapons and to block out the sun once in a while.
I like it very much and I wanted to make a 3D model from it, but I don't have the time to do that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Hmm... let me guess... no, it can't be just a flat ring along the ecliptic like Saturn's rings so the world is in perpetual twilight, that's not innovative enough, even if people live on both sides... How about a torus composed of subrings that rotate about their centers, producing day and night by rotating into and out of the light side of the main ring?

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Didn't I just say that?

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Why not simply live on the inner surface while you're awake, and head over to the outer surface to sleep?

Your day/night cycle is then totally up to you.

Re: Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron
 

Hahaha... now that's a great idea. There should be a transportation network soo big it could handle about 500 million people at once. Now that's a truelly mammoth undertaking. How to build such a monstrosity, how to maintain it, how to pay for it's construction?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif