[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
ls are light seconds; it used to be km (kilometers) but we kept bugging Aaron to make it at least slightle realistic; I never bothered to check out the scale but at least it's not completely ridiculous (the moon is 50 km from the earth??? )

So now instead of everything being scaled in 'km' for surface combat it's scaled in 'ls' for 'warp drive'... Our ships are moving at several times the speed of light since we can cover 10 ls in a lot less than 10 seconds. Not to mention that fact that the beams cover those distances almost instantaneously. That might make sense for the Tachyon beam. But not for the other weapons.

Ah, well. Yet another example of the 'hurry and and make it work' attitude in game development. It's present from tiny companies like MM all the way up to giants like Infogrames/Atari.

[ October 12, 2003, 16:40: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]