Pre-Christmas Chat with Aaron

[Baron Munchausen]

In Larry Niven's original design they did indeed use large panels rotating in a smaller ring to simulate day & night for the surface. The panels were connected by gigantic 'cables' of whatever the Ringworld itself was made out of, and the whole thing was timed according to their size and the size of the gaps to come out to a reasonable approximation of a day/night cycle on a terrestrial planet. It would be quite interesting to see that feature included in a Starfury model of a Ringworld. Or an SE V model if we will be able to visit our simulated systems. I wonder if we'll have a 'tour' mode where we can drop in on our held systems in SE V and view them as if playing a Starfury game. Or will the 'combat' space for SE V always be a much smaller space than an entire system?

[Suicide Junkie]

Baron Munchausen said:I wonder if we'll have a 'tour' mode where we can drop in on our held systems in SE V and view them as if playing a Starfury game. Or will the 'combat' space for SE V always be a much smaller space than an entire system?

Combat had better not cover the whole system like starfury, or the 100-ship enemy fleet will glass all your planets during the warppoint battle

[Timstone]

Suicide Junkie said:

Combat had better not cover the whole system like starfury, or the 100-ship enemy fleet will glass all your planets during the warppoint battle

Damn! That's not a very cool option. Ah well, Aaron will think of something simple, but effective. But it really gets you thinking. How large should the ships be of a large fleet untill they are too big to fit in one sector of space.