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we're talking about months and years and hundreds of millions of kilometers...
Interestingly, manufacturing new units between battles becomes realistic too at these timescales. Red Alert etc were not remotely realistic in this sense. Also sensor placement is interesting, since you can hide behind a planet or a moon completely. (on the surface too if it's tide locked the right way or if an atmosphere is obfuscating or something else). One Q2 mod that had the player fighting on top of asteroids floating in space.
Might sound lame, until I say that they were all rotating in three axis, and some got destroyed by various stuff. I made a dxf of an astroid ring, turned it into a mdl so I can use it ingame. Pity I can't make it turn out of corner axe, but it gives a spacey look.
http://members.home.nl/gimli/astroid.avi In game it turns much slower, but I had no other screencapture. Hiding in nebulae is a staple.
Trans-warp travel, subspace rifts, getting trapped in chaos space, getting trapped inside anomalies, getting trapped in a bubble where there are no stars, travelling through singularities, making certain areas full of enemies ("the Nortwest passage"), wormholes, parts of space where subspace got disrupted, so you cannot use warp drives, dark matter asteroids, "fluidic space", piloting a shuttle through a hole in an asteroid, asteroid obstacle courses, tractor beams moving asteroids around, blowing up asteroids that are falling toward planets, using gravity to catapult the ship through between two stars, subspace catapults, time travel, space races, building a vessel that uses solar winds... needing deflectors against space dust, which can be damaged/stolen by aliens... Just off the top of my head. Mostly it's about the life forms encountered there, though. Huge nerd? Yup. green-skinned Yvonne Craig:
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff277/blunderingman/may2008/YvonneCraig72.jpg the trouble with some of those is they are more like recycling tv scifi cliches and are not based on reality in any way.
Reality is often way cooler than what some lame script writers knowing nothing about space invent for the hundredth episode. When you size up a brush to just the right proportions, press enter and it turns out to be a TRIANGLE!!!! (because you forgot to set it to "square" mode)
Again this morning. I deserve the sack. The culprit - well I was ooh-so-close to sealing off a couple of new areas in my map (and did) at about 4 o clock this morning. Definately not the first time that has happened, but the first in a while.
Map is hovering at 26400 marksurfaces/clipnodes, with 53 lightmaps. :D ...also, my dog died. I'm sure I deserve it. I start wondering about the emptiness of my life at times like this, like an empty
A new start will put your head right. Fuck everyone else.
Or Go and get very drunk in the company of so-called freinds. T'will cleanse the sould. Or the best solution which is better than anything else:- (listen to this) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaVfwUs1jg Trinca:
(imagine the voice of Bob Marley) "....Singin' dont worry.... Willem: Im mapping in my head ;-)
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