Stevie_Guillotine

Yeah, but a captain is mostly only good for the command of his ship. Sure, he may have picked up a useful tip or two from elsewhere, but for the most part he probably won't know a whole lot about that colonization business (vis a vis the captain in Wall-E) and will turn that part over to the people who know what they're doing. Or maybe he'd not want to lose his position of leadership and hold everyone hostage somehow. And while I really like the idea of a generation ship, I was thinking

[quote]In an argument, if you have to explain what you were trying say.....That usually mean you are loosing the argument.[/quote] That's the faultiest "lol u loes i win" logic I've ever heard. If you didn't intialy understand my argument, that's on you, MAAAN. You didn't even try to argue my points or anything! Typically that means that YOU loose. loosen. Lose. Whatevs. All we were arguing about was your one-dimensional view of corporations which, really, doesn't make for a very f

...and now that I've gone egregiously and totally off-topic, let me present my semi-realistic view of future politics: Let's say that, in the future, mankind manages to overcome the many hundreds of massive obstacles to intersteallar travel and they do it: they build a relativistic colony ship and fire it off at Alpha Centauri and, wouldn' you know it, they get lucky and actually find a habitable planet to land on. Given that Earth is four lightyears away from the Big AC, meaningful com

[quote]Exactly, Free Market, where the only law is "Survival of the Fittest". Not the regulated market we have today where there exist anti-monopoly laws.[/quote] Yes. And thus, as you have ably pointed out, Free Market economics are not capitalism and thus, not relevant. [quote]Didn't you just mentioned Free Market?[/quote] Hey, you brought it up. Don't go pinning your choice in topics on me, MAAAN. [quote]Anyway, those things are keeping the companies in check, that d

[quote]Yes.You should read up on Capitalism as written by people such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. A company ONLY purpose is to make money.Take care of the people? That what the Goverment is supposed to do.[/quote] Eh? John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith were proponents of free market, laissez-faire economic policy. Granted, that kind of economic environment sets up nicely for capitalism, but the two are not mutually exclusive. That, and how do you think a company makes money? B

[quote]Yes.If all the others companies want to remain competitive, they will have to do the same or be very creative to find another solution.[/quote] So basically your vision of corporations is that of a faceless, heartless machine that exists only to squeeze the money out of people and not to, like, provide a legitimate service or product and expect a fair amount of payment back? EVERY SINGLE Corporation exists only to further its own agenda and is headed by men who have no principles or m

My riposte: [link="http://mibi.deviantart.com/art/Death-and-Taxes-2007-39894058"]Budget Spending Graph for 2007[/link] and [link="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2921527420080302?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&sp=true"]Costs of the Iraq War[/link] Additionally, the hospital dilemma is mainly a result of our health care system, which is in dire need of an overhaul, and, honestly, just because one company creates an unfair and possibly exploitative positio

[quote]Someone try to justify armed spaceships for me. It'll be less embarrassing for you, I promise.[/quote] I can't... Because I agree with you. You see fellows, what Wanderer17 and Bigglesworth_XIII have been secretively hinting at all through this thread is that realistic space combat is [B]BORING[/B]. -FTL travel is impossible by our current understanding of physics. -Stealth in space is impossible by our current understanding of physics.<b

[quote]grate the U.S is selling out.[/quote] Well, with 2/3 of the budget going to the Iraqi war and to various military and defense related spending, there's not a whole lot left over to spend on even highly necessary things like, say, fixing the health care system or helping education, much less to fund a space program. Private companies devoted solely to the mission of getting us into space with no other concerns (like running a country of several hundred million people) would be

[quote]ok one thing we are human just think about that. WE ARE HUMAN.[/quote] DON'T INSULT MY PEOPLE, MAAAN! [quote]why do you think we have NASA and the ISS?[/quote] For missions of exploration and research into space, of course. However, setting up a functional space colony that can support a human population over a long period of time is a huge step from mere observation and study. It'd take massive amounts of money, time, and ability and we likely wouldn't se

[quote]ok number one on earth we have a limmated amount of rechoses so it whont be here forever. and the answer for why is because we can, and its there and just waiting for us.[/quote] Limited resources? All of the resources humanity actually needs to survive (food, water, air, and shelter) are one hundred percent renewable and we don't have to go into space to get them. And "because we can" usually doesn't fly well with the taxpayers who are forking out a large sum of their

[quote]A really smart sarcastic A-hole. Why do you think they call me an evil mastermind?-Bigglesworth[/quote] I LIKE this guy! This is a future overlord I can get behind! [quote]I don't even think we are going to get into space because of these bull s**t wars we are having. We'll probaly be blown to crap thanks to North Korea and the terroist.[/quote] We have FAR more obstacles to getting into space than just war, terrorism, and possible nuclear attack. There's the

[quote].so your saying that a anti-matter matter reaction has less power then the ration of oxygen and hydrogen. look here WWW Linka anti-matter matter ration has more power then you think. [/quote] Huh. 47 megatons of dynamite releases the same amount of power as two-ish pounds of antimatter hitting two-ish pounds of matter. I knew you got a lot of raw energy out of one of those reactions, but I didn't think it was THAT much. That's... actually, pretty good to know. Despite that, it

[quote]well a pound worth of anti-matter could wipe out the human race and every thing on earth nicely[/quote] Well, actually, a pound of antimatter would only wipe out another pound of matter. The resulting energy from the matter and anti-matter cancelling each other out might harm everything, say, ten feet away. But you'd need a LOT more antimatter to render Earth uninhabitable. So much, in fact, that even if you slaved all of Earth's resources and production facilities into making an

Man, there's a lot of pessimism in this thread. Mankind's not going anywhere just yet, folks. Those nukes are all just for show anyways. Besides, we likely won't ever experience interstellar war. Faster Than Light travel is impossible by our current understanding of physics. In fact, some would say that if an object that had mass managed to go faster than light, the entire universe, past, present, and future, would tear itself asunder. Then again, some theorists swear by intelligent design. <br/

[quote]once we hit the intersteller lvl. We will have to add another layer of government.[/quote] Or we could just break it up. Do it the Snow Crash/Diamond Age way: all territory is held by corporations and their private armies or by like-minded groups of people who claim their own stake on a given piece of land and form a collective non-agression pact with other groups. God only knows how well that would work, but its a possibility.

For those of you who would like to have every single preconception about space you've ever held to be totally and completly shattered, read on: [link="http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html"]Atomic Rockets[/link] Of particular relevance to this conversation are the "Space War" and "Faster/Slower than Light" sections.

You made love to the Homeworld games? Disgusting. Anyways, IF you have them as you say, then technically it'd be legal for you to download them. It would not, however, be legal to tell you where to acquire them. All I can say is "Don't be lazy" since they are all very easy to find on the internet. Use torrent search sites or use google. Not really that hard.

I'd also like to see a campaign, but not in the traditional, mission-to-mission style. An Alpha Centauri like campaign would be ideal, where you play on a premade map and play what essentially amounts to a normal skirmish game, but as you play, little snippets of story are revealed to you via cutscene. When you come upon an important planet, you get a cutscene. When you win a crucial battle, you get a cutscene, etc. You could play the story map many different ways and have different pat

It explains it pretty well in the manual. Something about how emergency generators kick in to maintain a secondary line of shielding throughout the hull.

You COULD punch a hole in the sun, releasing lethal amounts of solar radiation and energy which would sterilize the whole system. Or your nuke would vaporize before it got close enough. Either result would look REALLY cool.

Reading through some of the devs' comments, it seems they have some big things planned for coming expansions and even in their patches. Be patient. The game will get bigger and better with time.

FTL isn't possible for anyone's level of technology. The sheer amount of energy it would take to get to even 99.9% the speed of light would require you to be able to harness the power of several galaxies, and we're nowhere near that level. However, back on topic, Homeworld 2 had full-3D movement, but it was a feature that was sadly ill-used. It was great fun coming from below and above your opponent catching them in a z-zxis pincer, but then you realized it was so much easier to just d

The pirate base is usually filled with defense turrets and corsairs (their version of the kodiak). Once you get three or four capital ships around level 5 along with a larger fleet, you can easily take it out. The pirate base itself is sort of useless as a colony unless you're TEC and have the "every colony gets eight extra logistics slots" upgrade. Otherwise its just a really swell looking fortress.

Basically, your armor value affects how much damage is absorbed before it hits, so the higher it is, the less damage you take. Armor type (light, medium, heavy) does pretty much the same thing, but I think type is figured into the value (so a ship with a better armor type will have a higer base armor value) I think. Shields are not affected by the armor value as far as I know, but as your shields go down, your shield mitigation goes up, which gives you a higher percentage chance of comp