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Sci-fi spaceship engineering simulation
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Mechs turned into spaceships #28

Closed xXxH3LIOSxXx closed 10 years ago

xXxH3LIOSxXx commented 10 years ago

I logged in for the first time in several years and looks like some artifacts entered the code-base and wiki while I was away. It seems all instances of Mech have been find+replaced by some obviously bleary eyed attendant with the word 'spaceship', dramatically lowering the coolness of this project. I propose we re-find+replace all instances of spaceship, with Mech.

deontologician commented 10 years ago

Mechs are out in favor of spaceships!

Reasons:

  1. Mechs require much more complicated physics to convincingly simulate (arms and legs move around a whole lot, spaceships just kinda go forward)
  2. Mechs only have a finite amount of addons you can do before they really aren't mechs any more. Conceivably, you could continue agglutinating onto your spaceship to make it more badass and larger over time (like the Millenium Falcon)
xXxH3LIOSxXx commented 10 years ago

I can see that, also - there's no saying we can't have gundam ships in space that are essentially floaty ships that look like mechs, and eventually when we add planets to our galaxy and allow players to land, those with mecha-ships will be the most adequately adapted!

deontologician commented 10 years ago

That is a good point. See #17 for a discussion of humanoid spaceships