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Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Just want to point out that I disproved the 27 gigatons in reply 62. Halopedia did the calculation with 30 megatons per warhead in the NOVA. As I pointed out[/quote] "So the rough estimation for the NOVA Bomb may be around that of a twenty-seven gigaton yield blast(if the multiplier was exactly one hundred-fold the equation is: 9 warheads x 30 megaton x 100 = 27 gigaton yield)." --halopedia article. If Halopedia is incorrect, it's not valid as a source for anything is it?

Reply to I'm writing a book. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Strikesback5 sat down and decided to try to write a trashy sci fi novel that will be so horrible it will make people cringe. And the sad part is that Strikesback5 thinks it's a good book. And he will try to sell the book to people, and they will tell him it's a good book to make him feel good, and he will never know how terrible it was. And then he will spam internet forums trying to sell his terrible book.

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]All that agree with this say I, all oposed say nah. I.[/quote] Hey, I didn't write Voyager's episodes, but the writers decided that yep, Photon Torpedoes have incredibly high yields as such. Look it up on memory alpha and do the math yourself, yes, they have that much energy. [quote]That would be the joint Romulan-Cardassianfleet that bombed the Founder homeworld but were feed back false info on the damage by a transponder. Thats what it said at Mem

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]And your also forgetting again that the Covenant have the Energy Projector and Pulse Laser, not just the Plasma Torpedoes. 36 Covenant ships fired (if he is right, I haven’t had the time to check) about 872.5 Petatons in only one hour plus what it takes to glass the land and seabed after seas are gone.[/quote] We're not forgetting anything. I think you have failed to read everything we have offered about the power of Star Trek weapons. Again, on-screen

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Trek ships are no faster, a UNSC frigate could do eighty-million KPH, but that may be a bit to fast, and Covenant ships are about tiwce as fast. The only Halo weapon would be the planet Onyx, built by the Forerunner to guard the Slipspace rift. It is made up of trillions of the very powerful but small Onyx Sentinel, the combined fire of only a few thousand could destroy even large Covenant ships like Destroyers, when the crust was destroyed by the under laying Sentinels it vaporiz

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Had the post, sourced from several episodes, on photon torpedoes. As can be seen, it's utterly ridiculous. [quote]One photon torpedo with a yield of 25 isotons destroys a small city, and a yield of 54 isotons destroys a small planet, suggesting that mass measurements in Star Trek are mysteriously exponential. If by "small planet", they mean something like the moon, the lower limit of the energy required to destroy the moon is 1.234 * 10^29 J, or about 30 trillion m

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]The science is explained well enough in both. There is no need to overthink it, since it's fiction. We're just having a Star Wars vs Star Trek debate. I don't think we need you to tell us it can't happen in real life.[/quote] Then you really did miss the point--that since [i]anything[/i] can happen in fiction--and everything does, for the sake of a plot point, it's inevitable that every soft sci fi will have something hilariously powerful as a plot point, and that it is always

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Yeah.....that's why it's called science fiction . Ever wonder where the name comes from?[/quote] I'm sorry, I just presumed that half of [b]science[/b] fiction was [b]science[/b]. Ever guessed where the name [b]science[/b] fiction comes from? I'm perfectly capable of needlessly being a snarky asshole, too.

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Sci Fi debates like this are relatively pointless, given most technologies in Halo and Star Trek will never come to be, and all science fiction series, films and games have contrived weaponry that's ridiculously overpowered for the sake of hurrying up a plot in a 30 minutes episode/game mission. Hence why I brought up the photon torpedo--as you can see, it's simply impossibly powerful. An explosion that size would take an incredible amount of antimatter--and enough matter to react with it. It

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

One photon torpedo with a yield of 25 isotons destroys a small city, and a yield of 54 isotons destroys a small planet, suggesting that mass measurements in Star Trek are mysteriously exponential. If by "small planet", they mean something like the moon, the lower limit of the energy required to destroy the moon is 1.234 * 10^29 J, or about 30 trillion megatons of explosive force. So a single photon torpedo in Star Trek carries 30 trillion megatons of explosive force--and that's not even

Can't update, impulse won't connect in Technical Sins Forums

I can't update sins or any of my games. When I try, it says, "Please wait until Impulse finishes connecting to install an application." Impulse never finishes connecting. It also says "downloading impulse update -- paused" at the bottom, and there is no obvious way I can find to resume the update download. I've restarted impulse and my computer to no avail. When I go to Downloads & Installs, nothing is apparently downloading, either. I've made sure Impulse has an open connec

Reply to So whose gonna get back into World In Conflict? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="CrusaderScott" reply="9" id="2052128"]I probably will. I enjoyed WiC as a *beautiful* RTS beer-and-pretzels wargame. Unfortunately, I think the bitter division that occured between the casual players and the so-called "expert" players killed that game. Hopefully, the expansion will give the game a fresh start. [/quote] Definitely, the whole pro mentality was what really killed the game. Sad fact was though that aside from infantry players, the pros d

Reply to So whose gonna get back into World In Conflict? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Shallow? Fundamental design errors? Horrible online community? I've been playing since it came out and I haven't noticed any of these things :/.

Reply to So who has the lowest "Member No. XXXX"? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

i dunno what mine is edit: cool i have a high score

Reply to Killed Civs in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

The Drath. They're actually exterminated in mission one.

Terran Nationalist Republic in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[URL=http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tnrzg8.jpg] [/URL] It had long been proposed by science fiction writers that Earth would eventually be peacefully united. But it would not be so. By 2168, the United States of America had militarily conquered the majority of planet Earth. The planet was renamed New Terra by the insane President Michael J. Bush III (whose great-great-grandfather was none other than Geor

Reply to Favorite Race in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Korath. I simply don't want to deal with long wars, so I commit genocide in every war.

Reply to Ship Nomenclature in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[Hull type]-[Generation][Subgeneration] [Name relating to purpose] For a fourth generation fighter, a name might be "F-4 Enfield," and for a second-generation sensor cargo barge which has been updated because of miniaturization, it might be "C-2a Sky Eye".

Reply to Official Tactical Combat Discussion Thread in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Exactly, it's like turnbased homeworld.

Reply to What would you pay good money for in an expansion? (The unofficial inquiry) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

- More diplomacy--an or option, as in, "give me 100bc or I declare war." Also, telling players to move ships out of your territory etc,. - War coordination with multiple allies and between computers -- "invade planet X, attack starbase 52." It'd be really interesting to see computer coordinating attacks, or to coordinate attacks with computers. - More advanced military tactics by the computer, and military tactics depending on race. I'd like to see the Altarian Resistanc

Reply to Official Tactical Combat Discussion Thread in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Naw, I don't think you get it. See, it's like a giant tactical battle, that's why the map has to be much larger. So you have more room to maneuver. Ships can always use their tactical maneuvers out in space--on the normal map. There are no seperate battles, it's all handled on the same map.

Reply to Official Tactical Combat Discussion Thread in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Say, I have an idea that'll merge tactics and strategy. It'll involve some suspense of disbelieve, but too bad. Alright, firstly, the game maps will be made quite a bit larger, with much more distance between planets and stars and other solar systems. Then, it's essentially permanent tactical combat. Each ship can always shoot, essentially, or pull off whatever special moves you want. That way, you can always reinforce battles, always do hit-and-runs and more complex tactical maneuvers,

Reply to Weapons: Focus on offense or split offense & defense? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I usually make fully offensive fighters and give defenses only to my capital ships.

Reply to Anyone have a good list of descriptive planet names? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I name my planets after things that have something in general to do with their purpose. My manufacturing planets are named after cities famed for manufacturing or space travel, such as Detroit or Houston. My tech planets are named for scientists, and my other planets are all named after nations.

Reply to The definition of treason in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I think a lot of you are confusing terrorists and insurgents. Insurgents attack military targets; terrorists attack indiscriminately.