The_Mather1

Great idea, Archi. Though I don't see why you couldn't just go the full mile and say that every game us a DnD unless otherwise stated. [/sarcasm] No. It is not the cause of action that is necessary, what is necessary is only for the players to remember that the GM has final say in all matters of their own games, and that they should take every no as a no, rather than a "not quite convinced yet". As the last recurring poster here among those were part of the Tavern before it became the Tavern, I feel fairly certain that it would be safe to say the reason so many have left is because there has been to much change. That there has been so much effort put into accommodating the addition of new members that there's almost nothing left of what the Tavern actually was. Tell me, at what point did the sub-forum created for the Hegemony become one where you have to enjoy DnD to be able to play every other game? What happened to that rowdy old Tavern where people might brawl in good nature, but had a great time while doing so, that made it become this hellhole where half the people are constantly at others' throats, going for broke like it's serious business? What would be the reasonable thing to do would to leave the Tavern alone and hope it recovers to its former drunken glory, and rather make a new Falador Library for those that feel strict guidelines are a necessity.

Because suddenly being strict in terms of scientific plausibility and providing all the information that's requested equals being a hypocrite, especially when the person accusing me of such has his games strictly abhors to random rules and used several pages to finally mention that what he was getting at was in fact not what was logical to assume at first. If I didn't know any better I'd say accusing me of hypocracy is the real hypocritical act here... oh, wait, that's because it is. You know what's even worse hypocracy than that? How you often accuse me of being too nitpicking and being off the charts incorrect when I describe technology which I don't only know how works, but where the fundamental science behind it is actually my field of education. Yet here you are, explaining in unnecessary detail the construction of a giant, flying, robotic city that utilizes a by far untamed force as a means of levitation. You may not notice it yourself, but the way you behave yourself is pretty much similar to a parody of your worst description of me, except taken way out of line. Everything you have ever said about me can as easily be applied to you, increased by a factor of ten.

Except you know buying computer parts is no more common than buying a new computer. This is the first time I've ever upgraded it.

Why, because Archi can't take a "no"? What have I done other than repeat that statement over and over in hopes of him realizing I have final say?

First off, as has been evident for god knows how long, your knowledge of how electromagnets work would at a good day be describable as abysmal, an electromagnetic field, constitutes of a coil giving of photon emissions from the electrons of the current passing through it, an electric field works by one point having a greater ionic charge than another and the, being separated by a non-conductive material. Secondly, if you would just describe what you intend something to do rather than something that has an infinitesimal chance of happening as a bi-effect of the intended event, there's a greater chance of it actually being accepted as plausible. Still no, though, as a magnet capable of holding in place the barely charged plasma of space would also be capable of imploding the ship. In less annoying news; session is on. /join Prototype Session's off.

A few hours after I installed 8 more GB of RAM on mine, how's that for a coincidence?

What a load of crap. If you are trying to confine something you know, roughly, where it is, and usually it is hurtling directly towards the magnet at speeds far in excess of the speed that the solar wind travels... Near Speed of Light (299,792 km/s) verses Solar Wind (145,000 km/s) about half that speed. As such 'knowing where it is' provides no help what so ever. Sigh. And the Earth? Pretty impressive if the Earth is surrounded by an Electric Field that no one has thus far detected. Based on what science...exactly? That Positively Charged Particles are only affected by Positively charged Electromagnetic Fields, except when the Field is generated by a planet, in which case it magically affects it anyway? I really don't get where your scientific validation is coming from other than 'ELECTROMAGNETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' I mean it has even been shown, through numerous experiments, that magnets alone can alter the paths of charged particles: And your view on that is what? 'I, the great Mather, find it impossible that simple magnets could effect anything, in the face of any and all evidence provided. All magnets must be electrically powered or they have no effect at all.' I am quite impressed that you have the cheek to call my game unscientific...this game has lurched from psudoscience to psudoscience and hasn't even paid lip service to basic scientific concepts. Oh really, let me repeat to you what has been said so far, in generic terms: You: "Would [ambiguously simple principle] work to [do this]?" Me: "No, but [traditional method] would." You: "Yes it would, because [more specified principle]" Me: "No it wouldn't, [similar principle] does because it's [impossible to replicate property], but that does not mean [general of original principle] does." You: "Yes it does, because it's proved that [more advanced principle] does." Me: "It won't help. And [more advanced principle] uses [universally applicable principle], not [original principle]." You: "So you're saying [similar principle] doesn't work? Also if you're so fond of [universally applicable principle, why don't you marry it? And because you [personal attack] say it, [basis of original principle] doesn't do anything. And you claim [strict game with no new principles whatsoever] is better than [game where every principle was replaced] in terms of scientifical accuracy?" I suggest you open your eyes and ears, you're pulling this bullshit far out of line. You're [bleep]ing resorting to personal attacks to back up pointless accusations in order to put strength behind your arguments for a lost cause. For [bleep]s sake, that makes about as much sense as beating up the police because your appeal for a small fine was denied.

Confinement and shielding are two vastly different prospects. When confining something you are aware of its position and it isn't currently hurdling towards you. Also magnetic confinement uses electromagnetism, not static magnets. If you want to protect the ship from any kind of radiation that it can currently not shield itself against, static magnets are not the way to go, they wont do squat.

No, lining something with magnets does not divert charged particles because there's both minus and plus poles all over the place, the way the magnetosphere works to protect us from the solar wind is by having just one of each in the middle of nowhere, thus pulling the particles there.

Such a strategy would only have worked if you could somehow have produced an even monopolar field strong enough to counteract the force (see Newtons laws). To block out radiation without taking such extremely high-tech solutions that would only mildly improve the situation, I suggest you look into high-density plating, since while a Faraday cage may be of little help, a lead or gold plating would fix the problem without a new one arising.

I've made a .gif.

Not without direct access to the database containing said files, either through physical access to a terminal or connection to a network.

Sure, from an engineer's point of view, the design wouldn't make much sense in space. But some things just stick, as a flying Mini Cooper wouldn't look nearly as intimidating as a jet fighter.

20m³ could mean 7*1.8d, which while still big is perfectly within reasonable size for explosive ordnance. Also you don't have anywhere to "throw it out the back", the fighters are literally fighters, as in visually indiscriminabile from traditional jet fighters.

Fighter has nice, big bomb bay - Throw the cargo out the back.

I'm not gonna go through the hassle of proofreading your math, since the only obvious flaw in your plan is the fact that the F-88s use ion thrusters (since carrying air for a jet engine into space is like bringing water up there so you can use a boat motor) and the easy fix for it is just to simply use any other jet engine instead. Though I feel obligated to say, creating a monster structure like that just to mine... that would be sort of like... well building a flying city to get resources you need to build a small colony, because that's what it is. Isn't the purpose of automated miners to make it so that you don't have to do the mining by hand? Because this would just make it so that you would have to mine many times as much as if you skipped the entire automation part and mined the resources for the colony by hand. And yeah, for time... 3,500,000kg of materials, at a roll of 100, that's 700 minutes of labor needed just to mine the resources to afford it. Then there's the processing of said resources which would take 700 minutes (and I'm being extremely generous here, by giving the fabricator a 5 tonnes per minute rate of processing). Then there's the assembly, which in all fairness should have a difficulty of at least 200, meaning you would have to reach level 50 in assembly in order to be capable of doing it with a roll of 100, which would take at least one minute per 50 kg. So yeah, 71,400 minutes, or 1.65 months of man labour, minimum. EDIT: Oh yeah, probably should have mentioned this outside the session too, but you level up at 20 exp. And since you start at (an invisible) lvl 1, if you've got more in a skill you're lvl 2 now and can add what exp's left over to your progress towards the next level.

Actually that was the only good image that I could find. Anyways, it's hard to give you a number since there is no unit used to measure rocks. I can tell you that it is made mostly up of basalt though.

For reference, a plasma drill is about as big as a jackhammer, take that into consideration when you revise the idea.

Dozens of thousands of plasma drills - 0.5*0.5 meter wide... sure... -.-

Session's on, /join Prototype.

ATM I would say TF2.

I don't fall in love within moments, that girl was my best friend for a year, three years prior. We accidentally discovered porn games together.

Wrong girl. This is the perfectly nerdy one.

Not so sure Twitter and Facebook count as intentionally vocal no. And no, I'm not going to make a fuss about it, just saying it is an ironically cruel twist of fate.