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Did I say that the Human was an insulator also? It makes no sense if the human was an insulator, as it still needs to complete the circuit. As for the Human/Glass thing...The Glass is 2 or 3 milimeters thick...so 1 TeraOhm is actually 0.003 Teraohms...or 3 GigaOhms. Humans, by comparison only has a resistance of between 500 and 1,000,000 ohms, per meter...depending on their state(Cleaness decreases resistance)...Now, assume the length of your arm is half a meter...plus most of your body...so we are probably looking at 2.5 meters. So 2.5 MegaOhms, or 1.25 KiloOhms. Now, obviously we can see that the glass is far more resistant than a Humans. Now then, your basic analysis: Ok...Coil has an input of 100V. Lets say that it is a ideal coil, with an ideal core of 1 centimeter width. Let us then say that the wire is 1 milimeter thick. Lets also say that you start with a power supply at 1 amp. So, we step it up, increasing the voltage to 10,000 and decreasing the ampage to 0.01. We then step it up by a factor of 3,200 (Why you stepped it up in two seperate stages is beyond me), so the voltage increases to 32,000,000, and the current decreases to 0.000003125 Amps. We then assume that a human touched the end point(far better than 'magicked into the human'). The lowest recorded ampage of death inducing current is: 0.00001 Amps...Therefore: 0.000003125 Amps is far too small to cause any heartattack or whatever. Burn damage, by voltage, is far more dangerous...According to here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock You need 500 after the following calculation: (Duration*Voltage^2)/Resistance. Duration is the second main stumbling block* since you have a single large discharge (as far as I know), not a series. You would therefore need a duration of between 0.00012 and 0.00000006 (Depending on resistance) to do serious damage, with anything less than that(in game terms at least) causing only superficial damage. *The first is targetting, since anything metallic would be considerably more likely to be hit than a human. So...assuming you had ideal materials, with no energy lost to resistive heating and such: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Losses And assuming you fixed the targetting problem. And assuming you resolve the problem of silver, the best current, elemental, conductor having a higher resistance than this weapons ampage. Then yeah, I am happy for you to have this weapon. To start working on this weapon you will need to level 10 in Superconductors and level 20 in Ferromagnetics. However, at present I see the weapon as effectively useless, due to the spark gap mechanism**, inability to target proficently, the reliablity of the weapon(Burnouts and whatnot)...with actual 'damage' being caused only at level 10 and above...Even then the risk of the weapon breaking is still 15 in 20, while the chance of hitting the target is only 1 in 20, with actual damage being a 5 in 20 on top of that(so 5 in 400). At level 20 it becomes a more reliable weapon, doing some damage whenever it hits, which is still rarely. Risk of breaking is 5 in 20, chance of hitting is still 1 in 20, but damage is guarenteed. At level 40 it becomes a majorly useful weapon, as a targetting mechanism is finally developed (One of which I cannot fathom). Risk of breaking is effectively 0(at mods disgression), chance of hitting is 1 in 2...same as other weapons, and damage is still guarenteed. And then it is just generally improved upon. Also, given the delicate nature of the weapon, using it to hit people...dropping it...anything like that has the same risk of breakage as firing it. **Personally I have no idea why you have the sparkgap mechanism at all... Some sort of a switch on a preset timer seems like a far better idea...Though burnout, I suppose, is a consideration...

And your point? The only reason waves aren't fifty foot tall is that they use gravity. Its a non-statement. If you used a large Tesla Coil you would make a lightning strike...Its the same basic principle. Glass isn't an insulator, it has a resistance of 10^12...Anything with electrons in can function as a conductor. And you haven't given an alternate theory, you have just pointed out a hole in my knowledge. I would say that given the low level of resistance, since the current is so low, that the resistance of the glass didn't become a major issue, thus it did not impede the circuit.

I am not sure if you know this but monopoles are yet to be proved to exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole And electrostatics fields flow from Postive Poles to Negative Poles. And yes, you don't need an arc of lightning...you need an arc of electricity...IE the electricity needs a path from A to B, it doesn't magic itself across. This is what I mean about half theories and missing information, you are providing 'Evidence' which you are subjectively editing to support your stance and providing virtually no real information...Like the link to the 'Electric Field' page...it is just a page of fomulas, it doesn't provide any real information on how to apply those formulas in the real world. You are, again going 'Hey, Archi, Rubberstamp this.' I am yet to see any evidence that this would actually be useful as a weapon...So far I have seen that it can light a lightbulb and create an arc of lightning...Why is this? Because humans are highly resistive to electricity, lightbulbs are not. Do you have a competing theory as to why a field that electrifies everything, except things that high resistance...like wood and humans? Therefore you would need an extremely high level of electricity...like Lightning...to cause any damage to a human. So, therefore, you are creating a lightning gun.

Yeah, this is electrostatics. Using electromagnets would require a Gauss Gun like set up, and would deviate within milimeters of leaving the barrel...So it would be like firing a really short shotgun with only 1 pellet. Also it would require the opposing target to be inversely charged...Otherwise the surface would repel the electrostatic energy. You are basically trying to build a lightning gun, which would hit the closest inductive target...You would therefore need to shield everything on your side with an inversely charged surface...Which would: A) Stand out like mushroom cloud over New York City. B) Leave you highly suspectible to an inversely charged lightning gun. C) Require a complete overhaul of armours. D) Would be incompatible with most electronic systems, like shields. E) Would turn you into a christmas tree for targetting.

Mmmm... I agree with Resistance, the very second people start getting hurt then it is your responsiblity to apologise and back down...Like I did over 'I cast 'the spell' on Nex'. To me, and perhaps others, it was mildly amusing...But to you it was hurtful and damaging. And acting like our Lord and Master, while treating us like or peasents...to be tested by whatever has your fancy at any moment, without our permission...is fundermentally wrong..and will only cause friction between us. (Though I can see that as a joke it is still a VERY bad way to deal with a 'I am gonna complain about this' comment)

Trading Places I think. And yeah, I think it is one of those things that is only funny if you are on narcotics...

We care because of a little know theory: If people start talking about something, then they will eventually start doing something...and when they start doing something they will eventually start thinking about it! No, seriously, it is partly curiosity, partly because 'Why would you mention something super secret on a pubic board unless you were indirectly warning people about something...especially when there is a perfectly fine PM system...Kinda like someone walking into the middle of the Wall Street Fruit Stockmarket and shouting 'HEY FRED, DID YOU CHECK THE FIGURES FOR ORANGE SALES, PEOPLE ARE DOING SOMETHING!' Ergo, it is something that concerns us, but something which you can't tell us about, therefore it is bad, therefore it is a threat, therefore we need to talk to Rocco for Guns and Mather for Wallets filled with Norwegian Money. That and general paranoia generated by months of playing Hegemony.

Because Britian has the RSPCDA. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dumb Animals :rolleyes: (jks) No, the reason I don't kill people off is because I respect people...Being a moderator is a serious responsibility because people are investing large amounts of their time and just going 'hur-hur gonna kill you now' is wrong. How, exactly? Electricity can 'jump' through insulators at really close ranges and really high voltages...but to turn that into a weapon which was both effective and useful you would be doing alot of work...and it could still be defeated by slightly thicker rubber soles. I really have no idea what you are talking about...Tesla used a coil to generate a magnetic field...and then another coil to convert the magnetic field back into electrical energy. Unless your target is holding a large transformer the threat is minimal. Alternatively you have electrostatic induction, which is supposedly non-dangerous to Humans...Since Tesla would light a room filled with people using a lamp powered by electrostatic induction...So... Unless you can explain to me in some other manner(As I have puzzled over Wikipedia and spent about 30 minutes scouring the internet for information) I am going to say that Wireless Energy Transfer does what it says on the tin...It transfers energy wirelessly...It doesn't fire electro-death beams at insulated targets. And Faust is largely right...There is nothing that a 'directed electric field' can do that can't be achieved with a Blitz Array... I find it highly doubtful that you could even produce a 'Directed Energy Field' since the magnetism/electro-field would be spherical in nature.

Of course, just create an a path and then fire the electrical energy along it...or some such.

A third, and I find more successful, method is to try to ignore it because you end up spending ages trying to create the right situation, and then you suddenly become leader somewhere you had completely forgotten about and then everything goes mad. That...or just colonise up to the hilt.

In various small cases, there are benefits to using a plasmon gun... For example: Teapots normally make tea, and thus you want something that won't melt when you raise it above room temperature. As such a Chocolate Teapot is fairly useless. However, if you happened to want to eat the teapot then the Chocolate Teapot is far more use than the Ceramic Teapot. So, while it is probably fair to say that a chocolate teapot is useless, like a plasmon gun, it does have one or two specific applications which mean saying it is 'useless' is less than 100% true.

Plasmons and polaritons are probably about as much use as a radiogun...or a scanner-rifle.

Not especially, they are capped at the speed of Gravity, which is relative to the nearest gravitational body...aka bad in Space, good on Gas Giants. Graviton Helbores are concentrated lumps of Gravitons, which generate Gravity...So the effect is exponetial.

I was way up till the reformation...Which hit Hansa! The whole Hansatic league breaks down overnight and it is me and some country in Russia remaining in it. Lubeck loses money hand over fist, while I am spending hundreds in keeping my vast trade empire running. <_<

I had 2 alliances. Algeria and Hansa. The former because they were the only country with the ability to launch a land assault on me without naval assistance...as well as being generally handy to have as a neighbour. The latter because I wanted to know if a muslim country could ally with a European country...That and I was netting over 1,000 a month in Trade revenue and Lubuck(their city) was a guarenteed source of 200 odd of that...and being part of their trade league meant I spent about 20 a year on merchants...so I had my finger in every pie. I create vassles instead of extensions because defending forty different states with no connection between them is sloppy...while my huge Empire, with only 6 Islands(Africa, South America, Canaries, Azores, another one off the coast of Africa, and the Carribean) Of which only 2 needed a defence force, and of which only 1 need a defence force in double figures. My method keeps infamy low, stability high, and gives me a massive empire to boot.

Psht. Broke alliance with Grenada, colonised Western Africa and Easten Brazil, extended up to Cuba and down to the base of South America. Algeria starts a war with Great Britian, my super navy beats Britian's twice, then their uber navy appears and smashes mine, though their whole transport fleet is gone by this point so I don't care too much...since I still have my South America Fleet...I Liberate Genoa, Albania, Grenada, Portugual, Scotland and Wales in a number of wars...then Annex Roma, and convert it to muslim faith in less than a year. Then Europe finally broke to 20 Land and Sea, overtaking me after I screwed up keeping my alliance with Algeria in a -2 stability war, followed by Centralising and getting a minus 1 and then, on top of that random destablising events taking me down to -3 in five minutes. Quickly followed by my Sultan dying and the heir being 2 years old. I abandon inflation keeping tactics and switch to 4, 5 and 3 star General Marshals(Or whatever they are called that increase legitmacy), and began culling my armies, while hiking up my navy to absorb any threats. Which worked quite well in the second war of British Aggression...so well in fact that I blockaded London. Then I lost interest because I couldn't unsteam it and I was neglecting Space...That, and the game's ridiculous war system was finally getting to me.

FIRE THE NORWEGIAN VILLAGE! Half life is way to low to be of much use. Their size is too small to be of much effect on their own. Their energy requirement would make them extreme high energy weapons... So basically ripper beams. Were disproved with the collapse of the Standard Model. And Retech...I am reminded of the tale of the man, the stick and the bear. The Man, got a stick and poked the bear. The Bear, being tired, ignored the man the first time he poked it with a stick. So the man poked the bear again, and then the bear ripped the man's face off. Nex...and everyone else for that matter, doesn't need to be goaded into action...or mocked for their inaction. So please, don't do it.

Photons are their own anti-particle.

Roughly the same. Anyway, if everything goes horribly wrong and the game dies then it will just get reborn and people will hopefully not make the same mistakes. Or we will just rewind to just before Dusty attacked.

Quarks would need to be generated from somewhere...so the power generation capacity is null. And Quarkbased weapons are possible, but rather weak compared to proton weapons...about 1/3rd of the power.

Wouldn't it therefore make more sense to ask how many kT a solar panel and a helios plant would generate... And explain what each of them is....since I have no idea on the latter and the former could mean a whole number of things. Dusty is more fated to succeed because he made himself Captain, didn't bother making a supersuit, and said 'Build a ship without interest in the cost'...using 40 odd sessions worth of everyone else's hard graft to build a supership. As has happened before myself and Dusty have reached an impasse. As shown by electric powertools... Also controlling muscles doesn't require control of the brain...Merely bypassing it.

Yeah, the time of Glory system seemed good. On the subject of 100 year research times... You do a 100 year research period when your research is gamebreakingly overpowered...and if you designed a system which was based on how gamebreaking the technology was then it would work perfectly. Something that provided a very small benefit would be fine for 5 years, while something that gave a significant advantage would take 20 years, and something that would basically win you the game would take 100 years. Personally I see a system like that to be rather good, since if people want to plaster a big 'I am gonna win in 100 turns hahahahaha' on their forehead then people should kill them off...But, as Napoleonic Hegemony showed, if you plaster a 'Hahahahahaha I am going to win' badge over your chest, then people ignore you, protect you from anyone during your period of weakeness and then moan that you are too powerful at the end of it.

So what you are saying is that you want something that is obviously wrong, rather than something which works. And yes, excel is fine if you are fiddling with an equation...if you are working out an equation it is a lot less useful. For instance: Laser energy requirement = ((Distance penetrated*Specific Heat of Vapourisation of the Target)+(Blooming Coefficent*Density of the Air*Distance travelled))/100*Efficency of the laser. Pretty simple. Then you need to work out what you are firing at...Like a human. Do you happen to know the specific heat of vapourisation of Human Skin, Blood, Bones and Muscle? Can you work it out? So, when you have worked out the specific heat of vapourisation of Human Skin, of Blood, the amount of blood in any specific area of the human body, the specific heat of vapourisation of bones, which, I will tell you for free, is mostly Calcium Phosphate...then of bone marrow, then of the muscles, synovial fluid and anything else you can think of...then you can calcuate the net specific heat of vapourisation required to cause significant damage to a human being. Blooming Coefficent is just my general term for whatever it is required. Density of the Air seems easy, though smoke and whatnot, rain, shields...this that and all the other stuff make it far more complicated...So you need to build a decent level of redundancy into the laser, since you won't ALWAYS be firing in the worse possible conditions...So probably a variable resistor or some such. Then trying to work out the max range of the laser, which is a function related to the inverse square law...which Excel excels at. Then calculate the efficency of the laser. Once you have done that you have the power required, and then you just need to work out what generator can supply that level of power, as well as making sure the weight of the generator can comfortably be supported by the firer...on top of the weight of the laser. Because when you start using specific numbers you have to consider all of variables, not just the ones you want.

You've done what? You have run a Space Session while looking up things on Wikipedia, and inputing figures into excel? Only using 500 keystrokes on Excel? Thats amazing, I didn't know Excel was a web browser or IRC client.

Mmmm... Wouldn't it be considerably simpler to have research cost X amount and you just have to pay for that amount? Or go with the wonder system from my last hegemony, where you have to spend X amount, and wait Y amount of time. Or go with a simple flat rate...spending more speeds it up slightly, underspending slows it down considerably.