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| Author: | Mongoose [ Tue Jan 01, 2013 3:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | What do you think fighters look like? |
I'm going to add fighter icons to Weapon M's map, and I want their meaning to be intuitive. What do you think fighters look like? My own conception of them is influenced by an article I read about what space-based warfare might really be like: swarms of small cubes with thrusters flying erratically in any direction, designed to deliver a small warhead to a target. I also think of them as looking like the fighters from the Buck Rogers board game... |
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| Author: | Big D [ Tue Jan 01, 2013 3:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
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| Author: | Cruncher [ Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/200H/i/ ... 4hetbn.jpg A little bit of everything, depending upon their "duty" 
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| Author: | Tweety [ Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
what do you think a ship would be represented as then if a fighter looks like that? |
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| Author: | Big D [ Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
Tweety wrote: what do you think a ship would be represented as then if a fighter looks like that? That depends on how many fighters that ship carries. It terms of size however, a ship that could have the fire power to invade a planet would be huge. Think in terms of the size of the invading ships in the "Indepenence Day" movie. To give you one example: 
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| Author: | Cruncher [ Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
I think one of the best things about TW is the "graphics" are unlimited. Each player has a vision in their minds of what the fighters, ships, planets, ports and SD look like. If this game ever does go high graphics, I hope it pulls from the original ANSI art as a starting point. |
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| Author: | Mongoose [ Sat Jan 05, 2013 2:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
Tweety wrote: what do you think a ship would be represented as then if a fighter looks like that? That's exactly the problem I'm thinking about. |
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| Author: | Helix [ Sat Jan 05, 2013 9:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
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| Author: | Big D [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
Xwing fighters are entirely possible and not all that big. http://gizmodo.com/305976/rocket+powered-21+foot+long-x+wing-model-actually-flies-updated-built+in-r2+d2 |
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| Author: | Micro [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
TradeWars fighters are considered to be unmanned, so they could be even smaller than that. |
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| Author: | Big D [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
Micro wrote: TradeWars fighters are considered to be unmanned, so they could be even smaller than that. Unless they are carrying bb's and pellets they still have to be big enough to carry ammunition. I would assume at least 4 rockets per fighter. |
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| Author: | Cruncher [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
Big D wrote: Micro wrote: TradeWars fighters are considered to be unmanned, so they could be even smaller than that. Unless they are carrying bb's and pellets they still have to be big enough to carry ammunition. I would assume at least 4 rockets per fighter. That's why I say different types for different "duties". Toll figs don't need heavy arms, defensive figs would. Offensive figs don't need cannons, just large cargo holds for explosive materials. Or, just don't give them an graphical representation and let them remain in the "eyes of the beholder". I think the only thing that can come close to topping my "mind's eye" would be Avatar type 3D graphics.
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| Author: | Timberwolf [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
I think of TW fighters as unmanned kamikaze fighters. Send them out to an opponent's ship to collide with their fighters - and themselves in the process. |
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| Author: | Mongoose [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
Micro wrote: TradeWars fighters are considered to be unmanned, so they could be even smaller than that. I wish I could find a link to that TV show or article or whatever it was that gave me the idea of fighters as swarms of tiny smart bombs. It made a lot of sense as a prediction of what space warfare might actually be like, and fits perfectly with TradeWars. In ship-to-ship combat, the target launches its own fighters as a form of explosive reactive armor. And fighters get used up even against targets that don't fight back, like colonists. |
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| Author: | Big D [ Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you think fighters look like? |
If all this is true, then they shouldn't even be called fighters because they don't actually fight. They really are missiles instead. |
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