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« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2006, 03:51:30 PM » |
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If even a pea-sized asteroid were to shoot through my head, it might hurt slightly. ...oh, really? |
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« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2006, 04:05:24 PM » |
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Perhaps something like an Asteroid would be a "disaster" and there would be a option to disable it for those who dont want random events, although that wasn't the system used in SimCity 4 it was used in all the previous Sim games.
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« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2006, 04:09:36 PM » |
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I don't know. I really doubt (and hope) that they won't have a disaster option in the game. It just seems to me as if Maxis is starting out on a new "path" thingie. I think they're going to try to break away from their old way of doing things, and make a completely revolutionary game. Like, you can tell it's made by Maxis, but it's also not a Maxis stereotype.
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« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2006, 04:16:01 PM » |
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I think they're going to try to break away from their old way of doing things, and make a completely revolutionary game. Like, you can tell it's made by Maxis, but it's also not a Maxis stereotype.
True, but I can't see them making a game like this without random events. As if Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Pollution etc etc don't occur on our planet. |
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« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2006, 08:45:34 PM » |
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How's this for a random event? Your planet was hit by a meteor. All life is annihilated instantly.
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« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2006, 06:37:24 AM » |
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Technically, if you were on the planet and you could see an incoming asteroid you'd have like a few seconds, tops, before KABOOM. You'd see a star growing very bright, very big, very quickly and thats the end. Think of the speeds involved and the tiny distances. You'd not be able to see the asteroid when it is out of the atmosphere because it wouldn't be seeable through the blue sky (or whaetever colour sky your planet has) because it wouldn't reflect enough light. When it is entering the atmosphere you'd see it because of the "heating up/air reistance" thing, but of course by then it would be too late.
True, unless of course, your civilization has developed telescopes or an early-warning system. A land based telescope wouldn't work very well because of the blue sky (assuming it's day of course) and the fact that you'd have to have hundreds of Willosaurs scanning the sky every moment of every day. An early warning system would only be possible in the spacefaring stage, so by then you have nothing to worry about anyway. |
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« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2006, 08:47:11 AM » |
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A land based telescope wouldn't work very well because of the blue sky (assuming it's day of course) and the fact that you'd have to have hundreds of Willosaurs scanning the sky every moment of every day. An early warning system would only be possible in the spacefaring stage, so by then you have nothing to worry about anyway.
I'm sure we've charted the course of carious comets/metors and things, centuries before we even had space travel. Even now, if there were to be a huge meteor heading for earth... I'd be scared. I mean, I know we can travel to space, but I doubt there'd be room for me on the rocket. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode. |
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« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2006, 09:32:18 AM » |
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If even a pea-sized asteroid were to shoot through my head, it might hurt slightly. ...oh, really? Your suffering from not watching enough Futurama. The Cure for this to watch Futurama. (The episode "Godfellas" to be exact) |
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« Reply #23 on: April 20, 2006, 02:06:31 PM » |
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I think that I want my planet to be under metorite attack. Just think trying to shoot all them odwna nd hitting the alarm to either fly out into space or into bunkers.
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« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2006, 09:19:43 PM » |
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Even now, if there were to be a huge meteor heading for earth... I'd be scared. I mean, I know we can travel to space, but I doubt there'd be room for me on the rocket. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode.
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« Reply #25 on: April 21, 2006, 01:29:44 AM » |
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Even now, if there were to be a huge meteor heading for earth... I'd be scared. I mean, I know we can travel to space, but I doubt there'd be room for me on the rocket. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode.
yes... and the only thing to get destroyed on the whole planet was the bomb shelter Haha, I think that might be a different episode to the one I'm thinking of, though I'm sure I've seen that one too. The one I was thinking of was where Bart and Homer snuck onto a rocket they thought was filled with great people of our time, to save them from the disaster, but it wasn't and was headed for the sun. |
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« Reply #26 on: April 21, 2006, 07:15:10 AM » |
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Even now, if there were to be a huge meteor heading for earth... I'd be scared. I mean, I know we can travel to space, but I doubt there'd be room for me on the rocket. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode.
yes... and the only thing to get destroyed on the whole planet was the bomb shelter Haha, I think that might be a different episode to the one I'm thinking of, though I'm sure I've seen that one too. The one I was thinking of was where Bart and Homer snuck onto a rocket they thought was filled with great people of our time, to save them from the disaster, but it wasn't and was headed for the sun. I think the Futurama quote was probably a spoof of the Simpson's one considering they were made by the same person. |
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