Physics

I believe the staff should hire a coder who is quite in tune with physics. Most of us are aware that star wars Physics are constantly breaking many scientific laws and its just unrealistic. I’ll give an example or two, both have to do with space, no ship should have a maximum speed, in space there is no maximum speed, if you had enough fuel you could constantly accelerate untill you reached light-speed. Also big ships and small ships should move equally as fast, of course smaller ships can accelerate faster because of less mass but both big and small ships could go equally the same speed. Currently IG all capitals crawl, and every ship can only go so fast, while in our world and time we can go thousands of km’s a second.

Just my two cents.

LotJ is a game not a simulator.

Lotj is meant for RP, rp requires -realism-.

First off, watch basically anything animated and made in japan(half the video games in existance, anime, etc) or even a lot of American stuff, then realize that physics is not relavent in most forms of entertainment.

If you disagree with the first, then, assuming its still around as opposed to being eliminated by LucasArts for charging money for bonuses, go play SWC for a while and see if you want realistic physics in a star wars game. Namely, an hour or so to walk across a big city (realistic), hours or more to cross a single system(realistic at the sort of speeds star wars would be at, and much faster than current tech can do), and days or weeks to go between systems (same as last, and also definatly canonical as far as star wars is concerned). Still want realism? Then go play around with the piloting system of a freeware non-starwars game called vegastrike, especially WITHOUT using the akey or especially the f9-timedistortion as they are admitted by developers as debug-crutches to the system, and see if you like realistic physics in space as you get anally raped by gravity wells of objects in space.

Or, you could agree with the first point and acknowledge realism is not always good, especially for non-modern-realism settings.

How do you know StarWars Universe didn’t have technology to keep their speed limited, huh?

Going on Realism, let’s do this.

1) Remove gamorreans, Wookiees, Bothans, Jawa..In fact, remove everything but "Humans". In the real world, only humans exist as the only sentient beings.
2) Remove "Force", who in the real world has theability to shoot lightning out the tips of their fingers, or heal wounds miraculously, or hell, twist an imaginary force to do their bidding.
3) Remove hp. How many times do you get stabbed with a sword/knife and shot with a gun and still keep standing to fight, or let alone breath and live?
(Hint: It ain’t 10-30 time.)
4) Remove the restore process. How many people in real life do you see coming back to life? Zero, even if their killer never met them.
5) Remove space travel. There are no other inhabitable planets to support life.

I have more, but I’m done being an ass.

Okay gathorn I’ll answer your questions.

First off why would anyone in the star wars universe want to go slow? espically from a military standpoint speed in a capital ship would be great.

1. We haven’t explored 1% of the universe we have no idea what other sentient life is out there. Maybe in 5000-10000 years we will be a lot further along and meet other races. Realistically all the races IG are fine.

2. So far we haven’t fully explored the capability’s of the human mind maybe in 10000 years will have some sort of telekinetic abilities.

3. OH GOD FOR THE LIFE OF ME PLEASE REMOVE HP. its stupid as hell you get shot in the head and take blah blah blah amount of damage and survive. Adopt a wound based system you get shot in the arm you have some blaster burns or your arm is practically shot off. Maybe the amount of random shootings will go down.

4. Sure remove the restore process it takes weeks on end to get back a dead alt even when it was clearly killed illegally, just enforce punishment on those who kill illegally, I’ve lost so many PC’s by random killings and deaths the restore system hasn’t done much for me.

5. Refer to question #1 we’ve barely scratched the surface of whats out there, chances are we’ll find an habitable planet soon, maybe not able to get there for many years till space travel improves but its fine.

So Gathorn try not saying stupid things while drunk.

PS: Venengo that Vegastrike is pretty neat they just need to get there online server running and it will be lots of fun.

ITS A FUCKING GAME, GET OVER IT. You want that much realism and rp go play a mush or forum fuuuck.

The entire idea of making LotJ have "realistic physics, realistic wounds, realistic buttplugs" and what the hell you were listing there is just stupid. I have to agree with Flek saying: It’s a game, get over it because he’s absolutely right. Would anyone ever have bought pong if the god damn ball just fell on the bottom wall? Answer: NO. They bought it because the idea was cool and it was something different. The entire point of this metaphor or something (eitherway, it sucked) is that the reason why people play games is that they get to join their own world without the laws etc. of real life. Also, not only is this a game that basically is the "own world" but it’s a MUD as well. To me, MUDs have always been about imagination and the ability to create something that does not exist anywhere else.

Then to move on, putting in these "physics" and no HP system would allow certain players to go on a killingspree any time they wanted. Since there’s no restore system anymore either, they’d just kill off the good combatants and rule the game with their twink chars. Yes, I think that your proposal could be interpreted as a desperate request for twinkery.

And now, without further ado, I speak my mind. This idea is an unnecessary, time consuming and a good excuse for a rant. Don’t fix it unless it’s broken.

I disagree with everything you say, absolutely everything and honestly too.

A) 80% of the mud are NOT twinks, they just know how to combat. You can’t call them twinks for killing you.

"the main reason twinks will run from a fight doing a, e e e e s s hail spaceport, is because they know that there attacker wont a few emotes first and the second they fire you’ll be unconscious and soon dead" It may be just me and my nonenglish heritage, but that didn’t make any sense. Twinks don’t run from a fight, they pick a fight with everyone just because they can.

C) And no, none of your stuff makes sense like you claim it does. The reason your ideas get shot down is because they DO benefit twinks. We obviously don’t share the same point of view when it comes to defining term ‘twink’.

And finally, it would help me correct your statements if you used ‘their’ instead of ‘there’.

This thread is getting ridiculous, and nothing good is going to come from it.

This forum is reserved for the use of LotJ’s players to discuss ideas and talk about whatever topic they see fit.

By the way, that is an AWFUL definition of a twink. By that definition, getting restored because you were blown up by pirates is "twink".