Karoka

I thought the Sun revolves around the Earth because the Sun is made of fire and gas...and a bunch of other stuff. I thought that since it has no mantle and surface, it can't produce a magnetic field. Isn't it just a big ball of fire and gas? Then the Sun should revolve around the Earth. Unless dang Jupiter wins the gravity fight. (I'm working on what little I know about the solar system, so please don't think I'm an idiot. Thanks.) I also thought the Big Bang was just a loud noise someone made that annoyed Mr. Creator (or Ms./Mrs., for all we know.) and he accidentally drew a line in the Paper of Existence, thus the beginning of the universe, space, and matter. And don't forget the pizza.

Originally Posted By: Frozen Feet I recall reading a Finnish sci-fi short story with the same premise. In it, they had a ramjet fusion engine that allowed them to get near lightspeed; abusing time dilation, they traveled to the end of the universe, and survived the turn of the cycle to return to Earth. They got back just moments after next permutation of their ship was launched. Unfortunately, the ancient engine of their ship called it quits and blew up, so they all died. The story is told from PoV of investigators browsing through the ship's logs... What's the story called and where can I get it??? If it's not in English, never mind. And if Finnish is English, then slap me and tell!

Originally Posted By: null Originally Posted By: Karoka Wow...this thread went from a temporary UBB mess-up to randomness, then to the universe, then to some other thing I forgot about, then back to the universe, and now books. What an accomplishment! It's the SW way. If you're commenting on it, it prolly means you forgot to leave your sanity at the door. -Sees that I still have sanity- Oh yeah...forgot about that. -Takes off sanity and puts it at the door- Taken care of...wait...where am I? Who are you? Why do you look like me? -gasp- What was that?! A spider! Hi! Spider: Hello!

Wow...this thread went from a temporary UBB mess-up to randomness, then to the universe, then to some other thing I forgot about, then back to the universe, and now books. What an accomplishment!

Originally Posted By: Kynjaka So now we can make an entire planet! Or two! That's impossible with a human attention span. I've tried making a scenario with 10x10 outdoors, and failed...twenty times. Originally Posted By: Kynjaka -Kynjaka, who is always insane. Yes, yes you are.

Originally Posted By: Old Thrashbarg It's even worse in Manila. I've actually been to Manila before. That's back when I called it 'Vanilla'. I also went to Samar, my mom's birthplace. When I was there, someone yelled at me "I'm sexier than you!" How jealous.

While we're on the subject of the universe, let's talk about constellations. What...the...frick. How on Earth are you supposed to see that in the sky? Where I live, all I see at night is the moon, the north star, and airplanes. I found a book about constellations, and that's is where I got the idea from. All I saw was a bunch of scattered pictures, and the picture didn't really resemble the stars that were supposedly constellations. Word of the day: Frick

Is the universe infinite? We can't say unless we can grasp the concept of infinity. Let me help you with that: "The mass of the earth is 5,980,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grams. There are 133,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in Earth. Pi is 3 followed by a decimal of over 52,000,000 digits. From Zimbabwe comes a 100,000,000,000,000 dollar note. In late 2008, with that nation battered with inflation, it was worth about $1.50 in U.S. The fastest super-computer has a rate of 20,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second. You'll have to run it about a day and a half, for it to equal all the grains of sand on all the world's beaches. That's about 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's roughly the amount of stars n the visible universe. Atoms in the visible universe? That's about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00,000,000,000,000,000,000 Cubic centimeters? A mere 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Then there's the largest number ever used. Grahams numbers is a calculation of angles in a type of hypercube. If you divide the universe into the smallest units known, called plank volumes, the total of those units wouldn't get you anywhere close to Grahams number. But its still nowhere close to the ultimate ceiling, infinity." - That guy that narrated . So, is the universe infinite?

I think they already decided to change this, but I'm probably wrong like I always am. I know that by CBoE 05.02.2011 the web thing was somewhat changed. If a single character that's active has webs that reduce their AP to 0, then the whole party will become active. I don't remember it that well, I'll need to check it again. One thing: Webs driving you down to 0 AP is pretty realistic. I mean, if a giant spider tossed hundreds of webs at you without you having enough time to take them off, wouldn't you be stuck? And I'm talking fresh webs, not the old dusty kind that you can see. Hmmm...Maybe after x amount of moves, the level of webs affecting you can go down by 1. This would have the effect of dust gathering onto the webs and making them have a weaker hold on you. Too much?

I couldn't sleep last night, so wrote a list of ideas that just came to my mind. Here they are: -Flip/Rotate Terrain -Unlimited items in town -99 Special Items instead of 49 -Items that could be pushed (sounds complicated) -Items that could be USED when in a certain place (sounds really complicated) -Item Type- Gun -Item Type- Bullets -Play more than 1 special at a time -Custom monster species (# in editor, actual name when playing) -Custom town size -Change item abilities (Take out Prot. from Humanoids, Lizard Slayer and the like with some way to specify species #) -More room for special nodes -Higher stat limits I'm a little unsure about some of these, and some were probably already mentioned before, but this is just what my sleepless self made. There were two more, but I couldn't read with all the drool there...

How about allowing the designer to choose more than one ability for monsters? When an ability is selected, the one the was selected before becomes deselected. Maybe we can eliminate the first 'No special ability' and let the designer just select and deselect abilities himself.

In that case we can replace the attack type with a way to specify the sound when the monster attacks.

Instead of having the sound of a monster attacking be determined by the Monster type, it should be determined by the attack type. Having important characters swing a sword sounding like a sting (or harm, I dunno which)is a little confusing. Also, I think the attacks should be a little more clarified, something like this: Swings: Edged/Hits Swings: Pole Swings: Bashing/Punches Punches Claws Bites Slimes Stings Clubs Burns Harms Stabs