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Posted By: Hamish Sinclair | Date: 5/19/01 8:16 a.m. | |
In Response To: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! (Still Thinking) : It's all over the marathon. It takes a real idiot to fill up a spacecraft
Marathon's ship design was a frequent topic of discussion on Usenet back in '94 and '95. Here's one post I dug up. Re: Ship design, was: Marathon II suggestions
Scott_Baltic@troubbs.org (Scott Baltic) writes: >... while both technology and concepts of what constitutes "good design"
I keep bringing this up, but how does a switch 20 ft up on the wall constitute "good design?" If the only way to trigger it is to lob a *grenade* or fire a few *terawatts* at it... Same for the switches that are dug in so deep into the wall you need a fusion blast to trigger it. Triggering a switch with a gunblast isn't necessarily bad, as long as one can see how the switches could be reached otherwise, and the shooting from a distance is done out of convenience or necessity. In Dark Forces, you can shoot through a window to activate a switch in a security room so you can get through another door. However, those switches can be easily operated by the Imperial soldiers at human height level. Enter Marathon. In the room with 7 platforms, the switch that raises the middle platform must be at least 20 ft up on the wall. Pray tell, how does a normal person under normal circumstances without a weapon activate that switch? -- Keith Rhee A boss says "Go." -- A leader says "Let's go." |
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Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | Still Thinking | 5/18/01 4:15 p.m. | |
Re: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | Siva | 5/18/01 10:03 p.m. | |
Me Me I would! | Yossarian | 5/19/01 6:39 a.m. | |
Grain of salt, people | Alfred Mordeir | 5/21/01 10:44 a.m. | |
Re: Grain of salt, people | Alexander Strange | 5/21/01 11:58 a.m. | |
Re: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | Hamish Sinclair | 5/19/01 8:16 a.m. | |
There are good reasons | The Tiny Toad | 5/19/01 8:29 a.m. | |
Re: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | Tru7h Seeker | 5/19/01 9:24 a.m. | |
Re: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | EUPFHORIC BOB ->Andre Kopp | 5/19/01 10:04 a.m. | |
Re: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | Mark Levin | 5/19/01 10:03 a.m. | |
Re: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | Thoth Wannabe | 5/19/01 10:11 a.m. | |
Re: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | Andrew Nagy | 5/19/01 2:32 p.m. | |
Re: Who the hell would put lava on a spaceship?! | archon | 5/20/01 9:51 a.m. | |
Ya, PID *NM* | Still Thinking | 5/21/01 7:03 a.m. |
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