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Offline gamer Mac

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Re: VSF boarding actions
« Reply #30 on: March 18, 2015, 12:26:51 AM »
A flick of a finger from a distance and there is a hole in your enemy's suit with not danger to yourself.
Just what guns were made for.

Offline Mason

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Re: VSF boarding actions
« Reply #31 on: March 18, 2015, 08:05:46 AM »
A flick of a finger from a distance and there is a hole in your enemy's suit with not danger to yourself.
Just what guns were made for.

Firing a gun in zero gravity could be very interesting, though.
 ;)


Offline Thunderchicken

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Re: VSF boarding actions
« Reply #32 on: March 18, 2015, 09:55:56 AM »
Quick question before I postulate (yes, I now you can get cream for that), are your boarding actions going to be in zero gravity, some gravity, normal gravity or all types?   
Don't!

Offline Sterling Moose

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Re: VSF boarding actions
« Reply #33 on: March 18, 2015, 09:57:42 AM »
There is only gravity in VSF.  Can't have any of that floating around nonsense, that's very unBritish!!
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Offline Malamute

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Re: VSF boarding actions
« Reply #34 on: March 18, 2015, 10:16:19 AM »
There is only gravity in VSF.  Can't have any of that floating around nonsense, that's very unBritish!!

Seconded! ;)
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Offline gamer Mac

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Re: VSF boarding actions
« Reply #35 on: March 18, 2015, 10:46:12 AM »
Firing a gun in zero gravity could be very interesting, though.
 ;)


Steam ships flying through space and you are wondering if a gun would fire in a vacum and zero gravity?
Are you mad  lol lol lol

Offline Mason

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Re: VSF boarding actions
« Reply #36 on: March 18, 2015, 11:55:59 AM »
Are you mad  lol lol lol

Of course.
I wouldn't engage in conversation with you lot otherwise, would I?
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Offline Thunderchicken

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Re: VSF boarding actions
« Reply #37 on: March 18, 2015, 02:21:52 PM »
There is only gravity in VSF.  Can't have any of that floating around nonsense, that's very unBritish!!

Same here, but wondered what Dave's intentions are.

The divers suite work for me with modified weapons, the closer the range the more fun.

In my opinion there's two ways of looking at VSF. There's the romantic view which follows the ethos of the Victorian fiction writers: an enviable naivety of things such as the atmospheres on other worlds coupled with their predictions of how contemporary technology could be adapted. Some even predicted giant beasties lived in our own stratosphere until it was proven otherwise. This is my kind of VSF, where you can pretty much get away with anything because it's still 1888 and anything goes.

Then there's imposing 21st century values and knowledge on to VSF. Not necessarily a bad thing but not my thing. I get slightly irked when I'm told this contraption wont work because of this or that. I know, but I don't care. I hasten to add I'm not having a pop at anyone, just sharing my perspective.

Not sure what relevance this has to the post other than I would say put yourself in the mind set of one of the great Victorian writers who inspire us VSFers so much and go for it. What would they think up with the knowledge they had at the time? Keep it simple I say .......that's pretty much what most of us do anyway (saves time, effort and money  lol).


Oh and don't forget the rivets......






            

 

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