Re: Move to Polaris Codebase
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 7:24 am
ArgobargSoup wrote:Well, if ya enjoyed remodeling and stuff, take a look at all that delicious empty space in the asteroid. Borrow a pick from minin' and ya got quite a lot of space ta hollow out and make new rooms in.
That's all well and good, but explicitly relies not only on there being miners on board, but also on them being willing to lend you THEIR tools, on you having to go to another department altogether just to do something covered by your own department, on you drilling into a depressurised, oxygen-free environment in order to construct at all, and on the CE being active and providing his blueprints so the room can be officially assigned and the atmosphere system won't break. You wouldn't get those issues with existing abandonned rooms, like our current ones!
ArgobargSoup wrote:So you'd rather run all the way ta the back of engineerin' ta fetch a suit ta fix a breach elsewhere in the station?
Fair point
ArgobargSoup wrote:"Artificial satellite" and lore implications... would hollowin' out an asteroid, buildin' in it, and draggin' it into the orbit occupied by the previous station count as an artificial satellite? And the VORE part of the name stands fer "Virgo Orbital Research Establishment". Asteroid's still orbitin'. We're stationed on it.
As an astronomy student, I can think of all sorts of reasons why that wouldn't work An asteroid is far more dense than a space station, for instance. Just placing it in the same location as the current station is a great way to destroy all life on the planet below as the asteroid hurtles down and collides with it! The increased mass requires the asteroid be placed in a much more distant orbit, and even then needs to be accelerated around the planet to even begin orbitting in the first place. Why go to the effort of dragging a huge asteroid into a distant planetary orbit and propelling it around said planet when it'd be so much cheaper to just continue making space stations? And if we're orbitting so much more distantly, or even no longer orbitting the planet at all, what's our lore then? Presumably (and from memory) there was a specific reason we were put in orbit around that planet. Now we're not. So what're we doing there?
ArgobargSoup wrote:I'm lookin' at the map fer the current station and I'd like ta point at the pretty much walled-in engineering shuttle. Not enough space fer it ta maneuver in from any direction other than vertically.
Eh. I almost never use our current shuttles except the cargo, escape and mining shuttles. So what if the issue exists in our current map? It doesn't change the issue, or the fact that it looks wrong to me
Dhael did a pretty good job of explaining what I feel is wrong with the size of the map.
Apologies that I can't respond with a few paragraphs of my own, Arbon, but what you've said makes sense.
Ace, see the big paragraph above for the implications of moving to an asteroid base rather than continuing as a space station. Suffice to say, changing the name would be the least of our worries!