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[Someone With Mass]

Lotion Soronnar wrote...

Energy is not an issue for ME frigates.

Yes, it is. Contrary to popular belief, those ships have a limited power output and supply.

Lotion Soronnar wrote... 

And what if those ME fields goes offline? Then your "ship" goes down like the brick it is.

What if you engines die? What if your wings fall off?

Stupid question is stupid.

No, it isn't. You just don't have anything better to come up with.

If the mass effect field generators fail because of an overload or any other kind of damage, the engines can still provide thrust. And that's where a aerodynamic design would be optimal, because it'd be less of a stress on the engines if the friction and air resistance is minimal.

Not to mention that they're turning off their kinetic barriers during the reentry to not waste energy.

The military is trying to design their stuff to not fail completely because of one mistake/damage/flaw, you know.

[Lotion Soronarr]

[quote]Someone With Mass wrote...

[quote]Lotion Soronnar wrote...

Energy is not an issue for ME frigates.
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Yes, it is. Contrary to popular belief, those ships have a limited power output and supply.[/qutoe]

Yet the have more than enough to easily land on planets and hover.
Which renders your point pointless.

You don't design starships for atmosphere combat just because they can land on planets anymore you don't design ariplanes for combat on ground just because they can land and have wheels.



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[quote]Lotion Soronnar wrote... 
[quote]
And what if those ME fields goes offline? Then your "ship" goes down like the brick it is.
[/quote]

What if you engines die? What if your wings fall off?

Stupid question is stupid.

[/quote]

No, it isn't. You just don't have anything better to come up with.

If the mass effect field generators fail because of an overload or any other kind of damage, the engines can still provide thrust. And that's where a aerodynamic design would be optimal, because it'd be less of a stress on the engines if the friction and air resistance is minimal.

Not to mention that they're turning off their kinetic barriers during the reentry to not waste energy.

The military is trying to design their stuff to not fail completely because of one mistake/damage/flaw, you know.[/quote]

Yes, yes it is very stupid. Everyting can fail or be damaged.

And aerodynamic design won't help with ships that large. Normady makes the Airbus looks tiny in comparison. If you were hovering and the ME field fails, aerodynamic design won't help you anyway, since you have to BUILD UP speed.

Also, the reason for turning off kinetic barriers is not mentioned IIRC.

But I guess the military likes to waste tons of money and adds unnecessary things that compromise hte primary purpose of a fgihting veichle, no?

[Abraham_uk]

Captain_Obvious_au wrote...

In another topic, Terror_K noted that breathing masks are back instead of full helmets. Kinda reminds me of seeing people riding motorbikes wearing a helmet, singlet, and shorts, but moving along...

Chris Preistly stated that

We like the breathing masks as evident by them returning. Terror
doesn't, which is fine, but they aren't going to change. There are
elements in ME that are not 100% science. These are done because teh
team likes the way they look or work in ME. While not 100% good science,
we feel they make for good game.

So... deal with it

I was wondering then, how do people on the forums feel about breathing masks or helmets?

Vote here

EDIT: actually called the topic 'Beathing Masks'...

EDIT2: Poll with four options instead of two here

There was once a time when this thread was about breathing masks.

Then there was discussion about Starwars, then Mass Effect fields and then other stuff.
I guess the topic got a little old.

Modifié par Abraham_uk, 03 janvier 2012 - 08:15 .

[Iakus]

Meh it's because people are trying to say space magic is a precedent for "anything goes" if Star Wars says it's okay, then it must be fine for Mass Effect. Mass Effect fields are preposterous, so what' wrong with a breather mask?

[In Exile]

iakus wrote...

Meh it's because people are trying to say space magic is a precedent for "anything goes" if Star Wars says it's okay, then it must be fine for Mass Effect. Mass Effect fields are preposterous, so what' wrong with a breather mask?

It's not that. It's that there's no consistency in the series. It's all rule-of-cool. It's not hard sci fi. That's what had starting with ME1, and suddenly what was cool switched, and there was an uproar. My response, at least, has to do with people trying to make it about the science and not about preference.

[Chris Priestly]

Now well off topic and closed.



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