tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439795201599980007.post6957510674659078408..comments2016-02-25T07:40:29.477-06:00Comments on Thornwood-Daarnulud Institute: [T5 ATU] Career: DiversCraig A. Glesnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06696516342754954732noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439795201599980007.post-20238283147826755382012-05-25T18:27:12.293-05:002012-05-25T18:27:12.293-05:00It wasn't a good call, just hanging out and wa...It wasn't a good call, just hanging out and watching them run folks off. They can be butt munches. Marc on the other hand is a pretty cool dude. <br /><br />As for Dumps, oh yeah, high tech dungeon crawls are for sure possible. I like the non-Euclidian passages.Craig A. Glesnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696516342754954732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439795201599980007.post-74763252749889650852012-05-25T06:56:32.928-05:002012-05-25T06:56:32.928-05:00Heehee, good call on Whipsnade. I am unaware of an...Heehee, good call on Whipsnade. I am unaware of any positive contribution he has made, or if he even actually plays anymore (the same can be said for a lot of us) but his pomposity and arrogance were/are astonishing. <br /><br />Some years ago, I started helping Beech out with his <i>BurrowWolf</i> webcomic as he had got stuck, story-wise. We got it moving and he put some pages up and then announced it on COTI. Whipsnade and his pilotfish basically crapped all over it - accused the writer (me) of stealing ideas from Battle Star Galactica (which is rather difficult as I watched the 70's/80's series but not the reboot) and the artist (Beech) of "inaccurately showing ships manoeuvring in space" and so "was not Traveller". It was at that point I decided that I couldn't be bothered with blowhards.<br /><br />Funny thing is that Don McKinney later told Beech that Marc Miller quite enjoyed the BurrowWolf pages he had seen. Hope he follows it in the Freelance Traveller webzine.<br /><br />Just thinking about exploring a dumpsite - wow! You could really run a haunted house/Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom type game as the players push deeper into the strange structure of the Dump. It could even use non-Euclid type geometry (like the film Labyrinth) if built by a sufficiently high tech Precursor Empire. Passageways that fold back on themselves in the presence of containment fields design to prevent quantum devices leaking out.<br /><br />Oooh, fun!Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14192928573798426693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439795201599980007.post-51739620589980256802012-05-24T18:47:22.686-05:002012-05-24T18:47:22.686-05:00I am going to go with Ranke2 and Whipsnade. They a...I am going to go with Ranke2 and Whipsnade. They are pretty much the resident ass munch know it alls that talk down to noobs and mods alike. Too bad, CotI it is a pretty cool place, aside the aforementioned Ranke2 and Whipsnade. <br /><br />You got it with the Deep/Safe Storage concept. As my Patron at Court put it: "I think the idea is terribly wonderful. It makes me think of eternal caches of archaeological wonders and horrors."<br /><br />Which also does a good job describing Dumps.Craig A. Glesnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696516342754954732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439795201599980007.post-22950328744043605442012-05-23T23:51:44.148-05:002012-05-23T23:51:44.148-05:00I don't do COTI anymore - had a bad experience...I don't do COTI anymore - had a bad experience with a resident "expert" a few years ago and decided I didn't need the aggrevation.<br /><br />Pity the time scale is so short as David Brin's fallow world idea from the Uplift series would fit nicely with what you're describing as a Dump.<br /><br />Perhaps the Dumps are more along the lines of Deep or Safe Storage - hard to get in and out of - rather than the complete destruction in a star and the idea still works, and has some logic in it's favour as the moral qualms, for example, that persuaded a civilization to get rid of nuclear weapons to prevent nuclear war may prove outdated when the alien brain eater fleet suddenly shows up to conquer the planet. Being able to pull some H-Bombs out of Deep Storage way ensure your civilization is still around to hand-wring about it later. ;)<br /><br />DavidDavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14192928573798426693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439795201599980007.post-63212006239599467002012-05-22T01:21:50.262-05:002012-05-22T01:21:50.262-05:00You are either the second person to dig the concep...You are either the second person to dig the concept or you have a different handle on CotI. Either way is good to have feedback. <br /><br />I tend toward gravity wells and worlds, stars can't be mined later, so it is spaces and places that can hypothetically be reached by a Diver. Though perhaps just over the edge of black holes might be possible, but then there is the chance of total loss which goes against the meme of the Dumps. I also lean toward them being very heavily shielded with various Screens and lots of IDDF destroying the harmful things that occasionally escape. So yeah, heavy worlds, perhaps gas giants and secondary, barren worlds are prime candidates for a Dump.Craig A. Glesnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696516342754954732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439795201599980007.post-71794950614721236132012-05-22T01:10:09.241-05:002012-05-22T01:10:09.241-05:00I like the idea of Dumps, and Dumpster Divers - do...I like the idea of Dumps, and Dumpster Divers - do you imagine dumps being on planets, in deep space or in stars?<br /><br />I'm thinking that if I've made some Grey Goo and wanted to dump it, tossing it into a star might be safer than leaving it lying around on a rock; likewise Nasty Weapons and AM Creators. <br /><br />Now, there might be a good reason why folks in YTU don't dump in stars, so there might be a case for dumping at the bottom of a steep gravity well for keeping stuff in - like a gas giant or massive sub giant - which means your divers will have somewhere to dive!<br /><br />I can see Divers being tasked by the MoJ to retrieve suspected evidence from a Dump.<br /><br />Interesting career.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14192928573798426693noreply@blogger.com