Re: Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

[Doug Evans <devans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Tailby wrote on 11/23/2005 06:19:44 PM:

> When I made my comments about equatorial landing zones I
> made the assumption that the landing craft would be a more
> advanced version of the space shuttle. If the landing
> craft have full antigrav then they could land straight down.

The planet assault campaign map I showed Nyrath was a series of orbits,
with the closest, 'insertion' circle as geosync, and was over the equator.
I did this to simplify game mechanics, but PS(ocialogical)B'd it as strict
operational ROE's(more appropriate term?). Approaching combatant craft,
though I assumed all space vehicles for safety issues, were required to
maintain equitorial orbits to reduce collateral damage.

Nicely, this gave me a two dimensional map. ;->=

Note, this was assumed to be within the Tufflyverse implied stepped level
of violence; core worlds, no war, inner colonies for the map above,
'gentlemen's conflicts', and outer colonies, 'wild west'.

Winchell, the few attempts at populating the world map had an undeveloped
equatorial strip, that was assumed left for safe 'landing'.

The_Beast

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