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SV: Real Real Real Thrust (Was: Re: Lunar combat )

From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@n...>
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 21:58:44 +0200
Subject: SV: Real Real Real Thrust (Was: Re: Lunar combat )

Alun Thomas wrote:

> Mikko Kurki-Suonio <maxxon@swob.dna.fi> wrote:

> > Perhaps, but my experience suggests that finding players for
> > proper-physics *anything* is nigh impossible. They either hate the
> > calculus, or they hate not being in control (which comes out of not
doing
> > the calculus). A fully computerized game with simply controls (like
> > Asteroids) might be popular just for laughs...
> 
> Calculus ? As in differentiation and integration ?

Yep. That's what you get if you want proper-physics instead of
approximated-physics.

Oerjan Ohlson

"Life is like a sewer.
What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
- Hen3ry

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