Razor's Edge Cooperative [PMT/SignUps/OOC]

[Empire of Donner land]

For example, Alt-Donnerland might be full of Cybervikings wielding giant lighting hammers. Or something.

Oh.
In that case I'll just go to Greenland and be a super Isolationistic nation of Monks.

[Vistora]

For example, Alt-Donnerland might be full of Cybervikings wielding giant lighting hammers. Or something.

Oh.
In that case I'll just go to Greenland and be a super Isolationistic nation of Monks.

That'll work.

[Vistora]

Heh. If I remember correctly, that's meant to be the technology behind DXHR's Icarus Landing System, one I do enjoy exploiting in my Makinaverse nation.

On another note, has anybody started forming ideas about what their Alt-Vistoraverse nation will be?

If I were to build another canon (may or may not happen as it stands I need to put about 500-600 more hours at least into my own canon), I would probably be some sort of advanced super city state centered around Manhattan.

Alright then. However, if somebody else wants a chunk out of America as well, you'll have to find some way to compromise.

Yes, we are on Earth. And you can be ludicrous yugo. Just give them some unique, defining feature.

Is psychoacoustics a good idea

Sure. What was that again?

Also can I be jugo and chile at the same time

not much space to produce shit in balkans

Will they be different nations?

[Post War America]

Or or, Cybervikings... because cybervikings are awesome.

[Vistora]

At first, I was genuinely worried that I'd have an issue with massive continental empires. I see now that the opposite is in effect.

[Empire of Donner land]

Or or, Cybervikings... because cybervikings are awesome.

Yeah I'm going with Cybervikings. They seem cool as fuck...

Monks are lame...

But I'm totally having Cyberviking monks...

[Singaporean Transhumans]

Is psychoacoustics a good idea

Sure. What was that again?

Sounds specifically engineered to trigger certain reactions, physically or psychologically, in people. Bedem used it a lot

Also can I be jugo and chile at the same time

not much space to produce shit in balkans

Will they be different nations?

A cooperation pact

[Vistora]

Sure. What was that again?

Sounds specifically engineered to trigger certain reactions, physically or psychologically, in people. Bedem used it a lot

Aha. Brown notes, got it.

Will they be different nations?

A cooperation pact

Okay then. Not really sure about the reasons why, but sure.

[Empire of Donner land]

Sounds specifically engineered to trigger certain reactions, physically or psychologically, in people. Bedem used it a lot

Aha. Brown notes, got it.

A cooperation pact

Okay then. Not really sure about the reasons why, but sure.

I watched Myth Busters. I don't think the brown note works

[Vistora]

Aha. Brown notes, got it.



Okay then. Not really sure about the reasons why, but sure.

I watched Myth Busters. I don't think the brown note works

*disappointment*

[Cumberlanda]

psychoacoustics r reel m8

anyway, what is the status of cybernetics in alt-vistora?

How much can one human go in the path of mental augmentations?

Because a psychotic cult of augs controlled by a rogue AI in the hills of Appalachia sounds like the same shit i hash out all the time right up my alley

[Exoatmospheric Britannia]

Unless by "hover", one is referring to the air cushions used by hovercraft, I'm going to reaffirm my stance that known science does not support even the possibility of hovertanks, unless said tanks are moving along a pre-constructed route or perhaps using a reaction engine of some sort (vertical jets, basically).

A few months ago I came up with an alternative to hover tanks that to my knowledge is completely feasible. It involves sticking several hundred/thousand tiny mechanical legs on the underside of the vehicle instead of wheels or tracks. That way, it can "glide" over difficult terrain without breaking any laws of physics. And turn around an awful sight better than a tracked vehicle.

[Cumberlanda]

Unless by "hover", one is referring to the air cushions used by hovercraft, I'm going to reaffirm my stance that known science does not support even the possibility of hovertanks, unless said tanks are moving along a pre-constructed route or perhaps using a reaction engine of some sort (vertical jets, basically).

A few months ago I came up with an alternative to hover tanks that to my knowledge is completely feasible. It involves sticking several hundred/thousand tiny mechanical legs on the underside of the vehicle instead of wheels or tracks. That way, it can "glide" over difficult terrain without breaking any laws of physics. And turn around an awful sight better than a tracked vehicle.

Millipede tank confirm

[Vistora]

psychoacoustics r reel m8

anyway, what is the status of cybernetics in alt-vistora?

How much can one human go in the path of mental augmentations?

Because a psychotic cult of augs controlled by a rogue AI in the hills of Appalachia sounds like the same shit i hash out all the time right up my alley

>Does it make you a god and/or OP?

>Yes - kalm down m8

>No - ur good

Approach this from a game-mechanical standpoint. The more overpowered it is, the fewer in number it has to be/the more restrained it has to be, etc. I mean, I allowed Neo to make his Aphroarch pretty much a living goddess. Tech restrictions are almost nonexistent.

But seriously, that sounds like a great idea, if rather limited in scope. Alt-Vistora has like 800 million people, whilst everybody else seems to be going for sparse groups.

[Vistora]

Unless by "hover", one is referring to the air cushions used by hovercraft, I'm going to reaffirm my stance that known science does not support even the possibility of hovertanks, unless said tanks are moving along a pre-constructed route or perhaps using a reaction engine of some sort (vertical jets, basically).

A few months ago I came up with an alternative to hover tanks that to my knowledge is completely feasible. It involves sticking several hundred/thousand tiny mechanical legs on the underside of the vehicle instead of wheels or tracks. That way, it can "glide" over difficult terrain without breaking any laws of physics. And turn around an awful sight better than a tracked vehicle.

>Not technically hovering
>In order to clear large obstacles, needs high clearance, therefore long legs
>Long, thin legs with moving components supporting very heavy block of shooty metal moving over rocks and shit VERY prone to breakage
>Tracked vehicles can turn on the spot
>Not seeing the point here
>Not even seeing how it would work

[Neonymphonia]

Approach this from a game-mechanical standpoint. The more overpowered it is, the fewer in number it has to be/the more restrained it has to be, etc. I mean, I allowed Neo to make his Aphroarch pretty much a living goddess. Tech restrictions are almost nonexistent.

Speaking of the Aphroarch, I have some more information on her in my factbook. I'll get around to filling in the history briefs for each one of them soon.

[Exoatmospheric Britannia]

A few months ago I came up with an alternative to hover tanks that to my knowledge is completely feasible. It involves sticking several hundred/thousand tiny mechanical legs on the underside of the vehicle instead of wheels or tracks. That way, it can "glide" over difficult terrain without breaking any laws of physics. And turn around an awful sight better than a tracked vehicle.

>Not technically hovering
>In order to clear large obstacles, needs high clearance, therefore long legs
>Long, thin legs with moving components supporting very heavy block of shooty metal moving over rocks and shit VERY prone to breakage
>Tracked vehicles can turn on the spot
>Not seeing the point here
>Not even seeing how it would work

>Doesn't have to have long legs (although it does need them to clear large obstacles)
>Small legs underneath tank harder to blast apart than tracks
>Can lose dozens of small legs and continue to operate
>Looks awesome

[Cumberlanda]

nah it wouldn't be too op

also guys read this and cry

[Vistora]

>Not technically hovering
>In order to clear large obstacles, needs high clearance, therefore long legs
>Long, thin legs with moving components supporting very heavy block of shooty metal moving over rocks and shit VERY prone to breakage
>Tracked vehicles can turn on the spot
>Not seeing the point here
>Not even seeing how it would work

>Doesn't have to have long legs (although it does need them to clear large obstacles)
>Small legs underneath tank harder to blast apart than tracks
>Can lose dozens of small legs and continue to operate
>Looks awesome

Thousands of tiny, fragile, short legs introduce a thousand engineering problems and solve very few. They are inefficient, they interfere with each other's movement, they would have a difficult time supporting the weight of a tank, they are prone to breakage--much more so than a sturdy tread, they are needlessly complex (a big no-no in engineering), their support base lessens with every breakage which would eventually reach a critical point, and they probably look dumb as hell.

No millipede tank for me, dank you very much.

nah it wouldn't be too op

also guys read this and cry

Sounds very reminiscent of Asimov's work, and coming from me, that is quite the compliment. Vox = sexy Olivaw confirmed.

[Excidium Planetis]

Will confirm I am not dead to this RP. Just not finding motivation to post.

Also, I have started working a real job (for the first time ever), and they have me working 35 hours this week. So not a lot of free time.

[Vistora]

Will confirm I am not dead to this RP. Just not finding motivation to post.

Also, I have started working a real job (for the first time ever), and they have me working 35 hours this week. So not a lot of free time.

Wow, gratz man.

[Neonymphonia]

My factbook is coming along nicely, if slowly. I should probably find a good way to unobtrusively incorporate pictures into it, because it's kind of WoTy right now.

[The United Remnants of America]

So I heard America is taken?

[The Lusitanian Federation]

Indeed, but that's where the horrifically impractical comes in, because lift fans would eat fuel for days, unless of course you were to use a nuclear reactor of some sort (or a mana reactor if you've got magic). Ergo, not realistic, but still cool as fuck, so if you want to run it run it because its cool, not because you can justify it as realistic.

Wouldn't that just make it a heavily armored helicopter, though?

Wait, where are we drawing this delineation for a hovertank versus an aircraft?

What even is a tank!?

Are tanks even real?

But, uh, yeah, hovertanks are fine so long as one abandons any pretenses of realism, in which case one should just switch to far less finnicky antigrav systems.

Flying tanks? Oh, we already have those, they are called:

The Bravia HA-90 Pitão (Python) and the Bravia HAP-12 Dragão de Komodo (Komodo Dragon)

[Singaporean Transhumans]

Wouldn't that just make it a heavily armored helicopter, though?

Wait, where are we drawing this delineation for a hovertank versus an aircraft?

What even is a tank!?

Are tanks even real?

But, uh, yeah, hovertanks are fine so long as one abandons any pretenses of realism, in which case one should just switch to far less finnicky antigrav systems.

Flying tanks? Oh, we already have those, they are called:

The Bravia HA-90 Pitão (Python) and the Bravia HAP-12 Dragão de Komodo (Komodo Dragon)

holy shit that's extremely heavy