What laws or quirks of physics would you change to make space combat more interesting?I would make the heat capacity and conductivity of some random otherwise mostly useless metal way higher so that they could be used as a heat sink to enable more intense weapons exchanges.
>>65148967Try /vg/ or /tg/
>>65149945Why?
>>65148967Inverse the Oberth Effect>good luck slowing down
In space you could make a hollow needle gun that sprays out hollow needles designed to catastrophically destroy your enemy's spacesuit
The hotter something is the shorter the wavelength it emits right?Something so hot it emits gamma rays would be cool
>>65148967Same as yours. Heat dissipation is major obstacle to proper space combat.
>>65150296>this guy is trying to make the ultraviolet catastrophe happen
>people in 1600 or whatever:men will never walk on the moon>People in 2000: men Will never walk on another solar systemWe will discover some new fancy science and defeat the speed limit too.
>>65150246This is basically Game Design, not Weapons.
>>65150404The issue is that relativity is fucked up. The faster to the speed of light the slower time passes for you, which in turn makes percentages of the speed of light feasible but now you are talking about dozens or even hundreds of years passing on Earth by the time a ship can reach another planet in our time.
>>65150404>>65150559Low fractions of C are entirely possible, no changes to physics are needed to make interstellar travel possible. The only obstacles to such travel are engineering.
>>65150562Yes but Low fractions of C are only tolerable due to time moving slower the faster you go. The issue with that is that a literal generation will pass before a ship gets to our closest star in a meaningful amount of time.
Children of a Dead Earth is extremely /k/I don't know of any other game that lets you fully customize the physics package of a nuclear weapon
>>65150579Yeah, that's an engineering problem.
>>65150590It means that outside setting records in the solar system no one is going to be serious about traveling to other stars for quite a while.
>>65150593You keep saying true things but they aren't contradicting me
>>65150404I 100 percent believe that there is some flaw in our current understanding of physics (due to our limited current perspective) and some insane engineer is going to figure out some exploit to avoid relativity.
>>65150600I'm just saying we will spend decades if not centuries of doing shit like the 8 Planet Challenge, 9 Planet Schizo deluxe Super Challenge before we even go to another star.
>>65148967Allow space to carry sound.
>>65150603NO
>>65150602Yeah, I believe thatStill no contradictions of >>65150562
>>65150603>Space now conducts sound somehow>+ Its easier to communicate>- Saturn wont stop screaming
>>65150619Saturn? How about a gorillion atomic bombs going off?
>>65150603>>65150619The sun would be deafening
>>65150603It does. You just need very powerful speakers (Black Holes) and very sensitive ears (LIGO)>>65150579>Low fractions of Cdon't have significant time dilation. you'd need large fractions of c for that.>>65148967Make negative-mass matter a thing so we can build alcubierre drives.
>>65148967I'd change the value of Pi to something a little more comfortable, greatly increase the prevalence of heavier elements in the universe, and maybe play around with the weak electromagnetic force.
>>65148967>heat capacityHeat capacity acts as a buffer, but the average power dissipated will still be constrained by your radiator, which again is constrained in the best of cases by the temperature of space (3K).Personally I'd fuck with chemistry so you could get some stupid high specific impulse from the engine: this would enable higher delta-v budget which in turn can be used for maneuvering or to haul bigger ships. Oh, also give solar panels stupid high efficiency so you don't need fuckhuge panels whenever you make a step outside Mars' orbit: less mass and more energy for ion thrusters.
>>65150601Raise the speed of light. Once you figure out how to actually accelerate to that new speed, it's (very rough) sailing from there, and technically not FTL even though you might be going several times c in a vacuum.t.knower
>>65150736>Heat capacity acts as a bufferYeah, which would allow for more intense exchanges.
>>65150404>We will discover some new fancy science and defeat the speed limit too.
>>65148967Kessler syndrome
>>65150404Fun fact: Columbus expedition costed just $1 mil in current years dolaritos and delivered 100 men to America and established base there.You would never deliver 1 man (let alone 100 and set up base) to the Moon for $1 mil. Not today, 50 years ago or 5000 years in the future.If it costed $30 billions to deliver one man to America no US would ever exist.
>>65148967You need liquid/solid chemical substances with 100 times more stored energy per mass. Half way between chemical and nukes. Then you can have both have high delta V and thrust so you can have non boring rocket and space flight.
>>65150695>I'd change the value of Pi to something a little more comfortableThis. Maybe to -1, or some imaginary number.
>>65150601>and some engineer blind from birth is going to figure out some exploit to avoid relativityFTFY. The flaw is the sense of sight baked into the equations.
>>65150695>changing geometry https://youtube.com/watch?v=8P3pxYtqDhM
>>65152008The average output of a medieval individual was 500-2000 dollars a year. 1 million dollars 500 years ago was a good deal of money.
>>65150695>>65152105>>65152109https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifestoWe should not even be using π, we should be using τ. We only use τ as a stubborn historical relic.
>>65152115>We only use [π]***fix'd
Literally just flinging rocks at shit at relativistic speeds, the same thing we did as monke just on a whole different level of power
