OK, it looks like the worldbuilding list is dying from lack of activity. Tyge, get me the reports on Altiplano, and I'll start writing the rest of the planets...
... Ken, I'll be going over the (small) amount of feedback I got on Shamballah, and revise my write-up and forward it to the list. One thing I haven't been ...
... globes and ... What kind of seams? The sawtooth map model you provide is a pretty good basis for a globe, but (like any flat map) it would require some ...
... I repainted your map from scratch. My seams are in maya(the 3d program I'm using now) in that for some reason it leaves a few pixel white seam where the...
Bob, you made the mistake of convincing me that you were awake. :) Shamballah is now up on the plate. I suspect that pre-impact, Shamballah's climate was...
... I've a wild assumption that I'll throw out for game... Assumption: As a rule, no more than 20% of the colonists will be "Men of Means." Instead the...
Kirk Spencer
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Mar 13, 2002 4:14 pm
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Bob: The list is going don for maintenance on Friday. Please try to have your rough draft up by Thursday so others can read it and ruminate upon it before the...
... We've discussed this before - and since I still disagree I'll put it out for open consideration (besides, you can always overrule me:) ). I disagree that...
Kirk Spencer
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Mar 13, 2002 7:45 pm
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... Ummmm. . . is this canon that I've missed, or is it a new addition? This has major consequences for Medina's pre-Whatever development -- someone would...
Jeremy Williams
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Mar 13, 2002 7:47 pm
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... Ken, who is viewed as dross by the program designer and who turns out to be dross in the final analysis will likely be different. You can say in hindsight...
Jeremy Williams
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Mar 13, 2002 9:55 pm
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... "Men of ... educated, ... and so ... when they ... otherwise ... Jeremy made some interesting points in his reply, but one other thing to factor in:...
<skipping a lot of salient points to keep it single pointed...> ... Frankly, there's insufficient information to decide. Although I'll note that it only takes...
Kirk Spencer
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Mar 14, 2002 2:36 pm
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So, where are they, Josh? :) Also, Rob, your Shamballah/Shangri-La stuff needs to be put up by this evening as Yahoo Groups is going down tomorrow for...
OK, due to a quirk of astrographics, we need to remove the planet around one of the Beta twins -- Beta Canum Venatacorum and Beta Coma Berineces. We need to...
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Kirk Spencer wrote: [I asked:] ... Excuse my poor Latin: Ceteris semper non paribus. I was trying to set up an "all else is equal"...
Jeremy Williams
jbw@...
Mar 15, 2002 9:02 pm
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I will be focusing on worldbuilding now that the playtst draft is out. Jeremy: You are the one who defines canon for Medina; anything anyone else says is...
... which means... Jeremy - my mention of the way Medina settled in the other thread was something Ken and I had tossed about. Nothing official as far as I...
Kirk Spencer
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Mar 18, 2002 7:26 pm
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I got maps to work last night and erased the seem I was getting. I will get them out to the right parties this evening to look at. Q...
... Kirk, I can relate easily. Ken, In addition to veto, you also have fiat. I didn't know whether this was something you had fiat'ed in and I hadn't noticed....
Jeremy Williams
jbw@...
Mar 19, 2002 8:44 am
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... In re my fiat -- I'm trying to avoid using my fiat until I've got something reasonably resembling a complete planetary writeup to work from. Tyge, do you...
... After a month+ of computer problems, I do now. I'm trying to catch up with the archive but I do have some more urgent data restore to take care of. ... The...
... up with ... care of. ... I'd like the consolidated report on Altiplano as soon as is convenientn for you. In particular, look for things that are missing...
Here are the original historical background notes I wrote on Altiplano, quite some while back. I posted them on the board ages back, but I don't think they...
People would start thinking it's Chinese. Shengdu (iirc) province is changing its name to Shangri-La for the tourism benefit. You might also get one or two...
... I'll see what I can dig up from the backup-CDs. ... People had lived in arctic conditions for centuries - even millennia - before Scott and Shackleton...
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