General update for everyone: I've done a simple split of the huge archive into three groups. There's the stuff from Worldbuilding, the stuff from...
Kirk Spencer
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Apr 1, 2004 9:47 pm
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Kirk, TWD archive is freely distributable. Anything else, ask me. Leslie, hope you can put that into something sensible. ... There's the ... the stuff ... ...
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:25:29PM +0200, Leszek 'Leslie' Karlik distributed foul capitalist propaganda: [...] ... Oh, and one more thing - to be precise,...
Umm, Ken? The Worldbuilding file is part of the TWD archive. It's the first 4500 or so messages. The _only_ thing it's got in addition is the roughly 100 or...
Kirk Spencer
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Apr 2, 2004 3:10 pm
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... 4500 or so ... or so ... It does ... (excluding ... consider them ... Given how malleable things were early in the discussion (and even for the first part...
That makes much sense. By the way (for everyone), with "only" 750 or so other messages, I'm crawling through them a bit at a time. In general they're falling...
Kirk Spencer
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Apr 2, 2004 5:12 pm
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Greetings: A brief report about Mepacon (Mid-Eastern Pennsylvania Convention or something along those lines)... Driving Tip One: If you watch a DVD player, you...
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 10:02:04PM -0800, Fred Kiesche distributed foul capitalist propaganda: [...] ... This is a good idea - I've been recently showing the...
... I find that if you show the tilt blocks BEFORE you explain the AVID, everyone seems to get it... The gizmo that Winch made for me doing this didn't survive...
... I always begin with the tilt blocks... the AVID doesn't always work the first time though. Everybody groks the tilt blocks. Not everybody instantly groks...
In many respects, the convention began for me on Friday, since Corinne - now done her dissertation revisions! :) - needed a refresher course on AV:T. She...
Greetings: What can I say, I had two good teachers. Hopefully, though, before the July convention that game will be out and I'll be able to run through it both...
I just dug through a set of emails on how the star map is set up, and realized that we have some GIGO in the travel times. In order to fit the map on the area...
... Yow. That's going to have serious ripple effects. ... Actually, it was done by hand. Blah. I assume the in-system times listed for the jumps are...
... Brainstorm: every campaign could always rush around at the 2x rate of speed Brachistostome orbits, burning 8 fuel per turn instead of 2! Ok, maybe not. ......
... I know... ... from a ... listed for ... just double ... Sadly, those are correct -- I put them in later after making the error. If you have the travel time...
Incidentally, this will really mess with passenger travel rates; passenger ships will pretty much be forced to resupply at a nexus station or something ...
... <head in hands> They're *all* fucked except 12 October 2267 for Saladin vs Wasp. I'll get onto it after I stop dripping salt water into my coffee. ;-/ ......
... <head in hands> They're *all* FUBAR except 12 October 2267 for Saladin vs Wasp. The rest will take longer to get to; endless ripple effects. The relative...
Oddly, Audra really *did* end up with salt in her coffee this weekend. Let me tell you, it should be banned by the Geneva convention... Ethan PS--I thought...
Greetings: Interesting... Still going to wander around Michael's (art supplies) and see if I can find something to slap together. Sort of like on the level of...
... Depends on whether you can go through a jump point on a elliptical orbit; if so, it might cost quite a lot of delta-V to match orbits with the solar-orbit...
Hm...people should avoid getting excited about this. Been doublechecking some numbers, and stuff isn't quite adding up, but I'm not at all sure that doubling ...
Hi there! I subscribed to this list after hearing about AVT, and I have to say I've found the background fascinating. One question comes to mind, though, and I...
Is the name "New Lidea" canonical and unchangeable now? From what I gather, it's a Polish city on Refuge, but the problem is that it doesn't look like a Polish...
... It can be changed -- we havn't set anything on Refuge that's been mentioned by name in a final product yet. ... there's a ... likely), "Nowy ... Any of...
Here's an MSDS for Gold Chloride. Says poisoning systoms are similar to that of arsenic poisoning. http://www.med-chem.com/MSDS/Gold_chloride.htm And, this...