Pumpkinhead Posted February 11, 2004 Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 It seemed pretty good to me... Kudos! I've only read the last 2 posts... For some reason, I love writing, but I don't like reading much That's why I can't contribute to the fanfic, because I don't know what's going on or who the characters are Guess I'll just have to keep writing my own... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted February 11, 2004 Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 FA: sweeeeet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted February 11, 2004 Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 Cheers mate. Glad I didn't drop the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasicar Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Superb job. I just have one question about the post which might turn into a minor edit for you. Did we say there was going to be an HWP on this mission? Last I checked it was going to be emplaced in the third one where most everyone dies. -Ras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Thank you! As far as I know there is a HWP on this mission. Hiro asks it to deliver fire support into the wheat field, then it clears an area to the south, then it blows up a bit of the orchard and gets hit with a stun bomb before flushing out a sectoid. Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted February 27, 2004 Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 Am I right? Wrong? Is there anyone out there? If so, do they care? Come on! We post, therefore we are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 still in the early outlining stage of next post.. but I PERSONALLY arranged to have an HWP on this mission and I'm glad it was put to good use. Anyone else working on a post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 I'm working on one for my "Agents" fic, as for the main fic.....I'm not sure quite how to go about writing one ahead of time, as it were. Perhaps I'm being slow? The UFO clearance I posted, I just sat down and wrote it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 I posted a continuation of the previous post, and the attraction of Icarus to me may be a light dose of psionics, but you can make of it what you will. I should mention that Icarus is going to be a sort of early warning system against aliens, as he's afraid of aliens. (but you don't know that yet.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Hankosha - cute Sorry my mission wrap-up is still on the back burner, that is, only forming slowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 I don't honestly think I've got a good enough grip on the characters to write any non-mission fic yet. Sorry. I'll stick to the violence for now. This is the third post today! Let's be careful and pace ourselves, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Well, the idea was floating around in my head for a while, and I had to try and break the writer's block. I love Icarus He's so cute. Oh, and for the time being, Hankosha will be reading The art of war in his room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alitorious Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Firstly, I must say: Posts! w00t! yaah! eeehehehe! Now for what I must say, although I I feel guilty for saying this (because we haven't had a new post for sooooo long... myself included). But the problem is: the motion tracker wouldn't be anywhere NEAR testing stage right now (less than a week after work actually begins on it) Of course, I don't know anything about real research progression (as I am still in high school) but I'm pretty sure something advanced like that would first need the mathematics + theoretical concept done first. That's the stage they're in right now. Next would come the design for a crude test proto-prototype (Proof of concept, I guess). For the motion tracker it would be something like a LED that blinks on when it senses motion - very basic. After that would come the actual making of the proto-prototype. Then we would probably experiment with adding directional and distance detection, but not at the same time. So, distance would be a light that fades dim or bright depending on how far away motion is. And the direction would have a separate proto-prototype / Proof of Concept. THEN we would get into the stage of prototype motion trackers as seen in the game. Once these work, it would finally go into production. Of course, that is after adding 'tweaks and polishes' such as an actual casing for it (as several of the prototypes would be literally glued, taped, and pinned onto a board of plywood or plastic ). At least that's what I have in mind for the progression of MT research. Of course, someone much more knowledgeable than me (like JFG, for instance) should prove me wrong for a design concept for an actual thing, and the 'plan' posted above. AAAAUGH! I did it again! I wrote a mini-novelette for a non-fanfic post! (Why do I always do this? It just makes me feel... like a big fat show-off.) ---------------------- *Me looks at date* Whoah! I've been away for a looong time! I'd start to feel more guilty about not posting were it not for the fact that JFG said that he has a wrap-up on the back burner. *takes guilt-o-matic and fires at JFG* And the only modifying needed would be to remove the inclusion of the motion tracker. (And if the scientist was testing the motion tracker, he wouldn't be blabbing it off to anyone, because it's got some serious wizardry gone into it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 D@mnit, Ali, that got me in my guilty gear. *staggers* Motion tracker - we have the technology now for an ultrasound-based motion tracker - it's how mobile robots determine how close a wall is, and of course if that changes between two readings, either the robot or the wall has moved. Through walls, though, would take a little more - especially if you want your electromagnetic energy to bounce off living creatures but pass freely through metal walls. Unless we just have very complex ultrasound echo analysis, and use the bounced sound coming through the air vents and down the hallways... Anyway, yeah, the post. I'll distract you with some more could-be-screenshots-of-Grand-Theft- Xcom: https://www.gamespydaily.com/news/screenshots.asp?id=5485 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alitorious Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Oooh... finally a medium to put my evil-genius-type-plans to test before trying them out in the real world... I mean, uh... Cows are, erm, going moo. An ultrasound-motion detector? That's just great. It makes my idea seem like a startrek device. I was thinking about something that would detect motion itself. Seeing as that's what the game MT does, it seemed fine. You helped me to realize that, yeah, I have no idea what kind of technology to use. Seeing as I'm also not very informed as to what's out there, I don't think I'm the one to be trying to make it up. Ultrasound or EM both sound much better and more practical than what I had thought up of. (fluidic space, magnetogravitic disturbances, graviton changes... bleh!). So now I have no idea what to do. "Detecting changes in actual graviton wave patterns..." wouldn't sound out of place in an episode of startrek, but this still is based on a sci-fi game. On the other hand there could be a more realistic approach, but then there's the associated problems with that. (Plus I'd already written posts using the former.) So, what say you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 The current motion detector the sci's are working on is a basic one, and is still in testing, therefore, it's still an idea. their trying to get the motion detector to detect things, but ther is nothing said in my post about it actually working.... , therefore, I allow others to play around with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 Ali, maybe... the first breakthrough from studying the captured Alien Navigation System is a very sensitive mass detector (graviton-based, if you like, like the alien flying saucer drive).. since we're likely to not research and build any until after we field Laser Weapons and Alloy research, we can ignore that little part of the game that says we can develop it without capturing any UFO technology, for the sake of your poor genius in the fanfic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alitorious Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 I like that option the best. I'll try to fix something around it when we can come to it. Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Galloping glaciers! It lives... thanks to Easter chocolate power The fic has now returned to base for welcoming new recruits, expanding on scientific breakthroughs, and general kibitzing and drinking sessions before the next mission. Make use of the time, as the Sectoid High Command are preparing a terror site as bait to draw in XCOM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 JFG shows us how it's done, keeping all those intertwining storylines going...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman42 Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 *attempts to remember the names of his secondary characters* Um, yeah. Johann will be transferring to combat personnel, mortality moderate, to be controlled by me. Can someone figure out the squad assignment he'd get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted April 24, 2004 Report Share Posted April 24, 2004 Second squad have gaps, with Wethers & Tipping dead & Ross out of action. Plenty of space there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Good work guys but we've stopped again! I may have a chance to post soon but that'll be a back at base installment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Throw me a battle scene, I'll write it. I just don't want to risk a back at base scene yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted May 2, 2004 Report Share Posted May 2, 2004 Don't want to risk it? How do you mean? :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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