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Alrik Vas

Scouts have a top knot. Female armor was clearly made to have a pony tail. They wanted a girly look, they went with it.

In real application, I'd do away with almost anything that marks someone as an officer or specialist.

Alrik Vas

You don't need to be dedicated to an RPG to be part of this community, Taal. You only need to look on hobby favorably, whether you're practicing or not.

Good luck out there. See you when you get back. Real life should always come first.

Alrik Vas

I wouldn't say stupid per se, but careless, overconfident, and consequently somewhat risk-taking & sloppy seems to be more of the norm. What is kind of understandable when they have "MMO character immortality" as an innate quality as a group. This is also why I hate spells that raise ...

Alrik Vas

It's only untrue if you don't enforce it. Reality and consequence often dictates truth.

Alrik Vas

Wiggle room, prove it never happened. It doesn't say you can't. This is all just lawyering, guys. Canon proof isn't even all that stable, really. HG lets a line pass in some licensed material and suddenly Praxians are really the ancestors of the Splugorth's Altara Warrior Women. Prove it didn't happ...

Alrik Vas

I'm actually not sure on that...I've always granted the extra attack, but that's because they're spending a skill and I think they should get something for it. Can't check any books right now. Sorry.

Alrik Vas

You guys are killing me here...

First

Sarcasm

Second!

The CS says so, therefore it wins/is correct/dominates all. So there.

Alrik Vas

Rifts has the ability to thermal mask you see it in some of the gear such as the stealth guile suit. The impression I got from the book was that it was working. Some things in Rifts mask thermal signatures, sure. Naruni tech for one. I'm not familiar with the Stealth Guile Suit, specifically though...

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J_Clobbers, that's actually pretty helpful even though not all the information is there. Gives me enough to decide that most giant robots could walk across most solid terrain, and possibly up to half their listed speed up to asphalt. They can run across the majority of that list from Mixed Granular ...

Alrik Vas

"Some time", damn...trade 2 years of service (or whatever) for Battle Magus training? I can't imagine anyone NOT doing that. In any case, there could also be essentially student exchanges, favors in play, blackmail in play, anything you can imagine that would get Dunscon's chuckleheads tra...

Alrik Vas

Not every thing in North America is in the CS territory. Lazlo is in north America and is not the CS. Merc town is north America and not the CS. Anzo is in north America and not the CS. Kingsdale is in north America and not the CS. Stormspire is in north America and not the CS. (bolding of text is ...

Alrik Vas

Most people spend 0 effort looking into the force applied during movement. Just the standing force. Hey Blue. I didn't make a math mistake. I divided weight by surface area, that's the formula. Explain where my mistake was and then I'll be with you on it. That aside, the Wikipedia link is actually ...

Alrik Vas

A herd of dinos moving around attacks less notice from bandits and if they stay out of CS territory the CS. If in the area large herbivore dino herds are some one common most people will not think twice about seing one. If you attack then the tail team in another dino take you out to maintain the l...

Alrik Vas

That's a lot of skills for the OCC swap, just to get some chi abilities. Honestly, if you're the GM, just make the NPC however you want.

If you're not the GM, ask them if you can swap something to get chi abilities without any further fuss.

Alrik Vas

Send a sensor drone inside the mine to confirm target location. Lance mine with warship class weaponry. Liberally apply cruise missiles until satisfied.

Alrik Vas

Moral sure? Though justification is only that, justification. Killing doesn't necessarily make you an evil person. The line i said about it being something you do if you lack the ability end conflict without it is pretty spot on to palladium morality. A cyberknight will try and capture his enemy and...

Alrik Vas

Pretty much. Though I think a CS character campaign that revolved around rooting out the black market strongholds could be pretty fun.

Alrik Vas

The CS been looking for it for years. Black market uses disguised robots to transport from the factory. Smuggling things past the CS is kind of one of the things the black market is good at. They appear to be, by virtue of the game stating that the BM remains a lucrative endeavor and the CS has yet...

Alrik Vas

bwahahaha...there's no moral justification for anything, really. Philosophy about War is an attempt to justify killing. There's no justification, it's just something that at times, must be done, if you lack the capability to end conflict without death. Or you're just an evil jerk who wants to slaugh...

Alrik Vas

Chuck Norris once killed a Mystic Knight by shooting it with a Wilk's Laser pistol.

Alrik Vas

A few Power Armor divisions and a couple million skelebots day much differently. If you're near the CS territories, chances are you are under CS law. This thread was never about CS law or the CS. Uh...if it's not, then what are we talking about here? Governments "declare" (using Declarati...

Alrik Vas

Actually, if you're in a forest, and the trees are too thick for a tank to run over, a 'bot might move through them still because it has less surface area on it's feet. It can step between trees and move them at their weakest points (the top half) and literally bend them out of the way as they pass ...

Alrik Vas

"It was that or use this old 55mm casing as a mug." *holds up a GU-11 round casing with the names of the original Skull Squadron etched into it* "There's probably more protoculture residue on it than the whole of the fleet." (one might note there is more Dr. Pepper "marinati...

Alrik Vas

that would depend on a lot of different factors beyond just ground pressure, really. compressibility of the soil, the depth of the soft layer, amounts of vegetation, etc. A lot of that is why rating ground pressure is a thing, so it kind of has everything to do with it. In any case, I agree with th...

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NE makes Grav Packs, listed in Wave 2. In any case, yes, you could do that. Probably expensive and you might have to remove other systems unless you want a backpack on your giant robot.

Alrik Vas

That's true. And the UAR-1 is based around packed dirt and city streets/highways. So it should be fine, and actually outmaneuver most ground vehicles with it's speed and agility.

Though get it on softer land it will slow down much more than a track vehicle, i'd think.

Alrik Vas

How not easy on them? Do you mean just in finding it? I think if the CS really had intel resources dedicated to it, they'd find it pretty quick.

Alrik Vas

How large would we put the UAR-1's contact area with the ground at, realistically? Like, the bottom of it's feet. What do you contend the surface area to be? I feel like 7x4 9(ft) per foot unit is possibly beyond generous. That's combined for 56 sqft area (672 in), and 18 tons (36000 lbs) of weight....

Alrik Vas

Dragon juicers, run on TW converted dragon blood. Second scariest of all juicers.

Mega-Juicer...do we need to even say whose blood they run on?

Alrik Vas

There are a lot, and most people are actually pretty supportive of it. I'm a slacker, though.

Alrik Vas

I usally just move heavy furnicher in front of the ways in when I sleep in a town I do not trust. Had one charter never bothered with any security but he could not be surprised even when asleep. Ninjas and superspies martial arts are good for that. The Mind like the Moon has a radius. It helps you ...

Alrik Vas

And that's totally fair, honestly. Fortunate they actually give us length and width of even robots. Most games aren't generally so precise (even if inaccurate to reality ). In any case I think it might be fair to run treads 85% of the tank's length and between the two of them, give them together abo...

Alrik Vas

I'm confused. What is the "idealized" surface area?

Alrik Vas

Iron Hammer is 2.1psi...lol

M1A1 is 15psi.

2psi is recommended for soft ground like marshland. though i suppose depending on the way your traverse it, that might have an impact on how well you do.

Was looking at a wikipedia article on Ground Pressure.

Alrik Vas

Actually the Russian anti-tank grenade had a parachute, was designed to help it align straight down so it would hit the top armor and hopefully get crew injury.

This guy

Alrik Vas

Blue_Lion wrote:The rules for on missile combat it does not say missile weapons. The rules for missile combat in the first paragraph limit it to specific weapons.

We are all, everyone of us, aware of this.

Alrik Vas

"Sir...I poured a 20 year old can of Dr. Pepper into this mug, let it sit overnight. Took a sip this morning, got a protoculture high. We can't tell the brass about this."

Alrik Vas

Considering the amount of drawing I have done, I'm surprised I haven't posted anything Rifts inspired really. I'll have to remedy this.

Alrik Vas

But wait! If they are missiles, and a railgun fires 4 or more missiles per attack, YOU CAN'T DODGE THEM!

But does that mean you can shoot them down? @.@

Alrik Vas

The majority of people are nice... It's a pleasant thing to think. Cyberknights and Glitterboys might get a pass on rep...but people with power tend to be pretty demanding of those who don't. People without power tend to be paranoid of those who do. These things are pretty well illustrated in the wo...

Alrik Vas

Isn't that why you see tread heels in some mecha anime? So the giant can move more easily and mitigate some of the problems of it's high profile by being evasive? That might make the high vantage point more than worth it. Though this is the sort of thing that RPG designers don't consider all the tim...

Alrik Vas

heh My point there was that as far as I can tell the CS (and by extension its supporters and apologists) don't have a legal basis to stand on for the claim that D-bees have no rights. So far this thread has demonstrated that the CS has no legal claim to US territory, that the UN of today would reco...

Alrik Vas

Proseksword got to it before me. Tch... But I'll also add that there are few things better than not having to look over your shoulder when you go out to have fun for the night. A lot of towns out there where your higher level group wanders in and half the inhabitants don't see you, they see the mone...

Alrik Vas

As an example of this we can look at the legal definition of "person" under U.S. Law. It does not say "human" and in fact some statues explicitly list corporations as persons e.g. 19 USCS § 3813 [Title 19. Customs Duties; Chapter 24. (first one I could find the specific referenc...

Alrik Vas

It is defining a slang term used in the game in a clear way for players that do not know what the term means.(Slang is typically not the work of scientist and scholars but the common people.) That means the what is and is not a D-bee is a in game concept. But as it is in writing we have access to i...

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I wonder what the definition is pertinent to, however. Remember, a lot of this discussion is heavily meta. Laws next to no one in Rifts is knowledgeable of are being thrown around as justification for something that no one really thinks about in Rifts earth. Is the definition's divide between demons...

Alrik Vas

I'd replace the CS commando with the SF OCC, then replace the SF OCC with the Paratrooper from Mercenary Adventures. I can't see why they don't have that level of training in the Coalition military.

Any case, non-military OCC's? Body Fixer? I mean, they got really good doctors, right?

Alrik Vas

Why does it matter if it was justified or not? It happened. The CS isn't in need of resources from Tolkeen in particular, but if they were, they have them now. The writers of the story made the conflict about ideals and a way of life, rather than water, oil, silver or anything else. So we can talk a...

Alrik Vas

Look, Tolkeen is ashes and memories now. So what does this have to do with the CS running out of resources?

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*********note: by definition Demons are not D-bees so a demon is irrelevant to D-bee rights. So every one quit using demons, and supernatural creatures as part of the debate on D-bee rights.******************* Can you post this definition and cite it? I'm not balking at your claim, but I've never h...

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