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Oh, ok.Alyrium Denryle wrote:Um no.. We arent right on your tail dyumbass, we are tracking you. Not attempting to actually catch and engage.lazerus wrote:Send them a volley........
The Goa'oudl fleet drops out of hypespace and in an instand activates it's inciderator crusers. The persuing fleet is yanked out and engaged at point blank range.
Ok.......
[MY ENTIRE ARMADA + SOME PORTABLE STATIONS] vs [8th fleet]
I think we know how this is going to end. All my ships open fire.
Did you even read my reply?Alyrium Denryle wrote:Remember that compromize. I cionsidered that in effect. We destroyed the originals, you have the copies.
And remember the language issue... jap to english with no reference point.
MY fleet jumped out in that first post.
Seriously. I had forgotten that I'd committed four Starlight class destroyers. Thought I'd only sent frigates for carrier screening for some reason. The Starlight class is long-range patrol. They'd be able to do this.Thirdfain wrote:LOL!
I can outlast you.Rogue 9 wrote:Seriously. I had forgotten that I'd committed four Starlight class destroyers. Thought I'd only sent frigates for carrier screening for some reason. The Starlight class is long-range patrol. They'd be able to do this.Thirdfain wrote:LOL!
No... the languages of the spells would be completly different. Take two languages, the text means the same, but you have no way of knowing that without a reference point. For instance, in D&D a mage cannot use cleric scrolls or vice versaA. It's still magic, it'd be more like learning to translate Latin into Italian or vice versa. Hard, but not overly hard because you can see the similarities.
B. These come from an Academy, right? So the academy trains people in magic, right? And there were primers there in the original post. Hence we've got two great leads to go on.
You missed my point, magic is magic, their magic was a lot more like DnD wizzie magic then DnD divine magic (with their gate-ways and all.) The Magic being from the same magical root gives them a half-way decent reference point, and your primers give them an even better reference point. We've got what we need to copy the books, and to understand them.Alyrium Denryle wrote:No... the languages of the spells would be completly different. Take two languages, the text means the same, but you have no way of knowing that without a reference point.A. It's still magic, it'd be more like learning to translate Latin into Italian or vice versa. Hard, but not overly hard because you can see the similarities.
B. These come from an Academy, right? So the academy trains people in magic, right? And there were primers there in the original post. Hence we've got two great leads to go on.
We have the other end of the Stargate, genius. Who's going to send supplies through it?lazerus wrote:I can outlast you.Rogue 9 wrote:Seriously. I had forgotten that I'd committed four Starlight class destroyers. Thought I'd only sent frigates for carrier screening for some reason. The Starlight class is long-range patrol. They'd be able to do this.Thirdfain wrote:LOL!
You specified a jump of two weeks.No, TYCHO has the other end of the stargate.Rogue 9 wrote:We have the other end of the Stargate, genius. Who's going to send supplies through it?lazerus wrote:I can outlast you.Rogue 9 wrote: Seriously. I had forgotten that I'd committed four Starlight class destroyers. Thought I'd only sent frigates for carrier screening for some reason. The Starlight class is long-range patrol. They'd be able to do this.
How do you figure? Divine magic also has gate spells and what not.Straha wrote:You missed my point, magic is magic, their magic was a lot more like DnD wizzie magic then DnD divine magic (with their gate-ways and all.) The Magic being from the same magical root gives them a half-way decent reference point, and your primers give them an even better reference point. We've got what we need to copy the books, and to understand them.Alyrium Denryle wrote:No... the languages of the spells would be completly different. Take two languages, the text means the same, but you have no way of knowing that without a reference point.A. It's still magic, it'd be more like learning to translate Latin into Italian or vice versa. Hard, but not overly hard because you can see the similarities.
B. These come from an Academy, right? So the academy trains people in magic, right? And there were primers there in the original post. Hence we've got two great leads to go on.
You said you worked around it, I can give you that, even a cleric can cast dispel magicStraha wrote:I also notice that you didn't deal with my books go boom thing.
Yeah, but at least this way my species has a chance of not going extinct.Rogue 9 wrote:Do I detect a "Do you really think we won't figure that out within days if not hours?" here?
So, none of these tombs deal with, say, the differences between household spells and combat spells. None of these books go over basic review of magic? None of these books help someone "concentrate" their magic and casting?Alyrium Denryle wrote: And when "primer" is used, that means things like cantrips and 1st level spells, basic shit. A mage is taught the language before he ever even sees a spell.
No, more aptly I am taking the people at Boeing of the 1970s, giving them designs from modern day McDonnell Douglas, and asking them to copy the designs and to understand the principles behind them, and get prepared to use some of the more basic principles.what you are essentially trying to do in tech terms, is take someone like the wright brothers, who knew how to build a simple plane, and and then give them the plans for an f-15 in mandarin(with no translation resources available) and expect them to be able to build it.
Good to hear.Alyrium Denryle wrote:You said you worked around it, I can give you that, even a cleric can cast dispel magicStraha wrote:I also notice that you didn't deal with my books go boom thing.
That is taught verbally and through hands on practice.So, none of these tombs deal with, say, the differences between household spells and combat spells. None of these books go over basic review of magic? None of these books help someone "concentrate" their magic and casting?
You are still attempting to reverse engineer something that is significantly more advanced than your own ability, and do so from a different language. Deal with it.No, more aptly I am taking the people at Boeing of the 1970s, giving them designs from modern day McDonnell Douglas, and asking them to copy the designs and to understand the principles behind them, and get prepared to use some of the more basic principles.
So is English. We still have books on grammar.Alyrium Denryle wrote:That is taught verbally and through hands on practice.So, none of these tombs deal with, say, the differences between household spells and combat spells. None of these books go over basic review of magic? None of these books help someone "concentrate" their magic and casting?
You are still attempting to reverse engineer something that is significantly more advanced than your own ability, and do so from a different language. Deal with it.[/quote]No, more aptly I am taking the people at Boeing of the 1970s, giving them designs from modern day McDonnell Douglas, and asking them to copy the designs and to understand the principles behind them, and get prepared to use some of the more basic principles.
Same basic principle. You have the text, now you need it translated, from a language disimilar to ones you know, then you needd to understand what the basic principles are, then you need to apply those principles.It's not reverse engineering, that's when you've got an example in front of you and try to work backwards to make plans. We've got the plans in front of us and are trying to understand the basics of your magic, as well as copy.
After fighting the Zerg in the original STGOD, I will personally invent a device to stab your face across the internet.lazerus wrote:Everybody loves the zerg right?