Travel time

[Cyanide]

How long does it take to get from one continent to the next via air. Like say in a Galaxy.

[Alias]

Are you refering to flying across the ocean transcontinental?

Impossible.

[Cyanide]

So you have to use the warpgate to move continent to continent?

[Alias]

Bingo.

[Cyanide]

Is there a no fire zone around the warpgates?

And what's the point of the galaxy?

[1024]

Yes, and an easy way of transporting over rough or regular terrain, or squad placement.

[Cyanide]

I assume you can take vehicles throught the warp gates then?

It seems so limiting. It'd be nice to have a reason why you can't fly over the oceans cause i can't see one.

[Tieom]

You see the engines on those aircraft? Those are Frequency Oscilator Manifold drives. They need a large surface area of something solid to oscilate to keep em in the air, liquids won't work. They can work through shallow water but anything deeper than about 100 metres deep will cause em to lose, uh, resonance cascade, and thus plummet to the ground (or water, in this case).
These are used in these aircraft because they are low-maintenance, light, have few traceable emissions, use little fuel, and 90% of the habitable planets the terran republic has discovered thus far have a lot less water than Auraxis. The galaxy is about the biggest possible FOMdrive craft - there is an upper limit to how much lift they can generate out of an area, any bigger and they wouldn't be able to haul themselves off the ground. Bigger craft use convential drives, but there seems to be no fuel on Auraxis for those and the FOMdrives could be easily converted to run off of the stuff the warp gates give off.

There, a complete technobabble explanation for why you can't fly over the water

[Jimbo]

Originally posted by Tieom
You see the engines on those aircraft? Those are Frequency Oscilator Manifold drives. They need a large surface area of something solid to oscilate to keep em in the air, liquids won't work. They can work through shallow water but anything deeper than about 100 metres deep will cause em to lose, uh, resonance cascade, and thus plummet to the ground (or water, in this case).
These are used in these aircraft because they are low-maintenance, light, have few traceable emissions, use little fuel, and 90% of the habitable planets the terran republic has discovered thus far have a lot less water than Auraxis. The galaxy is about the biggest possible FOMdrive craft - there is an upper limit to how much lift they can generate out of an area, any bigger and they wouldn't be able to haul themselves off the ground. Bigger craft use convential drives, but there seems to be no fuel on Auraxis for those and the FOMdrives could be easily converted to run off of the stuff the warp gates give off.

There, a complete technobabble explanation for why you can't fly over the water

Did you just make that up or is it published somewhere?

If it is your idea, then bravo to you for your creativity!

[Camping Carl]

He made it up, but it is very creative, so Tieom gets a cookie.

[Cyanide]

You see the engines on those aircraft? Those are Frequency Oscilator Manifold drives. They need a large surface area of something solid to oscilate to keep em in the air, liquids won't work. They can work through shallow water but anything deeper than about 100 metres deep will cause em to lose, uh, resonance cascade, and thus plummet to the ground (or water, in this case).
These are used in these aircraft because they are low-maintenance, light, have few traceable emissions, use little fuel, and 90% of the habitable planets the terran republic has discovered thus far have a lot less water than Auraxis. The galaxy is about the biggest possible FOMdrive craft - there is an upper limit to how much lift they can generate out of an area, any bigger and they wouldn't be able to haul themselves off the ground. Bigger craft use convential drives, but there seems to be no fuel on Auraxis for those and the FOMdrives could be easily converted to run off of the stuff the warp gates give off.

Riiiiiiight...

Still seems and it would limit your stratagies quite a bit. Wouldn't the enemy always know what directions your coming from? It's gay if you ask me.

[mistled]

it doesn't. Just because you came in from a warp gate doesn't mean that you have to attack from that direction. The continents are large enough for you to easily fly around whatever base you want to attack. Or, as we did tonight, you can smply fly above the base and halo drop to it.

[MrVulcan]

Originally posted by Tieom
You see the engines on those aircraft? Those are Frequency Oscilator Manifold drives. They need a large surface area of something solid to oscilate to keep em in the air, liquids won't work. They can work through shallow water but anything deeper than about 100 metres deep will cause em to lose, uh, resonance cascade, and thus plummet to the ground (or water, in this case).
These are used in these aircraft because they are low-maintenance, light, have few traceable emissions, use little fuel, and 90% of the habitable planets the terran republic has discovered thus far have a lot less water than Auraxis. The galaxy is about the biggest possible FOMdrive craft - there is an upper limit to how much lift they can generate out of an area, any bigger and they wouldn't be able to haul themselves off the ground. Bigger craft use convential drives, but there seems to be no fuel on Auraxis for those and the FOMdrives could be easily converted to run off of the stuff the warp gates give off.

There, a complete technobabble explanation for why you can't fly over the water

that is a very KA answer

[Headrattle]

Originally posted by Cyanide
Riiiiiiight...

Still seems and it would limit your stratagies quite a bit. Wouldn't the enemy always know what directions your coming from? It's gay if you ask me.

It is that way because each continent is like a level. When you enter it you load that level.

Also flying between continents would take too long and drag down servers with needless crap.

[Tieom]

*mmm, cookie*

Yeah, I made it up.

Hey! It explains the flight ceiling, too! Brilliant! As long as the ceiling isn't higher than a couple hundred metres, which I doubt it is.

Anyways, I've been thinking - since the oceans aren't traversable, why bother giving them to scale on the map? Auraxis may be earth-sized, but with really miniscule land masses, so they show all the continents to scale with one another, but snip the vast stretches of ocean in between out of the map because they don't matter and are inconvenient.