Space Lanes seem quiet today

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:11 am

Space lanes seem quiet today. Undoubtedly a lot of pilots are at a local space bar watching the Zero-Gee Tiosolan Football Championships between the Equines (Colts) and the Winged Humanoids (Saints)

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:35 am

Some of us can't stand football!

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:17 am

I spent my time on Oolite and web surfing.

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:16 pm

Oh, was there some major sporting event in a far away land?

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:33 pm

Something of note to the natives of that land, that's all.
It involved feasting and ritual chants

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:44 pm

Shouldn't this be in Outworld?

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:39 am

Selezen wrote:
Shouldn't this be in Outworld?

No. We were discussing the Zero-Gee Tiosolan Football Championships between the Equines (Colts) and the Winged Humanoids (Saints).

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:37 pm

Proper football wouldn't work in Zero-G!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:44 pm

Smivs wrote:
Proper football wouldn't work in Zero-G!

As opposed to, let's say, Zero-G cricket, or what?

That's why it's called "Zero-Gee Football" instead of "Proper Football", man.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:59 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
As opposed to, let's say, Zero-G cricket, or what? 8)

Zero-G croquet.

Think about it.

allikat · Post by **allikat** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:08 am

With planetoids!!!!

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:38 am

This got me thinking, though. Some games like American football, rugby etc would work quite well, as would games where you hit a ball (tennis, cricket) but others just wouldn't, like football (soccer) or volley-ball. And can you imagine Zero-G water-polo?

goran · Post by **goran** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:41 am

Smivs wrote:
And can you imagine Zero-G water-polo?

I just did, only with female teams...

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:37 am

Interestingly, while Oolite's pseudo-random system descriptions generator knows of hockey, cricket, karate, polo, and tennis, only Zero-G hockey and Zero-G cricket are ever mentioned in the descriptions (and notably less in Galaxy 5 than elsewhere).

At least the two Zero-G games are quite common around the eight charts. Other then these, there are only three instances of vacuum karate, 19 of mud tennis, and polo isn't actually played anywhere.

Which also means that the "ice" and the "ultra" variants of all these games don't exist at all.

Oh, crappy pseudo-random generation!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:38 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
Oh, crappy pseudo-random generation! :evil:

Trivia: there are 23 873 086 025 possible planet descriptions (before expanding the %-escapes), with varying probabilities. It’s not surprising that some of them are unused. :-)