Re: Ok, major problem: staircases are major headaches!

I'm sure a lot of engineers have said something similar. This physics thing
just isn't working for my designs. Best we go and get the natural order of
things changed right away.

On 6/1/06, Steven <steven.james.1@??????????.??.uk> wrote:
>
> Well I've come up with another issue about this..
>
> Ok, a SJ ship, made purely for Space travel and thus designed for gravity
> planes...
> Say the lower "upside down" deck was your galley, below the gravity plane.
>
> Think what happens when it docks at say, the Rock of Bral...or
> Waterdeep...BAM! all your upside down furniture/goods...pile drives
> THROUGH
> your hull...or at least goes SPLAT on the hull.
>
> TO me it seems this is an issue that needs sorting, it's inherently screwy
> and makes Spelljamming not very practical.
>
> When I rebuilt the squidship I found about 2' of the main cargo hold would
> be above the gravity plane. It just wouldn't be tall enough (8' ceiling
> iirc) if I moved the floor up, and not rebuilding it all again *cry*.
>
> I ended up deciding that because of this a small space below the cargo
> hold
> would be *sealed shut*, why? Wlel it' s aballast hold, to offset weight of
> the ram...now what's the problem with a ballast hold in SJ? Gravity
> planes!
> So you have a hold full of sand and bricks, and the gravity reverses? Oh
> my..that's gonna hurt...so I sealed it, no hatch.
>
> I'm sorry but I think really, gravity needs fixed to be "normal" when a
> helm
> is in operation, from bottom of ship up. *scratches head, shrugs*
> This issue would totally KILL many ship designs, whale ship, lol, or
> asteroid bases of hm forget name of the very tall nautloid-like vessel.
> You encounter a bigger vessel of asteroid, and you are going to kill many
> folk and wreck the ship.
>
> I LIKE the idea of a gravity plane but the practicalities...urf?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com] On Behalf Of Adam Miller
> Sent: 31 May 2006 21:18
> To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
> Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Ok, major problem: staircases are major
> headaches!
>
> --- David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com>
> wrote:
> > If Static or Night Druid are reading this I also
> > think that it might be worth adding a list of simple
> > nauticle terms (plus spacehand terms) to the
> > SJ3e PDFs to help people getting confused about
> > stuff like this. Have a look at what Wikipedia has
> > for an example of where to start:
>
> Not a bad idea.  Sounds like a realitively easy task;
> I'll get started on it tonight.  In the meantime, if
> anyone has any ideas that they think should go in,
> please speak up so we can cover everything.
>
> Adam
>
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