Terrestrial Communication

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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by fr0stbyte124 » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:54 pm

Well, it will never actually get that big. Compression and procedural generation go really long way, especially since natural terrain is decidedly non-random. But the hundreds of MB range may not be terribly unreasonable for a well-explored planet.

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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by Tau » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:05 pm

But there's still 2 problems:

1. The shortest range possible for a portable radio (with the current ratings) is almost interstellar.
2. If I shortened the ranges to distances on-scale with the planets, it would be too boring / unrealistic.
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by ACH0225 » Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:24 am

Deal with it? This is hard limits vs creative sensibilities. Which do you think is more important to avoid hitting?
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by Tau » Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:44 pm

Well, I posted this (with extensive modification) to the MC Forums mod suggestion thingy. It's here.
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by Jasonlek » Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:14 pm

I wouldn't really like this suggestion personally.

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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by Vinyl » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:48 pm

Do you honestly think a vague opinion like that is useful to a discussion that ended 10 days ago?
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by fr0stbyte124 » Mon Jul 15, 2013 12:48 am

I don't think it hurts. Especially since there hasn't been any discussion here in the past 10 days.

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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by ACH0225 » Mon Jul 15, 2013 12:57 am

Think tank is slowing.
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by CMA » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:19 pm

Tau wrote:
Last_Jedi_Standing wrote:Making opaque blocks block sound sounds really hard.
It wouldn't block normal sound, it would just impede the range of the normal MC chat (the text thingy).
I've seen a server plugin that did this, it can't be too hard.

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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by Ivan2006 » Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:36 am

The point is that (populated) cities tend to be smaller in MC than in real life due to lower populations.
The same goes for farms, as well as basically everything else.
Therefore it would not make sense for radios to have the same range as IRL either, otherwise range limitations would be pretty pointless.
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by Keon » Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:02 am

Ivan2006 wrote:The point is that (populated) cities tend to be smaller in MC than in real life due to lower populations.
The same goes for farms, as well as basically everything else.
Therefore it would not make sense for radios to have the same range as IRL either, otherwise range limitations would be pretty pointless.
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I think that if voice was 50 m or so, walkie talkies 1 km, and small, 1 block radio stations planetary, you would have a purpose for big antennas and uplink facilities.
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by Saravanth » Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:43 am

One-block radio stations covering a planet? I think those one block radios themselves should need a radio tower or something to be able being used properly, and vice versa (And then communication "through" the planet should be impossible with only one tower (and no satellites), that is, with the other side of the world-cube if there isn't another radio tower on the bordering face of it). Communication across space should have even bigger antennas, then, or need a network of several big antennas across the planet's surface, working cumulative with each other and perhaps satellites.
The point is that (populated) cities tend to be smaller in MC than in real life due to lower populations.
The same goes for farms, as well as basically everything else.
Therefore it would not make sense for radios to have the same range as IRL either, otherwise range limitations would be pretty pointless.
I agree about the range limitations, but as for cities, we should try hard and find a way to make npc-ish populations possible on a rather economic scale. I thought of something less like permanently present entities, but more like npcs going back and forth every now and then between their assigned "home" and working place/s they are attending for doing different kinds of stuff, where they while doing so are replaced with some kind of animated "ghost" for not using too much memory or whatever it is making entities so limited in numbers. Farms could generate food for them, if they require it, which can be stored at some kind of distribution centres that feed them or something... This needs a seperate thread, doesn't it?
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by CMA » Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:56 am

Saravanth wrote:One-block radio stations covering a planet? I think those one block radios themselves should need a radio tower or something to be able being used properly, and vice versa (And then communication "through" the planet should be impossible with only one tower (and no satellites), that is, with the other side of the world-cube if there isn't another radio tower on the bordering face of it). Communication across space should have even bigger antennas, then, or need a network of several big antennas across the planet's surface, working cumulative with each other and perhaps satellites.
IIRC broadcasting into space is much easier than broadcasting over the horizon, you basically just point to the patch of sky you want to communicate with and blast it as hard as you can. Of course, that does require significantly more power, but it's still... simpler.
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by Saravanth » Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:01 am

CMA wrote:
Saravanth wrote:One-block radio stations covering a planet? I think those one block radios themselves should need a radio tower or something to be able being used properly, and vice versa (And then communication "through" the planet should be impossible with only one tower (and no satellites), that is, with the other side of the world-cube if there isn't another radio tower on the bordering face of it). Communication across space should have even bigger antennas, then, or need a network of several big antennas across the planet's surface, working cumulative with each other and perhaps satellites.
IIRC broadcasting into space is much easier than broadcasting over the horizon, you basically just point to the patch of sky you want to communicate with and blast it as hard as you can. Of course, that does require significantly more power, but it's still... simpler.
Should we make it so realistic that you have to face the face with the communication tower? So, if you want permanent communications with spacecraft you'd need three of the six faces given a communication tower, as they could legitimately cover the bordering faces? Or maybe, we could make it possible to communicate with planets farther away the more of the interplanetar com towers you group?
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Re: Terrestrial Communication

Post by CMA » Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:18 am

Saravanth wrote:
CMA wrote:
Saravanth wrote:One-block radio stations covering a planet? I think those one block radios themselves should need a radio tower or something to be able being used properly, and vice versa (And then communication "through" the planet should be impossible with only one tower (and no satellites), that is, with the other side of the world-cube if there isn't another radio tower on the bordering face of it). Communication across space should have even bigger antennas, then, or need a network of several big antennas across the planet's surface, working cumulative with each other and perhaps satellites.
IIRC broadcasting into space is much easier than broadcasting over the horizon, you basically just point to the patch of sky you want to communicate with and blast it as hard as you can. Of course, that does require significantly more power, but it's still... simpler.
Should we make it so realistic that you have to face the face with the communication tower? So, if you want permanent communications with spacecraft you'd need three of the six faces given a communication tower, as they could legitimately cover the bordering faces? Or maybe, we could make it possible to communicate with planets farther away the more of the interplanetar com towers you group?
I suppose we could simulate different antenna... whatever things, they're almost all deformed spheres IIRC. Tau probably knows a lot about this. Although I just thought we make a sphere with the antenna at the origin, set the radius to the range of the radio, and then deform the sphere... well, that's basically simulating radios. It'd be easiest just to 'find' the radio you're trying to reach, and then see if it's too far away, but that remove the element of someone overhearing you, or detecting your transmitter. I suppose we could 'fake' that effect, but it would be cool to have realistic radios.
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