Gorgon

A T-Rex's top speed is estimated to be around 30 km/h and weighed about 6 tons, just a tenth of a present day MBT. In order to accelerate something like a T-Rex to 60-80 km/h, you'd need to apply tremendous force on the ground. If it's bipedal, the pressure on the ground is twice as great as for a quadrupedal creature and it has exactly half as much stability. An elephant that trips and falls can sustain life-threatening injuries. An elephant can run at ~40 km/h and weighs no more than 10 tons, which is about half as much as the lightest 'mechs and just 10% the mass of the heaviest variants, from what I've read. Comparing an animal to a fictional future tank is not exactly a sound argument, but the physics are the same and in the event of a crash, slip, trip or similar mishap, you can bet it would suffer major damage. So yeah, not necessarily impossible, but hella impractical and unnecessarily complicated, so unlikely to ever be built for any reasons, which was the original sticking point. (loses badly to cyborg ninjas with raspy voices though ) Regarding the KS, seems to have slowed down a bit. I have little doubt they'll get to 1.85M but the MP PVP stretch goal is probably beyond what they can muster. It is quite true that gravity doesn't scale, so when you built something huge, like a construction crane, you use structural engineering. A radio tower triangular structure for example is enormously strong and flexible, the tallest one is 2000 feet. If you do away with the notion of a thick armored exoskelleton, and use a combination of reactive armor, layered armor, and light plate instead. Multiple structural redundancies. Something built to survive a hit rather than prevent one entirely.

Aaaaand it's science time! Just scaling up insects doesn't work so well because the size-mass ratio is a power law. Consider this: some insects can walk on water, because even though their weight is distributed more or less evenly between 6-8 small limbs, the pressure they exert isn't enough to break water's surface tension. On the other hand, a present day 60-ton main battle tank whose weight is distributed along large tracks can often put enough pressure on the ground to destroy paved roads. Nature is full of these "tricks" that work provided the organism weighs little, but scaling them to human size or larger is a no-go. Even if miniaturization, materials science and engineering could overcome the huge physical challenges posed by simply scaling stuff up, operating a 100-ton bipedal mech outside of a low-gravity world would probably be too risky. Wasn't specifically talking about Mechs, just robots and how they are going to move around. Wheels and tracks are great for crossing unobscructed ground but for anything else there are a limited number of strategies involving legs that evolution seems to think are very effective, insect movement is a good choice for a Mars rover that can climb, interact, what have you. It's entirely unnecessary for anything to be as big as a Mech, but since we are imagning how one would move around. Well, a T Rex is/was a biped. We are also talking about insects made of superstrenght alloys, not that i think giant scorpion robots would be a good strategy, but I think it's entirely possible to engineer one that wouldn't collapse under its own weight.

i imagine they are only safe until someone decides to shoot a missile at them. the sattelites that is. As that capacity emerges they are going to get increasingly voulneravle. An end result might well be a debris cloud lethal to sattelites.

I assume there will be air to air drones eventually. Also there is the space-junk situation which will eventually lead to the demise of satelites. The number of in orbit space debris is going to increase exponentially as the pieces hit eachother - I think this was the excuse for the movie Gravity, but it's a real effect. So there would have to be something to replace that system, like a drone hive. Or.. autonomous drones. Drones are only as effective as they are now because of American military sattelites.

I disagree. Jury is still out on how robots are going to wind up moving around. Insect based movement has been the most promising so far, but then this also reflected the limitations of our time. It might be that emulating any movement system, including bipedal or non thrust flight (flapping robot wings) or whatever might be entirely trivial once we have reached the practical limit of More's Law. They say that might be sooner than later, but who knows.

didn't say mechs are practical, just that they could exist. I suppose it's mostly that they make really big targets and why invest so much into one thing that can be destroyed in one go. That kick respose looks pretty genuine to me, at least as a proof of concept. Kid with a broomstick my ass.

are those bipedal? and they ain't weapon platforms regardless. IF you were to make a giant robotic weapon platform, you would never make bipedal as is inherently unstable... and those robots you show could be knocked over and rendered helpless by a 5-year old with a broom handle. reality, please introduce yourself to gorgon. HA! Good Fun! they are supposed to haul gear. Anyway with advancements in servos and CPU cycles robots would be many times more acrobatic and dexterous than a human, scroll to where they kick it. The TV show mechs are using paintball guns because, well it's a TV show, what did you expect.

Had to post this too for giggles

does this look like something that could exist in real life. I mean if it didn't already.

The Vulture and Shadocats look like they could exist in real life. The ones that look like giant robot people with guns for arms. Those are just a bit odd. A few of them are odd-cool, but most are just odd.

well, the time period is wrong. this is pre-clan invasion, so no omni-mechs. however, archers and warhammers would likely be out for aforementioned legal reasons... as well as numerous other mechs. HA! Good Fun! They are taking models from MWO, warhammer and archer is not in as well so yeah.... To me it's all about the Mechcommander and Mechwarrior series. Battletech was some kind of DOS game with no clan mechs, who cares about that.

No Madcats or Vultures. Legal stuff I suppse. meh.

We are talking about cats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Ov_ptXsE8

:sighs: Gringos I started sleeping on the hardwood floor about a year ago to combat a back problem. It helped me straighten out and lay flat on my back throughout. Now I can could sleep on the sidewalk if I had to. When I see a wagrant lying on a cardboard bedding I'm like, 'luxury'.

It might interest you to know that at least one developer is reading this thread. This would be a good time to make an effort to be on point with your arguments and resist the urge to respond to personal attacks. If you don't, they won't be looking at your particular suggestions.

I think he's trying to see how long it would take to get noticed if he just posted that in every thread.

Sooo, any bets on how long before it will be free to play.

I remember a time people just wanted rid of him because he was a tyrant and then everything would sort itself out because.. Arab spring.

I kind of agree that being overweight is overwhelmingly not a situation beyond your owm control, so lets not have any fat role models in the same sense as let's not have any junkie role models, I'm looking at you Russel Brand, It's not a demographic you are supposed to identify with or rally around if you are overweight, you are supposed to get healthy. Of course I'm talking about obesity that is damaging to your health, not just having a little more around the edges.

It's mostly the neverending grind that gets to me. Seems like every time it starts to get interesting you are required to do 100 more menial tasks to earn arbitrary points that will allow you to proceed. Just... This game is hit hard by the EA sickness. At least Ascreed had jumping puzzles.

It's like Tiananmen Squae. It never happened, if you remind them you disappear in the middle of the night.

That's some nefarious pyramid scheme type idea where people are rewarded for helping the viral campaign with some pointless preorder stuff. The more people who preorder the more tiers, those who preorder first get more.

Why is a marriage licence clerk an elected official and why can't they just fire her for not doing her job. These are the real questions. Fix that first.