[Colonol Dekker]

I didn't really say much attention to the prequels when i watched them, which one was it in?

[brandx0]

All of them referenced it, but it was episode I that paid the most attention to them

[Scourge of Ages]

Hold up: did they ever actually say that midiwhatnots gave a person the ability to use the force? I'm not entirely sure, but I think not. If not, maybe the mp3chlorians are only attracted to someone who uses the force, and therefore would build up massively in someone like Anakin?

[brandx0]

It's pretty explicitely said that the Midiclorians pretty much are the force.  in Ep1 Qui-gonn explains it to kid Anakin, saying that they're what give a jedi power.  In ep3 Palpatine says that Darth Plageus could create life and stop people from dying via the midiclorians. 

[aRaven]

no the midic. are the suborgans in a cell that communicate/control with the force. as obi-wan in ANH and yoda in TESB said, the force is a energy field that surround and penetrates us. It's not crude matter.

[Wobble73]

I'm pretty sure that Anakin was tested and was found to have the highest count of midichlorians ever, which is why Qui-gon thought he was the prophesized one to bring the force into balance. (or some such tosh!)

[Snail]

So of course we're not abiding to g-canon, since g-canon includes: Greedo missing from point-blank range, minichlorians, 9 year old kids blowing up strategic military targets, 9 year old kids falling in love with 18 year olds, 18 year olds controlling planets, 9 year olds making fully functional Pod racers, 9 year olds making fully functional protocol droids, the prophecy, Ewoks, armies of battle droids, clones, midifukkians, UNLIMITED POWAR, dual-wield lightsabers, He Who Must Not Be Named, R2-D2 with jet thrusters, R2-D2 with jet thrusters, R2-D2 with jet thrusters, R2-D2 with jet thrusters, Hayden Christensen replacing Sebastian Shaw, Ewoks, midi****ingchlorians, Neimodians, 9 year olds flying pod racers, Han Solo not shooting first, UNLIMITED POWAR, really stupid fart jokes, Ewoks, Jar Jar Binks, midichlorians, <insert repeated phrase here> and everything from the prequel trilogy.

So will the prequels be canon to Fate of the Galaxy?

[brandx0]

Luckily, in building a space sim, pretty much none of those complaints affect us Snail.

The Prequels will be canon, but we're not focusing on them.  It's not like we're gonna go out there and just make up our own universe.  Prequels happened, deal with it.  Are they as good as the originals? no, not even close, but for our purposes they don't really change anything except maybe giving us a few extra ships to play with.

[Mongoose]

Also, Ewoks rule.

[Snail]

Also, Ewoks rule.

"As we speak, my best men are on the Sanctuary Moon, being defeated by prehistoric primitives."

[Mongoose]

These same "best men" can't aim well enough to hit a Rebel at 20 feet.  The fact that they were defeated by a bunch of teddy bears with rocks makes perfect sense.

[Droid803]

These same "best men" can't aim well enough to hit a Rebel at 20 feet.  The fact that they were defeated by a bunch of teddy bears with rocks makes perfect sense.

Hence

"As we speak, my best men are on the Sanctuary Moon, being defeated by prehistoric primitives."

[Akalabeth Angel]

Meh, it's the classic rule of heroic combat. The more bad guys there are, the worse their aim becomes.



Ie. Luke in the Death Star bay stands firing against a bunch of Storm troopers who continue to miss him while he's hitting doorbells, etcetera.

Meanwhile on Endor, one or two troopers in the bush, and when R2D2 comes down to open the door that one trooper nails him with a blaster shot.

But anyway, not sure what this has to do with Afterburners.

[aRaven]

The blaster accuracy of the elite troopers is really burning my after!

after, get it??

[chief1983]

That could very well be classic psychology at play.  It's collective laziness, the more people you throw at a particular task, the less effort applied individually.  So the more stormtroopers shooting at one target, the more they figure, why take the time to aim carefully, there's so much fire something has to hit him.  But then again, I'm sure a study that was based on things like tug of war hardly applies to a gunfight.

[Scourge of Ages]

Another brand of psychology I love is tracking the progress of conversations (threads) along their various topics. It's fun!

I'm not complaining here, since I think the afterburners topic was pretty dead, and I enjoy silly stuff like this.

[aRaven]

That could very well be classic psychology at play.  It's collective laziness, the more people you throw at a particular task, the less effort applied individually.  So the more stormtroopers shooting at one target, the more they figure, why take the time to aim carefully, there's so much fire something has to hit him.  But then again, I'm sure a study that was based on things like tug of war hardly applies to a gunfight.

No..just no... if you really mean it, give some sources of your hypothesis, just don't throw something pseudo-psycholgy out!

[chief1983]

That could very well be classic psychology at play.  It's collective laziness, the more people you throw at a particular task, the less effort applied individually.  So the more stormtroopers shooting at one target, the more they figure, why take the time to aim carefully, there's so much fire something has to hit him.  But then again, I'm sure a study that was based on things like tug of war hardly applies to a gunfight.

No..just no... if you really mean it, give some sources of your hypothesis, just don't throw something pseudo-psycholgy out!

Are you arguing with my statement about applying it to a gunfight, which I already stated I was merely speculating about and have no factual data to back up that speculation, or the idea of collective laziness (probably not the pseudo-scientific term for it)?  I thought that was a fairly accepted concept of sociology.

[aRaven]

I never heard of it. I wouldn't get lazy to kick someone's ass even when our numbers were superior.  And I don't think anybody else would. What you are refering to is maybe the bystander effect?

[chief1983]

Ok, forget the gunfight.  By collective laziness, I'm merely referring to this:

Take a game of tug of war.  Let's say you have 1 person on one end of the rope.  Now, take that person and add 2 more of him.  You might think that 3 of the same person would be able to pull on the rope 3x harder, but I believe that's not usually the case.  The more people you add, the more the effort per individual decreases.  I'm pretty sure this is typically applied to other situations too, such as group projects, etc.

Now, if that's entirely wrong, fine, but that's all I was referring to.  Then, mostly for the purpose of creating a joke, I applied that to a gunfight.  I don't take that very seriously in doing so.  The base reasoning had nothing to do with kicking anyone's asses, merely group behavior patterns.