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Re: what makes us different?
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lugnet.pirates
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Sun, 13 Jul 2003 06:11:35 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons wrote some good thoughts on some
bits-n-pieces that would suit .pirate fans:
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More window types: the diamond lattices are great, square lattices would be
nice, 4wx3h and probably 2wx2h and 2wx4h)
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I could take-or-leave square lattices, but 2h windows would be great (fences are
not that great), and 4h windows would be pretty good too (though fences on end
can do an adequate job).
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Bisected hull pieces: so that one could widen (and therefore lengthen and
heighten) one’s vessel
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Ohhh yes. And they could fill in those awkward holes on the bow pieces too.
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Better/different ratlines: ratlines aren’t meant to be symmetrical, and one
wonders under what dreadful circumstances they’d be brown.
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Agreed. I’d really like a choice of offsets... four stud and two stud perhaps?
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Rowboat alternatives: Rowboats suck. Building your own small boats is
unsatisfying because of the width of the brick. What wonderful things could
be done with a small boat centre section that could mate with the six wide
pieces, but with five studs inside and thin walls, as for the adventurers car
bodies.
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Absolutely - I’d love to be able to seat oarsmen side-by-side.
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Railings: the 4wx2h railings are cool if you can ever get enough, but
require plates over the top for consistency (what is it with the two only
studs anyway?). One can quickly imagine half a dozen glorious variations on
this theme.
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Lukewarm on this one. Lots and lots of 1x1 cones and 1x1 round plates’d do me.
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Gangways/ladders: there are a few staircases floating around (a bit big)
and then there are the ladder/fence pieces with the two clips at one end
(which are just not real close to the goal). Multideck ships need lots of
these sorts of things.
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This is not something I’d thought of, but is something which is desperately
needed. The ladders are just too short to do a good job.
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Bows: one of the drawbacks in the hulls is that for large ship the bow
piece simply does not rise high enough, and nor does it particularly support
the ornate work often done around the bows. There are some fine examples of
addressing this, but to advance from the state of the art one would really
want some options there.
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A vertical bow extender piece would be ideal.
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Cannon: I like the ones we have (in the three barely distinguishable
varieties), but ships carried all manner of guns. Richie has done some
fabulous work in this direction, but I can’t help but think that a Y mounted
falconer, maybe a smaller version of the current cannon (3 wide) and perhaps
a larger version would add great chunks of possibility.
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I’m not sure a larger one is needed, but I’d very happy to get a couple of
handfuls of smaller ones... just to replace the standard ones on my smaller
vessels.
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and beyond making new parts, availability of critical parts for large vessels
(tall slopes, tall inverse slopes, gunport doors) all act as brakes on the
creative flow.
It reads like I’m complaining and just failing to address these issues using
humble bricks (it only sounds this way because I am complaining), but I
have tried to address these things, and seem to have come the end of
possibility.
My sailing ships are still the pride of my collection, despite having
considerable larger and more impressive starships here and there.
Snotwise research into hull sides has not gone auspiciously well, and hull
bisecting is on hold until the Legend makes it onto Australian shelves at a
decent price. I have high hopes that this work will shake something loose.
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I have to disagree here: Pirates rule?
Surely you mean the
properly-constituted-navies-of-civilised-nations-and-particularly-the-French
rule!! :-)
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Sigh.
When the Brikish fleet controls the major ports in all the oceans, and just
about all the major shipping lanes, only a Frenchman could come to the
conclusion that a discussion of the ruling of things maritime could properly
include the French. Actually, I’d have been happy with
properly-constituted-navies-of-civilised-nations. There’d have been some
years when I think France might not have qualified ;-)
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:-)
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Somewhere in the South Pacifique
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Building a safer South Pacifique
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Richard Still baldly going...
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: what makes us different?
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| In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin wrote good stuff. Drawing on a particular thread, I found that one arrived at a point where there were few dimensions left to extend. I like the hulls, and haven't found snotwise work very satisfactory for sailing (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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