I have to agree its the ship that is doing the stressful move not the pilot. In my mind it explains why the tie defender has a white k-turn as its engines are so powerful it just turns around easily and gets back into the fight but can't turn worth a crap.
It cant turn easily because it moves so fast, its much heavier than the interceptor so it takes more power and puts on more stress doing the tighter turn.
I have to agree its the ship that is doing the stressful move not the pilot. In my mind it explains why the tie defender has a white k-turn as its engines are so powerful it just turns around easily and gets back into the fight but can't turn worth a crap.
It cant turn easily because it moves so fast, its much heavier than the interceptor so it takes more power and puts on more stress doing the tighter turn.
I know. When I said turn around I meant on the game-board with the k-turn. The defender is the american sports car of x-wing or if you want a WWII example the ME-262 with its red turns etc.
I always saw the A wing as the me262... stupidly fast but fragile.
x wings are spits and TIE/ln are meschermits
Y wings are mosquitos
Ints are Focker wolf long nose Ds
if i wanted WWII equivalents
x wings are spits and TIE/ln are meschermits
Y wings are mosquitos
Ints are Focker wolf long nose Ds
if i wanted WWII equivalents
Now you'll have to start a new thread that asks which WWII Fighter is represented by each x-wing mini.
I'd be interested to see what people think....
Maybe one of the IG88 pilots has an ability like At the end of the combat phase, remove all stress from your ship.
This lets him do red maneuvers for days, but still loses his actions for doing so.
I don't mind Han Solo being so cool he pisses ice cubes. What get's me are those lame space opera robots. The whole point of constructing robots is that they have no emotions. Commander Data and his emotional chip (leaving to wash out mouth with soap)
The droids in Star Wars are artificial intelligences, not simply robots. That's why they need restraining bolts.
I don't mind Han Solo being so cool he pisses ice cubes. What get's me are those lame space opera robots. The whole point of constructing robots is that they have no emotions. Commander Data and his emotional chip (leaving to wash out mouth with soap)
The droids in Star Wars are artificial intelligences, not simply robots. That's why they need restraining bolts.
Artificial intelligence with feelings sounds just as ludicrous to me.
The feelings are a defect which is why memory wipes are a regular thing.
But that what set it aside from other films... the 'droids' you could relate to them.
Prior to that robots in sci fi were pretty one dimensional.
Equally c3p0 and d2 are the 'laurel and hardy' of star wars... they provided comic relief to lighten the mood and add variety.
Your other option for comic relief was 'ewoks'...no tell me droids with feelings is so bad
R2D2 regularly suffers from stress. He's a good sport, though.
I don't mind Han Solo being so cool he pisses ice cubes. What get's me are those lame space opera robots. The whole point of constructing robots is that they have no emotions. Commander Data and his emotional chip (leaving to wash out mouth with soap)
The droids in Star Wars are artificial intelligences, not simply robots. That's why they need restraining bolts.
Artificial intelligence with feelings sounds just as ludicrous to me.
That's a real problem right now in AI science: How does one even define artificial intelligence?
Consider:
You design a machine to be intelligent. One day it does something unexpected, or unwanted, rebellious, or inexplicable. How can you tell if the machine is intelligent or malfunctioning? Is your inclination to fix the machine because it's broken, or to allow it to behave in whatever unexpected / unwanted / rebellious / inexplicable way because maybe it's actually doing what it wants to do?
It's a very real problem that many people don't even think about when they talk about AI. I think the only way to know if we've invented artificial intelligence is when it says "no, screw you, I'm doing this instead" -- and our inclination will still be to fix the glitch.
So yeah, if we ever invent AI, it'll probably have emotions of some kind, maybe just a sense of self-preservation -- which will be something akin to fear (fight or flight) -- but fear is an emotion.
Edited by DagobahDaveBut that what set it aside from other films... the 'droids' you could relate to them.
Prior to that robots in sci fi were pretty one dimensional.
Equally c3p0 and d2 are the 'laurel and hardy' of star wars... they provided comic relief to lighten the mood and add variety.
Your other option for comic relief was 'ewoks'...no tell me droids with feelings is so bad
It does not set it aside from other films. Sentimental robots are the staple of bad science fiction, or rather "bad science" fiction. Space opera is opera: great music, overwhelming costumes and stage design, cheesy actors and a harebrained libretto.
Ever overloaded your computer so it goes at snail pace or crashed it outright? Droids can be overloaded and thus stressed.
...I think the answer is yes, OP.
Droids in star wars 'develop' personalities over time, thats why often they get memory wiped by new owners so they dont develop bad habits.. like IG88 killing his designers.. thats a bad habit.
I don't know for an Assassin droid tying up lose ends, like those who know your weaknesses, seems like a good habit. The bad habit was not programming in a backdoor safe-word as the designer.
Ever overloaded your computer so it goes at snail pace or crashed it outright? Droids can be overloaded and thus stressed.
No not only do I use quality parts I keep my system clean of viruses and malware, now my father's computer is another thing I don't know what he's been downloading but yikes it's bad, gonna waste a weekend nukeing that hard drive from orbit, only way to be sure.