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From: anika-daini@friggarock.fen
Subj: The winner and the next update
Hi all,
Okay so maybe what's a 'scure reference to me isn't a 'scure reference to everyone else. The answer is, of course, Noriko Takaya from Gunbuster. A bit before my time.
Lynn Doolite wins the prize for being the first responder with the right answer.
We've also just received a spacecraft from a manufacturer for testing and integration into the game. All will be revealed in due course once flight testing is completed. It's a long a complicated process. The ether flow dynamics on a real spacecraft at speed don't always match the model. We've already learned things about it that we just didn't know before. Real tests teach you so much more than software models.
For the future, I'm trying to get a lot of stability mods done, and get the netcode a little more accurate at high speeds. There's some heavy equations it's running based upon probabilities of where spacecraft will end up on based on rates of changes of position, power settings and control inputs so it produces a band of most likely outcomes but that sort of processing needs some really dedicated hardware to do it fast enough.
The plus side is we've gotten some new stuff that makes Frigga's main systems run a lot faster too.
Also. I'm contacting manufacturers to make the game decks for me . There's some interesting stuff I think we can add to them too but I need to see if it *can* be made first. It works on a station scale - but can it be miniaturised into something that'll fit in a cyberdeck? Trying to do them and do the software updates to keep this thing going is just taking up so much of my day that there's no time left for sweets ;_;
-Anika
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And while I'm sitting here I had a rather interesting idea.
Given the sheer size of a place like Frigga, and because the whole station is a distirbuted computing system - one giant processor. To get lag down somebody's probably at least tried to rig up a sort of tight beam interwave relay since none of the major componants move relative to each other and full broadcast power isn't needed.
And then I sort of wondered, just how small could an interwave signal be made - if the range only had to be a few metres. A few centimetres across a motherboard. Or a few microns across a chip die.
Anika has, of course, reached out to see if it exists. Or if it can be built.
She's also getting eminently close to, ahem..... doing things because she can do them, and not necessarily because she should.
From: anika-daini@friggarock.fen
Subj: The winner and the next update
Hi all,
Okay so maybe what's a 'scure reference to me isn't a 'scure reference to everyone else. The answer is, of course, Noriko Takaya from Gunbuster. A bit before my time.
Lynn Doolite wins the prize for being the first responder with the right answer.
We've also just received a spacecraft from a manufacturer for testing and integration into the game. All will be revealed in due course once flight testing is completed. It's a long a complicated process. The ether flow dynamics on a real spacecraft at speed don't always match the model. We've already learned things about it that we just didn't know before. Real tests teach you so much more than software models.
For the future, I'm trying to get a lot of stability mods done, and get the netcode a little more accurate at high speeds. There's some heavy equations it's running based upon probabilities of where spacecraft will end up on based on rates of changes of position, power settings and control inputs so it produces a band of most likely outcomes but that sort of processing needs some really dedicated hardware to do it fast enough.
The plus side is we've gotten some new stuff that makes Frigga's main systems run a lot faster too.
Also. I'm contacting manufacturers to make the game decks for me . There's some interesting stuff I think we can add to them too but I need to see if it *can* be made first. It works on a station scale - but can it be miniaturised into something that'll fit in a cyberdeck? Trying to do them and do the software updates to keep this thing going is just taking up so much of my day that there's no time left for sweets ;_;
-Anika
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And while I'm sitting here I had a rather interesting idea.
Given the sheer size of a place like Frigga, and because the whole station is a distirbuted computing system - one giant processor. To get lag down somebody's probably at least tried to rig up a sort of tight beam interwave relay since none of the major componants move relative to each other and full broadcast power isn't needed.
And then I sort of wondered, just how small could an interwave signal be made - if the range only had to be a few metres. A few centimetres across a motherboard. Or a few microns across a chip die.
Anika has, of course, reached out to see if it exists. Or if it can be built.
She's also getting eminently close to, ahem..... doing things because she can do them, and not necessarily because she should.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.