Google Sky

[birq]

http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html

How long until we're able to send armies to Andromeda?

[Luke]

THat's a coincidence.
I was just checking it out as it was on the news here.

Though I'm a little dissapointed.
Celestia already had this feature and is better.
It's navigation is better and you can easily go to Jupiter or beyond.
It was more 3D while this one looks like a huge picture of the galaxy where you can zoom in on.

It'll get better...and ofcourse it's easy to adapt to gewar ;)
All stars and planets have coords their, similar to earth.
Just change the location of cities(and names) and change armies to spacecrafts and you have Google Sky War :D

[birq]

You'd also have to remember to increase the army travel time by a few orders of magnitude or else you'd have to wait a mere 29,834.51773 years for your scout troops to make it to Alpha Centauri and that might kill the flow of the game.

[Luke]

You'd also have to remember to increase the army travel time by a few orders of magnitude or else you'd have to wait a mere 29,834.51773 years for your scout troops to make it to Alpha Centauri and that might kill the flow of the game.

Tsssss....impatience kills the realistic factor of the game :confused:

[gfreak612]

This could be a very nice addition to GeWar, but this feature does seem to be in it's early stages. It would be nice if Google could add some more distant stars, make the background more visible, and make the planets 3d. The only issue I see with using this with GeWar is that the overlays used on earth are visible in the sky. I do, however look forward to the day I can fight for a star using some drop ships instead of tents.

[Tukamotton]

This could be a very nice addition to GeWar, but this feature does seem to be in it's early stages. It would be nice if Google could add some more distant stars, make the background more visible, and make the planets 3d. The only issue I see with using this with GeWar is that the overlays used on earth are visible in the sky. I do, however look forward to the day I can fight for a star using some drop ships instead of tents.

We could do the change but, the game would change of name to something different to GE and could be a new begin. Currently GE limits us to create levels (as donator server) where all the control is simply changing of levels to show differents kml files. With software like celestia we would lost a very important esthetic feature even would be more planets to conquest and never would mind how the cities are.

Also would be a project that would take a long of time with the current staff.

[smirk420]

What population would you assign these?

[jaz]

Guys...its pretty crap.

Just tried it.. It just "inverts" the earth, so you are inside, looking out at the sky.

Heck the cities KML are still visible.

[tHE_fOOL]

Guys...its pretty crap.

Just tried it.. It just "inverts" the earth, so you are inside, looking out at the sky.

Heck the cities KML are still visible.
if you're inside the earth then why don't you burn up from the tremendous heat? :p

kinda cool, though I would want Andromeda.

[thomas85]

What population would you assign these?

I think the planets should be totally empty at the beginning of a "google universe war" game so that every player founds his own colony (with ~10 scientists as a start) planets by sending a spacecraft from his HB (on earth). Later (when you have enough money) you could send some settlers to build up your colony...

[Brendo]

Just tried it.. It just "inverts" the earth, so you are inside, looking out at the sky.

How else do you expect to see the sky? its not like we have the capabilites to look the oppsosite direction

This is ok, could be better ;)

[Luke]

How else do you expect to see the sky?



Try Celestia. Much much better unfortunately.

[emperor55]

I have an idea... We dont make a whole new game out of this we just use it to expand the current GEwar...

Lets say you but a Space Shuttle and a Space Center in your city and By doing that it gives you the option to go and make a Space Station in Space which acts as your HB in the Google Sky area... From the Space Station you can make Space Fleets with certain number of ships in them that go and take over Planets. Some of the planets in the beginning have no value cause no one lives there... When you take it over you have to Colonize it and after that you get a randomly generated starting value for that planet... After that every day or so the number would slowly increase (As if new people where coming to colonize it) if the planet is attacked then it goes down ...

There could be like Space Pirates too...hehehe... They come and attack your planets kill troops lower the value and take geos out of your available funds... (That is if they outnumber your troops)

Or there could be aliens...

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