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Star Control 2 influences on Google Earth
« on: June 28, 2008, 03:09:12 pm »

Slave-shielded earth:



Mineral hunting on the terrain:




Just needs some info on the left and right of the planet and a small lander Wink
oooh, and lifeforms roaming Tongue
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« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2008, 07:19:45 pm »

You need craters for where the Ur-Quan-destroyed sites were. Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2008, 08:33:35 pm »

You need craters for where the Ur-Quan-destroyed sites were. Smiley


Or, rather where they will be.
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« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2008, 08:38:00 pm »

You need craters for where the Ur-Quan-destroyed sites were. Smiley


Or, rather where they will be.
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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2008, 10:48:46 am »

You need craters for where the Ur-Quan-destroyed sites were. Smiley


Or, rather where they will be.
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Should have been?
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2008, 12:59:19 pm »

Should be going to have been?
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« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2008, 06:52:28 pm »

Saw a thread recently (somethingawful perhaps?) where they took real pictures and overlaid game HUDs on them. These look totally eligible.
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« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2008, 10:11:48 pm »

Link or it didn't happen.
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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2008, 10:33:42 pm »

Wioll haven be?

Anyhow, that's a lot of commons, radioactives, and exotics! I didn't know the engine supported that many.
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« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2008, 05:29:29 pm »

Link or it didn't happen.
*Shrug* If I run across it again I'll link to it. It was pretty clever.
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« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2008, 05:34:01 pm »

Link or it didn't happen.

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Anyhow, that's a lot of commons, radioactives, and exotics! I didn't know the engine supported that many.

Imagine the trail of destruction a lander woudl leave on earth. Forget wagin war on primitive races, let's just ignore them and run over their cities while harvesting their tasty minerals.
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