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Re: (TFT) Animated TFT Battles
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:
> So the quick notes;
>
> 1 pt ST = 5.5 foot pounds force.
> ST 10 is Joe Average with 55 pounds of "force" tying loosely to the
> weight of "work" with a surprising and well populated range of items
> and labor products measured more or less in the neighborhood of 55lbs
> from rucksacks and bags of 1000 drachma sized gold pieces to bushels,
> pecks and other units of agriculture expected to be gathered in an
> hours work and so forth and so on... so not only encumbrance but also
> work gets covered here and encumbrance gets a kick in the head from ST
> 100 which is equal to 1 HP which ties engines and vehicles nicely in
> with encumbrance and work... oh yeah and a new factor of ST I call pST
> for passive ST is in there for some armor damage effects... like so;
>
> Building Materials
>
> Wood
>
> Very Weak = 50 to 60 pST
> (walls)
> Balsam Poplar 26lbs per ft^3
> Northern White Cedar 22
>
> Weak = 60 to 70 pST
> (walls, shingles)
> Hemlock 28
> Black Spruce 28
> Basswood 26
> Eastern Red Cedar 33
> Western Red Cedar 23
> Redwood 28
> Cypress 32
> Aspen 26
> Cottonwoods 24-28
> Balsam Fir 25
>
> Fair = 70 to 90 pST
> (general use)
> White Pine 25
> Ponderosa Pine 28
> Jack Pine 27
> Red Pine 34
> Tamarack 36
> Yellow Poplar 28
> Soft Elm 37
> Soft Maple 38
> White Birch 34
> Black Ash 44
>
> Strong = 90 to 110 pST
> (floors, joists)
> Douglas Fir 34
> Yellow Pines 36-41
> White Ashes 38-41
> Beech 45
> Rock Elm 44
> White Oaks 47
> Red Oaks 44
> Sugar Maple 44
>
> Very Strong = 110 to 130 pST
> (furnature)
> Black Locust 48
> Yellow Birch 44
> White Ash 41
> Shag Hickory 51
>
> 30 pST doors ain't gonna cut it
>
> Structural Lumber E(modulus of elasticity) = 1,600,000psi
> Concreate E = 3,100,000psi, 1.93 or ~ x2 Lumber
> Structural Steel = 29,000,000psi, or ~ x18 Lumber and ~ x9 Concreate
>
> Loads
> Wind, Thermal, Settlement, and Earthquake Loads fall under Damage.
> These will prove useful for describing large scale effects.
> For Basic purposes, external forces such as wind can be considered as
> additions to the Live Load.
>
> Dead Loads
> The weight of the Building itself, based off its materials.
> Determines maximum Building sizes, defencive pST, etc.
>
> Ground Load Capacities
> Hard Rock 40 tons per ft^2
> Soft Rock 8
> Coarse Sand 4
> Hard, Dry Clay 3
> Fine Clay Sand 2
> Soft Clay 1
>
> Floors
> Board flooring, per inch thickness 3 lbs per ft^2
> Granolithic flooring, per inch 12
> Floor Tile, per in. 10
> Wood block, per in. 4
> Cinder-concrete, fill, per in. 8
> Stone-concrete slab, per in. 12
> Slag-concrete slab, per in. 10
>
> Roofs
> Cement tile 15 to 20 lbs per ft^2
> Clay Shingle 12 to 14
> Wood shingle 3
> Spanish tile 8 to 10
> 1/4 in. Slate 9.5
> 3/8 in. Slate 12 to 14.5
> 2 in. Book tile 12
> Wood sheathing, 1 in. 3
> Skylight, 3/8 in. glass, iron frame 7.5
>
> Walls and Partitions
> 8in Brick (single) 80
> 12in Brick (double) 120
> 17in Brick (triple) 160
> 4in Clay-tile 20
> 2in Solid plaster 20
> 4x2 stud, plastered 20
> 4in Glass block 18
>
> Masonry
> Granite ashlar 165
> Limestone ashlar 160
> Sandstone ashlar 140
> Common brick 120
> Pressed brick 140
> Concrete, plain stone 145
> Concrete, cinder 110
> Limestone rubble 150
> Sandstone rubble 130
> (reinforced concrete) 150
>
> Live Loads
> The weight of Figures and Items in the Building.
> Private rooms, suites 40 lbs per ft^2
> Fixed seating, classroom 60
> Offices 80
> Public Spaces, corridors 100
> Factories 125
> Stores, ground floor 125
> Stores, upper floors 75
> (theatre stage) 150
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Punch punch professional home design 4000 series version 12 spits
>> floor plans for Me these days...
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKqHqY5yBbc
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Also worth noting...
>>>
>>> A hex is equal to a 1" square in area making for an easy count
>>>
>>> As the 1" square-grid exists alongside the hex-grid movement for some
>>> things can go by the square grid, and I also use flexible tape
>>> movement, strait edge movement, and similar not tied to the hex-tile
>>> mechanics for various effects
>>>
>>> I mentioned MineCraft already and the ability to sim procedure-gen'ed
>>> game environments but I've been playing awhile now with Wolife's new
>>> Conway for the growth of weeds in the fields say over a season or yada
>>> yada yada... should be obvious with square both 1/4" and 1" and hex
>>> plus others serving to play a bit of Life to generate the changes...
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vgICfQawE
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> A few other mapping images I've got laying about that may help for starters...
>>>>
>>>> A scale-hex here which is the 1" hex (It's not a perfect hex of
>>>> course so actually that 1" is from North to South on the actual Earth
>>>> or the Page top to bottom if it's a frame like a building that snaps
>>>> too the outdoor scale-grid as the orientation is fixed for formality
>>>> but generally this is a focus tool in which each square is roughly 3
>>>> 1/4" a side which is loosely aprox to the palm of Your hand... 1.3m is
>>>> a body relative measure as well as they help quite a bit with
>>>> visualization.
>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZIZqg_qfNARWQwdk9NWGhWREU/view?usp=sharing
>>>>
>>>> Another tool here I call the flexible, visible, scale Man. Joe's set
>>>> to the scale-hex square and one sides intended for skeletal structure
>>>> the other for muscle. Points of damage I swapped for a fatigue system
>>>> allowing athletic type actions as the abstractness of damage sucks for
>>>> visualization. Hand weapons for melee generally are simple machines
>>>> that amplify the force applied by the Figure where say a bullet has a
>>>> ST applied by the powder not the Figure. Injury is the force applied
>>>> in a successful strike reduced by any armor or equipment between the
>>>> blow and the location struck itself shaped by weapon type placing
>>>> force on a point, line, or area and the flexible Man shows whats in
>>>> the volume of the location Grey's Anatomy style. Actual injury as well
>>>> as first aid... The idea is not to write a ton of rules rather point
>>>> asap to common reference materials like Grey's and encourage groups to
>>>> geek out where they while glossing over what they antigeek ergo injury
>>>> lite for most but able to go deeper for a kid into medical study etc.
>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZIZqg_qfNAQWdFQ1NJSHpsVU0/view?usp=sharing
>>>>
>>>> A final quick show of the '76 cross country bike trail pamphlet I used
>>>> to draw up maps I didn't have by hand and also a Google Earth
>>>> procedure that drops a hex grid over a G-Earth immage from proper
>>>> altitude. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wanderinghorse.android.hexish&hl=en
>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZIZqg_qfNAcjM5clRzODN6NXc/view?usp=sharing
>>>>
>>>> ... plugging mainly at Stats here until windoze box is back up in a
>>>> bit as I'z playing with layers for imaging the scale stuff and have it
>>>> on Sketchpad I think not Gimp which I knew I'z gonna Wine about
>>>> The things supposed to work a bit like Ames... Powers of Ten.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CKd0aPSWe8
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> A standard 8" by 10" Page. A unit of mapping using standard common
>>>>> materials and allowing adaption to varied play environments.
>>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZIZqg_qfNAQTlqaWJ0MEk3cU0/view?usp=sharing
>>>>>
>>>>> A county map with hexes snapped to section township and range grid
>>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZIZqg_qfNANmpXci1oRkg4RzA/view?usp=sharing
>>>>>
>>>>> Log and Lat snapped flat map projection of Earth
>>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZIZqg_qfNAR2I5dmxWWmxLeU0/view?usp=sharing
>>>>>
>>>>> Pages distributed in a "meta-hex" setup where each Page can be
>>>>> represented as a hex on a single Page representing a larger Page
>>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZIZqg_qfNAVFRTUXNXQXhiZ3c/view?usp=sharing
>>>>>
>>>>> Uhhhh brb Mr G's hollerin I think
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Can do...
>>>>>> Both jobs are complete mechanically speaking. I've been playing with
>>>>>> presentation. Nobody had asked for any... anything much less format
>>>>>> till now. Unsurprising as I wasn't prioritizing communication so much
>>>>>> as keeping notes while playing around with style and form and letting
>>>>>> the wall of text serve as a bit of a copyright... uhhhhhh I've not
>>>>>> messed a ton with Gdoc's but I think I can knock this out fairly
>>>>>> quicklike. Sick and tired of research I'm in anyway... this kind of
>>>>>> thing is very draining...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In its Annual Energy Outlook 2009, EIA placed U.S. shale resources at
>>>>>> 269.3 trillion cubic feet with total U.S. natural gas resources of
>>>>>> 1,759.5 trillion cubic feet. In
>>>>>> contrast, Navigant Consulting (2008) finds that U.S. shale gas
>>>>>> resources could be as high as 842
>>>>>> trillion cubic feet, and the Potential Gas Committee (PGC; 2009)
>>>>>> provides an estimate of 615.9
>>>>>> trillion cubic feet. As shown in Figure 4, these shale gas resources
>>>>>> are widely distributed
>>>>>> throughout the United States.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How much shale is in the US?
>>>>>> A lot. The United States is among the leaders in natural gas
>>>>>> extraction, and holds about 13 percent of the world’s reserve of shale
>>>>>> gas, second only to China in potential production.
>>>>>> Like all resources, however, shale gas is not dispersed evenly
>>>>>> throughout the country. Most states have at least some formation
>>>>>> within their borders. Texas and Pennsylvania are flush with
>>>>>> multi-level basins and are the two powerhouse states in terms of
>>>>>> production.
>>>>>> But in the South, the Carolinas are barren in terms of shale basins;
>>>>>> Georgia has a small section in the northwest corner and Florida’s
>>>>>> reserve is a splotch shared with bordering Alabama. In addition, the
>>>>>> regions of New England and the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon,
>>>>>> Idaho and Utah) lack active shale plays. In the midwest however, shale
>>>>>> coverage is dense, and Minnesota is the only state that is dry in
>>>>>> regard to current plays.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Clark’s earlier talk of an LNG industry - one she said would create
>>>>>> 100,000 jobs, a C$100 billion Prosperity Fund, a C$1 trillion boost to
>>>>>> the gross domestic product and the elimination of British Columbia’s
>>>>>> debt - is starting to falter."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Hughes notes the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission estimates raw gas
>>>>>> reserves (gas that can be drilled and recovered based on existing
>>>>>> economics and well data) for the province at 42.3 trillion cubic
>>>>>> feet."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Almost ten years of design and review makes the Oregon LNG project
>>>>>> safe and environmentally sound. And it will bring $90 million in new
>>>>>> tax revenues every year, plus thousands of new jobs, both for
>>>>>> construction and for support of the project during its operation—many
>>>>>> of them in local small businesses supplying the project’s ongoing
>>>>>> needs."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The final EIS said the project would cause “some limited adverse
>>>>>> environmental impacts,” but those impacts COULD BE (mine) reduced to
>>>>>> “less-than-significant levels” by the applicants’ mitigation measures
>>>>>> and FERC’s recommended measures."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Clatsop County /ˈklætsəp/ is a county located in the U.S. state of
>>>>>> Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,039"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 37k total pop : thousands of new jobs
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah... I'm actually right on it Sir as this kindda thing makes My
>>>>>> head hurt. The trick is the antennas. If this were such the boon why
>>>>>> pray tell the refining of tar sands? In industrial agriculture oil IS
>>>>>> food and the 1000+ miles from field to plate is just icing on the cake
>>>>>> they're eating while having. Pesticides and fertilizer is the rub with
>>>>>> climate change...
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3RAMjx8aps
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah... a break is what's called for no bout a doubt it. On it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Marc Gacy <marcgacy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Jay,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A long time ago you had several ideas for TFT, including "mapping the
>>>>>>> world" and codifying ST, DX and IQ in real world terms.
>>>>>>> Since no one (including yourself) would accuse you of being either overly
>>>>>>> concise or particularly organized, have you thought about putting your
>>>>>>> ideas in a Google doc that could be edited and distilled by others to
>>>>>>> provide the information you're hoping to get across?
>>>>>>> ᐧ
>>>>>>>
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