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Worldbuilding fun
Re: Worldbuilding fun
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I don't really think that's enough to justify single large vehicles as opposed to large caravans of smaller vehicles. You might get some larger vehicles than are common in our world, but not on the scale you seem to want.
At sea, smaller ships are more vulnerable to weather and it's relatively hard to keep ships close together, communicate between them pre-radio, and move people and goods among them, while obstacles are few and far between. Those all push for or support a "one big ship" model.
On land, on the other hand, its much easier to deal with the logistics of keeping a fleet of small vehicles together. Without the sort of pressures pushing the "one big ship" model, the greater flexibility, cost-effectiveness, maintainability, and so forth of just using lots of small vehicles would probably stop people from considering building huge "land-ships."
Aaron Nowack

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Worldbuilding fun - by Valles - 11-11-2006, 09:50 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Black Aeronaut - 11-11-2006, 10:39 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Sirrocco - 11-11-2006, 12:28 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by drakensis - 11-11-2006, 01:10 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Custos Sophiae - 11-11-2006, 02:46 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Acyl - 11-11-2006, 05:46 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Acyl - 11-11-2006, 05:56 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Sirrocco - 11-11-2006, 07:31 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by ECSNorway - 11-11-2006, 08:05 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by DHBirr - 11-11-2006, 09:37 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Deadpan29 - 11-11-2006, 11:11 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Valles - 11-11-2006, 11:55 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Evil Midnight Lurker - 11-12-2006, 12:07 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Valles - 11-12-2006, 12:27 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Evil Midnight Lurker - 11-12-2006, 12:59 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Valles - 11-12-2006, 01:50 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Evil Midnight Lurker - 11-12-2006, 02:09 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Sirrocco - 11-12-2006, 02:30 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by CattyNebulart - 11-12-2006, 03:09 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Bob Schroeck - 11-12-2006, 05:21 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Sirrocco - 11-12-2006, 07:50 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Norgarth - 11-12-2006, 08:05 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Evil Midnight Lurker - 11-12-2006, 08:09 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by happerry - 11-12-2006, 08:13 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Sirrocco - 11-12-2006, 08:25 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by happerry - 11-12-2006, 09:16 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Deadpan29 - 11-12-2006, 09:46 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Evil Midnight Lurker - 11-12-2006, 10:00 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Valles - 11-12-2006, 01:24 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Valles - 04-18-2007, 08:47 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by CattyNebulart - 04-19-2007, 07:13 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Valles - 04-19-2007, 08:58 PM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by anowack - 04-20-2007, 01:20 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by rmthorn - 04-20-2007, 02:01 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by Valles - 04-20-2007, 04:12 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by rmthorn - 04-20-2007, 04:32 AM
Re: Worldbuilding fun - by DHBirr - 04-20-2007, 06:27 AM

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