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  1. Engineering A Planet

    If I recall correctly, this is true, generally. The poles typically are under the domain of the northern/southernmost air cell, so there is going to be prevailing high pressure zone in that region. Now, the caveat is that I would say this only holds if the pole is all land, or all ocean. An...

  2. Engineering A Planet

    I can expand on them; as you have been otherwise occupied so too have I. I will elaborate once I am home from work. EDIT: Gryphon, I'll talk to your questions once I am home too.

  3. Engineering A Planet

    Map 4: Summer (July) Winds/Pressures Details to come, as with previous.

  4. Engineering A Planet

    Map 3, Winter (January) Winds/Pressures. I'll go into detail on this later tonight/tomorrow, but I wanted to get you this much as I said I would.

  5. Engineering A Planet

    Map 2, we add lines of Latitude, as well as arrows to denote prevailing wind patterns on an Earth-like world (same rotation speed, direction, etc.)

  6. Engineering A Planet

    You are welcome! Look at the first few pages of this thread, I list the resources I used then, and you can always look up "prevailing wind patterns", "climate models", etc. in Google to get useful guide-pictures or other informative sites. And rough is what you shall have! Map 1: Your base map.

  7. Engineering A Planet

    Nice work this far! I can take a stab at it later tonight when I'm home from work - I've not the software here to fiddle appropriately. However, nudging from what Gorn already put forward, Id say you go a pretty good start to work from. If you look further back in the thread you can see my...

  8. Fallout New Vegas - NCR expansion east ?

    Is it explained anywhere how the Shi as incorporated into the NCR? I believe the canon has them now incorporated (though it seems they were conquered with broad brushstrokes, rather than anything in story), and I believen Doragon in his story made the case they were still independent, but there...

  9. Alien Worlds Thread

    Nice work Nugax! I'm curious- can you expound the methodology behind how you set up the climates for that tidally locked world? I've only read articles on climate modeling that correspond to a typical, Earth-like world. Also, how would you compare the method in Gimp you just demonstrated to...

  10. Engineering A Planet

    Nice work Coen! With regard to the general making of maps, I have some advice if you want to make a well grounded (not necessarily a good looking, or fantastic, or whatnot map, but a realistic in that it follows terrestrial models). You need to make the map of the entire world. Back when I...

  11. Terraformed Planets and Moons Maps

    Here's one I made for VT45 way back in the days of college when I had more time. https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=1649769&postcount=249 Might be a few others in that thread. Basically I'd echo the others relative to the terrains. A good topographic map is critical...

  12. "The Bloody Man"

    Ought the 'Narraganset' River be the Pawcatuck? I know that apparently the former was an old name for the latter, but not by the time of RI's charter. I ask, because as a Rhode Islander and reluctant Yanquistani, I have an interest in my locales. So far I think this is an awesome TL, and...

  13. A History of the Mosaic Faith

    Mikegold, this is absolutely fantastic. I eagerly look forward to more.

  14. Vaucanson, Jacqaurd, and NC Machining.

    A cheat around As You Know Bob! Precisely. As we all apparently aren't working from the same start point relative to the ability of the AE, speaking in such general terms are the safest. Regardless of what the machines themselves can do, they are mechanical devices that are powered by some...

  15. Vaucanson, Jacqaurd, and NC Machining.

    Or even animal power connected to a drive train of some sort. Though I wouldn't think that electrical power would be something to truly envision here, as it seems to be getting ahead of the POD. The other theories and technologies surrounding electricity seem to indicate that you wouldn't...

  16. Vaucanson, Jacqaurd, and NC Machining.

    I wonder what the mathematical implications of a trade like this arising so early would be? Could it be that more emphasis on various elements of calculus that would have been developed later (circa 20th Century) would now have the proper impetus for arising in the early 19th? Exactly, there...

  17. Vaucanson, Jacqaurd, and NC Machining.

    This thread is a wonderful idea-resource for me, and gives significant fodder for my own novel. Do you personally know of any more? There must be a good number of French innovators that made some of the same things that Anglo-Americans were credited with but just didn't end up with the credit...

  18. The Great Thalvetian Starship Redesign Project (Moonstruck/Vendetta)

    Ah, that makes sense. Hadn't thought of that, but then I think I was assuming multiple shield layers for that sort of thing. This makes more sense than that. I can't speak for others, but I'd say keep up with te B'Stilan or whatever you want to go to next. For me, it'd be better to keep a...

  19. The Great Thalvetian Starship Redesign Project (Moonstruck/Vendetta)

    Magnetic floaters? Are they something much like the Varoto use on their tanks and ground craft? Would the winglets actually be necessary? If you're using the deflector shields to create what amounts to a field of force in the form of a airfoil, why not just make a large flying wing...

  20. The Great Thalvetian Starship Redesign Project (Moonstruck/Vendetta)

    Ah, that makes sense, although what manner of armaments do these 'smaller and more nimble fighters' carry? I would think they'd have to swarm in rather large numbers depending on their particular load of heavy weaponry. Although you could always have a sort of torpedo-bomber with a lone heavy...
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