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Super-long range radio?

Postby Doug R. » Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:51 pm

There are reports that transmissions being sent from Blerk Hills on Cantr island with an enhanced transmitter are being received in north treefeather? I've verified the locations of both sender and recipient. Is this possible?
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby Snickie » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:46 pm

With a ton of enhanced range repeaters, I would think so. I know a lot of Cantr Island is linked via radios. Teragotha obviously is. A good portion of Treefeather is. Teragotha might be the middle man, so to speak, between the islands.
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby SekoETC » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:47 pm

At least Olip west can reach Knatr North with extended range/ship radio transmitter, so if there's an extended range repeater in Knatr North, that could connect to a network on Treefeather. The distance is 136 pixels, that's well within range.
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby Doug R. » Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:00 pm

Snickie wrote:With a ton of enhanced range repeaters, I would think so. I know a lot of Cantr Island is linked via radios. Teragotha obviously is. A good portion of Treefeather is. Teragotha might be the middle man, so to speak, between the islands.

Teregotha doesn't use frequency 100, and there I don't know of any repeaters on the island.

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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby madfish » Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:56 pm

If the longest range repeater is 150 then it can't be possible. According to the maria schultz atlas the closest two locations are 229 sextant degrees away. And teregotha is over 200 away from treefeather.

I call bug.

SekoETC wrote:At least Olip west can reach Knatr North with extended range/ship radio transmitter, so if there's an extended range repeater in Knatr North, that could connect to a network on Treefeather. The distance is 136 pixels, that's well within range.


If that is correct and the atlas I just referenced is wrong, then fair enough.
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby Doug R. » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:08 pm

Verified. 136.41847 pixels distant.
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby madfish » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:10 pm

Ok not a bug then I guess. Do sextant's measure pixels then? Out of interest.
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby Doug R. » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:13 pm

Well, hold on a second. Sextants measure the game grid. I used the town coordinates in the DB to get that number, so same as the sextant.

Are the game grid coordinates the same as pixel count?
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby madfish » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:20 pm

Did you use a^2 + b^2 = c^2 to get that distance?
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby SekoETC » Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:35 pm

I assume game coordinates would be the same as pixels, or at least the same thing as radio pixels. There's no telling if radio pixels match with map pixels since the map is multiplied in size from the original image.
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Re: Super-long range radio?

Postby Doug R. » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:44 pm

madfish wrote:Did you use a^2 + b^2 = c^2 to get that distance?

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