Idea for building a gps system
Weyrman
Brisbane Australia Join Date: 2016-06-22 Member: 218913Members
Brisbane Australia Join Date: 2016-06-22 Member: 218913Members
I would like to suggest a gps style option that works like cell phone positioning with cell towers. Have a "cell" tower unit sort of like the power transmitter that is powered either by solar or uranium rods.
You build a tower and and activate it. You then move to another position and attempt to build a second one, with its position set by a broadcast radius from tower 1, variable by terrain between them.
In the same way you place tower 3, so that it picks up signals from 1 and 2. When you have 3 towers, any beacons/markers in the bounding triangle defined by the towers have a distance to them from your current position as long as you are within the bounding box as well.
As additional towers are built, needing the signal from 2 other towers, the bounding box grows by triangles.
This doesn't need to relate directly to a map but still allows you to slowly explore.
Towers powered by uranium could have their signal flash when the fuel is 10% or lower.
You build a tower and and activate it. You then move to another position and attempt to build a second one, with its position set by a broadcast radius from tower 1, variable by terrain between them.
In the same way you place tower 3, so that it picks up signals from 1 and 2. When you have 3 towers, any beacons/markers in the bounding triangle defined by the towers have a distance to them from your current position as long as you are within the bounding box as well.
As additional towers are built, needing the signal from 2 other towers, the bounding box grows by triangles.
This doesn't need to relate directly to a map but still allows you to slowly explore.
Towers powered by uranium could have their signal flash when the fuel is 10% or lower.