My new maps

ChromeAngel

<div class="IPBDescription">On ns world</div>I've just added a couple of NS maps i'm working on to <a href="http://www.planethalflife.com/nsworld/Main.ASP" target="_blank">NS World</a>.  <a href="http://www.planethalflife.com/nsworld/Map.ASP?UniqueID=%7BDA90AA95%2DD53D%2D4891%2DAA4E%2D1EE9D25298DB%7D" target="_blank">11th Hour</a> and <a href="http://www.planethalflife.com/nsworld/Map.ASP?UniqueID=%7B50530076%2D716D%2D4399%2DBA1D%2D4901FF5FE9C4%7D" target="_blank">Hydra</a>, they share similar layouts but very different themes.

Starship question : Which side is port and which is starboard?

I'm trying to come up with location names aboard the Hydra you see.

Relic25

Standing in the center of the ship and facing towards the front, starboard is on your 'right' and port is on your 'left'.  Also maybe useful, bow is the front and stern or aft (aft is more frequently used on air/space vehicles) is the back.



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Surge

Like Relic25 said. Locations, as in "Starboard Bow", "Port Stern", "Engine Room", etc.?

ChromeAngel

Thanks guys.  

I just uploaded 6 screenshots of 11th hour to NS World.  The thumbnails look a little washed out i'm afraid.

Gwahir

more specifically, bow and stern are the locations
but forward and aft are directions

Surge

What? Say that again... please. I don't know what you mean.

Also, stern is the... back, right? And bow is the front? What about aft... oh yeah, that's a direction... backwards. I probably have these all wrong, I've completely forgotten.

<b>ADD:</b> Oh I just saw Relic's edit. Nevermind my questions.

horror_kid

oooh oooh, and make a place with a candy machine and call it a "geedunk" and make a bathroom called a "head" and make a dining hall named a "galley" and a "scullery" for washing dishes in and...*smack* that would all suck in a level but i had a bit of a navy flashback there... doh, sorry...

HBNayr

Thanks to well over a dozen Timothy Zahn novels, I feel I must comment on this thread, even though it has clearly been laid to rest.  If you are standing in the very center of the spaceship (at least, I'm assuming it's a spaceship), and it's cruising through space, face the direction the spaceship is heading.  The bridge is usually in this direction, but not always.  That direction is Fore.  Anytime any signs are pointing in this direction, they should be labelled, Fore.  Keep walking in this direction, and you will leave "mid-ship" about one-third the distance of the ship from the tip of the ship'd front.  This section is the Bow.  Not a direction, but an area of the ship itself.  Turning right, you can see "Starboard" (in seagoing times past, the side of the ship navigators used to chart from).  Again, a label, not a direction.  If what I've read it to be believed, you would say, "Head towards starboard," and not, "Head starboard."

Turning back to the bow of the sip, turn left.  That's your Port side.  Good stuff.  Now we're turning towards the end of the ship completely opposite the bow.  Usually the engines and engine-room is back here.  This is the Stern.  If you start walking that direction, you'd be heading Aft.  And arrow signs pointing this way should be labelled "Aft."

Sorry that I'm beating a dead horse, dragging out the issue after it's already down with, but I just felt I had to reiterate it all in an unnecessarily verbose manner.

I think it's really cool that you're putting signs in the ship.  Very nice.  And I think it would be cool if it had a "Galley" (shootout in the kitchen, anyone?), and "Head," and some other ship-board things I can't think of.

-Ryan!


"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
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