Completed Pioneer Models

[Marcel]

Right now the total count is 39, or it will be when I can get Brisbane to show up in its proper place instead of the coast of Antarctica. :?Edit: But I do have Melbourne in there correctly. I thought I should mention that the original idea for this came from potsmoke66. I lost track of where the post is, so no link from me. Anyway, he explained how to put your own hometown on Earth as a spaceport. (thanks Gernot!) I'm just putting them in. Gonna find out how many spaceports it takes to crash this thing! :lol:Another edit: After a couple of days of fiddling, I finally got Brisbane in the correct location. For some reason lat. -27.3842 long. -153.1175 puts it on the other side of the planet but lat. -27 long. -153 works. Close enough for Philbywhizz, anyway! Today is July 4th. In my country it's a tradition to drink a lot, barbeque, and blow stuff up. Have a good day wherever you are and whatever you do everybody!

[Brianetta]

When I was young I lived on RAF Lyneham, and then nearby. It was the home of the Hercules. These have left for the last time, and the base closes next year.Could it live on as a space port?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Lyneham51°30′19″N 001°59′36″WI don't live there now, but when I saw video footage of the last four Hercs to take off from Lyneham performing a formation flyby of my old school, with all the pupils allowed out from classes to cheer and wave them off, I got a little bit emotional.

[Marcel]

Of course Brianetta! This is turning out to be a scattergraph of our locations. It looks like in the 33rd century most people on Earth live in Great Britain.

[ollobrain]

how about some middle eastern or asiatic elements one of those japanesse temple things

[fluffyfreak]

Another method of picking which ones to place ingame:[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world's_busiest_container_ports[/url] have existing SeaPorts which are dirty, mucky places (except in Japan where they all seemed quite nice actually) so i'd bet that in the 32nd century they'd just re-purpose those since they already have the infrastructure for heavy industry.

[Guest]

Marcel wrote:
Just for fun I'm adding everyone's hometown I can find. Yes, even Croslee. There's someone from Orlando, which is right next to KSC, but I doubt anyone here is from Baikonur or Jui Quan (or Kourou). I like the idea, and will put them in. Earth is starting to look quite populated!
Don't forget to add me - Brisbane, Australia. (I call it 'Brisvegas' in my own game due to a name change in 3050 by popular vote )

[Marcel]

This is for Brianetta.[attachment=817:RAF Lyneham.jpg]
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Don't forget to add me - Brisbane, Australia. (I call it 'Brisvegas' in my own game due to a name change in 3050 by popular vote )
Brisbane is in there. I posted a bit about my difficulties with it. It became the Brisbane of my existence for a couple of days. Whenever I attempted long and lat positions with a number after the decimal point it ended up in Antarctica! There's a bit of rounding error, but I hope it's close enough, considering. @ fluffyfreak and ollobrain - I'm just adding the home towns of the people who post here. If you or anyone else wants me to add their location in, let me know.

[ollobrain]

mines already in there

[durandal]

Are you going to add every currently bigger and less bigger known place?Population on Earth at that ages is obviously stagnating in both human population and resources/developement in your universe

[Marcel]

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Are you going to add every currently bigger and less bigger known place?
No, that would be way too much work! I'm just trying to add the hometowns of the people on the Pioneer forum, so they can take off and land at home if they wish.

[s2odan]

[url]http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=google+maps+grays+essex&biw=1664&bih=879&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x47d8b0c54fddc055:0xaf0e68453507f070,Grays,+Essex&gl=uk&ei=nVEWTtqOJ4uGhQeOgpFN&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ8gEwAA[/url] One more lesser known town...

[Marcel]

Hey, aren't you the guy from the Virgin Islands? I'm leaving Charlotte Amalie in there too, 'cause I like it! In the version I'm using, at least, it's a runway type base which lines up almost perfectly with the actual runway. So you actually live here. It looks like it was a nice town back in the 21st century. Too bad the alpha 11 glacial period scoured all of that away. [attachment=818:Grays.jpg]

[s2odan]

hehe cheers.

[Azimech]

How nice, someone from Ljubljana! I was thinking of mentioning Postojna, my girfriend is originally from Gorenje, a few clicks from there. Someday we'll move there. At the moment I live in Leerdam.

[Marcel]

Ok, I'll add Leerdam. Would you prefer Postojna or Gorenje or both? By the way, I'm almost done. From a distance Earth is completely covered by a cloud of text. Reminds me of FFE. Flying over Europe without labels is getting kind of cool. You can see all the spaceports as sparkling dots, and often there's a couple within viewing distance when you've landed.

[Geraldine]

That is exactly as it should be Marcel, Earth is the home of humanity after all. Those little lights must look really cool if your looking down on Earth at night

[Marcel]

They don't hold a candle to the real thing, but they do make the place look inhabited. I added Postojna, Gorenje, and Leerdam. I think I just about have all our hometowns in. There are a few that I can't get to show in their proper location. I'm thinking of posting to the issue tracker about that because there's something odd about placing bases at some locations, but I've got the Earth fairly well covered with locations from SSC. I've added 84 spaceports thus far. I'm going to review my work one more time to make sure I haven't missed anybody. If anyone has a request for a spaceport, let me know.

[highlander]

Aberdeen, ScotlandCurrently a major oil & gas sea port, plus it has an airport (part of which is the world's largest commercial heliport, handling more than 37,000 helicopter flights annually). There is some manufacturing of oil/gas/mineral exploration and exploitation equipment in the city and surrounding area.Aberdeen could feasibly boast a small-to-medium-size freight space-port, with plenty of Interplanetary Shuttle and Lifter traffic, with the odd Lion, Tiger, or Transporter passing through. Tech available from the spaceport would typically include mining machines, mining lasers, and fuel scoops, while the stock market should show lower-cost hydrogen and military fuels.Plus, I live there (not that I expect to still be living there, or anywhere else for that matter, in the year 3200)

[Azimech]

Thanks Marcel

[Marcel]

Your welcome Azimech! Aberdeen's already in there, highlander. You have a neighbor named Stardreamer.