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    I think the main reason the ships have gears is to give them that early development feel to the ships, like they only just left car designs and new technology isn't available to make the ships run efficiently so they put gears on them for better/ more reliable performance. Its really just to give the ships that special feel to them compared to the other games

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    Dang it, it's WipEout so everything needs an explaination

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    Nah it doesn't really, Wipeout is scifi so the likely hood that its lore would become reality isn't likely (do you really expect us to have created the plasma bolt by 2048?)

    Just take everything light-hearted and you'll get the most enjoyment out of it

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    Lol dude, no need to make excuses I already said why you should NEVER use gears on a jet engine/ airflow propulsion engine. The sound is like that because it sounds cool. Any explanation makes no sense. xD Gearboxes are only used when you need high torque, you don't need high torque on a jet engine, you need extremely high rpm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snakenator1 View Post
    Nah it doesn't really, Wipeout is scifi so the likely hood that its lore would become reality isn't likely (do you really expect us to have created the plasma bolt by 2048?)

    Just take everything light-hearted and you'll get the most enjoyment out of it
    I think a plasma bolt by 2048 is entirely possible. I just don't want to be caught in traffic with some guy behind me charging one up. They can accelerate particles to a speed close to lightspeed already, given that it takes a gigantic super-collider to do so. But at one point cell phones were gigantic, and look at them now. A lot can happen in 30 years.

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    Maybe they actually have a small engine for an electric generator. If they levitate using superconduction which is most likely, the ship would have to power the cooling system to keep them working. It may take a quite a lot of power, or since there are no wheels it was added in place of an alternator. It could also be needed to power such things as the plasma bolt. Quite obviously, its an excuse to make the ships sound cool as well.

    The roads would of course need to have magnets implanted in them, notice the lattice of stuff in the glass? that's most likely a network of magnets. The quake could actually be something to do with the polarity, causing all the ships to jump. No fire though, unfortunately. But the road could have a strip of LED lights change colour as the effect travels.

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    And turbines contain fans. Maybe these fans are also motorized.

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    Honestly the most reasonable explanation for the "gear shifting" sound would be if some component of the ship that used the jet engine needed a constant rotation speed so you'd have to gear down the engine's RPMs to keep that rotation speed. Even so it doesn't explain the engine itself reducing the power ouput as you can tell by the noise. There's no way around the fact that if you use any kind of engine that uses air flow to move the ship you never ever want to have gear shifting, you want the engine working at max RPM for full thrust.

    It makes even less sense if the engines being used have no moving parts like pulse-jet engines or Ramjet.

    Not trying to be a buzzkill or anything, just saying that compared to all of the other WO games, Wo2048's ship sound design makes no technical sense, only artistic sense.
    Last edited by Xpand; 24th July 2014 at 07:28 PM.

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