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Posted by: itsabrditsaplane
I think it's funny how everyone wants a "realistic basis" for how MC would be able to read an enemy's health gauge. Who cares? The game isn't about realism! In Halo 1 we fought a war against aliens, on a ring planet that, despite being a ring shape, had day time and night time and gravity. If you can explain those things, you can come up with some far-out reasoning behind knowing an enemy's health.

HOWEVER, I also think it's a bad idea. It's simply not necessary -- it would take away from the stratefy of the battles.


explainations:

1. gravity: artificial
2. night: Halo was on the dark side of Threshold
3. day: Halo was on the light side of Threshold

...there you go...

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Gravity is natural, not artificial. The ring spins at velocity that brings anything on the inside of the ring out toward the edge by centrifical force. Like spinning a bucket of water over your head.
Night and day are also explained by the rings rotation. Threshold has nothing to do with it as Halo was suspended in motion between the moon and the planet. The only place where the stars light could hit the ring would be at a parralell angle, which would put you in day for half a spin, and night for half a spin.

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no, the stars may not hit halo if halo is in threshold's eclipse

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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Gravity is natural, not artificial. The ring spins at velocity that brings anything on the inside of the ring out toward the edge by centrifical force. Like spinning a bucket of water over your head.
Night and day are also explained by the rings rotation. Threshold has nothing to do with it as Halo was suspended in motion between the moon and the planet. The only place where the stars light could hit the ring would be at a parralell angle, which would put you in day for half a spin, and night for half a spin.


buckets have walls, rings don't.

the story takes place over a period of about 4 days, we don't know Halo's solar/lunar cycles.

and, did you ever look up while playing Halo? you can see stars during the day at all angles.

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Posted by: byrum
buckets have walls, rings don't.


yea, but when you do the bucket thing it is pushing on the bottom of the bucket, like when the halo spins it is pushing everything out, or if you are on the surface-down.

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And the ring did have a wall somewhat...
Look at the ring during the Title screen, it's built like a bike tube.

It's simple physics, byrum.


And you can see stars at all angles because the atmosphere kept on the ring is ONLY on the ring. this means there is no concave (from the surface) ionosphere to reflect the extra light through itself, realistically if you looked straight up you should see a band of purple and blue around the ring, and stars elsewhere...

Remember 2001: ASO for the gravitational effects of rotation.

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