[Off topic] A Celebration of Progress

[DocHoliday]

Hehe, progress is a nice thing innit?

Compare this:


to THIS!!


or this:


to THIS


Cheers and appreciate the moment.



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[freespace2dotcom]

And we've went from this:



To this:



Makes me proud to be a Terran.





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[DocHoliday]

hehe, don't make me go find an image of a stoneman dragging his stuff around (including the wife) and a space shuttle



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[freespace2dotcom]

Personally, I like the orion destroyers better.

They just look cooler.

[DocHoliday]

Hm, they remind me of the TCS Tigerclaw from Wing Commander. The last space combat sim I played as a child. Then
a looooong era of dark ages came to pass until I started making money to buy a decent machine and become a child
again But Freespace is really hard to play, I admit. The 3d command interface is quite demanding.


Right now, I'm heavily into the Total War series. I played the Medieval demo tutorials so many times I REALLY need to
buy the whole game.
www.totalwar.com (in case any of your might feel the impulse to check)
Can't wait for the Rome version of it. Feels good to command an army where every soldier is also the game statistic
as opposed to games like Rise of Nations where every unit represents a batallion or something.

I guess if I am a pacifist in real-life I can live out my favourite scenarios of world domination on my computer. A habit the world leaders might be wise to adopt



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[freespace2dotcom]

hehe.. Yeah, freespace the game is quite a challenge. I like it though. Raise shield energy, and divert power from
weapons to shields and pray you can hold out long enough for your wingmen to come and get that prick that won't
stop shooting you while you're in the middle of your bombing run. then when you've released your bombs, turn
around and outrun the shockwave before it rips you to pieces.

I like playing the part of a conquring military leader too though.  I like age of empires 2. Nobody can beat my strategy
with the british longbowmen. hahaha.

But that total war does look good.  maybe I can save up and get it....


I'd like it if they came out with a game similar to the freespace theme of star systems and big ships, but as you in
command of the government, and have full freedom to develop various types of technology to use in the ships you
build as you conquer star systems and keep the people happy at home. adding in various economic policies as well.. THAT'd be cool.

And yes this is totally off topic but you labeled it as such so I have no regrets.



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[Atom]

I have Medievil Total War. I sorta got bored and don't play it that much anymore. But it si a good game still.

Ahh, the longbowmen in Age of Empires II. All you do is get thirty of them make a spuare and put some monks in the
middle to heal and some cavalry to take care of seige weapons. Yup, i got that sorted.

as opposed to games like Rise of Nations where every unit represents a batallion or something.

Really, I play Rise of Nations and I don't tend to look at the units as battalions. It's games like Civilization III that I
reckon those rules apply.

[freespace2dotcom]

Actually, Atom, my strategy is different than that.

I make about 60-100 longbowmen, and send them to my enemy. Killing everything in sight before they can reach me.
I then send my trebuchets next to the archers and destroy the buildings with them. The archers protect the
trebuchets and my enemy can't touch me. mwa hahaha.

Calvary sucks for me. I could never use it effectively. My grandfather, who is my eternal AOE nemisis, uses the
byzantine unique calvary in defense to my strategy, but I slaughter him every time.

And about units as battalions, I also agree that I only look at civilization with that perspective, but it is true that wars
really weren't fought with the 100's of people as shown in aoe and such.

Even so it is fun.

[DocHoliday]

Hehe best strategy for me in AgeII I actually learned from ... my girlfriend She almost always plays as Saracens and
ends up with a HUGE army of Camels, Paladins and Cannoniers. We're talking 100 camels, 100 paladins and at least
10 cannons she even kills of workers to get the army to full capacity. unbleatable, IF you can survive that long.

I usually played as Spaniard I love their Monks on their "fast" donkeys Instead of the camels I used a plethora of
Mounted musketeers (forgot the exact name - Conquistadores if I'm not mistaken) and paladins and at least 20
cannons. I am known as Janez The Razer. I usually get a kick out of razing every building on the map.

But I love Rise of Nations because you can do modern warfare and even more so because the concepts of modern
warfare really apply (air superiority, carrier power, etc).

I am pretty sure I will get bored of Total War, but I really get touched by the fact that in the old days men (as stupid
as it is) REALLY fought eachother as viciously as one imagines war. Not with backstabbing concepts like nukes, spy
planes, strategic bombers. I guess I have a sort of Samurai attitude towards it. Bows are fine, sniper rifles are low
Although if I ever joined the army I'd be a sniper, even though I am shortsighted In Total War Sun Tzu fully applies.

Cheers,

[Schimz]

Scoop!!! a screenshot of the Orbiter Dx9 engine






Sure, it's a joke. But with the last generation of 3d cards , we could have a real time render like this.

[Krytom]

Hey Doc. You play AoE2 like me. I'm always the spanish. I'm getting a bit confused by this Danish keyboard, I keep on
writing Iøm instead of I'm.
Over here with my second cousins they have a house full of PCs and we played Age of Empires 1 with 5 human
players and 3 AIs over their network.
I'll be back on sunday, which is when I can finally do some work on the DGIII doc.
BTW: you don't have to open another "Welcome Back" thread.

[DocHoliday]

okay, have fun. I know the thrill of lan parties you should play something like Call of Duty or Alien vs. Predator
too