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Author Topic: [off-topic] GUPT VI  (Read 32286 times)

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Offline Atom

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28 October 2004, 23:46:04
We have stepped our first step into a new world of wonder and adventure, and so it begins...



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Reply #1 - 28 October 2004, 23:47:11
eeek, never posted in here before!


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Reply #3 - 29 October 2004, 05:49:45







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Reply #5 - 29 October 2004, 08:33:58
Wasn't it a lil too soon to start a new gupt?

One of those BMWs almost ran me down this morning when I went to work with my bike. :)


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Reply #6 - 29 October 2004, 10:09:27
Well, the other GUPT was loading in blocks, and I said I would start a new one when the old one loaded slowly, maybe it was a
little early? But I don't think there is much we can do now.

Groovy pics guys.



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Reply #7 - 29 October 2004, 10:46:17
Dang.  I knew I should have started it yesterday......Now Atom nabbed it :)


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Reply #8 - 29 October 2004, 10:58:38
Well, he DID claim creation rights in GUPT 5 :)

But I smell this sort of thing could get out of hand and we'll be having new GUPTs every day...


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Reply #9 - 29 October 2004, 23:33:32
No, that won't happen, not everyday, we're not that extreme.It can't happen.



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Reply #10 - 30 October 2004, 09:52:22
Atom, I'm warning you, remember how ironic the future can be. Now you've just said several times that there will not
be a new GUPT every day, the chances are that there will be.



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Reply #11 - 30 October 2004, 11:01:31
I'm sorely tempted to create a gupt 7 right here and now just to prove doc right. :)

Honestly though,  this guptness is getting to be a bit too much for even me. I think mine only lasted a week. :( (atom
I won't forget you for that. ;) )

Not that it's beyond my handling yet. ;) but a person can only take so much off topicness before he goes insane..
forever.. :)



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Reply #12 - 30 October 2004, 12:16:17
MARTIN, please save us from this off topicness and release the new Orbiter! :wc:



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Reply #13 - 30 October 2004, 13:53:49
Lol, patience deal krytom :p
Anyway, you cant talk about orbiter i nhere - that would be offtopic from the offtopicness of this thread :p


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Reply #14 - 30 October 2004, 20:52:08
Gone, I was angry.



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Reply #15 - 31 October 2004, 19:21:40
Okay guys, GUPT 7 closed for the moment. Brenton you've made your point and proven mine, so let's put that in the
forum history.


EDIT: I misread the stats.. Make that a 200 post limit. I don't know what figures I was looking at. Probably someone's post count! :) The idea is the same though.

Tell you all what. This GUPT is up at 653 posts (quite a pace!), so I suggest we open the new one when we get to
1000 (200) posts. And if we can agree not to get to "graphic" on the GUPT forums, than this post limit could stay as an informal rule for the future too. Just so we don't make a big deal of it every time :)



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Reply #16 - 01 November 2004, 06:08:08
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed halloween, even if it was just another day wherever you are. In that, I would like to
say that even though I'm past that stage in my life almost entirely, it seems that it's my uncle's favorite holiday, (and
it suits him well) but anyway, he had a party, and it was with mandatory costumes. Since it was to be held at the
place where I live, It seemed I either had to find some place to go, or just sit it out with a costume.

I got brave and roughed it out. :)

I saw zombies, a cia agent with a skeleton mask, and even a cat!

And of couse yours truely was dressed up as an anime character. I won the most original costume award because
nobody knew who I was.

...except one person. but it wasn't enough to sway the votes. ;)

anyway, it's a sad day when nobody recognizes inuyasha!

(perhaps it's because my hair was stubborn and only turned "old man gray" instead of white. that and the ears were
backward. but that one person who watched anime recognized me right away, so it's obvious that the ratio of anime
watchers and normal people is sadly in the normal person's favor.

Only one thing is certain after all that. my hair is going to be sticky from that hair spray for like a week! at least the
smell of hair spray went away...

If I get over the embarasment, I might give you some pictures...



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Reply #17 - 01 November 2004, 17:31:06
Atom Says: Haloween was brilliant, I spent this morning wiping an egg off the conservatory roof.

Atom and Krytom ask: Where can we find a decent free downloadable animated GIF creator?

Edit: It's fine, we have a program now. Watch out for some gifs in the future once we get the hang of creating them nicely



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Reply #18 - 02 November 2004, 07:37:46
hehe, international hollidays lesson:

back here 1st Nov is the Day of the Dead.. it's when families usually go to visit the graves of their ancestors and
generally is a calmer holliday. Until a few years ago Halloween wasn't something we celebrated here (we have our
own version in February), but I guess that too got adopted, just like Valentines.. So appart from the younger
generation, people don't have much of a celebration this time of year :) I wonder how soon until we adopt the 4th
July as well :doubt:

Just thought I'd tell this :)

Cheers,


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Reply #19 - 02 November 2004, 08:51:10
I got bored yesterday, and so I started researching the towns in which all of the main forum members live.

not the least ironic thing I found concerning orbiter was this:

http://www.ijs.si/slo/ljubljana/schweiger.html

I tell you... I have way too much free time on my hands if I can find that on the internet.



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Reply #20 - 02 November 2004, 08:54:51
hehehehe, that has NOTHING to do with Orbiter, but the thought counts :)


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Reply #21 - 02 November 2004, 09:03:23
Free,

BTW: Rome update. I am now the sovereign ruler of Galia, Britannia and Numidia, who have all become extinct, currently engaging Germannia and then probably going to take care of my Roman brethren :)

How do you deal with the shortage of governers? I mean, for one, you build them up, teach them and then after a
few years they die on you of natural causes if nothing else.. Ungrateful lot :)

I passed the Marius reform, so I can now build some advanced units.. Any way of "automatically" upgrading or do you
really have to manually rebuild the army. Build new ones and disband the obsolete units? Or do I just sacrifice them
in the battles?

Emperor Gaius Julius Vidmarianis :)



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Reply #22 - 02 November 2004, 09:11:53
Ah, It's been a while since I conquered all of europe and won the game.

I too have a problem wih the lack of governors, but you really don't need them after the point you're at. just keep a
general in your army, and ingore micromanaging your cities. but yes, you will need to rebuild your armies again, but
it's something that your can do gradually. even as I beat the game, I still had a few triarii and principes around. I
never used them, but they were useful in keeping the order in my cities behind the front lines.



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Reply #23 - 02 November 2004, 10:14:39
Yup, I like principes and triarii.. but civil dissent is kind of a problem unless I have governors. I actually had to move
the capital here and there.. First because of Spanish uprisings which were (mostly) due to distance from capital and
then becaues of ex-Numidian cities that wouldn't stop revolting. :)

Upgrading is going to be a major drag, especially since I don't have the most up-to-date barracks in the frontier
cities.. And I can't recall the units to even upgrade their weapons with the blacksmiths..... I guess I'll have to sacrifice
a few more turns and let a few more governors die of old age :) I have a big family though. I even incorporated some
Gaul and Britton generals :)


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Reply #24 - 02 November 2004, 10:47:21
And for the sake of proving how cool jets are (as we discussed over email and I'm nowhere near ready to send my
latest q&A email)

look here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/01/vulcan_for_sale/

and for about $10,000? damn, I want it. :)

(and yes I realize that the current bid is far more than that now)



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