Read the article, then post you mindless yammering.
Because 99% of the mindless yammering on here is already clearly addressed in the article. For example:
The students don't want to claim the moon, which clearly would be a violation of the Outer Space Treaty.
Of course, I think about 75% of all posters to slashdot are violations of the Outer Space Treaty to begin with, so I guess maybe I'm hoping for too much.
Today's schools are utterly strapped by misplaced priorities, high turnover, and lack of ability to properly discipline children due to all the lawsuits that have been filed against schools that effectively discipline their students.
You forgot "Some of" in front of "Today's schools..."
I've heard from the people complaining that releasing the source had just killed QW, because it was going to increase cheating.
I'm not sure what these guys are playing. I stopped playing QW because of all the cheaters. People who could run faster, whos weapons did more damage, who would get gibs on every shot they fired. They were rife about two years ago, when I was still playing. I haven't played since one game where a guy started blasting away with the lightning gun on a level that had no lightning gun.
It'll probably make it harder, as you can now modify the server to better recognize when people are violating the base rules.
What I'm thinking is this: A server mod that gives far more detailed information about each player. Things like: Average Speed, % of shots that hit, amount of damage per shot per weapon, rate of fire per weapon, things like that.
I don't really care about some of the more cosmetic cheats. Yes, modifying pak2 so the character models had axis bars sticking out of them so you could see them through walls is a cheat, but it's not one that gives that much of an advantage. I'm more concerned about people with abilities that give them 50% or more kills over the honest players. All of that stuff can be pretty easily checked on the server side.
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The U.S. is only nation that has sent "who"s to the moon. Not to be confused with "The Who"'s Keith Moon.
You were just waiting for a chance to use that one, weren't you?
Read the article, then post you mindless yammering.
Because 99% of the mindless yammering on here is already clearly addressed in the article. For example:
The students don't want to claim the moon, which clearly would be a violation of the Outer Space Treaty.
Of course, I think about 75% of all posters to slashdot are violations of the Outer Space Treaty to begin with, so I guess maybe I'm hoping for too much.
Today's schools are utterly strapped by misplaced priorities, high turnover, and lack of ability to properly discipline children due to all the lawsuits that have been filed against schools that effectively discipline their students.
You forgot "Some of" in front of "Today's schools..."
Unless you're just trying to spread FUD.
If that's the case, then by all means carry on.
I've heard from the people complaining that releasing the source had just killed QW, because it was going to increase cheating.
I'm not sure what these guys are playing. I stopped playing QW because of all the cheaters. People who could run faster, whos weapons did more damage, who would get gibs on every shot they fired. They were rife about two years ago, when I was still playing. I haven't played since one game where a guy started blasting away with the lightning gun on a level that had no lightning gun.
It'll probably make it harder, as you can now modify the server to better recognize when people are violating the base rules.
What I'm thinking is this: A server mod that gives far more detailed information about each player. Things like: Average Speed, % of shots that hit, amount of damage per shot per weapon, rate of fire per weapon, things like that.
I don't really care about some of the more cosmetic cheats. Yes, modifying pak2 so the character models had axis bars sticking out of them so you could see them through walls is a cheat, but it's not one that gives that much of an advantage. I'm more concerned about people with abilities that give them 50% or more kills over the honest players. All of that stuff can be pretty easily checked on the server side.