If you havent played it in a long time you might get disappointed. the NS community is very much split up about the changes the developers did to the origina gameplay. They optimized it more and more for fast clan games meaning that the play time was reduced to games under one hour. By these changes the original RTS- (Real Time Strategy - like Starkcraft as FPS) style of NS suffered alot and the game lost much of its complexety.
Ahhh.. those were nice times when NS games lasted up to 3 hours and the loss of the marines armory building was a big tragedy and could turn the game completely around. Now the loss of an armory builing is just a joke and you just build a new one.
Summa sumarum: IMHO it didn't get better and you can see that working by fewer and fewer people playing NS. I had stopped playing it for these reasons and playing it now from time to time to see if something changed to the better.
I didn't say that I don't believe in the moon landing... IMHO they were walking on the moon. But I bet it would stop people bad-mouthing the moon landings.
they are able to find a _planet_ that is away more than 225 light years but they aren't able to point their telescopes toward the moon to find out if the vehicles from the moon landing are really there...
Can someone explain that to me?
Is it because they are only finding out by radiation instead of visual photography?? the moon has no atmosphere.. i just vant imagine tehre is no telescope orbiting our earth which isn't capable to take pictures from the moon in very high resolution?
I am more shocked that Slashdot is covering this desaster so late! I know Slashdo is a tech portal but this is like not covering 9/11 when it happened.
...but I am still greedy for Star Trek.. and I am looking forward to the next ST:Enterprise Season.
You can get into a big discussion wether it should be historically correct based on the previous series' but IMHO it isn't so important that anyone should get desperate about it.
Personally i dont like the original TOS.. its so cheesy and artificial. I am an early adopter so I like to play around with new things all the time.
A new star trek episode every week is exactly the thing i need;)
but I am still greedy for Star Trek.. and I am looking forward to the next ST:Enterprise Season.
You can get into a big discussion wether it should be historically correct based on the previous series' but IMHO it isn't so important that anyone should get desperate about it.
Personally i dont like the original TOS.. its so cheesy and artificial. I am an early adopter so I like to play around with new things all the time.
A new star trek episode every week is exactly the thing i need;)
We are running six Half-Life (HL) servers with Counter-Strike and Natural Selection Mods and have found that Cheating death is the best viable solution.
Valve (the makers of HL) are offering their own security engine but its almost worthless since it gets updated rarley and it is aimed to detect cheats only.
Cheating Death on the other hand is aimed not only to detect but to prevent cheats (for example by moving the things you arent supposed to see anyway (player behind wall) to the players back). Because of this Cheating Death can't catch a cheater but his cheats are becoming useless.
In addition to that Cheating Death is updated very often and so it is able to prevent most cheats.
Conclusion:
A anti-cheating engine that isn't updated regulary is almost rendered useless in a long run.
Because its not glorifying for the circumstance that you did something for your country but that you killed people.
If you want to be glorified then help people with problems in your own country. I bet there will be alot to do (like in every country there is).
Serving your country can be done in many different ways but shooting other people or dropping bombs on them arent the thing that should be glorified.
Its a shame that even for self-defense you have to do this... it should never be a pride.
History shows us how big the desaster can be if glorification of violence, pride and eventually dumbness are working together.
an army for _self defense_ is okay (as last ressort). The problems are the limits of _self defense_. Theses limits are getting softened everytime a nation is getting threatened in one way or the other.
My thinking of "banning army commercials" is founded on the danger of glorifying the army (which is happening alot in recent and older times) and by this glorifying blood, tears and war (even if it wasn't meant that way)
Calling and using the army should be the last ressort... unfortunately it is not happening that way.
Sometimes i have the feeling that only by glorifying the army some people can stand the pain when someone they loved died in country for some oil and faked mass destruction reasons.
"Do you also boycott any tv show/channel/network/cable company that runs GO ARMY ads?"
ehh.. yes.
I think there is nothing good coming from war or violence. The obvious mechanical response to violence is more violence... but violence doesn't solve violence - you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.
The Unreal 2 XMP Mulitplayer Mod is great.. one of the best mods in the Unreal 2 engine.. and they programmed it for free afterwards.
Kudos to these programmers!
Yep.. this was my first machine too.
I got it for christmas in 1980 i think.
I had that MZ-731 which had the tape and a plotter built in.
I was 8 years old at that time.
The lack of programs soon made me programming my own programs.
More than 20 Years later programming is my profession and I am leading the software development department in a big print media group.... and i never finished the university... too much to program out there;).
Well... i was phoning with my gf and she told me that she bought something special for me. We got in to that try and guess game and I sneaked to my computer and fired up the 20Q website. Secretly i weaved the 20Q questions in the chat and in the end I found out what present she got for me... I almost cracked up laughing and when i told her how I found it out she was a little pissed but she got over it finally.
Well.. i had to promise not to cheat ever again;).
>I've always wanted to see a AutoDuel MMPOG, some kind of wasteland, not all this RPG with swords. >And Anarchy Online just didnt make the grade, and Star Wars Galaxy isnt hitting the mark.
You should really try Neocron. It's based in a Blade Runner Theme world. http://www.neocron.com
They were fined because of saying the code is stolen even a court order was issed before that they may not do so. If they hurt this order again they will be fined for even bigger amounts.
This court order is valid until the case will be decided finally in a court.
Slashdot Mirror
Hi!
If you havent played it in a long time you might get disappointed. the NS community is very much split up about the changes the developers did to the origina gameplay. They optimized it more and more for fast clan games meaning that the play time was reduced to games under one hour. By these changes the original RTS- (Real Time Strategy - like Starkcraft as FPS) style of NS suffered alot and the game lost much of its complexety.
Ahhh.. those were nice times when NS games lasted up to 3 hours and the loss of the marines armory building was a big tragedy and could turn the game completely around. Now the loss of an armory builing is just a joke and you just build a new one.
Summa sumarum: IMHO it didn't get better and you can see that working by fewer and fewer people playing NS. I had stopped playing it for these reasons and playing it now from time to time to see if something changed to the better.
I didn't say that I don't believe in the moon landing... IMHO they were walking on the moon. But I bet it would stop people bad-mouthing the moon landings.
they are able to find a _planet_ that is away more than 225 light years but they aren't able to point their telescopes toward the moon to find out if the vehicles from the moon landing are really there...
Can someone explain that to me?
Is it because they are only finding out by radiation instead of visual photography?? the moon has no atmosphere.. i just vant imagine tehre is no telescope orbiting our earth which isn't capable to take pictures from the moon in very high resolution?
Here some Emule/Edonkey Links to private videos of this destater... You want to beat these people either for:
u y.WMV
tsunami_sri_lanka_db_2004.12.26.wmv
tsunami-indonesia12-2004.qt
- just standing there and taping when the wave is approaching instead of running for their life.
- just standing there on a safe spot and taping not helping people crying for help in the water
gigant.tsunami.tidal.waves.in asia.recorded.on.koh.lanta.thailand.by.a.danish.g
Ok.. i have to correct myself... it was covered with two sentences in a small article - i must have overlooked it despite to its 'big' size.
I am more shocked that Slashdot is covering this desaster so late! I know Slashdo is a tech portal but this is like not covering 9/11 when it happened.
Well...
civil harm is treated differently in Germany... For civil harm you most probably will end in jail additionally to the damage that you have to pay.
In addition/in exchange to that you may be forced to do community services for some time.
...but I am still greedy for Star Trek.. and I am looking forward to the next ST:Enterprise Season.
;)
You can get into a big discussion wether it should be historically correct based on the previous series' but IMHO it isn't so important that anyone should get desperate about it.
Personally i dont like the original TOS.. its so cheesy and artificial. I am an early adopter so I like to play around with new things all the time.
A new star trek episode every week is exactly the thing i need
Play well
Rick
but I am still greedy for Star Trek.. and I am looking forward to the next ST:Enterprise Season.
;)
You can get into a big discussion wether it should be historically correct based on the previous series' but IMHO it isn't so important that anyone should get desperate about it.
Personally i dont like the original TOS.. its so cheesy and artificial. I am an early adopter so I like to play around with new things all the time.
A new star trek episode every week is exactly the thing i need
Play well..
Rick
...is one of the most important things in life. Finally some judge who is still respecting life.
You should better take a look at this and see where the 'free' United States are ranked and where Germany is ranked.
Germany is rank 8 in free press..
US is (oh.. dont they have free speech?) rank 30!
So please don't spread bullshit like that and stay with the facts.
...the accident happened _before_ they had the idea for the game.
We are running six Half-Life (HL) servers with Counter-Strike and Natural Selection Mods and have found that Cheating death is the best viable solution.
Valve (the makers of HL) are offering their own security engine but its almost worthless since it gets updated rarley and it is aimed to detect cheats only.
Cheating Death on the other hand is aimed not only to detect but to prevent cheats (for example by moving the things you arent supposed to see anyway (player behind wall) to the players back). Because of this Cheating Death can't catch a cheater but his cheats are becoming useless. In addition to that Cheating Death is updated very often and so it is able to prevent most cheats.
Conclusion:
A anti-cheating engine that isn't updated regulary is almost rendered useless in a long run.
Because its not glorifying for the circumstance that you did something for your country but that you killed people. If you want to be glorified then help people with problems in your own country. I bet there will be alot to do (like in every country there is). Serving your country can be done in many different ways but shooting other people or dropping bombs on them arent the thing that should be glorified. Its a shame that even for self-defense you have to do this... it should never be a pride. History shows us how big the desaster can be if glorification of violence, pride and eventually dumbness are working together.
Well...
an army for _self defense_ is okay (as last ressort).
The problems are the limits of _self defense_.
Theses limits are getting softened everytime a nation is getting threatened in one way or the other.
My thinking of "banning army commercials" is founded on the danger of glorifying the army (which is happening alot in recent and older times) and by this glorifying blood, tears and war (even if it wasn't meant that way)
Calling and using the army should be the last ressort... unfortunately it is not happening that way.
Sometimes i have the feeling that only by glorifying the army some people can stand the pain when someone they loved died in country for some oil and faked mass destruction reasons.
"Do you also boycott any tv show/channel/network/cable company that runs GO ARMY ads?"
ehh.. yes.
I think there is nothing good coming from war or violence. The obvious mechanical response to violence is more violence... but violence doesn't solve violence - you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.
The Unreal 2 XMP Mulitplayer Mod is great.. one of the best mods in the Unreal 2 engine.. and they programmed it for free afterwards. Kudos to these programmers!
I agree... Thanks for the spoiler.. jackass.
Yep.. this was my first machine too. I got it for christmas in 1980 i think. I had that MZ-731 which had the tape and a plotter built in. I was 8 years old at that time. The lack of programs soon made me programming my own programs. More than 20 Years later programming is my profession and I am leading the software development department in a big print media group. ... and i never finished the university... too much to program out there ;).
Well... i was phoning with my gf and she told me that she bought something special for me.
;).
We got in to that try and guess game and I sneaked to my computer and fired up the 20Q website. Secretly i weaved the 20Q questions in the chat and in the end I found out what present she got for me... I almost cracked up laughing and when i told her how I found it out she was a little pissed but she got over it finally.
Well.. i had to promise not to cheat ever again
>I've always wanted to see a AutoDuel MMPOG, some kind of wasteland, not all this RPG with swords. >And Anarchy Online just didnt make the grade, and Star Wars Galaxy isnt hitting the mark.
You should really try Neocron. It's based in a Blade Runner Theme world.
http://www.neocron.com
Am I the first one to tell you that you are an idiot?
I mean..
this was in testing phase for almost a year and still they have major problems.
Friends of mine are trying to play CS 1.6 since Friday but to no avail.
Lockdown, Shutdowns, strange error messages, endless downloads and much more..
Maybe it should be marked as a virus.... fits better than steam.
....Natural Selection
http://www.natural-selection.org
They were fined because of saying the code is stolen even a court order was issed before that they may not do so.
If they hurt this order again they will be fined for even bigger amounts.
This court order is valid until the case will be decided finally in a court.
So its just a preludium.