Its obviously not finished yet, so you'll probably just end up downloading it a couple times as they fix bugs, change the media, and recompile everything...
Its a waste of steam bandwidth and yours. I'd understand if it was gold, but its not.
IT showed up because it was recieving so much media attention... I would have been disappointed if it hadn't shown up... I wouldn't have been able to comment on it with fellow/.-ers...
If Slashdot starts posting about Elvis actually being alive then I'll be disappointed in/..
Nice OO designed game
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I wish I could find the article to link here, but I can't, I thought it was on gamesutra but I can't find it there either.
Anyway, I just wanted to comment that I read an article about how the game was designed a couple of months ago and I thought it was very interesting. Basically the objects have all the code, and the sims have minimal coding. The expansion packs (for the most part), just contained new objects with new code that the sims reacted too. I thought this was a really neat and insightful way to code the game.
Innocent I'm afriad. I was just commenting how cheap it was to send spam, and how companies will do it for you. $10000 is nothing for a marketing campaign...
Just yesterday I received spam from this guy at cybersmtp.com, advertising they can send bulk emails out. Check this out, I was surprised at the number of emails they have in their database, and the relative cheapness to send out nearly 300 million emails:
No Software to Buy - Nothing to download
Lowest cost for broadcast
E-Mail is a key component in maintaining contact
with your customers
Email Broadcasting
Please choose from the following:
[ ] 1,000,000 e~mail sent $400
[ ] 5,000,000 e~mail sent $1,500
[ ] 10,000,000 e~mail sent $2,000.00
[ ] 56-70,000,000 e~mail sent $2,500.00
[ ] 224-280,000,000 e~mail sent $10,000.00
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"Whyline, has been used only to debug programs in Alice, an academic programming language with a limited vocabulary of commands to make interactive 3-D worlds, like video games."
"Adding Whyline to a different language, like Java, which is 10 times as complex, could limit how much Whyline can help. So Whyline is a very long way from getting incorporated into the world's most widespread software, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. (When asked about its own debugging efforts, Microsoft didn't comment.)"
Which means at the moment its all speculation, and only works for very simple (hello world) applications. By the time this program is useful, we'll have robots (like Millenium man), who will do all the debugging...
Except that way back then you only had smaller harddisks, no images in emails (or browsers for that matter), and there was no spam. Even my University didn't have email.
I disagree, the Star Wars brand is a huge drawcard. How else would you get people to play a 'dancer' class?
I've always thought that the Star Wars universe has helped to make average games really good (Rebellion), and good games really awesome (The Jedi Knight Series).
If this wasn't based on Star Wars and was based on some random universe this MMORPG would be long dead.
We're currently migrating a perfectly good Finance system to ASP.NET. Its been on a VAX for 15 years and works fine, but there is just no support left. The probabilty that we will still be using the same ASP.NET in 15 years is very low...
I'm glad they are thinking about making it smaller. I hope they make the top flat too. These two features were the main reason I was happy to stay with my PS2.
Why are they focusing on this expansion? Its over a year old and the newer Expansion "conquests" has a much better multiplayer experience anyway (as long as you have a spare 15 sequential hours to play a game...)
Awwww, and I thought our IT department had an orginal name (TSG = Technology and Services Group), now we're going to have to change it again, probably back to boring MIS...;p
This is indeed great news... but I like others wonder if it will be farmed out to some poor little independent, that will only have 6 monthes to produce a game that will require 3 monthes of testing and game play tweaking alone... but then again I'll probably still buy it... like I buy all the star wars games, as atmosphere can quite often save a poor game (take for example Star Wars Rebellion...)
I thought that Sony dropped the price about 6 months ago, but then added in a subsidized modem and slightly increased the price to 170, so that the price effectively stayed the same, but the value of your purchase increased.
What this article doesn't mention is that Visual Studio 2005 (formly known as Whitby) has also been delayed so that MS can release both products at the same time. (as VS.Net 2005 is supposed to be heavily integrated with the.NET features of SQL 2005)...
The thing I don't understand is why VS.NET is being delayed like this, the SQL objects should be seperate and not integrated into VS.Net anyway!
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Its obviously not finished yet, so you'll probably just end up downloading it a couple times as they fix bugs, change the media, and recompile everything...
Its a waste of steam bandwidth and yours. I'd understand if it was gold, but its not.
IT showed up because it was recieving so much media attention... I would have been disappointed if it hadn't shown up... I wouldn't have been able to comment on it with fellow /.-ers...
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If Slashdot starts posting about Elvis actually being alive then I'll be disappointed in
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I wish I could find the article to link here, but I can't, I thought it was on gamesutra but I can't find it there either.
Anyway, I just wanted to comment that I read an article about how the game was designed a couple of months ago and I thought it was very interesting. Basically the objects have all the code, and the sims have minimal coding. The expansion packs (for the most part), just contained new objects with new code that the sims reacted too. I thought this was a really neat and insightful way to code the game.
If I had created it and spent as much time and effort as these people obviously have, I'd try to sell it too. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
What am I going to need to run this? 4 Cray supercomputers?
Innocent I'm afriad. I was just commenting how cheap it was to send spam, and how companies will do it for you. $10000 is nothing for a marketing campaign...
Just yesterday I received spam from this guy at cybersmtp.com, advertising they can send bulk emails out. Check this out, I was surprised at the number of emails they have in their database, and the relative cheapness to send out nearly 300 million emails:
No Software to Buy - Nothing to download
Lowest cost for broadcast
E-Mail is a key component in maintaining contact with your customers
Email Broadcasting
Please choose from the following:
[ ] 1,000,000 e~mail sent $400
[ ] 5,000,000 e~mail sent $1,500
[ ] 10,000,000 e~mail sent $2,000.00
[ ] 56-70,000,000 e~mail sent $2,500.00
[ ] 224-280,000,000 e~mail sent $10,000.00
We use our own directory, so you do not need to pay one dime extra.
"Whyline, has been used only to debug programs in Alice, an academic programming language with a limited vocabulary of commands to make interactive 3-D worlds, like video games."
"Adding Whyline to a different language, like Java, which is 10 times as complex, could limit how much Whyline can help. So Whyline is a very long way from getting incorporated into the world's most widespread software, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. (When asked about its own debugging efforts, Microsoft didn't comment.)"
Which means at the moment its all speculation, and only works for very simple (hello world) applications. By the time this program is useful, we'll have robots (like Millenium man), who will do all the debugging...
Except that way back then you only had smaller harddisks, no images in emails (or browsers for that matter), and there was no spam. Even my University didn't have email.
As bad as Rebel Assault & Force Commander were, we still all played them though...
I disagree, the Star Wars brand is a huge drawcard. How else would you get people to play a 'dancer' class?
I've always thought that the Star Wars universe has helped to make average games really good (Rebellion), and good games really awesome (The Jedi Knight Series).
If this wasn't based on Star Wars and was based on some random universe this MMORPG would be long dead.
We're currently migrating a perfectly good Finance system to ASP.NET. Its been on a VAX for 15 years and works fine, but there is just no support left. The probabilty that we will still be using the same ASP.NET in 15 years is very low...
Actually I was refering to the Daleks as being scary.
Thats like taking the stormtroopers out of Star Wars... How many kids had nightmares about those creepy things...
I'm glad they are thinking about making it smaller. I hope they make the top flat too. These two features were the main reason I was happy to stay with my PS2.
Why are they focusing on this expansion? Its over a year old and the newer Expansion "conquests" has a much better multiplayer experience anyway (as long as you have a spare 15 sequential hours to play a game...)
Awwww, and I thought our IT department had an orginal name (TSG = Technology and Services Group), now we're going to have to change it again, probably back to boring MIS... ;p
Addicted to tax legislation...? wtf?!? what are you, an accountant?
This is indeed great news... but I like others wonder if it will be farmed out to some poor little independent, that will only have 6 monthes to produce a game that will require 3 monthes of testing and game play tweaking alone... but then again I'll probably still buy it... like I buy all the star wars games, as atmosphere can quite often save a poor game (take for example Star Wars Rebellion...)
I thought that Sony dropped the price about 6 months ago, but then added in a subsidized modem and slightly increased the price to 170, so that the price effectively stayed the same, but the value of your purchase increased.
Bunch of marketing crap really.
Were the orginal games on the NES? I think I might have played DW3 on the NES which was a fantastic 80's RPG... I'd play a ps2 version.
What this article doesn't mention is that Visual Studio 2005 (formly known as Whitby) has also been delayed so that MS can release both products at the same time. (as VS.Net 2005 is supposed to be heavily integrated with the .NET features of SQL 2005)...
The thing I don't understand is why VS.NET is being delayed like this, the SQL objects should be seperate and not integrated into VS.Net anyway!
Except that he has 19 comments from SELLERS, which means he was buying, not selling on Ebay.
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