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General / Developer Outreach
« on: March 05, 2005, 12:37:56 AM »
I really like the idea of the ranged MT on observatories.  We were supposed to have a reason to have more then one other then letting the comm pingspam more.  Now if aliens get sens, then sure obs tend to go up, but any decent marine can kill an alien just by using the MT circle and gessing where they're hiding.   And if you ever open up the map they even show up as red dots showing their *exact* location.

Additionaly it would enfasize the MT as a defencive tool more then an offencive one.  You'd know about aliens incoming into your base, so it would help the base defender(s) but when you moved out, you'd have to rely on your teamates to cover you.

One of the big issues for aliens is that they have to pick *at the start* which chamber they want.  The whole team has to cooperate and pick the best chamber for the playstyle they're going to us, and the situation they're in.  That's right, aliens are screwed if a gorge pics the wrong upgrade.  This is why DMS order has been standard for so long, based on games I've seen latly it's changing to MDS to counter phase-beacon rushes.  And what about the special abilities of the chambers?  If you pick motion, you can't get a heal outside the hive room w/o a gorge.  (yes I know about inate regen, 2% isnt really a combat speed heal)

The marines on the other had have no issues like this.  Every upgrade can be gotten at the same time.  And there's no problem with having to pick say getting seiges OR phasegates.  Just think of how nerfed marines would be if they had to pick one or two of their stuctures to be able to build at the start of the game and then have to hold specific locations to get more and then lose the ability to build them if they lost that location.

On the other had if you allowed aliens to build all chambers all the time it would avoid this.  You might even finaly see people use chambers for their secondary effects.

As a gorge, DCs are just about required if you want to have any decent hope of holding off more then one marine with OCs.  But if you dont' have MCs you can't get to the hive fast enought to deal with a good phase rush vs the 2nd hive (since half the time you spawn in the wrong hive)  And without SCs you're horribly vulnerable to stealth phasegates and other rambo attacks.  This just compounds the whole weekness of single hive aliens that *no* amount of res can make up for.

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Off Topic / Post a picture of you with your SO
« on: March 03, 2005, 12:09:47 AM »
lmao swiftspear, that's what I call guts.  I'll send flowers to the funeral if you leave an address.

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General / Why I love LunixMonster
« on: February 22, 2005, 12:15:50 AM »
I wasnt suggesting tryign to get banned either, it was more of a "lets go and see what the rest of the servers are like, but with friends so it's more fun".

We'll probably all end up running back to LM screaming like wusses just like 2 of 8 did in the origional post

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General / Why I love LunixMonster
« on: February 21, 2005, 10:51:26 PM »
LMAO @ #LHRG tag

only problem with that is don't alot of servers ban # in names?

We shoudl have a reverse regnight one time where we all go out and crash a bunch of servers.  Kinda like a pubcrawl.

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Off Topic / NationStates: what should I pick for this issue?
« on: February 03, 2005, 07:17:19 PM »
ok well I went with option 2 as per BlackMage's suggestion.  Mostly cause it gives the most alternative interpretations.

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Off Topic / NationStates: what should I pick for this issue?
« on: February 02, 2005, 08:07:21 PM »
Ok so here's the issue I got today.  I'm looking for suggestions on what I should pick.

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TANL Decides:
When tentacle monsters attack!

The Issue:
After several reports of pet tentacle monsters violently attacking, injuring, and even killing citizens, there has been growing pressure from public safety activists for the government to take action.
The Debate

   1. "These creatures are a danger to the public and must be destroyed!" says Randy Hanover, representative of the Public Institution for Social Safety, Equality, and Direction. "I was attacked by one just on the way here and I nearly lost my life! They're a public menace. We must shoot and burn them!"

   2. "Why punish the poor things?" asks animal-lover Beth Mombota, covered in scars from previous encounters with tentacle monsters. "All they need is good hands to care and rehabilitate them. We need a government education programme to tame them and turn them into loveable pets. The one I'm holding right now shows that it can be done. They are all good, kind creatures deep d- argh!"

   3. "I agree that we shouldn't kill them," says Beth Barry, a famous lawyer. "But I don't think the owner should get away with breaking the law! This is clearly a case of 'intent to greviously harm' if I ever saw it. All citizens should be held accountable of their pet's actions as if they had done the act themselves. It's the only way to be fair - after all, they're just dumb animals."

   4. "Who cares!?" screams Calvin Hendrikson as he sends out his pirate radio station broadcast. "Just repeal any laws preventing us from shooting the things when they attack and we'll be able to save ourselves without this stupid, authoritarian, overbearing government and legal system wasting our tax money!"

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Off Topic / The Inevitable Post Your Picture Thread
« on: October 19, 2004, 08:24:52 PM »
Well I gess I should post a pic also, the only one I have is 5 years old though.  Behold the leetness of a bw quikcam with the IR filter removed.  Apparently it gives me a kekekeke smile.



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Off Topic / Omg Teh Esuna
« on: October 15, 2004, 08:53:55 AM »
Happy bday!

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Off Topic / Post Your Desktop.
« on: September 26, 2004, 11:47:05 PM »
and here's mine, Linux powns your ponces!

the window manager is fluxbox set to a really light theme to keep everythign blazeing fast.  Oh and this box has been up for 39 days so far, record was 158 before we got a power outage.  I need to get a UPS :/

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Off Topic / Just A Small Survey Type-thing...
« on: September 26, 2004, 02:59:37 PM »
Ok here's my responce, I'm also heavily dyslexic so this may effect my reading of the stuff a bit.

1) I have seven forty-three

2) I enjoy eating mangos [longish wait] even though they give me indigestion

3) The problem with that solution [gap] is that it costs a lot of money

4) The scalar variable used in that class does not match the previous one[gap] You should correct it[gap] but there is no time now

(ok so I program in perl to much, all scalar vaiables are of the form $name while arrays are @array and hashes are %hash)

5) The groceries cost me a fortune, nearly eighty-five[rising] I'm not shopping at that place again[gap] they don't even have my favorite brand of rice anymore


And I also subvocalize everything I read.  So ya, that's what I was saying to myself when I read them. (the [text] is comments on how it sounded, I didnt actualy say "rising" to myself, lol)

oh and I noticed that the money values were money, just didnt end up in what I said to myself, so duno how to show that in my markup.

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Off Topic / Hello
« on: September 26, 2004, 02:45:27 PM »
gess I should say hi here since I mostly just hang out on irc.

so Hi.

there I said it.


Anyways, Bill, I hear that you got a rash from putting a banana someplace it soudnt go.  This is why you should buy a real one instead of useing cheap substitues from the supermarket.

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Off Topic / Lb Loses.
« on: August 30, 2004, 10:00:44 PM »
Hahaha, that's mint.

LB, you know there's a command to chanserv to unban you withough entering the channel if you have high enought access.

(don't ask why I know this)

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