Epsilon 5

Allen, if you're seeking for trouble, you will get more than asked.

quote:Who invited you into this thread?Doesn't look like a a roll call.

quote:Originally posted by Dredd: A ship the size of the BC mk3 with virtually unlimited size bays, 50000 marines, 50000 pilots, 25000 fighters, 50000 PTA turrets, 1000000 shield, 10000000 hull, and 10000 of every other person type, and then a 1 second jump speed and recharge time.ROFL!

I've been thiking since a while about starting to pay for a MMOG account. i was told good thing about Darkspace but yet I want to know if there's anything better out there... Darkspace looks good from what we talked about yesteray, Cruis.in and I Jumpgate seems boring from what JaxFox says EnB sucks, cos I played it myself. Of course I want a space MMOG, action based (instead of rule-based), and 3D (no subspace/continuum for me!), and it needs to be out or in public beta right now. Eve seems interestying, but I've applied for beta test months ago, and yet didn't get in yet. So is there anything better than Darkspace out there?

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: out of curiosity, in the same manner, can you allow some ship to dive?They're not subs and don't have those dynamics I didn't say that going in water would require the ship you act like there was water preventing the ship from going as fast as it can go.

quote:We will be an unstoppable force of such dimensions that the galaxy will be terrified whenever our names are mentioned.You know, no one won a war just with numbers ...

*punt*

quote:Originally posted by Charles Lindsey: I know exactly what it is. You forgot to sacrifice a dead chicken, wear underwear backwards on your head, and hook up a Barbie doll to a 9 volt battery.about the chicken, can AOL cds do the job instead?

quote:We are going to dicover that we are just small spec in this universe, and this universe is just a spec in a multitude of other universes. By the time we are done, we are gonna be so small comparably that some of you will have an inferiority complex. On the contrary! Size does not matter, it's what we can do that matters. Stars just burn in the sky, fly around and stuff like that until consumed. We, on the contrary, think, and develop new ideas, new principle, we try to understand the universe. We don't just walk in the room of life blindly, we look around eyes wide open, and try to improve ourselves and others.

quote:and ill be damned... you all spelled my name right... *sniff* *sniff* thats the best birthday present anyone can get... *sniff* quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: ^^ He didn't bothered to try ^^

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by Genken: Is it possible to(through a mod or something like that) have a CC float like a shuttle craft? Yes. Its just a single flag in OBJDEFS.SCR to give a unit the ability to float. out of curiosity, in the same manner, can you allow some ship to dive?

quote:I have GALCOM to back me up.Erm, *couhg* right *cough* I guess your protected if we put you in psychiatric facility quote:I have more protection than you realize. Im part of the n00b Revolution. We get our funding from the chicken revolution. They get us food and weapons (incase we have to go into hiding in the wilderness for sometime) and we give them RANDOMs and Rocket launchers to fight against the chicken farmers.Bite me

quote:Originally posted by AllenKG2001: Cool, but what about the other probs? [*]The bridgeviewer prob! [*]The inverted mouse for F/P mode! Can't wait for BCG with the Msg boards, that will be cool, just like in Elite. When is GBS II coming out? What happened to the ship interior graphics from the first game? I liked them (Esp. the interceptor), gave more of a feeling that you were in the ship.He already answered those question. go re read his post. What do you mean by the msg board? About the cockpit graphics, there won't be any. Derek decided to drop that idea, even for a generic one. Since BCTC will be all in FP mode, I guess the cockpit will come back then.

quote:I played it for an hour and went back to BF1942 BF1942 sucks! *cough* can't play the demo though, sicne my psu died, and that this machine crashes after playing gamespy poker for 1-2 hours quote:I am very interested on hearing your opinion about their Unreal Technology (the engine, etc.). How do you think that has progressed since the original Unreal Tournament? I guess what I am asking for, is any opinions or comments on the technical (technology) aspect of the game....For the looks, America's army is truely impressive. But then again, it's a present time game, there's little room for special effects Although framerates have been most excellent.

uh .. the save directory? backup the files in there, reinstall, put them back ...

quote:Again, dead in the black, and a nice analogy to boot.I can't believe you agree with what I'm saying

no, i think I need a new power supply.

quote:unarmed transport with 2 or 3 fightersEasy. Make a carrier, delete all gunpoints, and voilà!

quote:Ep5, the mind is a soul. unique to everyone. the brain is a body part. everyone has a brain. and everyone's brain basically has all the same lobes...or areas in it which govern our emotional side...like this area of the brain here has activity when dreaming etc etc...we'll all have that area. So looking at the picture of a brain doesn't really fit to the mind.Yes it is unique. The brain, as opposed to a computer processor, does not come all preprogrammed. The brain learns from the different kinds of inputs during life, and that's what makes us unique. An artist that makes wooden animals with his hand and a knife will create tigers, cats, dogs, giraffes that all look the same to each other. But in the end, each one is unique. Don't we all have 2 legs, 2 arms, 1 head and 2 eyes? But that doesn't mean we're not unique. It's the same about the brain. It looks all the same to everyone, but deep inside, we're much different.

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr_ Laracuente: Best wishes to you my friendHey it was your birthsay the 11th ... to you too (NEXT! )

ARRRGH! I was reformating the hard drive on my main computer when it went out. I mean, nothing, just a metaphorical poof. Nothing, nada, and it won't boot back! i think something is broken, but I have no idea what I'll try to bring the computer to the store tomorrow.

My oh my, system upgrades, always good eh? not so sure. Yesterday I got what was missing of my new hardware, and was ready to upgrade. I upgraded my mobo / cpu / memory on my main computer, and the "old" stuff went in the second computer. How it looks like? Main computer : CPU : tbird 950 ==> xp2000 MEM : 256mb sdram (1x256) ==> 512mb sdram (2x256) MOBO : Tyan S2390b KT-A (via) ==> ECS K5A5A (SiS 735) VDO : R8500LE (previously upgraded from a gf2 mx400) SND : SB Ensoniq oem? ==> onboard C-media AC97 audio device (have nothing spare yet) LAN : 1 10/100 asound, 1 10/100 d-link == > 1 10/100 onboard SiS 900, 1 10/100 d-link Secondary computer (family computer + server) CPU : k6-2 400mhz ==> tbird 950 MEM : 192mb sdram (1x128, 1x64) ==> 320mb sdram (2x128, 1x64) MOBO : SOYO 5SSM (sockect 7!) ==> Tyan s2390b VDO : Onboard SiS 530? (doesn't matter) ==> gf2 mx400 SND : Onboard ESS audio ==> SB cheap Ensoniq LAN : 1 10/100 asound, 1 10/100 Lynksys (stays the same) Both are under win2k pro The upgrade itself is all ok, and I have good help from a friend (I don't like messing with cpus) Now I plug back all that stuff. Start the computer. Fiddle with a few simple bios options, then let it boot. Passes the bios ... passes the initial windows loading bar... then the led on my monitor turns orange, it reboots ... We repeat several times, the result is always the same. Damn! Go back in bios, and play with options. Disable quite a few things, such as PnP, onboard stuff, etc. We boot the computer. Loading bar .... oh something new! A win2k BSOD! It says something about being unable to find the OS and stuff like that. After fiddling with the computer (and noticing it does the same thing on the second one), we finally deduce that windows doesn't like you to change hardware without his permission. So I go and get my windows CD, and boot up with it. i try to repair my hard drive, but the results are the same. Now I'm thinking about reinstalling windows ... but i have important stuff on my drive C, and no way to backup it .... unless ... unless I put it in my secondary computer, which got my "old" mobo and cpu. I change the hard drive, and tada! it works. I proceed to boot up, backup important files on the drive E, then put the hard drive back in the right computer. I boot with the cd, and do a windows reinstall / don't touch contents (no reformat). It takes a little while and then it works. great! i do the same to the other computer while I reinstall my drivers. Problem right there : the program on the cd that came with the mbo says "The motherboard not support" (sic) just great! I an able to manually install the onboard lancard, which connects me to the internet. Then I proceed to install my connection software. Can't run it in 16 colors .. uh? Then I try to install video drivers ... can't install, need directx 8.1. Try to get directx ... the installer is on the other computer ... don't have drivers for that lancard installed, and the second computer, which holds all drivers, has not finished windows install! Urgh! So there I am, stuck in 800x600x16, no sound, no nothing. by fiddling with system properties, I am able to install sound, and start to play some mp3s with windows media player, then winamp (thanks god not ALL of them are on the second computer ) Here's a picture I made to describe how my network works : http://epsilon5.ath.cx/network.jpg It's a small pic (14k) which I quicly made in paint and then converted to jpg. Now, the secondary computer is done with windows install. I enter stuff such as regional parameters and all that crap, then end up on the desktop. Good! since this computer has all the drivers, it isn't hard to reinstall the 2 lancards, directx 8.1, the video drivers.. but then comes the connection software. I load up the cd and proceeed to install. I install it, then reboot, only to nitce it didn't installed the PPPoE drivr for the internet. I unistall then ... I end up on 3 errors about a process that cannot be created ... or something like that. Doesn't matter. I finish the unistall, then reboot. Reinstall, reboot. SAME thing! I uninstall, same error! I reboot ... then only then I remember that I have on my hard drive a more recent version of the connection software, thank god! So I go, intall it, reboot. Problem again, won't connect. I unistall (must be the original version's remnants I think), reboot, and then reinstall. reboot. Try to start it, YES! it does. Now, in a hurry to get my server back online, I reinstall apache (while keeping my conf files backuped), reboot. Well that's fine for now. I put mIRC back in the start menu, only then I rmemeber that I should put back my old start menu (like I did on the main computer), but I can't find the old start menu anywhere in the folder "document and settings" (arhg!). Oh well, will have to redo from start. So mIRC is then back in the startup folder, working and logging. I update my stats, and go see them .... can't find server.... now what. While apache is running well, I forgot to reinstall DeeEnEs which updates my ip to the dyndns server (my ip is dynamic). I find where I was hiding it after 5 mins, and then reboot. stuff runs fine (a relief!), and I can access any part of my server. Then I get a floppy out to transfer the missing drivers on the main computer, only to remember that I can do file transfer even by the 10mbps hub. Slow, but who cares? (in this case anyway). So not only I transfer the drivers (and install them) but I get directx, the working version of the connection software and a few programs deemed essential (such as the multimedia key software ) I proceed to install all that stuff (with a bunch of reboot in between) while I reinstall my anti-virus back on the server machine. Finally! My eyes don't hurt anymore! Back in 1280x1024x32, I reinstall the secondary stuff on both computers (such as winzip/rar/ace) and, of course, 3dmarkSE I will list my result history later. Then I proceed to play some game, Aces High it is. Got my bf109g-10 on the carrier's deck, start the engine, start moving forward ... and then I notice I forgot to reinstall my joystick drivers, let alone plug it back! So I go on the Saitek website (ehich makes me thinkg that i have yet to upgrade ie), get the SGE, install it, reboot, calibrate. I take a quick peek in Aces high, fly for a little while, and notice this onboard sound card is actually BETTER than my old one, and that it uses hardware sound in Aces High, and the first thing I notice is the doppler effect on sounds, and with the help of jaxfox, I run a few "test", and see that it's WAYYYY more realisitc (and cooooool) that way. I felt a little hopeless with him in a junker 88 and me in a m-8 with only a single m2 gun as AA defense (and considering I have a custom sound pack, it's even cooler) A little later, I go back to work on a few setting in windows, network settings. Since windows have that tendency to use the slower network connection available (we're talking about windows, eh), I disable netBEUI, IPX/SPX and netBIOS, leaving on the services and tcp-ip on the lancard that should be for the internet only. I transfer a few files for other stuff I forgot, all is fine. Then I go back to play Aces High for a few hours. Later, a little before bedtime, I want to transfer something .. but clearly there's a problem. My d-link doesn't work anymore. I mean, it was working, and then a few hours later, it doesn't. Unistall drivers, and reinstall. Rebot. Does't work. Go on the d-link website and get the latest drivers. Still doesn't work. Now I'm stuckk without my lan ... at least I think so, only to remmeber later (!) that i just have to re-enable ipx / netBEUI/BIOS to get my network back. After many tries the problem is still not solved. I'm stuck on my 10mbps network, and it sucks. I go back to play some more Aces High. I go to bed, this morning I open the computer, and the lancard still doesn't work (have the yellow (!) on it). And well, here I am, with a missing lancard (if only I had a 100mbps hub), and 2 computers which look a little crippled. I think I might be forced do do a real reinstall, with reformat... And i don't like that. Sigh ... (disclaimer : some of the event might not be described as being at the right time it actually happened (relatively to other events), but who cares?) Oh and about those 3dmardse results, here thye are, with the 3 last CPU / VDO combos I got on this computer. t950 - gf2 : 2976 t950 - r8500 : ~4500 xp2000 - r8500 : 6789 [ 09-13-2002, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: Epsilon 5 ]

Ahh right. quote:I generally make about 60k credits an hour of trading. That's the beauty of being a trader... I played as an enforcer for a while and always used to try and scrounge for upgrades when they became available... as a trader I've never had to scrounge, and the cash is always on hand. Did you play when the Fenris was the golden run? when there was team trade exp, etc?

quote:Originally posted by Parias: Reread, he made his own ammo Yeah, but unbless they reduced the price of ammo production significantly, it's STILL too much. If ammo costs nothing now, well I'll be sure to get launchers

have a good day!