Charles Lindsey

Echo; you are the best improvement the Insurgents ever had. Do you need a copy of UC? Echo; got one better for ya. A friend of mine has snakes. He says they are like knick knacks that eat. [ 07-01-2004, 12:04 AM: Message edited by: Cmdr Chavik ]

Do we need a little private forum? Free (probably) or not. Our own domain? Active members? That actually play UC? (DIG DIG) I can't prove it but everything Prime has done we Insurgents have thought of just not impemented. But they got there first. I am open to sugestions. To be discussed with everyone of course.

Do be careful Takvah. You are bordering on; umm, well, ya just are. I've done my stint in here a couple times and got the bruises to show for it. Intelligent discussion of politics and all that rot.

Do be careful Takvah. You are bordering on; umm, well, ya just are. I've done my stint in here a couple times and got the bruises to show for it. Intelligent discussion of politics and all that rot.

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quote: Maybe that was my problem in the beginning, that I was expecting a conflict and a solution and another member to add to my 'beatengamesthatsitonmyshelfandareforgotteninaday' club. Instead, I spent $20 on a universe. Bingo!!!! (bolds are mine) I think he liked it.

Cool Kool. hehe. That kills me. Is it just me or are our logos malfunctioning?

I'll try to log in a bit more. But it does get discouraging.

XFire sucks. Everyone has joined but no one is ever logged on

I am worried about Kool. I haven't seen him do anything with respect towards the forum.

DeOsprey, have we been missing you on/in Mutliplay? Just curious. I seem to remember seeing you once. Would hate to neglect you.

Yeah been seeing him in Mutliplay. I think he's ummm pretty cool. Hehe. Didn't want to delete his first post and couldn't move it soooo... Anyway, get that system profile in there asap.

I gotta learn not to play devil's advocate. I think Soback is right. It's stealing at worst, piggybacking on my dime at best.

Hehe. If you view my page from BC3K and when "I" was born I am now 62 years old and almost ready for retirement. That ain't right.

quote:That way the smaller MP map would track the individual battle between those two (or three at the outside), and the larger SP map might be updated according to who won the MP mini-campaign. That wouldn't be so hard to code.... You are finally starting to make sense as to what I would consider a tournament. A couple skirmishes define the round. a couple rounds define the bout. Bleh I'm dense.

What's wrong with it?* It's the natural progression of things. You pay your ISP to spam you on every page you go to. You pay your cable bill to watch ads. It's just one more step. It's their money and they want it. * Devil's advocate. I actually hate it.

Two nights ago I was in a Nightstar and took out Greg Miller in his Aestrom three times before he got me once. Then took him out twice more before he got me again. He had even launched fighters at me in the last two rounds and I took those out with PTA. That was fun. Last night I was feeling cocky and took on Grizzle in his Megaron. I shouldn't feel cocky. Grizzle killed me about four times in a row. Another time I launched fighters at Khan and they got him just before he got ot his gate. Zero shields, zero integrity, about 400 armor. He was amazed he was still alive and so was I. He lasted another minute or so before either a reactor breach got him or he logged out. Marvin popped in and I promptly killed him. Hope i didn't make him mad 'cause I didn't see him the rest of that evening. Cerebus is good at cloaking and hiding. Ya have to wait him out while his crew irradiates. Tough to make a run for a gate though since the Nightstar is a slug. All in all a real good time.

I get it and I don't. It's like email battle chess where the battle determines whether the move was successful or not.

quote:there are ways to gauge how strong those armies are You don't have to gauge. Asset weighting is usless. You aren't rolling dice or flipping cards here. You have an actual real time scenario wherein the actual players determine the outcome. Exactly what I said several posts above. But I agree with you that no one officially dies and can't play. quote:When one side has conquered the galaxy or its objective (these can be different depending on the kind of map-based game you play), you start over and do it again. Exactly. How do you conquer the galaxy? You win regions. How do you win regions? Last man standing. How do you prove last man standing? Derek's proposed data dump to a web page. Plus some honor system. remember Stations are invincible until the rebuild data packet begins being sent. #14 in the UC VCF Issues Under Investigation. So last man standing is the only way to denote control of region. I probably shouldn't have stuck my nose into this. hehe

quote:To answer what I think is an honest question from Chavik, nobody officially dies. (Nobody officially anything for that matter, as I've said above.) Officially stations don't change hands, and we don't redraw the official map when planets change hands in my unofficial copy of it.It was honest. I'm trying to wrap my head around this. To me, tournament implies a series of games that need to be played to determine the champion. Anything else I might say is now moot since Derek has agreed to "see what it looks like".

quote: Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr Inactive fleets will be dissolved if they don't get their act in gear (remove old/absent members, show signs of activity etc) by August 1st.Does this include someone with moderator status removing someone's sig? Some people have been removed from the database but they are still using a fleet sig when they are not actually part of a fleet.

It got all quiet. I sent Zane a PM since DREADA's mailbox is full.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by Hellbinder: I think they screwed up in killing her.I agree. And I'm still pissed off about it. There was absolutely NO reason to kill her off. They bring her in the sequel - all growed up - only to kill her. I don't get it. I feel that the dichotomy of the two situations juxtaposed was very powerful. Riddick gained everything and lost everything at the same time. And the imagery of where he wound up sitting only reinforced that.

Sounds like a whole helluva lot of work just to have fun. So, Sho and I start from the default Insurgent station in multiplay. We jump to procon and destroy Supreme Commander and Zane Marlow. We now own the region and the scoreboard is updated? Next session. Supreme Commander and Zane are offically dead so they can't play. BUT we own procon. HOWEVER all galcom players are going to spawn at Procon. OR is there a huge honor system where Galcom players must choose the appropriate station to launch from? I hate the rules thing and the asset weight thing. Hope I don't sound too harsh.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr ...because then there would be no explanation for why he isHe had a hard life. He got sent to prison. He got his eyes shined. Some people are just bad asses. Then life makes them even badder asses. I KNEW Riddick was a bad ass coming into this movie and didn't need any other explanation. quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr or why the Lord Marshall had cause to fear him. Did you listen - carefully - to the description of the Furion race? Well, ya got me there. In the context of the movie as seen there was no reason for the Lord Marshall to have an inexplicable fear of Riddick other than that he was a member of the Furion race. There was no reason for the Elemental to want Riddick other than he was a member of the Furion race. So some other explanation is needed. Scriv is right. Pitch Black was TIGHT. This one. Not so tight. But still good. Anyway. The above are just my quibbles with the whole back story. I would have preferred they kept Riddick a bad ass just from a hard life and not introduce a superior race and prophecies and stuff.