Xog

sup hotties? i'll take you on a magic carpet ride edit: warning, u might get rug burn

lol u guys

Hundreds of players scoured the Trench Wars server, jumping back and forth from arena to arena enjoying all of this weekend's wonderful Javelin activity! Several events were hosted, and everyone had fun. Remember to sign in next weekend and enjoy the special Trench Wars Weekend events, courtesy of the zone's Event Referees!

PoLiX I love you to death, you're a great person, but I think you are missing a big factor. Zone owners are zone owners. Continuum isn't just one game; it's several, hundreds of games. Each zone has a general playstyle, and within that zone there are subgames you can play.. Bringing all of this together under one roof isn't going to help anything at all. A lot of people will be disgruntled by this. What you are theoretically doing, is creating a new ice cream shop right across the street from one that's been there for 10+ years, just for the people down the block that just moved in. It won't be successful. Sure there's a long line at the older place, but that's not going to stop the customers from coming back to the same place they have for the last 10 years. -X

http://www.jossh.com/pilot_center.html http://www.jossh.com/jgeng/PilotViewer.aspx?p=Chao

the difference between the two cars are so tiny in margin it's ridiculous to argue about them. Besides there's things about each car that are better than the other. You guys sound like a couple of two year olds.

more powerball

yeah i was playing for like 4 hours and then i saw an advertisement for base so I typed ?go base and hit enter, then ships stalled and disappeared (its like the command made it happen). so i quit and saw all the sscu zones red. hope it wasn't me probably coincidence tho

i wonder how much Cheese's distention zone uses

i don't think u know what persistant means, creatix

I've been following this project for years now. This guy is just crazy. Edit: For those wondering how the "Galaxy-sized levels" work, short description here: http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=106&Itemid=27

The interesting back story in all this that is bleeding through is that Apple (and specifically Jobs) had enough influence to talk a judge into issuing a warrant that any second-year law student would have known violated both state and federal laws that protect journalists. Apple has always been incredibly paranoid about new products because their extremely high profit margins depend on getting a jump on the competition. That's how iPhone captured 2% market share and 14% of the profits. If the competition learns of the features of a new Apple product, they simply duplicate it and sell it much cheaper --- then Apple gets 0% market share and 0% of the profits. Apple is always a generation back in technology for its "new" products and this accounts for the ease with which competitors can replicate their products. And if you wonder where this culture originates, just look at recent history. Jobs bought or already owned housing in 48 states and got himself listed as a resident on each state's liver transplant list. When he finally got to the top of the List in Tennessee (who'd a thunk he was a Tennessean at heart?) he got an entire liver. Livers for transplant are normally divided by how many lobes, go to several recipients, then the lobe grow into a full liver over 2-3 years. Jobs got a whole one, probably killing 2-3 people at the bottom of the list. This is the kind of "entitlement" culture than spawns Apple's scofflaw attitude. My understanding is that like most iPhones its battery was run down and there was no way of determining the owner immediately. (At least that is the story. I think that it charged enough to see the Apple logo before it shut back down at least a few times.) There was at least one call to Apple who denied it was theirs before it was sold. It was not until a charger was jury-rigged, that the Apple logo became visible. And the blogger returned it to Apple as soon as it was requested. They are just miffed because he decoded many of its secrets and Apple will not have a jump on the competition with this one. That will cost them millions.

this shit is so old

I don't like you, and I think that most people don't like you. http://i43.tinypic.com/ny7o5u.jpg

http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=24528&st=0&p=264028&&do=findComment&comment=264028 it's signed by everyone

no, it's slavery, and i'm volunteering

I must uphold my duty and express my rights as Xog, Poster of the Century.

I honestly was being sarcastic, Cheese.

i'll cover tw

I honestly did not know this, Brain.

someone ban this guy

Well, I suppose now that I have something to work with that wouldn't sound too much like an advertisement - and more like an article, I'd be able to spend some time writing it up. If anyone's got some more crucial talking points to throw in there - things like how the gaming industry has taken a toll on our population, what we've done and how we struggle to survive, etc. (dont elaborate on those points - that's my job, i mean give some talking points that are like those) then I can put together a very well-written article that can have a very good chance at being published on /. i'll post the drafts here for revisions, changes and additions that can be made to it before I submit it I can write very convincing articles - I wrote one about WoW back when it was first released and it got published in a magazine, i forgot which one though. its been a long time http://www.ssforum.net/public/style_emoticons/default/blum.gif

also i wrote this article for my New Dawn squadmates on our "MMO Discussion for New Dawn Potential Involvement" forum section: Continuum has been around for a very long time. So long in fact, that it's not even published anymore. The servers are maintained by the trusted sources by one of the game's creator Priit Kasesalu. There are several Zones (servers) that you can choose from that offer different styles of play. For instance, in Extreme Games, your ships are given settings that compliment the zone's suggestive style of play which would be "Flagging". Flagging is a type of system where you fly around on the map and try to collect flags (by simply flying over them). These flags "attach" to your ship until the timer runs out and are dropped, or you are killed. In this zone there are several "bases" that you can go to to hide the flags, and the opposing team will try to steal these flags from your team. Quite often you will find yourself in a 15 vs 15 match in a single base. To see what it's like check these out: http://www.getcontin...eenshots/eg.png http://www.getcontin...enshots/eg2.png The Trench Wars zone is very unique. A flag is permanently placed and is unmovable inside ONE base, and your team has to control this flag for a certain amount of time (10 minutes) in order to win matches. Each ships has different abilities that compliment a well-versed team. For instance, a game with two Sharks, 1 terrier, 1 javelin, and four spiders (8 players total) can completely dominate a team of 15 trying to take the base if they're all in Warbirds. Sharks have repels which repel bullets, bombs, mines and even players. The terrier is the ship that all the players on the team attach (kind of like warping to your teammate) to get back inside the base after you die so you can support your team. This zone also has a league, called Trench Wars Division (twd.trenchwars.org) where squads can play against eachother in order to claim the "best" of all in the zone. It's a very large and fully automated process created by the community themselves and has been around for nearly a decade. The four divisions that squads can compete in are the Trench Wars Dueling Division (TWDD)(4-5 warbirds vs 4-5 warbirds, each player is removed at 10 deaths, last team to survive wins), Trench Wars Javelin Division (TWJD) (4-5 javelins vs 4-5 javelins, each players is removed at 10 deaths, last team to survive wins), and Trench Wars Basing Division (TWBD) (6-8 players from one squad vs 6-8 players from another squad, first squad to hold the flag for 15 minutes overall wins). At a certain time of the year, squads go into a very competitive frenzy because it's TWL season. TWL season is the Trench Wars League, where the top performing squads in TWD compete in an annual tournament taking place over about 7 weeks to claim the #1 title for each division (TWLD, TWLJ, TWLB). Here's some pictures of the Trench Wars Zone: http://trenchwars.or...ile=screenshot9 http://trenchwars.or...ile=screenshot8 http://trenchwars.or...ile=screenshot1 and from a very popular and fun event called 'fishies' in Trench Wars: http://trenchwars.or...ile=screenshot7 Fishies is fun. As you can see there's 95 people participating in the event. How it works is one player is picked by the Event Referee (they have next to their name, it means they're staff) and they're called the Shark. They're put in a warbird (ship 1) on a different frequency (team), and the 94 other people travel from one safe zone to the other, opposite sides of the arena, in the fast Terrier (ship 5). When the fishies get killed, they turn into a shark and join the person in the hunt. Last one to survive wins. There's also a zone called Powerball, where players race eachother to get the orange "Powerball" and carry it to the opposing team or squad's GOAL on the other side of the arena. You can shoot this ball into the goal and/or pass it to your team members. You also have more powerful weapons if you have control of the Powerball. A similar zone to this one is called Hockey. It's the same concept, but with some edited sound effects and different shipsettings it's a little more like you're playing a Hockey match online with space ships! http://confluxwar.net/components/com_ccboard/assets/ccbeditor/images/smileys/tongue.gif Here's a screenshot of the hockey zone, I couldn't fine one for Powerball: http://www.getcontin...eenshots/hz.png The zone I play is called Trench Wars. The division I favor most is TWBD. The squad I play with is called Anti-Scrub and we've been around for 8 years. We're VERY active and usually participate in about 5-8 TWBD matches every day. The name I use in the game is Xog. If you'd like to leave me an in-game message if I'm not online, type "?message Xog:YourMessageGoesHere" and I'll view it when I sign on. Here's a video of two of the best squads (during that time) duking it out in a TWLB match: http://www.vimeo.com/10084800 ... Feel free to skip the first few minutes, the intro is a couple of minutes long, just showing the viewers the squad lineups. If you're interested I'll jumpstart you on the most useful in-game commands/keys: Up/Down/Left/Right - Movement Shift - Afterburner (hold it and Up or Down) CTRL - Shoot bullet TAB - Shoot bomb Page Up/Down - moves the red 'ticker' to different players. / - Private message the person 'ticked' in the arena you're in. ?arena (or esc+a) - Displays the list of 'arenas' in the zone that you can go to. Use page up/down to move the ticker to the arena you want to visit and hit Enter F1 - Displays the zone's Help menu, describes basic features of the zone, some other useful commands, etc. Keep presssing F1 to view more info. To exit this pane, wait 5 seconds and it will dissapear. If you're not patient, keep pressing F1 until it cycles through the 5 pages or so. F2 - Displays the list of players in the arena. Keep pressing F2 to view more information such as player's squads, Kills/Death ratio, Points, Frequency (team), etc. Press F2 continuously until you're out of that window. It will not dissapear. ?help YourHelpMessageHere - This sends a message to the online moderators - who usually respond within just a few seconds, to answer any questions you may have. ?find PlayerName , Example, ?find Xog will result in Xog - ArenaX. ?go ArenaName - If you know the name of the arena you want to go to right off the bat, you can just type ?go ArenaName and you'll be put in that arena in the zone you're in. :PlayerName: YourMessageHere - Example, :Xog: Hey! - Sends a private message to Xog (me) saying 'Hey!' :: - pressing the colon key twice will automatically fill in the name of the person who last PM'd you. You can keep pressing the colon key to cycle further and further back. So if three people were to PM you after I did, you can press :::: and it will automatically jump to :Xog: To view the ships, press the Esc key. If you're just starting out, I suggest the warbird. If you want to try another ship, I'd suggest the Spider (ship 3). To change to the Spider, you'd press Esc (so it displays the menu) and then the 3 key above W and E (not on the numpad) ****Before you hop in a ship, you can travel around the arena in spectator mode (press ESC+S). To jump to a specific player, use Page Up/Down and hit CTRL while in spec.**** The game's been around a long time. I gave you pretty much all you needed to know to play the game completely in all leagues. If you just want to be the "pubber" that doesn't want to get involved with TWD (if you choose Trench Wars http://www.ssforum.net/public/style_emoticons/default/blum.gif) or any other squad-related things, you don't really need to know all of this. Just hop in and start shootin the noobs! http://confluxwar.net/components/com_ccboard/assets/ccbeditor/images/smileys/smile.gif I highly suggest Trench Wars as a beginner zone. If you find it too slow, Extreme Games is much more fast paced.. but you'll find yourself getting your ship blown up much more often by people who know how to play. Remember, if you decide to play, try using the ?find Xog command. If it shows that I'm online, send me a private message! If I'm not online, leave me a ?message and I'll see it when I sign on. Toodles!

There's plenty of articles out there already. Find one. Also, how do I get a stream from youtube to show as my webcam

i just read up on this and i heard there's a much much larger volcano in the area, and that this volcano could cause the other larger one to go off, causing global damage. but i mean, what are the chances of it going off? are they just saying this to hype up the media story?