Dr Brain

I don't seem to have it. But it was a super simple graphic. It was 100x100 or 200x200 (I forget), and had 4 frames. Each frame was a tiling of four pixels as follows Frame 1: R R R R Frame 2: R R R B Frame 3: R B B R Frame 4: R B B B R = Red B = Black (Transparent) It should be a .gif or a .png (not .jpg).

Click on your name at the top-right, and you can select 'Manage ignored users' I'm much obliged.

I don't believe that we should ban him, but I do think we need to ignore him (I'll admit that I've been the worst offender for giving him attention). I've decided that I will no longer directly reply to his posts. If others can do the same, he'll tire of posting here and move on. Is there an ignore feature on this forum? That'd help the process along greatly.

I've changed my mind about Hoch. That guy was a saint for putting up with Avast as long as he did.

Because all freqs under that will be public in terms of balancing and size limits.

tracert? Using that as a threat tells me you don't know what it actually does. Why don't you threaten to wget him while you're at it.

The fact that you're only reading the titles of the topics explains a lot. Since this post doesn't have a title for you to read, I'm not going to say more.

This thread is about spending a million dollars on this game. If you feel it's stupid to talk about such a hypothetical scenario, please stop posting. You clearly have no concept of how programming works. Your conception of a math graduate is also laughable. I've done my very best to elucidate you, but you continue to with the programmers posting in this thread about their very own field, while you yourself don't even have tangential experience (one need look no further than paying by "pages" of code).

A programmer working for $14/hour or $50k/year simply could not create a working game like Subspace, ever. If it was 10 months or 10 years, they simply couldn't do it.

If mirror were client side then its weapons wouldn't be seen by other players... thus defeating its entire purpose, as Jowie said. Hence, it wasn't client side.

The people that are jobless have a high probability of being inexperienced and/or bad. Those aren't the kind of coders you'd want to write a new game. Also, paying by "page" (lol) or line count would guarantee that you get crap. In programming you should only ever pay by project, or, more usually, have a salaried employee. Lets look at it another way. How much do you think PriitK or JeffP would cost to hire? They each single-handedly created huge chunks of this game. You're deluded if you think anyone of their caliber is being paid $14/hour.

Avast, you're one of those people that thinks by getting 9 women pregnant, you can get a baby in 1 month. Personally, I'd never hire a coder willing to work for less than $75k/yr. $100k/yr is more likely. Great coders are exponentially better than good coders. Bad coders just aren't worth considering as they'll cause projects to fail.

For perspective, coders cost upwards of $50k/year. Good coders cost twice that (but are worth 10x as much). I've no idea what artists cost, but I assume they're cheaper. The best way to "revive" subspace is to simply create an entirely new game, with the same player hosted zone concept. Obviously you'd want the ability to capture most of the current SS gameplay with the new system, but 100% accuracy isn't required for most zones (i.e. not Chaos) to make the transition.

The ASWZ I remember was not SVS (not that it was a super zone, though). Did that change at some point in its history?

I really don't have that much interest in the project. I've offered to do it because no one else seemed interested (whenever it was that I first offered, a few years ago probably), and getting a phone out of it seemed like a decent deal at the time.

I was saying that I'm not willing to approach it as a business venture, because I don't believe that it will make money. Yes, I'm still willing to do it for an iPhone or an Android phone.

And since we're quibbling about useless things, engineering isn't about building things. That's manufacturing. Engineering is designing things so they can be manufactured.

I don't know about other fields, but I think consulting in EE is a broad term for a company/person that is working for someone else (i.e. they don't own the end result).

Because that's what it's called?

Company of 2. I work with a Mechanical Engineer. No, I build the design (which is more than just circuits) for them. We typically provide completed prototypes ready for manufacturing.

I'm not very informed about iPhones, but I assume that would be fine for development. I'd have to pony up the $100 though (and a phone contract if necessary for buying apps). I'll figure all that stuff out if and when necessary.

$150 is on the low end for electrical engineering consulting. A lot of firms have an hourly rate of $300, and some go as high as $500.

http://forums.minegoboom.com/

I consult at a rate of $150/hour. If it takes me 20 hours of work (a low estimate, by all accounts; I'm talking about a polished product here, not a piece of crap) then I have to sell at least 300 copies to recoup my normal fees. As CRe indicates, I think $10 is too steep a price. You'd probably have to sell it at around $2 to be profitable.

http://forums.ssgn.net/topic/25423-android-chat-client/page__view__findpost__p__272037 I'll reiterate here: buy me a phone and I'll write a client.