D1st0rt

There is some logic in thinking that someone who is like you in some way could be better at protecting your interests in that regard over somebody who doesn't share that similarity. Not necessarily saying this is the reasoning behind all of the aforementioned voting, but it probably plays a significant part.

Hmm, which presidential candidate is it that keeps saying we should drastically cut foreign aid? Ron Paul? No, couldn't be. All of his ideas are crazy, it must be a mistake. /sarcasm

Sounds like a classic case of attempting to subvert zone rules just for the sake of being a rebel. You're so edgy.

Cerium and I both use JCreator, hands down my favorite Java IDE and I have pretty much tried them all

I'm sorry to hear that. The unfortunate truth is that if we tried to please everyone we would end up pleasing no one. Thanks for playing when you did.

There's a terminal based one that comes with ASSS written in Python http://!@#$%^&*s.yi.org/viewm...c79/scripts/ccc Dr Brain wrote one in Java http://sshyperspace.net/SignedChatnut.jar I have one that I'm currently working on that runs with Mono and GTK#, both of which you can get for mac http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=7623 There may be others that I'm not aware of, it's pretty easy to write for this protocol

If I ever get enough time there will be other things to work for, I've made a good deal of progress as it is

There are multiple chat clients (can only connect to ASSS zones) that work on OSX if you're interested

Building your ship is the point of the zone though

I don't know why a reset would cause someone to retire, right after a reset is the most fun time to play

COBRA isn't a company, it's a Federal Act that lets you continue on whatever insurance you had at your previous job. It is really expensive though, because you pay for all of it (normally the company picks up some of the bill). The whole point of the government is to provide things that don't aren't fiscally practical for private corporations to do. Things like defense, roads, education, etc. I have very little faith in the effectiveness of sprawling bureaucracies, which is why I don't live in a socialist country. Those of you who would point to Canada as an example, they have what 25 million people? We have like 12 times as many, dropping in their system wouldn't be anywhere near as effective on that kind of scale.

I didn't try to use your native binaries also just to clarify: XMPP has nothing to do with linux, it's a protocol

I couldn't get the graphics test to run on Linux earlier when I tried, though admittedly I didn't try very hard. It would probably be easier to diagnose the problem building from source.

Just a thought, you may want to consider making the chat portion use(extend) XMPP to allow people a wider choice of clients

rofl at cp's decembery

Ron Paul 2008

There was a loophole that let him p!@#$%^&* the background check in Virginia, a loophole that has since been closed.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Here's what I have to validate the claim, you probably won't believe me even though I have no reason to lie to you. http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8322/hscorer33ko3.png http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/3857/hscoretypesr33tx0.png You could ask all none of the sysops in the zone who aren't me and they would agree. Let's not also forget that I have been playing this zone for as long as anyone else. We haven't implemented it until now for a couple of reasons. It's not a very high priority addition, especially when we are worried about the zone freezing up whenever the population gets above 35 or why it crashes any time somebody joins another arena. Adding ammo makes the system more complex, and none of us had time to sit down and plan/test/refine how everything would work so we let it slide. Over the years, I don't think there has been a single change or addition that we have made that people didn't get all upset and complain about. When we first switched from a straight prizes system to a component oriented one there was way more whining then there has been about ammo. Guess what? People got over it, and in the long run it ended up being better than if we had immediately regressed. Instead of digging your heels in, give it a chance and see the upside of all of the work that has been put into it. I have no ego, I have no shame, I have no fear of you or anything you might say, and it is unfortunate that I have to spend my time here trying to clean up the mess you are creating because somebody peed in your coffee. "Spreading truth"? Give me a break. You have an axe to grind, so you are using limited observations to draw unfounded global conclusions that you are passing around here as "truth", which is laughable at best. I have tried to talk to you to get to the root of what is upsetting you. I am committed to the success of the zone so when somebody has a well founded serious complaint or suggestion I'll listen, I'm a very approachable person. All you have done however is made these vague sensationalist claims and get all evasive when I try to get you to provide anything specific or concrete. Then you accuse me of being blind to what is going on? Get a grip, man. S!@#$%^&*, if you would like me to upload the unedited log of our last in-game conversation I will gladly do so. Or perhaps your ego couldn't take something like that. I don't know why I'm even offering because you'll just accuse me of tampering with it to further my secret evil plans, of which I have many. ------------------------------------------ To the disgruntled players of Hyperspace: It's easy to jump on his bandwagon because he's telling you what you want to hear. All I ask is that you stop and think for a minute before you start joining in on wild, far fetched conspiracy theories. I hope you enjoy your time in Hyperspace, you may always reach me here via pm, the "Contact Us" form on the website or through email (d1st0rter@gmail.com) which is also in the zone news file. D1st0rt Sysop, SSCE Hyperspace

The ammo system adds depth, strategy, and realism to the game. The fun in first person shooting games is in shooting people, not reloading your weapon. Why, I could even get killed mid-reload if somebody else were to shoot me. That's no fun, they should take reloading out. As Matrim said earlier (and from your own example), the notion of limited resources is everywhere. We didn't have ammo from the start because of technical limitations, and this is the first time we've gone clean slate having any experience with a component oriented item system (the first time we were pretty much winging it because we had only dealt with individual prizes). By that logic, a box of cereal is "built to fail". Ammo is not built to fail, it's built to be consumed. I also think you're misled on the subject of operating systems but that's a completely different matter altogether. The benefit you can gain from the ammo system is a tactical advantage over your opponent. If you're less worried about ammo you have more control over tempo and you're more free to open up some shots. If you're watching ammo, you have to be a lot more conservative and it can distract you from what's going on around you. I think everyone would agree we are way past the original scope of the game. We are on the bleeding edge of an exciting new frontier, where traditional limitations are not as important. Ammo usage is just another thing to take into account when customizing your ship. It would seem to me that you aren't treating ammo like the first class citizen it is. We didn't get together and sit down "ok, we have all of these items planned out now how can we handicap them". Ammunition was taken into consideration from square one, and this item set was built from the ground up around it. I see where you're coming from, but I think you're looking it at the wrong way. Ammo is an enhancement, a feature that you're treating like a penalty. Use it to your advantage. When was that zone created? We've had a place for ammo in the code since 2004. I think the original idea might have come from Doom or Wolfenstein or possibly real life. Also, I don't believe flagging and ammo are mutually exclusive.

Maybe you shouldn't have broken the rules if you were worried about getting banned.

It looks like Ron Paul didn't get enough exposure in time to win the GOP nomination, so our only hope appears to be resting with Obama.

this change occurred well before you started playing

Because ammo is so expensive?

http://sshyperspace.net/items/