KMHPaladin

I leave for a while, and the sequel to CMBB is already nearing completion. Time flies!

No problems here.

Probably true, I think it's more a question of people being forum addicts than grognards.

Sounds like a badly needed feature .

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kking199: LOL.. is there something wrong with lurking?!?!. Frankly there are a few members here who would benefit from lurking instead of posting their worthless drivel or obviously inflammtory comments. Nonetheless this is by far the best Game Forum I have EVER participated in... period. I attributed this to two main facts. More mature audience, ie. we are all 28+ years old on average and the vigilant moderation by the staff at BTS. I cannot tell you how much I have learned here from simply lurking! Now all I need to be happy is to convince BTS that their website needs some serious overhaul work, visually in particular. I am 100% convinced they have lost sales due to the rather amatuerish look of the site. No need for flash or fancy stuff, just change the sandback background and get rid of the cheesy pirate flag!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Can't agree about this being the "best" forum, I've been an (active) member of the Combatsim/SimHQ EAW community for probably 3 years and they take my vote. However, this does seem to be a good forum for the reason you mentioned, the overall maturity (although I am only 19 now and was 18 when I started coming here, sorry to spoil your demographics ) is definitely a plus. And I agree totally, this website could use a real overhaul. The yellow background is disgusting and they really need to either hire a professional or take some serious time to rework it. "Packaging" and "marketing" might be scoffed at by all you uber-grogs but when it comes down to it, it is important and the professionalism of the "packaging" reflects on the product itself. Lurkers of the world unite! [ 09-23-2001: Message edited by: KMHPaladin ]

One of the most amusing names for an important operation was the first major Marine movement in Vietnam, Operation Starlite. Apparently the operation was originally to be called "Satellite," but the typists who were to be writing up the plan of action were typing at night, during a rocket attack, and they misread "Satellite" as "Starlite." The brass decided not to change it...

I'm guessing that CM just models "bridges" as being part of the same plane as the actual ground, and thus the vehicle viewed the bridge as an obstruction that had to be driven around.

Uh... isn't quoting yourself in your signature kind of poor?

Good point, Soddball, I agree completely that Intel has the reputation and that their server CPUs are virtually unchallenged. That is the reason that a lot of people won't buy Athlons - the Intel brand name is very well respected and people are reluctant to trust anything else. I think it's great, however, to finally see someone competing with Intel and helping to keep prices reasonable. I guess my point is, I don't think that people should just blindly buy a CPU based on name, it's just that I got ticked when I saw someone going after someone who'd bought a computer with what seemed to be the intention of making him feel bad about his purchase. There's nothing wrong with telling people enough to allow them to make an informed decision, I'm all for it in fact. However, when someone's already made the decision, it's beside the point, isn't it? BTW... I don't have a new "box of doom" . My current machine is an IBM TP A20p with a PIII 750 - I have to have a laptop because RPI said so. I'm planning to build a desktop next summer and I'll evaluate the CPU situation at that point.

That wasn't my point at all, Terence. Like I said, I wouldn't buy a P4 right now, I feel that the Athlon is a better value. That said, however, what is to be accomplished by lambasting someone after they've pulled the trigger on a brand new expensive computer? Let them enjoy their new and fast machine. Unless you get your jollies making other people feel bad - I thought that kind of got old when I graduated elementary school, though...

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeff Heidman: The depressing part is that your 1.3 GHz P4 is slower than a 1.2 GHz Athlon, especially at CM when it comes time to run a big turn. Anandtech just did a comparison and concluded that a 1.7P4 is only about as fast as 1.33 Athlon! Heck, your 1.3 GHz P4 probably isn't any faster than a 1.3GHz P3 for anything you have sitting in your software library! Why do people keep buying Intel? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> That's real classy, Jeff. "Now that you've just spent a lot of money on an expensive computer, I'm going to do my very best to induce a case of buyer's regret! Why should you be happy about your brand-new top-of-the-line computer when I can nitpick it into the ground!" Why don't you hold your tongue and perhaps offer that opinion to someone who is looking to buy instead of trying to make someone feel horrible about the computer they just spent a lot of money on? If you want to tell them that perhaps next time there'd be a better place to spend their money, for god's sake don't do it in such a gleefully malicious manner. And for the record, if I was building a computer at this time I would almost undoubtedly go with an Athlon.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mortarforker: The long delayed sucsessor to the BAR is the Squad Automatic Weapon. About 20LB's, insane ROF (somthing like 1200 rpm), fed with a 100 round box hooked on the side to facilitate assault fire and an easy to change barrel, 3 in each 12 man rifle squad, total ripoff of the MG42. Unfourtanatly for a few generations of grunts it took the US military procurement system 40 years to come up with a counterpart to the German Mg's of WWII.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I disagree completely. While you can draw a correlation between the FN "Minimi" (or M249 as it is called in the US) with its high rate of fire and the MG34/42, they are not rifles of the same type. The MG34/42 was designed to fit a number of roles - in the LMG role it was really an HMG with a lighter barrel sitting on a bipod. It could just as easily be picked up and put on a heavy tripod and used as an HMG. The M249 on the other hand, so far as I know, behaves very much like a true LMG in that it is used only with a bipod and is smaller and lighter than the MG34/42. If you want to draw a picture showing the evolution of the MG34/42 into the modern US military you would be much better off showing the M60.

I have a Thinkpad A20p with a 16MB ATi Rage Mobility card - I run at 1280x resolution with no real problems with several graphical modifications installed (including terrain.)

IIRC the Javelin is the new ATGM that the army is fielding - something like a Dragon but more high-tech, more portable, and not nearly as difficult to operate.

Several of the SPR cast were Rangers - both Miller and the BAR man, whose name was something like "Reiben," wore the patch. That would lead me to believe, along with recollections from reading and television documentaries, that Ranger graduates would be dispersed back to their original units except a small percentage that would go to dedicated Ranger units.

Evidently not .

There's no profanity filter on "****?"

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Leeo: Isn't R.E.M an anacronym for "Remove Everyone's Manhood?"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> No, as far as I know, REM the band based their name on the abbreviation REM for "Rapid Eye Movement" - as in "REM Sleep."

Good lord, could you people watch a movie and just enjoy it for what it is? Unless you dig the soldiers out of their graves, bring them back to life and put a rifle in their hands, and tell them to go at it again on a French beach (on film, of course) you're not going to perfectly recreate D-Day. In fact, I'm sure someone would somehow find a problem with that. I totally agree with Michael, most of those are "so whats." Oh no, you can see a blank adapter? Holy crap, you're right, next movie I want to see them firing real bullets to avoid any such problem! And btw, not all of those problems are mistakes - as you said, the military adviser to the producers stated that no officer in his right mind would have his insignia emblazoned on his helmet, but he was overruled. Cut the people a break, for god's sake, they made a war film that was about as realistic as humanly possible, and they did it without adulterating it with crap like the Pearl Harbor flick coming out soon.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Wildman: Ah Paladin, you miss the point. If you delete the subjects out of the archive, what exactly are you searching? The threads have been deleted. Really first its the intellectuals they try and suppress.....Via la Cess, Via la Cess.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I think I'm missing your point. If there are ten threads with ten posts with ten words apiece, there are 1000 words that must be searched against a keyword. If you delete two threads, you now have 800 words that must be searched against a keyword. Therefore, you have to search less, and it will take less time. Understand? I don't really care about the Peng thread, I don't read it, but it doesn't bother me. I'm merely making the point that that many posts can effect search times and performance.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by David Aitken: Anyway, suggesting that the Search function could be improved by removing threads from the archives which are being searched is ever so slightly bizarre. The fact is, UBB software is free, so it's no surprise if it doesn't cut it for this kind of high-traffic forum. BTS have in the past appealed for pointers to more robust forum software. The latest forum upgrade was supposed to better handle large forums, but appears to have had the opposite effect, in terms of the Search function at least.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> To say that removing threads would not speed up searches is incorrect as far as I can see. Any search mechanism must go through each and every word to see if it "matches" with the given keyword. Taking threads out would lessen the number of words that would have to be parsed and decrease times. By how much? I have no idea. What I do know is that at the old Combatsim, the admin would on a regular basis have to move EAW forum posts to "backup" forums because performance was being screwed by all the posts. AFAIK UBB has never been free. I looked through their webpage several years ago and it was on the order of hundreds of dollars. Furthermore, this "new forum" is not new, it's merely another version of UBB. I think that the problem lies in the fact that there are nearly a quarter-million posts and this is degrading performance.

Dunnee makes an excellent point. Diesel-electrics may be quiet, but they aren't for very long. They have limited range and speed, and if they're detected even once, it's infinitely easier to track them down because of their limited speed and inability to clear the area. To say that submarine reactors are the equivalent of floating brass bands is ignorant; they are far from "loud," especially in newer designs. At the risk of getting myself embroiled in discussion of a ludicrous hypothetical Australia-US war... my recollection is that the Aussies are having such trouble with their new Steyr AUG copies that they're ditching them and going for M4s ASAP. Anyone with far more time to read the news care to comment/modify? [ 04-26-2001: Message edited by: KMHPaladin ]

Hey Kwazy, it's the resident "thinks he knows something about Max and is thus qualified to ask dumb questions" guy . Just out of curiosity, how do you guys animate the models? As I said before, I have a pretty good handle on the Halflife model system and the way they put stuff together. Do you use the animation tools in Max and create a set of animations that are referenced - i.e. "turret right" or "turn left" - by the game itself? That is essentially what the HL models do... they have a fascinating "bone" system that attaches the model and textures to "bones" that are physically manipulated by the game, which makes it easier and more realistic for both guns and "people" models to be animated. For those wondering how I went off on such a monumental tangent, I was just curious as to how many darned anims would be necessary for all those turrets . Thanks for humoring me .

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Babra: Apparently, a little known combat film of the event shot by one Hauptsturmfueher Zapruder has some curious anomolies. There's an unconcerned-looking Frenchman with an umbrella, and what appears to be another Tiger just visible behind a grassy knoll. Oliver Stone has picked up the movie rights...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> ROFLMAO , classic Babra .