Chupacabra

Another cost in persistant worlds is moderators. Got to pay those folks a salary, and the games are absolutely unplayable without them. Of course, the games might be absolutely unplayable with them, but that's neither here nor there... ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Heavy arty is far more destructive. I find on-board artillery good for supression and smoke, but the heavier stuff is the killer. The time delay just requires a bit of foresight to work around. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

TacOps is a wego game as well. I don't think BTS ever claimed to have come up with the idea, but CM is the first 3d wego wargame, AFAIK. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I think you're probably out of luck. Although I don't specifically know, and I'm too lazy to go to their website and check, I'm assuming it's going to work on the Everquest model. That is, you buy the front end for however much money, and then you pay a monthly fee for the service. That seems to be the way most MMO games are going. Again, just a hunch. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Ah, Croda has just informed me that some brave soul has already written an auto-taunter, which means that I have absolutely no desire to continue doing so This is way cooler than mine was going to be anyway. Basically my knowledge of Javascript is cutting and pasting from other people's scripts, and deleting any lines I don't understand. So probably just as well. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Actually, along those lines, I've started trying to write a little Auto-Taunt Javascript thingy. I have no idea if I'll ever finish this, because I hate Javascript, I suck at it, I have a short attention span, and I kinda feel like a loser for even bothering. If this thing ever does see the light of day though I'll post something. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dNorwood: (N.B: I DIDN'T believe there was a lawsuit, but I DID believe someone ginned up a faux website...)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Mmm, that's what I need to do with my winter vacation... ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Well, I guess you didn't hear about the suit the Architecture Anti-Defamation League brought against BTS. The complaint was that by portraying buildings which showed no visible damage when fired upon until they exploded in Bikini Atoll-style mushroom clouds, BTS was undermining public confidence in the architecture industry. From the testimony of Ida L. McIntyre: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> Since my husband bought that awful Close Combat Mission game, I've been terrified to set foot into my own home! I mean, what if the building's about to collapse! I'd have no way of knowing! My god, the next gust of wind could destroy us all!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> BTS and the AADL settled out of court. In return for dropping the suit, BTS agreed to attach disclaimers to their buildings in CM and any further iterations of the series. You can read more at: http://aadl.com/btslawsuit.html and http://www.battlefront.com/products/worldwar/cm/index/lawsuit.html ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Um, you do realize that Lieberman has never called for censorship, don't you? There's a difference between asking the entertainment industry to tone it down and legally forcing them to do so. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh. [This message has been edited by Chupacabra (edited 11-17-2000).]

And keep your desires to yourself, Pushbroom! ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I think you're looking for 'ne repondez pas, s'il vous plait.' ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by von shrad: He just needs a little.....er....attention. vs<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Can attention be applied with crowbars and meathooks? If so, I volunteer. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

One last bump... ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Er, since they programmed the game on a Mac, I assume they'll continue to support the platform. Wild hunch... ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Beh, what's going on? Every time I get ****faced or go on holiday in France (same thing, really, both left me feeling wobbly and vaguely nauseous) I come back and you heap have posted fifteen freaking pages of stuff I can't understand. Lords? Ladies? Elvii? I put this question to you foetid bastards: what is the purpose of the Pool? Is it to assuage Meeks' disappointment at not being able to get a good D&D group together since that time Marty Fleischman ate the whole pizza and horked all over the Monster Manual? Or is it rather to crush your enemies, to drive them before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women? I say thee, nay! to further classification! Let the taunts run free and pure! ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally presented meekly forth, with a bit of a lisp, by JDHorseface: Drooooooool. Guh. Mama? hahahahahahahaha! droooooool. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> The difference being that Edward Cayce was a fraud, whereas I am bona fide (sit DOWN Bauhaus). Could it be perhaps that I know something you don't, hmm? Could it be perhaps that this worries you a bit? Here's a hint - it's got tracks and a gun, and it's not the one you've seen. We'll just have to see what happens next turn, won't we? ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

You're all Chupassimilated, so there. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I'd have to buy a new monitor, the one I was using is on another continent. I'm not terribly inclined to do so; I might as well just buy a new computer, which I may in fact do. And yep, the monitor's native res. is 1024x768, which is what I run CM in. Running it at lower resolutions doesn't work either, unfortunately. :/ ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Schrullenhaft - I've just got the LCD. Ironically, when I was using an external monitor, CM ran like a champ. I've tried fiddling with different mouse/touchpad drivers, with no luck. I believe I have tried the generic PS/2 drivers, but will try them again. I had to replace the LCD because the cable which sends power from the power supply to the screen had become broken. I'm suspecting I'm just going to have to deal with this. Unfortunately, it has cut down on my desire to play CM. C'est la vie, I suppose. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I think it's worth the price, and well-handled it can be effective, but I definitely don't think it's some sort of uberweapon. I also wonder how folks'll feel about it after the next patch... ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Updates! Lorak, take note! Scrota has been well and thoroughly whipped by the forces of Chupacabrismo. There are lots of burning things on the shattered remnants of our map; two are mine, more are his. The vast majority of the dead cold things are his. I believe the final score was something like 87-13. Goata my dim and ugly boy, the next time you play your betters, do remember to surrender a bit earlier. What can I say, I stacks 'em up and I knocks 'em down. JDHorseface certainly does have an interesting take on our game. Funny, considering what's about to happen to him. Shabapaloopashananaheydorf better have something really freaking neat up his sleeve. If not, I will commence with the shpap. Seanacoochiecoo has decided to bring his puny Mark IV out to play (sit down, Bauhaus)! Yay! It will die soon. Hopefully with bright pretty flames! Sheepbeater...dunno. Where's my King Tiger, dammit?!!?! That is all. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

"SS are overpriced hamsters!" started by OberGrupenwhateverblah before he had the uncharacteristic good sense to shorten that mouthful into something manageable. http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/007449.html ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Meeks, you may be stranger than a wading pool full of peyote-abusing Mexican Elvis impersonators, but surely you're not so godawful pathetically unimaginative as to not be able to think of your own bloody tagline? Hell, if you're that hard up, take my old one. Or go back to selling the Street Signature News, begging for signature busfare, and scrounging half-eaten signature calzones from the signature dumpster out back of the nasty Korean-owned signature pizzaria, I don't give a damn. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Oak - The mod question has been discussed many times. Do a search if you're interested in reading the arguments, but the gist is A) It would take as much time for BTS to okay a user-generated mod as it would for them to just do it themselves, and Screws up multiplayer. The "yeah, but look at TF/CS/AQ2/whatever" argument has been brought up as well ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Alexander: In CMBO, Germans must defend in Western Europe with the same desperate, creative dispersion they improvised on the Russian steppes. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> And look how well this worked for the Germans. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.