[How realaistic will drop team be....]

Originally posted by flamingknives:

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Peter Cairns:

A laser can move at the speed of light, about 300,000,000mps (three hundred million metres a second), so to cut a hole with a 1m circumferance it could do 300m rotations a second. If it had the accuracy to cut to within a molecule, then it cut by nudging atoms slice a hole in a tank with the power of a pen light.

I think that is overstating the case a tinsy bit.

You've still got to deal with atmospheric interferance and actually focussing the laser on the target to that level of precision. The two are nearly mutually exclusive.</font>

[Artillery deployable mines]

Already seen this?

http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/SHM/index.html#

[Battlefront.com and TBG Software announce new game! DropTeam!]

Well, AA is a free game, and a relatively simple FPS. Dropteam might be able to attract better players.

Also, AA has some problems because it is played on relatively small maps with fixed missions. One of those problems (a very normal one) is that there are a small number of options to use in each map, and all experienced players know them, so it becomes routine and winning is not decided by tactics (everyone already knows all the viable tactics for every map) but mouse skills. Also, there is some almost-cheating behaviour (not really going outside of what the game allows, but not something that would happen in real life), like the grenade launchers that memorize exactly how they need to aim to get a grenade from their spawn to the enemy spawn in the first five seconds of the game.

As Dropteam will probably have much bigger maps, I guess it would have more variety.

[TacOps Version 3 on Flat Screen]

Well, a zoomable map would certainly be a nice feature. However, do note that a 1600x1200 TFT generally will be very good at 800x600 too (perhaps a little ugly due to the big pixels, but none of the image quality problems TFT's often have at scaled resolution because it's exactly half of the real resolution of the display).

[Error on the news page?]

From:

http://battlefront.com/products/dropteam/news.html

Designed and developed by TBG Software and using their own proprietary Demeter Terrain Engine, DropTeam features exciting solo and multiplayer combat set on a variety of exotic battlefields and planets.

And then, from:

http://www.tbgsoftware.com/

Demeter is open source. It is available under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License, which are incredibly reasonable terms. Basically, you may freely download and use Demeter in your own projects, even commercial projects, without having to pay any kind of royalties or fees whatsoever. Please read the entire license document before using Demeter.

That doesn't seem to be very proprietary to me