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Other Games / Re: Jaycraft Minecraft Server: Server Software Sucks!
« on: November 06, 2010, 11:32:55 pm »
*mutters vaguely* Someone took either a pick or a few blocks of tnt to my tower. Blew out a good 200 blocks of cobble stone and a half-turn or so of stairway. Any way I can nab up builder status to protect the thing from that happening again, or perhaps some kind soul do it for me and grant me access?

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Other Games / Re: FPS history
« on: November 05, 2010, 10:32:36 pm »
Tribes came out in '98, too. Its sequel came in around 2000, so you can mark that down as something worth playing during '00-'03 :P There's a bunch of doom knockoffs (Hexen, that RPG thing in the Doom engine, etc, etc, etc.) that could probably stand to be in there somewhere. I also see no duke nukem 3d, which is a serious gap. '96 for that.

But yeah, the progress that's occurred is quite amazing. It's not really a surprise that things are slowing down, though. I'd probably say there's just not really much else to do for pure FPSes until, I'unno, brain jacks or something. The field's kinda' saturated, and short of mixing it with other styles of play (which is where a lot of them go nowadays, from what I understand), most things have  pretty much been done.

On the bright side, we're probably only a few decades from hitting the straight wall of hardware doubling, which is when things will probably get really interesting. Our machine overlords will give us new and even more interesting FPS games :P

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Other Games / Re: Jaycraft Minecraft Server: Server Software Sucks!
« on: November 05, 2010, 10:49:04 am »
The sun?

Well, no guarantee it's rising in the east, but still...

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Other Games / Re: Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. Or: THAT DAMN SIGMUND.
« on: November 05, 2010, 10:47:56 am »
Quick hard an'fast rule for the short blade stabbing bonus, from the generally more reliable knowledge bot:
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To get the maximum bonus you need to have dex*(1 + stabbing skill) >= 300 (with a dagger) or 600 (any other short blade).

So at 27 stab, you need 21 dex to get +30 on a non-dagger shortblade. A dagger would only require 10 dex.

There isn't a special dagger category for the damage multiplier, just the short blade bonus damage. All short blades would manage a 1100% increase for a 27 stab tier 1 stab. A sabre is going to do nearly double what a non-enchanted dagger would do at that point and a solid 30 points more when fully enchanted.

So daggers are actually better for stabbing when you don't specialize in stabbing, not when you do.

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Other Games / Re: Jaycraft Minecraft Server: Server Software Sucks!
« on: November 04, 2010, 04:24:48 pm »
*shakes magic eightball tries to log in.

Signs point to no :(

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Other Games / Re: Battleground Europe (aka WWIIOL)
« on: November 04, 2010, 10:57:22 am »
Completely unrelated to the topic, but I like how your description sounds very calm and clinical when
Quote from: Nikov on November 03, 2010, 09:57:43 pm
This can cause the leading edge flaps to deploy independantly, causing the deployed wing to try and slap the cockpit.
is part of what you're saying.

That cracks me up.

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Other Games / Re: Jaycraft Minecraft Server: Server Software Sucks!
« on: November 03, 2010, 09:30:44 pm »
Quote from: dragonshardz on November 03, 2010, 08:43:44 pm
Though Jack_Thejil has recently been appropriating said goodies.

Lies!

Or at least I don't remember filching any of your stuff. I did nab some redstone from Logical's cave, but not terribly much. Maybe two, three blocks. The only lavapit stuff I've been messing around with is things from the Freefall tower's connecting caverns1, but that's more or less mine -- or at least mostly mine, since I dug down there in the first place -- anyway. Especially since I've been mostly sticking to the stuff at the bottom, which is really, really far down :P

I generally don't snatch up anything but redstone and diamond down there, though. Mostly I just dig out paths around lava pools and junk. I like the glow, and I'm hoping to hit one of the really big lava deposits sooner or later. That'll be awesome.

1To be fair, those caverns are freaking huge and connect to like two or three other caverns systems of roughly equal size, so I maay have stumbled upon/over/through where'er you're working. Might want to cordon off your workspace somehow. I respect signs :P

EDIT: I did leave a smileyface of redstone in one of your workshop's chests, though (well, twice now. Hohoho.) I've done that to a few people so far, heh. I'm not taking anything in the process, however, so if anything's missing it's someone else snatching it.

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Other Games / Re: Jaycraft Minecraft Server: Server Software Sucks!
« on: November 03, 2010, 04:41:11 pm »
Quote from: Jay on November 03, 2010, 02:56:02 pm
Being under lava is similar to being inside an extremely dense fog, just with different coloration.

The underwater overlay is water.png in the root folder of the JAR.

Hrm. So there isn't a way to disable that, make lava-swiming less annoying? Being able to see in that stuff would be really helpful when exploring lava pools and junk... I'm still cracking open lava pockets in the area around freefall tower's lowest point. Cavern map hints that there's some honest t'betsy lava seas down there. I wanna' dig 'em up :P

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Other Games / Re: Jaycraft Minecraft Server: Server Software Sucks!
« on: November 03, 2010, 11:22:15 am »
I remember someone mentioning it's possible to go into minecraft and change around the underwater effect, preferably so it's either more or completely transparent. Is it possible to do the same with the under-lava effect? How does one go about doing such things?

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Other Games / Re: So... I got this Touhou thing on my USB
« on: November 02, 2010, 10:18:14 am »
There's touhou skins for MC :P

Then things like this. Though that is from an older version.

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Other Games / Re: Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. Or: THAT DAMN SIGMUND.
« on: November 02, 2010, 02:02:01 am »
Dunno how you manage it straight through crawl or even if that's possible. Printscreen + paint is the standard method for windows users who don't bother getting anything more powerful or useful in the way of screenshot programs and image editors.

I guess you could do a chardump; it's got a little ASCII rendition of your immediate surroundings and recent messages that you could cut out and post.

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Other Games / Re: Incursion
« on: November 01, 2010, 05:15:26 pm »
Normally I'd agree, but Inc's dev has a pretty good record so far -- the whole 'been working on this since '99 and still going' thing is a pretty strong recommendation for 'im, I'd say, and he's done the year+ long release drought without failing to eventually produce.

The engine re-write popped up because the previous (well, current released one, I guess) had some issues (near game breaking bugs, natch) that, accordin' to th'dev couldn't, be fixed without basically re-writing the whole thing. So 'e's gone and started re-writin' the whole thing, heh. The proposed benefits to come from doing so are impressive, too.

But I hear ya'. I've seen the whole re-write/fail process more than once m'self, and it's never an encouraging thing to see. I'm hopeful, though that's a bit of fanboy going on -- Inc's pretty much the only roguelike I can win with anything approaching regularity. Still, that Mensch is still keeping in contact with the community is a positive sign in my books. We'll see in a couple years ;D

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Other Games / Re: Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. Or: THAT DAMN SIGMUND.
« on: November 01, 2010, 05:04:08 pm »
Re: Squirtle spriggan -- only things I'd really recommend is to pick up Mystic Blast (or maybe throw icicle) and some conjuration to support it and swap out that dagger for a decent sabre or quickblade. Dagger of speed is mostly useless, as daggers are already really fast. Electrocution is generally the best short blade enchantment, barring speed on a sabre.

Other than that, stack 5 a few ornate+ escape decks and go wreck Zot:5 with those summoning decks. Don't bother fighting anything that can be avoided in Z:1-4. You've got a tougher SpEn than the one I won with. Getting the orb will still be a bit of a crap shoot for a squishy spriggan, but you've got a decent chance of it at th'mo, especially if you've got more scrolls and junk stashed away somewhere.

I'd probably say don't bother with Slime. You really want artifacts in every armor slot (Of which sprigs can't wear two.) before going in there. About the only thing you can do at this point is wander around the Abyss farming XP, I'd imagine.

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Other Games / Re: Incursion
« on: November 01, 2010, 12:02:21 am »
I'd probably guess speed, honestly, but I'm not really sure. I've never seen a Java program of the size or complexity even approaching Inc that ran worth a shit, to be blunt, and Inc's already had some fairly serious resource issues (re: saving, ferex) in the past. That, and Inc's future engine is supposed to have some seriously freaking impressive tools for... whatever it does, I'unno.

That being said, you're welcome to actually ask the dev, who's pretty open about such things. Or read the white page, which probably answers at least part of that question.

Could crosspost the question to the google group, if you're not able to yourself, if you'd like.

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Other Games / Re: Incursion
« on: October 31, 2010, 09:19:26 pm »
News necro!

Summary: Progress, but not terribly much. Engine work continues apace, despite personal hardships for developer. Some fruits of the labor to likely be displayed fairly soon-ish, though apparently nothing particular interesting from a gameplay view.

Incredibly tentative speculation puts release date of new!Incursion at maybe 2012. End of the world indeed :P

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