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It is late and not quite all that I was hoping for. But I have finally gotten my dicebox back up and running.

http://www.nadaka.us/DiceBox/Info.aspx

You can select different styles on the Preferences page. Gray and Blue are relatively low key and spartan, Black uses background images but looks like crap and needs a lot of work. The Drop Down Menu feature won't work on IE 7 or older, but it has been tested in firefox, safari, opera and chrome.
You can use most of the site without getting a login.
Leaving comments, dealing with groups and viewing the AccessKey (AccessKey is required to use groups and comments over the web service) requires logging in.

What is left to do here:
finish security: right now, unsanitary html inputs produce an ugly error but are safe, unsanitary sql inputs are escaped.
Finish implementing group membership: groups are controlled by the users, a groups can be invite only, authorization upon request or free for all. A groups owner can assign members administrative powers allowing them to control group membership, etc.
Provide a nice directions page.
Provide a statistics page: The statistics page will be able to collate data from dicebox usage and create hourly, dayly, weekly, etc reports, most popular groups, most common dice rolls, etc.
More/Better styles.

If anyone checks it out, let me know what you think.

Druid91, to poke a big hole in your gun control plans.

A: your subordinates have guns like you said? What happens when one of them wants to take your absolute power and they turn on you.

B: you can make a gun with 3 dollars of crap metal, a nice bicycle repair kit and a couple hours work.

If you can ever establish world domination, even if benevolent and perfectly legal, you will have established a president that every fascist, schemer and power tripping nutjob will be chomping at the bit to inherit.

Jookia, you are underage but don't go to school, so you are bored all day.

Easy solution. Go to school, do stuff. You will be less bored and therefore less depressed. Unless you have some very serious medical problems, or have been kicked out for some criminal activity, there is no reason not to. Hell, I had major medical problems as a kid and I still went to school every chance I could.

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This is most definitely impossible.

No, I don't think it is - at least for the iPad.

It's got a 1GHz single core CPU and 256MB RAM. There were lots of people playing 40d on that level hardware when 40d came out, and the iPad has hardware accelerated OpenGL so it'd get exactly the same boost from the merged code as the best desktop. 16GB storage for the low-end device, so the game would fit pretty well. Now, you'd probably want to play 2x2 embarks on pocket worlds, but from a hardware perspective, it's not that bad off. And the iPad cross-compiles reasonably well from Mac OS X, which already is supported.

That said, the interface is what kills it. Soft keyboard won't cut it and the game isn't mouse-enabled enough to swap in a touch interface, and I don't see that as a trivial undertaking.

Dwarf fortress can use up to a gig of ram during world generation.

The iPad runs an ARM Cortex a8 based processor with RISC architecture. It has reduced pipelining and branch prediction capabilities compared to x86 processors and requires 10% to 70% more instructions to perform the same work. So no, it isn't powerful enough for dwarf fortress.

The point is that this game isn't like either.  It's more like Freespace with more strategy elements from what I've seen.

X3 is also very much like freespace with more strategy elements.

Quote from: Nadaka on April 05, 2010, 09:54:38 am

It looks a bit like a multiplayer X4. I'll keep an eye out for it.

If by X4 you mean 4X then... where are the 4X elements? ...  Then again if you actually do mean X4, where are the non-combat related elements?

oops, I actually meant X3 (a 4X game).

ALso you should still be able to trade, but will most likely either offend the merchant if you bid low or pay to much if you bid high.