Posted by: Sotak246
« on: August 10, 2009, 12:40:43 PM »And here I thought I was the only one losing time to an MMO, my wife recently addicted me to Perfect World International. All of the sudden all my free time just vanished.
I played Eve for over 5 years and played it hardcore for the first 3 and a half. I keep on getting dragged back to it due to the 'ooh, shiny!' effect of well made ingame videos and news articles on the major wars. But, my subscription on both accounts just recently ran out again and I am leaving it for now. Certain groups of 'people' (and I use the term lightly) have made the game unbearable by their constant 'metagaming', crass jokes, racial slurs and general asshole-like behavior. It is the mother of all sandbox games and because it is 'only online' some folks think that they can do and say whatever they want and it isn't wrong.
The funny thing is, the only reason why I get so annoyed with these idiots is because I love the game so much. Bring back the glory years when a 5million ISK cruiser was the ultimate goal and it took you months to get there with manual mining and traveling 100s of systems which were not full of gold farmers and/or asshats.
/end rant
Champions Online open beta starts in 11 days
btw - can you give link to this database fix tool you mentionedviewtopic.php?f=10&t=1622
I just wanted to throw in, that there is a link from "Atomic Rocket" to Aurora at http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3ar.html
(that´s how I found my way here)
As Paul, I have been a bit busy with another game lately (WitP AE) but will have a look at Aurora again, when the first excitement settles down a bit. .
Steve
Thanks Steve and John I've been side tracked a bit by HOI3 but I want to get back to Aurora and hopefully not face the annoying error messages that ruined the last game. 4.1 looks very good...haven't yet downloaded 4.11.
The wargamer is a great place I think. I tend to oscillate in my posting there though. I found out about Aurora basically from word of mouth after I got fed up with Starfire (not the game but the list) and then the local starfire group succomed to real life events *sigh*. As a suggestion Steve make a signature for yourself there with the aurora website in it that will probably help as well.
I am really looking forward to the operational diplomacy as it makes NPRs a lot more interesting to me. Have to see how things go this time about, the fact that the civillians won't be dumping population and infrastructure on hellballs I want only automatic mines on is a huge improvement as well.
And the ability to build terraforming installations and move them is great. I wanted to do that several times in the last game since trying to keep ships in orbit around a colony world is major pain.
Did you fix PDCs drawing maintenace minerals in 4.11?
BTW saw your aurora post on the wargamer.com.Yes, I haven't really advertised the existence of Aurora very much, apart from a post on the Star Ranger forums a while back. Although we have almost 400 registered users, a lot of Starfire players registered in the early days and since then the expansion in numbers must have been through word-of-mouth. This latest version brings it to the point where I am happy to draw people's attention to it because it is a playable game now rather than a work in progress. I'll see what reaction I get from the wargamer forum and then I may mention it in a few other places.
The default for pre-TNT is now no starting tech. I have changed the code for the next version so the Assign Starting Tech option is unflagged when you selected ConventionalQuote from: "Paul M"Steve,I just did a pre-tnt start last night, and left the default settings - it didn't appear to give me any starting tech. In other words, it looks to me like setting to 0 and ignoring have the same effect.
I am going to restart my Draakkaa campaign and go again with a pre-tnt start but I am not sure how to handle the technological points. The game window starts with 30,000 points and auto assign selected.
What should I do for a pre-tnt start? Change the value to 0 or ignore it?
Steve,
I am going to restart my Draakkaa campaign and go again with a pre-tnt start but I am not sure how to handle the technological points. The game window starts with 30,000 points and auto assign selected.
What should I do for a pre-tnt start? Change the value to 0 or ignore it?
BTW saw your aurora post on the wargamer.com.