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Ahhh that brings back memories of ultima 3. The version I had they made ships extremely rare. You couldn't buy them, you just had to capture a pirate ship. I got as far as I could without one, then was just stuck. So I did alot of fighting and plundering and bought up the max food amount...

I started out on 2 for the c64, which was in a strange flimsy box published by sierra. Then 3 and 4 I got and still have the boxes for them, published by origin for c64. They had nice boxes and manuals and little coins and goodies. Then somewhere in there they re-released 1 and I got it, I...

What did you think of the "worlds of" games? I want to get to them someday. I did play the martian one and I remember getting very killed by wandering monsters.

Serpent isle and silver seed were great, probably my fave too. I actually really really got into 8, and played it on a 386/33 and the performance was so terrible. I finished it before the patch I was so into it. But it wasn't a good ultima by any stretch. I spent so much time looking for...

I am broke right now so I didn't kick any in, but it motivated me to fire up Underworld. I've finished all of the main-line Ultimas (1-9), but I never finished savage empires, martian dreams, or either of the underworlds. So far it is really fun, but I'm only down on the second level.

I watched Unity's gdc stuff (and was dying laughing that nobody could get Riccitello's name right). Pretty cool materials stuff and the light bounce stuff looked as good as unreals to my untrained eye. If they can integrate voxel farm into it without source, that is a pretty big ad for Unity...

Are these from a progression server? Ran across them while looking for something else:

Must be a translation error. Great. I wouldn't want a mansion (the 1000 gilda house) because they are kind of stoney and empty and look like they would be drafty and cold. That super amazing mega-mansion that the koreans have looks awesome though. I think Kooncoon had one of those before...

I finally got all the land I needed for a bigger house! I had alot of little 8x8 neighbors, so took forever to get all the land. Some were nice and let me buy them out or agreed to move to a different spot, others ignored my mails for months and just let the place sit there and rot and never...

Anyone else have this back in the days of yore?

ArcheAge is a racing game with housing and cute baby elk pets. Probably too soon but any word on CC abilities? My advice is take any current pvp game and cut abilities and durations down to 10% of what they are now. Losing control of your character is not fun. Alternatively I'd like a...

The better funded F1 teams have big carbon printers they carry with them to tracks. They can print parts downloaded from the factory back at their home HQ during a race weekend that are fresh out of the wind tunnel or CFD. I suspect some of the teams are already heavily invested in...

Ok so crazy Alonso crash conspiracy theories go! So far I've heard an ERS shock, fainting, one of the front brakes failing, and simple driver error + tailwind.

I like william turner for his fiery skies, but I don't know much about painters. I watched a docu or two but I forgot most of it. Neat stuff in this thread, moar

I've been reading a lot of scifi lately, for game ideas and such. Lots of far future stuff that probably has no bearing on reality. The books have some interesting pathways leading to the state of technology that exists in the stories: Invent AI, AI invents lots of great stuff fairly...

I'd be surprised if the voxel stuff worked with existing middleware. Middleware is usually only for fixed hand built areas that are loaded upon entry and don't change.

I think they would keep us around because we are interesting, and fun to talk to. Of course this is after a few hundred years of genetic meddling. I can't pretend people are all that interesting right now.

I think it would be worth the risks to develop powerful AI. I'd like to think things would turn out more like Iain Banks's culture stuff than all the doomsday scenarios, or even human exploitation.

BTW MMOs are draw call / state change bound. In a crowded area you'll see a dip in framerate but a dip in gpu utilization and even heat as well. It is because everything is stalled most of the time waiting on new stuff to be shuffled into place for the next draw. I think I've said on the...

Outcast was voxely, the build engine had small voxel objects for tombstones and such. My xbox game was all generated terrain. Fractals with a radius drop to form a rounded island in the clouds. Worked ok, but I didn't do any trees or anything, just textures based on height and steepness.

Now that there's no afk timeout, people are afking in city entrances and bridges in their tractors just to be cocks. I've never been blocked by this sort of thing, I went straight from donkey to car, but it has driven a few friends to quit. In american mmo land, at least for the past 10 years...

The tons-of-characters-on-screen problem is a big one. I've not played with direct3D 12 yet, but everything I read about it, and amd's mantle makes me think it would be perfect for big mmo fights. DirectX and GL that are in use in most games today are made for loading up a static scene and...

Hurray for no afk kicking. Was a constant pain in the ass having to tab over and hit a key to keep it from booting me while trying to get work done. Now I can minimize it and just ignore it all day. \o/ I've been buying out my neighbors trying to get enough land together to make a...

If you are curious about Gordon, there's a recording of a class up on youtube where he talks about various stuff. The whole series is pretty good: Warren Spector lecture 11 - Gordon Walton - YouTube

Hahaha can it pull them through keep doors like those hilarious warhammer abilities?

There used to be a hibernian class in daoc that could transform into a big deer moose thing and it always scared me when I saw it happen (from the albion side)

The lap count is the big thing from Jerez: 1. Mercedes, 516 laps - 2,284km 2. Sauber (Ferrari), 382 laps - 1,691km 3. Toro Rosso (Renault), 353 laps - 1,563km 4. Ferrari, 349 laps - 1,545km 5. Williams (Mercedes), 278 laps - 1,230km 6. Lotus (Mercedes), 190 laps - 841km 7. Red Bull...

Looks like almost everyone has huge air channeling into the skinny back ends. Ted's day 4 notebook has lots of tasty pictures. With all the shrinking there's bound to be heat problems later in the year. Not a fan of the nubbinsy noses, but at least some of them look good. Has been awesome...

Mr Mike! And Grimli from UO (Scott). Neat BTW, the resetting board thing, It reminds me of an idea I threw in the hat back when DAOC was asking for suggestions for special server types. I think it turned into the "realm invasion server" that was an item to be voted on, but I'm sure other...

Hmm very grim first day of testing unless you are a mercedes fan. It is early but the car looks bulletproof and quick. The other teams had the usual first day gremlins.

I think the pulsar-c is my fave medium to long range VS carbine. I love flying up in a tree and flipping it to semi auto with 4x optics.

I jumped in for a little last night, love the new reticle options for optics. Finally can get some colors that don't blend into the background so much.

I can remember quite a bit about 1 and 2, not so much 3. I did finish all 3 on the C64. I remember well the intro sequence to 3 because I could play it on the lute in lord of the rings online The main things I remember about 1 were the early days when trying to make it back to the guild...

I can't decide what spec I want. I finished all the skills, and I used to need music for donkeying, but now that I have the car I can pick what I want. I like sorcery and vitalism and defense but if I pick all 3 I don't have enough points to get all the good stuff. Not that I ever fight...

I think there's some sort of crazy dupe or sploit going on again. Guess that explains apex prices.

Was watching one of my fave streamers this morning when this happened:Twitch

I was hoping they would do the starwars galaxies style shifting resources. There would be several types of steel (cubirian, dura etc) and copper and such, but unique variants would spawn with randomly generated names and stats. Once the unique variants shifted away they were gone forever, but...

Also, I've been trying to transfer my Kyrios wealth over, and apex there is over 700. Around 585 on Ollo. Wonder why it is so much higher on Kyrios? Also, they just added a maid outfit... Skirt is wayyyy too short

I think I heard someone say that if someone stands on the back it goes faster but I haven't tried it yet. My neighbor is at pax.

So some things I've learned about cars: They are quite easy to flip and once they flip the little hand icon kick thing doesn't really do anything. Luckily when I did I didn't have tradepacks on board. Small cute pets can ride along if you stand on the hood and summon them at the seats...