Fire Giant
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I believe he means "if we put it in and don't like it, we'll take it back out".
Yepp, I meant that - the fact that English is not my native language and that I literally translated from German has taken its tribute here again
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the debian package manager. It's really nice except for the fact that it is never completely updated.
Hmm, on Debian, you can set the package tree in /etc/sources.list to "unstable" and you'll always get the very latest packages... Don't know if that works in Knoppix, too, but in theory it should, since apt is the same for nearly all platforms.
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Upstairs is running Windows ME but I have Mozilla installed and have instructed everyone that Internet Explorer is evil
.Windows ME is the incarnation of slowness, instability and anti-innovation, if you ask me
@Chris: Well, that's a pity if you cannot launch applications... you could still try to rename the PortableFirefox.exe to iexplore.exe or winword.exe - that manages to trick most common application filter software. It's possible that Firefox won't work after renaming the exe, though
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Well, if you consider the time that all people here at WFG have spent to make the game what it is right now, and you then calculated a normal hourly wage for that, I guess they'd be VERY VERY expensive
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I think we do not really have an answer for this right now, because we don't know it ourselves. You will of course be able to rotate buildings before (and even after) placing them in the Map Editor, but I think we will try to implement it into the actual game session as well - but if it shows up as annoying and unwanted during testing, we might as well take it back out
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So does this mean I'll be able to use it at school? *frantically reads link*
Yepp, that's what I'm using it for, too - even though I do have the admin powers to install Firefox on every PC in the school, due to shared profiles, I do not have my bookmarks, extensions and history on the default Firefox ("normal" students don't need such things
), so I put that PortableFirefox into my home directory, installed the Bookmark-Synchronizer extension and now I can use all my up to date bookmarks at school as well -
... the celtic goddess of god and destruction ...
Huh?
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Woooow, people on ships, finally! And they seem to be more "real scaled" then they (the ships) were in the previous age games... real shadows are in, too, and I can see cool things like wind-moving flags on the buildings - not to mention the water, which just blows away anything I've ever seen in a PC game. Even though I'm not totally satisfied about the time period choosen for AoE III, I think this game is going to be just great.
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Not often you see a B:\> prompt nowadays unless you are working with really old hardware. I don't think I've seen one, personally.
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Hmm, I saw one just three days ago
The thing is, that many recent boot-CDs use ramdrives, which they (for - to me - unknown reasons) mostly put on A:, and if you want to access the floppy drive during using such a CD, you have to use B: (since DOS can use both A: and B: for accessing the floppy drive if you have only one FDD) -
VMware Workstation has a free 30-day (I think) trial. It lets you run a virtual machine on top of your normal 'host' OS, and you can then install an OS onto that virtual machine while taking screenshots in the host. (I don't know of any equivalent open source programs that aren't painfully slow, although someone else might)
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VMware is the IMO best tool on the market for emulating a virtual PC - it works quite nicely - even though it uses quite some system resources if you are mad enough to try to run a virtual Windows install in it (I did - it works more or less fine for 98 and such, but it was painfully slow with XP, though you could still work, it was like... remote-control, or something like that). For Linux, it works very well, I think (as far as I remember, there's even a Linux version of VMware). I don't know *any* Open Source equivalent to it - the only other application of that kind I knew is MS Virtual PC.
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And what about salvaging resources from corpses?
I'm pretty sure that's planned to be in the game - at least I think I saw it in the latest version I played already (though implemented in a yet simple way)
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Hmm, right, but I think there were frightening attacks on settlements by cavalry (in some books I've read, this is called "foraging", quite some gloss over). Also, probably they just want to collect some taxes (although I doubt they'd send a full cavalry turma for that).
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I don't see how auto advancing implies everyone advancing at the same time. There might be a set of conditions that make you advance, and the only difference would be that it wouldn't tie up your TC, or consume as many resources.
The article says that players will advance at the same time, though.
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Mwwahahaha, a Roman suprise attack.... those Celts are not going to have a good day, that's certain
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Yepp, I think that's the way you need to do it - at least we did it in this way when we were setting up out Linux boxes for my school's network (many of the servers are running Linux there)
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Archangel might get overtime pay to do the PR stuff on the weekend
Honestly, I think Philip is likely to be right, even though that would kind of damage the scheme of having one game per day (because they'd probably have to leave out TC).
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Cool. I think I'll try that. I don't really like the hack Mandrake put in KDE to overwrite the KDE logo. That star is ugly. (I'm too lazy to manually rename everything there.)
I doubt that SuSE will be much of a change for that - they tend to put their logo everywhere, too (even into the boot screen and console background). Not good if you ask me, since they somehow "claim" to have done the work that was in fact done by the open source community by putting their logo onto it (another point is that they sell SuSE for money, in fact making a large part of their money from other people's work). Ok, I just do not happen to like SuSE too much
(Although I have to admit that their distribution is the most "newb-compatible" on the market, and YaST isn't bad either). -
Those poor Romans. Ambushed again.
Yepp, exactly. I feel that the Romans are unfairly disadvantaged and no one likes them - Justice and equality for the Romans!
Though, we have to notice that those little number of poorly-armoured Iberian dudes will not pose any threat to the Roman column, and even if there are more of those Iberians, they will pay a pretty bad price for questioning the might of Rome (at least once the next Legion happens to cross their homelands). So, they will die anyway - it's only a matter of time
You're never satisfied are you, Argalius?It's probably because tilting certain units to match the normal of the terrain isn't implemented. Or is it? I don't think it is....
Right, and please remember: This game isn't even at Alpha stage yet
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Well that's why I want to try it (regarding Suse), since I want to make my friends and family switch to Linux
Okay, that's a valid reason. And SuSE is probably the best Linux distribution for that purpose (also due to YaST, which is a very good configuration tool, like Frank said).
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Well, how did I get here? That's been quite a long time ago and WFG has already become a part of my life, so I have to make myself remember those days in Winter 2002 and the first months of 2003...
I think I found the RaW mod in the AoKH Blacksmith, then ended up on the old WFG website, found that they were doing another antiquity-related project (still a modpack back then) and got interested. Some time in late 2002, I started to post on the old forums (no, not these, and not the ones that were there before, and not the ones we have before that, but the old HG ones). Some weeks or months later, I applied for a small position on the team and then somehow got into the whole crazy business here. I've - with interruptions - been at WFG ever since that
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Except.... I'm probably going to have to clean their computers for them....
Let them pay for it and they will soon switch to Firefox/Linux - and you'll earn a small fortune
Lack of driver supportI don't think this is a real problem - of course, the newst bleeding-edge graphics cards might not be able to use their full potential, but otherwise I think there's Linux support anbd drivers for almost every piece of hardware on this world (even my crappy 50-Euro-Acer-WLAN adaptor has working, albeit some kind of "verbosive", Linux drivers which were developed by some hobby enthusiasts).
And regarding usability: If you take a distro like SuSE, you're on the safe side - that's almost like MS Windows, and you'll likely never get to see the console prompt there.
Also, compatibility isn't much of an issue any more - in fact, tools like Samba have made it possible to connect linux machines to a windows network without much problems.
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@goldenratiophi: Thanks for your tips, I'll try it again once I have some spare time at hand.
Using Mandrake 10 atm, though I'm planning to try Suse and Fedora Core.Uh, SuSE is the most end-user (i.e. windows-like) Linux I've ever seen - even people who cannot administer a windows system report to be able to use SuSE without problems (one of my teachers does). Only try SuSE if you really want an end-user / graphical UI orientated, windows-like system
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I used Mandrake back two or three years, when "Linux" was still something scary and unknown for me... the first installation was a big adventure - I believe it had a 2.2 or even older Kernel and there was no chance to get anything like NTFS access or internet access to work
Well, later, I got into Red Hat for a short period (some weeks, I disliked it within a very short time), and then found Debian, which immideately seduced me because of apt-get and other niceties
And that's what I'm still using - in three to four variations (different kernel versions, with or without KDE/GNOME, on old and on new machines and on my laptop). I have tried Gentoo, but the installation from the LiveCD (my WLAN doesn't work in pre-install stage) got quite difficult, and since I dislike installing with having to read manual at the same time (ok, not always, but in that particular case, I was short on time), I fetched the good old Debian CD again. Any hints on how to install Gentoo in an easier and less time-consuming way?
Microsoft AntiSpyware vs Spybot/AdAware
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I haven't yet managed to see a machine of an IE user which didn't have at least 5 spyware apps installed - even I myself had three at the time I decided to thrown the blue icon into the Recycle Bin, even though I was always aware of spyware dangers. What do we learn from this? IE is the best friend of Spyware. I do not need any Anti-Spyware application. I'm using Firefox
Antivirus doesn't hurt, though, especially since I didn't manage to get away from MS Outlook yet, but my old Norton 2001 still does a good job on protecting me from anything that might want to destroy my data