No posts for over 3 hours!

[Renegade 13]

Last post was made at 5:30 (PST), and now it's 8:38! What's happening, this is unheard of!

So of course, I had to make a useless post and break the drought http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[AMF]

busy. sorry.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

And I'm getting kind of burnt out on the forum. (No idea how long it might last)

[Renegade 13]

Hey hey, nothing to be sorry about and we all understand getting burnt out. I only commented since it was rather odd for this forum http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Not in about four and a half hours it won't be. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Instar]

I dont have anything to say. I just make snide remarks as I can.

[Atrocities]

Renegade 13 said:
Last post was made at 5:30 (PST), and now it's 8:38! What's happening, this is unheard of!

So of course, I had to make a useless post and break the drought http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif



This is a sad day for the SEIV forums indeed. I think the steam has been vented off and the engine is just running down.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*Shrug* We're all pretty much doing make-talk till SE5 comes out.

[Atrocities]

We are a sorry bunch are we not Narf? Here it is 12:30 am on a Saturday morning and you and I are sitting here, looking at our computer monitors instead of out having fun. I have an excuse, I am poor and really sick at the moment, what be your fine excuse my white furred friend?

It occured to me tonight that I have made over FIFTY, count-em, 50, ship sets for SE IV. If I factor in the time I have spent on this game, not playing it, I will bet that it would rival the time I could have spent working a full time job. My God, over 50 sets, not counting all of the remakes as those would put it over 80 sets.

NOTE TO SELF: Get a life.

[Renegade 13]

I think you have it right Narf. Right now some of us are waiting for the beta to start and will get involved in that; the rest of us are simply waiting for the official release. Ahhh, let it be soon!

[Renegade 13]

Argh, you beat me by seconds AT!

Oh, and count me in on the group of "get a life" people http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Atrocities]

Narf, Renegade, and I are truly dedicate members of Shrapnels forum. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Renegade 13]

Darn right we are! Who else would be up at 1 in the morning posting on a forum http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif We, the insomniacs. Or just those who hate to sleep (like me).

[Kevin Arisa]

Sleep sucks. A total waste of precious time. If my body didn't insist on having it I would avoid instances of unconsciousness altogether.

[Saber Cherry]

You guys can always come over to the happenin' Dominions II forum http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Of course, it might make more sense if you buy the game or play the demo, but if you don't want to do that, you can always download my combat sim and pretend you're playing Dominions II =)

[Alneyan]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
And I'm getting kind of burnt out on the forum. (No idea how long it might last)



You too? Join my hands Narf, and we shall dance around the forum! That glittering thingy in my hand is not a dagger. Well, it isn't a poisoned dagger at any rate. Honest!

Alneyan, a truly dedicated poster who makes posts at dawn (11:20 am, a couple of minutes after getting up)

[Raging Deadstar]

See I'm quite fortuante. When my Insomnia kicks in until about 4-6am you guys are usually still up due to timezones http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Thank you GMT Time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Kamog]

I've been kinda busy so I haven't been on the forum much lately.

[AgentZero]

I think we're all just a bit burnt out. I just went on a mad SE5 art spree and don't have much creativity left. Just noticed something kinda cool. The SE4 board is the largest on the Shrapnel forums at a current thread count of 12,844 with 221,667 posts in total. Next closest is Dominions II with 4427 threads and 64,009 posts. How much more do we really have to talk about?

[Renegade 13]

Kevin Arisa said:
Sleep sucks. A total waste of precious time. If my body didn't insist on having it I would avoid instances of unconsciousness altogether.



My opinion exactly. Why waste 1/3 of your life in unconsciousness? Seems a shame to spend that much time lying down not aware of anything except the occaisional odd trip your subconscious mind takes you on.

[Spoo]

Atrocities said:
It occured to me tonight that I have made over FIFTY, count-em, 50, ship sets for SE IV. If I factor in the time I have spent on this game, not playing it, I will bet that it would rival the time I could have spent working a full time job. My God, over 50 sets, not counting all of the remakes as those would put it over 80 sets.

NOTE TO SELF: Get a life.



I thought you enjoyed making shipsets? What's wrong with spending your time doing something you enjoy?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Renegade 13 said:

Kevin Arisa said:
Sleep sucks. A total waste of precious time. If my body didn't insist on having it I would avoid instances of unconsciousness altogether.



My opinion exactly. Why waste 1/3 of your life in unconsciousness? Seems a shame to spend that much time lying down not aware of anything except the occaisional odd trip your subconscious mind takes you on.


I generally have interesting, weird dreams, so sometimes I even look forward to sleep. It's generally better than a movie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[kerensky]

Sleep is actually something I could do with more of right now. Working 9-10 hour days at a Chick-fil-A is quite tiring, not o mention teh fact that I usually have to get up at about four in the morning to get to work on time. Other than that, I too believe that sleep takes up too much time in ones day.

[Fyron]

AgentZero said:
Just noticed something kinda cool. The SE4 board is the largest on the Shrapnel forums...

The weight of time plays in siginficantly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Caduceus]

That and we're all a chatty bunch http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Suicide Junkie]

Raging Deadstar said:
See I'm quite fortuante. When my Insomnia kicks in until about 4-6am you guys are usually still up due to timezones http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Thank you GMT Time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Grenwich Mean Time-Time?
No wonder your sleep cycle is out of synch.

You need to divide your time.
Or take the square root, if you prefer.

[/end bad math joke]

[Jake Monroe]

Maybe take the Derivitave of the time.
Or an integral if you need extra time.

[/end attempt to outdo bad math joke]

[Spoo]

Or take the Fourier transform of the time to get money.

[/end competing attempt at bad math joke]

[Atrocities]

Raging Deadstar said:
See I'm quite fortuante. When my Insomnia kicks in until about 4-6am you guys are usually still up due to timezones http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Thank you GMT Time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif



I love your sig Deadstar. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Alneyan]

Did you know that 94% of all math jokes were deemed "not funny" by a board of renowned punsters? Another breaking news: 84.12% of all statistics are made up on the spot, resulting in 76.37% inaccurate statistics!

*Reaches a new level in "how bad a joke can get"* Hurray!

[Raging Deadstar]

Atrocities said:
I love your sig Deadstar. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif



Thanks, Came to me one day when I was stumped on picking a Racial Trait. StrategiaInUltima sent some extra ones to me via PM as well. So credit to him for the following additions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Lucky - for people who come from a planet called Vegas.
Emotionless - for those who have read either 1984, Brave New World or both.
Propulsion Experts - for those who come from a planet that looks like their mother-in-law.
Ancient Race - for a race which knows EVERYTHING in the galaxy yet is too stupid to conquer the bloody thing before the game even starts.
Advanced Power Conservation - for those who rely on steam-powered spaceships.
Advanced Storage Techniques - for those who want their wine cellar to be bigger than anyone's.
Mechanoids - for those who've watched Robots and liked it just a little too much.
Natural Merchants - for those who have the technology to teleport goods between systems, yet are too stupid to travel that way.
Hardy Industrialists - for those smart enough to use slaves because they work harder.

[kerensky]

Nice.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

I'm usually online at school during breaks, but due to the F*#@$^**$#@$&%ing GMT timezones thing almost NOBODY is online..... usually, the latest posts are mine, and then usually the upper ten or more. I'm bored. Somebody post something somewhere here about something!



Just thought them up when I saw RD's new sig..... thought of them on the spot, thought they were pretty good so PM'ed them.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Posts are slowing down again.....

[NullAshton]

... Some people have other things to do...

[AMF]

Pbbbtt!

[Alneyan]

Stop revealing my secrets Alarik! I won't entrust you with any more of my schemes if you keep yelling them on the forums.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

OTHER things?!?!? SACRILEGE!!!!! BURN THE HERETICS!!!!! oh, but in the case of Joint Chief Ashton, just scorch him lightly, we need him in the war.....

[Smolf]

Are there any official homepage for SEV and when is the release date?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

www.malfador.com/se5/se5main.htm (http://www.malfador.com/se5/se5main.htm)

Malfador's SEV homepage, with images. No actual screens as of yet, though.

[Smolf]

Not much information...

[NullAshton]

I'd estimate it'll come out around christmas.

[Renegade 13]

The last "official" estimate I heard was mid-late summer (around August/September). Screen-shots will be coming April first, as will beta-testing.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Two possibilities:

-I post very fast.
-Everyone else posts very slow.

I think it's a combination.

[Bongosan]

Of course I can't find the link now but I saw a very clever reply to some poor schleps plea for help with one of many problems with MOO3.
It was very impressive and technical looking but in the end it told the person to dump MOO3 and buy SEIV.
Does anyone know who did the wrote that up?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Welcome to the forums!

I don't know who wrote that but it is very true.

[Atrocities]

I have been over at Tribalwar.com posting about things. Did you know they allow swaring there! I have found paradise. It just took me two years to remember my password..... bad email bad.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Why do people fail to respond to PMs?

Why do people post so little during the (local) daylight hours?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Has anyone ever experience something like this? The top 14 posts seem to be mine.....

(oh and the reason I'm using IE is because this is a pc at school)

[TurinTurambar]

By saying "school" you pretty much just answered your own question:
Q: Why?
A: School and/or work

I for one have an alarm company to run during the day. And I know someone in a corporate IT job who got fired for playing SEIV too often. Priorities, young man. Priorities.

Turin

P.S> I've never had someone not reply to a PM. Are you wearing deodorant and using your floss and mouthwash regularly? (j/k)http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[TurinTurambar]

Hey!!!

That attachment is a bitmap! I thought that didn't work here.

And in the future please save screenshots that large as jpeg's. They don't take as long to load.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

I know priorities, but I also know there are time zones which have free time when I'm at school, but it seems like nobody lives in those timezones or something.....

and the bitmap is simply because I don't know if I can save pngs or jpegs at school.

[Renegade 13]

Well daylight hours for you are likely not daylight hours for the rest of us http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Let me guess, you live in Europe somewhere? In that case, since a lot of the people here live in North America (I'm on the west coast of North America), very little of our daylight hours overlap with yours.

[Fyron]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
and the bitmap is simply because I don't know if I can save pngs or jpegs at school.

If it has IE, it has MS Paint. JPEGs are an option since win98, PNGs are an option in XP.

[Captain Kwok]

...and it's not that you can't upload .bmp files, it's that you can't place them in the ubb [image] tags.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

8hr difference with the East coast I believe. My timezone is +1 GMT, and I believe East Coast timezone is -7, am I right?

And again I said sorry for the bitmap file.

Priorities? Ok, there are more important things in life than SEIV..... there's just not so many of themhttp://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

No new posts for a looong time again..... Oh and btw, last weekend I didn't check for posts for over a day (and possibly a half), but when I returned I only saw that about five or six or so threads had new posts. We're slowing down, people!!!

[TurinTurambar]

I know what you're saying. Some nights this place is really hopping and other times it goes 2 days with nary a thread-view. I myself have often logged in to see who's on etc. only to find it's a totally dead session. It's frustrating. Especially tonight for me cuz my mind is racing and I'm feeling creative and all the new posts are mine and just sitting there...

Time to write up Turin's adventures in the basement of the B&G I guess...

Me

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Turin, believe me, I know *exactly* how you feel. I mean *really* exactly, into the 110% range.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

And again it's slowing down.....

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Top eighteen posts seem to be mine. Oh well. Time zones. Bugger. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[El_Phil]

We'll soon fix that!

[David E. Gervais]

It's that time of year,.. Spring! People tend to 'escape' on weekends after being caged in during a long winter. I think weekend post count dropping is normal.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Not only is the weather improving for most of us, a large chunk of the regulars are also occupied elsewhere. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif