More stupid newbie tricks ( questions ) !

Loser · #1 April 26th, 2002, 05:40 AM

Pardon, the "(ha!)" was meant to indicate my disdane for the low population mass. I like to think of them as alive but subject to 1-to-1 birth-for-death population control, like on a max-ed planet. Three cheers for contraception.

If they are cryo-ed, they would not feel it when I jettison them into space. I do want them to feel it. I wouldn't experience much less self-loathing if they didn't feel it.

Additionally, what if the 't' was a 'metric tonne'? How much would each savage weigh (mass) then?

Zarix · #2 April 26th, 2002, 08:13 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Dogberry:
Another question.. how many SEIV MP players are there out there ?

PBW had 300 active Users yesterday and 453 Last week. That is the amount of people who have logged in to the site.

Dogberry · #3 April 26th, 2002, 11:23 AM

Thanks for the quick replies .. folks. Gonna be laid low this week for a operation ... nothing serious. So I will have some time off. Sure to have more questions.

BTW... on the ships/minerals thing, I meant for maintanence.. not for initial production.

Good gaming,
Dog

Zarix · #4 April 26th, 2002, 02:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Dogberry:
BTW... on the ships/minerals thing, I meant for maintanence.. not for initial production.

Maintenance is just some per cent of initial cost.

Dogberry · #5 April 27th, 2002, 09:51 PM

Just got an "out of range" error about 100-120 turns into a standard game.

BTW..the figures for PBW look pretty good for MP .. for a game like this. There is probably two or three times as much actual activity out there. Has anybody tried hosting games by using ICQ to develop a player list ?

Dog

Phoenix-D · #6 April 27th, 2002, 10:27 PM

"Has anybody tried hosting games by using ICQ to develop a player list ?"

Why? PBW is much superior.

Phoenix-D

capnq · #7 April 27th, 2002, 11:15 PM

There seems to be two schools of thought about SE IV MP:

1) People who insisted the game needed TCP/IP support, which was only added in Gold;

2) People who were baffled why anyone wanted to play it that way.

TCP/IP games have a Chat function, which I suppose would give the same real-time interaction as ICQ.

PBW also supports a Real-Time Client, which Admiral developed independently of Malfador's work on TCP/IP. This was included in the Extras folder on the Gold CD.