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Title: What a gyp! Post by: Death 999 on February 08, 2003, 01:01:43 am Here I am, the Mycon are swooping down on Organon. I want to watch the syreen victory. I sit around the blue planet at Organon... waiting. The Mycon sphere gradually settles around the system. I wait for them to come to the planet. Nothing. "Well, maybe they'll all come at once, a grand procession"
Then the mycon sphere begins to shrink, and I know I came all the way to Organon for nothing. ::sigh:: I understand it would have been awfully tricky to program in having a large number of Mycon enter the system, then have a few syreen enter and rapidly wipe them out... but I was hoping. Well, the game is coming along nicely, aside from not being able to talk to the Orz (no Taalo shield! I can't win) and not being able to run away from Tanaka. Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Nic. on February 08, 2003, 01:39:31 am I'll presume you're playing the MacOS X version? You should consider downloading a more recent version from my site (http://www.submedia.net/uqm/)
The latest version has added support for the 'Esc' key as the Emergency Warp Escape key, thus giving Mac users the ability to run away from fights like sissy little wimps too. :P I don't know about your comms issue with the Orz, however. Have you put a bug into Bugzilla regarding it? Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Death 999 on February 08, 2003, 01:46:47 am Just did that. Though I tried again and got a slightly different behavior, though still highly buggy (instead of freezing at the first pane of text, it froze at the last pane of text).
Since you are no longer hosting a compiled app without content, I presume that following the HOWTO gets the job done... Thanks a lot! Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Nic. on February 08, 2003, 02:16:43 am Whoops! I'll make a "lite" version of the app ASAP.
I also noticed that I didn't have the MIME type for DMG files set correctly, I'll fix that, too.. UPDATE: My wife ran her Mac out of disk space again, so I can't address this until she deletes some stuff. :-/ I'll get it online as soon as I can. UPDATE #2: It's online now, available here (http://www.submedia.net/uqm/). Enjoy. Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Lukipela on February 08, 2003, 01:51:15 pm What, you didn't see the Mycon? YOu must haver timed it wrong. I saw a swarm of the podships enter the system and approach the lush fertile planet. After that, a couple of hundered Syreen appeared out of nowhere and ripped them to shreds! It was awesome, keep trying to see it! ;)
Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: PsiPhi on February 08, 2003, 03:59:17 pm Quote What, you didn't see the Mycon? YOu must haver timed it wrong. I saw a swarm of the podships enter the system and approach the lush fertile planet. After that, a couple of hundered Syreen appeared out of nowhere and ripped them to shreds! It was awesome, keep trying to see it! ;) Oh, that's just cruel. Death_999, I know I tried to witness it the first time I played and was just as disappointed. Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Lukipela on February 08, 2003, 04:30:00 pm To be honest, I'm a little jealous, I never even thought of going there to look at the battle....
Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Scott on February 08, 2003, 08:37:06 pm I was also disappointed that the Rainbow Worlds didn't point to anything cool.
Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Lukipela on February 08, 2003, 08:53:07 pm The Rainbow worlds point to the black hole don't they? ;)
Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Krogoth255 on February 08, 2003, 09:02:56 pm The Rainbow worlds simply form an arrow that points coreward in the map. Prehaps suggestion for a idea for TFB for a possible sequel?
Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Lukipela on February 08, 2003, 09:04:23 pm Well ,there was supposed to be a scene where you could talk to the TFB guys at the top of the arrow, but due to lack of time it was enver put in...
Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Kohr-Ah_Primat on April 10, 2003, 03:37:32 am Quote Well ,there was supposed to be a scene where you could talk to the TFB guys at the top of the arrow, but due to lack of time it was enver put in... Quote What, you didn't see the Mycon? YOu must haver timed it wrong. I saw a swarm of the podships enter the system and approach the lush fertile planet. After that, a couple of hundered Syreen appeared out of nowhere and ripped them to shreds! It was awesome, keep trying to see it! *laughs* Luki, are you possessed by the spirit of mischief, or something? But yes, I found myself wanting to come across Thraddash and Ilwrath ships pounding each other apart, and the same with Kohr-Ah and Utwig/Supox ships. Even visited their space to hope to see it happen -sigh- Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Scott on April 10, 2003, 03:47:35 am I think the lady marauder is determined to bump EVERY old post. :)
Lukipela wasn't joking about the talking to the creators bit, though. It was their plan to have them be meet-able at Groombridge. Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Lukipela on April 10, 2003, 04:05:21 am Also, I think you may be confusing me with my borther Loki, god of mischief in the Norwegian pantheon. I'm more of an easygoing character. I make my lies so convoluted that noone actually believes them :)
Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: ErekLich on April 10, 2003, 04:14:31 am [blinks]
[does a double take] 566 posts! when did you get so high Lukipela? HOW do you find so much to SAY? Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Culture20 on April 10, 2003, 04:20:21 am Quote 566 posts! when did you get so high Lukipela? HOW do you find so much to SAY? He responds to everything. Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Kohr-Ah_Primat on April 10, 2003, 04:27:38 am Quote I think the lady marauder is determined to bump EVERY old post. :) Lukipela wasn't joking about the talking to the creators bit, though. It was their plan to have them be meet-able at Groombridge. *laughs* Yes, it's part of my insidious plot. I'm determined to make your lives all a living hell! *evil laugh* Hrmm... Groombridge. That would've been interesting, to say the least. Hello TFB! *idly ponders the Orz humor in saying hello* I always found that Rainbow World just out of curiosity for a world with such a cheerful sounding name. It sounded like "Gloombridge" and made me wonder if a Utwig colony was situated there. Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Lukipela on April 10, 2003, 06:19:04 pm Heh, you should hear me taling in real life ErekLich... I never ever ever stop! And seeing as I do quite a bit of wriing otherwsie as well, this is kindof a natural medium for me... although I suspect that if Primat keeps her speed up, she will soon surpass me....
And of course, C_20 has a point as well, I seldom manage to refrain from answering a topic.... going back to the topic, I would also have liked to see the combined Utwig/Suox vs Kohr-Ah/Kzer-Za battles.... They sounded absolutely fascinating... Title: Re: What a gyp! Post by: Kohr-Ah_Primat on April 11, 2003, 02:58:30 am Quote although I suspect that if Primat keeps her speed up, she will soon surpass me.... Oh, have no fear of that. I'm down to replying to the last three pages of older threads--- I'm currently in March's posts, I believe. Adding that to the fact that I have absolutely no ability with technical issues, your title of #1 poster is in absolutely no way in danger of being threatened by me. In fact I doubt I'll ever obtain the title of "smell controller" to be honest. But I do find it rather amusing that I made it to the 'top 15 posters' list within a week of registering. |