The Peace Thread
 

This thread may drop to the bottomless pit below inside of a week, but I have to give it a try.

It seems to me that more and more bLasting is going on about here, jumping on one anther for having a different view of the world as it is, as it was, and as it will be. I joined this Forum to share ideas, not to be trounced on. Let me add now that I too have criticized more than one person, so I am including myself in all of this as well. Here it is the “Happy Time of the Year” and it seems more like an arms race of words.

Let this thread be a “Safe House” where anyone can post a thought or start a topic without fear of criticism. Heck throw out some silly and pointless rattling if you want, just so long as that rattling is from your good humor and not your saber.

I will start:
How many of you get up in the morning [Christmas Day] and check your roof to see if Santa’s little flight crew left a present of their own design when they landed? Do you think they are out-of-house broken, or just cut lose over the oceans? Wouldn’t that be considered polluting by the EPA? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Om...ma ne padme hummmmmm....

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no, santa just makes them wear nappies

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Damn! That never occurred to me... but I will checking it out this Christmas morn for sure! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Those extra gifts are special fetalizer.

The vast pollution comes from all of that fancy paper he uses to wrap the gifts.

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I was under the impression that it was given to the bad boys and girls in place of coal, when he ran out of the former that is. I secretly copied this excerpt of an interview between Santa Claus and Jerkaldo Riviera, the interview was done Last year.

Submitted for your approval.

Jerkoldo: So Santa, do your rain deer, you know, do they do-do?

Santa: Ho-ho-ho, of coarse Jerkaldo.

Jerkaldo: Than what do you do with all that do-do?

Santa: If I run out of coal I give it the bad boys and girls. Did you really think that was cookies I left in YOUR stocking Last night? Ho-ho-ho. You sure did eat them up in a hurry. HO-HO-HO-HO-HO…..

Jerkaldo: Unngggg, Unnnnnnggggggggg…

Producer: Darn Jerkaldo, do you know how much it will cost to dry clean that?

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Here's something that always brings me joy on these forums... any discussion on what might happen in Space Empires V. There was a recent thread here {linka}

Be merry.

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Here we go again. Here I am saving my pennies so I can get on the same page with everyone playing SEIV Gold (rather than Version 1.49) and now we're talking about SEV. I know things evolve, but when I upgrade, I'd like to think it's going Last as long as the cheese in my refrigerator (sorry narf). Call me cheap, but it would be nice if a new design would allow for more creative modding, so that it could be upgraded rather than sent to the dust-pile. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Gold does allow for more creative modding. Proportions and AIC mods, for example, are completely impossible under pre-Gold SEIV because of a few changes to Settings.txt that are crucial to the entire purpose of said mods.

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Besides, Gold has already been out for at least a year, SE4 for three. And SEV is just in the planning stages right now- it isn't even officially announced!

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Although I have run across some threads on the topic during the short time I've been posting to these forums, and come across "Proportions" and "AIC" mods in discussions, I'm new, and not yet knowledgable enough to understand the differences implied by these terms.

Perhaps a 'brief' explanation is in order. I have a CS degree and will not be thrown by mention of objects and such.

One concern: I agree that modding must be fun, and is probably something that I will enjoy doing, but do try to take care that the game does not become too complicated for non-programmers, or newbies in general. I'd hate to see a great game like Space Empires be marginalized for that kind of reason.

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I would like to see jumping through warp points added as an ability that can be given or taken away. I would also like to see the introduction of external ordinance racks as truly external, based on the size of the ship and not requiring internal space. Finally I would love to see the ability to treat ships as though they have the fighter ability to dock but not the fighter ability to heal after every combat. Then you could create non-jump engines that are smaller and faster than jump engines. The ships that have these could dock with carriers for ships with jump engines. Imagine jumping into a system, losing your jump carrier and not having a way to get back home. That would create a whole new dimension to the strategic element in my opinion. For the old gamers who like one engine that does it all they could just add them back in, or keep them in the first place and let people like me mod in the other engine type.