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This is too funny dogscoff. Great idea. Here's one...

I've tried my hand at modding to increase the AI quality
Too make them more a challange and reduce their odd propensity
for sending ships to colonize the reaches of the galaxy
ignoring death and danger and defying rationality

They send their ships through damaging phenomena continually
ignoring warnings that their ships encountered mines there previously
The whys and wherfores of their thoughts is something of a mystery
So I suppose that for a challange I should Play By Webery! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ 11 April 2002: Message edited by: geoschmo ]</p>

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I guess it's time for a SE4Fun Forum, Richard ?

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Great job!!!!

Anything for "A Modders Heart" sung to the tune of "A British Tar" (imagining John Rhys-Davies in "Raiders")...

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Geo - nice one. I wanted to mention PBW and multiplayer but ran out of rhymes...

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by dogscoff:
Geo - nice one. I wanted to mention PBW and multiplayer but ran out of rhymes...<hr></blockquote>Well if you read the original lyrics, they didn't care if they ran out of ryhmes, they just made up new words. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Geo

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A hearty round of applause for both the filksingers in this thread. As one who has tried his hand at variations on the "Modern Major General," I know that it is much harder than it looks. Alas, "I am the very model of an Apparatus Specialist" died in the second verse and never saw the light of day.

Texfire

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He is the very model of an Appartus Specialist
I'm not sure what that is so maybe he can tell it now to us
It's sounds as if it's technical and probably pays very well
Of course for all I know it could be loud and it could really smell

I guess of course it all depends on what the apparatus is
He's very vague and doesn't tell exactly what it's purpose is
But that's ok I'm sure he's good at fixing it or cleaning it
Cause otherwise I'm sure they would not label him a specialist

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Bravo! Bravo!

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Okay, you asked for it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif A little background, an Apparatus Specialist is a common fire service term for the Firefighter who operates the fire trucks.

I am the very model of an Apparatus Specialist

I am the very model of an Apparatus Specialist,
I’ve information hydraulic collected in a special list,
I know the types of vehicles, and their application theoretically,
Ladders, pumpers, and rescue trucks all of them categorically;
I’m very well acquainted too with calculations hydraulic.
I know how much pressure it takes to make the hosemen scream and kick,
About friction loss in hose lays I’m teeming with a lot of news…
I’ve charts, equations and formulas that I’m really hot to use.

I’m good at ventilation, in manners not to daring,
I increase survivability, without disturbing layering;
In short, in every matter on the engineer’s daily list,
I am the very model of an Apparatus Specialist.

Texfire

PS- And no it doesn't pay very well. And yes I am very good at cleaning it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ 11 April 2002: Message edited by: Texfire ]</p>

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New verses welcome:

I am the very model of an SE4 obsessional,
I quantify resources in organic, rad and mineral,
I know the race descriptions both societal and historical,
From Abbidon to Xi-Chung Hive in order catagorical,

I'm very well acquainted too with races non-material,
I found the Eee consortium to be somewhat ethereal,
When they spoke to me Last night they said my growth was quite astonishing,
While the dangers of strange warp points they were carefully admonishing,

I find trade beneficial but my policies expansionist,
Force me to attack my allies and that tends to get them really pissed,
I'll slag their worlds until their score's comparitively fractional,
A state which is conducive to surrender unconditional,

I'll conquer other races for advantage technological,
This aggresive behaviour's nothing short of pathological,
I'll have to pay a price for all my unprovoked atrocities,
My domination always triggers M.E.E. eventually,

In mid game I start construction of the miners monolithical,
My research and economy soon verge upon the mythical,
After that it entertains me to the point of the hysterical,
To build artificial worlds both in the ring-shape and the spherical,

I dream at night of building my dominion galactical,
I play from dawn to sundown with an eagerness fanatical,
I bore my friends to tears with tales of empires astronomical,
I waste my time at work writing songs like this so comical,

I've a hundred player shipsets, some sublime and some ridiculous
I read Shrapnel forums daily, both on-topic threads and frivolous,
I've played all the mods from TDM to Pirates to Proportional,
I am the very model of an SE4 obsessional,