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Forum: Space Empires: IV & V November 6th, 2007, 03:24 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 2,521
Posted By dmm
Re: where were you

Well, I guess I was either here or lurking.
First post: #209682 - 09/25/00 04:36 PM

Um, has anyone seen my wife and kids?
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V November 6th, 2007, 02:29 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 10,309
Posted By dmm
Re: OK, assuming you DON\'T have triggers...

Clearly SEV has a "how much I like/hate you" factor that every AI uses when dealing with every other player (AI or human). If the AI likes the other player it will accept/offer treaties. And the...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 29th, 2007, 07:44 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 10,309
Posted By dmm
OK, assuming you DON\'T have triggers...

what do you do? Here's an idea, feel free to bash it as much as you like. Suppose the following:
a) AI players are plentiful: 25, maybe even 50
b) mediocre planets are plentiful
c) asteroid...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 29th, 2007, 07:03 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 10,309
Posted By dmm
Reactionary AIs

I haven't played with SEIV's or SEV's AI scripting. Are there triggers? I've played with other games' AI scripts, and it seems like reacting to events is always a huge missing element...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 26th, 2007, 12:24 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 4,073
Posted By dmm
Re: [OT] 4X games?

Medieval War. Win3.11 era shareware that can run on XP, even if you have no admin privileges. I have the executable but can't find it anywhere on the web. Good for an occasional half hour of...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 26th, 2007, 12:12 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 4,073
Posted By dmm
Re: [OT] 4X games?

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif ROTFL! That's quite an xtraordinary accent you must have. How xactly does anyone understand you? It must be xciting! ...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 24th, 2007, 05:06 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 10,309
Posted By dmm
random AI

LOL. Anyone else see this article in New Scientist, about how neurotic AIs defeat rational AIs?
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/10/neurotic-software-is-top-gamer.html
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 24th, 2007, 04:57 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 10,309
Posted By dmm
mod

Hey, you're right, at least according to some dictionaries. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 23rd, 2007, 06:42 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 10,309
Posted By dmm
AI vs. human

The problem with AIs is that (usually) they do the same thing every time. Even if you randomize strategies at the start of a game, once you figure out which AI enemies are using which strategy...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 23rd, 2007, 05:56 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 10,309
Posted By dmm
thebigsilly

Personally, I took thebigsilly's response about MOD to be a joke, and I thought it was kinda funny.

To be persnickety, if mod. is an abbreviation for "modification," then it needs a period after...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 3rd, 2007, 03:24 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 11,273
Posted By dmm
Re: OT Which would you Choose

Believe it or not, I am such a nerd that I actually did some research into this a while ago (out of curiosity unrelated to Firefly). The conclusion I came to (FWIW) is that you can get a lot of...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V October 3rd, 2007, 02:57 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 11,273
Posted By dmm
Re: OT Which would you Choose

I picked Enterprise, but (as has been mentioned) only if I'm not a red-shirt.
Since there's no money (see that great link posted by Randallw) I think I'd become a holodeck addict and get discharged....
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 20th, 2007, 04:58 PM
Replies: 927
Views: 103,918
Posted By dmm
Re: OT: Cyber Nation

Isn't trolling just a fishing method? [heh heh heh. skulks away after stirring the pot.] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 07:25 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 13,361
Posted By dmm
Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types

Check out the references of that Wiki article, esp. 38, 39, and 43.

There are 2 cases: Planets orbit one star of the pair (S type) or orbit the center of mass of both stars (P type).

S type: If...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 03:33 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 13,361
Posted By dmm
Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types

Yes, exactly. In a binary system with two main sequence stars, the stars are quite far apart and the planets are bound to one star or the other. The "twin" star might be so far away that...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 03:19 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 13,361
Posted By dmm
Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types

Gas giants are generally thought to have a solid core. But mining it would be a high-pressure job. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
Maybe storms churn up the surface and...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 03:04 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 13,361
Posted By dmm
Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types

Wow, really? Not to be disrespectful to Aaron (who has made some great games that have given me kilo-hours of pleasure), but that's pretty lame. I was hoping to make a pseudo-realistic mod where...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 02:48 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 13,361
Posted By dmm
Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types

Also: present way of doing binaries would be fine for white dwarfs closely bound to red giants. Just don't put any planets real close, or else: gobble! yum, yum! burp!
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 02:42 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 13,361
Posted By dmm
Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types

For binary systems, the game could allow travel from one sector to the other without warping. Of course, in that case, if one star went nova it would need to wipe out BOTH systems.

I didn't...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 02:31 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 3,756
Posted By dmm
Re: SE:V -- Problems after Alt-Tab

I'm pretty sure Fyron was indicating frustration with the demo, not anger at you. (Actually his graemlin means ;crazy;, not ;mad;.)
You're not having a problem with...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 02:12 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 13,224
Posted By dmm
Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?

Is this the future, or is it the present?
[music plays: doodoo doodoo, doodoo doodoo]

http://www.simulation-argument.com/classic.html
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 01:39 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 13,361
Posted By dmm
Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types

I forgot some stuff:

Huge planets should always have several Tiny planets nearby. These would represent very large moons like Titan.

Making None atmospheres common (in order to be more...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 14th, 2007, 12:51 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 13,361
Posted By dmm
Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types

Slightly off topic:
It seems to me that most solar systems should have LOTS of tiny no-atmosphere or thin-atmosphere planets, especially around the fringes. In other words, a Kuiper belt.

Also,...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V August 30th, 2007, 06:46 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,699
Posted By dmm
Re: OT: How to get C&C Tiberian Sun to run on Win XP?

24 views and this is your only reply.
You in a heap o trouble boy.

Jokes aside, I thought you could tell WinXP to run something pretending to be Win95. (Or was that Win2K?) Right click on the...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V August 30th, 2007, 06:34 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,088
Posted By dmm
Re: Possibly way-out-of-date bug report

Whew, that's a relief!
T'would be a nasty surprise in a real game:

Nervous courtier: Your eminence, the holovideo is here from the lastest fleet action.
Evil emperor: Excellent. On screen. .......
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