I'm not dead yet!

Ed Kolis · #1 April 15th, 2005, 01:41 PM

Hi everybody, I just wanted to apologize for my long absence from the Space Empires community and for delaying all the PBW games I've been in. I hope nobody's mad at me for that, but I'm having a bit of a personal crisis right now and I can't access the Internet but once a week. See, I was falsely accused of threatening to kill this girl at school (I actually asked her to kill me), and now I'm awaiting trial. It's only a misdemeanor but as a condition of my bond I have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, which means I'm only allowed out of the house on Fridays and other times when I have permission (like to see my therapist). It also means that my Internet service is disrupted, because otherwise I'd just be spending all my time playing SE4 with you guys and chatting about SE5!

One good thing has come of this, though - I have had the opportunity to begin serious work on my own 4X game; I call it Imperia Stellarum (Latin for "Empires of the Stars"), and it's got hexes just like SE5

You can't do much yet except build 3 ships from Star Trek, and if you build more than one, you get duplicates of some of them for some reason. The game's written in Java so it should work on Linux and Windows (and also Mac once Java 5 is released for Macs). So far there are 4 races, the Terrans, Uxmai (tentacle monsters which live in nebulas), Prell (floating brains which live inside stars), and Replons (big hulking robots which live on artificial space habitats). Once I get a chance, I'll show you guys - I'm just afraid I'll lose interest on working on it once I have something else to do... I'm already losing interest now

Oh, and BTW, if I remember to check this thread next Friday, could any of the beta testers get clearance to tell me if SE5 works under Wine any better than Starfury does???

I really don't want to go back to using Windows but I'm getting desperate at this point, not just about SE5 but other games, because I'm BORED...

geoschmo · #2 April 15th, 2005, 01:53 PM

Glad to here you are not dead. Um, why did you ask her to kill you? Was this just a joke or something that got taken seriously and totally blown out of proportion? That's certainly possible these days what with the zero tolerance policies. If you were serious though I hope you take advantage of the help they are giving you and spend all your energies on getting better.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 April 15th, 2005, 02:27 PM

What can I say? You have my sympathies.

Atrocities · #4 April 15th, 2005, 02:34 PM

Glad to hear your ok Ed. I hope this works out for you my friend. Geo gave you some good advise, and I do hope you'll do as he recommended. Any ways, I wish you the best and look forward to seeing you back on line soon.

Caduceus · #5 April 15th, 2005, 04:09 PM

Sorry to hear about your problems, Ed. We hope everything works out for the best!

Ragnarok-X · #6 April 15th, 2005, 04:31 PM

Ehm i seriously hope more than 80% of your post was a bad joke or else my opinion about the US is even worse now.

Renegade 13 · #7 April 17th, 2005, 12:59 PM

As far as I know, the only crimes for which the death penalty is applicable in the US are murder (usually the premeditated form, not things like manslaughter, etc.), and other things, like treason. Threats are not enough by a long shot to warrent the death penalty.

Will · #8 April 17th, 2005, 01:39 PM

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Renegade 13 said:Threats are not enough by a long shot to warrent the death penalty.

Yet.

*ducks*

Ed, hope all this gets worked out soon. Knowing bureaucrats, it probably won't, but we can still hope, eh?

Raging Deadstar · #9 April 17th, 2005, 07:14 PM

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Renegade 13 said:
and other things, like treason.

And who decides what can be called Treason and what isn't?

Good Luck with Everything Ed, we all wait for your return and half-finished-mod-ideas

XenoTheMorph · #10 April 17th, 2005, 08:26 PM

Ed I hope this all works out for you good luck!